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Uknown Facts List from June 9th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: So I was looking. I've had this in my file
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  Speaker 1: for quite a while, and it says there are plenty
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  Speaker 1: of common knowledge facts that we don't realize that we
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  Speaker 1: don't know okay until somebody else points them out. For instance,
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  Speaker 1: like ask most people which planet is closest to the Earth.
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  Speaker 1: What will they say, closest to the Earth. Yeah, which
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  Speaker 1: planet is closest to the Earth?
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  Speaker 2: Venus? You're tempted to say Mars.
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  Speaker 1: That's what most people would say, is Mars, But Nick
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  Speaker 1: is it is Venus? Followed by mercury. Oh so, so
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  Speaker 1: this guy on Reddit says, well, what's your biggest How
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  Speaker 1: do people not know this fact? Okay, and a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of people posted the first one. This seems really stupid
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  Speaker 1: to me. I don't know how people could not know this,
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  Speaker 1: but it's said this guy posted the underground railroad was
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  Speaker 1: not a literal subterranean locomotive.
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  Speaker 2: Do people not know that?
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  Speaker 1: Apparently? Okay, it was not a railroad at all. It
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  Speaker 1: was not It was not on.
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  Speaker 3: Tracks, right, So, I actually don't know the history of
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  Speaker 3: why it's called the underground railroad specifically, but I know
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  Speaker 3: it has nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Because it was it was designed, it was a series
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  Speaker 1: of safe houses. It was kind of designed to move
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  Speaker 1: people out of out of the South where they were enslaved,
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  Speaker 1: to parts of the country where they.
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  Speaker 2: Could be free people, gotcha, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Right number two. Green peppers are just immature red peppers
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  Speaker 1: that were harvested before they were ripe.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what about yellow? I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 1: What about yellow peppers?
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  Speaker 2: That's different, just a different thing altogether. Yellow and orange,
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  Speaker 2: I think are different.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's yellow, orange, and red, right and green, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not sure percentages are reversible. This
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  Speaker 1: is math. I don't get this at all. Percentages are reversible,
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  Speaker 1: Like eight percent of twenty five is the same as
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  Speaker 1: twenty five percent of eight, and one of them is
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  Speaker 1: much easier to do in your head.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, eighty percent of twenty five is the same.
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  Speaker 1: As twenty five is twenty five percent of eight.
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  Speaker 2: There's no way that applies, just all random two numbers.
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  Speaker 1: I it's what it says. If it's math, I'm lost
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  Speaker 1: copy and pasting, control C and control V.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The number of people who go through life working in
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  Speaker 1: a corporate office and have no idea about that.
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  Speaker 4: I only learned it once somebody showed me this on
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  Speaker 4: this system here that we run the board.
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  Speaker 2: With the body is the music.
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  Speaker 1: I forgot that because I now always just use my
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  Speaker 1: mouse and you know, you copy and paste that way
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  Speaker 1: with the with the mouse. But I don't. I'd forgotten.
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  Speaker 1: But when I now, I remember, I did know that.
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  Speaker 2: Most people don't know all of these things. Yeah, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of Okay, all right, you just making sure I
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  Speaker 2: understand the list.
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  Speaker 1: Kalipos and Chipotle's are the same peppers. Chipotles are just
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  Speaker 1: smoke klipenos.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I never thought of it. I never bothered. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's wild. That's two pepper origin facts in this.
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  Speaker 1: Butterflies have four wings, not two.
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  Speaker 4: I knew that, but technically, yeah, I didn't think about it.
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  Speaker 1: The Better Business Bureau is not a government agency. They
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  Speaker 1: don't hold any legal power whatsoever. Wow, now that I did.
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  Speaker 1: I did not know.
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  Speaker 3: I thought that you could. Yeah hmm, you think with
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  Speaker 3: it being called bureau, they can't shut you down. They can't,
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  Speaker 3: you know, So what's the point. It's just a rating system. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: it's just a rating system and it's not as so.
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  Speaker 4: It's yelped essentially kind of yeah, kind of the precursor,
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  Speaker 4: and it's not as prevalent.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think as it used to be.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not because people realized, oh they can't help me.
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  Speaker 1: All I know. I don't know why anybody would know this.
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  Speaker 1: All vis A credit cards start with four, a number four,
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  Speaker 1: All master Card credit cards start with the number five,
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  Speaker 1: All ames with a number three, Discover with a number six.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Well that's interesting because I always wondered how whenever I'm
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  Speaker 4: buying something online with my credit card, how they know
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  Speaker 4: that it was an amex or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we don't want to share that facts. Criminals are
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  Speaker 3: getting head of the game with that one number.
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  Speaker 1: This is it. I think this is kind of odd.
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  Speaker 1: Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing?
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  Speaker 2: Huh huh? Why are they different words? Then?
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  Speaker 1: I don't it's flammable or inflammable would suggest to me
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  Speaker 1: that it is not flammable, right, Yeah, so I don't
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  Speaker 1: see how that means they mean the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: Should it be unflammable?
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to see this explain.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, somebody we needed English teacher to explain that.
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  Speaker 3: I do I make a new word if if one
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  Speaker 3: word already do?
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  Speaker 1: Plants can emit screams at certain frequencies when they're in danger.
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  Speaker 2: Huh, I've heard that before. I heard you've heard a
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  Speaker 2: plant scream?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they can they? Yeah, what did it scream? They're
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  Speaker 1: danger scream danger. I haven't No, you asked me if
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  Speaker 1: I've heard them. No, I haven't heard them.
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  Speaker 2: But you just say you've heard that.
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  Speaker 1: No I have.
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  Speaker 2: I've heard that fact before, heard of Okay, I'm has heard.
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  Speaker 2: I heard you.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, the ancestors of whales lived on land and had legs, yeah, says.
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  Speaker 1: It's shocking how many people don't know that?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Here they what do they think? The alternative is.
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  Speaker 1: We they were just always in the waters swimming around.
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  Speaker 2: I guess most people think that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, probably as a matter of fact. I never I
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  Speaker 1: never gave it a thought, but it would seem to.
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  Speaker 2: Me that, oh, the people from whales, Yeah they they.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure they live in the ocean like enough.
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  Speaker 1: But no, no, no, no, not the ancestors of people
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  Speaker 1: from Wales.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, actually my hearing is bad apparently, Okay, here, I'll
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  Speaker 3: read it again.
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  Speaker 1: This is exactly the ancestors of whales lived on land
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  Speaker 1: and had legs. It's shocking how many people don't know that. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So you thought I meant people in Wales. Yeah, Welsh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well even still those are mammals.
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  Speaker 4: Like, well yeah, but whales, yeah, whales are mammals.
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  Speaker 1: You can't actually see the Great Wall of China from
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  Speaker 1: space with the naked eye. No, you can't, but many
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  Speaker 1: people believe that you can. Like that you look out
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  Speaker 1: out the Space Shuttle window and you can see it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay that that's maybe the first one on this whole
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  Speaker 3: damn list that I think most people think.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see, peanuts are not nuts.
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  Speaker 2: It's right there in the name their legumes.
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  Speaker 1: Approximately twenty percent of people with a peanut allergy are
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  Speaker 1: also allergic to lentils.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, the whole flammable inflammable thing.
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  Speaker 1: Is somebody explain it is?
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  Speaker 4: This is flammable and inflammable mean exactly the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: A substance can easily catch fire and burn quickly. The
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  Speaker 4: prefix in it inflammable comes from the Latin meaning into
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  Speaker 4: or to cause, rather than.
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  Speaker 1: English meaning not I got it.
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  Speaker 4: Non flammable is the correct Non flammable is the correct
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  Speaker 4: term that you would use.
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  Speaker 1: Here's one that I always that I made the mistake
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  Speaker 1: till twenty years ago, or something I would say, I've
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  Speaker 1: got to get something, I've got to get something out
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  Speaker 1: of the freezer to thought, I've got a thought. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: you would say thought I've got I would always say
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  Speaker 1: unthawt right, I need to take the hamburger out of
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  Speaker 1: the freezer, and unthought, which means I'm not thawing it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's like irregardless, people miss using that the moon.
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  Speaker 1: Is out during the day just as much as it
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  Speaker 1: is out during it during the night.
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  Speaker 2: Now that I did not know. It's just always there.
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  Speaker 2: You just can't see it.
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  Speaker 1: You just yeah, there, let's see. An undercover cop doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have to tell you they're a cop. No, you have
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  Speaker 1: to tell me you're a cop. If you are on
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  Speaker 1: cops can lie to you. But you can't lie to
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  Speaker 1: cops even if you're innocent. Don't talk to the police without.
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  Speaker 4: A lawyer, exactly, don't say anything to them. Don't do
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  Speaker 4: their job for them.
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  Speaker 1: Not everyone has This is fascinating because I can't quite
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  Speaker 1: picture or imagine what it would be like. Not everyone
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  Speaker 1: has an internal monologue, you know, just a voice that
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  Speaker 1: is on narrates. You know, when you're not talking, there's
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  Speaker 1: a voice inside that sort of narrates life as you
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  Speaker 1: go along. Some people thoughts are purely conceptual. They don't
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  Speaker 1: have a voice in their head. Okay, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what that would be like.
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  Speaker 3: Similarly, people, some people can't envision objects in their head
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  Speaker 3: like a physical like. I think the example uses like
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  Speaker 3: an apple. Some people can think of the concept of
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  Speaker 3: an apple. But if you were to think of an
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  Speaker 3: apple and rotate at three hundred and sixty degrees in
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  Speaker 3: your head, like, some people can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, I would be afraid of bruising the apple.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't do that. Huh.
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  Speaker 4: Just to finish this up, are Ed brass Is texting
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  Speaker 4: and said, so, Nick thinks that Aquaman as Welsh.
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  Speaker 3: Apparently, look, my hearing's not good. That's the takeaway from
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  Speaker 3: this conversation, exactly, all right,