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How Many People Over The Age of 100 That Live In Japan (2 Pretty Cool Things) · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I need to tell you two things.
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  Speaker 3: Connie and Christine's.
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  Speaker 2: Two pretty cool things.
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  Speaker 1: I find it extremely cool that for the first time
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  Speaker 1: in its history, Japan has more than 100,000 people.
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  Speaker 3: Over the age of 100.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: And nearly 90% of them are women. It's something about
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  Speaker 1: the water there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: And the diet.
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  Speaker 3: And the diet. They're eating good over there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. All right.
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  Speaker 3: So way to go, all our Japanese friends. My wife
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  Speaker 3: is Japanese. So if this holds true, she'll be hanging
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  Speaker 3: around for a while.
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  Speaker 2: That's great. We like Coco.
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  Speaker 3: We do. Don't leave me, Coco. All right. What is
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  Speaker 3: your cool thing, Christine?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Merriam-Webster Dictionary every year comes out with their list
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  Speaker 2: of new words. We have the new words. We can
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  Speaker 2: talk about that in a bit. But they've got this
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  Speaker 2: really cool feature on their website called Time Travel. And
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  Speaker 2: what you can do is look up the year you
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  Speaker 2: were born and see all the words that were added
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  Speaker 2: to the dictionary that year. All the words that were
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  Speaker 2: new in that year. It's really, really fun from pop
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  Speaker 2: culture terms to technology buzzwords. Like I'm going all the
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  Speaker 2: way back to 1942 right now and they just came
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  Speaker 2: up with the word carb. which haunts me to this day.
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  Speaker 3: That was a brand new word in 42.
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  Speaker 2: They were like carbs.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting.
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  Speaker 2: And carpool. It's just bebop. I told you, I think
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  Speaker 2: it was 1957 or something. One hit wonder. Like it, it's,
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot of fun. Just.
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  Speaker 1: Producer Kristen was born in 87. Is it easy for
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  Speaker 1: you to toggle.
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  Speaker 3: To 87 or is it too hard right now?
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  Speaker 2: Let me see how fast.
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  Speaker 3: I'm in the 40s. Okay. If you can't do it,
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  Speaker 3: that's okay. So it's on Merriam-Webster's website, right? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And the tool is called Time Travel.
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  Speaker 3: Time Travel.
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  Speaker 2: And wait, we have Kristen, what year did you say?
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  Speaker 3: 87. 1987.
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  Speaker 2: Please stand by.
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  Speaker 3: Text us your birth year right now.
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  Speaker 2: Have any little music? Kristen gets Blank Check Company. Blank check, baby,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll write your name.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: You get the word. Oh, Generation X. Hello.
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  Speaker 3: Started in 87? Okay.
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  Speaker 2: That's when we put the word into the dictionary. Let's see.
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  Speaker 2: Kristen gets lipo. That's up there with my card.
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  Speaker 3: I heard Kristen gets lipo. All right, this is cool.
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  Speaker 2: Off-label, potty-mouthed, snark.
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  Speaker 3: Snark.
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  Speaker 2: Techno, wake and bake, whack-a-mole, single prayer, bomb cyclone. You've
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  Speaker 2: got some fun stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Acid washed. Oh, that's okay. You don't need to know
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  Speaker 2: about that.
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  Speaker 3: That was the time.
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  Speaker 2: You can skip those.
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  Speaker 3: All right. This has been two pretty cool things. The
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  Speaker 3: more you know, the further you go.