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Speaker 1: From House Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to
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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark with me as always as
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Speaker 1: one Mr Charles W. Luscious Bryant, we call him Chuckers.
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Speaker 1: He calls me to come to his head and this
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Speaker 1: is stuff you should know. Welcome. How's it going, Chuck, dude?
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Speaker 1: That may be the best intro ever. Thank you. It's
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Speaker 1: the fact that I'm not wearing pants right now. I
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Speaker 1: think I feel very free and easy, compass head and
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Speaker 1: a little sweaty. Actually okay, then, so, Chuck, have you
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Speaker 1: ever had warts? Did you have warts when your kid um?
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Speaker 1: I have had two incidences of warts. Currently, I have
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Speaker 1: a wart on my uh, sort of near my knee
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Speaker 1: and it's been there a long time and it's not
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Speaker 1: one of those real gnarly ones. It sticks up, you know,
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Speaker 1: out into the universe. It's like pretty small and not
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Speaker 1: a big deal. And then I had planners wards when
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Speaker 1: I was like fifteen. Have you ever had those? No?
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Speaker 1: I have? These are the war dude, It's awful. Did
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Speaker 1: they hurt really, really painful. Yeah, they grow up into
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Speaker 1: your foot instead of out. And I think I caught
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Speaker 1: it from my brother because he had it and when
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Speaker 1: he was at Georgia Tech. Brother was dirty, dirty, dirty Scott.
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Speaker 1: And uh it was the handsome one that Christina Ricci likes.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like a male model, that guy. Um, it
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Speaker 1: was great growing up in a shadow too, because he's
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Speaker 1: like way smarter than me and slam and trim. It's
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Speaker 1: great anyway. Uh and happy birthday by the way to
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Speaker 1: my brother. Oh, happy birthday, Scott, and uh Molly Edmonds,
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Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Molly Fellow writer that aside, I had planners
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Speaker 1: words and it's really really painful, and I had them
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Speaker 1: burned off and that was painful. Yeah, with the frozen
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Speaker 1: liquid nitrogen. Yes, I have been through that experience too. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I had warts on like my fingers on my elbows
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Speaker 1: here there when I was a kid. Yeah, every once
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Speaker 1: in a while, like they just kind of pop up,
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Speaker 1: and my mom would be like, let's go to the
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Speaker 1: I guess the dermatologists and quit picking up frogs. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we told that, not quite. I had a pretty good story.
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Speaker 1: But yes, I have heard that toads specifically, cause wards
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Speaker 1: I've heard that as well, that's not true, but it's
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Speaker 1: not let's start. Let's well, so wow, wow, every bit
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Speaker 1: is segue just fell away like you just you just
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Speaker 1: got rid of an entire page of this article with that.
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Speaker 1: Well that's because we don't plan this stuff out. What
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Speaker 1: do you want to talk about? Australia? Okay, alright, So
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Speaker 1: Australia has a pretty big problem right now, right, probably
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Speaker 1: more than one. But this this one we're talking about
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Speaker 1: is well, yeah, they're in the grip of like a
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Speaker 1: horrible drought still aren't aren't they? And it's hitting their
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Speaker 1: bread basket to basket. Um, yeah, what they have? This
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Speaker 1: one problem is with the giant Kane toad Buffo marinus.
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Speaker 1: And I love that buffo. It sounds like a giant
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Speaker 1: Kane toad name right, So these things get to be
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Speaker 1: like two pounds, which is pretty substantial for a toad.
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Speaker 1: That would scare me. Well back in n um the
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Speaker 1: the the Australian government imported a hundred and one uh
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Speaker 1: giant kane toads from Hawaii. I love that it was
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Speaker 1: one on one. Yeah, It's like they gathered a hundred
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Speaker 1: and then there must have been like one lucky frog day. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they're like, you come to come on, let's go to Australia,
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Speaker 1: kid um. So yeah, they imported him to Queensland from Hawaii.
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Speaker 1: And actually these things are indigenous to Central and South America,
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Speaker 1: but apparently they can live in Hawaii to right. Um.
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Speaker 1: And they they the reason they imported him was to
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Speaker 1: fight this um giant cane beetle. No, not giant cane beetle,
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Speaker 1: just to play an old cane beetle. Uh. And apparently
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Speaker 1: giant kane toads like to eat cane beetles, makes sense.
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Speaker 1: So the Australia had a big infestation in their crop
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Speaker 1: lands with these cane beetles, so they imported the giant
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Speaker 1: kane toads, and the giant kane toads did absolutely nothing
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Speaker 1: to eradicate the cane beetle. Right. I think a lot
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Speaker 1: of times when you introduce a species and non native
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Speaker 1: species to an area thinking it will accomplish some feet,
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Speaker 1: it usually ends up backfiring. Yeah. Oh definitely, kind of
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Speaker 1: like kudzoo here in the South. Yeah, but that one
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Speaker 1: wasn't that. That was a gift actually from our Japanese friends,
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Speaker 1: thanks for that. In the thirties. Well, they keep in
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Speaker 1: order control over there, but here in the South, it
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Speaker 1: just it grows like kudzo. Right. Yeah, And for those
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Speaker 1: friends of ours who are listening that have never been
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Speaker 1: to the southeastern United States, this stuff can take over
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Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty foot tall oak and kill it
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Speaker 1: of swallow it hole. It looks like it does never
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Speaker 1: seen it looks a lot like but it also has
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Speaker 1: this kind of creepy quality, like I'm killing this tree.
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Speaker 1: Check it out. And you can't do anything to kill
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Speaker 1: this stuff, and it's out of control. So I guess
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Speaker 1: what we're trying to say is please help us, send help. Um. So, anyway,
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Speaker 1: the giant kane to did nothing to eradicate the cane beetle.
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Speaker 1: And even worse, they apparently are olific lovers because since
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Speaker 1: that hundred and one original cane toads turned into the billions,
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Speaker 1: there are billions of cane toads in Australia now literally
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Speaker 1: overran the entire country. Yeah, in continent. Here's the most
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Speaker 1: unsettling part. They are slowly hopping toward civilization Perth and
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Speaker 1: then Sydney, And I mean, isn't that just a creepy thought.
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Speaker 1: Billions of toads like slowly coming your way? Have you
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Speaker 1: ever seen the documentary? No, there was an awesome documentary
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Speaker 1: it's really old um called Cane Toads and Unnatural History
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Speaker 1: by a documentary named Mark Lewis, and it's kind of
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Speaker 1: one of these classic documentaries. Yes, we're like Grey Gardens
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Speaker 1: just taken on like this cult following Yes, which is
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Speaker 1: our producer Jerry's favorite movie of all time, Greg Gardens. Yeah, really,
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Speaker 1: you didn't know that. We've had like this conversation eight times.
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Speaker 1: I don't remember that. I just watched that this past weekend,
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Speaker 1: though for the first time I've never seen it either.
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Speaker 1: It was unsettling, I thought a bit long. And I'm
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Speaker 1: looking forward to the HBO movie starting one Miss Drew
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Speaker 1: Barrymore and one Miss Jessica Lain right right, And this
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Speaker 1: is so like such a segue. But well, let me
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Speaker 1: say this, since we're not a tangent, this is highly tangential.
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Speaker 1: And this is a tangent on a tangent. One of
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Speaker 1: my friends named bo kelly Um actually apparently had a
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Speaker 1: ring that he lent to the people who made this
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Speaker 1: HBO remake and the guy whoever the characters that plays
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Speaker 1: as the piano for the women a lot. He wears
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Speaker 1: the ring in most of these scenes. That is weird,
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Speaker 1: isn't it weird? I just found that out yesterday and
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Speaker 1: I don't know how it pertains to anything, but there
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Speaker 1: you go. Okay, So back to giant kane to billions
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Speaker 1: of them is where we left off, and they are
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Speaker 1: moving towards the big city, right and uh, the problem
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Speaker 1: is they have no natural predators right right, which is
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Speaker 1: and even worse, the the predators that are around Australia
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Speaker 1: haven't figured out that they shouldn't mess with these kane
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Speaker 1: toes because what happens is the giant kane toes are
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Speaker 1: highly toxic um. They emit a cocktail of four keene
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Speaker 1: toxins um from the warts on their back, which are
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Speaker 1: actually glands. Right, that's right, that's we should say that again.
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Speaker 1: The warts on a frog are glands. War but that's
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Speaker 1: where you get the impression that toad can give you wards. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So anyway, so things like crocodiles, dingoes, all sorts of
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Speaker 1: other animals are being killed by picking up these giant
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Speaker 1: kane todes. You get scared, secrete this toxin, and then
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, some alligator's belly up. And I'm
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Speaker 1: sure a two pound cane toad looks like a nice
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Speaker 1: meal for I don't think so. Yeah, we're I'm not
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Speaker 1: aware of their toxins. I need one, I cook it first,
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Speaker 1: but sure. Um So, anyway, as big a problem as
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Speaker 1: these cane toads are posing, uh the Australians right now, um,
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Speaker 1: one thing they're not going to do is cause wards.
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Speaker 1: There was our segue that you ruined earlier, but now
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Speaker 1: it's it's all good, right, Am I for given? Yeah? Okay,
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Speaker 1: So toads absolutely do not cause warts. We can say
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Speaker 1: that with factual Yeah. And you know how we know that? Um? Science? Science? Sure,
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Speaker 1: well what science has told us is that, um, since
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Speaker 1: toads don't actually have warts, they have glands, and we
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Speaker 1: know that actually it's the human Pavlova virus that causes
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Speaker 1: warts HPV, better known as hpp uh. And since toads
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Speaker 1: don't secrete HPV, toads can't give you wards. There you go. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so that's it. Should we just pack it up? No?
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Speaker 1: Should we talk about HPV. Let's talk about HPV, which
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Speaker 1: may ring a bell for people because there was a
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Speaker 1: there's been a huge push but it was really prominent
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Speaker 1: in two thousand and six and two thousand seven to
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Speaker 1: get mandatory inoculations for young girls against HPV. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: mean it's it's a lot of people are affected by HPV. Um.
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Speaker 1: They estimate twenty million people in the US alone are
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Speaker 1: effected with some form of HPV. And there are about
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Speaker 1: one hundred different types of HPV, right, and some of
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Speaker 1: them are worse than others, Like the HPV inoculation that
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Speaker 1: that um that the government was the state governments are
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Speaker 1: pushing forth inoculates against the strain that gives you cervical cancer,
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Speaker 1: which is the biggest threat HPV poses a person. There's
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Speaker 1: slightly lesser ones like genital awards, which won't kill you,
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Speaker 1: but it's not pleasant and good luck finding a partner
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Speaker 1: for that one. Yeah, I mean those two words together
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Speaker 1: don't make people feel good in general. That's why I
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Speaker 1: was glad you said your reward was near your knee. Yeah. Um,
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Speaker 1: so yeah, it can cause general awards, and of course
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Speaker 1: HPV can also cause good old fashioned regular awards, but
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Speaker 1: that can I say a little aside about that push
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Speaker 1: for HPV inoculations and this interesting Yeah, I think so.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for the voted confidence UM. But basically in two
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Speaker 1: thousand and six seven that huge push to get UM
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Speaker 1: girls inoculated as part of like the mom's rubella, if
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Speaker 1: you want to go to school, you have to get
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Speaker 1: an HPV inoculation. UM. At the forefront of this push
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Speaker 1: was a group called Women in Government Yes, and they
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Speaker 1: are this huge assemblage of female elected officials, which is fine,
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Speaker 1: and they took up the cause. So far, so good, right, UM.
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Speaker 1: The problem is it was revealed that a large proportion
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Speaker 1: of WHIGS funding was coming from Merk Mark's the pharmaceutical company,
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Speaker 1: and they are the only ones who have an FDA
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Speaker 1: approved HPV inoculation on the market. So if all fifty
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Speaker 1: states started passing mandatory HPV inoculation legislation, then Mark stands
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Speaker 1: again quite a bit because there's no competition for that
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Speaker 1: kind of set things back a little bit. But as
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Speaker 1: of I think the two thousand eight there are forty
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Speaker 1: one different state legislation natures that had bills on the floor,
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Speaker 1: if not already passed, mandating that girls have to get
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Speaker 1: HPV inoculations, and nineteen states have already enacted them. Good
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Speaker 1: enough there, so the same thing that can give you
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Speaker 1: cervical cancer can also give you wards. Right. Most people
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Speaker 1: can walk around with HPV and not even know it,
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Speaker 1: may not even have common wards. Right, but if you
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Speaker 1: do get common wars, what's what's going on there? Chuck? Well,
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Speaker 1: I mean usually their words are going to be on
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Speaker 1: your hands and fingers. Um. And aside from the way
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Speaker 1: it looks, because words kind of have a negative connotation physically,
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Speaker 1: but aside from the aesthetics of it, there's really no
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Speaker 1: threat that they pose. They're not cancerus, which is weird
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Speaker 1: because all cancers is uncontrolled growth and all award is
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Speaker 1: is uncontrolled cellular growth. It is weird. But they eventually
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Speaker 1: stopped growing. I guess a tumor never stops growing until
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Speaker 1: it's dealt with. And worts can absolutely spread from one
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Speaker 1: person to another, even through shared objects. Yeah, you don't
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Speaker 1: have to go like if you had a word on
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Speaker 1: your cheek. I don't have to go and lick your
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Speaker 1: your wart right now to get it. All you have
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Speaker 1: to do is come in contact with your dirty older
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Speaker 1: brother and bam, you got warts. Yeah. I totally caught
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Speaker 1: it from him. It's weird. You can even get it
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Speaker 1: off of sharing a bath toel with somebody with warts,
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Speaker 1: it's a it's a hardy virus. Yeah. Um. So the
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Speaker 1: other problem is is although warts do eventually stopped growing,
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Speaker 1: when they die, they slough off and which spreads. So like,
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Speaker 1: if you ever have warts like a warda on your finger,
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Speaker 1: you can probably look forward to getting warts on other
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Speaker 1: fingers nearby or very close by. This life cycle, it's um,
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Speaker 1: it's not never ending. Eventually your body will produce the
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Speaker 1: anybody's needed to work off the warts. But sometimes you
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Speaker 1: have to wait longer, longer times than others. But they
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Speaker 1: will eventually go away, which is good to know. So
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Speaker 1: what do you What do you do if you want
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Speaker 1: to get rid of your warts? You don't feel like
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Speaker 1: waiting around for your body to catch up and get
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Speaker 1: rid of them? Right, Well, you can take some nail clippers,
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Speaker 1: I'm just kidding about. What you can do is what
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Speaker 1: we were talking about earlier. You can freeze them off.
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Speaker 1: It's called croywd therapy and that's when they use the
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Speaker 1: liquid nitrogen. And there are also some over the counter
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Speaker 1: home remedies that have sell sellocyclics how you pronounce it,
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Speaker 1: sellocyclic acid as the active ingredient. And both of these
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Speaker 1: methods basically will create a blister around the area of
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Speaker 1: the ward, and then that will be shed once the
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Speaker 1: blister falls off. So the blister falls off, and basically
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Speaker 1: what you're doing is you're making your skin react in
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Speaker 1: such a way that it covers up the war so
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Speaker 1: it can't spread. And then when the blister falls off,
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Speaker 1: because it goes underneath the war and over the ward
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Speaker 1: and along the sides, basically encapsulates it. Then your blister
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Speaker 1: eventually goes away, but it takes the wart with it.
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Speaker 1: That's kind of gross. It is gross, and it's really
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Speaker 1: simple and basic works and it's it's kind of elegant
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Speaker 1: and it's simplicity, and I know, uh, if if it's
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Speaker 1: really bad, you can opt for laser surgery, UM and
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Speaker 1: prescription treatments. If if you have genital warts, you might
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Speaker 1: want to go that right. Well, no, if you if
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Speaker 1: your common warts don't work very well, if you have
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Speaker 1: general awards, they're gonna give you prescription medicine. But if
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Speaker 1: your common warts aren't responding to like cryotherapy or anything,
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Speaker 1: that may give you the prescription for genital awards. Because
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Speaker 1: hardcore stuff, I imagine a laser they do for everything nowadays.
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Speaker 1: I love that. Just hit it, just hit it with
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Speaker 1: blaser over the best. Right. There's also something called a
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Speaker 1: blister beetle, and it lives up to its name. Right.
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Speaker 1: So they figured out how to extract a certain toxin
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Speaker 1: from the blister beetle, which causes a blister reaction in
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Speaker 1: human skin, and basically it does the same thing is, um,
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Speaker 1: you know whatever. What was the first thing you said
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Speaker 1: that creates a blister that cryotherapy? Yeah? Yeah, so it's
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Speaker 1: the same thing, except it's it's natural because it's a
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Speaker 1: beetle extracture. And some people are into that, like Spanish fly,
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Speaker 1: which is not good forwards or anything. So check let's see.
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Speaker 1: Uh oh, did you want to mention that one? That
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Speaker 1: one old wives tale what to do if you have warts? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I've never heard this actually, so good on you. Um.
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Speaker 1: Apparently burying a cat at midnight is one of the
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Speaker 1: wives tales that you could And does that mean bearing
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Speaker 1: a live cat? I check that out and no, it's
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Speaker 1: a dead cat. Okay, so bearing a dead cat at
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Speaker 1: midnight we'll get rid of your warts. Obviously this isn't
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Speaker 1: true bearing a live cat well, I mean it's like,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, yeah, this won't really work, right, But
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Speaker 1: I mean, where would you find a dead cat as well?
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Speaker 1: I mean that's yeah, I guess you could. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: The whole thing is just not true. This is kind
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Speaker 1: of unsettling, And that's one of the old wives. That's
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Speaker 1: like a billion frogs approaching its civilization unsettling, like how
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Speaker 1: do you get a dead cat? You should watch that documentary.
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Speaker 1: It's I totally will it's really gonna go watch it
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Speaker 1: after this because I don't feel like working any longer today.
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Speaker 1: So I guess that's about it. Oh. Even though, even
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Speaker 1: though uh, toads won't give you warts, you probably shouldn't
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Speaker 1: pick them up anyway, because toads like the pe all
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Speaker 1: over your hand, which might not hurt you, but it's
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Speaker 1: kind of gross. So you should probably just leave the
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Speaker 1: toads alone unless they're hallucinogenic, and then you can lick
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Speaker 1: them do your heart's content. Yeah, I think every time
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Speaker 1: I've picked up a frog or a toad, it's pete
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Speaker 1: in my hand. Really, you're not gonna c o a
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Speaker 1: on the hallucinogenic toad endorsement. No. I like frogs and stuffing.
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Speaker 1: They're kind of cool, Okay, have it. I won't lick
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Speaker 1: them though, Oh you want? Okay, all right, so that's it.
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Speaker 1: Go forth and tell everyone actually punch someone in the
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Speaker 1: neck the next time they tell you toads can give
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Speaker 1: was a great one from Alex in Germany. Hey, guys,
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Speaker 1: I'm a student from Germany and I really enjoy your podcast.
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