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Speaker 1: is Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Uh. And you put the
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Speaker 1: you should know? Right? That's right, Josh, as you're doing there, Chuff,
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Speaker 1: I know you're laughing because I am doing a little thing.
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Speaker 1: I have punk in my ear and I could use
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Speaker 1: a cute tip if you have one. Hey, fun fact.
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Speaker 1: Did you know that cute tips originally called baby gaze?
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Speaker 1: Baby Gaze? I don't think I knew that, but it
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Speaker 1: sounds familiar. True story story. Very cool. I like starting
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Speaker 1: off with a fact that has nothing to do with
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Speaker 1: our show. Sure, right, So, Chuck, speaking of having nothing
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Speaker 1: to do with our show. Um, let's talk about deja vu?
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Speaker 1: You ever had it? I have? And uh, let me
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Speaker 1: add this as a listener suggestion. Yeah. Dedicated to one
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Speaker 1: Peter Harrison of Pittman, New Jersey, Keeping It Real and
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Speaker 1: New Jersey in the Garden State. He actually had deja
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Speaker 1: vu when he was listening to I Believe our Exorcism podcast.
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Speaker 1: So weird the thought of it unsettling one to have
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Speaker 1: deja vu over I would think. It turns out we
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Speaker 1: had a great article on it, so away we go. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: let's do this, Chuck. You know, are you part of
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Speaker 1: the thirty percent who has reported never having all? I
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Speaker 1: guess just hasn't reported having deja vu? Are you part
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Speaker 1: of the sixty to seventy seventy It definitely have had
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Speaker 1: deja many, many times. I was actually surprised to find
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Speaker 1: that number was as low as it was. I thought
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Speaker 1: it'd be hovering in the nineties, you know, and then
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Speaker 1: the other people were just too late. Say you'd ever say, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I've had deja vu. It seems like something everybody would have, right, right,
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Speaker 1: or nothing familiar has ever happened to me exactly like
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Speaker 1: I don't pay attention to anything at all. Right, I
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Speaker 1: just watched you know, Dancing with the Stars all the time.
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Speaker 1: So um, alright, chuck, Well, let's let's start with the
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Speaker 1: nuts and bolts, shall we. Deja vu French four French
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Speaker 1: four already seen and I believe it was named by
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Speaker 1: Emil Borak, who was a French scientist, first guy to
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Speaker 1: ever study it, so he take it its name in
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Speaker 1: his eighteen seventy six book Leveneer decien Ces Physiques. Wow,
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Speaker 1: thank you three years under my belt, pal, I feel
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Speaker 1: like you just channeled Peppy le Pew. So deja vu,
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Speaker 1: as everyone knows is uh is a feeling that you've
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Speaker 1: seen or experienced something before when you know that you
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Speaker 1: have not. Yeah. Yeah, it's a sense of familiarity, unplaced familiarity. Right.
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Speaker 1: For instance, I walk into a store I've never been
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Speaker 1: in and uh see a person I've never seen. I think, wow,
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Speaker 1: this is feel eerily familiar. Yeah. What usually happens to me,
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Speaker 1: I'm part of the sixties to self reported, Um, and uh,
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Speaker 1: what happens to me usually is there's about three different
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Speaker 1: things that are going on in conjunction with one another, Like, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, a fish jumps in a lake, and a
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Speaker 1: woman walks by with a baby stroller and then like
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Speaker 1: as a cloud passes in front of the sun, it'll
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Speaker 1: that's how my deja vu is. And I'm like, wow,
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Speaker 1: I've been standing in the same spot watching these the
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Speaker 1: same group of things happen, and then it just kind
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Speaker 1: of passes. Interesting. I'm like, WHOA, I don't know if
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Speaker 1: I could categorize mine that specifically, but well done, thanks,
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Speaker 1: thank you very much. That's my deja vu. Um. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: so essentially, um, what was the guy's named war Rock? He? Uh,
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Speaker 1: he mentioned deja vu, but he didn't really go into
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Speaker 1: detail about it. The first really respected I guess scientist
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Speaker 1: to really take up the mantle was Freud, right, and
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Speaker 1: he basically created the theory that that was the driving
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Speaker 1: explanation behind deja vu throughout the twentieth century. Um, and
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Speaker 1: that was that he uh, he believed it were that
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Speaker 1: deja vu was the result of repressed memories. He said
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Speaker 1: that about everything everything. If it wasn't about the penis
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Speaker 1: or the vagina, it was about repressed memories and possibly
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Speaker 1: mother's teet. Yeah, I went to the Freud house. Did
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Speaker 1: you have a nice photo in front of it? That's
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Speaker 1: that's great side. Yeah, what what city is that? Vienna?
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Speaker 1: I am almost positive it was Vienna. We'll find out,
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Speaker 1: won't we. Yes, Yeah, trapsed around though, and all those
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Speaker 1: memories aren't firmly rooted. So there's a deja vu joke
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Speaker 1: in there somewhere. I just can't find it right now,
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Speaker 1: so we'll just keep going. Huh, sure, we'll edit in later.
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Speaker 1: All right. So, at some point, as we said, Freud,
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Speaker 1: you know, he deja vu explained. And then once Freud
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Speaker 1: basically was found out to be a m basically a fraud. Okay,
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Speaker 1: well U co addicted um postulator rather than maybe a
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Speaker 1: real scientist. In my opinion, I'm more of a young
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Speaker 1: Gian than than the Freudian. Of course, Um, I'm a doctor,
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Speaker 1: phil guy, are you? You can't go wrong with that guy. Um. Eventually,
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Speaker 1: at some point in time, the deja vu was attached
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Speaker 1: to the paranormal. I'm not entirely certain when this happened,
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Speaker 1: but you know, you you've heard that kind of thing
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Speaker 1: like it had to do with precognition. Yeah, and and
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Speaker 1: real scientists wouldn't They kind of just brushed it aside. Well, actually,
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Speaker 1: one one um does explain deja vu through precognitive dreams.
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Speaker 1: But we'll get to that later, right, that's right. Um,
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Speaker 1: but yeah, that that anytime you put the stank of
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Speaker 1: paranormal onto something that's arguably real, people science just turns
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Speaker 1: her back on it. They can't stand things that they
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Speaker 1: can't apply the scientific method to whether it's real or not. Right,
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Speaker 1: So everybody just kind of dropped, at least the scientific
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Speaker 1: community kind of dropped deja vu until our great friend,
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Speaker 1: the functional m r I was invented a k a.
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Speaker 1: The Wonder Machine, and it sparked this renewed interest in
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Speaker 1: research into into deja vu. Right. Well, yeah, because now
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Speaker 1: you can actually look at the brain function and try
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Speaker 1: and figure out the science behind it instead of just
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Speaker 1: doing the Freudian thing which just makes stuff up. Right. Um,
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Speaker 1: So this is really really really new research. I mean
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Speaker 1: just last several years. Right, So the jury is still
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Speaker 1: definitely out, which is good for us and our listeners
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Speaker 1: because we get to talk about a bunch of competing
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Speaker 1: theories that are super cool, and there's a lot of them.
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Speaker 1: I think they're the articles. It's like over forty theories
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Speaker 1: of what actually is and I think we shouldn't go
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Speaker 1: into all four this would be a four hour podcast.
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Speaker 1: But they they've basically split deja vu into two two
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Speaker 1: broad categories. Right, there's associative and biological. And which one
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Speaker 1: is associative. Well, that's the one that most people out
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Speaker 1: there probably are more familiar with. And that's when you
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Speaker 1: your senses are reacting and you see here, smell something
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Speaker 1: that stirs up a feeling inside you, and uh it's
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Speaker 1: you know, it's memory based, and it's very fleeting, like
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Speaker 1: ten to twenty seconds and shorter than that. Actually, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I would say less than ten. Usually is there a
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Speaker 1: baby carriage involved? Um? These this is this is a
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Speaker 1: deja vu among generally healthy people. Right, so we're not
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Speaker 1: we're not really attaching any real meaning to it. It's
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Speaker 1: more like a WHOA, that was cool deja vu kind
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Speaker 1: of thing. Right. The other one, biological is actually the
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Speaker 1: result of like some sort of structural impairment to the brain. Um, say, epilepsy, yeah, um,
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Speaker 1: possibly schizophrenia. Uh. And these are these episodes are much
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Speaker 1: more vivid um deja vu than than associative deja vu.
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Speaker 1: And uh, the people who experience biological deja vu have
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Speaker 1: much more of a tendency to attach real meaning to
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Speaker 1: it and really believe like they they're experiencing something to wise, right,
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Speaker 1: it's not like a fleeting feeling. And if you're an
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Speaker 1: epileptic and you have a case of vivid deja vu,
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Speaker 1: prepare for a seizure. Oh, it's it's right before the seizure,
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Speaker 1: right before. Yeah. And apparently they also smell flowers, sometimes
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Speaker 1: two or oranges, that's what I've heard. Interesting, I agree.
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Speaker 1: So those are the two broad categories. Right. Still, it
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Speaker 1: doesn't really explain anything right now, it doesn't um with
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Speaker 1: with the biology. It seems like researchers have the biological
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Speaker 1: explanation of deja vu down a little more pat it's
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Speaker 1: a little more medically based. Yeah, it's like a temporal
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Speaker 1: lobe malfunction possibly. Um. And actually it seems like the temple,
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Speaker 1: the temporal lobe has everything to do with deja vu,
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Speaker 1: whether it's structural or you know, associative, right, because that's
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Speaker 1: where our conscious memory is is happening basically, which would
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Speaker 1: be a pretty appropriate place for deja vu to take place, rightly, Um, So, basically, Uh,
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Speaker 1: there's this part called the there's a part there's a
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Speaker 1: temporal lobe region called the medial temporal lobe and um, that's,
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Speaker 1: like you said, the part that's responsible for processing conscious memory.
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Speaker 1: And there's this guy named Robert Efron, and he's a neurologist.
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Speaker 1: I take it of some stripe and he did some
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Speaker 1: investigation into the temporal lobe and he found that it
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Speaker 1: receives information the same sensory input twice in Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: it's still held up his valid It makes a lot
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Speaker 1: of sense. Okay, So what what Effron postulated was that
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Speaker 1: if we're getting the same information twice, ones direct to
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Speaker 1: the temporal lobe, which which process of sensory information. The
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Speaker 1: other one is slightly indirect. It gets routed through the
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Speaker 1: right hemisphere of the brain and then shoots over to
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Speaker 1: the to the left hemisphere of the temporal lobe within milliseconds.
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Speaker 1: But there is a delay. There's a lag. And so
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Speaker 1: what Efron said was if this delay is longer than normal,
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Speaker 1: extended by even a couple of milliseconds, the brain has
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Speaker 1: the potential to confuse you know what what, I guess
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Speaker 1: kind of time stamper, you know what situation or context
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Speaker 1: that this this um this century input was taken in
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Speaker 1: UM and maybe a sign uh an incorrect category Hence
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Speaker 1: we get the feeling that we've been there before, we've
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Speaker 1: experienced this before because we're we're confused, and that's what
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Speaker 1: deja vu is, which makes tons of sense. Pretty cool. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's certainly not the only uh theory of what deja
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Speaker 1: vu is, No, uh, cell phone theory, So we talk
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Speaker 1: about that. Yes, this Dr Alan Brown is a guy
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Speaker 1: who's don't on our research in this area as well,
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Speaker 1: and he did studies at Duke University and SMU Southern
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Speaker 1: Methodist with Elizabeth Marsh it's a lady's name. And what
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Speaker 1: they did was they worked with subliminal suggestion, which is
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Speaker 1: one of my favorite things. I think it's really cool
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Speaker 1: and interesting. Uh. They showed photographs of different locations to
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Speaker 1: students and they're gonna you know, the plan was to
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Speaker 1: ask them which ones were familiar, but before they did this,
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Speaker 1: they showed the same photos at subliminal speeds so like
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Speaker 1: ten of twenty milliseconds. And what happened was the brain
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Speaker 1: of course registered it and unconsciously, right unconsciously, and that
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Speaker 1: they found familiarity with these slides of locations that they've
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Speaker 1: never been to. Like they showed the people the same
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Speaker 1: picture uh once in a split second, and then later
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Speaker 1: on they thought that they hadn't seen it before, but
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Speaker 1: the brain had already unconsciously a process there, right, And
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Speaker 1: you got it, buddy, so and and there was an
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Speaker 1: increase in deja vu among those people. Yeah, and um,
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Speaker 1: I saw a thing on YouTube and this isn't exactly
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Speaker 1: deja vu, but this is a really cool thing. There
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Speaker 1: was a guy in England named Darren Brown. He's a
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Speaker 1: magician and mentalist, which I think is a great title. Uh,
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Speaker 1: And he did this, if you look up on YouTube
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Speaker 1: Darren Brown and subliminal advertising. He did the school deal
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Speaker 1: where he brought in these two advertising guys and said, hey,
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Speaker 1: I want you to come up with an advertising plan
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Speaker 1: for me based on taxidermy. And that's all he told him.
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Speaker 1: And then he sat down an envelope and said this
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Speaker 1: is my plan and don't look at it or anything
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Speaker 1: like that sealed. These guys came up with a little
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Speaker 1: you know, sketch and a logo and a and a tagline.
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Speaker 1: He came back in ten minutes later or however long
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Speaker 1: it was, and opened up his envelope and the logo,
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Speaker 1: the tagline, everything was really really really similar. And these guys.
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Speaker 1: These ad guys were just blown away. And then it
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Speaker 1: showed a replay of their trip to the studio where
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Speaker 1: they did this, and he had placed these little subliminal
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Speaker 1: suggestions everywhere. One is a little sticker on the inside
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Speaker 1: of their cab. One was on a road sign that
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Speaker 1: they passed. One was a group of students that were
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Speaker 1: wearing a T shirt with a logo that passed in
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Speaker 1: front of the car. And their brains picked all this
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Speaker 1: stuff up. It was again Darren Brown. Okay, what was
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Speaker 1: the name of the clip? Do you remember, Darren Brown?
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Speaker 1: Subliminal advertising, very direct and appropriate it yes, So what
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Speaker 1: are you doing there, Chuck? You okay? Well, yeah, my
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Speaker 1: ear is uh got some gunk in it? Oh yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I could use a qute tip. Actually, hey, Chuck, did
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Speaker 1: you know that qute tips originally called baby gaze gay
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Speaker 1: as in g A y S. I didn't know that,
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Speaker 1: but that sounds familiar back in. That's what it's interesting.
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Speaker 1: Another aside. Sorry, So okay, Chuck, that cell phone theory, right,
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Speaker 1: that's what it was called. That was Alan Brown. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so it um it applies to deja vu in that
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Speaker 1: I guess Dr Brown is saying that we are when
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Speaker 1: we're not really paying attention, when we're distracted, UM, we're
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Speaker 1: still processing sensory information unconsciously. So then let's say you
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Speaker 1: walk into a room and you're not really paying attention
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Speaker 1: to you're talking to somebody. Um, when you do turn
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Speaker 1: your attention to your surroundings and you start taking that
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Speaker 1: sensory and putting consciously, that's where potentially where deja vu
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Speaker 1: comes in. Because we're comparing this new conscious sensory and
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Speaker 1: put into something or brain is already familiar with him.
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Speaker 1: We're like, whoa, I've been here before. And they found
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Speaker 1: that some people that are stressed and have anxiety are
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Speaker 1: more prone to it. They also found that people who
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Speaker 1: are refreshed and rested are more prone to it. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: we're still getting a handle on deja vu. Right. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: one study says one thing and the other says the
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Speaker 1: exact opposite. I love those. I've got another study, beautiful,
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Speaker 1: let's hear it. It's called the hologram study. Good one. Okay,
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Speaker 1: So this guy's name is Hermann's no s no no W,
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Speaker 1: and he's Dutch, and um, he basically has the theory
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Speaker 1: that UM memory memories are like a hologram, right, like
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Speaker 1: a three D construct, and they are if you take it,
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Speaker 1: just a small piece of it, you can reconstruct a
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Speaker 1: memory from it. But if you take a very very
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Speaker 1: small fragment, the memory is not going to be completely
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Speaker 1: accurate or true. Right. So Dr Snow's theory actually I
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Speaker 1: think he's a philosopher. Maybe his theory is that, uh,
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Speaker 1: we have little snippets of memory brought back, we recall
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Speaker 1: them that are triggered by something familiar, but then we
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Speaker 1: reconstruct those memories incorrectly too, and we use that immediate
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Speaker 1: um experience. Uh say, getting into a car, we have
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Speaker 1: a memory that we've forgotten about a similar car um so,
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Speaker 1: but we still recall a little bit of it, but
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Speaker 1: we reconstructed around the car that we're in right now,
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Speaker 1: and we feel like we've been there before. He's a psychiatrist,
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Speaker 1: by the way, thank you for that. Thank you, no
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Speaker 1: listener mail on that one. Fact checking as we go. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you're quick, chuck, thank you you got any more? Uh? Well,
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Speaker 1: I know you probably wanted to hit um the precognitive
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Speaker 1: dream thing. Yeah, and I don't remember who came up
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Speaker 1: with this one, do you. Yeah. Swiss scientist Arthur funk Houser. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so funk Houser with the coolest name on the planet.
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Speaker 1: He he believed that we actually have dreams that pretend
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Speaker 1: the future, if essentially very cool, um, and that it's
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Speaker 1: generally mundane stuff that we easily forget. And he actually
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Speaker 1: conducted a study I think back in nine of a
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Speaker 1: bunch of kids at Oxford and found that something somewhere
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Speaker 1: around like twelve point seven percent of their dreams eventually
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Speaker 1: bore a striking similarity to future events. And he said,
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Speaker 1: it's as simple as that we we have somehow have
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Speaker 1: an ability to see what's coming down the road. Uh,
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Speaker 1: And that's where deja vu comes from. Well, I did,
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Speaker 1: like you said, it was usually more mundane things. What
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Speaker 1: he theorized, and this makes sense too, is that if
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Speaker 1: if it wasn't mundane, were more likely to remember it
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Speaker 1: in our you know, just waking conscious right, and these
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Speaker 1: are the ones that slipped between the cracks, right, and
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Speaker 1: since it was Monday, since we can forget it. That
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Speaker 1: would explain that kind of hazy quality that um that
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Speaker 1: deja vu always has. You know, it's nothing's quite right
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's pretty cool, yeah, uh. And
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Speaker 1: and actually, interestingly, his theory was backed up by another
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Speaker 1: study from I found similar results, except that it was
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Speaker 1: more in the ten percent of you know, dreams pretend
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Speaker 1: the future. I think it's actually ten percent of the
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Speaker 1: people have dreams that could not ten percent of dreams.
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Speaker 1: Are you sure? I would say ten to twelve percent
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Speaker 1: of my dreams come true. It's happening right now. You
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Speaker 1: dreamed of having a podcast with me one day check.
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Speaker 1: Should we talk about jen vu? Yes? Please? Jean vu
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Speaker 1: is the opposite of day. I know a lot of
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Speaker 1: people say day, but that's just kind of a funny
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Speaker 1: way to say. It is actually a real term. I
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Speaker 1: I passed over this part in the article. Fuck, I'm
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Speaker 1: not kidding. This is brand new to me. It was
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Speaker 1: not in the article. My friend, It's called supplemental research.
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Speaker 1: You should try it sometimes. No, jan vu is is
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Speaker 1: a real thing. It means never seen and uh. It's
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Speaker 1: when a familiar situation is not recognized. It's like face blindness.
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Speaker 1: Not really, Okay, it was worth the shot, Chuck right. Actually, Like,
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Speaker 1: have you ever had the situation where you've said a
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Speaker 1: word like over and over in your head and then
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Speaker 1: the word starts to sound funny or that happens to
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Speaker 1: me when I see it spelled right exactly. That's John
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Speaker 1: avou And basically what's happening there is um. The word
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Speaker 1: is just existing in its form, so the function of
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Speaker 1: meaning is lost. So weird. You're not applying the function
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Speaker 1: of meaning. So you say, um, eggs benedict fifteen times
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Speaker 1: and by the end of it, or if you write
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Speaker 1: it out fifteen times, you're gonna be thinking eggs benedict?
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Speaker 1: What are eggs and benedict? And what is hollandaise sauce?
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Speaker 1: This this word looks so weird. That's one example of
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Speaker 1: John don't don't forget the Canadian bacon. Chuck, who can Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Our Canadian friends, we love your bacon.
18:46
Speaker 1: They just call it bacon up there. Well we call
18:48
Speaker 1: it ham. That's true. So um, so wow, Chuck, you
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Speaker 1: just you dazzled me just now. Good. Yeah, I'd like
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Speaker 1: to do that. Yeah from time to time. Well that's uh,
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Speaker 1: that's sto, I guess for now, until you know, somebody
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Speaker 1: finally cements down exactly what's going on. And again, I
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Speaker 1: think the Wonder Machine is going to be the the
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Speaker 1: utility that does it for us. Je vu all over again,
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Speaker 1: as uh Yogi Barrow went said, great man, Um and Chuck,
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Speaker 1: one free download. And this is actually kind of big.
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Speaker 1: They have fifty tho plus titles on the site. You
19:42
Speaker 1: can get a book if you want. Yeah, you can
19:44
Speaker 1: get stand up and actually, um, I was looking on
19:47
Speaker 1: the site and they have a bunch of George Carlin
19:49
Speaker 1: and specifically a Place for My Stuff are arguably his
19:53
Speaker 1: greatest work ever. Um it's my personal favorite. Um. So yeah,
19:57
Speaker 1: there's all sorts of it's not just audiobooks, yeah Carlin.
20:00
Speaker 1: And speaking of which, this is an audiobook either and
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Speaker 1: I'm surprised you didn't pick this one. It's your your plug.
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Speaker 1: But maybe the Gonzo Tapes the Life and Work of
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Speaker 1: Dr Hunter S. Thompson. These were just recently released and
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Speaker 1: these are just it's a long series, I believe that's
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Speaker 1: an abridge version on audible dot com about but you
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Speaker 1: get about six hours worth of famous author extraordinary Hunter
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Speaker 1: S Thompson uh speaking into a tape recorder. Over the
20:27
Speaker 1: years he did this and they've gathered all these tapes
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Speaker 1: and it's really really awesome. I have found my one
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20:44
Speaker 1: I know you love plugging the blog. You want to
20:46
Speaker 1: you want to take the opportunity. Sure, I would like
20:49
Speaker 1: to direct everyone to our new blog, which is a
20:52
Speaker 1: Internet term for blogged, and Josh and I write on
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Speaker 1: this sing a couple of times a day and we
21:00
Speaker 1: talk about cool stuff. And basically the idea here was
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21:26
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21:29
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Speaker 1: see lovely photo of Josh who looks cute as a
21:35
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21:38
Speaker 1: looking good. It's good stuff. So now, yeah, there's a
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Speaker 1: blog plug. Let's do listener man, right, you ready for this? Josh?
21:49
Speaker 1: I was born ready, Chuck. I have a couple of
21:51
Speaker 1: stuff we should know, which our new nicer name for corrections. Um,
21:57
Speaker 1: christ I thought it was stuff we should have known. Sure,
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Speaker 1: it sounds good. Christine Lee of Toronto, Ontario. And as
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Speaker 1: a quick side note, I can't remember his name, but
22:05
Speaker 1: we had a Canadian friend right in and say it
22:07
Speaker 1: really bugs when we say like Montreal, Canada. He said
22:11
Speaker 1: they'd be like saying Atlanta, United States. So we need
22:15
Speaker 1: to start saying the prob So Christine Lee is of
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Speaker 1: Korean descent, and she said in the Friday thirteenth podcast,
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Speaker 1: we talked about unlucky numbers in China and Japan and
22:27
Speaker 1: again and can people die a fright? We talked about
22:30
Speaker 1: the same thing and it's actually true in Korea as well,
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Speaker 1: and she feels like Koreans are often slighted uh to
22:37
Speaker 1: their Chinese and Japanese friends, so we need to start
22:40
Speaker 1: looking into other Asian countries. Basically, yes, apparently four is
22:45
Speaker 1: an unlucky number in Korea, and thank you Christine Lee
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Speaker 1: for that. Sorry Christine and Chris from Pennsylvania. This is
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Speaker 1: what you're gonna love this one. Uh, he said he
22:54
Speaker 1: listened to the Comas podcast. I'm surprised that between Josh's
22:58
Speaker 1: Magnum p I knowledge and Ucks movie knowledge that you
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Speaker 1: guys never brought up the connection between Magnum in the
23:03
Speaker 1: nine movie Coma. Tom Selleck was actually in that movie,
23:08
Speaker 1: and I haven't seen it in years, but I remember
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Speaker 1: him being one of the Comma patients that was suspended
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Speaker 1: on wires, and that is indeed true. I don't remember
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Speaker 1: Tom Selleck in now when my earliest memory of Tom
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Speaker 1: Sellek in a movie was a Looker. No, he wasn't
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Speaker 1: in it. Okay, what was the other one with the
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Speaker 1: robots in? Right? You're thinking of Runaway? Very nice? Yeah?
23:29
Speaker 1: Are you sure he wasn't in Looker? Yeah? That was
23:31
Speaker 1: Albert Finney. That was a great movie though for an
23:33
Speaker 1: eighties sci fi. I agree. Susan Day's in it too. Yeah.
23:38
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