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Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast.

This week, coming to you live from Newport.

My name is Dan Schreiber, and please welcome to the stage.

It's Anna Chaczynski, James Harkin, and Andy Murray.

And once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days, and in no particular order, here we go.

Starting with you, James Harkin.

Okay, my fact this week is that Grumpy from the Seven Dwarfs is not nearly grumpy enough.

Sounds like an opinion.

It is an opinion, I'd say.

It's the opinion of some researchers from Duke University in North Carolina.

And what they did is they looked at a load of movies that are aimed at children, so they would be rated you in the UK.

They split all the characters up in class, so you have your upper class, your middle class, and your lower class.

And they decided that the depiction of working class was unrealistic and that the seven dwarfs would not be singing cheerfully as they walked down to the mine.

So James,

who were the scientists?

Yeah, they were just people at Duke University in North Carolina.

To be honest, they are, you know, they're cartoons, aren't they?

You don't really expect them to be all that kind of realistic.

But scientists don't like it when you get things wrong.

In The Lion King, the hyenas in The Lion King are the bad guys.

And some of the artists for the film spent two days observing hyenas in the hills above the campus of where they were.

And the scientists who were with them said, look, hyenas are good guys.

Don't depict them as idiots, as evil people.

And they did.

And then one of them sued this.

One of the hyenas.

No, no one

no I mean

that is litigious and I think they are evil as a result of that

no that wouldn't be very realistic either would it no it was one of the scientists sued watch that film though if one of the hyenas from the original film sues the mate you know there's a lion king uh three which is like so the lion king's sort of based on hamlet and then the lion king three begins with timon and pumba the comedy characters and they're based on gildenstone and rosenkrantz in the original thing But then The Lion King 3 is based on Guildenstern and Rosenkrantz are dead, the Tom Stoppard play.

But no, it begins with Timon and Pumba watching The Lion King 1 in a cinema.

This is how the Lion King 3 begins.

And they say, that's not how it happened.

We're going to tell the story of how it actually happened.

And it's all the other bits.

So it's Guildenstern and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.

But from the perspective of a four-talk of meerka, amazing.

Yeah.

So on the Seven Dwarves,

so originally they have no names.

In the Grimm Brothers story, they have no names.

And then when Disney did the famous film in 1937,

they had about 50 potential names for the dwarfs, which were slowly whittled down.

And the rejected names included jumpy, deafy,

hicky,

baldy, puffy, stuffy, and awful.

I actually made a list of my dream seven dwarfs because I think these were all on the Disney potentials list as well.

There's slotty, hotsy, and chesty, which I think are obviously a bit of a threesome.

And then awful, goopy, snarful, and big o ego.

I think that would be a better seven dwarves.

Chesty.

Chesty.

Chesty.

Pretending someone with a cough.

Gov cough, yes.

I actually read that when they picked Dopey as one of the characters that people working at Disney said to Walt Disney that that's not a good name to use because this is meant to be an old tale and Dopey is a relatively recent hip name.

and so people will think that that's not a good name.

Oh yeah, because like dope just meant good, didn't it?

Yeah, exactly.

And so Disney said, well, it's not a new name.

It was used in a Shakespeare play.

So they went, oh, okay, of course, sorry.

He made that up.

There was never.

He's like, yeah, it's right here.

Dopey or not dopey.

I actually once lost a school quiz off the back of a question of name all the seven dwarves.

Oh yeah.

We got six of them, and then we were stuck on the seventh, and my friend, my best friend, Dan, Dan, suddenly went, oh my god, I know it because it's my dad's name.

So

what's his dad's name?

Sneezy.

His dad was a rock star in Australia, a really big rock star called Doc Neeson.

And he goes, I know it.

Now, Doc is not his dad's real name.

So what he ended up putting on the paper as the seventh dwarf was Bernard.

And we were looking at him going, are you sure?

He goes, definitely.

Like grown up, everyone's like, oh, like the dwarf.

So there's some controversy about this fact because obviously as a study, some would say it is fatuous, the word has been used, by others around this table studying this kind of thing and drawing these conclusions.

So I was looking at other potentially fatuous studies.

And so there were two studies, one in 2008 and one in 2013, looking at how films can affect people psychologically.

And so whether, you know, we should be worried about the effect of Hollywood films, for instance, on society and ourselves.

2008, there was an Edinburgh University recruited 100 volunteers, and the study deduced that fans of romantic comedies have a stronger belief in predestined love and they have more unrealistic expectations for relationships.

So, romantic comedies, bad, give us unrealistic expectations of relationships.

2013, there was another study looking into exactly the same thing, found that there is no correlation between people who are interested in watching romantic comedies and people who have unrealistic ideas about love.

So, really, you can make a study say whatever it is you want to prove.

It'd be good if the leads of those two papers got together and then had a beautiful relationship.

That's the thing.

Like, I know that sometimes they do seem like they shouldn't have been done, but I love the studies that make no sense.

Here's a great one I really like.

This is from 2005.

This is what the study was about: far away objects are tougher to see.

And they confirmed that to be true.

Swallowing more than one magnet is dangerous.

There is, I think it is a problem with kids because magnets are sold now as office stress relievers, I think.

And yeah, apparently, sure.

But if you swallow one, it is bad.

But there are like hundreds of people who are admitted to ERs in America every year, kids who have swallowed two of them, and obviously that really screws up your intestines because as soon as you swallow the second one, they try to find each other in your insides and disrupt everything else in the meantime.

Oh, so that is quite bad.

It is amazing.

We need to move on to our next fact.

Does anyone have anything before we do?

I can give you one more study that's kind of a bit fatuous, but also about Disney stuff.

So they did this thing where they had men watching movies, and they had some which were sad movies and some which were happy movies.

And the happy movie was the jungle book, which would make everyone happy.

So they made them watch this jungle book, and then they took swabs from their armpits, and then they gave the swabs to women and asked them to smell them and smelled all the different armpits of people who've watched all the different movies.

And they found that people who'd watched happier movies, when you smell their armpits, it makes you smile more.

What?

I mean, you can't be smiling much because you're smelling an armpit smell.

Yeah, it could be more of a grimace.

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Okay, it is time for fact number two, and that is Andrew Hunter Murray.

My fact this week is that the ancient Romans had party bags.

So in ancient Rome, if you went to a dinner party, at the end of it you would be given a thing called an apophoreta, which literally means a takeaway.

So they invented takeaways as well.

And that we know about them because there was a poet called Marshall and he wrote a whole book about them.

It's two hundred and twenty-one pairs of lines and it's everything, the things that were given away.

So they included toothpaste, whips, seashells, bladder footballs, or I think I translated this right, a pastry penis.

Don't get that in Greg, Steve.

That's true.

And he said, even if you consume every part of it, you will not be the less pure.

That's good.

So they just, you had this huge range of things you could be given at the end of a night.

It was very exciting.

Wow.

You could also take your food away at the end of a night after Roman parties, couldn't you?

They had a doggy bag.

They had doggy bags.

They were the inventors of the doggy bag, which is unbelievably cool.

Yeah.

I think it was called a a map.

You had to bring your own doggy bag sometimes, I think.

So it was called a mappai or a mappa, I guess, in the singular.

And it was a piece of cloth, and you'd bring it, and if you had leftovers, you wrap them up and you take them away with you.

Wow, that's really interesting.

There was, I remember reading once that there was, so there were a lot of houses in Rome which were above shops.

And if you lived in one of these flats, they were quite low-roofed, and they didn't want people, like the shops to catch on fire, so you weren't allowed to cook in them.

And so if you wanted to eat anything, you had to get everything takeaway.

Really?

Yeah.

Wait, it's just a fact.

That's amazing.

Yeah, it's good though, isn't it?

So you'd want to go to these parties all the time to bring your doggy bag home.

So what were the parties like back then?

Were they wild?

Were they raucous?

I think they varied like parties today then.

The more I looked into it, they had hot tub parties, I found out, which I didn't know about.

Did they have toga parties?

They didn't wear togas most of the time, did they?

Did they not?

I think they wore tunics.

Yeah, I think they hated them, didn't they?

They had to wear them every now and then, but they were really awkward to wear.

Was it not Roosevelt had a toga party because people took the Mickey out of him and said that he was acting like a Caesar.

And so his wife kind of threw a party as if to say, like, as if to cock a snook to

the man.

I believe that happened.

The man.

What are you talking about?

Right, yeah.

To the little men.

Yeah, Roman parties, it's a good question.

One of the things that I've always thought would have been awkward at Roman parties is the fact that everyone had to lie down.

And so at dinner parties, everyone lay down, as we know, and you'd have a couch arrangement where there would be a couch or a bed on three walls of the room, and you'd have the hosts on the middle couch, and then the top guests that there were seating plans.

So, I think they also came up with seating plans.

And the most favoured guests would get the couch where you had the better view of the host and you had a really nice view out of the building.

And then the less favoured guests just got a view of the wall.

And you had to lie down and you lay on like your left arm and ate your food with your right arm.

It just sounds really uncomfortable.

So, another thing the Romans invented was the concept of deal or no deal.

In that,

this is invented by the Emperor Augustus.

He asked his guests to bid sums of money for pictures

when they were faced to the wall.

So you had to bid a sum of money on a picture, which was, you couldn't see the value of it.

And I gather that that is what happens.

That is exactly the same.

So that is, and then they turn the painting round to reveal it at the end.

Cool.

That is amazing.

That is deal on no deal.

That is deal on no deal.

Wow.

And he was amazing, because he did this thing where he said you also, when you went to a dinner party with Augustus, you would pay for a token and it was inscribed with what you might get.

But they varied hugely.

So you couldn't really see what was on the token before you bought it.

So again, it was like a blind auction.

That's like a lucky dip.

Like a lucky dip.

And so you could either get some gold or you could get a sponge.

So it was really varied.

And then a later emperor, Elagabalus, he gave out things called lucky chances, which were these special spoons and that was inscribed with what you'd won.

And it might say 10 on it, and you'd redeem it.

And they'd say, oh, you've won 10 pounds of gold.

Or it might be that you won 10 flies or something.

So it was really varied.

And they started giving them out at the Colosseum.

And when they had a lottery at the games, in the Coliseum,

you just won...

a token and you'd redeem it and see what you'd won.

You might have won 10 bears.

How terrifying to have the 10, yeah.

You'd wonder.

10 times I have sex with your wife.

It could be anything.

You shouldn't ever run the lottery.

We need to move on to our next fact.

Anyone who got anything else?

I can quickly tell you that there's 808 million pounds spent on party bags for children's parties in the UK every year.

Wow.

808 million.

Apparently the average bag is worth £7.50, which I think means there's 107 million party bags, which means every child gets 30 each, so goes to 30 parties every year.

Yeah.

I did not know 30 people when I was seven.

Certainly not 30 would have helped me to a party.

And apparently, 2% of a thousand parents surveyed in one survey said that their child had received an iPod in a party bag.

Wow.

Who are they serving?

People in Chelsea mansions.

I read a news article, an American news article, a mother called Sherry Jameson, who was left speechless when she had a birthday party for her son, her six-year-old son, and guests took back the birthday gifts they'd given him when they found out there were going to be no party bags.

The article reported about a partygoer who asked to remain anonymous, saying, a lot of us feel cheated.

The kids had fun, but it was a really bare-bones event.

It's not like she had a bouncy castle.

And she's since received emails and texts from guests who felt it would be in poor taste to take their gift back at the party, but who are now getting in touch to demand to be refunded the full price, including tax of their present.

Including tax.

Let the tax go.

Let's move on to our next fact so we don't run out of time.

So it's time for fact number three, and that is my fact.

My fact this week is that Ernest Hemingway once stole a urinal from a bar, saying that he'd pissed away so much of his money into it that he he owned it.

I can tell you from experience that very rarely works on landlords.

What?

Steve pissed on all your furniture.

Yeah, so this was a bar that he used to go to all the time, and it was moving, it was closing down, and so he just went in and he just took the urinal off and he brought it back to his house.

And James, I know you've been to Ernest Hemingway's house.

I have been there, and the urinal is still there.

Really?

Yep, it's still there.

You can see it.

And when you go to Ernest Hemingway's house in Key West, they make you go on a tour around there.

And that's one of the things they tell you that

this is the story.

His urinal is now in the garden, I think.

Yeah, that's right.

It's in the back garden.

And it's been turned into like a fountain or it's a yeah, it's a nice centerpiece.

I think it's quite a nice urinal, actually.

If my memory serves, it's quite big and kind of made of big stone and it's kind of got flowers on it and stuff.

I think it's quite nice.

Wow.

Lovely.

How did he get it out of the bar?

Because I wouldn't know where to begin taking a urinal off a wall.

He was a big, manly man, though, Andy.

And, you know,

I understand you enjoying your wine over there.

You've made yourself very plain.

He was a big guy, though.

You're right.

He was obsessed with boxing.

He used to take on people half his age, saying, and probably, you know, same size as him, but they assume being younger they could take him out.

And

he had his own boxing ring in the back garden.

It was next to where the Urinal now is.

And um he went off to the Spanish Civil War to act as a correspondent and while he was there he had an affair with another woman and his wife wasn't very happy about that so she sold his boxing ring and bought a swimming pool.

And that swimming pool cost twenty thousand dollars in those days, which now is hundreds and hundreds of thousands.

And when he came back he had one penny in his pocket and he said, You've taken everything I've got, have this last penny and he threw it down and it's still there under a bit of glass and you can can see it if you visit.

Well, good.

We've preserved the remnants of his childish, spoiled brat tantrums forevermore.

He, um, just on his manliness, he, I love this image.

He wrote standing up, always.

He wrote, he would write in a pencil.

He wouldn't be wearing a shirt, so he had his shirt off, wore baggy shorts, and they were held up by a leather belt that he'd taken off the body of a dead German soldier that was inscribed with the German, the Third Reich, kind of insignia.

Wow.

That's cool, isn't it?

A half-naked man with a Third Reich belt standing up and writing some novels.

I think we know your type.

Just on the pub fights thing, I read that he went out drinking with James Joyce, and that James Joyce would get into fights and then say, Hemingway, deal with this.

Because he was too drunk.

Joyce was too drunk to stand.

This is according to Hemingway.

I have a fact about Ernest Hemingway, which is that Hemingway was part kangaroo.

Have you got Dan's notes there?

No, he was.

He was part kangaroo.

Go on.

He broke his arm in a car accident, and the surgeon tending him bound his bone together inside his body with kangaroo tendon.

Wow.

Yeah, and this was a pat, I mean, that wasn't an innovation just for Hemingway.

It was, that was

at some point, a standard medical procedure to put a bit of kangaroo inside you.

That's so cool.

It feels like the tendons would be kind of stretchier, doesn't it?

And bouncier.

Yeah.

I wonder if they used it.

That might be why they used it.

Yeah, I mean, I don't know.

But anyway, he wasn't.

It's not like all bits of a kangaroo are bouncy, is it?

Surely.

Doesn't mean rubber.

Do you know when he was a young boy, Ernest Hemingway, when he was a young boy, his mother used to dress him up as a girl because she didn't want a boy, she wanted a girl.

And so she used to dress him up as a girl and call him Ernestine.

That backfired very badly, didn't it?

It really did.

It was up until like he was six years old.

He was going round.

She grew his hair long.

She and he had to pretend to be the twin sister of his older sister.

Wow.

Yeah.

They're a pretty weird family.

I read he didn't like his name.

He didn't like being called Ernest because it was like the hero of An Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde.

Oh, really?

And he was upset about that.

And that was why he objected because he thought that he thought Oscar Wilde was a good idea.

He was

a feminine and therefore that he shouldn't be called Ernest.

He had huge problems about wanting to be incredibly masculine and sort of hyper-masculine.

He was a really seriously odd guy.

He was also, honestly, go home and spend two hours researching Ernest Hemingway because you think, as I was saying to James yesterday, as you're reading about him, you think, I have not lived.

This man has lived.

And in so many ways, one of the ways was that he was incredibly accident-prone, it seems.

So he had this old kangaroo malarkey in his arm.

He had a plane crash in 1954, so he was on safari with his wife.

He was in Uganda.

And his plane crashed, had to crash land, and they had to choose whether to crash land on an elephant trail or in a big crocodile pit.

Those are the only options.

Leave with a tiny strip of land there between the elephant trail and the crocodile pit.

What are we on?

What did they pick?

No, they picked the elephant trail.

So they landed in the elephant trail, and then he, his wife, and the pilot of the plane had to sleep there overnight because they were surrounded by elephants, blocked in by these elephants.

So they were both quite badly injured.

And the next day, they were rescued by another plane.

So they boarded this other plane, uh which caught fire uh

and also crashed the following day where did that crash into like do you want to go to the snake pit or the wildebeest

sanctuary so if you look at the wildebeest sanctuary

i would pick the wildebeest sanctuary they'll be calm they're being looked after

maybe we could adopt one

of earth comes after wildebeest for that joke to make sense

what about the hyena there?

Actually, hyenas are quite nice guys.

I actually read a thing about wilder beasts the other day that I was going to try and use for a main fact.

The scientists are saying that they were looking at ancient wilder beasts and apparently ancient wilder beasts

they evolved a trunk, like a longish trunk, so that they could gossip with each other.

Yeah, because they needed to tell each other, like, do you see Jeff over there?

Like, they needed to do tiny little

bits of gossip, and they couldn't do it with their normal wildebeest face.

What?

I I feel like you're paraphrasing study.

That's what it said.

It's so gossiping.

Do you know where Hemingway's biggest scar came from?

So he had this big scar on his forehead.

It was the most prominent thing you'd notice about him in his later life.

And it didn't come from the car crash, or from the two plane crashes, or from a motorbike accident he had when he was in Germany.

Or the wars that he was kind of in.

Any of the wars he covered.

It came from a time he was in a bathroom and he pulled a chain thinking it was the toilet flush and it accidentally brought the whole skylight down on his head.

And that's what gave him this massive scar.

And whenever anyone asked him about it, he was really reluctant to say it's from a toilet skylight.

So the two plane crashes, there was an interesting thing that actually happened in the time between the first plane crash and the second plane crash, which was he and his wife were reported dead.

And it got spread around the world and obituaries were printed the next day.

And so he had the rare thing of being able to genuinely see the obituaries to his life.

And then the next day, he got on a plane, and then that crashed again, and that led to severe trauma, which his best friends think is what led to the end of his life for him killing himself from that second plane crash.

I think it just ruined the rest of his life.

But again, you know, you were saying, just what an insane character, what a big life.

He, during World War II, was hunting Nazis, despite not being enlisted into World War II.

And he did it from his boat.

And his boat was set up.

It was a fishing boat.

It had direction-finding equipment.

It had a machine gun.

It had grenades.

And he went out hunting Nazi U-boats.

He used to practice with his son trying to take down U-boats with grenades by throwing them at turtles.

I think that was very unfair on the turtles.

A, you're

playing the Nazis.

And B, a U-boat is a lot tougher than a turtle.

But that's what he did.

Okay, we need to move on to the final fact very shortly.

Anything before we do?

Just quickly, he had 52 cats, and he taught one of them,

so this is his exact words.

I have taught Uncle Wolfer, Dillinger, and Will to make a pyramid like lions.

Sorry, what?

Well,

I think he taught his cats to make a human pyramid.

I'm not sure.

Like lions, dude.

Yeah.

And then he said, and have taught friendless, that was the name of another of his cats, have taught friendless to drink with me, brackets, whiskey and milk.

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Okay, it is time for our final fact of the night, and that is Chuzinski.

Yep, my fact is that the official medical diagnosis code for being struck by a chicken is different to the official medical diagnosis code for being pecked by a chicken.

And this is the

international classification of diseases, the ICD, and everything that could go wrong with you has an ICD code.

So it's now enormous.

And every possible injury that's ever been reported has this code.

So, yeah, there are codes for being pecked by a chicken and struck by a chicken, completely different codes.

There was one new one added in the 70s, which was bitten by an orca.

There's contact with non-venomous frogs.

That's one.

Sucked into a jet engine.

And injuries caused while knitting and crocheting.

So, all of those things, if you go to a doctor or an ER, then they'll write down,

you'll say, Oh, my knitting needle just jammed into my thigh, and then a non-venomous frog landed on it, and it kind of says, Oh, there are two codes for that, hold on, and write them down.

And then they've, you know, they've reported it.

What is the code for?

Was pulling on what I thought was toilet chain

turned out to be skylight.

There would definitely be one for that.

There is one for fall off toilet.

That's W18.1.

Okay.

Just to let you know that.

A few others, just because it's a 1,593-page PDF and I read through the whole thing.

Fall from a non-moving, non-motorized scooter is W05.

Fall into buckets of water.

Not trip over bucket of water, but fall into a bucket of water.

That's W1622.

And S30.862 is insects bite on penis.

That's amazing.

Long list reading.

This is my favorite one: V91.07, burn due to water skis on fire.

Don't smoke and water ski if you read the signs.

I was reading an interview with someone.

So there's a brilliant article in the New Yorker about this, and they interviewed someone who's involved in deciding the new classifications because they quite recently upgraded it and expanded them.

And it sounds quite frustrating.

She said, You're in this meeting room and you're debating all the things that could possibly happen as well, and asking if you should also have codes for them.

And so she was saying, a question was raised on what codes would apply if a mother was given the wrong baby to breastfeed.

It was stated that that would be outside the scope of ICD coding.

So they do have some limits.

Really?

I read a thing about breastfeeding just this morning, which is that in the 19th century in America, if you had what's called a galactica, which means you can't produce milk for your baby, the way that they would treat it is to put a pancake on your breasts.

As a milk substitute.

There's no milk in it, isn't it?

There you go.

It's true.

I don't know what they thought it would do, but you would put a warm pancake on the breast, and then when it got cold, you put another warm one on and keep doing that for a couple of hours.

What would they do with all the cooled breast pancakes?

Just make some new pancakes, Andy.

That's very wasteful.

Yeah.

You could give them to perverts.

Just three pounds will buy four pancakes for a pervert.

I was reading about the fact that not only do they have these codes that they can write for proper medical use, but they actually, there's a lot of medical slang that gets used,

which patients, because doctors are telling people at home, they're putting it on the internet, people are wising up to the fact that they use this kind of slang.

So, like, for example, one PFO pissed fell over.

That's what they'll put

on the paper as a thing.

They'll put brothel sprouts, which is genital warts.

I really like that one.

Brothel sprouts.

Very clever.

But yeah, I was reading about the fact that some doctor board now needs to tell doctors not to do this anymore.

So they sent out a mass email, and different hospitals are doing this.

It's really funny the fact that when they say it, this is a quote from it.

Although acknowledging that slang is likely to continue to be used, it should be kept to a minimum.

So they're like, well, we know you're going to do it anyway.

Yeah, but it's, yeah, there's a whole pretfo, patient reassured and told to fuck off.

I have read articles like that, and some doctors go on there and comment and say, no, we don't do this at all.

But then others go, yeah, we do, really.

I've got two close friends who are doctors, and both of them say they do it all the time.

Wow.

I was reading a thing about bills of mortality, which were

these lists that got published in the 16th and 17th centuries.

And it was a record of how people died, basically, in your parish, for example.

And every week, the parish clerks would record who had died in the parish and how they died.

But they weren't medically trained, obviously, because they were clerks.

So a lot of the causes of death are really

quite vague.

So they include things like:

this is for how they died, griping in the guts, we don't know, stopping of the stomach, again,

and suddenly.

Another, this is my favourite from the bills of mortality that I managed to read, was cancer and wolf.

Sometimes you can't know what got them first.

Another one just said planet.

Killed by a planet.

Guys, we need to wrap up fairly soon-ish.

So if you've got any more.

I've got a thing very quickly on chickens,

which is...

so this fact was about the medical code for chicken and it just reminded me that I was reading about a there's a there's an Australian fast food chain called chicken treat who currently have a chicken doing all of their tweets so

So it basically it's in its cage they put a computer in there and they've put the food onto the keyboard and so the chicken packs the keyboard for the food and it starts typing stuff out and Guinness World Records have said that if it manages to type a five-letter word and it's a successfully, it reads as a word, then it's going to go into the Guinness World Records as the first non-human to tweet.

So far, it's only managed three letters.

What was the word that it tweeted?

Bum.

Anything more before

we wrap up?

Why couldn't you ask us to follow a chicken tweeting the word bum?

Okay, that's it.

That's all of our facts then.

Thank you so much for listening.

If you'd like to get in contact with any of us about the things we've said over the course of this podcast, we can be found on our Twitter accounts.

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And you can also go to our Twitter account, which is at QIPodcast, and send us all a message.

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Thank you so much.

It's been awesome.

Uh, we'll see you again next week.

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