Do Lucky Charms Really Work? (Plus, other ways to get the upper hand)

one on one sports. Do you take boxing, tennis, fencing, even pitching a baseball If it involves taking aim at an opponent, lefties have a little bit of an edge. And if you look at professional sports, the numbers actually bear this out. For instance, back in two thousand seventeen, one third of Major League baseball players were left handed. That's kind of crazy, isn't it, as well as of

the top ranking boxers and of the top ranking fencers. Meanwhile, it's a completely different story for the more team oriented sports like basketball or football. So why do you think that is? Well, it ultimately comes down to how rare lefties are. It's estimated that only ten perent of the

people in the world are left handed. That means that if you're a right handed tennis player, for example, you've probably only ever gone up against other right handed players, and the same is true for left handed players too. Right like of the world is right handed, then left handed players are also mostly squaring off with right e's. This was something I really didn't think about. So the result is that when a left handed player goes up against the right handed one is just another day at

the office. Same but that's not the case for a right handed player. The right handers don't really know what to expect, and that makes it easier for them to be caught off guard. It makes sense, like when you think about it. Playing baseball as a kid, if you saw a lefty throwing to you like it was, it just looked so strangely. It's almost like when a boxer throws, I mean left hook, you know that old south pas surprise.

I don't know if that's a real boxing well, just like when you were a big boxer as a kid and left but weirdly enough, some researchers think the main reason why left handed trade is still around today is because it's always granted this element of surprise and combat.

For example, there was a study in two thousand five where researchers looked at the remains of primitive societies and made a breakdown of how many people were left handed and how many were right handed, And amazingly, they found that about three percent of the population was left handed in the more peaceful societies, but a whopping twenty seven

percent were left handed and the more warlike Yeah. So, in other words, think twice if you've ever challenged the left handed boxer, Historically speaking, it probably isn't gonna go so well for you. Well, I'm not sure i'd fear that much better against right handed boxes that. There's plenty more where that came from, because today's show is all about the unusual advantages that everyday people enjoy, from the high social standing of tall people to the surprising success

rate behind your lucky rabbit's foot. There's all sorts of ways to get the upper hand in life, even if you aren't left handed. So let's dive in. H he their podcast listeners, welcome to Part Time Genius. I'm Will Pearson and as always I'm joined by my good friend Man Guesh Ticketer and on the other side of that soundproof glass working the soundboard with his left hand. Today Impress that is our brilliant producer Lowell, and I should say that law is not, in fact left handed, so

this is something at least somewhat notable. So anyway, Mango, where do you want to start? Yeah, and we've never faced a left handed producer before, so I um, I actually do want to stick with actual sports and talking about something I had always wondered about until this week, and that's whether or not home field advantages a real thing, Like does the location of a game factor into an athlete's performance or do teams play the same whether they're

on their own turf or not? What? It's kind of an age old question, and if I had to guess, I'd say there's at least some truth to it. I mean, I know some sports leagues have regulations to ensure that playing fields are mostly the same from place to place, but there's still the psychological element of it all, Like you have to figure players would be more at ease in the place that they're used to playing. Yeah, I mean, in the world the bathrooms are the best places to

get nachos. The way team is not going to know any of that, but it's very, very true. I love that your conception of home field advantages. Knowing where to find that the tastiest snacks. But you're right about home field advantage being a real thing, and and a good deal of why that is does have to do with psychology.

So first I want to give a little bit of background. Um, there have been a bunch of studies into home field advantage over the years, covering a wide variety of different sports, and the results have been shockingly consistent, like the home team wins more games away than away teams, and not

by small margin either. In two ten, as psychologist named Jeremy Jamison put together a review of all the different home field advantage studies out there, and based on the combined data, it concluded that a home team will win roughly six of all its games its place. That suks a little bit higher than that I would have guessed. So what's actually fueling that advantage, like you said, has something to do with the psychology of the players, that's right.

So part of it goes back to what you allude to earlier, like the players familiarity with where they're playing, kind of feeling at ease in this environment. It tends to contribute a lot to the home field advantage. In fact, according to one study, if a team moves into a new home stadium, it'll have a weaker home field advantage until the players get acclimated to the new space. Oh that's interesting. So so you're feeling at home in your home field at some point. So what else is a factor?

The next one is something I know we can both relate to, and and that's travel fatigue. Like, I don't travel as much as you do, but it can get pretty exhausting trying to adjust to new cities and time zones and all the while taking meetings and missing home. But you know, imagine all of that except in between flights, you play hours and hours of tackle football in front of like thousands of screaming fans. Like jet like suddenly

becomes like a million times more tiring. Yeah, yeah, I do kind of want somebody to tackle you before our next meete, just to see for ourselves, Like yeah, they we gotta we gotta live by example here. But all right, So you're saying there's a link between how far a team travels and how well they play against the home

team competitors. Yeah, it seems like the further team has to travel, the bigger the advantage for the home team, and the last factor at play kind of goes along with that travel component, because the other downside for the way team is that it can't bring its fan base along. Like a crowd's behavior has a major impact on how well the players perform. You and I know this from going to Duke and and having that whole advantage there.

But you know, at an away game, most of the people in the crowd will be rooting for the home team. Yeah yeah, And and that obviously gives the home team a little morale boost, but imagine it also deflates the away team, Like it can't be a great feeling to hear a stadium full of people cheering for the other

guy or against to you. But you know, all the stuff we've mentioned, the crowd, the field, the travel time, all of that factors into the psychological state of the players, and that positive mindset is really the biggest contributor to home field advantage. If all the players are feeling motivated and upbeat about the conditions of the game, that's likely to show up in their performance. Yeah, I mean it makes sense, but I'm still wondering, like if this advantage

is the same from sport to sport. Like I know you said that studies have looked at a wide range of different sports, but we're some sports better for the home team than others Or was it always pretty much the same degree of advantage? Yeah, so I wondered about that too, and it seems like it really does very depending on the sport. For example, there's a sports author named John Bois who took three years worth of win and lost data and he took it from four different

pro leagues, so hockey, baseball, football, and basketball. Then he extrapolated how each of the different win counts would have been affected if the teams had played all of their games at home, so like no away games at all. And what he found was that the NHL teams and MLB teams would have experienced the smallest boost from the

home field advantage of all the leagues. They would have won each a little shy of I guess five and a half percent more games than they actually did, which is still nothing is sneeze at, particularly if you've got money riding on those games. But the NFL teams would have seen the second biggest boost, about six point four percent, and then NBA teams would have seen the biggest boost by far if they had played all of their games at home for a three year period, they would have

won ten percent more games than they actually do. You know, I think about this in in football. I feel like it makes sense because you think about the intensity of the cheering when the offense is trying to call plays or whatever like whatever they do in that scenario, right, and it's hard for them to hear each other, and

it seems like you could get them rattled. But do we know why the advantage would be so much greater for NBA teams, Well, we don't, but I guess one of the things that Bo has pointed out was that the playing dimensions of a basketball court don't really very like they do in other sports such as baseball, and and on top of that, like NBA games are all

played inside, so weather is never a factor. So, in other words, the hometown, crowd and trial factors are still in play for NBA teams, but the environmental factor might not play his large role in in the players mindsets as as it does in baseball or even football. All right, Well, believe it or not, home field advantage isn't the only

kind of location based benefit in the sports world. There's also something I was reading about this week called small town advantage, and the gist of this is that people who grew up in a small town they like fifty thou people or under, they will have a higher chance of becoming a professional athlete than someone for a more populated city or town. That's something I've not seen before,

and the numbers behind this are actually pretty remarkable. So there was this two thousand seventeen article in Pacific Standard that only about of the u S population lives in a town with under fifty thou people. Yet despite that, nearly half of all NFL and p g A players are from towns that size, and the same trends present

to a slightly lesser degree in other sports too. That's I think it's like NHL players somewhere around that same staff or Major League Baseball players come from towns fewer than fifty thousand, and for the NBA, I think it's it's twenty eight percent, So pretty interesting. That's pretty crazy, especially since you think the opposite would be true, right, like the larger cities would have access to more equipment,

maybe more competition, and more opportunities for players to be discovered. Yeah, I mean, the truth is it's tough to pinpoint why small towns make such great incubators for pro athletes. I mean, it could be there's something unique about the atmosphere of small towns that make it particularly conducive to athletic development. The close knit community spirit, or the level of importance that rural areas tend to place on sports. Maybe, But whatever first got the trend rolling, it's kind of become

a self perpetuating cycle at this point. What do you mean by that, Well, small town residents tend to know how many legends their areas have produced, like Bo Jacks. I mean, how many times a day do I remind you that Bo Jackson came from the Birmingham area, right, you know, to Wayne Gretzky. And that makes the dream of making it to the big league seem all the more attainable for the next crop of players. And it

is something that makes sense. So if somebody grew up in your neighborhood and you see them turn pro, then it stands the reason that maybe you could too. Yeah, you know, I used to live in Greenville and North Carolina and and Kinston was right next door. And the number of star basketball players and football players that will come out of is pretty remarkable. Um, but not Jackson, No,

not win Gretzky. But you know, there's one more sports advantage I wanted to talk about, and that's the fact that being short can actually give players a big advantage in soccer. It's it's funny, but one of our friends kids learned from his doctor that he might be you know, six foot or whatever like these projections, and he was totally depressed because he would He was hoping he'd be like five seven, like Messy or five eight, which is just funny to think about, especially for someone like me.

But you know, it's kind of counterintuitive since bigger is usually better when it comes to sports. But in the case of soccer, being tall is only helpful if you're a defender or a goalie. For the other positions like forwards and fielders, the edge goes to the shorter players. So why is that the main reason is that shorter players tend to have better control of their limbs, which

allows them to change direction faster than a tall player could. Uh. That kind of nimbleness really keeps defenders on their toes and and makes it harder to box in a short opponent or to anticipate their movements. But that's not the only advantage, you know. According to The Atlantic, studies have shown that tall players are called for fouls more frequently than shorter players. That could just be that the referees are associating height with aggression, or maybe the longer limbs

are more visible. But you know, I'm not sure exactly what the reason is, but but tall folks definitely get carded more. Yeah, and I know in other sports like basketball, it's obviously an advantage overall to be tall. But it is also interesting to watch, you know, when you used to watch guys like Shack play and they could just get hammered all day long and nobody would call them. A lot of times Everson will pull someone down and

get called exactly exactly. It's so bizarre to to look at these stats, but you know, it's interesting to see how different levels of influence people can have over these advantages. Like with home field advantage, it kind of comes down to the player's mindset and how they respond to things

outside their control. And with the small town advantage, like that's something people could actually seek out if they were so inclined, Like if you had a young kid that wants to be a pro football player, you could move to a small town and theoretically they could reap the advantage of that. But now we're getting into stuff like height and the social stigma surrounding height, and those are

things that nobody really has much say in. You know, Yeah, that seems like a good distinction to make, and why don't we check out some of those advantages. Right after this break, you're listening to part Time Genius and we're talking about some of the lesser known advantages that certain groups of people enjoy. And since we closed out the last segment with a short person perk, I think it's only fair we balance out and go for for one for the tall people out there. So here we go.

Tall people make more money than short people. That's it, end the story. So I hate this already, but I feel like you need to explain a little bit. Well.

According to a two thousand fifteen study published in the Journal of Human Capital, salary rates trend upward right along with height in most Western countries, so much so that if one employee is four or five inches taller than another, the taller person would make anywhere between nine and fifteen percent more than the short who imagine being a seventh fetter would be so rich. But put another way, an extra inch of height could be worth as much as

eight hundred dollars per year in additional earnings. Match that to inflation rates, track it over thirty years, and you're looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars in extra income just for being tall. So I guess, setting aside the sheer injustice of this tall I'm curious to hear what's driving this because I feel like this would have made sense like centuries ago, right when most of the jobs

relied on size or strength or whatever. But it seems strange that the trend would continue in an era of like the desk job, right, like maybe someone who's taller can reach the high shelf in the break room or something that height doesn't really help with Excel sheets, well, it doesn't make a lot of sense on paper. And you know, one theory is that employers aren't paying strictly

based on height. Instead, it's that taller people are landing higher paying jobs because their height lends them to more self confidence or better social skills, which allows them to climb the pay ladder faster. Anyway, if you're angling for a raise at work, adding some lists to your shoes might actually help. So think about that. I'm sure that's how Tom Cruise got that big payday, right. So, sticking with our theme of things that are beyond our control,

here's another bombshell. I bet you never would have guessed their advantages to being attractive. What you don't say, mango? Come on. So what's funny about this is that even scientists benefit from this. So, according to new research from the University of Essex and the Universe Said Cambridge, the way that a scientist looks affects the level of interest

in their work and they're perceived credibility. As one of the psychologists behind the study explained, this is true because quote people partly treat science communication as a form of entertainment, where emotional impact in the esthetic appeal are desirable qualities. Like it's weird to think society might buy into an argument that the world is flat or some other ridiculous argument like if the scientist is is just attractive enough.

It sounds a little like that thirty Rock episode where John Hamm becomes a doctor and a Tennyson starter and like he's horrible at all. These things that people keep getting in the past because he's so handsome. But uh, I actually clarified this with GiB because I was thinking the same thing you were, and the link here between

attractiveness and credibility isn't quite what you're thinking. So over the course of six studies, researchers were able to show that scientists who peer competent, moral, and attractive are more likely to garner interest in their work, which isn't a surprise, right, But then the researchers continued writing, quote, the scientists who appear competent, in and moral, but who are relatively unattractive

create a stronger impression of doing high quality research. So just to get this right, so the public is more likely to pay attention to the research of an attractive scientist, but less likely to believe what they're saying. Like, is that right? Yeah, they're basically like cer no diverge racking.

But basically, the next time the public needs to be informed about a scientific breakthrough, it's probably best to pair scientists to give a presentation like an attractive one to win the audience's approval, and you know, an ugly one to give it credibility. The old Watson and Crick is what they call it, I think, so I have no idea.

That's interesting though, Well, since we're on the subject of scientists, have you ever noticed how we tend to refer to the male ones by their surnames, but we call female scientists by their full names, Like Darwin is just Darwin. But have you ever heard anyone just say Cury like it's always Marie Curry, Right, I know it's just making a joke about Watson Crick, but like I know Rosalind Franklin's full name, but I know one of them is James, but I don't know which one. Yeah, I mean, there's

actually even a name for this bias. It's called surname bias. So basically, when we hear someone called by their surname, it tends to improve our perception of them. Maybe it makes them seem more important or dignified in our minds, maybe stronger or more imminent or something like that. But the main problem with this is that we don't wield

that surname bias fairly so. According to a string of recent studies, on average, and regardless of gender, people are twice as likely to refer to men by their surnames than they are women. And those findings hold true across you know, a lot of different professions, whether it's politics, science, literature, like the list goes on. So how exactly does this advantage play in real life? Like what's the payoff for being just being called by your last name? Alright, we're

just going back to the scientists for a minute. There was a study back in two thousand and seventeen were more than five hundred participants were asked to determine who among a group of scientists should receive a half million dollars science grant. Some of the scientists were referred to by or full names and others by their surnames. And as you can probably guess by what we've been saying, the participants showed a clear preference for this surname only contenders.

In fact, those candidates were a full fourteen percent more likely to be recommended for the award. So if that same strange advantages cropping up across all these different fields, it stands to reason that surname bias is a serious

contributor to the gender inequality in the workplace. And the ironic part of this is that you know, the trend of using women's full names actually may have started with noble intentions as a way of drawing attention to the presence and the contributions of women, especially in fields traditionally associated with men. So the plan, though, it seems to have backfired since so many of us have this surname

bias kind of baked into us. I mean, that's a little depressing, but I'm glad we're more aware of it, and I think I am only going to call Marie Curry Cury from now on. But why don't we switch gears and talk about a few of the more even handed advantages there right after this break? Welcome back to part time genius. Okay, well, so let's talk about advantages that are a little easier to come by, ones that aren't as dependent on chance or circumstances. Did you come

across anything like that. Yeah, I feel like I've got just the thing for you, because all you really need for this one is a library card. Now. Being able to read and having access to books are obviously big advantages in life, especially during childhood, and hopefully it's clear by now that you and I are big proponents of reading. But according to new research, simply being around books might be a benefit in itself, even if you don't actually

read them. So my first question is, are you sure we're supposed to be talking about this because my kids listening to this program just just sitting near the books. But what's advantage of having unread books around? There's something in social science called radiation effect. I think this is so interesting. So that's when children grow up with books in the house, they don't read them very much, but still somehow benefit later in life just from having grown

up around books. It's a really weird phenomenon, but there's a study on it recently by a sociologist at the Australian National University. Her name is Joanna Secora, and along with her colleagues, she pieced together five years worth of developmental data on more than a hundred and sixty thousand

adults from thirty one different societies. These surveys were aimed at assessing things like literacy, competency with numbers, even technology, and part of this was asking the question of how large of a home library the participants had during their adolescence. Some of the findings from this we were actually pretty surprising. So, for instance, the participants who only had a high school education,

but who had grown up around books. They boasted better literacy, numeracy, and digital problem solving as adults than the college grads and the survey who had grown up in bookless homes. That's interesting, and I'm guessing this all comes down to someone in the house valuing knowledge or learning. Yeah, it ultimately comes down to why the books are in the house in the first place. So the lead researcher, Skora sum this up well in a recent interview with Scientific American.

Here's what she said. If we grow up in a house, in a home where parents enjoy books, where books are given as birthday presents and cherished and valued, this is something that becomes part of our identity and gives us this lifelong incentive to be literacy oriented, to always kind of steer towards books and read more than we would otherwise. It's fascinating, and honestly, I have so many books in our house that we haven't read. I'm wondering if it's a good life hack for you know, not having to

pay for my kids college. So good strategy. On an opposite note, Gabe was telling me about Lucky Charms this week and it's pretty much the opposite case, right. The advantage depends entirely on the charm holders participation in it. But there are you saying there really is some advantage

to carrying a lucky charm. It sounds impossible, but there's a social psychology study from about a decade ago where participants all performed better in memory and dexterity tests when they were allowed to keep their lucky charms with them, and when the charms were taken away their scores plummeted, and when the charms were returned, their scores increased again. So then one it's like a placebo effect, but for

luckiness instead of health. Yes, sort of. I mean the researchers theorized that the people would lucky charms perform better because they stuck with the problems longer than those without charms. Because they believed in the luckiness of their objects, they felt more equipped and capable when faced with a tough challenge, and that confidence ultimately boosted them over the top. You know, it's funny because there's this urge to like look sideways of people for putting so much faith and like a

rabbit's phone or whatever. The lucky charm is. But I guess there must be some reason why they believe in an object's luck in the first place, right, Like something must have convinced them. It's just hard to imagine exactly what that could be. Yeah, I mean, I think it helps to remember that what we think of as luck is really more about brain chemistry and worldviews than it

is about you know, chance or magic. Like our our brains are hardwired to look for patterns, and we often have good incentive to find them, like even if they aren't really there. For example, I if I make a conscious choice to wear I don't know, a shirt with a bear on it, and then I end up having a great day at work, there's a part of me that will take notice of that and link the two events wearing the bear shirt and then having a good

day at the office. And and then if I wear the bear shirt a second time and have another great day at work like that mental connection will become even stronger, and and I might think there's something going on and that shirt is lucky or whatever. You know. I know we talked about a lot of business ideas, but like, just hearing you talk about this, it kind of makes me think we need to get in the bear st

I think it's gonna be our next thing. But as bizarre as it all sounds, I have to admit, it's sort of comforting to think that there could actually be away for us to kind of make our own luck. Like that. It reminds me of something I read in The Atlantic this week about the social advantage that comes with having pockets Mango like pant pockets. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

It turns out the word pocket is an Anglo Norman word meaning little bag, And when pockets first came on the scene in the late seventeenth century, that's essentially what they were, like, these small, detachable bags that were tied around the waist with a draw string. And it wasn't until the eighteen fifties, when clothes became more tightly fitted, that pockets started to be sewn directly into the garments.

And this new kind of pocket was smaller than the old draw string version, but it kind of made up for that by being so much harder to steal. Honestly, though, if you were a woman living during this time period, you wouldn't really care which kind of pockets you had, so long as you did have pockets. And that's because pockets were a game changer for women. So it seems like such a small thing, but being able to easily and discreetly carry objects that, you know, it is an advantage.

But before pockets came along, that really wasn't much of an option for women. Now remember this is all prior to the rise of handbags and backpack and so suddenly women were able to move outside the home because now they had a private space to hold, you know, whatever they needed throughout the day. That's funny. I never really thought of pockets as a symbol of independence. But you know, if you can't have your wallet or phone or keys on you like, you can't really move through not like

public spaces. Yeah, it's right. And in fact, I don't know if you remember this, but there's a great scene about pockets and the wind and the willows. Do you remember all the scenes from you say pockets this? Yeah, it's when Mr Toad is trying to escape from jail after being locked up, you know, for joy riding in his motor car and he ends up disguising himself as the prisons washer woman in order to slip past the guards.

But he finds out that the stolen clothes he's wearing don't include pockets, and so listen to how he takes the news to this horror. Toad recollected that he had left both coat and waistcoat behind him and his cell. All that makes life worth living, all that distinguishes the many pocketed animal, the lord of creation, from the feior one pocketed or no pocketed productions that hop or trip about permissively unequipped for the real contest. Pretty defenditive right there.

So even m your toad realized the freedom grunted by pockets, and not just him. So back in the nineteenth century you'd see posted advertisements for runaway slaves, and some of the descriptions would warn that just because his clothes have pockets, that doesn't mean he's a free man. So I guess we should be grateful for pockets, is what I'm saying. I'm just gonna keep saying pockets. But they give us this agency in public that was denied to so many people for a long long time. Plus where else are

you gonna keep your lucky charms? Right? So you know, we started today's show talking about one on one competitions, and now it's time to close it by holding one of our own. It's time for the fact off. Yeah, okay, So I came across a bunch of different advantages this week that all center on the sound of your voice

and how it can fluence the way people perceive you. So, for example, men are more likely to vote for men who have deeper, more masculine voices, and and ceo s with deeper voices tend to manage larger companies and earn larger salaries. But there's at least one profession where it pays for men to be a little more soft spoken. According to a study outlined and New Scientists, lawyers with gentler, less masculine voices are more likely to win in court

than their gruffer, sounder colleagues. And the researchers behind the study aren't a hundred percent sure why that is, but they say it could be that the lawyers with deeper voices are perceived as being overcompensating or trying to sound masculine. Well that's interesting, all right. So here's a weird one. It turns out that die hard opera fans have a slight edge when it comes to chemistry class. This is

my favorite. So back in two thousand thirteen, a team of chemists study the librettos of twenty famous operas, and they found that the effects of twenty five different natural and synthetic chemical materials were accurately described in them, everything

from snake venom to deadly nightshade. According to the Smithsonian, the researchers hope that teachers will use the poison based plots to help the students better engage with chemistry, because if there is one thing teams love more than chemistry, it's gotta be opera. So we talked about left handed advantages at the top of the show, but there's one more that's too random not to mention. According to a report commissioned by the A Driving School, left handed drivers

have a much easier time passing their driving test. In fact, six out of ten or fifty seven percent actually, of the left handers passed their driving test on the first try, according to the findings, and that means south pause are a full ten percent more likely than right handers to pass on their first attempt. And as any Color points out for ABC News, that puts left handed drivers in good company with famous lefty drivers including buzz Aldren and

none other than Chewbacco himself. Who you know it was also left handed. That's right, all right, Well, here's one I was kind of surprised to learn. Actually, color blindness can sometimes be an asset in combat situations. The ideas that the condition forces a soldier to focus on patterns instead of colors, which can be useful for spotting camouflaged enemies in the field. So much so, in fact, that color blind units were reportedly used during World War Two

to help identify snipers. That's fascinating. So here's a fun one. It turns out that women are more attracted to men if they're holding guitars, which is why someone taught the house course in college called just Enough Guitar to Serenade a Girl. That's right. I think the whole thing led up to playing that song Tangerine by led zepplind That. Uh. Let let me tell you about the study because it's interesting.

A team of researchers in France hired this beefcake guy and over the course of a single afternoon, they had him hit on three women between the ages of eighteen and twenty two, and in each case, the guy followed the same routine, right beat for beat, he introduced himself and he told the woman like, I think you're really pretty, and then he proceeded to ask each one for her phone numbers, so you know they could get a drink together.

But here's the twist. For a third of these counters, the guy was carrying a guitar case, for another third he was carrying a gym bag, and for the remaining third he wasn't carrying anything. And wouldn't you know it, when when he was carrying the guitar case, a shocking thirty of the women gave him their numbers, compared that with nine percent who did when he was carrying the gym bag and when he was carrying nothing. And it's pretty clear that music is the language of love. That's

wild though, like thirty two percent to fourteen percent. It's not just like a small advantage, it's a huge advantage. And nine percent with the gym bag because I think like they just think he's a meat head or something. Wow, that's pretty well. Well, it may not be the most surprising fact of the day, but you managed to breathe a little romance into the show, and for that alone,

I think you got to take the show. Mango, well played thanks so much, and I accept this on behalf of everyone who's faked playing a musical instrument to get a date. But that's going to do it. For today's Part Time Genius from Will Gave Blowl and myself, thanks so much for listening. We'll be back soon with another new episode. Ye Part Time Genius is a production of

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