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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

My name is Robert Lamb.

We are on vacation this week.

So it's a great time to go ahead and re-air all three parts of our You've Got P-Mail series. This is part one of three

and originally published 515, 2025.

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

My name is Robert Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick. And today on Stuff to Blow Your Mind, we are going to begin a series of episodes on a weird and interesting medium of communication between animals, specifically communication by

means of urine. I've said this before on the show, but I think humans are really a species

defined by the power and complexity of our communication skills. There is a lot that makes

humankind unique, but communication, I think,

is the thing that makes us most unique among the animals. When we want to share information

about the world or about our intentions with another person, we've got so many options. We can talk

out loud. We can use body language or sign language. We can draw,

represent ideas visually. We can use written language, which of course, that has a million

different instantiations in different types of technology today. So you've got everything from

the handwritten note to mass media like books and magazines, email, text messages, social media posts.

I guess some people are probably still fax in.

Yeah, but mostly we've got it reduced down to texting.

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