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Today, Explained

I wish I was a little bit taller

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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I wish I was a baller. I wish there was a doc who’d break my legs, I would call her. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited by Sean Rameswaram, who also hosted. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained   Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today explained Sean Ramosforum usually we do the credits at the end of the show but today

0:05.6

for reasons we're gonna start with them so today's show was mixed and mastered by Paul

0:09.6

Robert Moundsy it was fact checked by Laura Bullard, Amanda Lou Wellen helped with the recording

0:14.4

and the episode was produced by Miles Bryan who happens to be the tallest producer at today's

0:20.3

explained Miles say hello to everyone. Hello. This is important because today's show is about

0:25.2

short people and and and short people believe that tall people have it made in the shade. Miles

0:30.5

is it true? They're unfortunately right. I think life is much easier being tall. I feel like

0:36.7

everything I've wanted or tried to do has been slightly easier because I'm six with three and not

0:42.0

five with three. Today's show is about a bone breaking procedure. Shorter men in America are going

0:48.0

through to be just a few inches taller and how COVID-19 made it much easier to get the procedure.

0:56.3

That's coming up on today's split.

1:01.5

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1:07.7

tools together in one space. Slack helps companies stay flexible, accelerate projects and keep teams

1:14.2

aligned so work just works. How exactly? Organised projects in channels work across time zones with

1:22.0

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1:28.3

flexible digital HQ for organised and efficient teams no matter where they're logging in from.

1:34.0

Get started at slack.com slash DHQ. Slack where the future works.

1:52.0

My name is Chris Guy Amali and I'm an article editor at QQ. Chris you wrote an article recently

1:57.4

that kind of stopped or broke the internet. What did you want to tell the world with this piece

2:05.3

of writing? Yeah, so I've long been fascinated with this procedure called cosmetic leg leg

2:10.8

meaning basically it's this super gnarly surgery you can get done or they break your legs and it

2:17.5

results in you gaining anywhere from three to six inches of height. And I'm guessing a lot of people

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