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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from How StuffWorks.com.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb.

And I'm Julie Douglas.

And in this podcast, we are speaking to you from a maze, from a maze that is being constructed all around us here at the House of Work's offices in Atlanta.

It turns out we shuffled around the floor a little bit, and we just decided on a whim, let's create a complex architectural structure all around us.

I can hear them building it even now, making it even more complicated.

So we may not be able to make our way back to our desk when we're done with this episode.

Well, the funny thing about this is that about a couple weeks ago or so, you noticed construction

workers going around and tape measuring going on.

And you made the joke then that they were going to wall us in.

Yes.

Little did we know that this maze, the maze that we were already working in, was going

to become even more elaborate.

Yes, because it is, the maze is about, in a way, elaborate confinement.

It's about confusion.

It's about being cut off.

It's about not knowing which way you're going and which way is the way out and if there is

even a way out, if there is a limit to the confusing layout that just flows out all around you. Now, one thing that's important

to mention here, and we're going to mention this, not only in this episode, but the part two

of this series to follow, but essentially you have mazes and you have labyrinths. And very often

these words are used interchangeably. One would be tempted to say it's

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