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🗓️ 20 May 2015
⏱️ 17 minutes
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0:00.0 | You're listening to How to Do Everything, but we're not the only show produced by NPR. |
0:05.0 | This week we're going to remind you about Fresh Air with Terry Gross, one of our favorite shows. |
0:10.0 | Definitely the show that I catch, that I'll sit and listen to in the car long after the car has run out of gas. |
0:16.7 | A show that I used to produce when I was smarter before this. |
0:21.9 | You can find Fresh Air's Podcast at NPR.org slash podcasts or on the NPR1 |
0:28.4 | app. My parents were really proud of me back then. Really? Yeah. How do they feel now that point they don't speak to me |
0:39.4 | something I think is weird is I have not taken a test of any kind for at least 15 years |
0:48.4 | But I still and I think a lot of people still I still have nightmares about taking tests I have those two which just I feel like shows you that the anxiety that comes with test taking is so profound that you never forget it. |
1:07.0 | On the line with us now is Ben Ashton. |
1:09.7 | He's a student at the University of Exeter in the UK. |
1:13.3 | Ben is currently taking these stressful exams and he has a way to relieve some of that stress. |
1:20.5 | Yeah, of course. |
1:21.5 | I mean, the Students Guild put on a stress relief event to one day where they brought |
1:27.4 | in micro pigs and you can just come out at the library and hug a few micro pigs. |
1:33.0 | What is a micro pig? |
1:36.0 | A micro pig, it's, I mean to put it, it's a very small pig, |
1:41.0 | but rather than a baby pig, it's sort of their genetically different. |
1:45.2 | So their maximum size is, you know, the size of an average cat. |
1:49.0 | They're very, very small. |
1:50.0 | Oh my gosh. |
1:51.0 | Wow. |
1:52.0 | They're adorable. They're adorable. |
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