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An Acquired Taste Podcast

S5 Ep373: Productivity Dysmorphia & Pepper’s Ghost

An Acquired Taste Podcast

Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Relationships, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Philosophy

53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Do you have a hard time celebrating your successes? You may have “productivity dysmorphia.” Kathleen’s talking about her struggles with this and who seems most likely to be affected! Then, Bethany is talking about a 400+-year-old technique that’s still being used in cars, TV, even one of your favorite movies. Plus, you’ll never believe why this author won’t take certain phone calls!

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BETHANY’S SOURCES:
“Pepper’s Ghost Effect,” Spencer Meyer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbp_s2AG5ZU
Home Alone (1990) Harry and Fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqyAf1r_ZfE

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0:00.0

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0:08.4

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0:12.5

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0:23.6

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0:28.0

if you do not keep up repayments on your mortgage.

0:48.6

Hello, this is an acquired taste podcast. I'm Kathleen Haney, your not sure if I can do dry

0:54.8

January, but I'm going to try. I've too much leftover cheese in my fridge. Will you come over to

0:59.1

help me eat it? I bought a really gimmicky weight loss device called Lumen and I'm embarrassed

1:04.5

that I did, friend. And I'm Bethany Watson, your new calendar opening, kitchen layout changing,

1:12.0

no more taking morning naps in 2022, friend. And every week, Bethany and I get together to discuss

1:20.0

our lives, what's weird in the world and we invite you to join us. This week we're talking about

1:25.4

peppers ghost, huh? AKA when people think they're seeing holograms, yeah, they're seeing

1:33.0

peppers ghost. It's a technology that's been around for decades. Back in the olden times they

1:40.0

use this and I am going to show you how it works. I thought for a moment you were getting your

1:46.0

phrase mixed up. Like instead of ghost pepper, you're like you were going to talk about the hot

1:50.8

sauce that burns everybody's esophagus when it's going down. Nope, nope. You won't have to eat an

1:55.5

entire loaf of white bread and chug milk after this topic. What about you, Kathleen? I am talking

2:03.2

about productivity dysmorphia. What's that? So I suppose we should wait until you talk about it.

2:09.4

I mean, I'll explain it here. I'll give you the cliff notes. So you know what body dysmorphia is,

2:16.0

right? Yeah. Yeah. You see your body in a way in which your body really isn't, isn't like you

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