The Whistling, Part 4
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the nature and history of human whistling – including the subject of whistled languages.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Joshua Topolsky and I have a new podcast called What Future. |
| 0:04.5 | But I want to tell you that I'm being forced by my producer to record a promo telling you about my show. |
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| 0:18.1 | And why John Carpenter movies are so good. |
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| 0:26.6 | And that's fine, you know, no judgment. |
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| 0:58.4 | The podcast and that's what you really missed brings you back to the choir room for a gloriously gleeky rewatch of all six masterfully musical seasons of Glee. |
| 1:19.4 | Join cast members Kevin MacKale and Jenna Uschkewitz for never before heard stories from the cast, crew, celebrities and you, the fans from McKinley High to New York City, from the choir room to nationals and from the Super Bowl to a world tour. |
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| 1:39.4 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 1:46.4 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam and I'm Joe McCormick and we're back with part four of our series about whistling. |
| 2:01.4 | This episode is going to be a little weird today because we literally already recorded this episode and then lost the whole thing to a technical glitch. |
| 2:11.4 | Rob, I'm to understand that as I was talking when we were recording this episode the first time it was just constantly making the sounds of hell in your ears. |
| 2:21.4 | Can you describe the terror in the anguish? |
| 2:24.4 | It was kind of like your dialogue was an a fix twin remix the entire time and so at first it was I was like okay I can I can put up with this. |
| 2:35.4 | This is fine we've already gone so far into the episode we should just you know finish it out by the end of it it was kind of headache and do something. |
| 2:43.4 | But I was like well at least we got the episode this is just audio distortion that I'm hearing it's not going to transfer over to the recorded finished product sadly it did and so here we are. |
| 2:54.4 | It's the worst yeah we were like well at least it won't be on the actual audio and then it was and so. |
| 3:01.4 | Here we are okay so this is take two. |
| 3:04.4 | Yeah I could have been much worse so no big deal hey looking on the bright side we got a rehearsal in there how often do we have a rehearsal for a podcast episode so I think it's going to be stronger because of that. |
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