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Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, and I'm the host of the on-purpose podcast.

Recently, I had a conversation with the one and only, Madonna.

When I was broke and I had no friends, nowhere to live, I was held up at gunpoint.

I was robbed.

Always horrendous things happened to me.

I had such an unhappy childhood that whatever happened to me. I had such an unhappy childhood

that whatever happened to me in New York is better than what my life was. So I'm not going back.

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podcast. Guess what, Mango? What's that, Will? So I know I've told you about this before, but when I was six or seven, I used to sneak into my sister's room and listen to her latest albums on her fancy double cassette playing boombox. I have told you about this, right? Definitely. And she was in high school at the time, so I was introduced to all the important stuff this way. It was Michael Jackson's thriller. I think that was my favorite.

It did come out a few years earlier. We're talking 1986 and some of the biggest hits. There was

Madonna's Papa Don't Preach. Janet Jackson's, What Have You Done for Me Lately? Bon Jovi's,

you give love a bad name. Cindy Lauper's True Colors. I mean, the list goes on and on. And you're

planning to name them all, I'm guessing. I could, I could. And we're not talking about any of that Lionel Richie stuff that I had to listen to in my mom's Toyota Cressida. This was the good stuff. That's so much revolutionary music at such a young age. I know, I know. Well, one of them that I haven't mentioned yet is the Bengals Manic Monday.

And if you remember, Susanna-Hoss was clearly frustrated. age. I know. I know. Well, one of them that I haven't mentioned yet is the Bengals Manic Monday.

And if you remember, Susanna Haas was clearly frustrated because she was having this dream about kissing Valentino.

And then her stupid alarm goes off. And of course, it's just another Manic Monday. I mean, she wished it was Sunday because, as you know, that that's her fun day. But no, it was Monday. It was Monday. I mean, she wished it was Sunday because, as you know, that that's her fun day, but no, it was, it was Monday. It was Monday. It's tragic. Yeah. I mean, I learned so much for my sister's music collection. We might even have to do an episode on this at some point, but the lesson was clear. She did not like Mondays. She wasn't alone. I mean, there are obviously days that we learned to like and dislike pretty much universally. And when one of our brilliant researchers, Autumn Whitefield Madrano, asked the question a few weeks ago, what are the best and worst days of the week? I thought, well, I know what the Bengals would say, but what does science say? And how did the whole seven-day week come to be in the first place? So these are just a couple of the things we're going to talk about today. Hey there, podcast listeners, welcome to part-time genius.

I'm Will Pearson, and as always, I'm joined by my good friend, Mengesh Hatakere.

And on the other side of that soundproof glass is our friend and producer Tristan McNeil. Now, today we're asking the question, what's the best day of the week? You know, according to science, and maybe we'll throw in a few opinions here and there as well. Yeah, this one could turn into a heated debate. Well, we'll see. But before we get started, I wanted to recognize a few winners from our weirdest college courses episode, you know, where we asked listeners to tell us

the weirdest college classes they'd taken. You remember this? Yeah, definitely. All right,

here are the top three, all of whom will be getting part-time genius t-shirts. The first one

comes from Aliccio Martinez. The class was called Math in Square Dancing. Yeah, I thought this

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