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🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Say one thing about Mao's communist China, they could kill some sparrows. Learn why and how in today's episode.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:05.5 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:15.2 | Hey and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh and there's Chuck. |
| 0:18.4 | It's just us, and that's okay, because we are going to do our best today pronouncing Chinese words, which is always a laugh riot if you're a fan of the podcast. Yeah, you can take those, my friend, because I meant to look up the pronunciations and I didn't get a chance to. But this topic about the Four Pests campaign comes to you from listener, |
| 0:39.5 | actually non-listener, Emily Bryant, my wife. |
| 0:43.7 | Oh, nice. |
| 0:45.0 | She gave me the idea, and I was like, oh, yeah, I looked into it a little bit. |
| 0:47.8 | It's like, yeah, this will be good. |
| 0:49.6 | That's funny. |
| 0:50.3 | I wondered if you had thought of it because of you killing the cockroach recently on air. |
| 0:57.1 | No, but I do have to say you judge me pretty hard on the cockroach. |
| 1:01.8 | And while just very casually talking about how much you would kill a mosquito and ticks and fleas, but oh, not the cockroach, Chuck. |
| 1:13.5 | No. |
| 1:15.2 | Was I a little harsh? |
| 1:16.2 | I'm sorry. |
| 1:16.9 | No, you weren't harsh, but I was like, wait a minute, you're killing three out of four of these and acting like you're, you know, gods get to insects. |
| 1:23.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:23.8 | My boundaries apply to all. |
| 1:27.8 | Yeah. Okay. |
| 1:28.7 | Moving forward. |
| 1:29.5 | We're not talking about cockroaches yet. |
| 1:32.9 | We're talking about rats, mosquitoes, flies. |
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