Matt Blashaw and Kenny Curtis and Jillian Hughes

Matt BlashawHGTV Star & Real Estate and Building Expert



Kenny Curtis and Jillian Hughes (father and daughter team!) have a funny and clever tie-in book, also called Greeking Out: Epic Retellings of Classic Greek Myths.

Episode Transcript

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never know what's going to happen.So listen for yourself. Here is Frankie
Boyer and welcome, Welcome, Welcome, it is Frankie Boyer. Well for
many of you, for many ofyou, you are all aware of this

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fabulous podcast. It's called it's calledGreeking Out and it is epic retellings of
classic Greek myths and it is fromthe creators of National Geographic Kids. The
wildly successful Greeking Out podcast has beenI have to ask both Kenny and Jillian

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they're with us today. Kenny,you've you've had more than thirty years in
children's programming as a performer, writer, producer, one of the creators of
National Geographic Kids Greeking Out podcast,which you're hosting co write alongside your daughter,

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Jillian Hughes and she's with us today. And Jillian, you're a professional
writer with your heart in the kidsand family industry. But did you guys
realize when you were doing this itwould be so hugely successful. I don't
know, Jill, I don't knowif you had any thoughts about whether or
not it would be successful. Iwas thrilled that it has gotten through the

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stage where we have a book.I was happy that the podcast successful.
But you never really know, youknow, you never you're never really sure
what's going to strike a chord withkids and families. Yeah, we had
no idea it was going to bethis popular and take off the way that
it has. So it's been greatto experience. Oh I bet i bet
okay. So tell us about theconcept where it came from, Julian,

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you go first, Okay, Well, it's kind of a roundabout story.
So the podcast, the Greeking Outpodcast was actually inspired by another book called
Zeus the Mighty, which is alsopublished by National Geographic Kids by Kristen Boyer.
And in that book, it wasa book about animals a pet shop

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and they were listening to a podcastcalled Greeking Out that talked about Greek mythology
and it sort of made these animalskind of believe that they were the great
gods. And in sort of likea marketing emotional idea, Becky Baines and
some other people at National Geographic Kidsthought it would be funny to actually make
that podcast, the Greeking Out Podcast, as a way to promote that book,

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because this is the mighty book.So we were brought on to make
this podcast, and the podcast kindof took on a life of its own
and became very popular and really resonatedwith a lot of people. And because
the podcast was so popular, theydecided to turn into a book. So
this is the book that was inspiredby the podcast that was inspired by the

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book. Did I get that right? Oh my gosh, yeah, yeah,
you nailed it. That's basically thewhole story in a nutshell. It
started as a as a book andthen became a podcast and now a book.
So how how is it writing thebook after you've already have done the
podcast, after you've already done thepodcast? You know, it's interesting?
I'm sorry, go ahead, Joe, You're good. Yeah, it is

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interesting, it is it? Wereally tried very hard to make sure that
the tone of the podcast was carriedover into the of the book and for
listeners of the podcast to really feellike this was, you know, an
add on, a tie in thatit felt universal to them. But then
at the same time, we wantednew readers who may not have listened to

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the podcast, who had no ideaabout freaking out, to really relate to
and resonate with the book. Soit was kind of a challenge to merge
those two creative things together and makesure that it appealed to new readers a
new audience, while also staying trueto the to the tone and the comedy
that we're known for in the podcast. Right, Henny, what's it been

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like for you work working on thisproject with your daughter? He loved it.
That is a correct answer. Itis rewarding in a way that nothing
else could be rewarding. I tellyou it is. You know, you're
you're equally proud and yet at thesame time, your uh sort of worried,

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like, you know, I don'twhat have I gotten my daughter into
here? You know what I mean? Is this? You know, kids
programming is you know, is acrazy business where at the you know,
you don't get a whole lot ofprops for doing kids shows and things like
that. And I've been in thekids industry for a long time, and
so I was thrilled when Jillian wantedto do it, and really she was
kind of the only person who couldbecause what happened was, you know,

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I you know, I do threeor four different things. I work for
another podcasting company called tinker Cast.I'm their head writer. I still host
a show on the kid's channel onSerious XM. So I'm moving in a
lot of different directions that we neededscripting, somebody to script for me.
But you know, the first coupleof episodes were written with such a distinct
narrative voice. You know, we'retaking these classic Greek mythological tales and putting

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them into contemporary prins and terms andand cleaning them up for kids and families.
And I remember Jillian saying, I'mreally worried that I won't be able
to write this way, like rightlike dad. And then she sat down
and she was like, oh,actually, this is totally fine. I
can totally do this and failed it, and you know, so it was
It's really been a brilliant working processI've heard his boy with my whole life,

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so I've got it down at thispot, I was gonna say absolutely,
absolutely okay, And the apple didn'tfall far from the tree quite honestly,
Kenny, it really didn't. Yeah, you're not wrong about that death.
How do you find the stories?That's the question I wonder is that
how do you even know which whichmyths to tackle? That is a tough

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one. I mean, that isthat is really the tricky thing. We
have an amazing producer. Her nameis Emily Everhart, which might be the
best name for a producer. EverYeah, really she is. She's a
now with Disney, she was withnat GEO for forever, and she's a
She's absolutely passionate about this subject matter. And you know, as a kid,
I grew up reading the Edith Hamiltonbooks, and you know, I

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was a B and D NERD,so I knew more than a bit about
this. But really, by thetime we got this season too, I
had kind of exhausted everything I knew. We were lucky enough to be partnered
with National Geographic and they have awealth of experts that they reach out to.
The lady named Diane Klein, doctor, doctor Diane Klein from American University,
and she's a classical studies professor andshe with a with a focus in

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Greek mythology and Greek culture. Soshe really shepherded us through the first Caught
three or four seasons and really gethelped us identify a bunch of different myths
and more importantly, the different versionsof each myth, because the same story
can be told in two or threedifferent ways. We discovered this about the

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Odyssey and the Iliot, the storyof the Trojan War, about how there
are three there are several different verdsthat whether you're just spending depending upon whether
you're going with Homer or whether you'regoing with Hessy, and just those two
guys right there have different interpretations ofin a different story. So there's a
lot of different versions of myths.But we also are getting into international myths

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that aren't Greek, Egyptian, Norse, Mesopota Amien. We have some some
Filipino myth that we're getting into inthis current season of Breaking Out, and
it's really it's amazing and it's verywell received by our audience. We love
that we're not just sticking in ancientGreece. Yeah, yeah, tell us

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give us an example of how oneof the myths would be talked about it
if you could. I'm sorry,meaning like how we would change a myth,
or how do you change the myth? Yeah? Do do? Achilles?
Heel? Okay? So so theAchilles is a perfect one. That
that's a perfect example the I meanAchilles wedding, right, Achilles parents and

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Jill, I'm gonna need you toto I'm gonna punt this to you because
I remember you wrote this one andif I get it wrong, they're gonna
have to correct me. But achillesmom mother was a senymph, an immortal
goddess, and Ahilli achilles father wasPeleus, a king, And it was
their wedding that actually started the wholediscord of the of the Trojan War because

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at their wedding there was the onlygoddess that wasn't invited was a lady named
Eris, who is the goddess ofdiscord, because who wants to invite her
to a wedding? Really, let'sbe honest, you don't want you don't
want to. There's enough weirdness ina wedding. But so she's mad.
She shows up anyway and she takesthis golden apple and writes to the fairest
on the apple and throws it inthe middle of the party, and of
course Aphrodite and Athena and Hera allthink it's for them and they argue over

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it. So they go to Zeusand Zeus says, oh, no,
I'm not gonna pick, So hepicks this random shepherd to choose, and
that random shepherd actually turns out tobe Paris, the Prince of Troy,
and he chooses Aphrodite, and Aphroditesays to him, I'm giving you as
a reward, I give you yourchoice of the most beautiful woman in the
world. Well, later on inlife, he meets Helen, Helen of

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Sparta, chooses her Aphrodite, makesher fall in love with her. He
takes her home to Troy, andthat's what starts the Trojan War. Those
the wedding, Those the husband andwife in that wedding were achilles parents,
right, Joe, Yeah, thatright, yes, okay, so that
their first child was Achilles, andachilles mom was pretty paranoid about him being

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immortal, right Jill, Yeah,that was me handing it off to you,
Okay, Yeah, honest, Myhead over here, like you're doing
great, doing great. Yeah,so she was worried about that. She
actually took him to the River six, the famous you know river and the

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underworld. Hold on hold that thought, guys, I didn't realize. We're
getting engrossed in the conversation. Wehave to take a quick break. Tell
everybody how they can find out moreabout you, the new book and all
of that, and we'll come rightback with Jill and Kenny. Go ahead
breaking out classic retellings of epic Greekmyths. It's a book. It's available
now, Amazon, your favorite bookseller, where you go get it twenty great

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myths. You and your family willlove it. We'll be right back.
Frankie Boyer, stay tuned and welcomeback. And so Jillian is back,
Jillian Hughes and her dad. Theyare, of course the creators of Greeking

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Out and the new book. Bythe way, Kenny Curtis, how can
people find the new book, Well, you can get it anywhere you want.
Amazon of course has it for sale, but I always love if you
can go into a brick and mortarbook store. Do that. It's National
Geographic Kids distributed, so it shouldbe in most places. And it is

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called Greeking Out Epic Retellings of ClassicGreek Myths, and it's based on the
podcast of the same name. Soit's a beautiful hardcover book with amazing illustrations
by Heavy Ears. Oh I betyou guys always do great Yeah, you
guys always do great job. So, as I'm listening to both of you
retelling and listening to these stories,can you all understand why we need these

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Greek myths in our lives because they'rethey're just so fascinating. The names alone,
and the and the telling of thestories. Totally agree. I think
it's they're more relevant now in someways than they were. Well, I
won't say they're more, they're asrelevant now as they were when they were

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told. I mean, these arethis these are the stories you know,
upon which all other stories have beenbased. But it's also human beings trying
to make sense of the world aroundthem. It's what we always tell the
kids that these myths were how earlycultures explained the world and justified the world.
The coolest thing I think about Greekmyths is that the gods themselves were

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not perfect. They were not thisbenevolent all powerful ally they were mean,
they were mean, they were jealous, they were petty, they're respiteful,
and sometimes they did things the humanbeings just because they could, and that
I think sort of help make sensefor why life and the world sometimes can
be so unfair, especially if you'reliving in ancient Greece, especially if Yeah,

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we've tried to make that kids thinkreally critically about these myths too,
and the book after each myth there'sa little like takeaway section that sort of
talks about the moral or the reasonwe wrote this story, And a theme
that kept coming up was, youknow, not rebelling against authority, like
kind of sticking with the status quo. A lot of these myths encouraged people

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to to just be happy with wherethey were, and when they did try
to rise up, they would bepunished by the gods. So we're trying
to get kids to kind of thinkabout, well, why is that,
Like why didn't they want them tochallenge them or to question and just sort
of encouraging kids to really think aboutthis critically and to understand the reason some
of these myths were told. We'rekind of to keep things, keep the

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status quo, keep people from rockingthe boat. So there's kind of like
a deeper meeting under a lot ofthem too. So how do you deal
with the pronunciations? How do youhow do you teach kids how to pronounce
these words? Kenny? Oh,so that is that is always a trick.
In fact, the beautiful thing abouta podcast is that we can say

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them and say them wrong. Ihave a sidekick that Julian scripts the Oracle
of Wi Fi, who is abit like It was sort of inspired by
the idea that in all the geokids books, there's all these facts in
the margins. Uh. But inthe Zeus the Mighty book series, the
Oracle of Wi Fi is what theycalled the thing that they listened to podcast

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on. So it became a characterin the book. And I if I
say a name, if I saya Greek name wrong, it will correct
me. She will correct me repeatedly, and thankfully our experts that we have
through National Geographic really help keep usgrounded. There are many different ways to
say some of the ancient Greek names, depending upon whether you want to use

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the hard the k version of thehard to see or not. Searcy the
Wizard the Sorceress could renounced Kirky.You could say it kirky, but it
has become so colloquialized as Sarcy thatmost people say Sarcy, and that has
become acceptable. The one thing thatisn't is Hercules over Heracles. You've got

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to call him Heracles because his nameHeracles means because of Hera, which is
the whole reason he has all ofthe trouble in his life and all his
trials and his twelve labors. Sowe actually have kind of a recurring bit
on the podcast in which I amfrequently saying Hercules instead of Heracles and getting
corrected. I love it. Ilove it. And Julian, you were

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finishing our story of Achilles Heels.Yeah, yeah, So Kenny was talking
about the wedding of achilles parents andsort of that's the very popular story of
how the Trojan War got started becauseof this apple in this fight over who
was, you know, the mostbeautiful goddess. But what we kind of

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do is also tell the story ofhis parents, the backstory and his mother
sadus to kill. His mother wasvery word about Achilles because he wasn't immortal
because he had immortal father. Sowhen he was a baby, she took
him to the river stick, whichwas the most famous river in the underworld

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that you can kind of see seeddepicted in the media as having like the
dead ghosts and the soles all floatingout of it. But well known fact,
if you swim in the river stixor immerse your body, you will
become immortal. So Fetus grabbed Achillesand took him down there and held him
by his heel and dipped him inthe river to make him become immortal.

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And she was almost finished summer himin, but then she was caught by
her husband Pelias, who was like, what are you doing with our baby?
Why are you dipping him in justcreepy river here? And she was
trying to explain that she was makingmemortal, but he wasn't buying it,
so he suck Achilles away. Andthat is why Achilles is basically invincible and

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only has one weak spot, whichof course is his heel. This is
he and JADUs was kind of paranoidher whole life that that heel would be
the reason, that that would bethe reason for his downfall. And you
know, she was right. Amother always knows best, A mother always
knows best. How how true isthat? What I also love about the
book is eat like the Greeks tellus about that, because that's so much

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great interstitial parts of this book.Jillians put a lot of them together.
But the folks from National Geographic thisis there. This is what they do.
This is there. Yeah, Isay bread and butter if we're going
to keep the eat like the Greeksbeing going. But this is really what
they do. They provide you withcon temporary information that puts the information in

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the book in context for kids andfamilies, and that's what Not to Your
Kids has been doing for decades.So this is really where we were excited
about the partnership, because you know, we didn't do a whole lot a
deep dive into olives or any ofthat kind of stuff, but they have
people on staff that research this stuffand that know this stuff. But what
we really liked was the other someof the other interstitials as well, about

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the different kinds of monsters and thedifferent adventurers and things like that, because
there's so much information and so manyside stories and great dare I say,
cameo appearances of characters in these mythsthat you can't get to all of them,
so to be able to put themin that kind of an interstitial format

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is really fun and it's really ajoy for the illustrator as well. Oh
I bet, I bet, thishas been so fun. Honestly, I
have to say I'm impressed with bothof you and this is such a great
what a rich, wonderful book andpodcast to a company and give out the
website and how people can find outmore. Well, thank you so much,

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Frankie. You guys have been great. The book is called Greeking Out
Epic Retellings of Classic Greek Myths,and you can get it wherever you get
your favorite books. The podcast iscalled National Geographic Kids Greeking Out, and
wherever you get your favorite flavor ofpodcast, that's where you can go to
stream that. It's a great funthing to stream with kids and families.

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And we are hard at work ona new season of that, so we
are. We can't waiting to congratulationsguys, so fun talking with you.
We have to take a quick breakand we'll be back in just a moment.
This is Frankie Boyer's Stay tuned andwelcome back. It is Frankie Boyer

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and joining us now as Benjamin Huen, who obtained his undergraduate and graduate degrees
from the University of Cambridge in England. He became the first editor of Nature
New Biology in nineteen seventy one,then worked at the National Cancer Institute from
nineteen seventy two to nineteen seventy three. He founded Cell Journal in Cambridge right

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here in Massachusetts, and in nineteennineteen seventy four renamed editor of Cell until
he remained the editor of Cell untilnineteen ninety nine. Cell became the top
ranked journal in the life science andDoctor Lewin is also the author of the

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best selling Jeans textbook and a seriesof books on wine. And he divides
his time between New York and London. And we are thrilled to have you
with us today and your new bookis out Inside Science, Revolution in Biology
and its impact. My goodness,you've had such a stellar and incredible career.

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Where so thrilled you're with us todayand honored doctor, thank you so
for centuries now you say that thehuman has been driven by intellect, But
but will science look like this withAI now on the burner, it may

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change. AI has got a lotof potential because it can synthesize very large
amounts of data much more effectively thanhuman intuition or analysis. But it's worrying
because it undercuts one of the basicprinciples in science. That's that you publish
your results in such a way thatother scientists can understand how you did the

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work and they can repeat them ifthey want to. But when you use
an AI program, even the peoplewho created the program may not really completely
understand how it works. You know, it's artificial intelligence. It is doing
its own thing. So if wedon't understand how it works, how can
we validate the results. That isa real concern as to whether it would

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change the nature of science. Already, there have been some cases in which
AI has been used to analyze dataand the results have been accepted because basically
it's an AI algorithm and it's ashuman to be correct. But if a
realized person had gone through the samesteps and explained what they had done and
got to the same conclusion, itmight have been questioned more. So.

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I think this tendency to accept thingsmore easily because it's AI and it's a
sort of black box, that's abit worrying. It is, and we've
been talking a lot lately about AIon the show and I have to ask
a questions. We have made somany advances in the world of cancer,

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so many extraordinary advances. Why don'tyou think AI has the ability to finally
take it to the next level.Do you think it will help? But
it won't be a solution by itself. For one thing, the notion of

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curing cancer is a little bit simplifiedbecause there isn't one cancer. There are
many different cancers there. So youcan get some information from AI for its
example, now that we have humangenome sequences available on a large scale,
we can look at those sequences andsay, well, is there some common
factor or factors that relate people whohave a particular cancer. That's very useful,

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perhaps potentially as a diagnostic, butisn't going to go the next step
of saying what we should try todo to cure it? Is so and
so for that we still need humanintuition. So far, AI has proved
quite interesting in analyzing results, butit hasn't, as far as I know,

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actually suggested an experiment yet which wouldgo and find a new important result
and to cure cancer, or tocure individual cancers. We basically need breakthroughs
on a one by one basis.I don't know that AI is going to
be able to do that for us. It may help, may help point
us in the right direction to look, but I think we're still going to
need people, individual scientists to dothat, at least given the present state

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of AI. I'm grateful that thatwe still need scientists and doctors to do
that. What about taking the informationso that when we look at different parts
of the country and we see thecancer raids are spite, could AI be

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used to find out the common denominators, what's going on and why? Could
could that help environmental where it wouldbe very effective? But there's an interesting
precedent here. A few years back, Google introduced a featurical Google Flu Trends,

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which analyzed the occurrence of flu indifferent parts of the country. Very
comfortable to what you were just sayingabout cancer, and it did it not
by looking for symptoms of people whohave flu, but for looking at searches
on Google. You know, whencertain terms were used that was associated with
flu being being dominant in the area. So for a couple of years this

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worked very well. It was verygood at predicting whether the next flu epidemic
was going to occur, and thenfor the next two or three years it
didn't do very well. And thetraditional means that the CDC and people like
that use did much better. Sothe answer is it's really hard to be
sure. It looked very promising,it looked like a completely new way of

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analyzing an epidemic and in this particularcase, an infectious disease, but in
the end it didn't work very well. And I don't think we know whether
it didn't work very well because therewas some basic missdesign in the system or
just because the algorithm needed more tweaking. So in the same way, if
we try to use it to analyzecancer, it might work, it might

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not work, but it's really difficultto know why. I think you have
to be cautious about this because ifyou get the wrong results, it could
be quite damaging. I absolutely agreewith you and with all of your years
of experience, and I know thatSusan Love, the late Susan Love,

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and it saddens me that she diedironically from a rear form of cancer.
But the breast research that she didin her life, she was so frustrated
because there was no cure for breastcancer and that The Pink Ribbon campaign kept

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going on and on, and sheoften asked the question, where's the money
going. The research that is neededtakes so much money and so much time,
and I just was hoping that,because you're so brilliant and you cut
through you and you're so eloquent aboutourselves, is there any way that you

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think in the next ten years wemight be able to shortcut some some of
the tedious work that needs to bedone for cancer, especially breast cancer.
It's very hard to predict. Oneof the characteristics of science is that you
can't predict what's coming next. Andthis is why something like I don't know

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if remember President Nixon's War on cancermany many years ago. Yes, but
this type of approach tends not tobe very effective because finding a cure for
breast cancer or for any other cancerprobably depends on some discovery that we haven't
made yet, and we don't knowwhere that discovery is going to come from.

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It may not come from people workingon cancer research at all. It
may come from some other area quitedistant from cancer. Could be something you
do with cell biology, it couldbe somebody's doing lecular biology, could even
be a discovery in bacteria. Somy point about sciences you just have to
support science as a whole because younever know what consequences are going to come

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from some observation, and you cannotpredict what observation you need to make to
get to some particular target, likecuring a cancer or some other infectious disease.
You just have to I mean,obviously you can put money into areas
that look promising, but no guaranteethat that is actually where the breaks is

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going to come from. May comefrom somewhere else quite different. Insight Inside
Science is your new book, Revolutionin Biology and its Impact, And Doctor
Benjamin Lewin, when an honor anda pleasure to talk with you today.
This has been so great And howlong did it take you? I just
have to ask how long it tookto write this book? About a year

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because it has been in my headfor quite a long time before that,
and so once I started writing,it came together really quite quickly. Oh
I'm well. We're so thrilled andthrilled that you were able to come on
and talk with us today. Thankyou so much, and give us the
best website on how people can findout more about you and the work that

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you're doing, doctor Benjamin Lewin.Well, the book, of course is
available on Amazon and in bookshops.I have a website which deals with my
writings on wine, which is calledwine specific dot com, and I haven't
yet set up one for science.All right, is this going to be
a good year for wine? Well, it's been rather hot, so you

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know we'll be too powerful. We'llsee, yea. It's like science,
you never know till it's over.We'll have to have you on just to
talk about the wine. Thank youso much, doctor, and we'll take
a quick break and be right back. This is Frankie boy your stay tuned.
Thank you, and welcome back.It is Frankie Boyer and joining us

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my home that that is going tobe a great resource for you. Call
your license electrician. He's going tobe able to to you know, find
the right size for you. He'lleven recommend a good generator. And it's

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not life is normal, Frankie witha generator, right, you don't.
Everything doesn't turn back on that generatoris size just for the elements that you
need. And these are things likethe refrigerator, the freezer. This is
like your alarm system, security formedical devices for some people, you know.
So it's if you know, theseare things that you know, we

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don't think about until we lose themand then absolutely and I think for some
insulin needs to be refrigerated, youknow, little things like that that we
don't always think about. Oh yeah, yeah, I mean it's and for
how long? Right? And that'sthe the uncertainty is what I want to
kind of take out of the equation. The propane service provider that's going to

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power you know, give you thepropane for the unit. They'll be able
to size the appropriate tank for you. And you know, I gotta tell
you when we were, you know, out of power. My street was
littered with trees. I could notget my truck out of there, so
I couldn't go down and get gas. I couldn't, you know, there's
no way. And I tried togive you a generator. They were triple

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the price. I couldn't find one. So that propane is right there when
you need it, right and thatit's not just a little tiny, little,
you know, canister that we thinkabout with barbecues. These are huge
tanks that you can have that arevery very safe, stored on property.
And even these transfer switches that theyhave with the generator now are fantastic,

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meaning that when the power goes out, the transfer switch realizes that it's out,
it switches right over, turns onyour generator and starts powering it.
You don't have to go out intothe elements. Such a great thing for
the home. Oh my gosh,is it ever? And I have to
tell you we had a really badI live in in Boston right and downtown

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Boston on the harbor, and wehad the remnants of the hurricane that came
up the coast and the winds,Oh my goodness, the winds were just
crazy, really crazy, and thedebris everywhere from falling and objects just blowing

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all over the city. And youknow, I'm fortunate I'm in an apartment
building, but for many that havea home, they were not so fortunate.
And those winds really did severe damageand cause the trees to fall down.
You know, it's just like thisripple effect, Matt. Yeah.
And and and to kind of piggybackon that, you know, my wife

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she thinks I'm nuts because you know, we have so many trees around,
you know, our neighborhood, andno one trims them, no one limbs
them, because I know that theylove the shape, right, it's fantastic.
But if you have a big limbthat's sitting over your power line,
sitting over your house, sitting overyour car, those trees, the leaves

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on those branches, that's that's agiant sail, right. So the more
resistance that it has, the morethat that branch is gonna you know,
it just can't take it. It'sgoing to snap off. So you know,
consider one of those items to dois to go around and limb your
trees, you know, cut yourtrees, and you know, to cut
it down just just you know,just make sure that they're nice. Yeah

(36:55):
yeah, just trim and take muchbecause we have that same thing. We
had eighty mile on our winds justlike three weeks ago, and trees were
full. I mean it was justincredible because no one lives their trees.
So you know, not that much. You can do it yourself. Make
sure you take care of that beforethe winter buns. Oh absolutely, you
know, Matt, I have toask you, what are you working on

(37:19):
as besides you know your HGTV hoston safeguarding the homes and all of that.
What other projects are you do youhave up your sleeve. You always
have something you're working on. Ohyeah, I love it, you know.
For right now, I'm you know, I've been I'm running my business
up you know, fully licensed,doing a residential exterior and interior builds in

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Kansas City. So you know,I absolutely love it. And you know,
being a part of Hi TV hasbeen fantastic. You know, I've
been been gifted with many people watchingyou. Are you kidding? We have
loved watching you, and not foranything but those Kansas City the chiefs aren't

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looking as fabulous as they were lastyear. Man, just saying just saying
mask together. Everyone says they're goingto go together. Frankie, I know
that they are. All right,Well we're going to get it back together.
Yes. We so appreciate your comingon and sharing strategies that every homeowner

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should know about. And what's thebest website that people can go to?
Yeah, lots of great information.Head on over to propane dot com slash
for my home. Wonderful. Thankyou, thank you, thank you.
As always, it's such a pleasure, Matt, and thank all of you.
This has been another edition of theFrankie Boyer Show. Thanks for listening.

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Make it a great day everybody,and as always, smile you'll see
the sun come rocking through for you. Between sub sad will maybe ever sow

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here and it just smile he food, ar fears and start smile, and
maybe tomorrow you'll see the light asstill worth wire if you tomorrow to mind