- Can music change how food tastes?
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- [Together] Let's talk about that.
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- Good Mythical Morning!
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- Everybody welcome to the show.
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Chester and Mike from Linkin Park.
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- Woooh!
(applauding)
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Thanks for coming, guys.
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- Thanks for having us.
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- Well, we're glad you're here,
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because we need your help today, because--
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- There's been a study.
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When Oxford does a study,
we call Linkin Park.
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- We also call BS sometimes.
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- Alright, so Oxford
- Fair enough.
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- has conducted a study
and they have concluded
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that music can change the
way that we taste food.
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- Now, we like to taste foods.
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- I like tasting food.
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- Well, we don't need you for that.
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- Dang it.
(laughing)
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- We need you guys for the music part.
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- For the musician part.
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- Can you help us with that part of it?
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- We can do that.
- We can do that.
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- Alright, let's put Oxford to the test.
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♫ I tried some food and got sung to
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♫ But in the end did it
make the food taste better
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- OK, Mike and Chester are
over in the performance zone.
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- Yes, how is it over there, guys?
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- It's very nice.
- Good.
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- That's good, we're in
the food eating zone.
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- That's where we're gonna be.
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- So, Mike and Chester are
gonna be performing songs
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to opposing music tracks,
while we eat snacks
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and then we're gonna evaluate
how those opposing tracks
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impacted our tasting sensations
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in specific categories,
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that the Oxford study called out.
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- [Together] Round one.
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- OK, according to the study,
volume correlates to flavor
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and the louder the music,
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actually the less flavor there is,
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- Counterintuitive.
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- so as the music gets
quieter, it tends to bring out
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more flavors from what you're eating,
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- OK, and we're going--
- supposedly.
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- We're gonna be testing
with a cup o' noodle,
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classic late night nibble
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and let's turn this
thing up to 11, hit it!
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- Bet you didn't taste anything.
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- I had no room for tasting.
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- That was intense, fellas.
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- No head space for tasting.
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- And there was, but there
was like a helpful caution
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in there, that the product is hot.
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I think that came directly
off the packaging,
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which is brilliant.
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The funny thing is it was
very hot temperature-wise,
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but I don't feel like I experienced much,
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because I was so into the music.
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- Yeah, that was, that was
the main thing on my mind.
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Flavor took a big back seat.
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- But we should flip the script now.
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- Bring things down.
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- I think we're gonna need...
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- Wow, we're bringing in stools.
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- I think we'll go acoustic
with this one, boys.
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- Go acoustic, let's
bring down the volume.
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- I would say when you want
more flavor, bring in stool.
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- We have a brand new song for you guys.
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- Right, next single?
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- This is off our upcoming album.
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- Alright guys, serenade us.
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(gentle acoustic rock music)
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(laughing and applauding)
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- They're really bringing it.
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You're bringing the flavor in that one.
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That was very, that was very moving.
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- I don't know if it was
the slowness of the song
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or the subject matter,
because as you talked about
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just having a few left, just 26 left,
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- I began to realize
how important this was.
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- Right, I became more thankful
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and I became more aware of
the flavors contained therein.
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I think I did, I mean I
feel it's spicier now.
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- And it could be the
accumulation across both songs,
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but I, probably not.
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- No, it's the science, Link.
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- It was definitely the science.
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- Yeah, that one worked.
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- It's very interesting.
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- It ain't over yet.
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- [Together] Round Two.
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- OK, we started off kind of broad
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with just the general flavor test,
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but now we're gonna get more specific
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with sweetness versus sourness.
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- And here's what the science says,
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higher pitch music brings
out the sweetness in food,
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while lower pitch music brings
out the sourness of food.
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- Would've thought it
might be the opposite.
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But science is counterintuitive, man.
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- But what better way to test this theory,
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than with the sweetest,
sourest food around,
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- Yeah, Chester, hit us
with some high pitch.
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(gentle, lullaby-style music)
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- Boy, what a wonderful time.
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- You guys are heading in a new direction.
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- We've got eight more songs on our album,
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where that came from.
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Just wait till this thing
comes out, you guys.
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- So was that sweeter?
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I think we'll have to compare
it with the next one, bud.
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- I mean, I gotta say, I
believe that was the sweetest
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experience I've ever had
with Sour Patch Kids.
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- But I don't have
anything to compare it to,
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except previous Sour Patch experience.
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- But we gotta try the
other side of this thing.
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- So now let's go low.
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Mike, hit us with some low.
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- Oh I got low, low for ya, hold on.
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- OK, Chester's gonna add to the low.
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Alright, grabbing some low
end back there, alright.
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- OK, I see what you're gonna do.
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- Alright buddy, you ready?
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- Yeah, give me the low end.
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- Let's go for the environment.
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- Yeah, you had a good message there.
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- There's a little message,
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did you guys catch the message in there?
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- Yeah, right at the end, right?
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It was about global warming.
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- Yeah, patchouli kids.
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- We care about the earth.
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- Patchouli kids (laughing).
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- Listen--
- Did it go sour--
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- When I said patchouli kids,
did it affect the taste?
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Did it make you, 'cause
that's like a smell, right?
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- I know it seems like we're
just completely making this up,
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but I'm not making up the fact
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that I feel like that was
a more sour experience
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in the best way possible.
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- I feel like there was
another dimension to it.
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- I mean, I was like bopping
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and it brought out the sourness.
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- And the bass, it was really the bass,
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that wasn't plugged in,
that Chester was playing.
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- [Chester] It was my--
- Yeah.
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- That was the part that really did it
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- It was my superb slappa-the-bass.
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- He do slappa-the-bass.
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- So lame, I'm saying that we are...
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- I'm convinced so far but--
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- I'm saying this is happening.
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- Let's continue this experiment.
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- [Together] Round Three.
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- Now let's test the spiciness
of food, subject to music.
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- Now, this one is the first
one, that is intuitive,
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because the science says
that the faster the tempo,
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the spicier the food.
- OK, yeah.
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- The tempo actually increases
the sensation of spiciness.
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- Alright, so let's start out slow.
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Chester, give it to me slow.
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That's the first single,
oh, you've already had that.
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This is your like fourth or fifth single.
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- Off the new album.
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- This is Hit City.
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- That was a very sultry
Cheetos experience for me
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and I don't have many of those.
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- Still a little spicy.
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- I'm feeling the spice
now, but I gotta say,
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the first like five or six,
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when I was just really into the song,
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I just thought I was
eating regular Cheetos.
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- I thought I was eating
something very wrong,
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(laughing)
- Oh Godness.
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OK, let's speed things up.
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Mike, you ready to take
things to another level?
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- That's all I ever do.
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- Right.
- Alright.
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- But I need a Rhett and Link hat.
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- Yeah, turn it up.
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- What a coincidence.
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- That's crazy, right?
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- His name and the--
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- This is a great hat, you guys.
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- I really like this hat.
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- Now listen, that made me
eat a whole lot more Cheetos,
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I tell ya that much
(laughing)
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- Yeah, (speaks foreign language)
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- It was, wah, I gotta keep up!
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- Through the roof!
- Wooo!
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- But did it make it spicier,
is the operative question.
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- Well, more Flamin' Hot
Cheetos is more spicy,
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so by default it almost
made it more spicy.
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- Yeah, my tongue is pretty much on fire,
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as well as my desire to
listen to that song on repeat!
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That's pretty great, man.
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- I think the conclusion here
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is that Oxford University
knows what they're up to.
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- Yeah, they needed to hear that from us.
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- (laughs) You're off the hook, Oxford
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and I don't mean in like a slang sense,
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I mean in like a, we're
not on your case anymore.
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- Yeah, and thank you guys for
those wonderful performances.
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- They were fabulous.
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- Thank you for allowing
us to be part of this
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really fantastic scientific experiment.
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