Just when you thought it was safe to go to sleep, our heroes anthemically introduce themselves, announce Uncle Touchy 2020, mispronounce bagel, anthropomorphize mice and rats, infiltrate NIMH, study population control, reference Albert Fish, want to eat somebody, want to feel the heat of somebody, endorse cannibalism (the show is sponsored by People Meet), ponder probers, join the Pumphouse Gang with Madison Ivy, share the secrets of NIMH, reference the Smashing Pumpkins, then delve deeply into Calhoun’s rodent utopia study and the concept of a Behavioral Sink.  Sources:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sinkhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-mouse-utopias-1960s-led-grim-predictions-humans-180954423/https://www.jstor.org/stable/24937233?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contentshttps://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/2009-ramsden.pdfhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Frisby_and_the_Rats_of_NIMHThe Fredrik Knudsen Episode on Behavioral Sink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgGLFozNM2oSonic High Dramatic Reading:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q11jwThxBBI Intro:Music from https://filmmusic.io https://filmmusic.io/song/4181-our-story-begins/“Our Story Begins” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Outro: Music from https://filmmusic.io"Semi-Funk" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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