Ba-Dum-Bum Goes Your Heart!
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Ba-Dum-Bum Goes Your Heart!

B2Upper-intermediateNovember 3, 202646 min
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Have you ever wondered what makes your ticker tick? Josh and Chuck take you back to high school biology for a stroll through the ins and outs of the little pump that keeps everything from your lowly pinky toe to your mighty brain going strong. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human. It's all just a joke. What is the value of these women?

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I'm Bridget Armstrong, back with season two of the podcast, Curse of Miss America. We're talking to participants, whistleblowers, and people who say Miss America didn't live up

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to their promises. He looks at me and goes, you don't look like you suffered an eating disorder. I never received scholarship money

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