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Forest Stories Episode One Hundred Thirty Eight Tropical Storm Arthur Sweeps Into The Forest · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Hey, when it comes to podcasts listening, are you like me?
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  Speaker 1: Arrooe dot net. The searching is over. It's all in
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  Speaker 1: one place. Enjoy the exploration. Hey, thanks for being a
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  Speaker 1: part of the conversation. Welcome to foest Stories, a series
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  Speaker 1: of short winded adventures within a collection of skyscraping trees,
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  Speaker 1: stuck feet First and Georgia Clay right here in Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a huge part of my daily journey for
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  Speaker 1: over thirty three years. I Am the Poet in the Forest,
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  Speaker 1: a children's series written and recorded in the nineteen nineties.
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  Speaker 1: It's grown into multiple podcasts that now reach around the world,
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  Speaker 1: and none of it would be possible without this forest
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  Speaker 1: right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina, at the base
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  Speaker 1: of Heartbreak Hills. It's a sign that reads Rainbow Forest. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's time you get to meet what's inspired several generations
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  Speaker 1: long before the paved paths decorated with colorful homes colonized
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  Speaker 1: around this beautiful lake, slow moving stream, flatland swamps, and
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  Speaker 1: array of natural animals. There were families and business owners
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  Speaker 1: who are said to have raced into this area for
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  Speaker 1: the beauty of the land, wild roses, migratory birds, and
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  Speaker 1: wild grapevines. Those before me either forgot to write about
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  Speaker 1: it or it's buried somewhere inside their family tree. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for being a part of the conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the forest. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 2: can hear the wind, but it's picking up. Tropical Storm
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  Speaker 2: Arthur is on its way to this section of the world,
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  Speaker 2: that blue planet inside this galaxy. You know, some people
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  Speaker 2: might say, oh, it's just a bunch of wind and rain.
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  Speaker 2: That's not the way that it's going to play in
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  Speaker 2: the months and the years in front of us, because
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  Speaker 2: we are being constantly reminded right now of El Nino
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  Speaker 2: marching his or her way in this direction by way
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  Speaker 2: of a wall of water. And so as I stroll
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  Speaker 2: through this forest with the winds picking up, the goal
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  Speaker 2: is to document where everything is in its place of
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  Speaker 2: right now, because once those winds kick in and the
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  Speaker 2: trees come down, and the floods begin to sweep across
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  Speaker 2: what we assume once belonged to us, but in fact,
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  Speaker 2: in this forest, it really doesn't belong to anybody but
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  Speaker 2: the forest itself, because we're just sitting here, borrowing time
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  Speaker 2: from what's been here for decades, centuries, millenniums, you see
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  Speaker 2: what I mean. So to be a part of this
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  Speaker 2: storm that's moving in and to take the actual notes
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  Speaker 2: that you need to to see what you're about to lose.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, what I've always been fascinated
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  Speaker 2: about tropical storms and hurricanes is the fact that it
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  Speaker 2: invites other animals and insects into this forest, and you
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  Speaker 2: have to make sure that if something does come here
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  Speaker 2: and it's not suitable for this environment, that it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: take the environment down. Never forget the true story of
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  Speaker 2: what Kudzoo is. Now I realized that was man made
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  Speaker 2: and that's how it got here. But I still remember
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  Speaker 2: that anything at any time can come into your zone
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  Speaker 2: of life and begin to peel it apart, one pedal
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  Speaker 2: at a time. But here we are, right here at
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  Speaker 2: the opening stages of tropical Storm Arthur, the first of
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  Speaker 2: the season, with El Nino knocking on the hearts of
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  Speaker 2: the masses. Hey, thanks for being a part of the conversation.