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Speaker 1: Charles W. Chuck Bryant and this, friends is stuff you
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Speaker 1: should know. It's rain and frogs. Hello, do you Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I got a lot of those during the search for this.
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Speaker 1: Oh really yeah, during research for this, you've got it's
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Speaker 1: raining men references. Yeah, kept coming up and that predictive
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Speaker 1: search and really yeah. And then there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: um raining different things. Mouse pads out there available, yeah,
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Speaker 1: at e retailers like Etsy and Zazzle and stuff like that. Basically,
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Speaker 1: if you type something in Zezel will be like, well,
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Speaker 1: you know, we'll put that on a mouse pad for you,
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Speaker 1: you know. Um. And there's an adorable umbrella out there,
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Speaker 1: a see through umbrella with with frogs all over it.
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Speaker 1: That's cute. Uh no, they're not and they're actually it
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Speaker 1: didn't show up there in this article. There's triplets holding them. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: three times the adorable So um, Chuck, I ran into
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Speaker 1: a lot of um descriptions of crazy stuff happening over
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Speaker 1: the course of history here on planet Earth. Um, as
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Speaker 1: far back as I could see, there was a guy
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Speaker 1: named Athanas He lived in the fourth century BC, and
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Speaker 1: he was a traveler and writer. And he mentioned that
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Speaker 1: in the area that is now Dinar, Turkey, Uh, it
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Speaker 1: frequently rained fish and frogs frequently. And not only did
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Speaker 1: it frequently do it. Once it rained frogs for three
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Speaker 1: days there. He said, wow, ye, and so much so
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Speaker 1: that the villagers had to leave because it was they
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Speaker 1: were just inundated with frogs. They poisoned the water. Um,
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Speaker 1: whenever they tried to cook. There was like frogs and
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Speaker 1: their frogs everywhere, and it was raining frogs. Sounds like
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Speaker 1: the ramblings of a fourth century BC Greek madman. Right, sure, okay,
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Speaker 1: that we'll say that. But what about Bergen, Norway in
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Speaker 1: fifteen seventy eight and fifteen seventy nine, when it rained
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Speaker 1: supposedly yellow mice and lemmings. It rained lemmings supposedly, Now
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Speaker 1: that's been widely discredited. But what about Memphis, Tennessee January
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Speaker 1: eighteen seventy seven It rained live snakes, some as big
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Speaker 1: as eighteen inches long. And this one was reported in
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Speaker 1: Scientific American. Yeah. Uh, Pliny the Elder, which is the
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Speaker 1: name of a beer as well. I found out an
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Speaker 1: I p. A even Um first century a d reported
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Speaker 1: rains of flesh, blood and wool. Yeah, wool eighteen seventy three.
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Speaker 1: Kansas City, Missouri, rain and frogs. Australia rain and fish yeah,
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Speaker 1: Acapulco night raining maggots you yeah, uh, tadpoles jellyfish and
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Speaker 1: Tasmania jellyfish. Yeah, that's scary, scary. The one of squid
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Speaker 1: that's b s. It was some guy who found a
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Speaker 1: single squid. Yeah. So while we're talking about all these
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Speaker 1: are documented cases of it raining, crazy crazy stuff. It's
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Speaker 1: rain blood before supposedly when really it was an algae um.
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Speaker 1: But it did in India and Russia, and the people
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Speaker 1: in Russia found that they had the biggest crop yield
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Speaker 1: ever thanks to the blood rain. No weird. Yeah, um,
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Speaker 1: but all these are documented cases and you can for
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Speaker 1: the most part throw a lot of them right out
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Speaker 1: the window, like the Lemmings one in Bergen, Norway it
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Speaker 1: was just a lie. Other ones um like, uh, there
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Speaker 1: was a report of rain, I believe in London, somewhere
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Speaker 1: in Great Britain. Um. So it's London or the rest
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Speaker 1: of Great Britain like that. Um, that's where some guy,
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Speaker 1: some doctor came out into his garden and there's a
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Speaker 1: bunch of frogs there, and the day before it had
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Speaker 1: been dry and he had a high garden wall, so
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Speaker 1: the only way they could have gotten there was rain.
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Speaker 1: So it rain frogs in Great Britain that year. There's
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Speaker 1: a lot of stories like that. People are just stupid.
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Speaker 1: I didn't notice that that. A lot of the stories
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Speaker 1: were people didn't actually witness it, but they just assume
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Speaker 1: there's tadpoles all over my car, so it must have
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Speaker 1: rained them exactly. Um, you know, it's not the most
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Speaker 1: illogical conclusion. Even one of my personal heroes, Charles Fort,
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Speaker 1: through his goofy hat in the Ring forty Times is
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Speaker 1: the greatest magazine ever created. Um, Charles Fort said that
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Speaker 1: there was something called a super Sargasso Sea that was
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Speaker 1: suspended above the earth, and every once in a while
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Speaker 1: this it would dump some of its contents in the
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Speaker 1: form of rain on the earth, and that's how you
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Speaker 1: got raining frogs. Yeah. That was from the Book of
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Speaker 1: the Damned. Yeah, and by damned he meant excluded. I
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Speaker 1: found out, Yes, I didn't realize that. Yeah, I didn't
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Speaker 1: either until today too. Um with a snakes one that
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Speaker 1: wasn't scientific American man live snakes foot and a half long.
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Speaker 1: I caught a snake the other day in my yarn
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Speaker 1: from the sky. No, no, no no, I was just doing
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Speaker 1: the weeds and I saw and he was a copper head.
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Speaker 1: He was oh wow, it was deadly. But I picked
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Speaker 1: him up like Steve Irwin, and Emily was very impressed.
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Speaker 1: It's so bad. Then I took him across the street
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Speaker 1: and displaced him. Displaced him with extreme prejudice. No, I
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Speaker 1: just you know. I did the trick, and I snuck
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Speaker 1: it behind him and I grabbed him behind the head
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Speaker 1: and took him away. The poisonous snake popped his head
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Speaker 1: clean off. He was fine. Field dressed him and ate
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Speaker 1: him on the spot. He wasn't that big. But you're
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Speaker 1: gonna get some mail for letting a poisonous snake go
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Speaker 1: in the neighborhood. It was already in the neighborhood. I
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Speaker 1: just moved them to a to a empty wooded open
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Speaker 1: wooded land. But you didn't exercise extreme prejudice and to
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Speaker 1: kill him. That's what a lot of people are going
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Speaker 1: to say they're crazy. So anyway, there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: crackpots and cooks and dummies out there who say that
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Speaker 1: it's rained frogs, it's rained squid. That squid one just
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Speaker 1: irks me. Um, it's rained a bunch of crazy stuff
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Speaker 1: people not named Pete Anderson. Yes, um, which, by the way,
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Speaker 1: I finally saw there will be blood yesterday day before. Yester,
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Speaker 1: you've never seen that. What do you think? There was
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Speaker 1: a lot? Okay, Um, that is one word of you
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Speaker 1: a lot two words. It could be too, It depends. Uh.
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Speaker 1: The crazy thing is if we're finally going to get
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Speaker 1: to the point here, it actually has rained things like
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Speaker 1: frogs before that. This really has happened, not just people saying, oh,
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Speaker 1: there's a bunch of frogs everywhere. They couldn't have possibly
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Speaker 1: come from anywhere else but the sky. There have been
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Speaker 1: people who have reported frogs specifically falling from the sky
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Speaker 1: in the middle of a storm. And it's true. It
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Speaker 1: happened is recently two thousand five, Yeah, and was that
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Speaker 1: the Serbia where people there was a big old storm
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Speaker 1: and people saw and heard frogs raining down from the
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Speaker 1: sky hitting their roofs and basically apparently what like you
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Speaker 1: were saying P. T. Anderson and magnolia what he depicted.
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Speaker 1: It's probably a lot with something like that would look
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Speaker 1: like I would imagine. So, uh, there's an explanation for this. Oh,
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Speaker 1: it's not the end of the world. We're gonna go
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Speaker 1: into that. It's not one of the plagues biblical plagues,
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Speaker 1: although we'll get into that. Uh. First explained by French
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Speaker 1: physicist Andre Marie Empire in the early nineteenth century. He said,
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Speaker 1: you know what this is. This is water spout. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's a tornado that forms and then goes over the
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Speaker 1: water becomes part of you know, partially water. It picks
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Speaker 1: up these little light things from as deep as what
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Speaker 1: like three ft for a big one, and uh picks
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Speaker 1: these things up because they're obviously lighter than you know.
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Speaker 1: It might not be picking up like a great white shark,
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Speaker 1: but it'll pick up a little fish or a little
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Speaker 1: frog or a tad bowl and then as it dies out,
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Speaker 1: it spits them back out when it gets over land
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Speaker 1: because it decreases in pressure. Yes for filler. Since you
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Speaker 1: just explain the whole podcast, let's just talk about how
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Speaker 1: water spout forms. Okay, so you've got two kinds of
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Speaker 1: water spouts. You've got tornadic which is just like a tornado,
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Speaker 1: and it starts with a vertical clockwise turning column of
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Speaker 1: air that eventually goes down, so it's cloud to surface, right.
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Speaker 1: Those are really scary ones and they're associated with storms.
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Speaker 1: There's another kind called a fair weather water spout, which
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Speaker 1: can whip up on a sunny day and they go
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Speaker 1: from surface to sky. But in both cases, a water
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Speaker 1: spout is an example of warm air forming a low
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Speaker 1: pressure area which is formed by low rising air and
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Speaker 1: as it goes up, remember, cold air comes in to
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Speaker 1: fill the void. And those two things interplaying the low
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Speaker 1: pressure warm air rising and the cold air um dropping
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Speaker 1: high pressure dropping form of vortex which creates section in
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Speaker 1: the middle and the low pressure area the difference in pressure,
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Speaker 1: and that's how you can suck something up up to
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Speaker 1: three ft beneath the surface, or if you're a tornado,
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Speaker 1: you might suck up a dog or cow or a
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Speaker 1: cow or a car. And we didn't do how tornadoes worked.
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Speaker 1: We just did what it like in the eye of
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Speaker 1: a tornado, which is pretty awesome. It was good. So
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Speaker 1: are we done? I don't think so. Um. Sometimes it's
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Speaker 1: just a few dozen frogs. Sometimes it's hundreds, sometimes it's thousands.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's pieces of animal. Sometimes they're frozen solid yeah,
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Speaker 1: and hail. Um. And all that is the water spout
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Speaker 1: got high enough into the atmosphere there it reached an
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Speaker 1: area that was beneath zero. Sometimes it's not just animals.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's tomatoes or coal or coal. There's a guy
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Speaker 1: in Manassas, Virginia who got a frozen ten thousand Deutsche
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Speaker 1: mark note. Really yeah, wow, yeah frozen? Was this after
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Speaker 1: they converted to the euro? I don't know you can
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Speaker 1: still trade those in it? I'm sure are they completely
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Speaker 1: out of circulation? I wonder I hope not for this
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Speaker 1: guy's sake. Um, So frozen is one way that they
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Speaker 1: come down, which would be kind of really interesting if
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Speaker 1: a frozen frog landed on your car, right, shredded like
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Speaker 1: you were saying, because of the the violent wind speeds,
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Speaker 1: right yeah. Um. One thing that always kind of sticks
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Speaker 1: out to me, and I'm sure the answer is is
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Speaker 1: because it's just not the case. But why is it
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Speaker 1: that it's always just one specie. I know you're going
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Speaker 1: to say that an answer, Well, I don't have an answer, um,
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Speaker 1: because I wondered the same thing. Uh. There is a
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Speaker 1: professor at UM Washington University that says, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: it just makes sense because they're similar size and weight,
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Speaker 1: they might be all hanging out together at the one
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Speaker 1: point where this thing goes down. That still didn't explain
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Speaker 1: it to me though. I mean, the water spout goes
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Speaker 1: down over water, it's gonna be spitting out fish and
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Speaker 1: frogs and whatever else. And it's always almost always reported
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Speaker 1: to be one one thing. It's like it's raining frogs
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Speaker 1: or it's raining fish, and fish supposedly are the most common. Um. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: old rains fish in Australia like every day. Yeah. It's
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Speaker 1: like they're like yeah, of course, Um, but yeah, why
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Speaker 1: why they're not mixed together, or why they're not reported
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Speaker 1: to be mixed together is the weirdest thing that is weird. Um.
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Speaker 1: There's another professor from Southern Illinois that theorizes that it's
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Speaker 1: not just water spouts. He said, it can be any
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Speaker 1: kind of unusual updraft. Um, anything like at a speed
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Speaker 1: of sixty miles an hour plus can pick up light
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Speaker 1: objects and deposit them elsewhere, So not necessarily just a
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Speaker 1: water spout, although it has been observed by like you
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Speaker 1: know bona fide people. Okay, like this one professor in Louisiana,
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Speaker 1: he worked with the Department of Wildlife. He was eating
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Speaker 1: breakfast in he saw like an average of one fish
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Speaker 1: per square yard raining down. So that's that's a significant
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Speaker 1: amount of fish depending on the side of the fish.
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Speaker 1: Like people say fish, Are they talking about guppies? Are
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Speaker 1: they talking about crap? Are they talking about do you
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Speaker 1: say crap? Is it crappy? Crappy? Are they talking about
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Speaker 1: you know, swordfish? Those are really dangerous when they raigne.
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Speaker 1: Uh No, I mean I think they're light because that's
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Speaker 1: the whole point. Even an updraft from a water spolled
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Speaker 1: to two isn't going to be picking up you know,
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Speaker 1: great white sharks. Right, that's that's a movie for you,
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Speaker 1: raining sharks. What about Piranha Parana two? They flew and
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Speaker 1: made it on the land, right, the original parity so
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Speaker 1: not the new Paranha three double D. Is that what
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Speaker 1: it's called? Jez? I know? So I guess um Acam's razor,
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Speaker 1: uh teaches us. In this case, the simplest explanation is that, um,
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Speaker 1: this is Satan's work, Okay, Um, what a water spout
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Speaker 1: forming supposedly and just picking up things then dropping them
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Speaker 1: over land. Okay, right, um, and raining frogs is explaining it,
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Speaker 1: I guess is part of this larger trend that's gripped
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Speaker 1: the scientific community lately. Um, which is explaining biblical phenomenon phenomena. Um.
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Speaker 1: I thought this was pretty interesting. You dug up this
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Speaker 1: article on the biblical plagues. Yeah, the ten plagues of Egypt,
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Speaker 1: one of which was frogs. Yes, but it didn't rain frogs.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people think that it's supposedly rain frogs. Now,
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Speaker 1: what supposedly happened was apparently it's like where you know
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Speaker 1: dinar and Turkey is now, they were just overrun by frogs. Um.
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Speaker 1: And I guess I can imagine. There was another horror
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Speaker 1: movie from the eighties about that. It was just about
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Speaker 1: giant frogs and lots of them, right. Yeah, it was
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Speaker 1: like the birds, but with frogs. And a frog can
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Speaker 1: be kind of unsettling when it's staring at you, especially
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Speaker 1: if it's surrounded by thousands of its companions judge you yeah, um,
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Speaker 1: And they'll kind of get all over everything, and they'll
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Speaker 1: get underfoot and you'll step on them, and things get
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Speaker 1: slippery and mucky real quick, and that was one of
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Speaker 1: the plagues of Egypt. It wasn't the first one though, No,
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Speaker 1: So should we explain this away? Yeah, again, it's in
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Speaker 1: vogue right now to explain away the plagues. And the
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Speaker 1: cool thing is that these um, these researchers figured out
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Speaker 1: or they suggest that all of these things were linked.
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Speaker 1: It was a series of events of amazing events that
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Speaker 1: um became what we know as the Ten Plagues of
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Speaker 1: Egypt that eventually caused Pharaoh to say, hey, Moses, you
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Speaker 1: guys can go back your stuff and leave. Yeah. Uh, yes,
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Speaker 1: you dug this up from the Telegraph, one of my
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Speaker 1: favorite publications. And Richard Gray, the correspondent the Telegraph. You
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Speaker 1: can tell these the science correspondent, look at that hairline.
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Speaker 1: So they have some evidence that what kicked this whole
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Speaker 1: thing off was a climate change, a climate event that
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Speaker 1: happened way back in the day. Um. There was a
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Speaker 1: city called um pie Rameses on the Nile Delta. It
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Speaker 1: was abandoned about three thousand years ago, which they think
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Speaker 1: this explanation works in concert with that abandonment of the city.
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Speaker 1: And they said that there was a dramatic shifting climate
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Speaker 1: towards the end of the second rain of Rameses, Rameses, Rameses,
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Speaker 1: and uh, we had a goat name ramesay. Uh, you
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Speaker 1: can't just say that things like that, sure I can. Um.
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Speaker 1: So they found that the end of the rain um
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Speaker 1: coincided with a warm, wet climate and then switched over
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Speaker 1: to a really dry period, and that was not good
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Speaker 1: news for the nile. It kicked off the first plague,
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Speaker 1: which was the nile turning to blood. So how did
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Speaker 1: that happen? Well, the nile supposedly dried up um and
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Speaker 1: became kind of this muddy, mucky, slow moving mess, no
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Speaker 1: longer vital and prime for this type of algae that
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Speaker 1: we know was around back then. It's still around today
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Speaker 1: called uh burgundy blood algae, and basically it sucks the
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Speaker 1: life out of a mucky area, which would have caused
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Speaker 1: the second plague frogs. Right, Well, then, what did you
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Speaker 1: say the name of the first plague? The river turns
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Speaker 1: to blood, and so frogs suddenly infesting where the people
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Speaker 1: were living because there's no place to be in the river, right,
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Speaker 1: It's suddenly turned lifeless. Right, and so now the frogs
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Speaker 1: are everywhere, um, which would have they're everywhere but the river,
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Speaker 1: which would have led to the third, fourth, and fifth plagues, right,
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Speaker 1: third and fourth, third, and fourth, which were flies and lice.
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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, the frogs are around to eat
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Speaker 1: these things, so you're gonna have a lot more lice
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Speaker 1: and flies. Yeah, okay, so far, so good. Now what
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Speaker 1: well after that, all everybody's itching and like swatting and
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Speaker 1: like trying not to slip on all the dead frogs
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Speaker 1: that they've stepped on. Um, the following plagues were disease,
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Speaker 1: livestock and boils, which you're gonna have if you've got
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Speaker 1: lots of flies and lies and mosquitoes spreading disease, spreading disease. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so that's that's okay, that's I mean, it makes sense.
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Speaker 1: But that's not like the oh yeah, of course. Um.
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Speaker 1: After that we have the seventh, eighth, and ninth plagues hail, locusts,
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Speaker 1: and darkness, which they think was coincidentally caused by the
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Speaker 1: eruption of a volcano at Theara on the islands of Santorini,
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Speaker 1: which happened thirty years ago and which they found evidence
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Speaker 1: of in Egypt. Excavating some uh some locations in ancient Egypt,
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Speaker 1: they found pumics volcanic stone from the Thera volcano. Like,
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Speaker 1: there are no volcanoes in Egypt. Yeah, how could there
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Speaker 1: be pumas exactly? Well, they looked and they said, oh,
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Speaker 1: it's from Santorini. Wow, it's kind of big. Um. So
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Speaker 1: you have the um, this volcanic eruption, huge, huge volcanic eruption. UM.
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Speaker 1: The ash mixing with the clouds over Egypt would have
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Speaker 1: caused hail worth writing down in the Bible. UM. And
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Speaker 1: then it would have also um created locusts because it
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Speaker 1: would have raised the humidity and the temperature right right,
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Speaker 1: which locusts love. I thought that was a little tenuous,
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Speaker 1: but it's still made sense. But then the darkness volcanic
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Speaker 1: ash blotting out the sun, which we've heard could happen.
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Speaker 1: Ever heard of a nuclear winner. That's right, same thing.
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Speaker 1: And so there you have it. All the plagues explained,
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Speaker 1: sort of except for the last one. John, This one
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Speaker 1: didn't seem to be connected to anything. It was kind
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Speaker 1: of free standing if you ask me. But the tenth
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Speaker 1: plague was the death of the first borns Um. The
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Speaker 1: firstborn sons, I should say um in Egypt were suddenly
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Speaker 1: dying mysteriously as a plague, and I think that possibly
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Speaker 1: there was some sort of grain fungus that killed the
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Speaker 1: firstborns who would have had first DIBs on food, so
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Speaker 1: they would have been the first to die. I thought
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Speaker 1: that was a little hanky. A couple of these were
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Speaker 1: little hanky, but I thought it was interesting to read,
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Speaker 1: for sure. But I mean, yeah, they weren't going to
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Speaker 1: be like, hey, we're gonna get front page exposure in
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Speaker 1: the Telegraph by saying we've explained eight of the ten
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Speaker 1: plagues of Egypt. You have to go for ten, and
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Speaker 1: you got to fudge apparently if you are a researcher
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Speaker 1: looking to get media coverage. So we don't know if
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Speaker 1: they budged. Still that was that was not the greatest link. Well,
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Speaker 1: that's it. That was a we weird, weird episode all
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Speaker 1: over the place. We talked about raining frog that was
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Speaker 1: based on an article on the website. Can it really
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Speaker 1: rain frogs? It can? But I have to say that
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Speaker 1: just a little bit of skeptic in me says I
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Speaker 1: would have to see that one to believe in me too.
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Speaker 1: In the meantime, I'll just watch Magnolia very frequently. If
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Speaker 1: four year old stay at home mother of two wonderful children.
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Speaker 1: My husband is a marine who has been deployed in
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Speaker 1: effect your podcast has had on our family. Firstly, I
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Speaker 1: began listening while on bed rest during my second pregnancy.
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Speaker 1: a real hand in their daughter's development from the womb.
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Speaker 1: That's right. When you began talking about Kiva, I realized
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Speaker 1: our son is extremely intelligent for his aid and his
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Speaker 1: school doesn't seem to adequately feed his appetite for knowledge.
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Speaker 1: He wanted me to let you know that he loves
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Speaker 1: your podcast on animals the most and request that you
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Speaker 1: so that he could survive We often email back and
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Speaker 1: for a marine to have his mind office mission. Thank
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Speaker 1: you so much, Kate, dan Olive and Ryan Man. That
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