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- 0:01Speaker 1: I need to tell you two cents.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Coe's two pretty cool things. So NASA has officially set
- 0:09Speaker 2: its sits on an April first launch for the Artemis
- 0:12Speaker 2: two mission, which will carry four astronauts on our record
- 0:15Speaker 2: breaking journey around the far side of the Moon. While
- 0:19Speaker 2: engineers believe they have fixed the hardware issues that caused
- 0:22Speaker 2: previous delays, mission managers admit that the statistical success rate
- 0:27Speaker 2: for a new rocket like this is often around fifty percent.
- 0:30Speaker 2: Oh like that, really that's kind of scary. But despite
- 0:34Speaker 2: these odds, I know. But then, it says Christine, despite
- 0:39Speaker 2: these odds, the crew plans to roll the rocket back
- 0:41Speaker 2: to the launch pad this week for historic flight that
- 0:44Speaker 2: will take humans farther from Earth than ever before. And
- 0:47Speaker 2: this is April first, which.
- 0:50Speaker 1: Wait April first?
- 0:51Speaker 3: You sure this is real?
- 0:52Speaker 2: This is a joke, right? They're not going to do
- 0:53Speaker 2: this an that'd be so cool.
- 0:55Speaker 1: I mean, I know, we.
- 0:56Speaker 2: Haven't been like around the moon with humans in a
- 0:58Speaker 2: long long time.
- 0:59Speaker 1: Katy Perry didn't get there yet.
- 1:00Speaker 2: Oh wait, that's right, she got close. What's your cool thing, Christine?
- 1:04Speaker 1: Punch the Monkey? Who doesn't love the story of Punch
- 1:08Speaker 1: the Monkey, The little baby monkey that was deserted by
- 1:11Speaker 1: his mom, rejected by his mom in the zoo in Japan. Right,
- 1:14Speaker 1: he's gone worldwide popular and the little orangutang stuffed animal
- 1:21Speaker 1: from Ikea that he carries around has sold out because
- 1:24Speaker 1: that's been his companion because the zoo keepers gave that
- 1:26Speaker 1: to Punch. Punch has found a girlfriend.
- 1:29Speaker 3: Really, yes, congratulations Pun, Yes, Punch has been spotted canoodling
- 1:34Speaker 3: according to page six of the post with another monkey
- 1:37Speaker 3: at the zoo, Momo Chen is his playmate, and there's
- 1:42Speaker 3: pictures of them kissing and it is the cutest thing.
- 1:45Speaker 2: And this is a real like like playmate, a not
- 1:49Speaker 2: a doll, not a no animal.
- 1:52Speaker 1: No her coloring. Maybe Punch makes her look similar to
- 1:56Speaker 1: the little doll that he's been carrying around, to this
- 1:58Speaker 1: little stuffed animal you.
- 2:00Speaker 2: Were from a blood doll though, to a real thing.
- 2:02Speaker 1: Yes, but he hasn't given up. He hasn't given up
- 2:04Speaker 1: his stuffed animal yet, Like he's not a side at
- 2:07Speaker 1: that stage. I said, this is kind of like the
- 2:11Speaker 1: equivalent of dating in your mom's basement, you know what
- 2:14Speaker 1: I mean? Like this is his first little girl, right, well,
- 2:17Speaker 1: test so glad to see that he has a girlfriend
- 2:19Speaker 1: and you've seen that he's being accepted by the adult
- 2:22Speaker 1: monkeys now, right, and they're starting to give him hugs
- 2:24Speaker 1: and stuff.
- 2:24Speaker 2: So yeah, it's overall a very happy story.
- 2:26Speaker 1: He's doing much better. He had a rough start, but
- 2:28Speaker 1: he's doing much better, all right.
- 2:30Speaker 2: We have more variety from the eighties through today.
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