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Eclipse · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Greetings, salutations, welcome my friends to another edition of the
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  Speaker 1: Power Hour on 610 WTVN. I'm Chuck Douglas, you know
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  Speaker 1: who you are, and we take it from there. We
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  Speaker 1: get one hour together, which means I talk really fast
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  Speaker 1: and you must listen even faster. My number, 821-9886, 821-WTVN,
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  Speaker 1: or 1-800-610-WTVN. Maybe there's something wrong with me. Let me,
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  Speaker 1: hang on. I said maybe. There's definitely things wrong with me.
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  Speaker 2: But.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say, who are you talking to?
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  Speaker 1: I know. I almost forgot. There's a laundry list of
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  Speaker 1: stuff that's wrong with me. But in this particular instance,
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about the eclipse tonight, which I guess is
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  Speaker 1: going to be about, what, a 90% eclipse of the moon.
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  Speaker 1: Begins about 12, 12 a.m. I'll be asleep. Here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: I've never seen an eclipse, and there have been several
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  Speaker 1: solar and lunar eclipses during my lifetime. Um, never seen
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  Speaker 1: an eclipse and don't care. I, it just, it's just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's one of those things. It's like rain.
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  Speaker 1: It's like sunrise. It's like fog. It's just a natural phenomenon.
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  Speaker 1: It just happens. And I don't, is, is there, are
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  Speaker 1: you going to stay up till, till midnight so you
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  Speaker 1: can watch this? Does it matter to you?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 3: No, that takes effort. There's no way I would stay up.
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  Speaker 1: I just, I don't, I don't get the, uh, It's
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  Speaker 1: almost like we're the, you know, those village people that
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  Speaker 1: are waiting on Godzilla. It's an oddity that in these times,
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  Speaker 1: these times of space exploration and nanotechnology and robotics and
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  Speaker 1: all the stuff that we have going on, we still
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  Speaker 1: stop and stare at something completely natural in the sky.
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  Speaker 1: I know I sound like a pessimist, and I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I understand, I guess, if it's somewhat interesting
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  Speaker 1: to you. But if you're one of these people that's
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  Speaker 1: just nuts over this, I don't get it. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: not in any way, shape, or form attempting to be
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  Speaker 1: mean about it. I just don't get it. It's very
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  Speaker 1: prehistoric to me, as far as I'm concerned. It's just
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  Speaker 1: an eclipse. And it's not even like a... This is
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  Speaker 1: just the Earth. The shadow of the Earth will block
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  Speaker 1: the light that the moon normally gets from the sun.
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  Speaker 1: The Earth is going to come between the sun and
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  Speaker 1: the Earth. The sun and the moon. The moon does
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  Speaker 1: not light up, which I have found... On social media,
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  Speaker 1: apparently people think the moon lights up. You know the
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  Speaker 1: moon does not light up, don't you?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 3: Why would anybody?
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  Speaker 1: If you know it, everybody should know it.
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  Speaker 3: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: The moon does not light up. All you see, when
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  Speaker 1: you see the bright moon in the sky, all you
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  Speaker 1: are seeing is a reflection of the sunlight. So I guess,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, is the surface like kind of a
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  Speaker 1: false fluorescent light? Reflected, I guess. I have no idea.
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  Speaker 3: Why would anyone say the moon lights up?
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  Speaker 1: Because it's bright in the sky. Stars don't... All stars are,
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  Speaker 1: you know, chunks of rock. Just like the Earth is.
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  Speaker 1: Reflecting light. It's not like there's batteries inside the moon.
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  Speaker 1: that you pull the chain and it's time to light
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  Speaker 1: the moon tonight. It, it, it doesn't actually light up. And, um, again,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just, I'm intrigued that people just, they, they are
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  Speaker 1: going to go home from work and take a nap
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  Speaker 1: so they can get back up and go out and
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  Speaker 1: watch something very mediocre as far as I'm concerned. Or
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  Speaker 1: maybe that's just me. Maybe it's, it's my own grumpy
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  Speaker 1: old man thing. I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 3: No, I know people will go out and watch it.
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  Speaker 3: That's cool if that's your thing, but I'm not. I
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  Speaker 3: can watch it on YouTube later.
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  Speaker 1: Would you actually do that? I can't even see myself
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  Speaker 1: doing that. Unless, you know, something crazy happens. Like the
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  Speaker 1: Earth's shadow causes the moon to freeze and it breaks
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  Speaker 1: in half. Okay, I'll check that out on YouTube. But
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  Speaker 1: if it's just.
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  Speaker 3: If it stops lighting up.
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  Speaker 1: Batteries go dead.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: They turn off the power to it or something. I'd
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  Speaker 3: watch that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't get people. I just don't. How you doing
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  Speaker 1: in there?
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 1: Everything all right? You're kind of mellow today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm good. Is it good mellow?
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  Speaker 3: Always a good mellow.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: I'm okay. I'm glad to hear that. You okay? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Well, never.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of a joke when you ask me that
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  Speaker 1: because you know I'm going to go, oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: There's always something going on.
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  Speaker 1: Always something going on. I just checked on Nellie. She's
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  Speaker 1: still down for the count. If you weren't with me
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  Speaker 1: during the Blazer show, I'm pretty sure Nellie discovered a
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  Speaker 1: bee's nest. I'm pretty sure that's what happened. And her
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  Speaker 1: face over her front teeth there at the end of
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  Speaker 1: her snout, that started swelling. This happened yesterday when I
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  Speaker 1: got home from work. But she started swelling today. And
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  Speaker 1: one side of her snout there is swollen up and
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  Speaker 1: then one of her eyes. And last night, her back legs,
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  Speaker 1: it was like she couldn't really move her back legs.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder, is that all dogs who have that reaction?
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  Speaker 1: No, I think she may be allergic for all I know.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: But I think she got stung at least three times.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That'll do it if you're allergic in any way.
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  Speaker 1: She's on the baby Benadryl and recuperating, and I just
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  Speaker 1: checked in with the queen, and she has not left
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  Speaker 1: her side. She's been on the sofa next to her
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  Speaker 1: since I walked out the door this afternoon. So I
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  Speaker 1: feel bad, man. I'm like that. I always wish I
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  Speaker 1: could take away pain and suffering, and I don't know
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  Speaker 1: why I'm like that.
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  Speaker 3: You're a naturally nice human being.
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  Speaker 1: No no it can't be it that's no that's not
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  Speaker 1: it not at all i just hate to see her
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  Speaker 1: like that if i if i could do anything to
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  Speaker 1: to take that away from her i would there was
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  Speaker 1: an episode of the original star trek where there was
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  Speaker 1: a woman she couldn't talk she was an empath and
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  Speaker 1: she could like lay hands on people and whatever they
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  Speaker 1: had she would take into herself to relieve them and
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  Speaker 1: then her body would process it so i mean you
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  Speaker 1: could be like dying But she'd take whatever was killing
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  Speaker 1: you out of your body and it didn't kill her.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm kind of– I've got kind of that mindset.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I was– I could do that and take stuff,
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  Speaker 1: bad stuff away from people.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I don't, but I applaud you for wanting
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  Speaker 3: to do that.
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  Speaker 1: But it's got nothing to do with being nice. I
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  Speaker 1: just figure there could be a check in it is
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  Speaker 1: what it is. Oh, yeah. Good. 821-9886, the number 821-WTV.
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  Speaker 1: And Frank has some thoughts on the eclipse. Frank, you're
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  Speaker 1: on 610-WTV and how are you? Hey, Chuck.
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  Speaker 2: I'm okay. How about you?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, as far as I know.
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  Speaker 2: Well, give me a minute or two here, okay? Did
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  Speaker 2: you see the total solar eclipse?
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  Speaker 1: None. I've never seen any eclipse of any kind.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well, this is, yeah, the partial eclipse of the moon.
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  Speaker 2: It's not as fantastic. We traveled to a place in
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  Speaker 2: Ohio that had almost the highest amount of total solar
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  Speaker 2: eclipse you could get without going all the way to
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  Speaker 2: Wapakoneta or wherever. I didn't know what to expect. I'd
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  Speaker 2: never seen one. There is something cosmic, mysterious, spiritual. And
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  Speaker 2: if you think about the mass, the Earth crossing exactly
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  Speaker 2: in the past, I mean, it's just And so there
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  Speaker 2: was a crowd of people in the parking lot, and
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  Speaker 2: everybody was hanging out, waiting. And when it happened, it
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  Speaker 2: got colder, significantly colder. Everybody had a real weird reaction
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  Speaker 2: to it because it was just so unexpected. You could
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  Speaker 2: see a ring around the sun because the moon didn't
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  Speaker 2: completely block it off, but like 99%, okay? Yeah. And
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  Speaker 2: it was the weirdest thing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm listening.
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  Speaker 2: You there?
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  Speaker 1: I'm right here.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I think Frank left us.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm right here. I'm just listening to the music.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got some kind of African or Aztec chant going.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's partially because it doesn't happen all the time.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says God created everything and the heavens display
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  Speaker 2: his glory. So when something happens, you get the mathematical equation,
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  Speaker 2: the idea that these things line up the way they
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  Speaker 2: do and block this or that or the other, that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of amazing. And I think people are just interested
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  Speaker 2: in the sky and the heavens and It does proclaim
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  Speaker 2: his glory. So when anything happens, it draws humans to
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  Speaker 2: want to see it. at least humans who are interested in.
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  Speaker 1: That stuff now i guess i you know and i'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to fault you for saying i just what
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  Speaker 1: i'm saying i just i've never gotten it frank that's
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  Speaker 1: what it comes down to i've never uh i've never
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  Speaker 1: been one to to go out and pay if and
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  Speaker 1: when you talk about the spiritual part of it and, and, uh,
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  Speaker 1: God created the heavens and the earth and so forth,
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, I'm one of those people. When
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  Speaker 1: I see a baby walk for the first time, that's
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  Speaker 1: spiritual for me. Um, stuff like that. I'm, I'm much simpler.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need the cosmic show when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: outer space. I'm very intrigued with two things. One, what
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  Speaker 1: else is out there? I won't say who I'll say what,
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  Speaker 1: because they, I don't know that they even use names. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: what else is out there? And, How is Voyager still going?
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  Speaker 1: Whatever the batteries are in that thing, man, we need
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  Speaker 1: to put them in everything. From the 70s. And it's
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  Speaker 1: still out there going and sending back images. Those are
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  Speaker 1: the only two things in space that I pay any
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  Speaker 1: attention to. And again, if you're into it, if that's
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  Speaker 1: your thing, great. Absolutely wonderful. I just, I don't... It's
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  Speaker 1: just a natural occurrence. That's where I am. The named storms,
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  Speaker 1: you know they name hurricanes and tropical storms and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Those are done six years in advance. Did you know that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I knew they had them. I didn't know it
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  Speaker 3: was that long, but I know they have them lined up.
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  Speaker 1: The next named storm is up. Planned six years ago.
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  Speaker 1: You know what it is? Dolly? Hurricane Dolly. Hurricane Dolly. Now,
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  Speaker 1: that's something cosmic right there. Hurricane Dolly has formed. And
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  Speaker 1: six years ago, that's almost like the Family Guy producers
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  Speaker 1: did this. Or the Simpsons, one or the other. They're
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  Speaker 1: always predicting stuff. But that popped up on Fox News today.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, you've got to be kidding me. Hurricane Dolly.
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  Speaker 1: Some things are cosmic even when they're just things.