(Almost) Total Eclipse of the Omaha

Did yah see it?

Episode Transcript

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Emery Song on news radio k FAB. I mean, it looks about as
pitch black as it possibly could be. Yeah, it looks like looks like
dusk. And then you see NASA'sgot a video of what the sun looks
like right now, and it's likethere's like a ring, like just like

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a glowing ring around it. Andyou heard in our newscast, you know.
The the reason that this is,like, the reason it is what
it is is because like the sizeis almost exactly the same from our vantage
point of the Moon and the Sun, based on how close they are and
what their actual size is. Yeah, it's pretty cool. The Sun is

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four hundred times bigger than the Moon, but also four hundred times farther away
than the Moon is from the Earth. It's pretty crazy. Yeah. So
I know some people and I followedthem on social media that they said this
is a big enough deal that theyare going to drive to totality. There's
a lot of people that just likepicked up their stuff and it's like we're

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going, We're going, And wouldyou I mean obviously we didn't this time,
but would would that be something thatyou'd want to you'd want to take
care of? Did you want towould you want to be like, hey,
you know what we should because nowyou're starting to see it like move

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off of it. So it's likea it's like a two and a half
to three minute long experience of seeingkind of that totality as it fully covers
up the sun for just a fewminutes. Yeah, because now because now
you're seeing it, like it's startingto light back up there and you can
see the sun there. There wego, there we go. All it

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takes is just a little slice andall and and that was here, right,
So without the glasses, I don'tknow if you looked up and you
could still try. If you havethe glasses, it's still going to be
partially covering it until like I don'tknow four. I mean, it won't
be nearly as impressive as like thetotality that like Indianapolis just experienced, But

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there's something about the you just don'tsee that very often. Right, And
we went outside and it was kindof like it was a little darker,
but it really wasn't that much darker. But then we put the glasses on
and you could see it really lookedlike a small crescent moon the sun did.
Yeah, but it's still powerful enoughwith those sun rays that it still

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looks super light out here. Acrescent sun now, well, and that's
how crescent moons and whatnot, Likethat's how it works, right, They're
just on the opposite side of theEarth in the sun, and the part
of the moon that we get tosee is the part that the Sun's light
and lighting up from behind where weare, which is crazy, right,

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science, What do you think,dude? Is this something that you would
go out of your way in thefuture to drive, because certainly people have
to drive and see this thing ofscience that is pretty rare. I mean,

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the first one is like, thelast one was only like seven years
ago, but the next one theysay in North America probably isn't going to
be for like twenty years. Okay, that's a ways, that's a while.
Do you need Are you a stormchasing kind of guy, because that's
kind of that this reminds me ofexcept just rarer. Like every year you

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could, you know, go andget in your car and like try to
chase some storms. This is likeyou have to you have to just kind
of sit and wait for this thingto pop back up. Yeah, for
three minutes of totality, you knownow that I've seen it in its totality.
You didn't see it on TV onTV, on TV. It would
be kind of cool if I wasin the if I was in the place

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to do so, you road tripto Indianapolis or you know at this point,
southern Missouri or whatever. Yeah,it wouldn't make a whole lot of
sense for me to spend the timeoff just for an eclipse, you know
by yourself. Yeah, I'm sittinghere thinking this is a big day for
colts because now this has to beinvolved in their in their their lore right,

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Like you can't just have a giantevent like this and not have an
explanation for it. So like whatgave me one? Well, have you
heard of the I believe it's calledthe Mother God Cult. No, really
fascinating documentary about it. It hassince it. If if a cult wasn't
aclipse, the Sun and the moonare no longer together for that one,

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it no longer exists. But theybelieved that all clouds were spaceships, among
other wild and crazy things. Okay, but that's that's a nor here,
nor their conversation. But you know, I think that if if I was

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of the means to I would certainlychase in eclipse. Yeah. Maybe twenty
years from now, I'll be uh, you know, I'll be taking my
gravity boots and taking to the sky. Uh, it's time for me to
fly. Yeah, yeah, I'mlooking up. They call this thing that
you're talking about Love Has Won.That's the name of the religious movement.

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Amy Carlson referred to within the groupas Mother God. Yes, is the
creator of the universe. She wasborn in nineteen seventy five, and she
is no longer alive on this livingplane. Yeah, she turned blue in
the end. Is that how thatworked? Yeah? There are twenty to

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twelve to twenty full time residential membersof this apparently still and twenty six plus
ambassadors internationally. What Intarnation. There'sa documentary about it. I've heard it's
a wild ride. I'm sure therewould be people that are in this that
would email me and be like,hey, this is why this is true

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and why you should believe in it, as if like it doesn't on the
surface just from outside sound absolutely insane. Wow. I mean I don't even
have to watch the documentary to belike, oh, yeah, now I
know it's insane. I can tellyou specifically. This looks insane, But
you're right, this is a thing. You have to explain this. I

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don't know. And what about theflat earth guys out there? Yeah,
a tough day for them, Likehow do they explain this? I'm want
to set this one out. Youknow, look at that giant frisbee that
hercules through twenty five hundred years ago. It's a satellite they just now is
getting up and passing the Sun atthis perfect angle. Yeah, this is

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probably just one of those SpaceX satellites. They lined it up just right just
to block it. Yeah, nowwe're talking. This is I can get
behind this sort of conspiracy theory.Can we get the Denver Airport involved somehow?
Why? What does Denver have todo with this? I just thought
it'd be good to rope that intothe whole conspiracy. My eyes hurt from
looking at the sun earlier. Yeah, I actually took a poke at it

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real quick, and that was stupid. Yeah, it's just like it's really
bright. Yeah, two sixteen isa time if you saw it, or
if you're listening to us on thefree iHeartRadio app and you happen to experience
totality. Somehow, I'd love tohear from you if this is something that
if you could come up with anotherexample of something like this that is just
a real uniting thing. Everybody's talkingabout it in a positive way. Everybody's

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excited because this is an event thatnobody has real control over. But we
just are, you know, tryingto experience it together. That's pretty cool.
But I'd love to hear from you. Four oh two five five eight
eleven ten. Is there any correlationto another thing? Pretty interesting? Four
h two five five eight eleven tenis the number to call. You can

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also email me at Marie atkfab dotcom, News Radio eleven ten KFAB on
news Radio eleven ten KFAB. Wejust try to take a peek to see
if we could see anything without theglasses on. That was a bad idea.
I knew it going in, butwe still It didn't stop us,
you know, because we're tough.But yeah, my eyes feel dilated.

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I only looked up there for likea second. You think the same guy
who wears a cutoff shirt and jeortsduring winter is the same guy who just
stares right at that. He didn'tcare light bulb in the sky. Yeah,
but it's not us that wouldn't beus. No, but Steve's on
our phone line of four h two, five five, eight eleven ten to
talk about this eclipse thing. AndSteve, what's on your mind about it?

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Well, I'm not in the pathof totality. I was going to
go there, but then the weatherforecast basically said not to do it.
Okay, but I'm here. I'mout here at Smith Creek Reservoir, which
Matt will know about. You won'tknow about it now in York County,

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and I am shooting it right now. Oh so you got you're taking photographs.
Yep, that's awesome. So whatare you saying? Are you impressed
with what you're seeing even though it'snot full totality? Yeah, I mean,
even though it's not full totality,I mean it's pretty cool. And

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I would say even though there's notmuch time left. But you know,
for people that don't have glasses,you know, this is something I've been
doing since I was thirteen fourteen.You can take a nail stick it in
a piece of cardboard and get awhite sheet of paper and tape it to
another piece of cardboard, put thesun behind your back, and just use

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it as a pinhole camera and youcan see it just fine. This is
why you pay attention in those scienceclasses when you're growing up, because you
learn stuff like this, Steve.I appreciate you calling in, man.
This is good stuff. Hopefully you'rehaving some fun out there, all right,
I am I'm almost done now.All right, Well, I can't

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wait to see what the results werefor that you shot. Appreciate you calling
in man. Okay, thanks byteall right, So anybody else you wants
to call in? Whether you wentand saw totality? Which was how far
away? What was the closest locationfrom here? It was like southern Missouri,
right, that's what the map lookedlike. Yeah, just the southern
and eastern tip of Missouri. What'sthe likelihood of in like big cities like

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Indianapolis and Cleveland all landing in thisthing? Real quick? Smith Creek Reservoir
out there by? Utica, Nebraska. Utica shouts out to Utica, not
Udica New York, Utica Nebraska.Yeah, is there a Udica New York?
Or? Am I making that up? I get checked Utica Utica New

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York. There sure is, ahNeSSI I knew, I knew sixty four
thousand people live there. I knewthere. You go. Okay, so
we're talking about this, but we'retalking about not just like traveling to see
it. We were talking about.If you watch any news channel right now,
all they're talking about is this eclipse. They're not mad about anything.

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They're not talking about trying to killeach other. They're not they're not divisive
political things. Apparently stuff like thisthat can unite us still exists. Is
that as fun though? Is thatas fun to live in a world where

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there is isn't discourse or disagreement?Because I think there's a lot of people
out there that probably tune into thenews or even tune into us, and
we'll get to some divisive stuff,don't you worry. Me and Matt Case
are about to come to blows oversomething that we'll we'll get to eventually.
Oh, you might want to takethose glasses off, pal, But no,

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to me, like, there's there'sa I had a wonderful woman send
me an email over the weekend.Yeah, it was like Friday, this
mid show Friday, and she wasreally mad that we were talking about pro
wrestling and said, isn't there anythingmore important you can talk about? While

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we had the phone lines blowing up, talked about wrestling. My emails were
blowing up talking about wrestling. Shewas the only person that said, there's
more important things going on in theworld than this, and Matt I had
to explain to her, ma'am,if you listen to any part of the
show. Over the first two anda half hours, we literally talked about
anything anybody wanted to talk about,including stuff in the NABASKETA legislature. We

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talked about, you know, avariety of like a potpourri of news topics
that I think were important, likelocal legislation, national legislation. We were
talking about, you know, differentimpacts that things were having on people.
Third party ticket sites that pretend likethey're the venue exactly there you go.
Now, I just like, nomatter what, people want to hear,

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hard hitting news, they want tohear or see that anger want to they
want to feel that visceral like itmakes them feel alive in some way.
Like you and me, we're notthose kind of people really, you know,
like like I get a thrill outof, you know, going places,
meeting people, and you know,enjoying life. Camping. I like

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go camping. There's a way Ifeel alive. You know how else?
I feel alive going on a run, like I'm really getting back into my
running now that it's you know,getting nicer temperature, and my muscle shert,
my lungs are screaming at me.But you know what, darn it,
I feel alive and you have thosethings. Oh yeah, sure.
But there are some people that justthey live on the negativity that is perpetuated

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by what they say is bad.And that's mainstream media, okay, And
I'm not going to tell you thatyou should feel differently, but I guess
this is This is my observation,not that this is everyone's truth, because
it certainly is not mine. ButI feel like there are people that really

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they need the mainstream media to tellthem things they dislike. They need the
mainstream media to give them energy tobe mad about. And I do know
people that really just like to haveanger or to be up said about things,
or to have something to complain about. We know people like that.

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Everybody works with people like that.That's not I don't even think it's a
negative. Necessarily, it's not theway I am. But I don't think
it's a negative. I don't thinkthat's I don't think it's a bit that
big of a deal. I don'tthink it's that big of a problem.
We need different types of angles andcharacters in our lives. But it's just
funny how we can go in onefull day here and all anybody's talking about

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on all these mainstream media channels andsights is something that is generally very positive.
And it's the experience that all ofthese people are having watching this very
strange and rare occurrence in North America, which is a total eclipse of the
sun through a strip of North America. I mean they're interviewing children, they're

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interviewing teachers, they're interviewing, youknow, people in their eighties that you
always wanted to see something like this, And to me, that's incredibly charming.
And to me, if the newswas like this all the time,
I'd be like pretty interested in what'sgoing on in the world. But every
channel is complaining or yelling about something, and that's what people really like.

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TAM's on our phone line, realquick, Tim, Thanks for the call
today. What you got on yourmind about this? Well, I I
want to talk about the twenty seventeeneclipse. I know one of you said
you weren't sure whether you want tosee it. Well, what I described,
what I would say was the experience. The great experience was not just
looking at the sun through the glassesand seeing the corona. It was being
to a place and I was outin the country on a hill experiencing the

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shaddow coming from the west. Thewhole western horizon was a big shadow,
and as that came toward me,it was an awesome looking thing. It
came on this past year, andthis about three o'clock in the afternoon.
I believe it got dark, thestars came out, and the cricket started
tripping. It was the most awesomething I've ever seen. So I'd say
experience it, but go out whereyou can see it and not just looking

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at the sun, but see theatmosphere around it is the most unable thing
worth it to do it, Iguarantee you. Oh right, well,
Tim, now you say that thatthat I'm excited potentially to do that sometime
because it's yeah, definitely worth it. You had to see it, and
you can look up with the sunat that variance and you can actually look

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at it without the glasses. ButI think just the experience of the and
awesome that shadow left you and thenit started the sun started to come back
out in the west. You sawthe shadow go to the east. Was
the most unbelievable thing I've seen inmy life. That's really awesome, all
right, Tim, I appreciate that. Thanks for calling in man, Thank
you, bye bye. Yeah.And Vernon sent an email and said Grand

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Island, Nebraska, twenty seventeen witha photo of the total eclipse. I
didn't know it came that close.I wasn't here. Then Vernon also sent
to photo of what Cedar Bluffs isseeing right now or did you know a
little bit ago with the eighty threepercent eclipse that we saw. And then

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we got a few nice pictures peoplehave taken to this thing. And then
Michael emailed them, Matt, hereyou go. He said, I'm currently
in Texas. Was in the cityof sunny Vale, east of Dallas for
the eclipse today. It was darkas night for about four minutes. Everyone
was stopped along the road sides.It was slight chaos, however, not
that interesting, but worth experiencing.Thank you, Michael. That's exactly what

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the kind of information we're looking fornow. If you got experience with the
eclipse, or you're wanting to sharestuff like that with us today, I'd
love to hear from you. Youcan call us a four h two five
five eight eleven ten. Four htwo five five eight eleven ten. You
can also email Emory at kfab dotcom with your photos or your experience or
especially if you're seeing this one intotality. Would love to hear from you.
And we got plenty more discourse andI might punch Matt also as the

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show wears on, so stick aroundfor that too. On news radio eleven
ten, Kfab Emery song Guy onnews Radio eleven ten. The k fab
song specific about an eclipse like thatwas the that was the inspiration. Like
an eclipse maybe on like a scienceshow, yeah, but not like a

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song song. Well, what isthe next one? You have? Me?
Grab sound Garden? Black hole Sun? Yeah? What's that about?
It's grunge. I don't know ifthere's a real obvious answer, but I'm
sure. I mean, obviously thesun looks like a black hole right right

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anyway, all right, so that'sgoing on. We were talking about trying
not to be divisive, because thenews isn't divisive right now, it's all
science, it's all people enjoying thispretty rare thing of this moon that we
have. By the way, popquiz, what's the name of our moon?
Oh mcmon berry, Is that nota serial? Isn't it just moon?

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Is? It's actually the moon.In Latin moon is called luna,
which is why we say everything involvingthe moon is lunar. Boom, you
got it? Where do you go? So? Does that make us a
bunch of lunatics today? But therewere a lot of things that were pretty

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divisive over the weekend, especially abouta sport that we watch, basketball.
Do you watch any of the women'sbasketball? Iowa made it back to the
championship game in the loss of SouthCarolina. Hey, look at us,
we called that straight up up.We got all three games, right,

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yep? Good good run, greatgame Iowa Yukon and then great run for
Iowa early in the game. ButSouth Carolina just too good, just too
good. They deserved it. Imean, before we talk about the divisive

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arguments that came out of this,could any Iowa player not named Kaitlyn Clark
even play for South Carolina? Nodisrespect to Kate Martin and Gabby Marshall and
Hannah Stolki and some of those playerswho certainly had great seasons and great careers.

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But that was one thing I justthought about. It was like,
Kaitlyn Clark's the best player on thefloor, but you could make the argument
that that Cardoso girl was as importantor more important, based on the fact
that she was getting every rebound andshe was scoring layups. I mean Iowa
could do nothing. Yeah, well, it really just got me thinking about

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it. There there were a lotof things that my heart was telling me
that, you know, Iowa hadwhat it took. I just have a
hard time understanding how a team thatloaded can just exist. But that's college
basketball for you. That tells youeverything that you need to Everything you need

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to know about the great coaches incollege sports is that they can recruit players
to make their team as good aspossible and regularly put themselves in a position
to win national championships. Connecticut hasbeen like that since Geno Oriama got there.
I mean since the nineties, Yukonhas been just this jugger or not,

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and they've been able to take thatand carry that through to present day,
so much so that the WNBA putan actual professional team in Connecticut because
of the culture of the women's basketballteam there. Now its to be seen
whether Iowa gets maybe a look atthat because because of what Caitlin Clark has

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done there. I think certainly whatDon Staley's doing in South Carolina. If
you want to just throw a women'sprofessional women's team there, you probably could
two full of South Carolina players.But I guess the point was South Carolina
was a great team, and howif they played a hundred times, how
many times is Iowa get them?Like five times? Maybe like one out

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of every twenty games they play,Iowa can actually beat them. It kind
of seems like Iowa gave them theirbest shot too. They came out they
lost by like thirteen or fourteen orsomething. Yeah they did. I mean
they were up by eleven in thefirst quarter, yeah, and still lost
by fifteen. And you can't tellme that the officiating was against Iowa.

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I mean, come on, Iwatched the game. It really wasn't.
If anything, Iowa got the benefitof a lot of officiating calls throughout the
tournament. And that leads me tomy next point. Did Yu Kon get
screwed by a moving screen? Werethe officials helping I with throughout this tournament.
It was a narrative that kind ofpopped up, and then the hate

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from current and former women's basketball playersat the professional level or college basically doing
everything they can to say, hey, Caitlin Clark really isn't all that,
which is very fascinating for a sportthat has continuously begged for the attention that
she is now giving it an incredibleamount of saltiness from multiple people across all

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angles. We'll talk about that nextand if you want to call us and
be a part of that conversation,you can four h two five to five
eight eleven ten. Four h twofive five eight eleven ten. It's news
Radio eleven ten kfab Emery Sunger onnews Radio eleven ten kfab. Well,
you know, I'd give it asolid three and a half. If it
was total, it's total, I'dprobably have to give it a solid nine

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point five. What's what? Whatare we weigh in it against? You
know, like what, uh,what's the most impressive natural thing you've ever
seen? Like mountains or human birth? That's a good one. I wasn't
even thinking about that. Like humans, Let's take humans out of it.

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Let's we're talking. We're talking nature. Yeah, like the only mother Earth,
the most impressive thing in nature thatI've seen. Yeah, Oh,
I don't know. I mean thisis the only one that would hurt my
eyes this bad, that's for sure. Yeah, my eyes are still really

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the ocean, I mean, it'spretty cool. When I was in the
Caribbean, that water is so blue, like it's beautiful. Oh, the
Grand Canyon for me. Ah,there's a good one. There's a good
one. Okay, that's that?Is that a ten? Or? Is
there? It's like a nine anda half or something, So there's room
for like Mount Everest if you seethat, because you can't just have that
as a ten and then like changeyour grade. Well, but it's it's

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the if it's the coolest thing I'veseen. It's a ten for me,
and then maybe I'll have a newten when I see a new ten.
You're the only ten I see.I don't know if I like that.
I don't know if I like that. You can just like change your create
on something based on the more informationthat you have. Oh that's how I
live my life. Information in informationout all right, fair enough, Okay,

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So here's a here's my thought onthis. It's kind of cool.
If you didn't have the special glasses, you probably wouldn't have known a whole
lot was going on out here.You'd have to be in totality to really
cruely know. And uh, wehad somebody email in from Hebrew Springs,

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Arkansas. HM says, Oh thisis Ron, Ron said Emory. We
planned this trip seven years ago,stayed at my sister's cabinet Greer Fairy Lake.
We're almost in the center line ofthe path. It was totally amazing
and my picture doesn't do it justice. I mean, it looks like the
picture looks like its nighttime picture,looks like a nighttime And then AJ sent

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in the number one thing that hesaw or or he would put as a
ten as far as nature's concerned asan erupting volcano. Oh, it kind
of depends on like how violent theeruption is. If it was like Mount
Saint Helens or something like keep meaway from that sort of thing. But
if it's one of those just likeslow, leaky ones that you know you

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can just like see the lava kindof like spurading out of it, that's
pretty incredible, right. Yeah,I'm trying to think what else? What
else we talked about earthquakes? Youcan see that though. Yeah, well

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you know what earthquakes do though latelycreate like the mountains, like the tectonic
plates, like create the big mountainranges, you know what I mean?
M hm, the plate tectonics,and they're just like and then they run
into each other and that's how thebig mountain ranges get formed. I don't
know, i'd say a mountain.It is what it is. What I
consider going to totality maybe depends onhow much it inconveniences me. I certainly

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was not going to go this timeobviously because I didn't this like a six
hour drive. Probably it's like thenearest spot that was in totality, you
know what I mean. This mightbe the last time ever, who knows
what's happened. In twenty years fromnow, we might be in permanent winter,
oh jeez, or permanent summer,or or the dinosaurs could be back

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by then. You know, peopleare messing around with that stuff. Yeah,
what are they doing? By theway, they didn't watch the movies
that I know, because that neverends good. It never ends good.
I don't know, why would youkeep making dinosaurs, and you never you
can never forget about the birds.What birds, the birds like from the

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movie. All they have to dois just make a plan. The hitchcock
birds. Yeah, we talked aboutthis well. Ravens and crows are really
smart, and you're right if theyever decided to take over the world.
But I'm way more afraid of orbecause if they could somehow figure out how
to get on land, because thoseguys, they could really miss stuff up.
All right, Hey, we gotto get to that basketball conversation about

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the people hating each other now becauseCaitlyn Clark did everything that they've been begging
us to do, and that's payattention to women's basketball. That's on the
way News Radio eleven to ten kfab