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Friday, Friday. Each week,

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we talk about different stuff
that we find on the internet

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that we think is cool facts
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And we put facts in air quotes,
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whatever, or if you just want to
chit chat, or just some

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feedback. So that's our topic
for this week. Labor Day, Labor

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Day is coming up Monday. So we
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Labor Day. And we've got some
good features this evening. And

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we're going to be we're going to
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one. First off, we would like to
thank our supporters, people who

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come in and, and help us out
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or talent. Yep, time, talent and
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you think about that?

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I think that's pretty good.

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Some people take the time to
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to, you know, to write out stuff
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love it when people spend their
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good content. But you know what?
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some people like to just just
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continued support of Fun Fact
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Thank you,

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and we got some boosts from now.
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mentioned this one and help had
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the boosts says one week so I
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happened before after the show.
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Kyle a bear from the air
intergalactic boombox and Dragon

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Ball Super superhero. says love
the paranormal. Also. I always

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bought my head to your intro
music. It reminds me of feel

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good by the gorillas.

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You know why? Why? Because the
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that we liked the gorillas.

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Yeah, we said, we said make it
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busy gorilla Z. And he

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did a little bird

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song. Good job. Obviously. Other
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too. So then we got 333 sets
from Baroness Love and Light

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with no message. Thank you.
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a run. I lost my my sound effect
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to go along with

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one. It's an app.

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It's a it's a window X Windows
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sound. I'll find the sound after
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by Dr. Scott. drab. We thank you
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could find the sound. Is it

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the nobody likes you booster.
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We like our boosters. He loves
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find it. Okay, hold on, hold on.
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to play this area. Oh, welcome
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podcasting 2.0 They call the
large donations via but any

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large donations. They call them
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for SATs for the week is Dr.
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boost. Nice Yeah, thank you.

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So I'm a little under the
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back. And it hurts a lot. So I'm
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tonight.

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And I've had school this week.
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sure she has PE first thing in
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and I have to change for PE that
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to school and then change and
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almost lost my shirt today.
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just go to school and you're

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gonna want to Okay.

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Because that's what I would have
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always my my last class of the
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great, because I could go home
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or showers in the locker room,
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just use them to change.

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Yep. Yep. Yep. So speaking of
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chapter art and images and links
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chapter does the whole chapter
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2.0 chapters feature, which most
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feature where you can see images
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we're talking about. And you can
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less last episode was clickbait.
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for all of our chapters, which
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show. So yeah, they were really
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chapters that I actually looked
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So yeah, he's one of you before
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Did you see the one where he did
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emoji crazy. One time out to
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forgot to tell you about that.
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tips you can't live without if
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Leila's clown makeup that she's
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reasons 11 reasons Newsies is
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ever. Now, what that makes me
think is a Dred Scott is also a

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fan of Newsies. Because I'm a
big fan. It was his I grew up on

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it. I think it's a great, great
movie. There's a couple of not

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so great songs like Santa Fe and
whatnot. But But yeah, it's it's

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pretty, pretty good. Pretty good
movie. I enjoy it. We're

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actually looking for a good copy
of it. Can't find all we can

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find online is the Broadway
version. And I haven't I haven't

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seen the non Broadway version
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plus, I haven't really looked
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bad Sonic was on purpose. You'll
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sleep. So yeah, we had lots of
lots of good. Let's a good

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chapter. Chapter titles on last
week show. Excuse me. And yeah,

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so that was a cough but I'll
take the bless you. That's fine.

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So now the Hello. Yes. Do you
have any good news?

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Yes.

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Welcome to Fun Fact Friday news
was their lead anchor. No.

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Finally anchor. You can really
okay. So I'm pulling down the

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wrong mouth. All right, and
professional podcaster. A man

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named Dwayne Hanson of Syracuse,
Nebraska cyber cyber ques cyber

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QSYRAC U. S. E. Syracuse,
Nebraska. completed his journey

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last week. He went he battled 38
miles down a river in a hollowed

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out pumpkin that he grew
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Gosh, that's great.

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Isn't that great that

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I want to do that.

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I love photos on social media
show Hanson crouched inside the

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giant squash weighing which
weighed 846 pounds, according to

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his Facebook post. official said
Hansen set off down the

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Mississippi River around 7:30am
and completed his journey just

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after 6:30pm So he was on the
water for 11 hours in a big

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hollowed out pumpkin. So that he
said look, he said I went 38

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miles down the river without
standing up in that pumpkin and

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my knees still hurt. I won't try
this again. If somebody breaks

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this record, I will bow down
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thought I'll just paddle harder
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because it was it was raining
and cold. And he wasn't thinking

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about quitting. I went another
four to five miles and it rained

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again. Berta is only about eight
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guess Bert is the pumpkin name.
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attention for so long in my
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handsome described in the
Facebook post. Hansen is

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described in the Facebook post
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who enjoys growing large
pumpkins, gourds and other

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vegetables as a hobby. That's a
that's a neat hobby hobby. Scene

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I bet those pumpkins don't taste
very good. Not that I'm a huge

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fan of pumpkins anyway but those
big the huge ones are like

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pumpkin seeds. I like roasted
pumpkin seeds with like some

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kind of seasoning. Those are
good. But yeah, he's he's he's a

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Pretty much a hero Robertstown
now. Nice. All right, so what's

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your news story?

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My new story is bought
bioengineered cornea can restore

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sight to the blind and visually
impaired.

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Well, that's great. Yeah.

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researchers and entrepreneurs
have developed an implant made

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of collagen protein from pink
skin, which resembles the human

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cornea and restored vision to 20
people. Prior to receiving the

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implant most of the patients
were blind due to due to disease

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corneas. The promising result of
the trial begins hope for those

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suffering from corneal blindness
and low vision by providing a

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bioengineered implant as an
alternative to the

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transplantation of donated human
corneas, which are scarce in

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many countries. The result shows
that it is possible to develop a

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biomaterial that meets all the
criteria for being used as human

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implants, which can be mass
produced and stored up to two

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years and thereby reach even
more people with vision

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problems, says Neil le galley
professor at Department of

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Biomedical and clinical clinical
sciences at El IU, one of the

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researchers behind the study,

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that's great, it's gonna help
out a whole lot of people once

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they get it, get it ready for
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Yeah, it's great and estimated
12.7 people around the world 12

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million. 7 million people around
the world are blind due to their

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corneas, which is the outermost
transparent layer of dye being

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damaged or diseased, their only
way of regaining vision is to

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receive a transplant cornea form
from a human donor. But just one

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of the 70 patients receives a
cornea transplant. They're

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Furthermore, one of those who
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in low middle low and middle
income countries in which access

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to treatments is very limited.
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Yeah, that's, that's really
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come up with a new breakthrough
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whole lot of people. Yeah.
That's, that's a that's a really

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good one. Better than my
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this dude, this dude, he looks
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this is in the guardian.com in
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see that. So Labor Day. Yep.
Labor Day is coming up. This

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coming Monday. I'm off work. Me
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off a school. She goes for one
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It's great. Because I've been
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because my shoulders, my back
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call it that whole area.

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Although we did have a fire
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How'd that go?

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I got yelled at for going out of
the building. Before they wanted

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me to even though they didn't
say that. They did want me to.

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I thought you were supposed to
get out of the building.

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She was like You can exit the
building without me which I

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understand. But still. Yeah,
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you said oops. My bad.

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hunt this week. We had some
really? What a dog doing? Gonna

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play that whenever chewy
scratching at the door. Oh my

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gosh. And then oh, remember
we're talking about Tim Allen.

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Yeah. Oh my gosh. That's my
favorite. Sound Effect. The

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Curtis Connor has

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Curtis Connor is that yeah, he's
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But yeah, that's. That's Tim
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Alone. Home Improvement. Yeah,
so yeah, it'll be here in a few

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more dings, and dongs and things
like that. It'll be you know,

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it'd be a good time. And there's
a summit here. I don't even know

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where there was this.

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We should just done a sound
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soundboard stuff we have. So
we'll play that one at the end

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of the show. Yeah. All right. So
Labor Day, Labor Day, the first

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idea became public in 1880. To
September of 1882, unions of New

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York decided to have a parade to
celebrate the members of the

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Union, being members of the
Union. And to show support to

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all unions, at least 20,000
people were there back in 1882.

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That's a big, huge crowd. The
workers had to give up a day's

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pay to attend. And there was
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the event.

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So I'm going to be honest, after
all these years of school that

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they've taught us what Labor Day
is, I still don't know what it

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is. Okay, so First time learning
about it.

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Yeah, so it's good and, and I
can explain, you know, whatever

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needs to be explained. Yeah, I
do you know what a union is

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gnarly. Okay, so basically,
like, let's say I own a factory,

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right? And I'm a big ol meanie
jerk. Boss. Yeah. Okay. And but

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I own the only factory in town,
like, I got the whole, all the

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workers work for me. Right. And
I know that there's nowhere else

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for them to go. So I'm like, You
know what, I'm not gonna pay

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them very much. Because they,
they have to work for me. Well,

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what happened is the workers
started banding together, and

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going in and saying, Hey, you're
not treating us, right? We just

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won't work, we're gonna sit here
and do nothing until you give us

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all raises. It's kind of like a
strike. The unions are the ones

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that the strike idea. That's
where it comes from. Oh, cool.

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So they go on strike, they build
up the union. And basically, it

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comes down to the Union
negotiates with the leaders of

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the company, for better
conditions for the workers. And

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sometimes it's not about pay,
sometimes it was it was about

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safety. They were like, you
know, we're working with these

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big huge machines. And we need
to get some safety protocols in

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place. And you know, all this
stuff. There's a bunch of

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different reasons that unions
will negotiate with bosses.

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While they've, they've been a
lot less, a lot less popular as

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you're hearing some of my facts,
unions. A lot of people don't

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feel like there is necessary
today. Because people will just

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go to their boss on their own,
and ask for a raise or ask for

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different things. And there's
actually been a lot of laws

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placed in place where you have
to offer certain things to your

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employees. And so there's, I'm
not gonna get political about

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it. But there's a whole lot of
politics involved with unions.

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But we're just talking about the
fun parts labor day just for

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this episode. Excuse me, the New
York parade inspired other

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unions, other regions started
having their parades and by

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1887, five years later, Oregon,
Massachusetts, New York, New

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Jersey, and Colorado made Labor
Day estate holiday. Cool. So two

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people with very similar names
are credited with the first New

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York City event. There's
Matthew, Matthew Mack go

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Maguire, Maguire, Maguire, ma Gu
I or II. Magloire, he was a

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machinist. And then there's
Peter McGuire. A carpenter

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that's McG you are Gu ire. So
they were both linked to the

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1882 parade and the men were
from rival unions. So they were

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from two different unions who
didn't like each other. It's

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kind of like Romeo and Juliet,
but with unions getting a

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clicking over here. And
historians actually have trouble

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figuring out who was actually
the person who got it rolling

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and got everything worked out.
Because over the years, there's

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been a whole lot of confusion
over McGuire and McGuire. So

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they're just kind of like, okay,
it's what it is these two guys.

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One of them was the mastermind
and the other one, you know,

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they got together they work this
thing out, and a guy going. So

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the Maguire Maguire argument
goes until this day. Grover

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crave, Grover Cleveland helped
make Labor Day a national

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holiday. Cool. It was approved
on June 8 1894, as the first

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Monday in September. How do you
feel about holidays that move

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around?

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No. I don't like them.

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I don't like them either.

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It's hard to remember like how
someone's going to remember.

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Hold on. I can't even remember
this. I gotta look at my

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calendar.

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Look at our calendar. Hold on.
Hold on.

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Like Thanksgiving. The fourth,
fourth Thursday, November. House

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was remember that?

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I don't know. Why is it on
Thursday? You know, nowadays,

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you don't have to remember
right? Yeah, literally any

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search engine and type in wins
Thanksgiving this year.

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Or you could just look at any
search engine or any store.

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Yeah, you can get

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your get your calendar out and
do some math like you were just

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doing you're just flipping
through that calendar. I was I'm

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sitting over here like one
eternity lay down before you

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came back. So there is another
thing about Labor Day I wanted

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to talk about. Okay. Are you
allowed to wear white after

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Labor Day? No. That's how I
feel. Oh, no white, no white

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shoes after Labor Day. That's
the old, the old saying Right.

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But what What it says after
Labor Day,

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once Labor Day is over, you're
not allowed to wear white

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anymore. It's an old tradition
that goes all the way back to

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the Victorian era, where it was
a fashion faux pas to wear any

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white clothing after summer had
officially ended on Labor Day.

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The tradition isn't followed
anymore.

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Already September, right.

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Can you believe it? Yeah, no, I
just feel like feel like New

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Year's. New Year's. Yeah, not
that long ago. There's a song

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about that about time. Keeps on
slippin, slippin, slippin Labor

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Day is the unofficial end of
hotdogs season. What? The

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National Hot Dog and sausage
Council, which I didn't know was

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a thing until just now. It says
that says that between Memorial

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Day and Labor Day, Americans
will eat 7 billion hotdogs.

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That's the council I want to be
a part of. Hot Dog Council.

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Speaking of how to have wheat
bread hot dog today without any

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condiments on top. So it was
just a red, red hot dog with

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wheat bread.

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You have a single fact to back
that up.

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Yeah, I ate it. It's on my
stomach.

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That's not a fact. Oh, boy. So
yeah, 7 billion hotdogs. That's

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like how many people there are
on the planet? I think there's

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actually 8 billion now.

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Maybe Hold on?

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Yeah, I think we're I think
we're right.

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People are there. Yeah.

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Question mark. Now, how many
people are there? Yeah, almost

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7.9 7 billion people? Yeah.
That's a lot of people.

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According to the world. Oh
meter, the world? What is the

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world here?

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It's a world ammeter dot info.
Births today. Oh, my gosh, it

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just keeps going up. Wow. That's
a lot of birth. Deaths today.

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Popular growth today.

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You have a link that link the
world o meter in the show notes.

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They use statistics and then run
run a real basic program to say

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okay, this morning people were
born on average per day, how

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many are born second. And then
they program it in to keep going

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up like that? Pretty simple
stuff.

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Oh, that's neat. So we

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were back on Labor Day, make
sure you grab a link to that

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world. How many people are in
unions today? According to the

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Bureau of Labor Statistics,
there are 14 point 8 million

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union members in the workforce
in 2017. There were 17 point 7

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million in 1983. Now there's a
lot more people in America today

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or even in 2017 than in 20 Or
sorry, and 1983. So there's more

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people and less union members.
So we've got a lot lower

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percentage of union members. A
lot of companies will will fire

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you if even start talking about
being in a union or organizing a

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union. They don't want to deal
with it. The biggest unions

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today is the National Education
Association has about 3 million

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people who are members that
includes lifetime and inactive

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members. So basically the
teachers union is the still the

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biggest What are you looking at?
myself? Oh, I thought you were

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still looking without your no
dig in deep into the world. Oh

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meter.

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Oh, yeah, I was looking@time.gov

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See Arizona is funky. Do you see
how it's striped out there? In

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Arizona there are parts of
Arizona that do not recognize

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daylight savings time. What they
do not recognize Yeah, so it's

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it's really tough to do
business. If you're not in

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Arizona with someone in Arizona
if you're in a different

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timezone because like half of
the year you your three hours is

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difference and the other half of
your your two hours different.

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You know, it's just it's a very

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kind of weird looking at the
Coordinated Universal Time. Like

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what is it?

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What do you know? What is
coordinated?

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Universal Time? If you go to
Time dive it's like right in the

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top breakup corner. And it's
currently two in the morning.

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230 in the morning. Yeah, it's
no it's not. It's 12 UTC is what

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12 to 37

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it's two minutes after midnight.
Yeah, yeah, it's no, we are.

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We're asleep right now. Yeah,
we're negative four from UTC and

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daylight savings time or
negative five UTC. Okay. So I I

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personally wish that we could
just go to everybody use the

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same time No, no when a hot
works, why not?

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Because the sun

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right, but what's weird is like
that what you're looking at

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right there? Yes over and South
Dakota. See all like half of

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South Dakota is green and half
is yellow. Yeah, so. Okay, so on

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the far end right side of that
map on the South Dakota green

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section, all the way over into
Oregon. In the green section,

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that's a long stretch of road
right there. That's, like 1000

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miles or something. So you're
technically still in the same

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timezone. But you're 1000 miles
apart, which doesn't make a

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whole lot of sense. Yeah. It's,

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it's how the sun is.

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Right? But why is there that big
jet out thing? Because

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the sun? The sun? Oh my gosh,
are you a flat? Earther?

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No, what I'm saying is that it
either needs to be split up into

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tiny slivers. Or it needs to
just go be gone. Just just like

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can't we just say it's midnight
here? Where you can just deal

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with it? What do you mean, deal
with it? I've been dealing with

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my whole life. Yes, it's stupid.

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Okay.

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don't deal with it. Now. It's
the UTC I think it'd be good. If

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we all just moved to UTC. It
would just make things so much

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easier, just like your metric
system that you like so much

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my metrics you can come up with?
Well, no,

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you know what I'm saying it's
better that you like you like

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the metric system. I would like
if everybody used UTC. Okay. It

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would make programming things
easier. It would make just make

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a whole lot of things easier.

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International trade and Hawaii
this Daylight Saving Time is not

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observed. Oh, no. Oh, has it
stripy to

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go? Yeah, is that what the
stripes mean?

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Yeah, it says daylight saving
time. I see. Okay, anyways,

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enough with the time that go.

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Well, I've gone through my Labor
Day stuff.

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Yeah. I'm good. You're good.
Yeah.

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All right. How

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many good facts about you did

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the I was on the constitutional
constitution center.org. That's

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where I got mine. And the other
sites that I went to one of them

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was a somebody that makes pools
like, and ground in and out of

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underground and ground and above
ground pools. And then the other

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one was like a heating and air
conditioning. But it all it

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looked like the heating and air
conditioning thing just kind of

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copy and pasted some of this
other stuff. So but yeah, I

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think that'll do it. My next
starting to hurt again. So I

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think I'm going to go take some
more. Some more have you proven

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and we will see y'all next week.

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Wow. Hey, Kyle, oh wait, not
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