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RITA: Hi, it's Rita.

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This is your evening broadcast, 8192.

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Wow, it's really raining out there!

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Damn. I can really hear it from here.

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We have a few leaks. Put some pots and bowls under them.

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Thanks, Ron, for lending us your extra pots and bowls.

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I hope you had a good day, despite the weather.

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Although it was really nice earlier, huh?

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I had a good day today.

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I met a new friend;

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she's gonna join us in about a minute or so.

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Maybe you saw her earlier, around lunch?

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Or, if you didn't get a chance to meet her,

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then you'll meet her in about a minute.

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Or, if you met her already, but you still want to hang out,

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I'm sure there's plenty that we can talk about.

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Wow, so this is broadcast 8192.

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Is that right, Emily?

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That's a lot of broadcasts.

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I came in around the fives?

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So I've only been here for about half of them.

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And back then, in the fives, let's see,

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we had .. I did "Night Noise."

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And we had the Swap Show.

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And the bird show, that's right.

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And people were just coming in and

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dropping off tapes all the time, and ...

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And now, well, now it's just

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the evening broadcast.

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But it's not like I'm saying we're in decline

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or anything like that; I love the evening broadcast.

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I think it was the first show we had on here.

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Yeah. So, it's the "spine" of the station.

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Or maybe it's the heart?

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Or is it the skin?

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What part of the WEVP body do you think this is?

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Why don't you come on by and tell us about it?

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We're gonna be here for another 30 minutes or so.

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Or, if you don't want to brave the storm,

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you can always give us a call.

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Same number as always:

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(270) 216-5556

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OK, so we're going to start with a tape.

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This is an old one.

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It's one of mine.

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But maybe you haven't seen it.

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Or, if you've seen it, it's been a while

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So maybe you've forgotten.

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So this is one I made several years ago,

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back when I was really into history.

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Local history.

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The history of this place.

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Here.

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So, in it I share some of my research,

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and some of my thoughts about

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some people that lived here a long time ago,

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before the company, before the airstrip,

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like, over a hundred years ago.

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OK. So, I hope you enjoy it.

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Ready, Emily?

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Right, exactly, and even then

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it's not even the same as real toothpaste.

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Oh. OK.

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Hi. Um.

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So, I hope you enjoyed that video.

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Like I said, that was from, like ...

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it's several years old; I can't remember exactly.

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MAYA: I enjoyed it very much.

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RITA: Oh, thank you, Maya.

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MAYA: I didn't catch the ending ...

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What happened to them?

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RITA: Oh, right. We don't really know.

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RITA: That's sad, right? Do you think that's sad?

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MAYA: Oh, well, no I don't think so ...

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In fact, I think it's rather common.

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When a society collapses,

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everything gets very muddled, I think.

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Nobody remembers to write everything down.

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RITA: Right, they might have bigger problems.

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MAYA: Or, historically, I think,

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they might have been conquered?

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conquerors don't usually preserve

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their subjects' records ...

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RITA: Oh, right.

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Wow.

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MAYA: Well, do you think it's sad?

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RITA: Yeah.

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MAYA: Why do you think so?

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RITA: Oh, I don't know. I'm sentimental.

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Hi, everybody. This is our guest, Maya.

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If you're watching us at home,

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you probably met Maya earlier today.

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She was kind of, you know, "doing the rounds," right?

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MAYA: That's right.

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RITA: And then we had a meal together.

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MAYA: It was very nice, thank you.

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RITA: But for those of you who maybe didn't get a chance to meet Maya.

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Or who maybe didn't get to hear all about your project,

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Maya would you mind telling the folks at home

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a little bit about yourself?

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MAYA: Yes, sure.

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RITA: So, what do you do?

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MAYA: Well, I'm an artist.

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Just like you.

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Just like everybody here, I think.

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Everybody I met here today is an artist.

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RITA: Right! Everyone's an artist!

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MAYA: Right, but also, here --

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RITA: Everyone who ever lived!

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It's part of being human!

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MAYA: I agree, but when I ask someone here

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"what do you do?"

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They always say, um ...

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"I make videos of trees."

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or "I'm working on an opera."

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or "I maintain the Sandin Image Processor"

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You know -- no one ever says:

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"I'm an electrician."

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Or "I'm a grocery bagger,"

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or "I'm an office manager here."

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RITA: Right.

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MAYA: Is it an artists' colony?

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RITA: Oh. No.

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Uh, maybe ad-hoc.

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We all came here for the station, basically.

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To work on the station.

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There were some folks here at first

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who had straight jobs for a while.

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Then they left.

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Or they switched over.

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And then the company pulled out.

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but they had to keep the station going

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for legal reasons.

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MAYA: Oh, you have a corporate patron?

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RITA: No, not really ...

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They don't maintain anything,

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and they don't really pay for anything.

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Except for the one powerline.

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Maybe you saw it coming in from the forest?

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MAYA: Oh, right, I followed it out here.

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RITA: Oh, of course. Of course.

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It's the only way to find this place.

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So, they can't tear that down.

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And they can't shut down the station.

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But they don't really maintain this place

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against like the weather, or

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regular wear and tear

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MAYA: Sounds precarious.

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RITA: That's the word for it.

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Right.

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So, you came to see the mounds.

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MAYA: Yes, exactly. The mounds.

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To, um, to summarize:

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I'm an artist, and I work with earth

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as my medium.

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I make piles of dirt.

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Very large piles of dirt.

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RITA: Mountains.

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MAYA: Well, hills, let's say.

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And I'm working in the tradition of some of the people

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who used to live here in this land

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hundreds, even thousands of years ago,

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and built great mounds of earth.

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RITA: Native americans.

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MAYA: Yes, pre-colonial.

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Some of their works have been wiped out over time

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but it's a testament to their

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ingenuity and craftsmanship

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how many of these mounds have survived

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hundreds, even thousands of years.

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I travel a lot in this region,

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and I make sketches of these surviving mounds

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which is how I heard about you,

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and your beautiful, ancient mounds

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that you have surviving, right here

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in this town.

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So I parked my car, and

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followed the power line through the woods.

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which was about two days' walk from wherever I was.

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I followed directions.

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RITA: All alone. Brave.

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MAYA: Well, I was worried about bears.

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RITA: Oh, right.

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Yeah, we haven't seen those around in a while.

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MAYA: Oh, really?

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RITA: Yeah, they used to be a big problem

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but they ... I don't know.

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I guess they found somewhere else to congregate.

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Oh. Yeah, so we're gonna put on another tape.

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Will you stick around, Maya?

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MAYA: Absolutely.

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I'm not going anywhere in this storm.

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RITA: Right. No one's going anywhere in this storm.

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OK.

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So, the next video we're gonna watch

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is a new one, actually, I haven't even seen it yet.

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But Ron brought it in this morning.

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and he's gonna come out in a couple of minutes

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to tell us more about it

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but we're just gonna watch it first

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so we can get the full effect.

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But I will tell you the title

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because he wrote it on the box.

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Ron calls this video "Wild."

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RITA: So, OK, Ron.

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Anything that you want to tell us about that tape?

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RON: Yeah.

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Everything on that tape was wild.

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RITA: Really?

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Everything?
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Everything?

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MAYA: Wild stuff, indeed.

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RITA: Even the horses?

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RON: Everything on that tape was wild.

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MAYA: Were the horses wild?

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I thought those were the horses here.

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RITA: Oh, the neighbors?

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Oh, we call the horses here "The Neighbors."

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No, I didn't recognize that one.

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I don't think there's any wild horses anymore.

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MAYA: Really? How could that be?

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RITA: Oh, well, they've all been domesticated.

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MAYA: Are the neighbors domesticated?

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RITA: Uh ...

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We don't own them, no, they're, um ...

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feral?

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MAYA: Oh, right.

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In your documentary, you had said

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that the people who used to live here had

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freed their horses.

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RITA: Exactly.

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Um, but ... you can free your pet cat,

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but it won't  ... turn back into a panther.

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MAYA: Right.

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What about the dogs?

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RITA: Uh, yeah, Ron

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was the dog wild?

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RON: Everything on that tape was wild.

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RITA: It didn't look wild to me.

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MAYA: I guess it's a matter of perspective.

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RITA: Well, I don't think I agree ...

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but, um ... hey it's time for the weather

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Well, I can tell you it's going to be pretty "wild!"

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I can hear it from here.

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MAYA: Yeah, it's getting pretty intense out there.

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Do you get storms like this often?

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RITA: More and more.

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MAYA: Oh, right.

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RITA: Alright, we're gonna go over

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to the weather report with Elmo

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and, lucky us, we have

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Cyrano Cole to add a little bit of drama

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musically.

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Oh, and I hear he's gonna be over at The Rum Colony

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if you want to get a drink after the show.

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Alright, let's go live to Elmo

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with the weather report.

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RITA: Thanks, Elmo and Cyrano.

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So, next we have a selection from the Video Databank.

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You're gonna like this one, Maya

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This one's about caves.

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MAYA: Oooh.

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RITA: Yeah, local caves.

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We play this one a lot, it's pretty cool.

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[Telephone ringing.]

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RITA: Oh, but we have a phone call.

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Should we get it now, or should we wait?

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We'll get it now, OK.

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Hello, WEVP.

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GEOFF: Hey, Rita, it's me

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Uh, Geoff with a --

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remember you called me -- it's Geoff with a "G", but

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the first time I got on the air, you called me

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"Gee-off" by accident.

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I don't know if you still remember that.

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So you can still -- it's Geoff. With a "G."

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Can you say --

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I was going to tell you to say "Hi" to May and Ron

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but Maya and Ron you can probably hear me.

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Hey Maya, hey Ron.

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I didn't know if anybody got my last message I left

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on the voicemail.

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But I was, like, I was talking about

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those raccoons that keep eating my garbage.

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And I named -- I've been watching them eat my garbage,

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saying, "should I go out there?"

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I tapped on the window, and they would just look at me.

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And I said maybe, well, is this like ...

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remember there was that movie, with the circle of life?

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I said, maybe this is the circle of life for my garbage.

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And then, I was watching so much I started naming them.

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I named one of them first "Bumbles"

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because he was a bit of a bumbler

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with the garbage.

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And one I named "Garbage Face."

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Because he would -- but then I called him "Banana Peel Face."

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But then I said "those aren't nice names."

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and ...

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I call another one "Milk Toes"

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Milk Toes, I think is the sweetest one.

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And I don't know how ... like I ...

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I consider them general neutral beings.

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Milk Toes, her toes look like milk ...

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... so ...

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I was thinking about making a book about them.

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Like maybe a children's book.

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Like, remember the Garbage Pail Kids?

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These would be the ...

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I couldn't call them the garbage pail raccoons.

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So, I don't know if you got my message,

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because things have changed

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and now I feel good about the raccoons.

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They're not quite my friends.

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Because I did try to go out there.

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... and ...

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They just gave me this look.

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Cause I said "Bumbles! It's me!"

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Geoff. With a "G."

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Uh, so there's that ...

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Then there's, you know I like walking so much

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too, during the day, because there's not much to do.

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Like, because I wait for your show.

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Between calling in, I go for walks.

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When I'm not watching the raccoons.

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And, one time I was ... like ...

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I saw this shining ....

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in this grass, and then I kept going

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and I was like "Ooh."

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There's something twinkling.

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And I dug through these bushes

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one of which unfortunately was poison ivy.

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I can read your mind.

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And it's this glass  ...

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 I think they used to call them "baubles."

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It's not a bubble.

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It's a glass thing.

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I can't figure out what it is.

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It's still got some dirt on it.

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Cause I'm having trouble with my water.

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I don't know if ...

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I think I was double-paying my Consolidated Power bill ...

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... and not paying my water bill.

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I don't know why they can't just combine those things.

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But, so, I'm having trouble with my water.

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So I can't wash it off.

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I think, I was ... I'm going to bring it down to the stream.

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But it's a very strange piece of glass.

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And I can't tell if it's, like,

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part of an industrial thing,

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or, I mean, it fell from a spaceship ...

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... maybe ...

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Or if it's worth --

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I could bring it -- again, I would

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love to come by the studio, if you'll have me.

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I could bring this by.

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And we could talk about it.

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Or I could wash it in your sink, at least ...

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cause I do have to figure out the water thing.

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But I don't know where to go cause it's a PO --

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like how do you go, if it's a PO Box?

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Where do you go?

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And they don't have, like ...

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 ... their number again is like those, uh ...

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I keep pressing zero,

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and it doesn't work, and I don't --

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RITA: Um ... hello?

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Um ...

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Was that the storm?

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Or was it the damn phone lines?

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Man, they're really flaky.

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Ugh. Business as usual.

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MAYA: He has a really soothing voice.

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RITA: That's Geoff.

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He's a regular caller.

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MAYA: He's asleep.

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RITA: Hm?

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Oh. Well ...

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Let him sleep.

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OK. Well, let's play the tape.

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This is "Cave Art."

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It's a classic around here.

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MAYA: I'm excited.

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MAYA: That was great!

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RITA: I like that one.

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I kind of --

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[Loud thunderclap]

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RITA: Wow, so just completely ...

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NIKKI: Yeah, just completely flooded.

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I passed Ron on the way in.

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He's gonna take a look and

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see if there's anything he can do.

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MAYA: Will they be OK?

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NIKKI: Ron knows what he's doing.

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He used to be a firefighter.

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RITA: It's a little bit different though, right?

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NIKKI: I guess.

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Oh, thanks.

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NIKKI: I brought my work.

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RITA: Oh, good!

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Nikki reads her poetry,

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it's a weekly feature of our broadcast.

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MAYA: Oh, great.

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I look forward to hearing it.

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RITA: Yeah, I just hope that

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we can keep going.

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We lost power a little while before, right?

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NIKKI: Better get started, then.

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NIKKI: To the Out-of-Towner.

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What eagle flew you to your final bed?

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It was not men who brought you there to sleep.

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The men who left you bloodied then, and fled

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had chosen mud and muddy-watered creek.

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Did wild turkeys gobble, dote, and care,

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And wipe the moss beneath your eyelids clear?

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Did cardinals pull the twigs out from your hair

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and wash your hands and feet, and trim your beard?