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Hi this is Jordan and Williams. I'm the

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director of Steal the Stars and I'm here

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to tell you about the new Gideon Media

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show we just launched called Ask Your Father.

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Lamb, a human pilot and mikey.

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An A are testing the first ever

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faster than light speed ship and find

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that a malfunction on the maiden voyage

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has thrown them twice as far as

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they meant to go and so very

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far from home. They find themselves without

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the fuel needed for the return trip.

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There are able to communicate with Earth

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using any faster than light speed drives

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which carry messages back and forth. But

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the crux of it all is really

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the relationship between these two characters. Stuff

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in this desperate situation. Ask Your Father

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was directed by me and written by

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Shawne. Williams who also wrote the

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Gideon Media Show Amol M. This

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is a special show for all

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of us a real labor of

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love and it features some of

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the best actors we know including

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Rebecca Com Twa who played Patty

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and Steal The Stars Asked Your

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Father is available anywhere you get

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Podcasts and more info can be

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found at gideon-media.com But for now,

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please enjoy the first episode of

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Ask Your Father. Well

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yeah, Yeah,

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I'm here. Are

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you okay to ask? Yes,

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I don't seem to have

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experienced any problems. Yeah, But

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ah, So

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this is the ice. Oh

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my God. was just we

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did. Is we get it,

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We did His success. The

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specifics a short little. It's

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literally extraordinary. I almost can't

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believe it worked. Hold on.

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I'm doing systems check. Total

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Time when. Oh

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man. Okay, some of the readers are screwed

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but o Two is fine. Whole is. The.

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Whole is find. Are you getting

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anything? How is frozen? Carbine

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lattices unchanged and holding elect.

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Out his post and homes would

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you need for me Now I

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can. Write.

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Know I know you can't do the physical

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stuff I've gone it. Just tell me what

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else I can do to support manual check

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where I don't have cameras. See

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the seal. Back to the. Yeah.

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The. Seals fine. Oh man, we

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did this well. Below.

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Have is stationary. I'll let it out

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once we know where stable everything is

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stable and holding. cameras and

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speakers are operational says so even though i

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won't be able to see you, you

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can see me and like we can at

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least chat. Of course. Okay,

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hold up. I've got my checklist. I'm

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holding it up in front of the camera. Do you see this? You've

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got a checklist on

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paper? Old habit, dumb story.

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Really? Yeah. I

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fucked up the math part of the SAT because

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I... are you looking aft? Are

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we deploying? Yeah. The nuke

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is dropping back in the telescoping arm. It'll be fine. You

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fucked up the SAT. Sorry, yeah,

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I fucked up the SAT because I

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completely spaced on having scratch paper and

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I forgot a calculator too

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so I had to... Sorry,

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can you double check the fuel? This readout

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is totally dead. We

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might have a crossed wire for

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the fuel cell readout because I'm

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not getting it either. What

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happened with the SAT? I... um... I

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got one wrong. You

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got one wrong? Lost

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me bragging rights. Oh,

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I'm not impressed. You

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think I'm impressed, but I'm not. I

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could get a perfect score on the SAT without

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bringing a calculator. If I had

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a calculator in my OS, I wouldn't need

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to bring one, jerky. Sorry,

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Mikey, hang on a sec. I'm looking

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out the window. Yeah? I

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only have a few cameras out there. What

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does it look like? Well,

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it's... Mikey, can you send a signal to the

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fuel cell and check the line? Something's wrong. Yep. The

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readout is fine. We're

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reading no fuel at all. That...

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is... Yes,

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that is correct. This is... The

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Stars are wrong. What Do

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you mean? Mikey? The

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stars are wrong. The stars are wrong. But. We

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have no fuel and the

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stars are wrong. So.

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What? Are your if this was good? We'd

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be in there, it's

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clearly back seat look

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at. The

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it looked like a toddler daycare epitomises

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use. Ah, thank god the kids aren't

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here! At

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one thing. This

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is. Is.

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This is very bad. This. Is very

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fucking bad. Can

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you hear them? Conference room

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window? They're probably face laugh

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or something. Seizes asks rice.

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Them. You know

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what? Rebecca.

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Hey hey, you need To

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open this door. Open

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This door Right Now.

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And. It's

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like they're not opening the door. Rebecca:

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Sleep. anybody

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can have our the same size

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Oh! Oh!

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Mikey! What's up man? How'd

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I do? Fuck!

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That's 15 miles, it's not bad.

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It's worse! It's not bad?

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It's... Come

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on, Mikey, don't do that. It's

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literally not bad. Bad is

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worse than this. I

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didn't say you were beating your old time, and I

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wasn't saying you aren't losing time. But you're

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actually doing great. Anything under three

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hours is actually fantastic, with all the givens.

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Yeah. I'm not

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gonna lie to you about this. When it's bad, I'll tell

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you it's bad. How's

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the O2? It's not good. Come on! What?

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It's not good! It's not good?

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Do you mean it's bad? Let

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the scrubbers do their job. It's

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not bad. Bad, bad is if

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the scrubbers break. It's

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not good right now. But

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wait, and you'll be fine. Fuck. Take a

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shower, and we'll do the kids. Fuck!

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We'll do the kids, and you'll feel better. I

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won't feel better, but fine. Mm-hmm.

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Mm-hmm. Who.

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Who. Could

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cry. Have

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to be here. A

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winner. Have been

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have a. Little

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Love. How.

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Long has this. Know and

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Love. My

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case, Do

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you know the terrain is slow? Hanging

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about it. Like.

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To do with could do.

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The flow of. Water

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from. The

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City College I. Get

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wasn't a package. Here's what

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we've got so far: Measurements.

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Were. Fine,

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Okay, it's. That's.

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what i'm saying it's like

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what are we saving twenty

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thousand years okay out of

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four hundred and seventy thousand

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years right There's

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never any good news. Okay,

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how about this? This is the

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fourth transmission we've gotten from them. More

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than that, this is the fourth

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transmission they've sent, and we've received

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all four. Think about how completely

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impossible that is. Yeah. It's

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a miracle. It's a miracle, given the

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whole... Yeah. And I now

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have a pretty detailed map of the

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surrounding area. The nearest star

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is the nearest possible planet. Really?

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I mean, yes, but it

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doesn't really matter in terms of... Yeah.

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But think about the math, about

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where we are, about how fast everyone

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is moving in all directions. No, I

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know. The Earth going around

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the sun, sun in a big ellipse.

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We're moving it... Jesus, I get it.

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Come on. Ask me about the O2. Tell

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me about the O2. It's perfect.

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Scrubbers are doing their thing. Okay.

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Let's talk about food. Come on. We

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can feed two people indefinitely.

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Which we don't actually need. Exactly,

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since we decided to just send one astronaut

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and one AI. Although,

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if you're worried about me, the

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nuke engine is still working, still dumping heat

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away. So my food

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supply, as it were, is in

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no danger of running out. Okay.

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You're kind of being a brat. Jesus

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Christ. Just a little bit

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of a brat. Ugh.

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God, I hate this part. I gotta take a break. You're

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at point six G. It'll be easier

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from here. You'll start floating up.

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Roles have perches. The walls are

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soft. Take your time. It'll

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be easier. NASA's got a lock

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on our ship. Four transmissions. None

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missed. We've got

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a direct line of communication, and this

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last time, they sent a bigger drive.

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Really? How much bigger? 10x.

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I mean, still like grain of rice size,

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but... Ten x Vigor and it's

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God's you. Go back. On

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yes yes yes

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and came so

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yeah. Amir in you.

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You're hearing me. Yes, Christ is

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fucking. Look

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this is gonna be harder and me than it is

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on. You get that? You. Don't have to

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deal with this the same way I do with

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difference. I

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get that. So.

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She'll tell me what you need. Because

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I know this is different for you.

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So. If you need me to just

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say like that's cool and all sox

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you have every right or whatever that

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I can do that but what I'm

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supposed to do. Is. To point

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out the ways that it doesn't

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suck. as that's

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the wrong thing the told me I can do it.

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Either way I just. Just

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tell me as you know, when

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I probably need a problem. Need

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to go for a walk outside

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like a summer. Strong power of

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pelini sunshine in a cocktail on

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a porch swing. Probably

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need to drink scotch. We in a

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with my husband up to sleep. Problems

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which really drives. I probably

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need Taco Bell drive through

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as Taco Bell drive through

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ever. Honestly made anything better.

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If you don't know this, there's

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no way you could know this.

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But oh, Made Seasons? Yes, really.

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Interesting back of the economy? Okay,

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I was. Fourteen Fifteen Something

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and my roommate mopey, his dad

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got him a car and we

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were always up by oh Five

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Fifteen. Mess by o Six hundred

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classes Or it was Six Thirty

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and we didn't get back to

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mess until Fourteen. Thirty Eight hours

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between meals, right? which we were

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totally used to. But inform Five,

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my roommates and I had off

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from Eleven Hundred noon some screw

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been the schedule or something whenever.

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But, Kimmothy had a car,

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and the five of us... This

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is Kimmothy Kondori. Yeah. You

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were roommates with the chairman of the Joint

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Chiefs. Can I tell my story? Yes.

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Kimmothy had a car, and we

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used to pile in this thing and go get an

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early lunch. And it

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was 20 minutes to town, but we

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only had 60 minutes total. So you

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can't go sit down somewhere? Had

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to be drive-thru. And you chose

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Taco Bell. It was

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like... We

16:34

didn't necessarily choose it, but it

16:36

definitely was where we went. Back

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then, all the fast food places were all

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in the same corners. If a McDonald's popped

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up, then Wendy's and Burger King and everyone

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else would just set up shop on the

16:48

same block and basically feed off the draft

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like birds in a chevron. Makes

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sense. That first day, we

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saw the intersection, and at first

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we were just washed over

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with this sensation of

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normalcy. I flew my first jet

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at 12, right? But

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here I am in a Toyota something or other,

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looking at the place where everyone

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gets chicken nuggets. And

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we were all like that. And

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then Kimmothy just pulled into the

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Taco Bell, and we were all just like, yup.

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If you told me we were going home, a small

17:26

part of me would be thinking about Taco Bell. It

17:29

wouldn't be why I wanted to go

17:31

home, but I'd be like, my

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husband, my kids, my bed, 1G

17:37

gravity, clouds, the sun, colors

17:39

that make sense, seven layer burrito,

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my dog, my sister Rebecca. Like,

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Taco Bell wouldn't be number one, but... But

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it would be right before your dog and your sister. Oh,

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yeah, definitely. And Rebecca would be cool with

17:53

that? She'd be pissed at

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how low on the list Taco Bell is. You

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want to do this? Yeah. Yeah.

18:05

Okay. I'll take it

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in command. You

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want them in the cans or on the speaker? Uh,

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let me do the cans. Okay.

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There are four pieces of audio, but they

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aren't marked. Are they dated? No.

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I guess just whichever is first then. Hi

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Dad. I got your message and

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thank you for your message. I have

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more questions. Um, hold

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on. What is my question

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about the horses? Okay.

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Dad, I have a question about

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the horses you use to ride. How long can

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you get the horses to like stay up

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and how you get a horse to stay

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up? Mikey,

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what the hell is she even talking about? I

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didn't hear. You're on the cans. Sorry.

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It was Effie. She wants to know how

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long a horse can stay up and how

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do you get a horse to stay up?

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How long a horse can stay up? Yeah.

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I mean, aren't

19:17

horses always up? Like do horses lie

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down when they sleep? I don't

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know actually. That can't be what she...

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Wait, how do you not know? Come

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on, Lem. Seriously, I thought you

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knew everything that like... thought

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you were a repository of all human knowledge.

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How big do you think my hard drive is? I

19:37

mean... You're talking about the

19:39

internet. Do you think

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I'm the internet? No. You're

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talking about hundreds of thousands of

19:46

interconnected computers all over the planet Earth.

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Which is 9.63 light years away.

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I can't access all that shit.

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Alright. Jesus. I

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like how it's all fucking human knowledge. God,

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I'm sorry. How am I supposed to know?

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Okay. No. You're right. It's

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a dumb mistake. Totally

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not a problem. Let's just... Yeah.

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How does a horse stay up? I

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mean... It

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stays up on its... Oh! What? It's...

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She's asking about when the horse rears

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up, I bet. What's that? Horses

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do this thing where they go up on their back legs, they kick up

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their front legs and sort of spin their front legs around for a second.

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Oh! Yeah, like the Lone Ranger. Right.

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Wait! Okay, never mind. I'm not gonna ask how you've

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only got so much hard drive space, but somehow the

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Lone Ranger is in there. It's a mystery to me

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as well. Okay,

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I don't know how to answer this question at all.

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Just record something and talk to her. Yeah, yeah. I'll

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do the best I

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can. Ask

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Your Father by Sean Williams.

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Directed by Jordana Williams. Featuring

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Rebecca Camtois, Kevin R.

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Flea, Rob Maitner, Barnaby

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Williams, Marlena Williams, and Sean

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Williams. Designed

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by Jeffrey Mills Gardner. Music

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by Kent Williams. Produced

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by Gideon Media.