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Okay, we're here today talking
about a movie we once saw
yesterday.

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Lemony Snicket's a series of
unfortunate events.

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So Holly, I know you're really
into the books.

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What do you like so much about
them?

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Well, I like them because I know
that they're never going to
happen.

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So I like to read about them and
I like how he writes the
stories.

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Now he sometimes interrupts the
story and then he talks about
something really interesting.

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And like in one book, she starts
off with talking about the water
cycle

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because basically the whole book
is in the water.

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Oh, okay.

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So he talks about rain,
evaporation, that sort of idea,
the whole cycle of water.

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Okay, cool.

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So how many books are there?

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Right now there's 11.

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And have you read all of them?

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I'm reading the 11th right now
and I've read one through 10.

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So Kay, how many of these have
you read?

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One through 10.

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Really?

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Yes.

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Do you look as forward to them
coming out as Holly does?

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No, I just read them.

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You just read them?

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So why don't they sort of fire
your imagination as much as they
do your sisters?

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I guess they're just like other
books.

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They're kind of short.

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Yeah, so they're definitely
short, which is why the movie
covers how many books?

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Three.

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The first three?

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Yeah.

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So yeah, since the series seems
to not be letting up, are you
finding the stories seem to
repeat

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a little bit?

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Oh, yes.

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It's kind of boring in the 10th
book because all they find is
more mysteries, more mysteries.

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It gets kind of confusing after
a while.

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It gets confusing in the 10th
book because then you know that
break is going and that

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means that you have a series
that you can keep reading for a
long time.

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So the movie, the first three
books, what's the basic idea
behind the movie?

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Explain the whole concept of the
series of unfortunate events.

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Okay, so these three orphans who
are exceptionally bright lose
their parents in a fire and so

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they keep going to guardian
after guardian, but they
encounter several unfortunate
events

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and they stay with each
guardian.

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So the kids each have a special
sort of skill?

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Yes.

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Lyle the eldest is an inventor,
Klaus, is the middle child and
he likes to read

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and Sonny, the youngest, likes
to bite things with her four
sharp teeth.

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Okay, and who's the main bad
guy?

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Count Olaf.

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And what's so evil about him?

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He's trying to steal the ball of
fortune.

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He was funny too.

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He's funny and mean?

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Yes, in the movie.

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In the movie? Is he less funny
in the books?

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Yes, more sinister in the books.

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So Jim Carrey plays Count Olaf
in the movie and I was a little
concerned

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that Jim Carrey is sort of known
for going over the top.

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He did the Grinch and I thought
he was a little over the top of
the Grinch

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and he's done some good
performances where he's been a
little bit more restrained

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so I was kind of afraid he'd go
over the top

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but I thought he did a good job
as Count Olaf.

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You guys agree?

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Yeah, yes.

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I could see some of the ham in
him coming out a few points

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but I thought he definitely
played the character more evil
than he did as a goofball.

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Yeah.

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Which he's supposed to be.

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He's supposed to be evil, yeah.

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So the basic plot behind the
movie is?

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He's trying to steal a bottle
out of fortune.

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Right, he's trying to steal the
fortune

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and the kids are trying to sort
of figure out through clues

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who set the fire to their house.

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Yes, and they always know who
Count Olaf is

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but one of the adults they don't
believe him.

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Right, so the adults are pretty
dumb in this movie.

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Yeah, they're kind of clueless.

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They're kind of clueless.

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There's a lot of great short
performances in the movie

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by some famous actors, Billy
Connolly plays Uncle Monty,

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Meryl Streep plays Josephine and
their third guardian I guess

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because Count Olaf is the first.

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There's some bits by Cedric the
Entertainer and Dustin Hollen

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and so I thought it was pretty
well cast.

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I thought the kids in the movie
were exceptional.

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Do you guys agree?

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Yes.

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So what's your favorite part of
the movie, Holly?

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What's your favorite character
and what's your favorite scene?

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My favorite character is
probably either Sonny or Violet

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and I like the scene where I
like all the scenes

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when Sonny says something and
the adults don't understand her

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but it's really funny.

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So she speaks baby talk and they
put it

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as closed captioning underneath
the screen

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and the closed captions are a
riot.

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They're definitely the funniest
part of the movie I thought.

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Yeah.

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How about you, Kate?

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Well I liked the part where
Lemony Snicket kind of
interrupts the books

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and he talks while he's typing
and stuff

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and he stops an exciting part

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to say like my typewriter broke
and stuff.

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I thought that was good too.

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I was just about jumping out of
my seat at that one scene

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but it was in the leeches where
his typewriter breaks.

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The snake.

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The snake.

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The snake for the thing.

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The incredibly deadly viper.

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Yes.

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That was very good.

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I like the way they do that too.

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So Lemony Snicket is played by
Jude Law,

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who's a pretty good actor in his
own right.

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He has a really good job with
that also.

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So what's your favorite part of
the movie, Holly?

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My favorite part is when...

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well it's kind of two parts that
make this one part really good.

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It's Josephine says,

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well I don't want you to touch
the journal

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because I think it's going to
shine into a million pieces

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and hit my eye.

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And then when the house is
falling down

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all the things that she said
happen.

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Yeah.

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She's extremely paranoid and
frightened of everything

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and she puts the most ridiculous
excuses in place

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while she never uses the stove
and things like that

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and then that whole series comes
true

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which I thought was pretty funny
also.

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How about you, Kate?

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What's your favorite part?

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I like the sunny subtitles

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when she's talking to Aunt
Josephine

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and she says she must have flew
in from Crazy Town

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and stuff and she thinks she's a
goofball.

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So they changed the movie
compared to the books at all?

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Yeah.

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They kind of switched up the
first book.

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They put the beginning at the
beginning

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and the end of the first book at
the end of the movie.

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And also Claude, he uses a
grappling hook

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really in the books, Violet does
that.

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I thought it was interesting how
they twisted that up

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so that made him be an inventor
for a little bit.

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What would Violet do?

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Right.

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And at the same time, I know in
the book, they had her.

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Yeah.

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I was thinking about law.

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Yeah.

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How law, how she could get out
of that marriage legally.

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They didn't use it in the movie,
but you know.

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Yes, they did.

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She was trying to sign with her
left hand.

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Okay.

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All of a sudden, right.

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Yeah, he caught her.

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Yeah.

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So I thought it was a really fun
movie.

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What do you give it for out of
four stars, Holly?

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I give it five out of five.

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Five out of five.

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I give it four out of five.

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I thought it was really well
done.

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And I encourage everybody to
stay through the closing credits

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because I thought they were
really,

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Yeah, they were really good.

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They were really cool and really
interesting.

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The theater luckily left the
lights down

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to give sort of people a clue to
stay through there.

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Because normally they power the
lights up right at the credits

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and people head out, but they
were very inventive

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so that's the best credits I
think I've ever seen.

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Yeah.

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So I think we give it definitely
a big thumbs up.

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Go see it.

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It's a fun movie.

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Yeah.

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But I would say probably it's a
subject matter

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that's pretty dark.

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So I would say eight years old
and up would be the most.

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We chose not to bring our six
and a half year old to it.

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I would have been really scared.

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She would have been really
scared.

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And I think you need to be a
certain age to understand

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that it's dark but it's still
funny at the same time.

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Also a lot of coincidences.

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And one of my friends thought
and she said

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she didn't understand it at all.

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And she's my age, but I think
she didn't need the books

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because I shouldn't understand
as much as I did.

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So would you recommend reading
the books before the movie

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or do you think you can stand
alone?

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Yeah, I'd read the books first.

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Sort of get the idea of what the
unfortunate circumstances are.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Thanks everybody.

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That's a shorter podcast so I
was able

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to fit another one in between.

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This guy has actually become
somewhat of a friend of mine

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although I've never met him in
person.

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He's shown up in interviews
together.

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His name is Father Roderick.

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He's a Catholic priest from the
Netherlands

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and he got started in podcasting

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when he was at the Vatican.

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Of course, I guess as a priest
you kind of get

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like the e-ticket and you're
allowed to walk in

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wherever you want to.

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He was there just as the Pope
fell ill

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before he passed basically

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and Father Roderick was there,

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had a mini-disc recorder and a
microphone,

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pulled it out and started
recording

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and he really, he'd already been
listening to podcasts

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and started him into doing what
you can hear

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on CatholicInsider.com

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and most of the stuff you hear

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is nothing you'd expect from a
Catholic priest.

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He does all kinds of great
features

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like what he had recently,
debunking the Da Vinci Code.

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He goes on sound-seeing tours

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deep inside the Vatican where no
tourists

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or pilgrims are allowed

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and he's really starting to
become a big man

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on campus there at the Vatican.

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He even got Vatican Radio to
start podcasting.

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So on this particular show

31:54.000 --> 31:56.000
Part 1 of his Star Wars
Chronicles

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he talks about his

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his obsessiveness with the Star
Wars

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where it came from

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and there's an interesting twist
to the story

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at the end and if you want to
hear Part 2

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well you'll just have to check
out his website

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CatholicInsider.com

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but for right now here is Father
Roderick

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with the Catholic Insider Part 1

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of the Star Wars Chronicles.

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[ Music ]

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A couple of years ago

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I received an email from someone

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who worked at Skywalker Ranch.

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Skywalker Ranch was built by
George Lucas

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and a lot of the creative
departments

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of Lucasfilm are located there

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and the email said

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since you're coming over to the
States

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for the premiere of Episode 1

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The Phantom Manus

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would you like to visit the
ranch

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while you're in the
neighborhood?

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A few months later

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I was in California

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in a car

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driving up the lane

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and stopping at the security

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checkpoint at the entrance

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of Skywalker Ranch.

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I was about to visit the place

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where George Lucas was working

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on his Star Wars movies

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thousands of Star Wars fans

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would have happily traded in
their homes

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their cars, their dogs, their
wives

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to be able to be where I was

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at that moment.

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It was an unforgettable
experience.

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But let's not rush into things

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how did a Dutch Catholic priest

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working in a small village

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ended up there

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at the heart of the Star Wars
universe?

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And why does a Catholic priest

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care about Star Wars altogether?

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Aren't priests supposed to be
talking

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about heaven instead of galaxies

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far far away?

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It's against my programming to
impersonate a deity.

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In these Star Wars chronicles

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I'll tell you where my interest

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for George Lucas's movies came
from

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how Star Wars taught me

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how to use the power of the
internet

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and which adventures

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I experienced because of Star
Wars.

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Now to understand why I used

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to be so much into Star Wars

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we have to go back to

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my youth when I was about 8 or 9

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I lived at the time

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in a small village

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and I always had the idea that

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if there was a bright spot in
the universe

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I was living in the place that
was farthest from

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at least in my perception

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Now all that changed

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when I saw the first Star Wars
movie

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Now this movie

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was one of the first movies

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I ever saw in a theater

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in my life

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had an incredible impact

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it totally

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totally stunned me

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and I was talking only about

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this movie. Of course we got

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the toys and with my brother

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and my sister we would play

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for hours and hours each day

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replaying these adventures

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invent new adventures

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and I just basically

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collect anything that had to do

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with Star Wars

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I remember that one day

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at Carnival

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I dressed up as Luke Skywalker

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and I went to school

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in this outfit

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and I was totally horrified

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when my teacher said

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oh you're dressed up like this

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Star Trek guy

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and I thought like

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Star Trek

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you are supposed to be my
teacher

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in this school

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how on earth can you talk about
Star Trek

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when this is clearly Luke
Skywalker

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let alone Star Wars man

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where did you get your education

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and then most of my classmates

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and the other people at school

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didn't even know

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about Star Trek let alone Star
Wars

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but anyway

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I had my brother

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I had another couple of friends
who were also into Star Wars

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so for me that was

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like a fantastic

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world in my imagination

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and in my dreams

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I would travel to the stars

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and with these same adventures

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I would have my own C-3PO and
R2-D2

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and

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it was a great inspiration

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for all the games we played

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and all the adventures we kind
of invented

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playing with the toys etc

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now don't get me wrong

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I don't have anything against
Star Trek

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actually

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I was very fascinated

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by Star Trek we couldn't get
that

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on Dutch television

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but from time to time

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we went over to stay at

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our grandparents place

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and they were living in the
south

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of the country

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on their television they could
receive

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German television

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and I remember that I used to
watch

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their black and white television

36:56.000 --> 36:58.000
and they would show these
episodes

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of Star Trek

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and they dubbed it in German

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and of course I didn't
understand a word of it

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but I thought it was great

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I clearly remember

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Doctor Spock

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now we would say hokey special
effects

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but at the time I thought it was

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just fantastic

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this series

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about stars

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about a starship that would
travel to the stars

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about aliens

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just totally fantastic

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that alone was worth

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making the trip to my
grandparents

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it was fantastic

37:32.000 --> 37:34.000
but Star Wars was still
something

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that sparked even more

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my imagination

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Star Wars and Star Trek

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also to a lesser extent

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also sparked my interest for
astronomy

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and I used to have

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in my room all these model kits

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of space crafts

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of the space shuttle

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I used to make these little
planets

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of round balls

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I would paint them and I would
hang them

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a little cord

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like that on the ceiling

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so my whole room looked like

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observatory actually

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and then after a long long time

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finally we had the second

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Star Wars movie and it was even

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even better than the first one

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and of course I was older so I
understood the story

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a little bit more

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and that was just fantastic

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and of course I was kind of

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shocked that Luke

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didn't get involved with Leia

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but that Han Solo actually got
the princess

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I found that very shocking

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Luke Skywalker was my hero

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and Han Solo was just this

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kind of wild guy

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he just didn't deserve princess
Leia

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that was my opinion at the time

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and the third movie came out

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I was even older and that was
also

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a fantastic conclusion

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to the whole saga

38:50.000 --> 38:52.000
and then of course we got our
first video recorder

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and I bought these movies on
video

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and I would play them

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over and over again

38:58.000 --> 39:00.000
I must have seen a hundred times

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a total waste of time perhaps

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for some people but for me

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it was just like reading my
favorite book

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I would read it over and over
again

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and it was the same with these
movies

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so I knew them all by heart

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I wasn't the only one because my
brother

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had the same geeky behavior

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so we were used to

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when we were washing the dishes

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we used to kind of recite the
whole movie together

39:22.000 --> 39:24.000
so when I was about 17 or 18

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I started to rediscover

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my faith and

39:28.000 --> 39:30.000
when I was in that process

39:30.000 --> 39:32.000
I also started to

39:32.000 --> 39:34.000
discover that there was actually

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a second layer in these Star
Wars movies

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it wasn't just a popcorn story

39:38.000 --> 39:40.000
about a princess

39:40.000 --> 39:42.000
about Luke Skywalker

39:42.000 --> 39:44.000
some spaceships and some space
wars

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but that there were

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a lot of mythological

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also religious themes

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that church Lucas took

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and put them in the story

39:54.000 --> 39:56.000
of the movie

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I also started reading about
this

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it was actually

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something that George Lucas did
deliberately

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because he said

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he wanted to create

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a new mythology for young people

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for today's young people

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to talk to them

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to teach them about good

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and evil about the consequences

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of our choices

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and I was fascinated

40:20.000 --> 40:22.000
by that deeper level

40:22.000 --> 40:24.000
of the movie and I started to
read

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about it and start to

40:26.000 --> 40:28.000
rediscover these movies

40:28.000 --> 40:30.000
and so they became even more

40:30.000 --> 40:32.000
intriguing and more interesting

40:32.000 --> 40:34.000
so I also

40:34.000 --> 40:36.000
tried to find out the
differences

40:36.000 --> 40:38.000
between the kind of

40:38.000 --> 40:40.000
philosophy that you find in Star
Wars

40:40.000 --> 40:42.000
and the

40:42.000 --> 40:44.000
philosophy of faith

40:44.000 --> 40:46.000
of the Catholic faith and the
values in there

40:46.000 --> 40:48.000
it made me look at these movies
over and over again

40:48.000 --> 40:50.000
trying to

40:50.000 --> 40:52.000
see all these links and
references

40:52.000 --> 40:54.000
and also the whole

40:54.000 --> 40:56.000
trilogy itself had so many

40:56.000 --> 40:58.000
internal references

40:58.000 --> 41:00.000
and I just rediscovered

41:00.000 --> 41:02.000
how very very well constructed
these stories were

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and that is also

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for me

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why they worked and why they
worked on a global level

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because

41:10.000 --> 41:12.000
George Lucas didn't only want to
make

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a popcorn movie

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but he just inserted all these

41:16.000 --> 41:18.000
mythological themes

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and kind of the core

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themes of storytelling

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so that would actually

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kind of evoke

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the central themes

41:28.000 --> 41:30.000
in a lot of cultures and a lot
of

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philosophies and in a lot of
religions

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I studied for 10 years

41:34.000 --> 41:36.000
in order to become

41:36.000 --> 41:38.000
a priest I first did 4 years

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of philosophy and then

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I did another year of theology

41:42.000 --> 41:44.000
I did all that in Belgium

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then I did another 5 years of

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theology in Holland in Utrecht

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and then I was ordained

41:50.000 --> 41:52.000
and after my ordination

41:52.000 --> 41:54.000
my bishop asked me to work

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for 50% in a couple of parishes

41:56.000 --> 41:58.000
and then for 50% to start

41:58.000 --> 42:00.000
a doctorate

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on the theology of

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Saint Thomas Aquinas

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a very important medieval

42:06.000 --> 42:08.000
theologian and philosopher

42:08.000 --> 42:10.000
and while I was starting

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my studies at university

42:12.000 --> 42:14.000
I first got into contact with

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the internet

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and one thing that at the time
was relatively new

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we didn't have it

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at home so what I did

42:22.000 --> 42:24.000
was in my free time I was kind
of

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surfing the internet and
discovering

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all these different topics

42:28.000 --> 42:30.000
that people made websites about

42:30.000 --> 42:32.000
and one thing I discovered

42:32.000 --> 42:34.000
was a website about Star Wars

42:34.000 --> 42:36.000
that told me that you know

42:36.000 --> 42:38.000
George Lucas was going to make
the prequels

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so new Star Wars movies

42:40.000 --> 42:42.000
and suddenly this whole

42:42.000 --> 42:44.000
enthusiasm for Star Wars

42:44.000 --> 42:46.000
just know everything about it

42:46.000 --> 42:48.000
so I started looking for the
rumors

42:48.000 --> 42:50.000
about these new movies and when
they would be

42:50.000 --> 42:52.000
filmed and you know I was most

42:52.000 --> 42:54.000
of course very much interested

42:54.000 --> 42:56.000
in the storyline you know

42:56.000 --> 42:58.000
how can you make prequels what
are they going to be about

42:58.000 --> 43:00.000
and of course this storyline

43:00.000 --> 43:02.000
was ultra secret

43:02.000 --> 43:04.000
but I started to

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gather on the internet

43:06.000 --> 43:08.000
all the little rumors

43:08.000 --> 43:10.000
and little you know leaked out
secrets

43:10.000 --> 43:12.000
of this new movie

43:12.000 --> 43:14.000
and I started to put them

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on a website

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and that started off

43:18.000 --> 43:20.000
a whole new adventure for me

43:20.000 --> 43:22.000
on the internet and I will tell
you more

43:22.000 --> 43:24.000
about it in the next episode

43:24.000 --> 43:26.000
of the Star Wars Chronicles

43:42.000 --> 43:44.000
the past weeks podcasting
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and some of the news stories
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on the radar

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lets you charge micropayments
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later this year

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welcome and thanks for tuning in

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not like locally standing

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where I am here

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they started the podcast
showcase and promote

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some of its new songwriter
artists

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that don't have a record deal
yet

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the podcast has been available
since

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May 9th at BMI.com

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and BMI will select songwriter

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artists for the podcast

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from its new signings each month

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we here at podcheck weekly
review

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wonder if that's all it takes

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to be an agency in the 21st
century

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honestly we'd be happy

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to audition music and put it
together

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in a monthly podcast of
independent music

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what a great idea

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why hasn't anyone thought of
this before

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why this is that what

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so someone else

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someone else has

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125 other

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podcasts do that already

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well our offer still stands

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so all of you starving musicians

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out there send us your

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independent pod safe music

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along with $300 cash

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and we'll consider playing your
music

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on our new podcast

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then if some fat cat

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record executive happens to hear
your song

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on our podcast

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you end up getting signed

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with a record company deal

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all we ask is 30%

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of the take and your soul

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South Carolina reaffirmed

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its tolerance this week

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when podcaster Nate Fullermer

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was fired from his day job

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in Mount Pleasant, South
Carolina

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he described his own podcast

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the Nate and Die Show

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typical podcast fare

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probably some dirty words and
nasty talk

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Nate Fullermer was apparently
fired

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from the laboratory supply
company

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for not representing his
employer

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in a moral manner

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you know that's odd

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because I think that Pat O'Brien

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still has his job

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if you agree

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say yes

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listeners of the Geek News
Central

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podcast will tell you that Todd
Cochran

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has been king geek for the last
week

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incessantly promoting

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his quote big announcement

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that he made on Friday the 13th

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and the announcement was

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he wrote a book

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it's a new podcasting how to
book

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published by Wiley Publishing

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the book called podcasting do it
yourself guide

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shows readers not only how to
find

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download and listen to podcasts

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but also how to create

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a podcast of their own

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the books do out in May 30th
this year

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for retail price of $19.95

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it's also available for

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pre-order at Amazon for $13.59

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and will be available

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on the clearance table

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at Sam's in October for $3.99

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what?

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it's true

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nothing against him

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I'm sure it's a great book

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but in six months the whole
landscape is going to change

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to be fair I haven't read the
book

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so I don't know how specific it
is

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but boy podcasting

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is changing every day

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so I

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but hats off to him if he can
keep that book

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relevant for more than a few
months

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you never know about consumers
though

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because I still have my

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1991 internet yellow pages

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book that I bought for $20

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that was back before google

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and altavista and all those

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before search engines he had to
buy

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a book back in my day

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anyway onward

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so

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imagine getting a wake up call

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at 6.30 in the morning

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from podcasting drag queen

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Wanda Wisdom

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good morning

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this is your wake up call

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get that little bottom out of
bed

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eh

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Wanda Wisdom's lucky bitch

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radio podcast wants to ensure

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listeners are bright-eyed and

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bushy-tailed for her daily

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radio show

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I'm not sure how that's going to
work

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be great if it was automated

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Wanda Wisdom wicked dialer

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my wife I wonder what my wife

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think I just signed us up for
that

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and at 6.30 this drag queen
called us up

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sounds like a great idea

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Scott

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building and maintaining that
quality marriage

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I'm sure you've heard by now
that

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infinity broadcasting has

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a radio station called KYOU

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radio

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the world's first ever
podcasting

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radio station and that's set to

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launch Monday that's tomorrow

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May 16th at 9 in the morning

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featuring content

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created exclusively by

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you the listener the podcast

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sucker giving away your stuff

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for free

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it's up to you if you want to do
that

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speaking of the KYOU

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radio if you're considering

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submitting your podcast to KYOU

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radio then you might be
interested

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in the story from the
International

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Nanocasting Alliance a trade
organization

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dedicated to hijacking the
podcast

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movement by renaming it and then
claiming

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all credit for its success

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okay no that's not really

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their slogan I just made that up

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I'm sure you know I'm sure

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there's nothing wrong with
renaming a

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commonly accepted concept like
podcasting

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and calling it instead

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nanocasting considering that

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most of us listen to our
nanocast

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on our nanopod while

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driving to work in our auto

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car whatever

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in any event the

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international nanocasting
alliance

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has an unexpectedly valid
warning

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to podcaster I mean nanocasters

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the

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warnings about the legal issues
in the

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KYOU contract

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according to attorney Michael
Leventhal

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clauses in the KYOU

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radio agreement are intended to

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protect infinity broadcasting

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and shift legal exposure to the
content

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provider you the podcaster

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essentially if

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they get sued you get sued

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and they're not gonna carry your
ass so

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you know doesn't matter what
kind

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of contract you're in this
language

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is gonna be in it essentially
saying if

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I get sued and it's your fault

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I'm not gonna take the blame

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so if you're a podcaster
considering

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getting involved in the KYOU

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radio here's my warning

51:08.000 --> 51:10.000
from podcheck

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weekly review

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that KYOU contract contains

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nothing out of the ordinary

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be careful

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and whatever you do don't

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read the contract before you
sign it

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this story out of Lycos

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according to them

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the search requests related to

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podcasting are up a gazillion
percent

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no wait

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that's that's only got

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that's three zeros that's a
thousand percent

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well though without really

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any real numbers from Lycos

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that could be an increase from
one to

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one thousand probably a little
bit

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more than that anyway in
addition

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Lycos is calling Godcasts

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the hottest trend in podcasting

51:50.000 --> 51:52.000
we here at podcheck weekly

51:52.000 --> 51:54.000
review suggest that Paris
bashing

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is the hottest trend this week

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not only are podcasters bashing

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the hell out of her podcast

52:00.000 --> 52:02.000
but now teenage boys googling

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for Paris Hilton sex videos are
likely

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to be redirected to the Paris
Hilton podcast

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and there's nothing less

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wankable than the Paris Hilton

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podcast teenage boys

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around the world are going to be

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pissed

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so I mentioned yahoo is going to
get

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into the online music business
sure

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enough this week they have a
beta

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version of a new music
subscription

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service called yahoo music

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unlimited made available on

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May 11th it

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has got a catalog of more than a
million songs

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supports portable devices

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and a system for sharing music
and

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playlists with friends

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you can listen to commercial
free internet radio

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and you can access your
subscription service

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from the yahoo messenger
application

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so essentially you pay your
monthly

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membership to get in and then
you start

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forcing all of your friends to
listen

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to the crap that you happen to
like

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and like being at all you can
eat buffet

52:54.000 --> 52:56.000
and tossing a dinner roll across

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the dining room anyway

52:58.000 --> 53:00.000
so we welcome yahoo music

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unlimited to the fray

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of online music stores now

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if someone would just offer
Brent

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bourgeois solo album

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online I'd be in heaven

53:12.000 --> 53:14.000
sci-fi talk

53:14.000 --> 53:16.000
the program

53:16.000 --> 53:18.000
has announced that it's dropping

53:18.000 --> 53:20.000
live 365.com

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in favor of podcasting

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the show will no longer
broadcast

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in the extended radio station

53:26.000 --> 53:28.000
or playlist mode on live

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365.com

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the show had had an extremely
loyal

53:32.000 --> 53:34.000
listenership for over five years

53:34.000 --> 53:36.000
so converting from live 365

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to podcasting makes a ton of
sense

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especially since most Star Trek
fans

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bought an iPod they purchased

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iPods because they look so much
like

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the futuristic communicator

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and they like to pretend that
they're talking on it

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Sulu we're in a world

53:52.000 --> 53:54.000
of hurt down here send down

53:54.000 --> 53:56.000
three pizzas and

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get it to really enslave girl

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this week the company BitPass

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announced that they're coming
out with a product

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called BitPass Unplugged

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it's a new service that will
give you

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the ability to charge for your
podcast

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the company will present a
preview of it

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at the streaming media east

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2005 conference

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at New York City

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on May 17th

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BitPass Unplugged

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will allow podcasters to offer

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a la carte and subscription
driven

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podcasts they plan to launch the

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product for real in the fourth

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quarter of 2005

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Microsoft has announced

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that it is acquired a company
called

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message cast message cast

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who has a product called live
message

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sends out alerts when the

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information is updated and
that's also

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being used by some of the
podcasters

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in the community to communicate
to

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listeners via alerts

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live message alerts which
essentially

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can pick and choose among the
various

54:56.000 --> 54:58.000
delivery options you can

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let someone know via cell phone

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or a pda or even right there on
the desktop

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that they got a new podcast

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or that your hair is on fire

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or some sort of very important
alert

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that you just can't wait for the
thing

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to be downloaded onto your iPod

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you gotta have an alert whatever

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I guess that'd be alright having
my cell phone

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tell me there was a new episode
of Radio Clash

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ready for my mash up

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pleasure

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also this week Hillary Rosen

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former chairman and chief
executive officer

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of the recording industry
association

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of america industry ria

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riai

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a

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had the gall to out of the
phrase

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let my music go

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she said that to apple

55:40.000 --> 55:42.000
CEO steve jobs can you believe
it

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well she's right that the apple

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iPod doesn't support the

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microsoft digital rights
management scheme

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from competitors and that the
iPod

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DRM only works with

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the either songs that you buy

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from the online apple iTunes
store

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or songs that you rip from the
CDs

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and want to apply rights to

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however she's wrong when she
says

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that you can't load MP3s from
other

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sources you can load any pod

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safe MP3 file on your iPod

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and there's plenty of free
independent music

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out there so I don't know what
her deal is

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apple does have the iPods

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DRM system locked up so the
competitors

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at MSN.com

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Rhapsody.com AOL music

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Walmart now Yahoo

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they have some reason to gripe

56:24.000 --> 56:26.000
and the iPod users

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don't enjoy the full benefits of
the competition

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and potential price lowering

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that all this competition in the

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online music market will bring

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so just one more

56:36.000 --> 56:38.000
reason to buy an iRiver

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alright last but not least

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michael gohagen of
realreviews.com

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scored a huge

56:46.000 --> 56:48.000
coup Disney is celebrating

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their 50th year or something or
other

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and michael gohagen got a call

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from a guy who got a call who
got a

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guy who got a call

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I need a bar napkin to write

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that relationship down but
anyway

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he was the guy responsible

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for podcasting

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Disney's 50th anniversary
celebration

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that's huge

57:08.000 --> 57:10.000
go over to

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realreviewsradio.com

57:12.000 --> 57:14.000
and check out that podcast

57:14.000 --> 57:16.000
if you haven't already

57:16.000 --> 57:18.000
and if you haven't already you
must be living under a rock

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because it does a great job

57:20.000 --> 57:22.000
reviewing movies that you may or
may not

57:22.000 --> 57:24.000
have seen oh see what I did
there

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I almost started doing reviews

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of a review podcast

57:28.000 --> 57:30.000
that's clever

57:32.000 --> 57:34.000
well that's the show for this
week

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