WEBVTT - Can it rain frogs?

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<v Speaker 1>It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know

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<v Speaker 1>from house Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to

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<v Speaker 1>the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. With me is always as

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<v Speaker 1>Charles W. Chuck Bryant and this, friends is stuff you

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<v Speaker 1>should know. It's rain and frogs. Hello, do you Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>I got a lot of those during the search for this.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh really yeah, during research for this, you've got it's

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<v Speaker 1>raining men references. Yeah, kept coming up and that predictive

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<v Speaker 1>search and really yeah. And then there's a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>um raining different things. Mouse pads out there available, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>at e retailers like Etsy and Zazzle and stuff like that. Basically,

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<v Speaker 1>if you type something in Zezel will be like, well,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, we'll put that on a mouse pad for you,

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<v Speaker 1>you know. Um. And there's an adorable umbrella out there,

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<v Speaker 1>a see through umbrella with with frogs all over it.

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<v Speaker 1>That's cute. Uh no, they're not and they're actually it

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<v Speaker 1>didn't show up there in this article. There's triplets holding them. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>three times the adorable So um, Chuck, I ran into

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of um descriptions of crazy stuff happening over

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<v Speaker 1>the course of history here on planet Earth. Um, as

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<v Speaker 1>far back as I could see, there was a guy

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<v Speaker 1>named Athanas He lived in the fourth century BC, and

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<v Speaker 1>he was a traveler and writer. And he mentioned that

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<v Speaker 1>in the area that is now Dinar, Turkey, Uh, it

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<v Speaker 1>frequently rained fish and frogs frequently. And not only did

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<v Speaker 1>it frequently do it. Once it rained frogs for three

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<v Speaker 1>days there. He said, wow, ye, and so much so

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<v Speaker 1>that the villagers had to leave because it was they

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<v Speaker 1>were just inundated with frogs. They poisoned the water. Um,

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<v Speaker 1>whenever they tried to cook. There was like frogs and

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<v Speaker 1>their frogs everywhere, and it was raining frogs. Sounds like

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<v Speaker 1>the ramblings of a fourth century BC Greek madman. Right, sure, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>that we'll say that. But what about Bergen, Norway in

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<v Speaker 1>fifteen seventy eight and fifteen seventy nine, when it rained

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<v Speaker 1>supposedly yellow mice and lemmings. It rained lemmings supposedly, Now

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<v Speaker 1>that's been widely discredited. But what about Memphis, Tennessee January

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<v Speaker 1>eighteen seventy seven It rained live snakes, some as big

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<v Speaker 1>as eighteen inches long. And this one was reported in

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<v Speaker 1>Scientific American. Yeah. Uh, Pliny the Elder, which is the

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<v Speaker 1>name of a beer as well. I found out an

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<v Speaker 1>I p. A even Um first century a d reported

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<v Speaker 1>rains of flesh, blood and wool. Yeah, wool eighteen seventy three.

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<v Speaker 1>Kansas City, Missouri, rain and frogs. Australia rain and fish yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>Acapulco night raining maggots you yeah, uh, tadpoles jellyfish and

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<v Speaker 1>Tasmania jellyfish. Yeah, that's scary, scary. The one of squid

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<v Speaker 1>that's b s. It was some guy who found a

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<v Speaker 1>single squid. Yeah. So while we're talking about all these

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<v Speaker 1>are documented cases of it raining, crazy crazy stuff. It's

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<v Speaker 1>rain blood before supposedly when really it was an algae um.

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<v Speaker 1>But it did in India and Russia, and the people

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<v Speaker 1>in Russia found that they had the biggest crop yield

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<v Speaker 1>ever thanks to the blood rain. No weird. Yeah, um,

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<v Speaker 1>but all these are documented cases and you can for

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<v Speaker 1>the most part throw a lot of them right out

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<v Speaker 1>the window, like the Lemmings one in Bergen, Norway it

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<v Speaker 1>was just a lie. Other ones um like, uh, there

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<v Speaker 1>was a report of rain, I believe in London, somewhere

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<v Speaker 1>in Great Britain. Um. So it's London or the rest

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<v Speaker 1>of Great Britain like that. Um, that's where some guy,

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<v Speaker 1>some doctor came out into his garden and there's a

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<v Speaker 1>bunch of frogs there, and the day before it had

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<v Speaker 1>been dry and he had a high garden wall, so

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<v Speaker 1>the only way they could have gotten there was rain.

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<v Speaker 1>So it rain frogs in Great Britain that year. There's

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of stories like that. People are just stupid.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't notice that that. A lot of the stories

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<v Speaker 1>were people didn't actually witness it, but they just assume

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<v Speaker 1>there's tadpoles all over my car, so it must have

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<v Speaker 1>rained them exactly. Um, you know, it's not the most

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<v Speaker 1>illogical conclusion. Even one of my personal heroes, Charles Fort,

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<v Speaker 1>through his goofy hat in the Ring forty Times is

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<v Speaker 1>the greatest magazine ever created. Um, Charles Fort said that

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<v Speaker 1>there was something called a super Sargasso Sea that was

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<v Speaker 1>suspended above the earth, and every once in a while

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<v Speaker 1>this it would dump some of its contents in the

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<v Speaker 1>form of rain on the earth, and that's how you

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<v Speaker 1>got raining frogs. Yeah. That was from the Book of

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<v Speaker 1>the Damned. Yeah, and by damned he meant excluded. I

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<v Speaker 1>found out, Yes, I didn't realize that. Yeah, I didn't

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<v Speaker 1>either until today too. Um with a snakes one that

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't scientific American man live snakes foot and a half long.

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<v Speaker 1>I caught a snake the other day in my yarn

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<v Speaker 1>from the sky. No, no, no no, I was just doing

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<v Speaker 1>the weeds and I saw and he was a copper head.

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<v Speaker 1>He was oh wow, it was deadly. But I picked

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<v Speaker 1>him up like Steve Irwin, and Emily was very impressed.

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<v Speaker 1>It's so bad. Then I took him across the street

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<v Speaker 1>and displaced him. Displaced him with extreme prejudice. No, I

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<v Speaker 1>just you know. I did the trick, and I snuck

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<v Speaker 1>it behind him and I grabbed him behind the head

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<v Speaker 1>and took him away. The poisonous snake popped his head

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<v Speaker 1>clean off. He was fine. Field dressed him and ate

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<v Speaker 1>him on the spot. He wasn't that big. But you're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna get some mail for letting a poisonous snake go

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<v Speaker 1>in the neighborhood. It was already in the neighborhood. I

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<v Speaker 1>just moved them to a to a empty wooded open

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<v Speaker 1>wooded land. But you didn't exercise extreme prejudice and to

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<v Speaker 1>kill him. That's what a lot of people are going

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<v Speaker 1>to say they're crazy. So anyway, there's a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>crackpots and cooks and dummies out there who say that

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<v Speaker 1>it's rained frogs, it's rained squid. That squid one just

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<v Speaker 1>irks me. Um, it's rained a bunch of crazy stuff

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<v Speaker 1>people not named Pete Anderson. Yes, um, which, by the way,

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<v Speaker 1>I finally saw there will be blood yesterday day before. Yester,

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<v Speaker 1>you've never seen that. What do you think? There was

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<v Speaker 1>a lot? Okay, Um, that is one word of you

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<v Speaker 1>a lot two words. It could be too, It depends. Uh.

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<v Speaker 1>The crazy thing is if we're finally going to get

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<v Speaker 1>to the point here, it actually has rained things like

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<v Speaker 1>frogs before that. This really has happened, not just people saying, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>there's a bunch of frogs everywhere. They couldn't have possibly

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<v Speaker 1>come from anywhere else but the sky. There have been

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<v Speaker 1>people who have reported frogs specifically falling from the sky

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<v Speaker 1>in the middle of a storm. And it's true. It

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<v Speaker 1>happened is recently two thousand five, Yeah, and was that

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<v Speaker 1>the Serbia where people there was a big old storm

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<v Speaker 1>and people saw and heard frogs raining down from the

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<v Speaker 1>sky hitting their roofs and basically apparently what like you

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<v Speaker 1>were saying P. T. Anderson and magnolia what he depicted.

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<v Speaker 1>It's probably a lot with something like that would look

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<v Speaker 1>like I would imagine. So, uh, there's an explanation for this. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>it's not the end of the world. We're gonna go

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<v Speaker 1>into that. It's not one of the plagues biblical plagues,

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<v Speaker 1>although we'll get into that. Uh. First explained by French

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<v Speaker 1>physicist Andre Marie Empire in the early nineteenth century. He said,

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<v Speaker 1>you know what this is. This is water spout. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it's a tornado that forms and then goes over the

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<v Speaker 1>water becomes part of you know, partially water. It picks

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<v Speaker 1>up these little light things from as deep as what

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<v Speaker 1>like three ft for a big one, and uh picks

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<v Speaker 1>these things up because they're obviously lighter than you know.

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<v Speaker 1>It might not be picking up like a great white shark,

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<v Speaker 1>but it'll pick up a little fish or a little

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<v Speaker 1>frog or a tad bowl and then as it dies out,

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<v Speaker 1>it spits them back out when it gets over land

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<v Speaker 1>because it decreases in pressure. Yes for filler. Since you

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<v Speaker 1>just explain the whole podcast, let's just talk about how

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<v Speaker 1>water spout forms. Okay, so you've got two kinds of

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<v Speaker 1>water spouts. You've got tornadic which is just like a tornado,

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<v Speaker 1>and it starts with a vertical clockwise turning column of

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<v Speaker 1>air that eventually goes down, so it's cloud to surface, right.

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<v Speaker 1>Those are really scary ones and they're associated with storms.

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<v Speaker 1>There's another kind called a fair weather water spout, which

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<v Speaker 1>can whip up on a sunny day and they go

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<v Speaker 1>from surface to sky. But in both cases, a water

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<v Speaker 1>spout is an example of warm air forming a low

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<v Speaker 1>pressure area which is formed by low rising air and

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<v Speaker 1>as it goes up, remember, cold air comes in to

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<v Speaker 1>fill the void. And those two things interplaying the low

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<v Speaker 1>pressure warm air rising and the cold air um dropping

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<v Speaker 1>high pressure dropping form of vortex which creates section in

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<v Speaker 1>the middle and the low pressure area the difference in pressure,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's how you can suck something up up to

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<v Speaker 1>three ft beneath the surface, or if you're a tornado,

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<v Speaker 1>you might suck up a dog or cow or a

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<v Speaker 1>cow or a car. And we didn't do how tornadoes worked.

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<v Speaker 1>We just did what it like in the eye of

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<v Speaker 1>a tornado, which is pretty awesome. It was good. So

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<v Speaker 1>are we done? I don't think so. Um. Sometimes it's

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<v Speaker 1>just a few dozen frogs. Sometimes it's hundreds, sometimes it's thousands.

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<v Speaker 1>Sometimes it's pieces of animal. Sometimes they're frozen solid yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>and hail. Um. And all that is the water spout

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<v Speaker 1>got high enough into the atmosphere there it reached an

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<v Speaker 1>area that was beneath zero. Sometimes it's not just animals.

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<v Speaker 1>Sometimes it's tomatoes or coal or coal. There's a guy

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<v Speaker 1>in Manassas, Virginia who got a frozen ten thousand Deutsche

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<v Speaker 1>mark note. Really yeah, wow, yeah frozen? Was this after

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<v Speaker 1>they converted to the euro? I don't know you can

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<v Speaker 1>still trade those in it? I'm sure are they completely

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<v Speaker 1>out of circulation? I wonder I hope not for this

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<v Speaker 1>guy's sake. Um, So frozen is one way that they

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<v Speaker 1>come down, which would be kind of really interesting if

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<v Speaker 1>a frozen frog landed on your car, right, shredded like

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<v Speaker 1>you were saying, because of the the violent wind speeds,

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<v Speaker 1>right yeah. Um. One thing that always kind of sticks

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<v Speaker 1>out to me, and I'm sure the answer is is

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<v Speaker 1>because it's just not the case. But why is it

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<v Speaker 1>that it's always just one specie. I know you're going

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<v Speaker 1>to say that an answer, Well, I don't have an answer, um,

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<v Speaker 1>because I wondered the same thing. Uh. There is a

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<v Speaker 1>professor at UM Washington University that says, um, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>it just makes sense because they're similar size and weight,

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<v Speaker 1>they might be all hanging out together at the one

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<v Speaker 1>point where this thing goes down. That still didn't explain

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<v Speaker 1>it to me though. I mean, the water spout goes

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<v Speaker 1>down over water, it's gonna be spitting out fish and

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<v Speaker 1>frogs and whatever else. And it's always almost always reported

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<v Speaker 1>to be one one thing. It's like it's raining frogs

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<v Speaker 1>or it's raining fish, and fish supposedly are the most common. Um. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>old rains fish in Australia like every day. Yeah. It's

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<v Speaker 1>like they're like yeah, of course, Um, but yeah, why

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<v Speaker 1>why they're not mixed together, or why they're not reported

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<v Speaker 1>to be mixed together is the weirdest thing that is weird. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>There's another professor from Southern Illinois that theorizes that it's

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<v Speaker 1>not just water spouts. He said, it can be any

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<v Speaker 1>kind of unusual updraft. Um, anything like at a speed

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<v Speaker 1>of sixty miles an hour plus can pick up light

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<v Speaker 1>objects and deposit them elsewhere, So not necessarily just a

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<v Speaker 1>water spout, although it has been observed by like you

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<v Speaker 1>know bona fide people. Okay, like this one professor in Louisiana,

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<v Speaker 1>he worked with the Department of Wildlife. He was eating

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<v Speaker 1>breakfast in he saw like an average of one fish

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<v Speaker 1>per square yard raining down. So that's that's a significant

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<v Speaker 1>amount of fish depending on the side of the fish.

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<v Speaker 1>Like people say fish, Are they talking about guppies? Are

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<v Speaker 1>they talking about crap? Are they talking about do you

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<v Speaker 1>say crap? Is it crappy? Crappy? Are they talking about

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<v Speaker 1>you know, swordfish? Those are really dangerous when they raigne.

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<v Speaker 1>Uh No, I mean I think they're light because that's

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<v Speaker 1>the whole point. Even an updraft from a water spolled

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<v Speaker 1>to two isn't going to be picking up you know,

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<v Speaker 1>great white sharks. Right, that's that's a movie for you,

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<v Speaker 1>raining sharks. What about Piranha Parana two? They flew and

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<v Speaker 1>made it on the land, right, the original parity so

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<v Speaker 1>not the new Paranha three double D. Is that what

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<v Speaker 1>it's called? Jez? I know? So I guess um Acam's razor,

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<v Speaker 1>uh teaches us. In this case, the simplest explanation is that, um,

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<v Speaker 1>this is Satan's work, Okay, Um, what a water spout

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<v Speaker 1>forming supposedly and just picking up things then dropping them

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<v Speaker 1>over land. Okay, right, um, and raining frogs is explaining it,

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<v Speaker 1>I guess is part of this larger trend that's gripped

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<v Speaker 1>the scientific community lately. Um, which is explaining biblical phenomenon phenomena. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>I thought this was pretty interesting. You dug up this

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<v Speaker 1>article on the biblical plagues. Yeah, the ten plagues of Egypt,

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<v Speaker 1>one of which was frogs. Yes, but it didn't rain frogs.

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<v Speaker 1>A lot of people think that it's supposedly rain frogs. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>what supposedly happened was apparently it's like where you know

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<v Speaker 1>dinar and Turkey is now, they were just overrun by frogs. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>And I guess I can imagine. There was another horror

0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.280
<v Speaker 1>movie from the eighties about that. It was just about

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<v Speaker 1>giant frogs and lots of them, right. Yeah, it was

0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.760
<v Speaker 1>like the birds, but with frogs. And a frog can

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<v Speaker 1>be kind of unsettling when it's staring at you, especially

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<v Speaker 1>if it's surrounded by thousands of its companions judge you yeah, um,

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<v Speaker 1>And they'll kind of get all over everything, and they'll

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<v Speaker 1>get underfoot and you'll step on them, and things get

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<v Speaker 1>slippery and mucky real quick, and that was one of

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<v Speaker 1>the plagues of Egypt. It wasn't the first one though, No,

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<v Speaker 1>So should we explain this away? Yeah, again, it's in

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<v Speaker 1>vogue right now to explain away the plagues. And the

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<v Speaker 1>cool thing is that these um, these researchers figured out

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<v Speaker 1>or they suggest that all of these things were linked.

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<v Speaker 1>It was a series of events of amazing events that

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<v Speaker 1>um became what we know as the Ten Plagues of

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<v Speaker 1>Egypt that eventually caused Pharaoh to say, hey, Moses, you

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<v Speaker 1>guys can go back your stuff and leave. Yeah. Uh, yes,

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<v Speaker 1>you dug this up from the Telegraph, one of my

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<v Speaker 1>favorite publications. And Richard Gray, the correspondent the Telegraph. You

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<v Speaker 1>can tell these the science correspondent, look at that hairline.

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<v Speaker 1>So they have some evidence that what kicked this whole

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<v Speaker 1>thing off was a climate change, a climate event that

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<v Speaker 1>happened way back in the day. Um. There was a

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<v Speaker 1>city called um pie Rameses on the Nile Delta. It

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<v Speaker 1>was abandoned about three thousand years ago, which they think

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<v Speaker 1>this explanation works in concert with that abandonment of the city.

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<v Speaker 1>And they said that there was a dramatic shifting climate

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<v Speaker 1>towards the end of the second rain of Rameses, Rameses, Rameses,

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<v Speaker 1>and uh, we had a goat name ramesay. Uh, you

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<v Speaker 1>can't just say that things like that, sure I can. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>So they found that the end of the rain um

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<v Speaker 1>coincided with a warm, wet climate and then switched over

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<v Speaker 1>to a really dry period, and that was not good

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<v Speaker 1>news for the nile. It kicked off the first plague,

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<v Speaker 1>which was the nile turning to blood. So how did

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<v Speaker 1>that happen? Well, the nile supposedly dried up um and

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<v Speaker 1>became kind of this muddy, mucky, slow moving mess, no

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<v Speaker 1>longer vital and prime for this type of algae that

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<v Speaker 1>we know was around back then. It's still around today

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<v Speaker 1>called uh burgundy blood algae, and basically it sucks the

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<v Speaker 1>life out of a mucky area, which would have caused

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<v Speaker 1>the second plague frogs. Right, Well, then, what did you

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<v Speaker 1>say the name of the first plague? The river turns

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<v Speaker 1>to blood, and so frogs suddenly infesting where the people

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<v Speaker 1>were living because there's no place to be in the river, right,

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<v Speaker 1>It's suddenly turned lifeless. Right, and so now the frogs

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<v Speaker 1>are everywhere, um, which would have they're everywhere but the river,

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<v Speaker 1>which would have led to the third, fourth, and fifth plagues, right,

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<v Speaker 1>third and fourth, third, and fourth, which were flies and lice.

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<v Speaker 1>All of a sudden, the frogs are around to eat

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<v Speaker 1>these things, so you're gonna have a lot more lice

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<v Speaker 1>and flies. Yeah, okay, so far, so good. Now what

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<v Speaker 1>well after that, all everybody's itching and like swatting and

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<v Speaker 1>like trying not to slip on all the dead frogs

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<v Speaker 1>that they've stepped on. Um, the following plagues were disease,

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<v Speaker 1>livestock and boils, which you're gonna have if you've got

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<v Speaker 1>lots of flies and lies and mosquitoes spreading disease, spreading disease. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>so that's that's okay, that's I mean, it makes sense.

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<v Speaker 1>But that's not like the oh yeah, of course. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>After that we have the seventh, eighth, and ninth plagues hail, locusts,

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<v Speaker 1>and darkness, which they think was coincidentally caused by the

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<v Speaker 1>eruption of a volcano at Theara on the islands of Santorini,

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<v Speaker 1>which happened thirty years ago and which they found evidence

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<v Speaker 1>of in Egypt. Excavating some uh some locations in ancient Egypt,

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<v Speaker 1>they found pumics volcanic stone from the Thera volcano. Like,

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<v Speaker 1>there are no volcanoes in Egypt. Yeah, how could there

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<v Speaker 1>be pumas exactly? Well, they looked and they said, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>it's from Santorini. Wow, it's kind of big. Um. So

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<v Speaker 1>you have the um, this volcanic eruption, huge, huge volcanic eruption. UM.

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<v Speaker 1>The ash mixing with the clouds over Egypt would have

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<v Speaker 1>caused hail worth writing down in the Bible. UM. And

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<v Speaker 1>then it would have also um created locusts because it

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<v Speaker 1>would have raised the humidity and the temperature right right,

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<v Speaker 1>which locusts love. I thought that was a little tenuous,

0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:45.879
<v Speaker 1>but it's still made sense. But then the darkness volcanic

0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:49.200
<v Speaker 1>ash blotting out the sun, which we've heard could happen.

0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:52.320
<v Speaker 1>Ever heard of a nuclear winner. That's right, same thing.

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<v Speaker 1>And so there you have it. All the plagues explained,

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<v Speaker 1>sort of except for the last one. John, This one

0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:03.399
<v Speaker 1>didn't seem to be connected to anything. It was kind

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<v Speaker 1>of free standing if you ask me. But the tenth

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<v Speaker 1>plague was the death of the first borns Um. The

0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:15.240
<v Speaker 1>firstborn sons, I should say um in Egypt were suddenly

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<v Speaker 1>dying mysteriously as a plague, and I think that possibly

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<v Speaker 1>there was some sort of grain fungus that killed the

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<v Speaker 1>firstborns who would have had first DIBs on food, so

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<v Speaker 1>they would have been the first to die. I thought

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<v Speaker 1>that was a little hanky. A couple of these were

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<v Speaker 1>little hanky, but I thought it was interesting to read,

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<v Speaker 1>for sure. But I mean, yeah, they weren't going to

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<v Speaker 1>be like, hey, we're gonna get front page exposure in

0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:43.720
<v Speaker 1>the Telegraph by saying we've explained eight of the ten

0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:46.639
<v Speaker 1>plagues of Egypt. You have to go for ten, and

0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:49.440
<v Speaker 1>you got to fudge apparently if you are a researcher

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<v Speaker 1>looking to get media coverage. So we don't know if

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<v Speaker 1>they budged. Still that was that was not the greatest link. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>that's it. That was a we weird, weird episode all

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<v Speaker 1>over the place. We talked about raining frog that was

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<v Speaker 1>based on an article on the website. Can it really

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<v Speaker 1>rain frogs? It can? But I have to say that

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<v Speaker 1>just a little bit of skeptic in me says I

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<v Speaker 1>would have to see that one to believe in me too.

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<v Speaker 1>In the meantime, I'll just watch Magnolia very frequently. If

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