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Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera.

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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know?

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Speaker 1: From house Stuff Works dot com? Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Chuck Bryant. Your lude, Chuck,

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Speaker 1: what delude? Oh but you said I'm alluded with a

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Speaker 1: little bit of both, Chuck, great? Yes, so this is

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Speaker 1: stuff you should know. I did? I did say your

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Speaker 1: full name? Didn't I? No, it doesn't matter. Just Chuck,

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Speaker 1: just Chuck CB. Yeah. Hell o, l So Chuck. Um,

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Speaker 1: did you know that just a couple of days ago,

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Speaker 1: the Earth actually had a near miss with an asteroid?

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Speaker 1: I did hear about that? Someone actually, a fan wrote

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Speaker 1: this asteroid about the size of a ten story building.

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Speaker 1: We know the height. I don't know the width or

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Speaker 1: death or anything. But UM passed within fifty thou miles

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Speaker 1: believe that is what they call it, or near miss

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Speaker 1: same thing, UM, But uh, the there've been closer asteroids

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Speaker 1: very recently, think two thousand four, two thousand six one

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Speaker 1: UM came within five thousand miles, but the thing was

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Speaker 1: pretty small and would have done much damage. This one

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Speaker 1: came within fifty thousand miles, which is a fifth of

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Speaker 1: the distance between us and the moon, so it was

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Speaker 1: the one that um leveled eight hundred square miles of

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Speaker 1: Siberia n eight Wow, So it could have been a

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Speaker 1: real problem, right right, we need we should have gotten

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Speaker 1: Bruce Willison the Gang of Drillers to go up and

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Speaker 1: uh explode it with I think they were at the ready. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Ben Affleck too. Yeah, that was a terrible movie. It

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Speaker 1: really was. Are we allowed to say that? Oh, it

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Speaker 1: was a terrible movie. It was. Thank you Michael Bay

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Speaker 1: for that stinker. That's funny that you bring up Michael

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Speaker 1: Bay's name because he's doing something right now that um

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Speaker 1: we'll be out soon. I believe he may have already finished.

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Speaker 1: He's directing a movie called two thousand twelve. No he's not. Yeah, yes,

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Speaker 1: Rowland Emerick directed that film. Well, then we need to

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Speaker 1: update this article because this says Michael Bay. I believe

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Speaker 1: uh I worked with him. Let's hear it. Chuck, I

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Speaker 1: can't tell this full story honestly, because I would I

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Speaker 1: would most definitely get a phone call from his people.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but yeah, I worked with him on a

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Speaker 1: truck commercial like the Grand Canyon. Pretty cool, very cool.

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Speaker 1: What truck the Canyon? Earra Oh I don't even remember. Okay, So, um,

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Speaker 1: well I bring up twelve because that's kind of what

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Speaker 1: suggestion we're kind of diving into these from Jason of

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Speaker 1: Santa Barbara wanted to hear about the doomsday theories of

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Speaker 1: the year twelve. So yeah, yeah, thanks Jason. Let's let's

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Speaker 1: do this, right, Chuck. Yes, okay, So basically it's not

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Speaker 1: just the year. Um, there's actually a specific date December one,

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Speaker 1: two thousand twelve, the Winner Solstice. And actually I was

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Speaker 1: on a site called all About twelve and it's sites

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Speaker 1: eleven eleven A m. Greenwich meantime as the moment when

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Speaker 1: not gonna need money anyway after the apocalypse comes. That's alright,

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Speaker 1: so well, Chuck. December twenty one, two thousand and twelve.

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Speaker 1: This is not an arbitrary date right now. This is

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Speaker 1: There's all sorts of groups around the world. I read

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Speaker 1: even though it's a human construct, right, But I mean

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Speaker 1: So like we said, the December twenty first, two thousand twelve,

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