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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to coast AM on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 1: Now let's move on to your other work, The Secret

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Speaker 1: Lost Diary of Admiral Richard D. Bird. Of course, he

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Speaker 1: was a Navy officer and flew apparently into what could

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Speaker 1: be the Hollow Earth through what the South Pole. There

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Speaker 1: are conflicting stories with that. The book The Lost Diaries

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Speaker 1: of Admiral Bird surfaced first probably in the late nineteen

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Speaker 1: fifties early nineteen sixties. That it was a what was

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Speaker 1: called samosat where people would copy the version that they

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Speaker 1: have and then send it on to somebody else. And

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Speaker 1: in this it allegedly was the notes that that Bird

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Speaker 1: and his some pilot had recorded during a Bennett yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: exactly during a North Pole flight over uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: over the Arctic in nineteen four forty seven. But the

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Speaker 1: thing about that is, and this is something that I

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Speaker 1: covered in my book everal Birds, uh Dirty over the

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Speaker 1: over the Poles, was that at that same time Bird

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Speaker 1: was actually in Antarctica in a government expedition called Operation

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Speaker 1: High Jump. So it's, uh, it's it's a fascinating story

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Speaker 1: that you know, it involves so much that it's the

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Speaker 1: book that the book that I put together in subsequent

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Speaker 1: articles of that I have written, really gets into the

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Speaker 1: idea that possibly the book The Diary of Admiral Bird

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Speaker 1: may have been a misdirection over what actually was going

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Speaker 1: on in Antarctica with Operation High Jump. Now, the Diary

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Speaker 1: of Bird recounts that that Bird allegedly ran into UFOs,

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Speaker 1: which escorted him through the Northern polar opening. The saw

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Speaker 1: strange animals and everything else. Strange animals, a civilization. He

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Speaker 1: met with people who lived in the Hollow Earth and

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Speaker 1: up quotation marks around around that, and they they gave

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Speaker 1: him a story very much like the cond Ufo contacts

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Speaker 1: in the nineteen fifties, that the people in the Service

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Speaker 1: world were I'm going to blow everything up with their

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Speaker 1: atomic weapons, and that the people the Inner Earth they

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Speaker 1: weren't going to have it, and that unless we stopped,

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Speaker 1: they were going to come out and intervene. And uh

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Speaker 1: and then and then he was sent back. Were were

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Speaker 1: these episodes recorded in his diaries or was it just hearsaying?

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Speaker 1: For years? His diary from this time UM had been lost.

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Speaker 1: Now I guess, oh, it's been about five or six

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Speaker 1: years ago. It actually resurfaced and Um and it has

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Speaker 1: now been um now kept to the University in uh

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Speaker 1: I think in Ohio. I don't know. It could be

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Speaker 1: um it could be in Virginia where you know, he

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Speaker 1: was born in Virginia, and it had nothing to do

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Speaker 1: with the alleged diaries of his journey over indeed North whole.

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Speaker 1: Now people have researchers have looked at the one that

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Speaker 1: popped up in the early nineteen sixties and said that

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Speaker 1: it is consistent with the types of notes that him

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Speaker 1: and his pilots, you know, we're taking at the time.

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Speaker 1: While his supposedly his authenticated diary is more polished, like

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Speaker 1: it was written after the fact, while the first one

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Speaker 1: was basically just bare bones, you know, the type of

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Speaker 1: material that you would write while you were actually on airplane,

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Speaker 1: you know, rather than at your desk years later. Why

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Speaker 1: would somebody tim make up the story of Richard Byrd

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Speaker 1: going into the hollow Earth. Well, I don't think it's

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Speaker 1: a coincidence that the the timeline allegedly when he was

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Speaker 1: flying over the North Pole, when in collectuality he was

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Speaker 1: at in Antarctica in nineteen forty seven with Operation High Jump.

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Speaker 1: I think that that something happened during the High Jump

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Speaker 1: expedition in Antarctica, that something classified, something classified very classified.

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Speaker 1: And I think that possibly the Lost Diaries ramal Bird

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Speaker 1: was put out as kind of a misdirection, as disinformation.

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Speaker 1: You put out something that is so outrageous that you know,

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Speaker 1: people are like, oh well, this is definitely you know,

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Speaker 1: this is definitely fake. This definitely holds. And then that

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Speaker 1: you know, that lends that air of doubt about than

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Speaker 1: anything that would come out. So if any information about

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Speaker 1: what happened in Operation High Jump leaked people with that

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Speaker 1: associated Lost Diaries with this unique information and be like,

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Speaker 1: oh well, that's differ in space. Lost Diaries. Tuesdays on

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Speaker 1: and The Originals, comes the incredible story about making Contact.

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Speaker 1: school crush Max Evans, small town cop with an extraordinary secret.

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Speaker 1: Drawn together as if by some unseen force of attraction,

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Speaker 1: Max reveals to Liz that he's an alien who fell

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Speaker 1: to Earth during the infamous UFO Crash of nineteen forty

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Speaker 1: seven from another world, He and his brother and sister

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Speaker 1: powers they each possess. When Max's family finds out that

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Speaker 1: he has broken their vow of secrecy, events are set

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Speaker 1: how people in those days, whether we're talking about Jeff

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Speaker 1: the Mongoose or Richard Byrd's trip, really seemed to grasp

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Speaker 1: the unusual stories and the paranormal much more than I

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Speaker 1: think they do today. I think I think they were

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Speaker 1: a little bit more jaded today. Yeah. Yeah, they were

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Speaker 1: more believable in those days, very much so. And you

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Speaker 1: know now we are constantly barded with news and information.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you have the twenty four hour

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Speaker 1: news channels on cable television, you have the Internet, and

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Speaker 1: you can find practically every little bit of information in

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Speaker 1: every viewpoint, no matter you know, how normal or how crazy.

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Speaker 1: Over the Internet, so uh. You know, in the days

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Speaker 1: you only had several sources of news, and of course

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Speaker 1: then these sources will put this news out. They worked

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Speaker 1: very hard to make sure that they were as accurate

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Speaker 1: as possible. Um. You know that a lot of money

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Speaker 1: was spent sending the reporters to to locations. You know.

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Speaker 1: Now a reporter will you know, call on the phone

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Speaker 1: or you know or skype uh to get the information.

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Speaker 1: You know, when before it was travel, it was travel. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: those days are gone, and it's and it's unfortunate, you know,

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Speaker 1: it really is. And because of the twenty four hour

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Speaker 1: news cycle, uh, you get that information out as quickly

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Speaker 1: as possible without the proper vetting or verification. The attitude

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Speaker 1: is that we'll put this out now, you know, so

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Speaker 1: we'll be the first and if there are any mistakes, well,

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Speaker 1: you know, we have time to correct it later. That's

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Speaker 1: why the evening television news now these days, tim is

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Speaker 1: so outmoded because by the time they're on the air

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Speaker 1: in you know, six o'clock, whatever the market time is

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Speaker 1: for any particular city, everybody knows the stories already. Yes,

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Speaker 1: And it's unfortunate because, you know, George, because of my

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Speaker 1: background in journalism. I have a soft spot you know

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Speaker 1: for you know, television news me too, me too, yea,

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Speaker 1: and things like that. And I mean that is they're

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Speaker 1: really kind of the last bastion of the of the

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Speaker 1: credible news reporting. What markets were you in, Well, I've

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Speaker 1: mostly in regional markets in the Midwest. I was in Detroit, Minneapolis,

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Speaker 1: and Saint Louis. Yes, I was in say, like Indianapolis, Indiana, Dayton, Ohio. Okay,

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Speaker 1: but then you know the station I worked with in

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis also uh let me out to international um reporters

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Speaker 1: primarily producer videographer then, right, that's correct. Yes, Well, you

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Speaker 1: know there's still some dedicated, hard working young people and

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Speaker 1: older people in local news. Local news is so important

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Speaker 1: and and there it's really it's it's being crowded out.

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Speaker 1: The budgets aren't there anymore for local news. And you

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Speaker 1: look at local news, local newspapers, and they've been bought

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Speaker 1: by you know, larger and larger companies, and the local

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Speaker 1: news has basically disappeared to be replaced with wire services. Well,

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Speaker 1: look how thin the newspapers are these days, so very

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Speaker 1: much so it's really sad to see that. So, in

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Speaker 1: your opinion, the Admiral birds see something or not. I

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Speaker 1: think so, but not at the North Pole. I think

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Speaker 1: that something unusual happened during Operation High Jump. They you know,

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Speaker 1: first of all, you're talking about a an almost military

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Speaker 1: type of operation that took place after the end of

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Speaker 1: World War Two. I mean we're talking about they had

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Speaker 1: over forty seven hundred men, thirteen ships, thirty three aircraft.

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Speaker 1: This was a highly unusual situation just to go and say,

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Speaker 1: explore a section of Antarctica, or to train personnel on

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Speaker 1: how to operate in cold conditions, you know, because of

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Speaker 1: the Cold War, especially when you had say like Canada

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Speaker 1: easier and cheaper to get to. So the you know,

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Speaker 1: the reasons allegedly that they went to Antarctica are still classified,

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Speaker 1: They're still unknown. Wouldn't it be great to know, though,

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Speaker 1: that he went into the center of the Earth and

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Speaker 1: saw extraterrestrials and all kinds of things. What a great story.

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Speaker 1: I love. I love that story, you know, I always

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Speaker 1: always have. I mean, since I was a kid, I

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Speaker 1: always enjoyed reading about these seal theories. About the hollow

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Speaker 1: Earth and everything like that. You know, I'm still not

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Speaker 1: entirely convinced that there aren't, you know, like giant tunnels

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Speaker 1: and in caverns underneath. Well, I'm sure there are, or

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Speaker 1: if they're inhabited, I don't know exactly exactly. You know,

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Speaker 1: the hopies call them aunt people. Well, you know South America,

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Speaker 1: you know there there are still a tunnel being discovered

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Speaker 1: today that we're built who knows, I mean, you know

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Speaker 1: thousands of years ago. You know, the locals know all

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