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Speaker 2: Hello, and welcome to the good news edition of the

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Speaker 2: Daily OS. It's Saturday, the eighteenth of February, and I

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Speaker 2: am your good news reporter for this week, Sam stepping

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Speaker 2: in for Zara.

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Speaker 1: And I'm Billy, still Billy. I was going to say,

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Speaker 1: how do I go from that? I'm still Billy.

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Speaker 2: I'm so excited to have you a Billy. We have

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Speaker 2: a big episode. We have some incredible good news stories

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Speaker 2: from all around the world, from poetry heading to the moon,

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Speaker 2: to some groundbreaking science that sounds straight out of Jurassic Park,

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Speaker 2: a rare heartwarming moment in American politics, which I think

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Speaker 1: Let's start with poetry. You and I love words. It's

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Speaker 1: pretty incredible. Poetry is literally heading to the moon.

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Speaker 2: Haiku Fitzsimon's they call You. So this is a really

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Speaker 2: Now these aren't just any poems. They're part of a

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Speaker 2: there's all these artworks that are now being preserved at

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Speaker 1: Not sure how her holiday with you would go to

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Speaker 1: But I think that they should test sending poetry into

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Speaker 1: It's unusual for us to be talking about US politics

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Speaker 1: Let's have more of that now. From politics to music,

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