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we all you know the there are two real

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purposes behind what i do one is to get

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the kids or grown-ups excited about

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whatever the thing is to give them some

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kind of take away but it's also a study

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tool because one thing we've been doing

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for thousands of years is taking our

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most important knowledge and turning it

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into pictures and dances and songs

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the iliad the odyssey beowulf

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bhagavad-gita torah those were all songs

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long before they were written down

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so one of the ways i i realized that

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this there was really something to what

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i was doing here was when i started

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getting getting feedback from teachers

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in middle school

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about kids who had been with me when

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they were in fourth grade

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and i and i would go to district-wide

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school teacher conferences and i would

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hear middle school teachers asking

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where's mr griffin

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they said i had a kid that come in and

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come into my room and already knows how

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to read the periodic table of the

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elements because of a song that you

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taught them and they sang it for me word

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for word four years after they did it

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and then when i was a teacher long

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enough that some of my former students

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turned into grown-ups i was

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in a shopping you know it's a grocery

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store near my school one day

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and a man spots me

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in the produce section and he leans over

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the bananas and just shoves me in the

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chest with his great big finger and

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starts singing a song at me about the

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water cycle and he's using all the

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vocabulary correctly and i realized this

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this is one of my former students i said

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you were in my classes oh yeah i said

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god i hope i was nice to you because he

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was huge

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but he said yeah you were all right but

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so here's an example of something we do

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fifth grade but also but it comes up

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again in high school here's the

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circulatory system just the vowels and

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chambers of the heart

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and what i try to do is not define

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things but use them in context make you

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know make a story about it sort of so

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so the conceit of this one is uh you

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know my own musical background is mostly

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and you hear on country radio all these

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songs about the heart and they almost

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always get the physiology completely

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wrong

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so we fixed that you know my heart

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has got four chambers

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two ventricles below two atria above and

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all four chambers are filled with love

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but that's a metaphor you see

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because my heart beats just for me

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you know i need my heart to pump my

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blood but that don't mean i'm not in

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love with you

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my right atrium gets blood from the

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and the sends it down through my

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tricuspid valve

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my right ventricle contracts while my

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pulmonary valve acts like a one-way door

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going up you see the my pulmonary artery

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my blood goes to my lungs to pick up

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then the co2 come back again through my

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pulmonary veins and then my heart keeps

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bleeding for me not for you

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you know my heart

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has got four chambers

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two ventricles below two atria above but

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that's got nothing to do with love it's

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you know i need my heart it's true

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that's why i won't give it to you

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because i need my heart to pump my blood

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but that don't mean i'm not in love with

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you my left atrium gets blood from the

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pulmonary veins

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and sends along down through my mitral

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my left ventricle to squeeze blood out

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to my arteries through my aortic valve

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you know it's sort of like a one-way

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door to my aorta my blood will circulate

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through all my systems

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and pass through capillaries along the

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they say my heart has so much parrot

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beats four thousand times an hour and

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pumps

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you know my heart

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has got four chambers

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two ventricles below two atria above and

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all four chambers are filled with blood

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i'll never give my heart to you

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but don't let that make you blue

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i only need my heart to hunt my blood so

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that don't mean i'm not in love with you

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i only need my heart to pump my blood

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and i don't mean i'm not in love with

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anyway

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i'll direct your attention over there

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that's my contact info i'm tim at

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griffined

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if you'd like to write a song together

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or if you're an educator and you want

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help writing something for your students

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i've worked with college professors to

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write songs for their freshmen just to

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kind of bring up to speed on the basics

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of the topic so you're not having to

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re-teach all the stuff they would have

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learned in high school if they'd been

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paying attention

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or for any kind of outreach

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that's my mission is to is to help

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people tell their stories through song

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to help other people learn cool stuff

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and we we keep it all in the library on

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our website and we do it we usually meet

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on zoom i was hoping to maybe put

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together a little workshop this week to

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write a song about astrobiology but

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everyone is just so excited here to see

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their friends again that i ask people

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can i sit with you for a couple of hours

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which is fine

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so you know but it works fine on zoom

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because that way we can take our time

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with it it really is fast it's fun and

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we've had some really good songs out of

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it so thank you for your time i'll wrap

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up with one more song uh before before

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we get you know we let the sound crew go

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for the night uh

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give me give choose please engineering

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cosmology it is okay

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you probably know the story about how

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when isaac newton

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published his principia

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one of the questions people asked was

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okay well make what makes you so special

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that you're solving these problems that

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other people struggled with for

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thousands of years and what he said was

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something the effect of

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if i have seen further it is because i

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stand on the shoulders of giants

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so this is a song about cosmology but

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also about the whole scientific process

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about how we build on what came before

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aristotle said the world is a ball

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unrolled a scroll and made a map of it

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all he put the planets in the sky

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moving around the earth every day

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copernicus drew a very different one

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pictured all the planets going round the

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sun then galileo built a telescoping

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pulling back the curtains opening up the

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door but it's only when we're standing

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on the shoulders of giants we could see

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kepler said it had to run on rational

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rules tried to work it out with

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geometrical tools he gave us orbital

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mechanics but he couldn't figure why it

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newton knew the secret when he saw an

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said there had to be one force to rule

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them all he gave us three laws of motion

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coming back the curtain opening up the

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door but it's only when we're standing

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on the shoulders of giants we can see

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the things we didn't before

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each generation making new ways to

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question how the pieces of the universe

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and each new breakthrough just a part of

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the progression how far it'll go

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we're always redefining and refining the

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rules

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but these doesn't mean our predecessors

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were fools it's like the pieces of a

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puzzle that they hand it on to you and

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maybe in another hundred years or two

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people then may laugh at all we thought

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we knew but they'll be standing on our

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shoulders when they brag about how far

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you know that each generation learns a

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pulling back the curtain opening up the

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door but it's only when we're standing

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on the shoulders of giants we can see

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the things we didn't before

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herschel and hubble

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einstein boar pulling back the curtain

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opening up the door

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but it's only when we're standing on the

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shoulders of giants who can see the

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things we didn't before

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the aristotle said the world is above

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thank you so much ladies and gentlemen i

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would love to meet every one of you

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and if you want to collaborate please

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consider me at your your personal artist

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in residence thank you so much

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one last thing i wanted to let everyone

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know that uh if you are feeling musical

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if tim's got you in the mood to to sing

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along or play an instrument we're gonna

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head down to the lobby and see if we can

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annoy people down there with more

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yeah come on down if if you're i see you