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Columbia Houston we're just a little bit

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more than 15 minutes from your PA o

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event we wanted to give you a summary of

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the activities that are going on today

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to try to come up with a plan to get the

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yet tom the first thing is is we've got

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a as you can imagine a large tiger team

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taking a look at all the engineering

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we're trying to assess the processing

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for the hatch at the cape and just

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trying to see if there anything turns up

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when we talk to the technicians who did

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the work looking at the paperwork so

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we've got quite a few people over in

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building nine today over in the cct

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actually putting their hands on hardware

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and trying as much as anything else to

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come up with to duplicate the problem

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and look at some workarounds they're

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going to get together tomorrow morning

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at an m ET of 10 16 to basically

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summarize their summarize their plans OB

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six o'clock local here to be ready to

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meet with the mmt two hours later that

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would be at 10 18 m ET based on the m ET

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correction the mmt decision tomorrow

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we'll have a go no-go for you for a

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flight day 12 EV a and that's course

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tomorrow some of the options were

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looking at including some activities for

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today we'd like to do an additional RMS

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survey and the difference between this

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and I'll give you more details when we

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get there is that we want to pause

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looking at each at each of the dogs and

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the mechanism and have you guys cycle

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the handle a couple of times and so

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we'll get a better feel for what motion

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the linkage displays and we like that

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view taco you have a go for the next set

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and that's a good camera position

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joining us now live from space the crew

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of the space shuttle Columbia good to

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see you all first question for story

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Musgrave dr. Musgrave but you have

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warned that NASA needs to start hustling

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saying the astronauts lack the necessary

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space walking experience and equipment

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dr. Musgrave you must find this very

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frustrating this jammed hatch and does

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this throw the whole program behind

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schedule even more so it does that the

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hatch program is unrelated to the ways

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that we develop spacewalks and prepare

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for them and attack the details early my

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question is for commander rominger you

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are the pilot of this shuttle mission

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that of course all of Colorado is proud

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of you and we have no doubt that there's

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probably a big hometown crowd watching

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you tonight from Dell north when you

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were growing up in del nord and later

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studying civil engineering at CSU was it

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your ambition to be an astronaut it

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actually was not fear my ambition

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tionesta came after i left Colorado

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State and was a Navy fighter pilot but

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from the time I was about four years 25

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years old gunfire with my father and

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develop my love for flying so at that

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time I didn't know I wanted to fly now

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back to the back to the spacewalk we

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just got word that nASA has cleared you

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for another attempt tomorrow night if

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you can get that that hatch open what

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are you going to try to do have you been

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working on this all day I'll let anyone

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answer yeah the ground is working very

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hard there are many talented dedicated

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people working this problem and they've

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come up with several ideas that have to

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deal with problems like perhaps a

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structural misalignment or some an issue

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with the coefficient of thermal

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expansion they'd be warming up the hatch

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would be a good idea in a number of

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these lines of my father being developed

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in parallel and so we've been read up

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some of their ideas about perhaps moving

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hatch while early as we rotate the

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handle perhaps warming up the hatch

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prior to the EDA so there are many

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things and work in parallel

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and we are we are optimistic that we

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will get this hatch open dr. Jernigan my

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questions for you you are a veteran of

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three spaceflight then this mission was

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supposed to have placed you in the pool

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of those with spacewalk experience

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currently a group of only about 33 if

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the hatch problem can't be solved what

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does this do to your chances you go to

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the rear of the line and rotation so to

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speak why would I certainly be

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interested in doing a spacewalk on

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another flight but again I think that I

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think they work through this and I think

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Tom and I will will join those full of

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folks that have the privilege of walking

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in space and I know that everyone is

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doing everything that they can to make

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that possible we have been discussing

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this hatch problem with our cranky

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engineering staff here at News 4 and

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they suggested you do what they always

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do just give it a good whack what do you

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think oh that certainly has caught that

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last a few times maybe when we get down

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to if we apply all the other techniques

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that we think might help it including

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the thermal conditioning of the hatch

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and maybe some lateral motion of it we

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will certainly be pushing on that flavor

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with all our strength if the graph gets

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to go through this good evening and

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Happy Thanksgiving there have been some

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difficulties on this flight that you

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gradually seem to be overcoming what is

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the status of orpheus and weight shield

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as well as the spacewalk obvious that

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wakes yield or two great success stories

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wakes you completed all of its science

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and we now have it safely locked down

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into the payload Bay I have two minutes

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into the mission ready to bring it home

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and the reports we get from Orpheus paws

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is that the science is coming through

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right on schedule if they're doing what

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they want to do what is what's happening

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with the spacewalk now it sounds like

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there are different scenarios to get the

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hatch open that's right we have a huge

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team of people on the ground all the

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talented folks Houston head it's a

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various contractors who helped over

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mechanisms work and possible ways that

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and they're trying to work on the way

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that we can attack the problem several

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different ways one might be to heat up

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the hatch to make the battle expand

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slightly and maybe that will flee a jam

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simultaneous rotary force on the handle

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plus pushing on the hatch in a certain

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direction to try to break it free when

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we attempt at EBA tomorrow so we still

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have in our plan Bishop five or six days

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left and we have plenty of time to have

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that problem we hope successfully and

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then complete our te das so we're pretty

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optimistic that we can verify the

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their Columbia Jack we hear you loud

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clear Oh again well you guys are you

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doing we understand we can get messages

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from all sorts of amateur radio

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operators about how your mission is

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going to have been following it talk to

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you and it's great to talk to you too at

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bay in particular we were thinking about

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you yesterday on Thanksgiving the story

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is fun with you at Thanksgiving before

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he mentioned it let him I'll let him say

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a few words to you okay hey John how you

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doing I do fine job make the pat-down

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was about seven years ago we were up on

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Thanksgiving flying together and at that

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time we were saying FOIA we hope you and

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I get blind together again sometime

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especially at Thanksgiving and here we

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are both must flying on Thanksgiving

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we're just different spaceship yeah it's

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kind of me that's kind of neat keep it

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up about too much value Sam saved up

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yeah it does get better than all the

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Stacy to treat you very well John as it

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always good yeah I hope everything's

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going real good for you guys I

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understand you're thinking landing next

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hey Joe that's right we're scheduled

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thirsty and then extension is in the

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works this is controlling her just

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saying hi to you wishing you happy

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thanksgiving in a happy trip sounds like

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the comms getting ready i'll pass some

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icons thank you hey john this is tom

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jones wishing you are i hope you're

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enjoying a little relaxing holiday here

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over the long weekend we're pretty busy

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up here though but I know we're sharing

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one thing and that's our enjoyment of

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the view of you as you thought to be a

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lot about that and it sure is great to

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see as always sorry I look forward to

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your receptions on patios what do the

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changes that you experienced damn hard

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on its Tammy Jernigan happy thanksgiving

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and just wanted to wish you well on your

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incredible journey and hope you have a

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myriad of fascinating experiences yeah

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well you can talk tomorrow family is

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your bike my lady in German I was about

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that gold members algorithm for you / up

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greetings to you are you enjoying your

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dirty thank you for the greedy it

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appears to Melinda Tammy I don't know

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whether you hear me and math but right

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now we don't hear you as soon as I think

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we are hearing you a stop talking just

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in case you're hearing me at the land

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Sasha here listening and they wish you

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and the home near 22 through here

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together we'll sue you guys a great

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fight like i said photo we've been

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following you on the

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radio net so you guys didn't have a ham

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radio so we could have passed a little

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bit but anyway we're getting the PAL

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canal over well done to the mirror 22

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crew I fellow space travelers we wish

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you all the best on this flight from the

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sts-80 cruise over to cool well if we

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don't get to handing my family because

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our concert is ending in about 10

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seconds good luck to you good landing