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hi i'm mike massimino for the past few

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shuttle flights we've taken you behind

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the scenes to meet the crews as they

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train for their flights and the people

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around the country who make those

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missions fly but there's a lot of

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footage that we haven't shown you yet so

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we'd like to take you back to some of

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our recent flights and introduce you to

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more of the people who do everything at

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nasa we hope you enjoy this episode of

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that's me as a young astronaut

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right and then there's and who's on top

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of it

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oh

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you're gonna have to fix it mario

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mark now you're in freddie you know the

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story here

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i don't know you know what this is your

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mandy patins down there

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have them tell you you haven't heard the

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mario andretti you got them in or you're

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busy with your training

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i'm going to tell you to marry her draw

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the mario andretti picture

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what happened was isa come and spend a

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lot of time here with dave we were doing

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some uh robotics display stuff here

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a long time ago but i told him the story

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that i went to this pizza parlor with my

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father-in-law are you paying attention

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i was home in new york right it was uh

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i've been an astronaut for many years so

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my father-in-law says come on let's go

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to philippo's you just opened up a new

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pizzeria around the corner so he tells

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me you know

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it's like it was like nine in the

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morning because the filippo offers your

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pizza you got eaten you know you can't

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again you know so we go there we go to

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flee we goes you want some pizza it's

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like nine in the morning yeah sure right

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so reading pizza

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and he looks and he just opened up this

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pizza place and right behind the counter

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is a picture of mario andretti you know

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some filippo best of luck with your new

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pizza place barry orange

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and so i was you know about a new

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astronaut and someone in my following

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that we get pictures and we hang them up

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so felipe goes on her back

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so my father-in-law says you know mike

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why don't you take a picture why don't

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you give philippe one of your pictures

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he can put it up in the water he's got

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mario andretti you can put your picture

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up there yeah sure why not so felipe

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comes back and always the movie stands

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like this and he's making pizza so he

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goes fleet well you got mario andretti

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you know fleetwood that's right that's

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mario andretti on the wall you see mario

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andretti he goes you know mike you know

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maybe he gives you a picture you put put

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on the one next tomorrow mike picks it

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next to mario andretti you got to be

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kidding me you're going to put us a

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picture in some of mario andretti pick a

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man you get around everybody

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there's a picture that's a mario kart

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it's very good

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he goes like this so i'm my father's

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like her in shock and i'm dying laughing

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it's like the funniest thing because of

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my father but so that's the story so i

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told these guys the story so what they

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do is they had my picture up there right

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yeah and then after i told them the

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story i come in here like a couple days

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later and you have mario andretti's

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picture like this

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plastered on top of mine

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of course so

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yeah that's about it

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that's mario andretti

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anyway so that's the story that's good

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we just got off at what level are we at

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135 135 so we're 60 foot feet

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than we were

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a few minutes ago

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at the 195 foot level with it but look

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there's a shuttle wing right there with

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the nasa meatball

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right there that's awesome

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it's amazing this is like a miniature

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city around this thing with all these

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this launch pad is incredible

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look at this and there's the space

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look at that there's the wing all

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covered up with the structure which will

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all roll away before launch look at that

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look at that

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hey jack how's it going down here all

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right how you doing awesome man look at

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that oh there's a space shuttle

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look at that

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flag

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that's awesome

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there's our wing look at that door

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i was open the door they got closed out

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so we can't look look oh okay we'll go

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through the glass

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wow look at that what are we looking at

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that's the uh

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main propulsion system main propulsion

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system

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all right eight lines for the main

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engines

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all right and down here

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as well more of the shuttle

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all right that's the inside it's a

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little window to the inside of the

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spaceship

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thank you thanks for having me down here

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got a couple guys down here putting some

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and you called us this is the aft

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the business in the business

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vertical stabilizer

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of the spaceship

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look at that there's an engine down

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all right what they're doing is putting

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carrier panels on they just did all the

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all right

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and here we've got engines down there

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can we get down here down let's go down

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so here we are walking around here more

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of the launch pad this is very exclusive

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access isn't it don you just can't walk

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off the street on the nasa tour say i

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want to go over here and put my head

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inside of an engine belt

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yeah more of the main engines there they

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they're covered up

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yeah i think they don't get anything to

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go inside no birds or anything they

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gotta keep purge on them because they'll

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crude

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okay what do you mean by now you said

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keep the purge on them yeah they were

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just air birds yeah okay all right

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because you don't want anything to

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happen

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okay

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do we get closer up in there or is that

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this is supposed to get yeah they don't

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they usually have a sign here oh do they

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no sign we can go

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watch your head thank you

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they're all covered but here are the

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engines of the all three of the show

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all three engines big three main engines

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so as you said this is the business end

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here we have what is they got an home

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spot is this the own spot here that is a

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yeah

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so more rockets

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but these are the big guys that launch

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you these other things help you once you

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get there

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move around in space but

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these are the ones the big ones that get

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right there this is this is awesome

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isn't it so we got a solid rocket right

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isn't it

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you ever get like tired of looking at

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this stuff this is so cool there's a

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bottom of it and look at there's your

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solid rockets right there one there and

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one there let's go out there yeah if you

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got time let's go do that the good

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solid rockets external tank

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shuttle attached to all this stuff of

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course and next the uh the solid rockets

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here are held down the whole stack is

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held down by a couple bolts right isn't

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that what it is but they're pretty big

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bolts i mean there's

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there's one of them right there

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underneath that dog that's big yeah so

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it's four on each you're saying that

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hold this whole thing and those things

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blow and

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then the thing takes off

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now we're standing right here one month

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from now

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this thing will be going somewhere

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yeah

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around this way we get another view of

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and you were talking telling me earlier

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about the water suppression that's the

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water tank there isn't it all right over

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rain birds

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and there it is right there

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how awesome is that isn't that great

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that's fantastic hello