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Favoriting November 9, 2017: What's Next on WFMU with Edith Zimmerman! And Call Screener John!

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Listener comments!

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glenn:

Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemmmmmmmm!
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Carmichael:

Heya Jimski!
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TehBadDr:

Wow! This brings me way back!
  6:02pm
Tom:

Sup Jim
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dale:

JIM!!!
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dale:

(psssst: i didn't like that political show anyways"
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Carmichael:

This is slick, bouncy, happy music.
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geezerette:

Howdy, Jim and !
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glenn:

where's bullpen betty?
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Carmichael:

Bullpen Edith is filling in.
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melinda:

Hi folks!
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dale:

what branch of science is edith's forte?
  6:07pm
Fred:

Is the big bang more than a theory?

fyi, this is a science question, so just don't go there...
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TehBadDr:

Science? She blinded me with that shtitza! Wait, is this sportsy talk?
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Hi, Jim and gang. Is the newly discovered magma plume underneath Antarctica anything to worry about or are is the coast toast?
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TehBadDr:

Behold the Future! A boot stomping on the face of humanity forever!
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geezerette:

Hoping there will BE a future.
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glenn:

yeah, the wright brothers crashed a few times too.
  6:09pm
cossie mcmatrixface:

ahhhhh friendly voices.
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TehBadDr:

Science? Let me tell you about Science!
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Carmichael:

Just like in that Bruce Willis movie I saw on cable last night.
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geezerette:

Rather own the damn company.
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dale:

the fifth element? yeah, that ny is pretty scary.
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geezerette:

Too many John Gaults.
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dale:

yeah, he was flying an experimental craft, like john denver.
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TehBadDr:

Totes is a goat!
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Aaron Working In Newark:

Lokos a little Satanic.
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melinda:

Go Moondog!
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dale:

moondog is gonna be in 'green acres - the movie'
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geezerette:

Moondog is cute.
  6:15pm
samer:

what's the number
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TehBadDr:

Arnold Ziffel Libelz!!11!1!11!!!
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Carmichael:

Muons are the product of cosmic rays, as used in "x raying" the Great Pyramid.
Avatar 6:16pm
TehBadDr:

It's called "The Great Pyramid"!
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dale:

i think we need to focus on geology for one show. or weather. or ufo's. or the medical arts. i think callers won't know what to ask.
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geezerette:

It was a casino.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Indoor basketball court.
  6:17pm
mg:

Portishead or Poe?
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dale:

rumpus room?
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Carmichael:

The Great Casino of Giza.
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TehBadDr:

Yeah! Sex parlor for crossing over!
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dale:

probably full of slave corpses. and spiders.
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chad from oregon:

I hope that Moondog gets a show soon.
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geezerette:

The Hollywood hills are full of spaces just like that.
  6:18pm
samer:

phone number to call in?
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Carmichael:

And beer cans.
  6:19pm
mg:

"Angry Johnny" by Poe :)
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Make sure it's in mono!
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dale:

how about taking a pill that let's you withstand temp extremes instead of changing those extremes?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:22pm
chad from oregon:

Pills, Robots, and Lasers with Moondog coming soon to WFMU at 2 a.m.
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geezerette:

Jim's describing trump.
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chris:

just to bring this full circle, Portishead's Geoff Barrow was the music producer for the Ex Machina movie, where an AI bot passes the Turing test with flying colors
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northguineahills:

Don't forget the Voight-Kampff machine test from Blade Runner (do electric sheep dream of androids).
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dale:

it would be funny if the self-driving bus crashed into a self-serve laundry.
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Kat in Chicago:

Just got out of a meeting. Nice to hear your voice, Jim, even if I came in late and don't know what the hell you're talking about.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

They might put a big parachute on the car plane. Big enough that if problems happen, they can just float the whole thing down to safety. Wouldn't help for all possible problems, but maybe some.
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dale:

google shows us that edith looks like a young geena davis.
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northguineahills:

I have crickets in a salty-line powder at home. They're delicious, better then popcorn!
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dale:

methane from cows is a huge part of global warming. plus the fuel used to feed cattle is ridiculous.
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northguineahills:

chili-lime salt.
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cossie mcmatrixface:

i wonder if they will have good solutions to flat feet in the fabulous future
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cat:

the real dystopian thing is what the cow does when it gets it pink eye. then it would rub its eye on a metal fence.
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dale:

fuel used to grow the food to feed the cattle - i didn't mean cows eat diesel.
  6:29pm
Fred:

Jim, how's it Bean Growing?!
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chris:

there's a dairy farm near me that uses cow poo to create energy to power the farm.
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dale:

underground beef = soylent green
  6:30pm
HuskLife:

Aren’t we all human beans?
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dale:

to me a burger is a ketchup and mustard delivery system. a veggie burger is just fine for that.
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cossie mcmatrixface:

edith, are you related to andy zimmerman?
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Nice visual for a science show, the view from the space station looking down on the clouds - www.nasa.gov...
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dale:

i thought he said his name was 'ashtray'
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dale:

ken from hp - it was just blackness.
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northguineahills:

@dale: it worked for me.
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Davee:

Modify this!
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Davee:

I do not eat fruit
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Ken From Hyde Park:

@dale - Looks like they switched cameras. Now showing a wider angle than before and there's a Soyuz docked on the right part of the view.
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dale:

when i was a kid you bought and ate apples in the fall/winter. you ate strawberries in the summer. watermelon and peaches in the late summer. back to apples and pears. food was grown down the street, not in china.
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Sebastian:

I just swallow the seeds, like with grapes
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chris:

the co2 in the atmosphere is making all our food more sugary. gmo foods will be necessary for proper nutrition.
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dale:

oh, there it - cool ken!
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dale:

we had a seckle pear tree. those were hard and you canned them or pickled them.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Before, if you wanted fruit that was out of season, you'd get it from a can.
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Davee:

China fruit??? Are u kidding?
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dale:

lot of apples come from china.
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Davee:

I dont want my fruit in my can
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dale:

oh yeah! fruit cocktail - loved that big green grape and piece of a candied cherry.
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chris:

you can't get high from hemp, by definition
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Sebastian:

I'm kinda looking forward to soylent green
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Davee:

Ack!
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Kat in Chicago:

Mead is actually a thing. We were talking about it on Duane's comment board this week!
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glenn:

less details!
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chris:

DJ Duane was just talking about drinking mead in a bar in BK
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Davee:

Hippie? Drink me!
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chris:

what Kat said
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dale:

basic mead is just made from honey, but honey is so expensve now.
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Carmichael:

Dilly dilly!
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northguineahills:

I haven't had breakfast in 20 years. I eat one meal per day around 2:30.
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queems:

i have a bottle of mead in my fridge
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Stashu:

Pear is a popular flavor in Poland and happens to be a favorite of mine! :)
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Davee:

Does that mean we need to build a better mouse trap?
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Kat in Chicago:

I've just always disliked the word "mead". Dunno why.
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dale:

who was the guy who's wife cut off his pee pee? imaging that poor mouse!
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northguineahills:

I love the taste of good black coffee, but I rarely touch it, yerba mate is as caffeinated as I get.
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common:

secret of nihm
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dale:

'ben, most people would turn you awayyyyyy"
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glenn:

like the singing frog cartoon.
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Davee:

Yerba????
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queems:

they already made that cartoon
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Davee:

Jerry
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dale:

why is it a mouse 'trap?' why can't it be a mouse relocation program?
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Ken From Hyde Park:

The Cavendish banana is planted all over, so the monoculture is in danger from some fungus.
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queems:

mead is like wine made of honey
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queems:

and it is sweet
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Will from Seattle:

yeah it's fermented honey. tastes like sour honey
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Kat in Chicago:

Bees are still in big trouble
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Davee:

I would try it.....fermented honey is correct
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glenn:

ummm. pretty sure ratatouille was about rats. or it would have been mouseatouille.
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Davee:

He's a jerk off
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dale:

x files movie had the scene with the bees whose sting delivered the gentic info to let the aliens know you weren't chosen.
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Davee:

Wtf?
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Davee:

This is silly
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cossie mcmatrixface:

pooping is different than giving birth, IMO
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Sebastian:

there's a heavy metal bar called Halford down my street that advertises it has mead in drinking horns
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dale:

maybe the show should be 'silly science'
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cossie mcmatrixface:

what's next is HEARTY WHITE! hahah
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Davee:

How can u breed on the moon?
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Davee:

Breathe
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Sebastian:

I agree with that caller, swallow the seeds
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chad from oregon:

Pooping is the new giving birth.
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dale:

davee - i like your first question better.
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Davee:

Here we gooooooooo......
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Kat in Chicago:

Sebastian, where is this bar? Sounds like a good time.
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dale:

does the weighing one seventh and dimished gravity affect spermatazoa?
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Davee:

Not mine
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dale:

..dimINished..
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Kat in Chicago:

"do the watermelons have to be friends?" QOTD
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dale:

watermelon seeds are meant to be spit as far as possible - part of the joys of summer.
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Davee:

Yeah, i do not eat it but i agree with Dale
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Sebastian:

I've never been in there, it's on Boxhagener Str. in Friedrichshain, about in the middle
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dale:

virgin olive oil is the first pressing.
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chris:

scientists don't change things, they study things. other people use the knowledge gained from science to change things.
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Davee:

WIE GEHTS ES DIR?
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glenn:

huh? olives grow every year.
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Kat in Chicago:

I have a friend in Berlin, I will send her on assignment to the heavy metal mead bar.
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Sebastian:

DANKE!
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geezerette:

chris, exactly.
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northguineahills:

yerba mate is an herb that is sort of like tea that is originally from Paraguay and Argentina and is also big in Mexico. en.wikipedia.org...
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Davee:

Are they virgin if they are pressed
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dale:

maybe he thinks it's like the virgin birth. i'm still confused on who was the virgin, mary or her mother. and how was it even possib;e? and how do olives come into play?
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Davee:

Olive you
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Sebastian:

there's virgin and extra virgin, no?
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dale:

my wife was an extra virgin when we got married. that's what she said anyway.
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Davee:

Depends how the olive was killed
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cossie mcmatrixface:

it would be more unlikely to have all the garbage scattered equally everywhere
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Kat in Chicago:

What a terrible thing to do to a parakeet
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Sebastian:

'mead our goal'
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Davee:

A budgy?
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northguineahills:

Thanks Jim and Edith!
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chris:

thanks, Jim and Edith.
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Davee:

Edith, get me a beer
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dale:

pill eating robots with lasers could be a problem.
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dale:

oh, awchiee!
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Davee:

Haha
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Sebastian:

thanks guys
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dale:

glad to hear you back jim!
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Kat in Chicago:

Yay here's to more sciencey talk
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