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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From UFOs two, ghosts and government cover ups. History is
riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or
learn the stuff they don't want you to now. Hello,
welcome back to the show. I am Matt and I'm Ben.
We're here with our super producer Noel Brown. Uh. Now,

(00:23):
Noel gets a lot of nicknames, right He's he's as
somebody who has very few nicknames. I'm always fascinated and
a bit envious of Noel. So what's his nickname this week?
It's Nold stunned phase or Brown nol stunned phase of
Brown lays gentlemen, that's right. I'd like to point out
this is the first time that you've been within arm's
reach of Noel. You could reach out and touch him

(00:45):
right now. I've never had that before, Like that personal
Jesus song exactly what it is. Because we are here,
ladies and gentlemen, in our brand new UH digs the
house Stuff Works headquarters has moved and they didn't leave
us behind. No, we tagged along. At least they haven't

(01:06):
found out that we're here yet. Yeah, at the very
least we are still kind of looking for agents Scully's arm.
But we can't get lost in the little things, folks.
We can't let small things like missing skeleton arms or
people possibly studying us with phasers, uh make us all

(01:28):
irritated and worried and angry, because if you think about it,
they're much much more important things to worry about. Yeah,
large things. Things that have that hot stuff that sometimes
the floor is but not all the time, you know,
lava magma and and huge vats of it that are

(01:50):
just waiting to explode out all onto you. So on
that note, let's begin with this story. Once upon a time,
after the Civil War but before the century, President Ulysses S.
Grant was so moved by the natural beauty of this

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landscape out in Wyoming that uh he signed a bill
creating the first US National Park, oh and the first
national park in the world. And uh he created this
place for the benefit and enjoyment of the people. And
he further declared that timber mineral deposits natural curiosities and

(02:32):
wonders must be kept in their natural condition. What was
the name of this place? That is yellow Stone National Park?
All the majestic beauty of it. We did in Coolest
Stuff on the Planet episode about this Ben and that's right,
unless you are a long time listener. There's something that
you might not No, no, Ben, you're not allowed to Nope.

(02:54):
If if they're really interested, they can find it, but
we're not telling them how to find that. All right, man, Okay,
you've got it. So uh, one thing about this it's
it's a nice story. It gets a little airbrush that
President Grant was so moved by this stuff. Uh, something
else happened to something else influenced the government's decision here. Yeah,

(03:15):
there were lobbyists and geological surveyors that convinced the government
that the land was unsuitable for a couple of things farming, ranching, mining,
some of the things that you would normally be using
that using it for for the economy at least um.
But they also said it would be spoiled by developers
coming through because it is this beautiful place. So they

(03:37):
went ahead and protected it really soon, right, Yeah, and
now we have this amazing national park. And of course,
you know, nowadays, if somebody said for the people in
a political speech where in a bill, it might be
considered a little bit too politically controversial, you know. But

(03:58):
let's keep in mind, was before the numerous red scares
that we have talked about on this show. This was
before the very strange dichotomy that often rises, uh in
a two party system for a lot of the pr
really became a huge thing in politics. Well okay, it's
always been part of politics, but before it was an industry. Yes, yeah,

(04:23):
an industry. That's a good thing to say. But regardless,
you know, like the inner state, like the library system,
we have a national park system. Uh. We have some
stats about Yellowstone just to try to, uh, just to
try to articulate how big this place is, because it's massive, right, Oh, yeah,

(04:45):
it's huge. It covers three thousand, four hundred and seventy
two square miles over two million acres. It also covers
sixty three air miles north to south and then fifty
four miles east to west. Yeah, and most of it
is in Wyoming, right, Uh. Actually, but three percent is

(05:06):
in Montana, and there's that one percent in Ohio. So
when someone talks about one percenters in reference to yellows
to National Park, they're probably talking about the small amount
of natural wildlife that lived there. And there are all
kinds of things you can see when you're there. There
are Native American sites like really old Native American sites,

(05:31):
super cool stuff there. Um, there's the Lake of course
that you see in all kinds of the pictures and
video you've ever seen it. Um, there's Old Faithful Oh yeah, yeah,
the world famous geyser. There's the I don't know, I
can't remember if Vivis and butt Head went to this
petrified forest or not. I think that was in California,
the one they went to, But there's a petrified forest there. Uh.

(05:55):
And then also thermophiles those creatures, extremophiles that live inside
places that biological life shouldn't exist or usually wouldn't exist,
right where you and I couldn't hang out. No, even
your favorite superhero action movie star could not hang out there. Yeah,
if you can listen to this podcast and understand it,

(06:16):
you probably wouldn't be able to live where they live. Now,
that's a little bit prejudice against thermophiles, Matt. We don't
know if they ever heard the show yet. It's true.
I mean, their auditory abilities maybe far exceeding what I
am giving them credit. Well, thermophiles, if you're listening, please
write an email to us or I don't know, maybe
you guys use Twitter maybe anyway, they're also sixty seven

(06:40):
species of mammals, two species of which are bears. Yes,
was it was it Yogi bear? Is it Yellowstone? By
making that up? No, I don't remember. It was jelly,
so thank you know. Uh, Nolas Nola is our expert
on all sorts of things, and that is one of those. So, yes,

(07:03):
it was Yellowstone, just with a slight change. Well, uh,
some people would say that is a better name, but
I don't know if I would agree. There's a certain
poetry to the word yellows soon. But these stats, these
physical stats, are not the only statistics we have, right, No, no, No.
One of the biggest things that you can look at
are the number of visitors that go to Yellowstone every year.

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And if you look at the years from two thousand
six to two thousand twelve, each year over three million
people visited Yellowstone. Wow. Yeah, that's a lot of people, uh,
that are going through and you know there. I don't
know exactly how many are in there at any time.
I don't know the number, the largest number, but I
do know that just with that many people fluctuating in

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and out the traffic levels, there's got to be a
danger to at least tens of thousands of people at
any time. Oh yeah, yeah, just from the place. And
we'll get into some of that. So the highest attendance, uh,
to record. I believe even this might be wrong in
recent years, but I believe it was a little bit
over three point six million in two thousand and ten.

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And this is not counting the employees as visitors. Now
there are over four thousand employees I think, Um, most
of them are working in concessions, so selling food to
the visitors. And that's a lot of people working concessions.
Although this is a large area. You gotta remember that, sure, Um,
but oh, there are seven hundred and eighty people who
work for the park service themselves. Yeah, and and not

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all of those would be year round, as you can imagine. Uh,
there are seasonal fluctuations in attendance, right, Visitors probably go
down in winter except for the serious campers, and uh,
they're probably the same, they're probably a larger contingent of
people watching for forest fires at different times. So, Ben,

(08:50):
I have to say something. What's that? It's feeling a
little bit like a I don't know stuff you should
know episode right now, or maybe history class episode those
are good shows because we're just kind of telling people facts.
I don't know, what do you think? Yeah, this is
not stuff you should know. This is not stuff you

(09:10):
missed in history class or Great America or whatever. No,
ladies and gentlemen, this is a very different show. So
why are we here, Matt? Why are we telling these
folks all of this stuff? That's absolutely right, Ben, Yellowstone
National Park sits atop the Yellowstone super Volcano or caldera, Right, Yeah,

(09:31):
a super volcano is what the name might make you
think of, a volcano capable of much more massive eruptions
than your average volcano. To steal a Yogi Bear quote,
We've found some different numbers about how much material is
released during an interruption, but it is enough to change, uh,

(09:56):
the landscape far beyond that which far beyond the landscape
changes you would expect from a regular volcano. But a
caldera is something a little bit different. Yeah, caldera is
one of the coolest things about this. It's a huge
crater that's formed from a previous volcanic eruption, So there
has to have been a massive volcano that erupted at

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one point to even have a caldero there, and that's
when the mouth of the volcano actually collapses down and
you get this. It's kind of like a valley, I guess,
but it has a specific name of Caldera because it
is a specific thing, right, Yeah, that large crater. It's
almost like the the footprint or the fingerprint warning here

(10:41):
is a volcano. Yeah. So some experts, and some self
appointed experts, fear that Yellowstone may erupt in the near future.
So let's talk about where this fear comes from, Matt,
what would happen if an eruption occurred, and why some
people believe the United States government is covering up the

(11:03):
evidence while preparing in secret for the most massive eruption
in human history. Okay, so first, this isn't completely unfounded,
this fear that people have, because we know that the
yellow Stone supervolcano has erupted multiple times across history, not
just once, not just twice, but three times a volcano. Okay, sorry,

(11:28):
that was really bad. That was worth it. So this
is over the past two point one million years, right,
so yeah, a huge amount of time. But here's what
you need to know about these me and this is
why it's kind of fearful. These were larger than any
eruption in recorded human history. The interval between these eruptions

(11:48):
is a long time. This is a good thing. Uh
six hundred thousand two, I think a roughly eight hundred
thousand years in between eruptions. That's the estimate, right, Yeah,
And that's I mean, that's a good chunk of time.
So it doesn't mean it's gonna be happening within most
people's lifetimes. Sure, very few people even lived to one
hundred years, that's correct, And you know humans have only

(12:11):
been around for a certain amount of time. So another
thing to note here, Ben, is that each of these
eruptions triggered more or less powerful eruptions and lava flow,
so they varied a bit, I guess, depending on well, Okay,
I'm no expert. I was going to go into the
actual amount of magma that's kept in that there's a

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pocket underneath the caldera that's that's just constantly fluctuating, and
as that changes, it changes the effects that happened above
when it erupts. One of the good comparisons for this
that we've all heard before goes back to earthquakes. You
hear about uh timblores, or you hear about four quakes

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or after shocks, these less powerful vibrations or seismic events
that occur, uh kind of book ending an earthquakes so
that this happens as well. With some of these eruptions.
There are of lava flows that let you know something's coming,
and then there are smaller options afterwards, after shocks, shivers

(13:15):
from the earth. Great. It all just makes me want
to grasp the floor and the wall and just make
sure everything. Yeah, okay, everything's good. Now there's one other
really important thing, right, Oh yeah, when was the last eruption?
Ben Matt, I'm glad you asked. The last big eruption,

(13:35):
the last super volcanic eruption, one of the big cataclysmic
ones was wait for it, six hundred and forty thousand
years ago. Now, hold on, We said earlier that it
takes the interval is something between six hundred and eight

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hundred thousand years. We did, We did. So we're inside
that window. We're in the window. We are in the window.
And this eruption, which occurred in uh six sixty thou
years ago, was two thousand, five hundred times larger than
the Mount St. Helen's eruption in Washington back in right

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just before I was a born. Yes, two thousand, five
hundred times larger the world as you would know it
at this time. And keep in mind that after millions
of years, of course, the coastline changes and the but
the land mass is still kind of roughly analogous. So
for our purposes, what we recognize as the United States

(14:43):
is just covered in ash. It goes around the world,
ashes falling everywhere. It reminds me that sky rim dlc um.
What's the name of it? You you might have to
remind you. I know what you're talking. Is it soul
s theme, Soulstein something with an S? Yes, yes, Okay,
while Ben, we've both played it. Yeah, wow, I feel

(15:03):
like Noel is judging us. But anyway, whatever, man, it's
a pretty good game. So the so the the things
that happen here that are important for our comparison today
are that the United States are this roughly north American
land mass that we're talking about is not the only victim, right, No, no, no,

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because this that ash has an effect, right, it's going
to it's gonna do a couple of things. One of
them is that it's going to No. No, the the
ash that's a huge, important thing that's gonna have a
lot of effects across the entire world. One of them
is likely decreasing temperatures around the planet, not just in

(15:49):
the major affected area right near the super volcano. Uh.
Climate change, while short lived I think years or decades,
would have a catastrophic effect on ops across the world,
agriculture especially in the US or North America even and
the local economies. If this occurred the modern day would

(16:09):
be severely damage that goes without saying, but whoops, we
said it, and locals would likely be forced out of
their homes for at least some time. Oh yeah, there'd
be people all across the US and Canada just trying
to get the heck away. And you can see some more.
Um maybe sensationalist is a good word for it. Visions

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dystopian visions of people forming massive mobs at Canada and
in Mexico scrambling to get into safety, or massive migration
to the East coast of the United States would be
less damaged. But we do have good news, ladies and gentlemen.
The odds are, according to various official sources, minimal. The

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odds of an interruption at least, yes, you can breathe
a little more easily now, in in in the knowledge
that the U. S Geological Survey estimates that the chances
are seven hundred and thirty thousand to one that this
will occur. Is it in your life, in any person
who's alives lifetime, or is that just in the next

(17:15):
in your lifetime? You're gonna be okay, that that's some
pretty darn good odds. You have other things to worry about, right, Well, yeah,
but here's the thing. What's the thing. The U S
Geological Survey aren't the only people putting out numbers. Now,
they're probably one of the most reputable groups that you could,

(17:35):
like take these numbers and go, okay, I'm gonna trust
that if you believe that they are sincere right. But
there are other odds. Oh yeah, there are others ranging
from ten thousand to one, which is significantly greater um
and then you know, goes up to a million to
one chance a million to one. Well, I like those odds.

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And here's another thing. While we're playing with numbers, if
we look at the power of the past three massive eruptions,
we see a decrease in overall eruptive power. So we
said earlier that the most recent one was two thousand,
five hundred times stronger than St. Helen's, but the earliest one,
the first one we can trace, was seven thousand times stronger,

(18:18):
and the one after that was six thousand times stronger.
So it may be that if or when Yellowstone does erupt,
it doesn't have the force people are anticipating. Yeah, it
will only be times stronger. Yeah right, no big whoop.
But that you know that in a way brings us
to UH an important part of this conversation. Earthquakes and

(18:39):
eruptions can be difficult, devilishly difficult to predict, UH, and
sometimes you know, we've got a side note here. We
don't know if you guys have heard about this, but
in UH two thousand and nine, there was an earthquake
in Italy called the La Kila earthquake, and six scientists
were taken to court because they did not predict it.

(19:02):
Somebody took him into the room and said you had
one job, and came talking to and then but but
later they were cleared right there, the charges were cleared
against him because I mean, come on, doing the best
we can, man. So this is a disastrous, cataclysmic thing
that while probably inevitable, and the big picture is also

(19:26):
probably not going to occur in your lifetime, probably probably likely.
That's the official consensus. But that's not the end of
the story, is it. No, No, no, no. Some people
really think that the yellow Stone eruption is imminent, that
it's coming any day now that we're due for it.

(19:47):
It's too late, like we're already past the do day.
We're just kind of waiting for the moment. And in
a in a big picture estimate, you could say that
because we are in that chronological window now, that we
are overdue. But I I don't know, because two hundred
thousand years, while it's just astap in the in the

(20:11):
Earth's life overall, it's a heck of a long time
for people like you and I and most people listening
to this, I would completely agree with you there. The
The other thing, though, is that we've read a lot
of places that some people think the U. S. Geological
Survey is a part of this. I think this conspiracy

(20:34):
or cover up of some sort that they believe that
if if people found out, man, if people found out
what was about to happen in the next even if
it was a hundred years maybe people would stop having kids,
you know, I mean, who knows, you could. You can
think about it all day long. All the bad things
that would happen. The investment in those areas would tank.

(20:56):
It's like why building a house that's gonna burn down
or elt. But then there's another question if for people
who believe in this conspiracy theory, what if the predictions
are accurate. What let's say that the U S Geological
Survey and the highest ranks of world governments, Canadian, Mexican, US,

(21:20):
the hallowed halls of government know that these predictions say
the volcanic eruption will occur within like the next five
years or something, and they say, well, we have to
release this information. Well what if they release the information
and because it's difficult to predict these events, nothing happens.

(21:46):
Oh wow, okay, that's that would be a huge problem.
What if they believe it's going to happen but they
get it wrong, then you've lost because then you you
have a mass migration beforehand, right to get everybody out
of the areas, right, and all those economies collapse. The
people have lost billions of dollars. Yeah, and there are
now humans displaced all over the place. I kind of

(22:09):
like the way I said that humans displaced all over
the place. I know it's placed twice, but I still
enjoy it as a nice, nice flow to it. Now,
this this is interesting when we say this, and let's
fast forward past all of the other points that are
valid and should be made. But we already we already
know what these are addressing in past episodes. It's it's

(22:31):
difficult to think that this data, which could be compiled
conceivably by other people, there's not necessarily a a way
to keep seismic data secret that efficiently. You know. Yeah,
there are numerous places that are looking at it at
all times, and the part Service themselves they say that

(22:54):
they keep a very close eye on it. So here
it's it's also true that it's tough for so many
people to keep a secret, right if this thing is
coming now. Theorists, however, have presented several several pieces of
evidence about why they believe the Yellowstone Calderum maybe on

(23:19):
the way to big eruption number four. So one thing
you should know is that in this area there are
earthquakes almost constantly, but they're very very small. There is
activity beneath the anyone walking around on Yellowstone beneath your
feet at all times. It's just a swarm, essentially, a
swarm of tiny little earthquakes, because there's a lot of

(23:41):
movement of the Earth's crust in that area. So in
March of twenty fourteen, Yellowstone experiences a four point eight
magnitude earthquake, much larger than the usual trembles we're talking about. This,
in fact, is the largest earthquake in the park in
thirty four years. And that's big, So that at least

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clues you in that something is happening, right, And that's
what makes a lot of people kind of freaked out,
because if you don't know a lot about the history
of that area, you don't know a lot about you know,
you're not a geologist. That number and that idea scares you.
It scares me a little bit. I mean, it is
a scary thing for experts as well. Absolutely, But you

(24:24):
can look at it in a greater context than you
know Joe Schmo Matt Frederick walking around the street going
oh god, um So, but here's the other thing that
came on the heels of a discovery that the molten
magma chamber, this huge thing we're talking about Uh, it's
much larger than we originally thought. It's fifty five miles long,

(24:46):
eighteen miles wide, and maybe as deep as nine miles
under the Earth's surface, filled with nagmas. Yeah, the bad stuff.
This the stuff that when it's on the floor, you
can't touch it. Right, repreence to say that earthquakes in
this park are taken very seriously. As we said, there's
another piece of evidence. Some folks reported seeing a herd

(25:09):
of bison, a large herd of bison fleeing the area,
and this went somewhat viral and people were saying, well,
can animals predict disaster, which we have a brain stuff
video about The answer is yes? Or is this some
sort of hoax? Government representatives replied that this was just
a typical migration, that the bison were also furthermore, running

(25:33):
into the park, not out of it, And there are
some great articles you can read about this on a
website called Inquisitor, and Inquisitor had had a nice little
crack there when they said, well, also, if they the
bison are smart to run because Native American tribes are
petitioning for hunting licenses, Yeah, they knew, they knew. Another

(25:56):
thing you can look up Ben and everyone listening is
back in July a segment of Firehole, Lake Tribe and
yellow Stone. Oh you know it just melted. Yeah, okay,
so there. This is not the most disturbing thing. But
I do admit that it sounds like some real end
of the world stuff for asphalt to just start melting

(26:16):
into what has been described as an oatmeal like consistency.
That's freaky. That's strange, especially if you're the one who
discovered it. Yeah, just drive it on, uh huh, because
what what happens? Then your your tires pop, right, maybe
if it's hot enough and you stand up on your car,

(26:37):
and then Matt the game you've referenced earlier is true.
The road is lava right ear uh So, But that's
not even the most disturbing thing. Man. Here is the
most disturbing part, at least in my opinion, is that
when asked about this, when talking to reporters about this part,
spokesman Dan Hoddle said, this can happen quite a bit

(26:59):
because of the springs, the same you guys, the same heat,
the same magma powering these hot springs is melting the
roads at times. Yeah, it makes you think maybe we
really shouldn't be very near this thing. Maybe human civilization
should kind of get the hint and back away a
couple of steps. And this ties into so many other theories,

(27:22):
the idea that these massive internment slash refugee camps are
being built in undisclosed locations around the US. You can't
see pictures of those camps, by the way you can,
and there are theories about what their uses. But this
makes a lot of sense to me. This brings true
for me that if there was a major natural disaster,

(27:43):
that you could have a place to put people. Um.
I mean, you know, we've talked about FEMA camps, We've
talked about all this other stuff, and this is the
first time that it for me, it doesn't seem as
scary when I think, when I frame it in this way, Oh,
I see it because it seems like working for a

(28:04):
greater good. There. Yeah, like there is a reason and
a good reason to have them. Um, because you know,
I go you know me, Ben, I go through my
paranoia abouts every once in a while and have to
refocus a bit. So here here's something else that we
should say. Uh. I was thinking about this as well,
Met and I don't know about you listeners, but usually

(28:28):
when a government is planning something, they plan for probabilities
for contingencies, right, and they order these in terms of likelihood.
But I was curious, so I started looking into I
started looking into a strange thing that I had never
thought of, which was how far out a governmental agency

(28:51):
in history has warned about a natural disaster because we
know that, you know, one of the biggest one's recent
memory in the United States, of course, is Hurricane Katrina, right,
And we know that before Hurricane Katrina hit, people were
being told to evacuate the city. Um, whether they were

(29:15):
being helped evacuate the city, of course, is a very
different story. And we could actually do a Katrina episode.
Hurricanes are notoriously difficult to predict, of course, and they
had they had this warning based on what we all
in the public eye perceived as the quickest available information,

(29:36):
the best they could do. But has there ever been
a case where there was an inevitable thing far enough
out that the government of any country would warn people?
And if so, is there a threshold for that? Would
you say you have to move off of this island
because rising sea levels are going to drown you but

(30:00):
when you know, and then it's an interesting question that
I haven't answered yet. Now I know that the Maldives,
if we're talking about the uprising sea levels, they have
already said stuff like this appealed to the United Nations. Um,
but I don't. I don't know about the other stuff.
What a terrible what a terrifying secret to keep if

(30:23):
you thought, I know, I know interruption is coming, but
I know it's gonna be in the next what ten
fifteen years? But if I tell or maybe even longer.
But if I tell people, then I'm going to go
ahead and ruin things, uh, in a similar way that
the volcano would. I don't know, and and listeners, to

(30:45):
be completely honest, I have no idea, Matt, You and
I are not volcanologists, were not seismologists. We do know
that from what we could find. Despite the worries, the
sources are saying that this is a highly unlikely event
up there with kind of like a gamma ray burst

(31:05):
hitting the planet, but not near as dangerous as a
gamma ray burst. Yeah, it's almost the exact same thing.
It's an inevitability, but the amount of time before it
happens is unknown, And uh, while it is unknown, it
is not It doesn't seem like a pressing thing at
least from the predictions and the solid numbers that we

(31:29):
currently have. So we would like to we would like
to ask what you think here, because we know that
there are so many again, there's so many scenario runners, right,
there's so many possibilities with this. During times of natural disaster,

(31:50):
there is a possibility that the global order of the
world in the geopolitical sense, shifts, and we're encountering these
big questions that at this point, according to what we
could find, do not have answers. But we want to
know what you think, ladies and gentlemen. Will the Yellowstone Caldera,

(32:13):
the Yellowstone supervolcano erupt again in our lifetimes and not
just not just something with a lava flow, but one
of those cataclysmic, biblical level eruptions, you know, blotting out
the sky darkness for days, people dying of some disease
called the dust, you know. And I don't want to

(32:35):
get the dust. I don't want to get the dust either, man.
But could it happen? And if so, why why do
you think so? Or is this just all fearmongering? You know?
That's another possibility. It's definitely impossibility. I want to stick
personally with and you know, tell me what you think
about this, but I really want to stick with the

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hopefulness with this one because it seems like if I
just became and I can, I have a tendency to
obsess with these kind of things. Ben, I don't know
if you knew this, and I just don't want to
go there right now because it would be bad. What
is that I'm trying to think of the movie where
the entire planet just starts getting destroyed. It was a

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role in Emeric movie that came out not long ago,
but just where the entire movie where the entire planet
is just falling apart around and that's what this feels
like to me, that kind of dread and I'm trying
not to think about it. Yeah, that's true. I'll check
it out. I've yet to see two thousand twelve. We

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can tell you, however, that the predictions for the massive
eruption occurring in are incorrect, Ladies and gentlemen. As we
record this, it is February, and I don't know why
I emphasized twenty, but point is, we lucked out so
here's to at least another few years, right, Matt cheers,
and we hope that you enjoyed this episode as much

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asked a specific question for Noel Brown or super producer
Noel Stunt Phazer Brown. Uh, and Noel, would you like
to hear the question? Okay? Uh? So we said we
were moving to our new office, and we said we would.
Uh we put some pictures out later which are on
the way. And Uh, Claytonmorrow on Twitter wants to know

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what does super producer Noel think of all this? So,
so what's going on there? What do you think about
this move? Good move? It's a better, better place. Yeah,
your new place looks nice. And uh, you're probably going
to be making an appearance on this show in the
near future. Huh spoiler you know, if if nothing else,

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you'll be able to hear me when I make aufanic
confidence here because I'm closer than mis that's true, and
you are the funniest one of the three of us.
We really need to get you a talkback Mike. I
think that's like a necessity. We just a little Mike.
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