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[inaudible] .

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Hello and welcome to the moon log

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sessions by quirky voices.

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We're excited to share with you today some monologues

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inspired by the moon landings of 50

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years ago today. And

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none of this program would be possible

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without the amazing patriotic for

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quirky voices. So Elma

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artists, soapbox, audio, oblivious productions,

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Chan Brown, Christine,

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Hazel Kareem , and Karen Kirstie , Matthew,

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Michael, Paul, and William

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. This is for you, for

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you, our legend. Enjoy

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. Oh, and

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this awesome music is by Carlo

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sod and joy

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[inaudible] .

1:07

Hello, welcome

1:10

to the Moodle logs. Port

1:13

three

1:15

Oh yeah. See what I love

1:17

though is that, see, although we're

1:20

at different ages and in different places

1:22

and what me and yeah , I mean you meet

1:25

with me and everyone really did. We were still,

1:27

we're still all born under the same moon when

1:29

we, and you know when

1:32

you, when you do look up , but night, your

1:34

night, my night, we see

1:36

the same face. Don't be the face

1:38

of the moon. Like ,

1:40

well , I love that. Me too . Look

1:42

at it now. Getting closer by the second

1:46

earth, falling behind the us.

1:50

Make a wish. Why?

1:53

I don't know. Just feels

1:56

appropriate.

1:58

I can't think of anything.

2:01

What ? Well , should we just get

2:03

the next story fueling this joy machine

2:05

and maybe they'll help you

2:10

going to Asia ? Actually no, I was going to but

2:12

but the amazing Ericka sun doesn't

2:15

erect this one full. She is

2:20

a wish for my forever a

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moon monologue by William

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J. Mayer narrated by Erika

2:28

Sanderson . It's

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time different out here. Is

2:34

it? I

2:37

don't mean because of the curvature of space time

2:39

or any of that. I mean

2:41

because time is the stuff,

2:44

the real stuff, the pliable

2:46

stuff and it's inside you bound

2:49

to, you're living your loving, you're wondering

2:52

affected more by Whoa and joy than gravity.

2:56

It stretches. It twists. It's elastic,

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right? I think so.

3:04

I've been waiting forever waiting

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to see you, but

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maybe today time the

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real stuff, we'll retract the

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, my forever will end. Okay.

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I don't mean forever as in always

3:21

ever and yes,

3:23

I'm looking at you even now. What

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I mean of course is essential time. Time

3:29

for being empty.

3:33

That's what time should be for not

3:36

measured up. Not counted

3:38

down should,

3:44

but mostly time

3:46

is for the waiting and

3:49

that's a different kind of empty. I

3:55

know it can never be like it was simply

3:57

can't be. Maybe

3:59

that's for the best, but

4:03

the choice was made for us and

4:06

change arrived with a wallet , a

4:09

traumatic impact smashed as apart

4:14

forever . I guess the

4:18

keep using forever. She sound stupid.

4:22

Yesterday Thea came between us. Not

4:25

her fault. I mean she

4:28

was just being there. Right. Should

4:30

I be grateful? Yeah,

4:32

I guess she kind of

4:34

made me what I am and yes you

4:37

too . Love

4:40

is like that. Sometimes a

4:42

tangle of glistening threads, but

4:44

the web is still invisible somehow. But

4:48

that doesn't change the fact that we had no choice.

4:52

It's cold and lonely out here. I

4:55

don't like that. But

4:58

I know the catastrophe

5:00

gave you all that water as a parting gift.

5:03

So I guess, I

5:06

guess I shouldn't be too upset. The

5:09

water grew for you, all that wonderful green

5:11

stuff. It's

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pretty looks

5:16

good on you still.

5:20

Whenever I dwell on it, yes.

5:23

I admit I dwell on it. I

5:25

get so worked up so angry.

5:28

Sometimes I turn red, not

5:30

healthy. Let it go.

5:33

I know. Let it go. The

5:36

problem is the

5:38

pain is comfortable. Do

5:42

you mind if I admit that still?

5:46

I promise I won't do anything rash.

5:49

Nope. I don't really have a dark side.

5:52

No matter what you've had after

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the crash, the accident,

5:58

we can call it to be nonjudgmental

6:00

if we must. Well, eventually,

6:05

eventually I settled down, pulled

6:07

myself together, but

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you must know we

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were one. Now

6:17

we are too and

6:22

I miss you. I

6:24

keep looking for a sign. You're thinking of me,

6:27

but you always seem to have your attention turned the other

6:29

way. Busy with floods and

6:31

eruptions and then all that animal malarkey

6:33

. How do you stand it?

6:36

All of them touching you all the time.

6:39

Yeah , they go crazy and

6:43

now this new thing,

6:46

tiny little lights

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always on somewhere. Yes.

6:51

Wing King. Even there

6:53

flirting with me is

6:55

that you? All the gross

6:58

Harry things always searching you and who

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knows? What are

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they looking for? Joy? Did

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they misplace their woe ? Is

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that a time elastic too ? One

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day. I thought big sassy was visiting, kept

7:16

seeing these bright splashes all on

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you. Some we don't bake

7:20

too . Then I saw that they were

7:23

being dropped, dropped

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from shiny toys. Who

7:28

drops ? Splashes. I

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was worried. Worried

7:33

they'd make you sick. Sick with lights.

7:36

I wanted to help, but I

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just keep drifting away. Well,

7:46

the hairy ones came from you? I suppose

7:49

so I suppose.

7:53

I suppose if I love

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you then

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I should love them too. It's

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just not easy

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seeing the way they treat you. Children

8:08

can be so ungrateful sometimes.

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Sometimes it makes me cry, so

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I see today they're paying me a visit.

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I will set out my best rocks and

8:27

set my gravity low for their amusement.

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I want to make a good impression, but

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what are they here for? To

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be sure I'm real or something.

8:43

I know sometimes that which is so beautiful

8:45

can be thought only in illusion, a

8:48

fantasy, but

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no, I'm definitely

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real. My

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heartache tells me so. Oh,

9:02

that's them. Your vulgar

9:05

little monsters. Okay.

9:07

Okay. Sorry. They

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just landed in their cute little

9:13

boat. Seems

9:16

like it took them forever. I

9:19

said it again, but

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time really is different out here

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was only yesterday I held you close

9:29

four and a half billion years ago. No.

9:34

Yes, no. Your children,

9:38

they finally made it and

9:41

with them, my

9:43

last hope, one

9:47

of them stepped on me. How

9:49

can you stand it? Oh,

9:53

I hope they realize. I

9:56

want them to take some of me back

9:59

to you. An offering

10:02

and a wish so

10:05

I can stop waiting and

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my forever can

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finally end.

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Okay . Lats want

10:15

small steps. [inaudible] want

10:19

John bleep or man calling .

10:24

Oh my God. Have you planned

10:26

what we're going to say when we land? Like

10:28

who's going first? What words

10:31

of wisdom do we share?

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Well, you know, I haven't really thought

10:34

of that. Maybe while

10:37

this next piece is on, we could practice

10:39

saying saying some things together. Maybe.

10:41

Cool idea. I am so

10:44

gonna fall down those steps. First

10:47

thing to touch the moon will be my

10:49

face.

10:50

No , I was taking the same but see my gravity

10:53

force is heavier on my other end side . That'd be Oh mighty

10:55

boom. As my ass hits the

10:58

moon dust for the first time. Bull cost

11:00

in all its audio glory. Oh

11:02

,

11:02

does sound sound different

11:05

on the moon? Um ,

11:07

which we listened to this wonderful poem by the also one

11:09

full sham and we can Palm that

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hello written and

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narrated by Cheyenne

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Bramwell. Yup , that's

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me. Glow

11:25

. You

11:28

hang there silent every

11:30

night. Gleaming with heavenly

11:33

light. I

11:36

hope you're never very lonely. That

11:39

stars are good company and

11:42

don't treat you too coldly. We

11:46

met you before. I

11:48

hope you didn't mind it. Us

11:51

marring your dust with, I

11:56

know it's been years since we visited,

11:59

but we've never forgotten you. Our

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resources are just limited.

12:06

If I could strap wings to my heels

12:09

through the clouds, I'd plow and

12:12

I'd be up there with you right

12:14

now. But

12:17

since gravity won't let me go,

12:20

I'll have to stay here and

12:23

silently Marvel at your wonderous

12:26

glow .

12:27

Love that. Yeah

12:29

. You have a , a wondrous

12:32

glow . Do you do Tanya , are you trying to

12:34

say I'm fat? Of course not.

12:37

Why can't folks take compliments anymore?

12:40

I've got a feel like the, the dusty

12:42

moon in comparison to to

12:44

life given the sun next to you,

12:49

Sarah . That's the nicest thing you've ever

12:51

said to me.

12:53

No .

12:53

So we just listened

12:55

to the next monologue

12:58

and then face do it. [inaudible]

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her many faces an

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audio monologue written and

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performed by Danielle

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Elliot

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[inaudible] .

13:24

She looks up at me with

13:26

the same curious

13:28

expression that

13:30

we once all possessed before

13:34

the earth rotated too many times

13:36

for our sense of wonder to stay

13:39

stuck to us. The

13:44

unseen centrifical force too

13:46

much to keep the feeling of wonder. I

13:53

can see the moon. She says,

13:55

pointing towards the proscenium

13:58

of a cloudless blue sky

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as the nighttime or faintly

14:04

peaks her head out around the curtain

14:07

despite the leading lady of the sons . Current

14:10

soliloquy. Yes

14:13

you do. I reply, but

14:17

why? She says, repeating what

14:19

has become her youthful catch phrase

14:21

. I am taken back

14:23

to a time when I was the

14:25

inquisitive child and

14:28

my mother, Oh my

14:30

library of never ending

14:32

knowledge. I

14:35

smile and he hear my mother's

14:37

voice, my grandmother's

14:39

voice, and hers before

14:41

her echoed in the response long

14:49

ago when the earth was shaped

14:52

and the sky dotted by

14:54

stars, the goddess of

14:56

creation gave birth to two perfectly

14:59

equal sisters, one

15:02

pale and one golden

15:07

[inaudible] .

15:07

The goddess told the sisters to live

15:09

above the earth and be helpful

15:12

to the people she had newly created

15:14

there and so they

15:16

did

15:18

[inaudible]

15:18

the moon and the sun took

15:20

their turns in the sky full

15:23

and round and happy,

15:28

happy until the

15:31

humans they were to watch over began

15:34

to shower the golden sister with praise.

15:38

They built pyramids in honor

15:41

of the golden sister. They wrote

15:43

songs of worship thinking her and

15:45

admiring her for all she gave

15:47

them. [inaudible]

15:49

the sun grew in stature.

15:52

While

15:52

the moon diminished,

15:56

shrinking in size with the lack

15:58

of love from those she was sent to

16:00

care for jealous

16:07

of her sister. The moon

16:09

began to change her face.

16:13

Maybe if I wear a

16:16

different face each night, the

16:18

humans may come to love me.

16:21

They still loved the sun more.

16:26

Perhaps if I disappear

16:28

completely, they will

16:30

realize how much they miss me and will

16:32

honor me as well. Okay , and

16:37

so she hit herself away. Yet

16:40

the humans only praise

16:43

the sun more. When

16:45

the light of day returned after

16:47

such a dark and treacherous

16:49

night in

16:53

frustration, the pail

16:55

sister decided to cross

16:58

her siblings path eclipsing

17:00

the son with her own smaller

17:03

form, hoping that

17:05

the humans would love her more. Now

17:09

[inaudible]

17:10

the humans fell to their knees and

17:12

horror begging the sun to

17:14

come back and the moon

17:17

to stay in her rightful sky.

17:31

[inaudible]

17:31

she retreated back to the night vowing

17:34

to run away and leave the earth completely.

17:38

It was then not the creatures of

17:40

earth. Those that treasured

17:43

all she offered them, begged

17:45

her not to go. The

17:47

wolves how songs

17:50

of appreciation towards the

17:53

moon and hopes of making her stay. The

17:55

waves of the ocean pleaded with

17:57

the moon, promising that they would do

18:00

her bidding if only she

18:02

remained pacified

18:08

the moon promise to stay with

18:10

the earth so long as the

18:12

creatures and the waves sung

18:14

her praises and obeyed her commands.

18:18

To this Jay , the promise has not

18:21

been broken, but

18:25

every now and then the

18:27

jealous sister still checks in

18:29

on the humans looking

18:31

down on them from a mid day sky

18:34

hoping to hurry her sister

18:36

a long that she may

18:40

reign over the skies once more.

18:44

[inaudible]

18:44

my daughter looks up at me as

18:47

the Wolf does to the moon. Adoration

18:50

in her eyes. I

18:53

pray with my

18:55

own heart that she will

18:58

love me this much for

19:00

always

19:06

[inaudible]

19:11

Oh , that one hit brilliant. We

19:13

went super Spady . They

19:15

were landing. Now how

19:18

enough did you program this thing to land? I

19:20

was busy painting an amusing picture of a

19:22

moonscape with surreptitious boobs

19:25

on the other side of the Hill when you were , when

19:27

you were finishing the wiring. So I didn't

19:29

see,

19:30

I just made a button here and wrote

19:33

land

19:34

on a

19:34

that said PUA seven.

19:36

You're reading upside down.

19:39

I just said that. That makes sense cause I thought what, what

19:41

is it P UASF well,

19:44

feel . I've been completely disorientated to vanish

19:46

because you know, we've been floating around since

19:48

we got out of that . All back to how

19:51

can the boo sleep like that? Right

19:54

? It's not much a gravity

19:56

put a tool in here.

19:57

Nope. Most of my dirty

19:59

moon just blobbed across the instruments.

20:03

Ah , I think it's all okay. So

20:05

hang on to something Nabu

20:08

lay down. I mean, lay

20:11

in the air there.

20:14

Good boy

20:17

landing beautifully.

20:19

Smoothly is not [inaudible] .

20:21

Well we couldn't find a good sound effect.

20:23

So gets around that one.

20:26

Well, I think that landing, so, but it's

20:28

up and remember kids

20:30

drink responsible , especially if

20:32

you're driving a spaceship. What's

20:35

the ship called?

20:37

Um ,

20:41

penguin.

20:42

Penguin. A flightless

20:45

bird. I don't like penguins.

20:48

Okay .

20:49

The penguin has landed.

20:53

Hey . Okay, well we'll get the suits on and take a look outside

20:56

while this next monologues doors fuel for takeoff

20:58

. Yes. Now

21:01

this is one of my fav audio

21:03

drama writers . Faith.

21:06

She writes, boom. So

21:08

good. So good. And rated by one

21:10

of my favorite voice actor . She's been on my diva

21:12

podcast too . Did you listen to that episode?

21:14

So good. Oh hell yeah. Made notes

21:17

to catch the helmet.

21:25

Pedro by faith and Quinn narrated

21:28

by Jordan. Carb of yanas

21:31

descending and no such thing productions

21:36

in the 17th century. Thomas

21:39

Harriet looped through a telescope and

21:42

saw the moon in

21:44

the 20th century. Neil

21:47

Armstrong set foot on

21:55

2023 Aly Harbor . We

21:59

came the first to

22:02

walk on the moon, but

22:04

you know of there is

22:08

something you don't know back

22:12

on the

22:15

moon this time.

22:22

Tell me ,

22:23

uh , no . I told you it was

22:25

, uh , a year long mission

22:28

to help train the other astronauts

22:30

here. Luna.

22:33

Not since they've started calling themselves,

22:37

but I lied . I'm

22:40

going to be a permanent resident

22:43

on the Luna base along with

22:45

amigo , a Shiro live Balanoff

22:48

and a Gibbons. You

22:50

know them all and you know we'll

22:53

take care of each other here. I'm

22:56

sorry that I didn't tell

22:58

you until I was here that

23:00

I plan to stay a

23:02

new, you try to stop me because,

23:05

well, you make

23:07

up a reason like, mom,

23:10

you're retired, mom.

23:12

What about your grandchildren? But

23:14

the real reason would be you miss

23:17

me. Oh , miss

23:19

you too, because you

23:21

are my heart. That's

23:24

also why I couldn't

23:26

tell you because of fear. You

23:28

would have convinced me to stay on earth,

23:31

but I need to be here a

23:34

need to do this.

23:38

When I was a little girl, I

23:40

sat in my room and stared

23:42

up at the sky at the bright

23:44

white globe that cold

23:47

to me every night. I

23:49

was happiest when it was full. I

23:51

was sad when it was new and

23:55

now I'm here

23:58

and I can see it every

24:01

day. I

24:03

can help all world build

24:05

another so that we can not only

24:07

travel to MAs , but

24:09

live there as well. I

24:12

love you. Hone it. Donate

24:16

me. Talk

24:19

soon, mom.

24:24

[inaudible]

24:27

that was crazy. I

24:29

wonder if she's still here age

24:35

before beauty.

24:36

Thanks for that and I've gone identity

24:38

just jumped together, right? You remember the number

24:41

? We're going to say once we won two then okay.

24:44

On three Oh

24:47

eight in otitis down there already in

24:51

conduct is in my tin has gross

24:54

.

24:56

Wait, he is the first

24:58

thing on the moon. What's it going

25:00

to say? Something profound

25:03

maybe. I hope.

25:07

Ah man

25:10

.

25:13

Oh my gosh.

25:15

Let's jump anyway in one.

25:22

Oh . Oh

25:28

boy . What

25:37

?

25:39

Well don't you spend

25:43

a top ,

25:49

we come to the end of the [inaudible] advantage to the

25:52

moon. Yes. The end there

25:54

is currently no

25:56

war. Well more [inaudible]

25:59

voices on Twitter or write to quirky

26:01

[email protected]

26:04

they love to hear from you. I

26:06

don't know , perhaps as a C low

26:10

low law on a rocket

26:12

ship fueled by our words is

26:14

one charged Moodle long enough

26:16

to get our two word learning points after

26:18

this back again or it'll Sarah and da

26:21

and the mid three repairs and they fell out and friends started

26:23

with each another four , huh ? Never told her he got a new

26:25

script again . So

26:27

it would probably be [inaudible] many that happen

26:30

. But Hey, join it again another day to

26:32

see what happens next on [inaudible]

26:35

celebrating and a faith. He had an anniversary about

26:38

landing on the moon and people , it'd be

26:40

do a tonight. Take on a moment and to

26:43

up.

26:43

You can spot any moving on the moon. You're

26:46

going to do good him away . Thank

26:48

you to all the writers who submitted

26:52

huge stacks to quick you voices, competition

26:55

writing , submission window windows , Hayden

26:57

Davis , Kevin Hamco . So I might

26:59

just send that to Jen , Kristen

27:02

, and it's like McQuinn . And when you see

27:04

Snyder my up past , they are enough trail

27:07

CIM, Bromwell

27:08

and of course all of the narrators

27:10

. Erika Sanderson , James

27:13

Oliva, angelic Lazarus,

27:17

Madison Upton , Jordan cob , Fiona

27:20

thrill, Lucille

27:22

Valentine, Kareem Cron , flee and

27:26

well two Intrepid

27:28

explorers. The first

27:30

identifying females in the

27:35

moon as a reminder through Cindra. Thoughts on this podcast, any inspired

27:38

artwork, Reuben Moore and Moodle ox , the fuel

27:40

their way back,

27:41

the quirky voices.

27:48

[inaudible]

27:55

[inaudible] what

28:01

a fuse . No MAs , no

28:03

traffic, no anything . But now

28:09

it's right over there in internet.

28:14

Yup . It's lovely. Look

28:20

though Sarah , look,

28:21

well , I can turn uncle Bruce

28:24

bong.

28:25

Hang on. What are you doing ? Like

28:28

a cow cow.

28:34

A cow in the kitchen.

28:36

Yeah . You

28:47

don't turn away . If

28:51

you get a good run up, you

28:53

can jump over Sarah .

28:56

Come on girl. And yeah ,

29:06

shade

29:10

and the cow jumped over.

29:31

We choose to, we

29:35

choose to go to the Mount . We choose

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to go to the moon in this

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decade and

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to do the other things. Not

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because they are easy, but

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because they are hard. Because

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that girl will serve to organize and

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measure the best of our energies and skills.

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Because that challenge is one

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that we are willing to accept. One

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, we are among willing to postpone and

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one we intend to win.

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And the others too. John

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F. Kennedy, thank you for spending time with

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quirky voices project . Keep

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an eye out for lunch. Snack .

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[inaudible] .