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Okay, Zoe, favorite.

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What is your favorite thing about space?

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Go in there.

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Go in there.

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There's not many people who've been there.

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It's nice to do something

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that other people haven't done.

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But I do not want to do dangerous things.

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You want to do successful things and

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if it's new and different, there may be some things where something could go wrong.

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So you want to be prepared.

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This is a trueism and you need to remember it.

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Prior as before.

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Prior planning

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prevents poor performance.

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Four P's.

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Prior planning.

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Revenge.

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Notice five.

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Space is something you've got to plan.

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Scared.

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Were you a little scared about

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going

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going to the moon or coming?

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Again?

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Because nobody has been there before.

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But people had gone up

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and down without staying in orbit.

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People, dogs and monkeys.

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People.

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Russian, Yuri Gagarin.

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Then we done a lot of things, but

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we hadn't really sent people to the moon.

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So we did send people and they went around the moon.

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Then we sent people another group to go around the moon and then practice

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everything but landing.

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And then a very fortunate person.

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Many things going right in my life

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gave Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins,

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Buzz Alder, the opportunity to

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make an attempt to make the first landing.

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And all of us won the succeed and we did.

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And that's why I'm here.

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That's one of the reasons I'm here.

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Because I had the curiosity to want to tell people what it was like.

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And so I've written several books

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with someone else about what I've done

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and some children's books to help inspire.

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And now we've come to

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welcome youth and others who read this book.

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Welcome to

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thinking, understanding,

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imagining what it might be like.

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To get to Mars and then have somebody tell you all the things

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that are there that you didn't know.

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And these are books and books inspire

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and get interest in people.

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That way, fast.

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Did it feel like the rocket was fast when it took off?

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It was very surprising

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that it was so gentle leaving us.

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And it was a very smooth, slow rocket going up.

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And once we were in space, then we were floating around.

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But in getting there, the rocket goes faster and faster.

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And we're sort of pushed back and it's out.

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But the rocket

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sometimes doesn't work.

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And that's a very dangerous part.

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So when that part is behind us,

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then we have successfully gotten this far.

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But there are always things that can happen.

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We're on.

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But we are optimistic.

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And so are the people that built this.

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And that's good to have them really optimistic about what has been built.

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Now, would you like to have somebody that gives you something

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know that when you pick it up and do something, is that a break?

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They test things.

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Flying.

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What else do you want to know?

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Flying.

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What's it like?

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What's it like being in space with no gravity?

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Do you feel like you're flying?

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There is a, you would think that there is emotion, a movement

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when you look out the window.

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But it looks like the earth is movement and you're just

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it's like being high in airplane, but much, much higher.

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And you're floating because there's no gravity.

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But that's just a description.

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There is gravity all the way out to the moon and beyond.

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Well, keeps the moon there, gravity.

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There's gravity.

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But it is, gravity is making us fall.

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But we've got motion, so that makes us move this way.

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He swings something on the end of a string and it's going to keep the string thought.

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So that's what keeps us in orbit.

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With gravity, it's balanced and it's floating.

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And I'm a diver, a scuba diver.

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And when you get down underneath the water, you're floating.

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That's just like in space.

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And for this part, it starts to move.

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I know you make waves or

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it's not quite the same as coating.

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We're fun out there.

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But that doesn't mean I like to see the fish.

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Long time.

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Why has nobody been to the moon in such a long time?

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That's not an eight-year-old's question.

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That's my question.

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I want to know, but I think I know.

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Because we didn't go there.

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And that's the way it happened.

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And if it didn't happen, it's nice to know why it didn't happen.

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So in the future, if we want to keep doing something,

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we need to know why something stopped in the past that we wanted to keep going.

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Money is a good thing.

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If you want to buy new things, new rockets,

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instead of keep doing the same thing over,

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then it's going to cost more money.

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And other things need more money, too.

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So having achieved what the President wanted us to do.

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And then what thousands, millions of people.

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In America,

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and millions of people around the world.

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You know, when we toured around the world after we came back,

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the most fascinating observation,

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as we were signs that said, we did it.

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Not just us, not just America.

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But we, the world, different country, they felt like they were part of what we were able to do.

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And that made us feel very good.

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Home.

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What would it be like to have a home on the moon or ours?

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A home where?

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On the moon or ours.

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I wouldn't want to have a home.

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I might want to stay on the moon for maybe six months.

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But it's fairly easy to come back to Earth from the moon.

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If something goes wrong, then you'd like to get back into orbit and to orbit to come back.

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It's much easier to come back from the moon.

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So why don't we do the same thing with the space station?

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We go up there and people stay for six months a year.

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That's what we'll probably do at the moon.

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Now somebody comes back and he may help train other people.

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He may go back and do it again.

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But it is not a good place to stay.

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There's no air.

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And it gets very hot in the daytime on the moon.

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Because the daytime when the sun appears to go up.

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That takes 13, 14 days.

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And it gets very hot.

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And then the sun disappears.

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Now that's not what really happens.

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What really happens is that you're going around the Earth and you're at some place and you're

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looking back at the Earth.

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But the sun is out here.

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And it's going to be cold.

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Very cold for 14 days because no sun at all.

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And no air to keep you warm.

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And no air to breathe.

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Not much water.

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You're up water and soil.

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Kind of hard to grow things.

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So it's really hard to do things other than being a space suit.

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Go outside and then come back in to a pressurized home.

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Not a space grab but something that's bigger.

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So we'll do that.

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But it's not going to be as useful and as easy to get back

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if we're at Mars.

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Much more difficult.

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Much more expensive.

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And way in the future, when you're as old as I am,

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we may want to be thinking about a growing number of people.

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And if you keep bringing people back, you're not going to

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be having a growing civilization.

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So that's kind of the ultimate goal of what will they do.

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Well, we have to keep interesting the people who are paying the bills.

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Or they won't keep paying the bills.

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So it has to be a growing knowledge.

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Important.

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Why do you think going to Mars is important?

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It's because there's a mountain.

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We want to climb the mountain and see what's on the other side.

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Curiosity.

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You see something and you like, what makes it work that way?

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And we want to know what it would be like to live somewhere.

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Well, we have to send robots, machines, and learn all about what's there before we send people.

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And then if we send people and bring them back, it's a long way is there.

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And it's a long way is back and it's expensive.

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So if people would like to go there and maybe begin to build up a new settlement

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like the pilgrims and the Mayflower, that ship, they want to plim a Throck.

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Know that in history.

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Yeah.

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Not yet.

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First grade.

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Not yet.

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But they came over here on the ship and they landed.

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But they didn't go back.

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They came here to settle to make friends with the Indians.

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That took a while.

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And six.

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What did you want to be when you were six?

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What did I want to...

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What did you want to be when you were six?

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When I was six, why I thought you were eight?

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Six.

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Instead of walking to school,

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I wanted to maybe be able to drive to school.

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Instead of getting on the bus,

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we played ball.

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I wanted to maybe be a sport.

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Ball player, maybe football player.

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Somebody could run fast.

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I wanted to do sports.

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And really, whether I liked it or not, I had to go to school.

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Because I'd do it in the school.

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Learning more and more.

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And grades go from kindergarten to first to second to third.

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Because they get more and more difficult because we can absorb ball.

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And pretty soon, there's college.

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And you learn all about lots of things.

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And hope that you can get that much education.

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Because that education will help you live a comfortable life.

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You may not focus on the mood, you may not go to the bars.

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Education was very, very important.

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And everything I was able to do.

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And I keep becoming educated by listening to other people.

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Reading books, that's the best way to find out somebody who's written an interesting book.

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That's why you came here to listen to me because I wrote an interesting book.

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How do you know it's interesting?

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Because somebody selected that book.

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They must know what they're talking about.

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You gotta rely on other people to help you, your parents.

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Bring out.

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Don't make sure you go to school.

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That's right.

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And don't come home.

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Because they got other things to do at home.

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You're at school.

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What do you think, honey?

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You gotta see what people say and see if it's funny and then laugh.

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I try and see a lot of funny things.

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But somebody says,

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I'm tired.

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Don't mean them.

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That's how I say.

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Thank you.

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You very, very welcome.