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🗓️ 6 May 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I live in a wonderful little town in Florida called Safety Harbor. |
| 0:12.5 | It's in the Tampa Bay area, and one of the things that people love about this place |
| 0:17.5 | is that there are lots of big, shady trees. |
| 0:25.8 | There's one particular tree that everyone knows about. |
| 0:28.8 | It's a huge oak tree called the Baranoff Oak, and it's named after one of the early |
| 0:34.8 | property owners here. |
| 0:37.9 | This tree is estimated to be over 300 years old, and it's huge. |
| 0:43.3 | The diameter of the trunk is around 20 feet, which is almost 7 meters. |
| 0:48.5 | And experts have estimated that it weighs around 800 tons. |
| 0:54.3 | If you do a Google search for Baranoff Oak, you can see pictures of it, and you'll see why it's so special. |
| 1:00.3 | You can also read about how a few years back, the city took action to try to protect it, |
| 1:07.3 | and in doing so, they almost killed it. |
| 1:10.3 | It's still there, though, and I get to see it almost every morning. |
| 1:16.3 | My guest today is Tessie. |
| 1:19.3 | When she was younger, she had a job working outdoors. |
| 1:23.3 | And by outdoors, I mean in the deep forest. |
| 1:27.3 | So she and her co-workers were literally surrounded by trees, really big trees all day, |
| 1:35.3 | somewhere over 100 feet tall. |
| 1:38.3 | Working in the forest is physically demanding, and Tessie loved being out there for days at a time. |
| 1:47.3 | But things changed when one of those huge trees came crashing to the ground. |
| 1:57.3 | Real people in unreal situations. |
| 2:02.3 | There is a man standing in front of me in my bedroom. |
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