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My name is Noll.

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Folks, fellow conspiracy realists, friends, and neighbors, could you survive in nuclear war? No. All right. Well, hey, it was good to hear from

everybody this week. We'll talk to you next week. We'll do our back. Duck and cover. Duck and cover.

That's all it takes. Just get under that desk. Oh, yeah. I talk in. I know we're from slightly different backgrounds. I'm old enough to remember those drills and just how surreal they seemed. It is true. Wait, you actually did duck and cover drills? Mm-hmm. Yeah, as a child. No. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not Cold War era, but just weird teachers.

They would say, okay.

Because, you know, there was the ones for funsies.

Tornadoes where you had to go and put your face, go in the hallway, face down, ass up.

And then the nuclear war drills were, like Nola's saying, duck in cover, get under your desk, you know, and just hope that your desk is magic for some reason.

That way you'll get vaporized in a fetal position for posterity, you know?

Yeah, so you can look like that guy in Pompeii.

In Pompeii, exactly, that I was thinking.

Who got caught enjoying himself.

He didn't really.

It's just how the lava hit him. So ever since

August of 1945, the world has been terrified of nuclear Armageddon. And we know why August is the

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