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Odd Ball Podcast

Episode 2 - Who Is Gerri?

Odd Ball Podcast

WJCT Public Media

Society & Culture, Documentary

3.7612 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Gerri Betz was known in Jacksonville as a strong community leader and entrepreneur who happened to live in a beautiful castle with her husband and kids and the family dog. When a metal sphere lands on her property and disrupts that life, she talks to reporters about it for many weeks — but suddenly stops. Who is Gerri Betz? Can she be trusted?

Transcript

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From W.CT Public Media, this is episode two of Oddball.

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I'm Lindsay Kilbride.

0:55.5

One of my listeners called up and said, Ron, have you heard about this thing that they found? I said okay well you know I'll check it out. It probably has a very simple explanation but so that's why I

1:01.8

haven't found anyone that can give me one. The ball was sitting on a glass top table.

1:10.8

The ball rolled from the center of the table all the way to the edge.

1:17.0

It stopped.

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Do you have any theories as to what the ball might be?

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Not really.

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Do you remember your dad saying that he personally witnessed it?

1:27.9

Yes.

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It's really exciting.

1:29.9

That's good.

1:31.4

At the end, they weren't sure they got the right ball back.

1:35.9

People will say, you're crazy or this or that, but she is not.

1:43.0

I left off talking with Betts' family friend Dick Burnett in his living room.

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