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🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, it's Kim Commando today, your daily podcast to keep you up to date with all things digital and beyond. |
0:08.1 | And I'd love to have you be a part of our podcast. |
0:10.9 | You can make an appointment to speak with me. |
0:13.2 | Just head over to commando.com. |
0:14.7 | And on the top right, there's a button that says email Kim, fill that out. |
0:17.7 | And that's it. |
0:18.9 | All right, let's kick things out for something super interesting. |
0:21.7 | It's a great story from the Wall Street Journal. If you can find a meteorite over the size of |
0:26.0 | one kilogram, the main mineral and gem museum will hand over $25,000 for one. Yes, I know. There |
0:34.1 | are people who are willing to do just that full time. They're called meteorite hunters. |
0:38.7 | Okay, it's not easy. Take Roberto Vargas from Connecticut. He got an alert that a meteorite exploded over Junction City, Georgia. |
0:46.7 | He just booked a flight, went straight there within hours. He made it. He got a rental car. |
0:51.3 | Went to the parking lot with a meteorite crashed. He found a piece. |
0:54.8 | Some of it sold for $100 a gram. |
0:58.3 | Oh my gosh, $100 a gram. |
1:00.5 | So much so that he quit his job as a full-time therapist. |
1:03.4 | So if you're looking for something unusual to do, you can become a meteorite hunter. |
1:08.5 | Who knew? |
1:09.4 | All right. |
1:09.8 | Speaking of, if you know a scientist, |
1:11.8 | here's a good question to stump them. Speaking of meteorites, how come meteorites always land |
1:18.0 | in the middle of a crater? How come? They're looking like going, what planet did you come from? |
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