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So, Nate, there was a big happening this week.

I'm sure you were privy to the experience,

the solar eclipse that everybody took a little bit of time

out of their day to experience. I'm curious how you experienced it.

Yeah, the eyes were on the skies. I pulled my kids out of school an hour early and we we went out on the back deck and in our

school, and thanks to our local public library,

we had some cardboard and cellophane glasses.

And yeah, we just kind of took part in the celestial event. It was it was cool. We didn't get into darkness. We weren't in the path of totality here and you know outside of Philadelphia, but you know it was a noticeable change and got to hear the bird song kind of

emerge and things got a little cooler and despite the cloud cover we had a

nice time how How about you?

Yeah, I very briefly was outside.

I did not have any glasses, so I felt like I couldn't get the full experience.

But it did get dark here in the DC area for a little bit.

It's always interesting to be a part of something like this

and really sort of experience a little bit of the wonder of the universe like how small you are in comparison to everything that is happening out there

Which feels like a pretty good lead into

the conversation about an artist that we're going to talk about today.

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