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Hey and welcome to The Short Stuff.

I'm Josh and there's Chuck and here's Jerry and Dave's not in here but that's okay because

this is short stuff and that's just how we do it.

And Chuck, I'm excited about this one because I had no idea about this, had never heard

of it and you totally scored with this one.

Yeah, it wasn't too long ago.

It was when the last six months or so I became aware of the Catatombo Lightning.

I think I was just looking through like weather phenomenon because that's always interesting.

Want to shout out ExplorersWeb.com, scienceabc.com, NASA.gov along with some other websites

because there's plenty of websites talking about the Catatombo Lightning.

Yeah, I want to shout out Atlas Obscura who I saw a pretty neat little two minute video

on.

Yeah, I watched that too.

And learn some extra stuff too.

So Catatombo Lightning is a very specific, very isolated phenomenon that takes place in

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