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I'm starting this topic as an archive of stills and the transcript from:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmSBX-mERwY
Brad's tandem video

This may be the single most important video in the history of the foot launchable soaring sports.

- Starts out with a paraglider slamming in - 2011/07/24 14:30 PDT - as a consequence of a midair between Shannon Hamby:

Shannon Hamby - 90636 - P1 - 2011/01/21 - Bradley Geary - FL - Exp: 2012/01/31

under radio guidance and David Fischbach:

David Fischbach - 28300
- H5 - 1988/05/02 - Gregg Lawless - FL PA AWCL CL FSL RLF TUR XC
- P3 - 2011/08/15 - Max Marien - FL PA CL HA RLF RS TUR

who comes down in the usual way. Shannon's husband Jon:

Jon Hamby - 90635 - P2 - 2011/05/14 - Bradley Geary - FL CL RS - Exp: 2012/01/31

is contacted on the phone.

- Shannon is seriously injured and sues. Former USHPA Regional Director Bob Kuczewski:

Robert Kuczewski - 81898
- H4 - 2005/09/13 - Steve Stackable - 2012/09/30 - FL AWCL CL FSL RLF TUR
- P4 - 2006/04/11 - Ken Baier - FL CL FSL HA RLF RS TUR

testifies on behalf of the plaintiff as an expert witness and this becomes a major issue in his expulsion from the national "association" which will be happening at the conclusion of the show trial later this evening.

- Tandem "instructors" Brad Geary:

Bradley Geary - 82636
- H4 - 2008/08/12 - John Heiney - FL AWCL CL FSL RLF TUR XC
- P4 - 2007/07/09 - Joshua Meyers - FL ST TFL CL FSL HA RLF RS TUR XC - TOW TECH

and Max Marien:

Max Marien - 75916
- H4 - 2015/03/24 - Steve Stackable - FL PA VA AWCL CL FSL RLF TUR XC
- P4 - 2003/04/15 - Gabriel Jebb - FL M1 M2 ST TFL PA VA CL FSL HA RLF RS TUR XC - ADV INST, TAND INST

take, respectively, little kid brother "students" Zack and Alec for rides. The flying is spectacular and the kids have the times of their lives and so USHPA naturally rewards the more expendable pilot with a permanent revocation of his Tandem ticket.

Enjoy.
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Edit - 2015/05/11 21:30:00 UTC

As this video only had an online life of about twenty days...

http://www.kitestrings.org/post7821.html#p7821

...this archive has gained rather radically in importance. I originally published the transcript of the intelligible dialog without identifying the speakers as it was intended only as a supplement to the video. But with that unavailable to anyone who didn't download a copy...
B: Brad
D: David
M: Max
M: Mom
S: Field Trauma Specialist
Z: Zack
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Recording.
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B:
Alright. Ready to roll.
I'm gonna get my harness on.
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B:
See you got a whistle there.
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Z:
Yeah.
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B:
Did you get that from the shop?
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Z:
Yep.
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B:
Cool.
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B:
Absolutely. Um... We'll pose for one... You can get one when we get all hooked up, too.
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OK, perfect.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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B:
We'll, uh... We'll probably tour the ridge, come back, and do some roller coaster / swing stuff.
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OK. Cool.
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Yeah. We'll do it mostly right here.
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OK.
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B:
A lot of our students are flying there too so I gotta do it like when the group of students is on one end of the ridge I'll get him in really quick...
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OK.
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Yeah.
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He'll love it.
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B:
Cool.
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B:
Alright buddy.
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Alright. I'm gonna have you stand right here in front of me facing the water...
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M:
Lemme know when...
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B:
Yeah. And whenever you wanna take it...
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B:
Uh... What I'll do... Uh... How much do you weigh?
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Z:
Like eighty-three pounds.
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B:
Eighty-three pounds... I'm gonna put you on the high one then.
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B:
Another cool photo too is once when we're like getting ready to take off...
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Z:
If you weigh more do you get ---?
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M:
As long as you've got the video in there.
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B:
Yeah, yeah... You'll have... This is all on video. It's already recording now so our conversation will be on there too.
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Z:
If you weigh more do you go, uh, lower on the ---?
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B:
Um... I put the lighter ones lower because the heav... The lighter they are compared to me the higher they'll go. It's like a teeter-totter.
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Z:
Yeah.
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Yeah.
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B:
Alright, so, uh, Junior said he was gonna help us but he's not around so we're doing this on our own here.
What's gonna happen... We're gonna take a couple steps forward towards that cone on the edge of the cliff...
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M:
Um... Yeah, did you get any photos? Like... Do you wanna get him like...
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...this? Or... Well... You can get him once the glider comes up too.
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M:
That would be great when the glider's up.
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B:
OK. Alright.
So yeah. When I inflate this glider it's important to have you leaning forward and keep your arms out front...
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Yep. Exactly. Just like that. That's exactly...
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...how to do it. Once I get the glider all the way up over our heads we're gonna be standing here casually...
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...like we are, and these bars are gonna come up like this. Now this is the part where...
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B:
What was that?
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S:
Collision. Ran into him.
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B:
You might wanna...
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...check those r... ribs.
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Alec...
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B:
Luckily that guy running tending to her right now is a... uh... field trauma specialist.
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B:
And we have multiple doctors here too.
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M:
Zack... You OK?
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D:
--- see --- coming in?
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B:
Um... I didn't see it...
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D:
I was whistling.
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B:
Were ya? Yeah, I was talking to my... Zack here...
That's why awareness is so important, Zack. You'll see, uh, when we're out there flying my head is... never stops turning, looking around in all directions all the time.
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Z:
Yep.
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B:
Anyway. So. Let's go back to the bars. When these bars are up here like this, Zack, I'm gonna ask to bring your arms underneath them just like your doin' there.
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Z:
Yeah.
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B:
And you'll do it on the other side too. Perfect.
Now once you've brought your arms through, you're gonna reach down here. See this strap right here?
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Z:
Yeah.
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B:
Your gonna grab onto this right here, and you're gonna jump into your seat. This is actually the chair. But it's gonna be up high like this. So you're gonna hafta push it down, lift your legs up, and push this seat under your butt.
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OK.
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B:
But I'll help you do it. And once we're sitted this helmet won't be so much of a bother either.
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Z:
OK.
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B:
Go ahead and bring your arms out front for now.
There you go.
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Might get to watch a helicopter landing from the air. That'll be fun.
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Z:
Yeah.
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B:
Alright Zack, we're gonna start walking forward here. Go ahead and put your arms out front for me and I want you to lean forward too.
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Beautiful! Beautiful.
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You alright?
Go ahead and bring those arms inside those bars... Just like that. Perfect. Go ahead and stick those arms out to the si... There you go. Reach down and grab the seat and jump all the way in that thing.
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Z:
OK.
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B:
So here's your photo moment.
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M:
I got it.
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B:
Smile for the camera!
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B:
Yeah. He's gotta get a good one in.
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M:
It's hard to get it all in.
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Yeah.
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M:
OK. Have fun.
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B:
Alright. We'll be back in, uh, twenty/thirty minutes.
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OK.
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Z:
Are you in the air already?
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B:
Yeah. I am.
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Z:
Yeah? That's alright.
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It makes you hold on tight.
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What's that?
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Z:
It makes you wanna hold on tight. Right?
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Yeah.
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I'm gonna, uh...
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Z:
How fast are we ---?
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B:
Uh... So about twenty.
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Hey Jon, it's Brad. How's it going?
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B:
Um... Not so good. Shannon had a minor accident. She's alive and well...
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...and she's being tended to right now on the grass. I don't know details - I saw it from the air and I'm still in the air. I thought I'd call you and let you know.
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Alright buddy.
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Bye.
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Um, that I don't know but we happen to have a trauma specialist and two doctors here so it's perfect timing for something like that to happen.
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Alright. Bye.
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B:
Sorry 'bout that. What were you saying?
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Our speed. 'Bout twenty miles an hour.
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So we're gonna go down a little lower and we're gonna and we're gonna go get our picture taken by the photographer...
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Z:
OK.
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B:
Woop. Woop. I think that's, uh, lifeguards coming for that crashed pilot.
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B:
I think we might have got that on film. Did I already have the camera turned on for that?
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Z:
Yeah, you did!
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B:
I DID. Oh wow. Just realized it.
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Z:
Yeah.
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B:
I guess you get to take that video home. Haha. We're gonna hafta definitely make a copy of that.
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Z:
Photographer?
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This is Tim. You wanna wave?
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Yeah, tell 'em I got that all on video.
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Are we going to --- on video?
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I think so.
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Then how do they...
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They called 911. They called 911, they're already here on the beach.
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Yeah, they probably think they're on the cliff.
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Yeah.
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Lifeguard! Are they responding to the pilot injury?
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The pilot's up here on top of the hill.
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Cool.
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Um... I'm trying to get up a little bit higher here.
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Hey Jon.
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I am still in the air. Um...There are sirens coming and she's still being...
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...tended to, I don't know any details.
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Um... Call... Why don't you call... Why don't you call the gliderport office and ask whoever answers the phone for, uh, a physical update. Maybe they could put one of the people working on her on the phone.
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You know the number?
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OK.
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Sorry. We're gonna fly... I'm gonna give you some extra time for you having to deal with all this.
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What's that?
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Yeah. I am now. That was her husband calling me back.
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Can we fly... Can we fly over --- my mom?
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Yeah. I'm thinking though, if they're gonna be sending a helicopter in to get that pilot we're gonna hafta get out of the way.
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--- that bad?
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I don't know.
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Were they landing when they collided?
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Yeah. They were about twenty feet up when it happened.
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Wow! There goes Alec!
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Where's your mom. You see her?
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ALEC!
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Alec!
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Where is she?
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She's right there on the grass. On her knees.
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Hi mom.
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Yeah, pretty cool, huh?
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Hey guys, the husband's been notified...
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...and he's on his way.
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Get me!
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Take a picture!
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Oh, I missed it. Sorry.
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We'll come back.
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OK.
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I guess that was worse than it looked.
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Um... I think it was pretty severe. Judging by the way she hit the ground I'm gonna guess she probably has a collarbone, shoulder, arm, rib injury... Something like that. Probable lung injury...
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Lung injury?
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Lungs? She hit on her side pretty hard. It would be like falling off of a rooftop and landing on your side. So like probably... She probably had...
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...a lot of damage in that area. I don't know. We're not gonna know until a little later here.
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Why do you have a helmet?
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Um... For takeoff and landings... Ya know like when we when we were flying by your mom right there?
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Yeah.
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Like let's say I screwed that up and maybe we landed funky?
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Yeah.
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You know...
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Yeah, it's for takeoff and landings. That thing's pretty big on you, I know. It's probably a little annoying, huh?
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I can take it.
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It works?
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I'm hearing lotsa sirens. It's pretty scary, huh?
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Yeah.
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It's alright.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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What's that?
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That is a very rich person's backyard.
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Uh... Statues maybe...
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Oh yeah. Just... Yeah. Regular lawn decorations and stuff.
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Z:
How far over the ocean do we go?
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Um... Today we can't go out very far. In the springtime is when we go over the ocean a lot.
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How far?
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Um... I've been out probably a half mile before.
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But I was WAY higher than this. So we could glide out, turn around, and glide back.
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How high...
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Right now?
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Right now?
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Oh. Then?
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Yeah.
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Right now we're probably four hundred feet off the beach. And when I was gliding out over the water I'm usually like fifteen hundred maybe. One thousand five hundred.
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Is it harder to breathe up there?
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No. Not THAT high. It doesn't get harder to breathe until you're like... fourteen thousand and higher.
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And I was only like one thousand five hundred. I think my house is that high.
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Um... I was. Yup. A lot of times when we get super high like that...
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...there's usually clouds involved.
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Um... Clouds can be dangerous, we don't fly IN them. And there are laws that say how close we can get to them.
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What's that?
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Oh, well I wouldn't go near clouds in tandems. Or if I did... It... Like... You know... Like... These clouds... Say we were high enough... I might go through the corners of 'em or the edges... But legally we're supposed to stay out of them.
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We're supposed to stay five hundred feet below them, two thousand feet to the side of them, and, if we're above them, we're supposed to be at least a thousand feet higher than them.
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What's that?
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Is it hard to get to get a thousand feet higher?
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Yeah, it takes... It only happens on certain days. You know like today we're probably not gonna get much higher than we have been.
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Can we go out a little farther?
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Yeah, we can try.
So what we'll do is we'll glide out with the altitude we have, and once we start getting lower we'll turn around and go back to the cliff to get more altitude.
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B:
Ya know, what I just realized too is those phone conversations are gonna be on the video too.
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B:
We'll hafta make a version with no sound so you can show your friends and family and them not hearing you talking about an emergency, haha.
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Yeah, hey look at that. We're getting out here pretty far. That's pretty good.
If you look over our right shoulder you can see that's the closest we've been right over there. All's I can see there, there's no beach - only rocks and water. We don't wanna get TOO low 'cause we, uh, don't have any safe landing options. So we wanna keep our altitude.
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B:
Um... We can't go past this building today.
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Yeah, the big... The big one.
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Why?
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Because of the rocks and the beach issue. If I needed to land us, um, doing so in those rocks and boulders would be unacceptable.
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Uh-huh.
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They'd be callin' rescue for US.
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Haha. And, uh, we don't want that to happen.
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Z:
How far will we have to stay above the houses?
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Uh... We're not allowed to fly over them directly. If you notice I've never gone over any houses.
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I've always stayed out in front of them all.
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Hey Alec!
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Z:
We're not that far away from ---.
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No, we came back already.
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I know.
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B:
Um... So yeah... We're st... We'll be st... This is a pretty consistent distance.
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Z:
Will you be in this all through the day?
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B:
Yeah, pretty much.
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Hey Max,
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B:
I think I might've got Shannon's thing.
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B:
Yeah. I called Jon from... After I launched I called Jon and told him he needs to come over.
That's gonna be on the video too.
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Yeah, I don't know who's fault it was. I looked up after they'd already contacted.
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B:
This is gonna be a cool shot.
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Z:
Yeah.
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B:
Hahaha.
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B:
There's holes in that leading edge.
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Z:
What's that?
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B:
Uh... These cameras are about two hundred...
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Z:
About two hundred?
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B:
...and seventy bucks.
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Z:
What?
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B:
They're about two hundred and seventy dollars.
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Z:
Oh. I thought they were two hundred.
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B:
This is gonna be the best frickin' video EVER.
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Z:
Yeah.
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Yeah, he's just...
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Z:
If you dropped it could you find it?
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B:
What's that?
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Z:
Would you try to find it if you dropped it?
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B:
Um... Yeah... I would try to see where it went. Someone's calling you, Zack.
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Is that your sister? Your brother?
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B:
That's gonna be really cool footage!
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B:
Was it in my teeth? Haha. Hahaha.
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B:
Uh... When he put the glider right next to us I bit it.
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Z:
You did?
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B:
Yeah. It was funny. It's on video.
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See these pelicans coming?
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B:
Um... Yeah. It's about halfway done. We're gonna head back and we'll ---.
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B:
Yep.
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Z:
Ooh!
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Ooh. Alec, I'm gonna touch your...
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Ooh! Ooh!
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B:
No...
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...it's about half that.
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Haha!
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B:
Hahahaha!
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B:
Hahahaha! Are you're trimmers out?
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B:
Yeah.
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B:
Not enough wing loading.
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B:
Haha.
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B:
Check out these pelicans.
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B:
No, but they poop on the gliders...
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...if you fly right underneath them sometimes.
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Z:
--- I would think that four hundred feet is a bit closer ---.
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B:
Yeah, we're about... We're under three hundred now. This is probably... two eighty... two seventy.
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Z:
Do you ever spit off of here?
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B:
What's that?
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Z:
Do you ever spit off of here?
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B:
Yeah. What? You need a spit?
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Z:
Yeah.
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B:
If you need a spit you can spit down between your legs. Just lean forward.
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B:
Did it make it out?
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Z:
Yup.
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B:
Cool.
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B:
So we're almost back to the airport here and then we'll do some of that swingin' stuff.
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Z:
Yeah.
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B:
You can see a lot of fire trucks now.
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Z:
What?
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B:
All the fire trucks?
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Z:
Oh yeah.
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Z:
Alec!
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B:
GOIN' NORTH!
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Z:
MOM!
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Z:
Haha!
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B:
Goin' north!
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B:
I think she's pretty serious, dude.
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Almost there.
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Z:
Have you ever had --- like that or anything?
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Uh... No.
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Z:
-- Haha! Haha! Haha! ---?
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B:
Yeah.
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M:
You're almost there.
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You're not fast enough!
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M:
--- my hands ---.
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UH!
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Z:
Is that...
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B:
Am I there yet?
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Z:
...slow them down?
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Almost!
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M:
A little bit further.
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Z:
Is that how you slow 'em down?
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B:
OOH!
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Z:
Is that how you slow them down?
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B:
Getting too heavy.
What's that?
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Z:
Is that how you slow them down?
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B:
Yeah.
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B:
We need, ah...
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B:
You need a little more wingloading.
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B:
The "A"s are really soft.
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B:
What's that?
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B:
Uhhh... Sure.
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B:
Trimmers in or... Is that a small or a medium?
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Z:
If you fell from here into the water would you die?
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B:
Yeah. Fer sure. Without a doubt. You'd be going almost terminal velocity by the time you hit the ground from this high.
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B:
Yeah, you'd be going like eighty or ninety miles an hour.
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Z:
I'd think you'd go faster than that.
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Don't you hafta be like five hundred feet to go ---?
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Um...
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Uh.. About a thousand.
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Z:
Oh.
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B:
NORMALLY. BUT - in five hundred you're ALMOST terminal. It takes another five hundred to get the rest of it.
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Z:
Oh.
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B:
WOOBOOP!
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B:
Pretty cool, huh?
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Z:
Yep. Is that it?
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B:
No. We'll do some more.
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Z:
OK.
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B:
We gotta get back up first. See how we're down below the cliff now?
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B:
Yeah, so we go back to the cliff... where we'll get our altitude back.
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B:
We'll just get a little higher then we'll do some of our own stuff, too.
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B:
This is gonna be one of the best videos - EVER. I just wish our accident and phone calls aren't in there. Hahaha. The stuff we did... Is that your brother or sister?
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Z:
Brother.
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B:
The stuff we did with your brother is uh... We've never captured on film before.
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Z:
--- you think this is actually one of the best videos ever?
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B:
Yeah, this will be one of the best tandem videos fer sure. Definitely.
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B:
With all these birds and stuff...
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Z:
Yeah.
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B:
Yeah. It's gonna be good.
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Z:
How about the voice?
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B:
Yeah, well the voice... You know... You can change the audio and, uh...
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B:
I'm gonna give him some wingovers.
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B:
Um... I think that's what he's gonna do too.
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B:
That's what I was gonna do too. That's the swing set kinda thing that we were talking about.
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B:
Yep.
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B:
Yeah. Then we get a bunch of Gs.
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B:
There's your brother's doing some too right now.
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B:
There he goes.
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Z:
Were we that close to the ground?
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B:
Yeah. We were about the same height. It always... They always look a lot lower than they are.
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He's not as low as he looks.
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