Ed Helms
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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That was Jimmy Carter.
So this is a story about a young Jimmy Carter.
He runs up there, gets to Deep River, Ontario.
The reactor's melting down.
It's so radioactive that they can only be in close proximity to the reactor core for 90 seconds at a time, or else they'll die of radiation poisoning.
I know what ends up happening.
So they build a replica of this reactor core on a nearby tennis court.
So they start rehearsing this disassembly.
And they drill it and they drill it and drill it until they've got this plan down perfectly.
And then they start running in like a relay team of NASCAR pit crews.
Just like... 90 seconds at a time.
They can only be in there.
Every time they do something to the reactor core, they come outside and they do it to their replica as well so they can keep track of everything that's happening.