James Cook
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1,779 appearances
16 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 19 Sep
James Cook’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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applause.
It's beautiful.
It's beautiful.
That's poetry, that is.
Poetry.
Anyway, I have seen a total, a full solar eclipse.
Not only that, I was one of around a couple of hundred of the first humans out of all the billions of humans on Earth to witness this particular eclipse, which was in 2017, because I went on a special flight put on by Alaska Airlines, and we left Portland, Oregon, and we flew out into the Pacific...
at, what, 2,300 miles there and back, which seems ridiculous now.
Anyway, we did.
You could just shut
So we were intersecting with the eclipse at the exact moment when it was beginning, so no one else could see this.
Were you taking a lot of drugs?
Well, the funny thing... That's lovely, yes, thank you.
So, are you taking any drugs?
So, the...
We were traveling.
The pilot had to explain to us that we were traveling at 520 miles an hour.
The moon's shadow would be going at 4,000 miles an hour.
And we had to intersect with it.
He said, we basically need to try to sideswipe a car traveling at 4,000 miles an hour.
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