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Sep 13, 2026

Joyce Carol OatesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
5:33
His forehead glistened with moisture.
Joyce Carol OatesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
5:36
Rainwater and puddles on the garage floor, slow drifting fog mist, the smell of her father's breath like fumes.
Joyce Carol OatesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
5:47
In the back seat of the car, a potted plant, its bloom wrapped in crinkly cellophane amid random newspapers, napkins, coffee cups.
Joyce Carol OatesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
5:57
Also, a small suitcase so stuffed that one of the compartments was only partly zipped.
speaker_0NARRATOR
25:41
Every mountain range begins being destroyed almost as soon as it begins forming.
speaker_0NARRATOR
25:46
Rainwater enters fractures.
speaker_0NARRATOR
25:48
Ice expands.
speaker_0NARRATOR
25:49
Inside cracks at higher elevations.

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speaker_0NARRATOR
37:29
Bare limestone ridges rise directly behind modern islands and coastal towns.
speaker_0NARRATOR
37:34
Caves and karst landscapes cut through the carbonate rock.
speaker_0NARRATOR
37:38
Rainwater disappears underground.
speaker_0NARRATOR
37:40
Springs emerge near the coast.
MaggieHOST
51:15
So if something sinks in, it's related to absorption.
MaggieHOST
51:19
Rainwater outside could sink in, sink into the ground.
MaggieHOST
51:23
also means to process something and absorb something like difficult information.
MaggieHOST
51:30
I could say it took a few days for the news to sink in.
speaker_0HOST
52:29
A platform that was underwater for millions of years might become exposed.
speaker_0HOST
52:34
Rainwater would begin dissolving the limestone.
speaker_0HOST
52:37
Soils could develop.
speaker_0HOST
52:38
Rivers and streams might cut into the surface.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
212:51
This again will have to be melted, carefully strained, and run into moulds, forming wax bricks of preferably about one pound in weight.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
213:04
Rainwater only should be used, as the resulting fine wax is always of a better colour.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
213:12
Roofs of hives may be lifted and the quilts examined for any sign of damp.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
213:18
Damp quilts should be at once exchanged for dry ones, the cause of the damp being at the same time traced out and promptly removed.
GrantVOICE_ACTOR
3:22
I pinned her harder with the throat grip, forced her to stay still, look up, surrender.
GrantVOICE_ACTOR
3:29
Rainwater dripped from my hair onto her collarbone, mixed with sweat.
GrantVOICE_ACTOR
3:34
Her pulse hammered under my palm, alive, here, not vanished.
GrantVOICE_ACTOR
3:40
And the ring, I growled against her mouth, still in my desk drawer, the one you never wore, the one you left behind when you ran.
David BazzelHOST
43:01
anniversary of 20 years of Gunsmoke, start today.
David BazzelHOST
43:05
Red and Rainwater coming up in the 9 o'clock hour.
David BazzelHOST
43:07
Nice! Don't go away, 847.
Christian WeaverADVERTISER
43:11
Hey, it's Christian Weaver.
David BazzelHOST
47:33
Dang straight.
David BazzelHOST
47:40
852.
David BazzelHOST
47:42
Coming up in the 9 o'clock hour, Randy Rainwater.
David BazzelHOST
47:45
Speaking of music, I was looking hits on this one, Christian, on this day.
Laura ScottGUEST
47:58
them? So if you've bought a potted plant before planting, I would suggest soaking it in a bucket of water for half an hour just to make sure that it is fully hydrated.
Richard BeauvoisinHOST
48:10
Rainwater from your butt.
Laura ScottGUEST
48:11
Rainwater from your big water butt.
Laura ScottGUEST
48:14
Okay.
Laura ScottGUEST
48:14
Yes, which you are going to install, aren't you?
Jackie CastleNARRATOR
55:36
It may have, for instance, salt dissolved in it or bits of grass and other decaying matter.
Jackie CastleNARRATOR
55:41
Rainwater is, of course, the purest, but before it reaches us, it generally becomes impure by the absorption of the floating matter in the atmosphere.
Jackie CastleNARRATOR
55:49
Perfectly pure water has a most beneficial effect on the system.
Jackie CastleNARRATOR
55:53
Hence doctors administer distilled water to their patients.
Jackie CastleNARRATOR
56:14
The taste is brackish while soft water tastes sweet.
Jackie CastleNARRATOR
56:17
It is much safer to drink soft water, although some people hold that hard water is better by virtue of the presence of nutritious matter dissolved therein.
Jackie CastleNARRATOR
56:25
Rainwater is the best kind of soft water and is therefore the best for drinking purposes.
Jackie CastleNARRATOR
56:30
Hard water, if boiled or kept over the fire for some half an hour, is rendered soft.
Mark WebsterHOST
4:45
You're going to need to sort out your water supply as soon as possible.
Mark WebsterHOST
4:49
Rainwater is at least pretty clean on arrival with the advantage that you know where it came from.
Mark WebsterHOST
4:56
With streams and rivers, you can never be sure what's lying in the water a few hundred metres upstream.
Mark WebsterHOST
5:00
A corpse? Or have people and or animals been defecating into the water? Other pollutants? Even now, trampers and hikers sometimes defecate too close to running water and or fail to properly bury the results with bad downstream effects.

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