diff --git "a/Transcipts_base/A Car for the Zombie Apocalypse.json" "b/Transcipts_base/A Car for the Zombie Apocalypse.json" new file mode 100644--- /dev/null +++ "b/Transcipts_base/A Car for the Zombie Apocalypse.json" @@ -0,0 +1,5567 @@ +[ + { + "start": 0.0, + "end": 2.6, + "text": " This message comes from Mint Mobile." + }, + { + "start": 2.6, + "end": 5.8, + "text": " From the gas pump to the grocery store, inflation is everywhere." + }, + { + "start": 5.8, + "end": 10.1, + "text": " So Mint Mobile is offering premium wireless starting at just $15 a month." + }, + { + "start": 10.1, + "end": 15.6, + "text": " To get your new phone plan for just $15, go to mintmobile.com slash switch." + }, + { + "start": 31.0, + "end": 35.0, + "text": " Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio." + }, + { + "start": 35.0, + "end": 38.0, + "text": " With us, click and collect the TAPIT Brothers and we're broadcasting this week" + }, + { + "start": 38.0, + "end": 42.0, + "text": " from the Center for Inter Species Communications here at Car Talk Plaza." + }, + { + "start": 42.0, + "end": 43.0, + "text": " I like it." + }, + { + "start": 43.0, + "end": 45.0, + "text": " Inter Species." + }, + { + "start": 45.0, + "end": 50.0, + "text": " Oh, yeah, here's an interesting article that appeared a couple of weeks ago in Newsweek, I think." + }, + { + "start": 50.0, + "end": 56.0, + "text": " It's a blurb about a book called Spoken Cat, where author and Wacall apparently." + }, + { + "start": 57.0, + "end": 61.0, + "text": " Alexandra Sella's claims to have interpreted cat language." + }, + { + "start": 61.0, + "end": 62.0, + "text": " She's nuts." + }, + { + "start": 62.0, + "end": 64.0, + "text": " Well, in her book, she tells you how to speak cat." + }, + { + "start": 64.0, + "end": 71.0, + "text": " For instance, ma means cut that out and m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m." + }, + { + "start": 71.0, + "end": 73.0, + "text": " He's springing me some cream." + }, + { + "start": 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Who's this?" + }, + { + "start": 1316.0, + "end": 1317.0, + "text": " This is Ben from Philadelphia." + }, + { + "start": 1317.0, + "end": 1318.0, + "text": " Hi, Ben." + }, + { + "start": 1318.0, + "end": 1319.0, + "text": " How's it going?" + }, + { + "start": 1319.0, + "end": 1320.0, + "text": " Ben with one hand, huh?" + }, + { + "start": 1320.0, + "end": 1322.0, + "text": " Ben with one hand, make a name." + }, + { + "start": 1322.0, + "end": 1323.0, + "text": " Just checking." + }, + { + "start": 1323.0, + "end": 1324.0, + "text": " Yeah." + }, + { + "start": 1324.0, + "end": 1326.0, + "text": " What, so anyway, what's the nature of your call?" + }, + { + "start": 1326.0, + "end": 1330.0, + "text": " Okay, two weeks ago, I went home for the weekend." + }, + { + "start": 1330.0, + "end": 1331.0, + "text": " I'm a student." + }, + { + "start": 1331.0, + "end": 1334.0, + "text": " I'm in Philadelphia, but I went home to North Jersey to visit my parents." + }, + { + "start": 1334.0, 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You're listening to Carrots, our national public radio with us clicking on the TAPIC Brothers." + }, + { + "start": 1843.0, + "end": 1849.0, + "text": " And we here to discuss cars, car repair, and lists like Franz and his brother Fred." + }, + { + "start": 1849.0, + "end": 1854.0, + "text": " I mean all these lists come around the internet and some of them are really very good." + }, + { + "start": 1854.0, + "end": 1857.0, + "text": " Here's one, Real Excuses Received by School Teachers." + }, + { + "start": 1857.0, + "end": 1860.0, + "text": " The whole list of things I picked out my favorites." + }, + { + "start": 1860.0, + "end": 1863.0, + "text": " Please excuse Roland from PE for a few days." + }, + { + "start": 1863.0, + "end": 1867.0, + "text": " Yesterday he fell out of a tree and misplaced his hip." + }, + { + "start": 1867.0, + "end": 1872.0, + "text": " Please excuse Ray Friday from school. He has very loose vowels." + }, + { + "start": 1874.0, + "end": 1877.0, + "text": " This is the most creative." + }, + { + "start": 1877.0, + "end": 1880.0, + "text": " Please excuse Jennifer for missing school yesterday." + }, + { + "start": 1880.0, + "end": 1887.0, + "text": " We forgot to get the Sunday paper off the porch and when we found it Monday, we thought it was Sunday." + }, + { + "start": 1887.0, + "end": 1890.0, + "text": " That's not list. This is the one." + }, + { + "start": 1890.0, + "end": 1894.0, + "text": " This is fun things to do in an elevator." + }, + { + "start": 1894.0, + "end": 1902.0, + "text": " And there's a whole list of them including Stair Grinning at another passenger for a while and then say," + }, + { + "start": 1902.0, + "end": 1905.0, + "text": " I've got new socks on." + }, + { + "start": 1905.0, + "end": 1908.0, + "text": " Crack open your briefcase up first and while peering inside say," + }, + { + "start": 1908.0, + "end": 1912.0, + "text": " You got enough air in there and my personal favorite." + }, + { + "start": 1913.0, + "end": 1916.0, + "text": " Grimm is painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering," + }, + { + "start": 1916.0, + "end": 1919.0, + "text": " Shut up, damn it, all of you just shut up!" + }, + { + "start": 1919.0, + "end": 1924.0, + "text": " Elevator is a great." + }, + { + "start": 1924.0, + "end": 1927.0, + "text": " You have a captive audience." + }, + { + 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"text": " Oh, I have, so it's okay." + }, + { + "start": 1960.0, + "end": 1963.0, + "text": " We will our bit with our website because you can kill hours." + }, + { + "start": 1963.0, + "end": 1965.0, + "text": " Oh, yeah!" + }, + { + "start": 1965.0, + "end": 1969.0, + "text": " I mean, there is nothing more useless." + }, + { + "start": 1969.0, + "end": 1973.0, + "text": " We say, probably." + }, + { + "start": 1973.0, + "end": 1978.0, + "text": " Yeah, and in fact, we will, of course, post these on the site so that if you didn't hear them" + }, + { + "start": 1978.0, + "end": 1981.0, + "text": " or you want to hear the ones that I didn't like, you can..." + }, + { + "start": 1981.0, + "end": 1983.0, + "text": " You too." + }, + { + "start": 1983.0, + "end": 1985.0, + "text": " You too can..." + }, + { + "start": 1985.0, + "end": 1987.0, + "text": " And you can post them on your website when you get them." + }, + { + "start": 1987.0, + "end": 1988.0, + "text": " Sure." + }, + { + 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