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Rives: Is 4 a.m. the new midnight?

http://www.ted.com Poet Rives does 8 minutes of lyrical origami, folding history into a series of coincidences surrounding that most surreal of hours, 4 o'clock in the morning. TEDTalks is a daily...  
 
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vickyd217 (2 days ago) Show Hide
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its four in the morning grandma YOU WIIIIIIN
JDAFilm (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Started watching it at 4:00 on the dot, myself... what a conspiracy!
zmgnowai (1 month ago) Show Hide
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I, too, watched this at 4. Hmm!
wehaveBROWNrice (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Rives is such a cool guy. I never would've ever noticed. I think that this is just hilarious. He is such a genius.
gracestarvedroom (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Rives is so freakin' amazing.
adtc (1 month ago) Show Hide
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I never knew the implications of "4 in the morning" when I wrote this blog post of mine (link below) on 11 May last year (2008). It just came so naturally to me! Perhaps there's something more to the phrase "4 in the morning" than what meets the eye!

Please note, you have to piece together the link. As YouTube doesn't allow me to post it directly, I used bit ly to shorten it. Go to bit(dot)ly and append 3PoAS4 to the home page URL.
Minifresh123 (2 months ago) Show Hide
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holy crap i just noticed that im watching this at 4:25 wtfsticles?
shakesuka (2 months ago) Show Hide
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amazingly it's 4:30am right now
beelzebozos (2 months ago) Show Hide
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Started watching this at 4:45
cnmaster01 (2 months ago) Show Hide
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i'm not sure what i just watched but i loved it

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