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sweetie didn't some people are naturally klutzy others have nasty sneezing I'm [Man falling over]

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talking spell but perhaps no one drew a shorter straw in the physical ailment

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department than radiation Randi as you might gas radiation Randy is not Randy's [Radiator Randy on a birth certificate]

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given name that moniker was bestowed upon him once it became obvious that he

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attracted radiation as it was up came equipped with a homing device on first [Radiation sign and Geiger counter looking for Randy]

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the type of radiation that Randy found himself associating with what of the non

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ionizing variety and so it wasn't all that dangerous he was prone to sunburns

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which don't feel great and might have some nasty long-term effects of melanoma [Randy stood in the sun]

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but at least they aren't immediately life-threatening he also suffered an [His skin starts to glow]

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overexposure to radio wave but mostly because he had his cellphone roughly an

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instrument faced 24 by 7 so that one's on him but by the time Randy started [Randy looking at his phone]

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high school he started having fairly regular run-ins with ionizing radiation

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which is significantly more serious radiation is considered ionizing if it [Randy running into the radiation in the corridor]

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has enough energy then not electron clean off atom which in turn changes the

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electron into ions and electrons that have been changed into ions are bad news [Electron wearing a cap backwards]

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because they no longer work the way they're supposed to and they can cause

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mutation and yeah not the good kind like x-men as Randy was about to discover it

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all started when he made the football team and began to get bones broken on a [Randy being tackled on a football field]

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fairly regular basis well after each break or fracture he'd be sent to the

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hospital for an x-ray not a huge deal think they put that big lead apron

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thingy over but having an x-ray a month isn't a good thing for you no matter how

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many fries suckers you get out of the deal well Randy's troubles increased

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after his family moved right next door to a nuclear power plant [Randy's home and family appear next to the power plant]

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and Randy decided it would be a good idea to practice his spiral near the

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stream where the plant dumped off this toxic wave [Stream with bright green water]

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Randy was regularly riddled with alpha and beta particles and seriously a

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wonder he survived the whole ordeal our theory is that there was some sort of a

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vitamin thing going on there without crystals killed [Randy jumps off his balcony into a bush]

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anyway the exposure to alpha particle helium atoms that are missing electrons

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and have a positive two charge turned his skin a funny color and made his [Randy's skin turns green]

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voice go up about an octave he exposure to beta particles electrons or positrons

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that have been emitted by unstable isotope resulted in all of Randy's hair

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falling out and caused him to grow a third eye it wasn't all that bad though [Randy with an eye on the top of his head]

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a third eye really helped him see the field but Randy's lows reached an

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all-time high when one afternoon an alien spacecraft landed in his backyard [UFO lands]

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and one of the aliens emerged walked right up to the poor kid and fired a ray

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gun Randy was suddenly introduced to the fourth type of ionizing radiation gamma

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rays which are high-energy photon well suffice it to say Randy doesn't look

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much like the other kids anymore in fact he looks almost exactly like that alien [Randy's face changes to an alien face]

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who shot in full of gamma rays this high school wasn't hard enough okay so you're

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exposed to some of these types of radiation you probably won't experience

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quite the physical changes that Randy has but radiation is dangerous and it

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can mess you up so take our advice to no practice throwing high spirals anyplace

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near where the water is green or the sky is neon pink unless you're in the market [Deer jumps over the toxic stream]

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for a third eye there you

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