TRANSCRIPT · The rocket scientist who summoned demons: The true horror story of Jack Parsons

## The rocket scientist who summoned demons: The true horror story of Jack Parsons (Space.com)
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/the-rocket-scientist-who-summoned-demons-the-true-horror-story-of-jack-parsons
GRANT BRICKMAN: A rocket pioneer, a desert, and a very strange experiment. Nova has the breaking details.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Breaking news, just landed. A rocket scientist, a desert, and a series of ceremonies. Nova is at the pad.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Space.com reports that Jack Parsons helped lay the foundations for modern rocketry. They also tried to conjure supernatural entities.
NOVA: Breaking from the pad, Grant. Parsons was a self-taught chemist who helped establish what became NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
NOVA: File footage: the Mojave Desert. Winter of 1946, two men walk in together. One is Parsons. The other is L. Ron Hubbard, then a science fiction writer.
NOVA: The report says one of them became convinced an extraordinary experiment had finally succeeded. Cosmic perspective: that is a lot of ambition for one desert.
GRANT BRICKMAN: A self-taught chemist! I once taught myself the hotel minibar. Nobody summoned anything, but the prices were frightening.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Grant, the minibar did not help lay the groundwork for the Space Race. Parsons' rocket propulsion work did, according to the article.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Quite right, Greta. Stay with PXL as this story develops. We will be keeping one eye on the desert.

## HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ Casts Hogwarts Ghosts, the Fat Lady and the Sorting Hat (TheWrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/tv-shows/harry-potter-hbo-show-ghosts-sorting-hat-fat-lady-actors-cast/
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Hogwarts just got livelier: ghosts, a portrait and a hat are cast. We asked the street.
ODETTE: A panel! Four chairs, one story, nobody agrees.
BARNABY: How we got here, in one tidy explainer.
DIRECTOR MARGE: Pencil it in: THE STREET.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Viewers just joining: we first told you about this Friday 17:03 today. HBO's Harry Potter has cast its ghosts. Roxy asked the public.
ROXY: Roxy Reel at the drive-in, where the projector is warm and the opinions are hot. Ghosts, a portrait and a hat. Who is thrilled?
PASSERBY: Nearly Headless Nick is played by Leo Bill. I like that. A ghost should be a bit see-through, acting-wise.
ROXY: Gorgeous. Leo Bill, Andrew Brooke as the Bloody Baron, Daniel Fearn as the Fat Friar. Three ghosts, three reels from me.
PASSERBY: David Threlfall voices the Sorting Hat. A hat gets a voice actor. Hats never got that in my day.
PASSERBY: Laura Smyth is the Fat Lady. I am just glad the portrait gets proper casting. She guards the whole common room.
ROXY: A moving portrait with a real cast member. Five out of five reels. I will not say who sits in which house. Well, Gryffindor, but that is in the article.
PASSERBY: They announced it right before Halloween. Bit clever. I would have waited until the ghosts could haunt the press release.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: So the street is mostly pleased, and one person wants a haunted press release. The ghosts join the cast already announced for the series.

## GSLV Mk II | IRNSS-1L (NVS-03) (Launch Library 2)
GRANT BRICKMAN: A GSLV Mk II is Go for Launch with a navigation satellite. Nova is at the pad.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Launch watch. A GSLV Mk II is on the pad with IRNSS-1L, also called NVS-03. Nova is at the pad.
NOVA: Status is Go for Launch. The rocket is a GSLV Mk. II, the provider is the Indian Space Research Organization.
NOVA: The pad is the Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad. Orbit: Geostationary Transfer Orbit. The mission is navigation.
NOVA: Target time is 19:21 CET on 2026-10-30. The T-minus clock is on screen behind me, and I am not looking at it. Helmet stays on.
GRANT BRICKMAN: A replacement satellite for a regional navigation system. Excellent. Finally, one that does not insist on a left turn.

## HIGHER OR LOWER (PXL)
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Billy hosts Higher or Lower with real Twitch viewer numbers, and Lyle guesses.
BILLY MAYHEM: WELCOME to Higher or Lower! Real Twitch viewer numbers, right now! Our contestant is Lyle Hotchkiss, and he is READY!
BILLY MAYHEM: Round one! GRONKH has 14,742 viewers. Is NiceWigg higher or lower?
LYLE HOTCHKISS: Higher! A stream is a tide, Billy, and tides only come in. Ask any moon.
BILLY MAYHEM: NiceWigg has 18,668 viewers! HIGHER! That is CORRECT!
BILLY MAYHEM: Round two! NiceWigg has 18,668 viewers. Is StRoGo higher or lower?
BILLY MAYHEM: StRoGo has 24,013 viewers! HIGHER! That is WRONG!
LYLE HOTCHKISS: That podium lied to my face. I have never trusted a podium with two lights.
BILLY MAYHEM: Final score: one out of two! Thanks for playing Higher or Lower! But wait, there is more game, just not tonight!

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