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Well, given that a moon cycle is about 28 days long, each quarter of that is 7 days. Before we had electric lights at night, most people were very aware of the moon phase.
"You can't explain that."
I have never seen that clip before. He was so dumbfounded by O'Reilly's example of a mysterious force that he resorted to sarcasm. Ngl I don't think I could have even responded to that
I would have responded by explaining how the gravitational pull of the moon causes tides, but I'm sure he would have just dismissed it.