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New Year's Eve ball drop test in Times Square, New York City.

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00:00Seconds guys
00:0730 seconds
00:21Hey countdown with us in seconds
00:2410 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
00:54Look at that
01:24It's like clockwork
01:41You know this time ball ball came from a maritime tradition
01:54Time piece to the local time
01:58Light a ball that would drop at midnight to mark the beginning of a new year
02:02Doing it now for a hundred and twenty years. Well, well, it's up 117
02:08But we've been celebrating New Year's Eve for 120 years
02:13I was not there for all of it
02:15a
02:21Couple years we had in the 50s
02:23there was a they used to do this with five sign workers and a guy with a stopwatch and
02:30And their family up here and they got the rope table. So they had to stop the ball
02:36My very first year the ball was about two seconds late, so we extended
02:421995 slightly to 1996
02:45But the years still happen
02:49You have to rehearse
03:15I
03:45You
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09:10You just keep those from blowing away
09:15You
09:45Oh
10:15Oh
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11:15Oh
11:17You
11:43Yeah
11:47Oh
12:17You
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