Ep. 183: "Here Comes Nacho"
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this episode of Roderick on the line is
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brought to you by cards against humanity
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this week they ask paul and storm to
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help me say hi to john this
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I got all big on a John I'm Merlin I had
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a little bit of a technical snafu there
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you know I gotta tell you John Roderick
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as I sit here today I think technical
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snafus might in some ways to find your
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life these days
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hmm learning goals now boo I got a lot
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of snappers I got all I don't pay a guy
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or a food you're a fool just and manga
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online man that sounds good so good road
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to ride as a good road to ride somebody
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good road you know if I fooled the guy i
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don't know maybe you get bored when
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you're driving a train but i don't think
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i was I don't think it's-- that guy
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seems like he might call ahead
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well yeah that's that's exactly right
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like what keeps it moving you're gonna
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stop eventually what keeps him from
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coming down out of his switching tower
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and walking to have been saying all
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right you still owe me the money for
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whatever your pig iron rig and you can't
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just roll through here with pig iron you
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gotta stop it man
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iir our listeners can be familiar with
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what we're talking about sure they are
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they real rock outline it's a mighty
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good line
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I'm sure every 25 year-old a person
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working in the tech economy is also
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familiar with Leadbelly all of his
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record work sir I'm aware that somebody
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good road upper technically yeah so you
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know any big part of a con i think is
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never admitting it was a con and it
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comes up with operatives there's a lot
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of Intel that stays sealed for years
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even after it seems like you could tell
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people about it
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that's right because you don't want them
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to you never want them to know that they
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were fooled because the real technology
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is that you fooled them that food
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chicken
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ok this shitty operative well that's
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exactly right i mean you know he could
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you can reveal that you had a pen camera
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you can reveal that yet an umbrella a
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poison-tipped umbrella but never
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revealed that it was an operation
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well yeah and also even something it's a
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little bit like the stagecraft of
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illusion and the kind of talking now
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you're singing my song and the stage
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graduate pollution and protecting the
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effect because you know
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you want people to know well you know
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that you may not even want them to know
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they got full you don't want to know how
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they got fooled you don't want them to
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know when they got full right that's
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what this is all really critical and
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then also I mean obviously a huge part
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for the operatives must be i don't know
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i'm not an operative but it seems like a
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huge party might also be then we don't
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want you to be able to connect the dots
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on time and people in places you sound
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like my listeners know what we're
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talking about John sure they do you know
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I often wonder it was a long time ago
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Merlin when when we first started
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lowering the third the third wall let
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alone the fourth wall
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remember when we first did that one on
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the Left we just dropped that one of the
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left when we began this program we
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almost never addressed our audience or
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even acknowledged on I I still down
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still even acknowledge that there was an
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audience and then as time went on I
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remember the first time I address the
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audience I got a lot of angry letters /
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don't let us know that you know that
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we're here isn't this isn't a fury road
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don't miss them but but now I think our
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audience has become somewhat self-aware
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but you're just saying this for your
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other show John haha this is a I
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actually IIM looking forward to the next
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episode of your other program because I
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want to hear what all you got in the
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mail but we have a lot to talk about
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well i'm sitting here i mean i'll just
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give you a little teaser I've got 25
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boxes and then that is not counting the
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envelopes and I just don't know where to
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begin but the crazy thing is that I got
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here and there were there were three UPS
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stickers on the door they're like we
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tried to deliver this we try to deliver
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sorry we've got to send it back and I
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was like well 25 other boxes managed to
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get here in the one box that came by UPS
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that just can't be guys like oh I'm not
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going to leave this box will hear about
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one of those broke my heart
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the one that went back to fargo yeah
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well yeah so they sent it back to fargo
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i called the numbers are the TV show are
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part of the city
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that's the woman wasn't clear because
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she was in bangalore and so she said I
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don't know it's probably seen season 1
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she said the
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the OIC to fargo the TV show right I i'm
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only here watching fargo the TV show me
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where far the movie
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oh dear seems like a complete universe
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and I didn't want to have to your job
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oh my goodness alright huh and I really
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don't recommend that i sent a comic book
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once that I ask you to read but apart
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from that I don't make you watch things
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but the second season of Fargo is a
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you sent me a couple of comic books i
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said if you come hot guy I yeah uh so
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you're saying you look at watchman right
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you're familiar with watchman oh yeah I
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liked watchman very much of the blue
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penis man is like it's me a bag face it
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a peg leg face and angrier AP guy ray
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and the great ready comic you got one
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glove lady one glove lady very important
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key role
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yep uh yeah it was let's see and you
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sent me the the guide to the Marvel
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Universe did I mmm that was probably me
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that's something i do yeah yeah and i
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blow i pored over that
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oh did Hank Pym really hit last or was
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that just a continuity error
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I'm tonight with the Fargo TV show I
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fear it i fear that mean that you know I
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don't need more more Fargo have a lot of
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Fargo already in my life
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well I don't go on about this because
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its people are already going it's kinda
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like the new wire where you know
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everybody's just oh yeah i mean all the
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white guys are falling all over the show
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because it is its exquisite I mean the
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storytelling is great the acting is
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great but just purely for the just the
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beauty the gorgeousness of the
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cinematography and no go ask your policy
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Newman the music's great they got the
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whoever is picking the music for that
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shows awesome AC newman have stopped
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flirting with me on the internet but I
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know me too and I've reached out what is
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ok I don't know he's somewhere up there
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in upstate New York he's forgotten his
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he doesn't care about us anymore he's
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like raisin raccoons or something
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yeah probably if your breaks my heart
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that I thought I thought I was getting
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close yeah you thought you were one of
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the one of the in crowd
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yeah that's the man with the in crowd
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but as so yeah so anyway they said this
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package back to fargo all the shops of
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course in Fargo are closed from October
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thirty-first until March 15 so all I can
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do is go to the internet and
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I if you live in Fargo and sent me a
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package send it again man i know it's
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really sad i have times that I think I
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don't know this is this is that this is
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a classic white wine but the problem of
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like delivery services is a little
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vexing to me like most of the time I
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don't particularly care it's mainly just
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a dash expectation but sometimes it gets
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downright frustrating and the classic
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and when you said you had three of those
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notices i sometimes feel like maybe the
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post office in particular since people
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around with a big pad of those things
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and they don't actually have the package
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they just wait for a moment when you go
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to take a dump and they slap it on the
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door and run away because I is having me
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numerous times i know many people have
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had the experience of like pretty much
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waiting sitting by the door because you
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know what thing is going to be delivered
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when you look away for a second look
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outside there's notice that they tried
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yeah it's like the it's like when some
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house certain people you're waiting for
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a phone call and then it goes directly
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to voicemail and you can you you're like
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wait a minute i was sitting right here
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was waiting for the call
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how did you how did you do that it
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seemed like there were certain people
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that had that had special phone skills
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that could I don't know somehow just
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send it straight to voicemail when they
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didn't want to talk interesting i have a
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weird similar complimentary availability
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heuristic which is I almost never call
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you're about the only person who calls
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me the location call me i don't know why
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i know somebody I and what happens when
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I feel a little bit freaky little bit
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and always great isn't it
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yeah that's nice that you can do that to
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me but I I don't get or make phone calls
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until I'm on a phone call and that's
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almost invariably when i get a phone
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call is what I'm already on a call with
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somebody with you interesting you know I
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don't understand how it works are
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watching you
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I have one couple weeks ago those really
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weird no big but like I our my internet
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ramen from amazon it's just really good
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at the controls about this ramen is what
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you get me one
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did I all I did when you did you try it
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well I haven't tried it yet and and it's
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it's now now no parties in California
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gonna be hard to try will cover that we
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gotta get our that but i had to reup had
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to do a reup I wanted to six new five
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packs of Internet ramen because I eat
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like one today
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yeah and he's gonna try that boy
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it's good i said it looks good and i SAT
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there and I watched i watched on the
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amazon page and later on when they made
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the that pretentious handoff to usps and
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you know your heart really drops when
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you see that is going to live among the
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post office
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mhm i think you know my history with the
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post office i do i just don't get mail I
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get a safeway flyer and the mail from
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people two doors down
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that's what I get haha we occasionally
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have this community events outside where
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we meet around seven o'clock in exchange
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mail with each other than I was
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delivered yeah so I ordered my internet
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ramen and I'm just watching it you know
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I got a little app here that keeps track
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of delivery stuff says when it's coming
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so i can be there and or whatever just
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now and i watched it and watch it move
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very slowly very slowly from California
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very slowly it had to go from just you
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because it's the post office and then
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it's at some more for awhile it i know
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did whatever packages do it okay it's
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coming it's on its way here coming back
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to California now and i watched it and
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it made the San Francisco like okay this
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is great project in the next five days
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and so it SAT there in San Francisco
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which is not unusual at all because I
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think sometimes they just get to it when
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they can of course they're busy people
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busy they gotta post office to run and
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then I saw that it was out for delivery
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then was out for delivery and then i saw
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i got a notification that it had reached
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its final destination and been delivered
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in chino california
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yeah so I contacted them and I said yeah
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I think my internet ramen and they said
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well said your address was undeliverable
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five other things delivered from amazon
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today because Christmas right
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yeah so anyway they had me verify my
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address that absolutely works and they
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were sent i got it yesterday / saturday
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Saturday you
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yeah but not in time for not ever Smith
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had nothing under the tree
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I don't print out a picture of ramen and
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put it into the tree oh that's too bad
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that's does that no-good christmas i had
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to it is this year i had to it as here's
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a picture of your president
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well thats like you know my dad's famous
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Christmas present was a was a
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paper grocery sack stapled closed
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well what did everything it's like
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folded over with a staple I don't want
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any when you saw that into the tree you
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knew like oh boy here comes and then
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you'd open it and there'd be a piece of
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paper the best
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merry Christmas to read the piece of
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paper and it's a good for guitar lessons
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which he would you would never force
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that lasted over here that's the other
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side of that kind of president is the
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first of all there's like so many things
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wrong with that the wrapping perfect
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that's right up my alley then there's
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the there's the whole like uh this is a
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physical good or evil it's not
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especially it's not a physical good it's
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like good for one hug kind of thing I
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know you're never going to deliver that
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alright Bobby's dishes they still have a
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booklet of those from 1975 good for one
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yeah good for one extra chore and I and
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somebody gave them to me as a gift like
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that's that's when it got a good gift
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there's a bunch of opportunities for me
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to do extra chores it's like it's like
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when you look at the ads from movies in
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the paper and and they almost all say no
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passes right
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really you're not gonna be able to use
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when you're little giveaway stocking
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stuffers to go to Star Wars it's gonna
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have to be you know so it's probably
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that is probably you know you can't
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you're ineligible to catching your hug
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after 1977 i ordered a couple of things
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from ebay if you can imagine that were
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small small things and these dead
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soldier pins their little dead soldier
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pins yeah and both of them they were the
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first time I've seen this in a long time
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both things said no tracking available
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and I was like call you know i kinda
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like I like kind of like chasing after
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the packages with the tracking
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information it's like a little own
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little personal travel show it to you
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get to watch it move across this great
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land of ours
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yeah no tracking available and I was
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like um alright and one of them said you
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know to be delivered in three days and
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one of them said to be delivered in a
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month and I I couldn't I couldn't
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explain why
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and then I did the thing that I that is
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the source of so many of these problems
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what's the source of the 25 boxes
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problem it's the source of a lot of
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these problems which is I did all these
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things then immediately left town for
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three weeks or a month and so when I got
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back I was looking forward to getting
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these two small packages
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neither of them came no sign of them
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anywhere and so I contacted both of the
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seller's through ebay and they but one
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of them wrote back immediately was like
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my packages always arrived they never
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fail to arrive
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mhm it's a guy he's a guy that's selling
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dead soldier pins so he can't be wrong
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the other person actually did a fair
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amount of due diligence but said i don't
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i don't pay extra for tracking it's too
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expensive
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hmm i was like well neither thing
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arrived and how is how is that costs
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i'm not sure i'll just put stamps on it
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and throw them in the mailbox
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I don't know but in any case the the two
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things that had no tracking are the two
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things that have not arrived
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yeah and it's just like well so much for
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that so much for them apples
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I feel like I suggest not interesting by
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such a crazy person because i'll say to
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people especially if it involves money
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in a check for people who still send
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checks and I just have to say like
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please send checks
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hmm and what one
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what are you I in this economy
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ah but you know and i'll just say to
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people i'll just i'll beg them because
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like you know that can mean a lot of
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money to me and like it just probably
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won't get here and i know you think i'm
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crazy when I say that but I'll SiC could
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you send it by I mean literally anyway
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except the post office and please use a
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tracking number
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like I know that's a pain and I'm so
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sorry but you're still using checks you
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must be used to inconvenience in life
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like could you justjust you know just
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you know cut me a break
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yeah he'll probably humor me you know
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but on ya
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I don't know soldier pins god we have
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recorded in awhile know what have we not
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done a show sense a mi was in San
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Francisco
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nope can that be true i think it's like
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three weeks that like that that's just
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incredible you know you a little bit of
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a by 4 for the holidays but we tried we
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tried to record last week that was said
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yeah have you shared your haven't really
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shared your saga have you do you want to
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know I haven't shared the saga you know
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it's a little i can give a brief
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thumbnail you left me on a cliffhanger
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what we're after i left san francisco
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you mean well the cliffhanger that I
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heard over your skype line from you
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sitting in a red truck last week and was
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a was that it was still in yeah so
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you're about to find out so what you
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give people the whole idea that our
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listeners know what we're talking about
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here Justin yeah I do because multiple
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times in the last week i have walked
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into a cafe or along the road and
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someone has walked up to me and said
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how's the RV
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no kidding and I'm like oh well it's
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kind of a long story and they just have
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another talk about that marshmallow
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fluff ya there
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yes they're just they're just like you
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know they're just dropping in on the
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sidewalk just sort of pop in and say
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like hi I was there be and then they
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want to they want me to go like great
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and then and then they're gone and I
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grabbed him by the shoulder and start to
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weep and they're like oh I just what I
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just wanted to say hi but the long and
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the short of it i think where we where
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we left it was you had been here and
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visited and we have what many listeners
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have not told us were probably situation
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peppers mean that's one tasted like
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batteries
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thank you to literally everyone for for
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telling us about thank you everyone
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I heading back to that place today I
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think I want to try it again whenever
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you just you just directly addressed our
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audience
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no I don't know that was the second wall
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I was addressing the second wisely
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around one over here on the right track
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but we left it where you have been here
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and you're going to leave town to go out
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onto the piece that folks didn't know
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that I knew off air was that you had
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serendipitously found like an
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unbelievable deus ex machina solution
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Garvey because you found a blacklister
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in the east bay
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that's right who was going to not only a
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lodge your RV while you're on the east
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coast but he was actually going to work
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on it and fix it up a little
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that's right mm that's right and so I
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took the RV to him and happily left it
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there in a in like a holding yard where
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there were literally 40 other GMC arbys
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and you know they're they're not the
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largest RV but when you put 40 of them
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together it's very impressive and so I
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would I believe this man and his team of
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of helper monkeys to be the you know
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they must be the the worldwide authority
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on these things or at least the Regional
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Authority and so I left it there and i
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went back east to do my rock shows with
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with the aim and liz phair and Ted Leo
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jonathan coulton and that was very fun
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and I had a good old Christmastime back
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east and then the plan was here was
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here's where the the wrinkle got wrinkly
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is what happens when your plan you got
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about a big plan and that was that i was
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going to fly to San Francisco my mom and
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daughter were going to fly to san
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francisco from Seattle and my daughter's
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baby mama who was in a conference in
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washington DC was also going to fly to
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seattle all of our flights arriving
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within an hour or two of one another
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we're going to meet in the san francisco
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airport take a car to the east bay get
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in the RV and drive home leaving friday
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night arriving on sunday in time for a
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good friends engagement party and then a
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show that I had booked for sunday night
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a show where I hosted a sing-along party
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at Seattle's brand new cloud room
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rich people place so we all get over
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there we get in the RV that put the RV
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repair dudes are having their christmas
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party so they're they're late but
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they're also all standing around a bunch
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of GMC rvs all drunk on punch and it was
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7pm and it was raining and I was like
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you know thanks for the you know thanks
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for the work great to see you guys have
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a great time you know the owner was
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telling me about his time in Vietnam and
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my people were out in the RV already
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going like babe come on let's go and I
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get in the RV and off we go
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and right away I know that there's
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something wrong with the RV it's just
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not running right it doesn't have the
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power that it used to have and one of
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the things i asked them to address was
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the path was the fuel system so for them
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to have monkeyed with the fuel-injection
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and now it's not producing very much
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power very concerning to me so I get on
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the phone with him hes that is Christmas
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party drunk talking about Vietnam
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chicken Billy beer and I was like hey
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you know I'm driving here and the rains
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coming down and there's something not
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right with the thing and he's like oh
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I'll just you know put premium gas in it
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and you know it's just got to stretch
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its legs
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oh so I was like all right let's stretch
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its legs and I got out there got out
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there to about nut tree and I calling
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back from nut tree and I'm like nope
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it's not that it's starting to backfire
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there's a problem here it's the mixtures
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to lean and he says oh well okay here's
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what you do you get under there and you
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turn the Ballon wrench one full turn to
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the right on the fuel injector and I was
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like what
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alright so I pull over into a walmart i
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send everybody inside i take the air
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cleaner off i turn thing all the way
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over one turn that won't start at all
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I calling back at the Christmas parties
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skidding drunker talking about Vietnam
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I said this isn't working he said oh I'm
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not really familiar with those fuel
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injectors maybe you should turn it
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clockwise one turn
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I was like all right it's this is
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instilling a tremendous confidence in me
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so I turned its back wanted I mean are
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you getting the feeling you get the
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feeling that he's already he's kind of a
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little bit wild out like his work is
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done well the problem with the black
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list is your work is never done
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alright this is a pay-it-forward economy
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forward and so everybody on the
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blacklist knows everybody on the
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blacklist and things this guy cums not
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with an unimpeachable reputation but
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certainly with a legendary reputation
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and so you know uh from what I
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understand about this click this
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community there's no you know no one
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ever goes away the only people that ever
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go away are people that that abandoned
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RV entirely but if people that keep
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their RVs you see them over and over and
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over again and so no I think he wants to
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keep me as a longtime customer but he's
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also 75 years old and it's the night of
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his christmas party and should i maybe
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have described this before but in my
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experience there are two kinds of people
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who are incapable of admitting that they
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did anything wrong and one dick cheney
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well and dick cheney is sort of it is is
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a is is kind of one of these archetypes
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studio engineers and producers people
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who are making record albums can never
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say oh shit I fucked that up
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who if if something goes wrong if they
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if they push the wrong button if they if
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they if they got a bad tone and we
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didn't realize it until later
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there's always a reason that it's that
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it was not their fault that they didn't
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mean they don't even
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they won't even get into a he said she
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said you did you won't you know they'll
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just look right at you and say like
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that's what you wanted or that's how
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it's supposed to sound or you know like
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I just I've never met and I've never met
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a studio a production person that would
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say like oh you know what I fucked up
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and I'm sorry because the problem is
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that if they say that right even about
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your tip has some tambourine part like
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then the artist is gonna for the rest of
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their lives be like well that record got
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all fucked up by that guy you know like
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it's so it's so frost making record
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albums that that class of people just
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we'll just full-on stare you down rather
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than say that they have screwed up okay
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no Nate number-one engineers engineers
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and the second group is auto mechanics
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if you bring a car in and you haven't
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worked on and you drive 15 feet out of
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the mechanics shop and the motor blows
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up the mechanic is going to say well i
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don't think that the I think the reason
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that the motor blew up has nothing to do
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with the work that i did not it because
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I didn't ever touch
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I didn't touch that part right I didn't
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touch the it i was down in there
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changing all these other things but I
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never touched that one thing that ended
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up being the thing that failed and so
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you take your car to these me you know
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to it to an auto mechanic over and over
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and over and they're they're trying to
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figure out the turn track down problems
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are trying to trace things but then you
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drive away and the car runs worse and
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they're like well I think that problem
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was always there you know I the the work
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that i did is is fine right and and what
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what it did was just uncover this other
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problem it might be a little bit of like
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uh in a you know nowadays the way
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surgery works and this has not so much
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to do with the blame part but you know
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it used to be like I remember my grandpa
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got surgery open-heart surgery in the
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seventies
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I mean it's obviously too even today
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it's a huge deal to get surgery back
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then the heart surgery was you know what
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they did your heart was dangerous and
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scary but was what they had to do to get
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to the heart that cause a lot of
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problems
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there's you know there's always just cut
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through bones and stuff like get to the
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heart I guess I mean like it'sit's
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pretty was pretty serious stuff but the
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hard coming hard bone heart you got the
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heart bone you got the auxiliary heart
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bone and but but what I guess what I'm
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getting at is in this case with
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something that old in wherever the
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condition just moving all those parts
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around it's probably going to end up
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causing problems that you didn't have
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before as you fix the problem that
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you're there to nominally fix that must
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be like one reality of it is a massive
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reality but but what you you know as a
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customer what you want is the mechanic
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to do the work then get in the car drive
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around and and have gotten in the car
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before so you bring the car in the first
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thing the mechanic you want them to do
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is get in it and drive it around and and
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feel the problem for themselves and then
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bring it in
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trace it down fix it get in the car
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drive around again like you know shake
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it out a little bit and if it isn't a
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hundred percent right bring it back and
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monkey with it again well the problem
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with that is that shop time is a hundred
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and twenty dollars an hour for a lot of
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these places and you know they want to
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keep your bill down and so they don't do
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any of that and they you know they they
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fix it the thing they move it to the
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back of a lot and that's what happened
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in this case like they did some work on
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it and they button it up and if they
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took it for a test drive it was just
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like that they didn't know the rig well
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enough to know but they should they
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should anyway suffice to say i'm in the
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parking lot of this walmart i crank this
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thing this this little bolt now two
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revolutions to the left increasing the
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pressure in the fuel injector which is a
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thing which is a which is a process that
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should involve like micro adjustment
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right i mean this is like part of us of
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fuel injection system where the person
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that's doing this work with this allen
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bolt should be moving it
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very small increments testing it's
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moving it again take it i can imagine i
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don't like adjusting my kids retainer
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like that I feel like I think I'm gonna
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give her some kind of unnecessary
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widemouth condition if I get it even
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just slightly wrong in that case you're
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talking about some very minut mixtures
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right and so my family is all
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entertaining themselves in a Walmart in
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the middle of the night in nut tree
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California were like that tree
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yeah that's great and we always stop at
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metreon look at is that you right now
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they got a carousel you gotta stop stop
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in that tree
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you know when I was a kid there was a
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there was a small choo-choo train in not
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trace still in there
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no really yes my kid rides it every time
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oh my god I loved that so funny have a
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variety of they have this girl kinda
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famous family style restaurant there and
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it's a it's a lot of fun i have not been
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backed up in victory since the seventies
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add do you remember a restaurant that
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was kind of out in that area out in that
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region called Petticoat Junction I don't
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hide so would have gone there
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well Petticoat Junction was a restaurant
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somewhere in that region between chico
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and and central valley somewhere
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Sacramento sacramento area and it was
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Petticoat Junction all the waitresses
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were in their fifties and sixties and
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their waitress uniforms were that look
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like showed ruffled panties under there
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under their skirts so it was some like
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it was some truckers version of sexy pre
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hooter readers yeah sexiness the darker
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one Bobby jail was that her name Bobby
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Joe man I loved her in any case
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Petticoat Junction I've tried and tried
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and tried to find it
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I i used to stop there every time I was
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going up that highway but it wasn't like
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right off of i-5 it was on some it was
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on some spur road it was always full of
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truckers and you know the witches had
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been doing this a long time they they
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recognize that part of the show was that
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was the ruffles panty ruffles sure but
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petticoat junction is the place where i
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saw the kid with a with a
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giant-size coke i'm sure i've told you
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the story turns I spoke and he was just
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he was just ripping sugar packets open
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and pouring sugar packets into the cook
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and after he had and he was sitting at a
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table with a big family after he had a
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big pile of like sugar packet wrappers
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off to the side one of his distracted
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parents kind of looked over at him
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slapped him on the back of the head and
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said stop doing that I told you to stop
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doing that and so he grabbed his cock
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which now had a pound of extra sugar put
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the coke off the table kind of down in
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his lap while he went in my back to
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being ignored and then continue to pour
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sugar packets into it like under the
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table and you know he used all the sugar
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packet that's a stunning image that
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sticks with you through life and I was
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just like wow and that happened at
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Petticoat Junction so it was like I was
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already my senses were already pretty
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overloaded
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uh-huh sure anyway so so I do this
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adjustment to the to the air cleaner to
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the peanuts of the fuel system i get the
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whole family back in a bolt it all
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together also we're quick check-in know
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but at this point you're thinking you
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know you got what like a like a 10 12
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hour drive ahead of you
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yeah yeah but i was thinking like this
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is this is all still this is saveable
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everything's going to be fine i'll make
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this adjustment you know you're still
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feeling like mostly optimistic
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no nope I'll a large part of me
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recognizes that whatever the problem is
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it is not a thing that you want so
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desperately in these situations to be
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able to take the air cleaner off moving
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Allen bolt one turn and all of a sudden
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the thing just comes alive but you know
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if you have any experience at all you
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know that that's not actually going to
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happen you have to do it you have to try
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it because what if what if you know like
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that he's talking to me over the phone
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and he's telling me to turn the wrong
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direction so it's not implausible that
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they just didn't adjust it right because
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they don't know what it is it it is
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infuriating but it's not implausible so
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but at the same time I'm moving this
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thing and I just know that there's no
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no way that this is going to be right
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now so I bolted back together it
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actually i have now increased the
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pressure in the fuel-injection system
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enough that it feels like okay here we
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like its it isn't right but we're
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getting some more like the mixture isn't
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lean anymore exactly it couldn't
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possibly be like here we go and so we
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headed off down the road it's still
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backfiring but we're moving and so I'm
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like what could be causing the mixture
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to be lien was not backfiring out the
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back it's backfiring out of in the motor
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and so I'm like fuel filter what if the
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fuel filter is clogged
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what if the fuel pumps bad but i doubt
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it you know like that seems like that
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stuff had been gone through anyway this
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is this is a like a master class in
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trying to diagnose an automotive problem
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if you don't really know anything about
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it a little bit of magical thinking you
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know just like what if it's good blah
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blah blah blah blah so I pull into
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Williams California home of grimaldi's
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famous Garibaldi's famous Italian no
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race you're gonna make me look this up
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Griselda's Griselda's grands Ella's
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grams Ella's mannerless in famous grand
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villas in in Williams California there
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it is not Garibaldi it's a five foot
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five point four square miles gaultieri
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that's it call Thierry's a italian new
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same words now friends Ellison grant
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grant and it's one of these places that
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has i mean when i say it's one of these
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places I mean that it is a singular
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place a a town which has literally
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nothing left at one point it probably
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was an almond farming town or a or pre
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almond it was a supreme element economy
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Amanda might have met the town was built
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in a pre element economy
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and then it had a bet on a flush during
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the big almond years the almond rush but
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somehow Garibaldi's was built there as
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this family style trucker restaurant
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that also happen to have a fully stocked
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italian-style grocery with 80 kinds of
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olives and pickled everything and a deli
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and all these weird Italian candies I
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mean basically one of those stores that
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you go into and you're like wow it's
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Christmas Day and then you walk around
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here like but I don't want any of this
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stuff i don'ti pickled asparagus in a
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um I'll have a roast beef sandwich to go
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please like this you know it's not i
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don't actually want any of that stuff
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but there it is in Williams California
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but they're also happens to be a napa
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auto parts store in Williams so I I
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parked the RV in front of the Napa and
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my entire family sleeps in the RV in
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front of the Napa and we have a grand
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old time right we're in this very very
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weird completely closed a central
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California town sleeping in the parking
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lot of an auto parts store but were
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alive right
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you're alive and together and it's
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America and this is the first night that
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we've ever really liked spent the night
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in the in the RV my mom I
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eighty-year-old mom is their
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four-year-old daughter is there it's all
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coming together we wake up in the
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morning go into the Napa place they
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actually have a garage attached to it
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and I start talking to a guy named nacho
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buenas Dias and nacho is great not just
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boss is like one of these taciturn like
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cowboy white guys that's worked in an
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auto parts store for 40 years and he's
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just like the only the only thing
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missing was that he was chewing on a
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chair route and he was just like well
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you know we can look at it but this is
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not just boss is not just boss we can
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look at it but you know shop rates
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hundred dollars an hour so i mean i'd
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probably brow look at it but barber I'm
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like alright thanks a lot mr. friendly
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like I'm trying to solve you you
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understand i'm trying to solve a problem
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I don't nobody goes into that place when
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things are going great yeah restaurants
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that's one of those things where like
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he's dealing with people not dealing
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with people who are there to say like I
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just want to check and let you know
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everything's going great
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like everybody who's in there just want
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to get some shit accomplished yeah and
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he may be a little desperate
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so here here it is I'm some I'm some big
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city slicker from Seattle driving a
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vintage RV look at me it was 40 year old
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RV with the 80 year old mother dirty
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doctor of it I come in there with points
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on my collars and a city slicker haircut
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and a little poodle dog on a leash and
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I'm like Audi i think i got a clogged
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fuel filter would you like a white wine
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spritzer you're a dude
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yeah i'm a dude that's right he says not
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less round is funny
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so he puts me in the back and here comes
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nacho and nacho nacho is great not just
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doing five things right there's like
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there's a like a thumb
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there's a dumb puppy face kids trying to
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get a tire off the rim who doesn't know
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how to use the Machine and nacho goes
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over and help them use the machine then
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at a certain point nachos like down on
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the ground underneath the underneath the
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RV a woman comes over and it's not it's
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not afraid to get his hands dirty
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no nachos dirty a woman comes over a
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very clean woman comes over stands there
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looking down at nacho she's like dressed
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well very together she stands there next
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to me with her arms crossed looking down
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at his feet under my RV
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and after about five minutes she says
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nacho he doesn't hear and she says not
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Joe he wheels himself out from under the
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RV and she speaks to him in Spanish for
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two minutes and he goes
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cez and then she turned on her heel and
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kind of stomps off gets in her car
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drives away so she was not chose lady
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who had come by to give him a
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dressing-down oh no and he's like for
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nashik looks at me and kind of drugs and
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gives a little sheepish eyes but they're
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not just stands up and he's like we'll
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listen you know it's not your fuel
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filter it's not your fuel pump those
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things are brand-new if the problem is
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it could be a lot of things and we're
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going to sit here and tear this thing
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apart a hundred dollars an hour like I
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don't know what to tell you don't think
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that's a very good plan i was like i'm
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not sure you are given me the straight
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scoop and I really appreciate it like
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give me like a handful of things that
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you think it could be and he kind of
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give this like I mean you got up your
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backfire you gotta lean mix and no power
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Jesus it's like start at the top it
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could be your radio antenna like that's
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the problem
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so that's what oh yeah this is
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interesting to me this is one of those
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where situations where as a consumer or
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user we go into the situation and saying
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it had the problem is that this thing is
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not running right there must be a
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solution for that and like somebody who
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actually understands the problem domain
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is going to go well no this is the
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result of something or some things and
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it's almost like somebody going to the
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doctor and saying like you know I you
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know I have had nausea and headache so
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therefore I must have this like 10 a lot
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of different things can cause nausea and
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headache and not sure knows that
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yeah and he's looking over his shoulder
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communicating something very key which
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is getting out of here
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yeah yeah yeah yeah that's and he's
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saying he say you know you can tell that
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nacho is the only guy in the entire
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place that knows anything about what's
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going on except for his charity to and
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boss who also knows what's going
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come on but he has graduated to either i
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own the place or I work for the guy that
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owns the place and what I'm trying to do
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is get out of here at the end of the day
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yeah and so when things come up he's
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like he gets on the intercom and he's
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like nacho come to the office and not
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just like shit okay hang on I gotta go
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do this and that happens three times
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while not shows out there talking to me
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so he so he not sure looks at me and
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he's like yeah if it were up to me I
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would sit here with you and go over this
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and diagnose this and try and figure it
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out like it's not that hard but I mean
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it is that hard but it's like this is
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what you do
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well I think I get his telegraphing a
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couple things he's what he's trying to
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say without putting into words is this
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there certainly is a way to fix this but
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there's a for a variety of reasons any
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kind of happened here and now
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well or what he's saying is if you want
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to potentially spend eight hundred
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dollars here today and be here all day
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we we might be able to fix some of it
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right but no guarantee that we will find
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anything and I can't do it for free or
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cheap because i got this guy hanging
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over my head this isn't my shop one day
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man i'm going to save up the money to
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open my own shop right now that he's got
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to please the walking boss that's right
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so he's standing there and we're
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standing there and we're doing the old
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were doing the thing we're kicking the
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tires right we're standing there were
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kicking the tires together and I'm going
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I you know like I'm not afraid to turn a
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wrench on this thing you just gotta give
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me some kinda give me a high sign of
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some kind and he's like I just anything
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I would tell you would be just as likely
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to be false as true and you're going to
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be what under there like adjusting the
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timing i mean you could do that he's
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like you could advance the timing a
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little bit but again that's a like a
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micro adjustment and you're going to be
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under this thing like turning the
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distributor some little bit some five
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degrees you turn this
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well fuck 4-4 just under you tell me if
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I'm just dramatizing this but there's
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some other some data points here we have
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to remember now it's a 40 year old RV
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you've got your entire immediate family
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gifting ages and needs at this moment
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the family is over Garibaldi's and
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they're havin they're havin some kind of
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breakfast breakfast and it's and it's
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about i want to say this would be about
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five days before Christmas Eve
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that's right oh there's that there's
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that too by the way there's Christmas
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coming and it is at least here it was
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cold and rainy cold and rainy
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I mean we got it wasn't the thing is
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everyone in California no no the central
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California and it's it's theirs long
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spots where nothing much happens except
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cold and rain and lonely
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that's what this was so you must have
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must have at least partly gun into your
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thinking it was absolutely cold it was
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absolutely lonely and it was yeah not
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fun at all and you know and also it
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seems like nachos in touch with the wife
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and there's all you know cars are piling
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up and he's the only one that knows
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where the light switches right so I say
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you know what
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all right I'm just gonna drive it and
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I'm gonna rap maroc on through what do
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you think about that nacho and he's like
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it's as good a plan as any
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so I five him i go into the office where
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the guy with the squid-like the Clint
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Eastwood got the squinty eyes and the
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cop moustache is like tell you what i'll
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only charge you 50 bucks
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what because that's weird you know
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yeah it's not it's not that weird
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because I'm not actually a city
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certified dude I just a you know he's he
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saw me coming in he was like city dude
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but then you know you get in there you
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talk about Vietnam a little bit sure
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everybody's like alright alright alright
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alright you've got a legitimate problem
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and it's actually a problem and and he
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didn't just come in here because the
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radio would
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and your you actually are up a creek and
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like all right here
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fifty bucks just get out of here wow
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that's super cool
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Williams california right through the
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almond economy is down and these guys
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are just sitting around you know and for
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the most part every other vehicle that
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was in that shop was like a farm truck
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that somebody kept running with bailing
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wire and band-aids
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uh-huh and so you know this is a working
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this is a working shop nobody's nobody's
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coming in to repair a dent in their in
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their mini cooper there's a bunch of
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Dodge pickup trucks that like the kid
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the kid that was trying to change the
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tire to get the tire off the rim you
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know it's a job that you have to
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sometimes if you don't have the right
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equipment you know you use a mallet you
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gotta you know we'll get a refund the
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thing this kid's got a ball-peen hammer
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and he's way he's weighing on it in a
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way that even I was like he's gonna
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kneecap himself and not just rolling his
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eyes at him and I'm like who is this kid
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he's probably one of the Grimaldi's
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transplants and and the and then they
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don't want him working over in the
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restaurant you know anyway so I'm pile
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everybody back in the RV and I say
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listen things aren't going so great with
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the RV but but what we have is a the
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power of love ya and be all we have to
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do is get over the siskiyou use one of
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the like for worst interstate passes in
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America and you know past Shasta and all
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the way to Medford and there's an el
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nino storm on the way so we have to do
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is do that which seems pretty simple you
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know it's more or less flat as far as
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reading and then from reading to medford
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how bad can it be
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only 50 semi-trucks overturn and fall
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down a ravine on that stretch of highway
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every year like an Allen wrench how bad
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i got an element
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how bad could it be yeah so off we offer
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motor and you know we're singing songs a
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lot with its
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bye bye thanks nacho right i went into
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grimaldi's walked around could find a
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single fucking thing i wanted to buy and
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i was like i'm actually I need a little
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bit of comfort I i will almost buy a jar
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of pickled asparagus but no it burned to
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the ground was recently rebuilt
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that's right that's right and the new
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one looks very much like the old one
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because I've been to the old one and
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I've been to the new 1i know a few
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food food so off we go and then at a
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certain point and here's the here's the
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there's the awful part of the story and
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for context we need to go back a little
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bit how far back way back way back to
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the nineteen nineties when they're gonna
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take a dog i'm gonna pack up at the
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Capitol hey give me some of that coffee
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I'm or break that rusty k to continue to
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get out i don't actually get ring and
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for her so it's no back in the nineties
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my dad is to live in Alaska he calls me
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up and he says I want to move to tacoma
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begins with the phone yeah okay head
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live up here anymore it's too goddamn
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cold and I said are you gonna do that
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Dad and he says I bought a truck and
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immediately I was like he bought a truck
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oh fuck no have I told you this story
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you have it but now is this is after the
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period when your dad used to fly his
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plane to the same place in California to
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visit with mechanic
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yeah energy toward a talker your dad
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would like to talk to the to the service
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people that's right he wants to talk to
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everybody and a certain point I think he
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is as critical faculties maybe no no his
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critical faculties were still sharp but
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his cardiologist took away his pilot's
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license and listen if your cardiologist
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takes away your pilot's license never
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allowed to do that that's pretty fucked
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yeah well that's what happens if your
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cardiologist goes your heart makes you
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a time bomb in a airplane somehow after
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my dad got his cardiologist to reinstate
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his pilot's license but at this period
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he did not have his pilot's license
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because he had had some myocardial
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infarction
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yeah of some kind that didn't quite
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manifest itself so that the rest of us
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knew about it but his cardiologist
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independent so he took away his pilot's
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license so my dad bought a truck he says
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and he says he wants me to come to
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Alaska put all of his stuff in this
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truck and drive it down for him to
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Tacoma and I'm like oh is that like when
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you're before the band stuff that you
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look at the newsstand at this point yeah
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1998 I mean I had a band abundantly
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players but I was you know and I had a I
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had ice
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believe me i had a spirit of adventure
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that and maybe even more of one then but
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I also knew I mean that it was like the
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number of alarm bells that we're going
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off i made my inside of my head sound
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like a pachinko game I was just like oh
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no ding ding ding teaming just drinking
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my dad bought a truck that can't be good
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now this whole cascade of of what
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probably has already gone wrong and what
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can't really go right right so not gonna
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be it's not gonna be a fun relaxing trip
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no this is this is this isn't this isn't
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gonna be good anyway I'm dating a girl
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the time who is from la jolla california
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and she is a very athletic girl she used
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to she was a she was a ballet instructor
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should wake up at five o'clock in the
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morning and she would run to Lake
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Washington jump in swim out to the I
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don't know what two out to the Orca buoy
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swim back run back up the hill as a
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prelude to teaching ballet all day she
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just haven't had one of those
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metabolisms that was like I don't know
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she could be 8,000 calories of food
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today and all she wanted to do was dance
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and you know just uh
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if she if if you didn't take her out
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everyday an exerciser it's like a
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racehorse you know right i just got like
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a slinky Alec border collie yeah she
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would go bananas again we're out a
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little bit she was that she was a
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wonderful wonderful lady instead remains
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a wonderful lady but like she she would
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actually literally climb the walls and
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she had some kind of spider-man
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capability where she could climb the
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wow you would find her like up in a
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corner of the ceiling nice like come
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down so she was very she had a lot of
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energy and she was very excitable I
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think a good friend of mine the other
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day who has a similar metabolism said to
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me that she had shared a euphoria
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problem so interesting and I was like a
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runner's high kind of thing
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well just like a her capacity for
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euphoria is very she has a very high
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euphoria generator
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yeah and maybe a low threshold of
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euphoria being a problem so you for just
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like what and then no no she was joyful
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uh that's something other than joy
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euphoria in a in a sort of light
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enthusiastic like something that you
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might say about someone who is having a
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religious experience and maybe should be
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confined to a monastery
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ok in any case so I fly to Alaska with
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my girlfriend she's never been to Alaska
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and was excited to go and we get there
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we get to the airport my dad picks us up
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at the airport and we go out and we're
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walking through the parking garage and
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uh oh there's a knock on my office door
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and I think it's mike the the building
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manager terrific we hold on just yet
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while means right
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this has never happened before where
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there was a knock on the door
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let's see if it is well what time do is
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the other guy with the ls like the
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building manager
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who's the guest star on the program the
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first one ever hello everybody
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yeah he's a hear that you're the first
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ever guest star on Robert on the one
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that started opening packages yet no we
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haven't opened the packages Mike was the
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one that was good enough to bring the
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packages in all thanks Mike please don't
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like i said hi so there's a lot to do
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well thank you for the key fob were
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thank you thank you sir but wow he seems
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I you know frankly i'm glad that it was
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Mike that was the first ever guest on
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the program because he's a good guy is a
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good day we had a cameo from the alarm
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tester one time
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oh alright okay so Michael is learning
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services
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let's not let's not tell Mike that he
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wasn't the first now nice a good guy
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yeah good good man i said he does stuff
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with your packages that's super cool
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well I mean yeah although they did sit
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in the hallway for a week before i
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called it was like hey mike i'm going to
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take the prison anyway so we get off the
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weekend off the plane at this point in
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your RV story in the nineties you and
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your girlfriend are landing in Alaska
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that's right so we walked through the
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airport parking lot and I'm thinking to
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myself my dad bought a truck please
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please please please let it be a halfway
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decent track and walking through and you
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know it's it's the parking lot of
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anchorage international airport now
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renamed the Ted Stevens Memorial Airport
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and so every vehicle in the parking
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garage is a truck and we're walking
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along and I'm like that's a cool truck
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please let it be that truck and we
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walked past the truck and I'm like oh
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look at that truck is that please let
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that be the truck that's not the truck
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ohmygod ohmygod that truck that truck is
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that's not the truck that truck yeah
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okay that truck is fine
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that's not the truck and then we get and
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I this it's like it's like you did this
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on purpose we get past every great truck
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and then at the far end of the parking
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garage there's this truck that looks
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like it's been there for 40 years
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you know like looks like it lives in the
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parking garage because no one ever
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claimed it and because its Anchorage
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they never told it
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tall and I'm like oh no no no not that
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truck no no no please please please not
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that truck and dance like there she is
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and it's a it's like a 19-7 d7 Chevy
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High Sierra half-ton rust bucket that
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was formerly like when it was brand-new
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it was like a high a high trim model
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also is it kind of like one of the
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earlier like you know suburban guy
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no it's just a pickup truck but it's got
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a but it's got a canopy on the back and
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in 1977 or whatever it had been a high
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trim model but it's been through so many
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lives since then and we opened the door
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and it's just it's completely rusted out
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it's a garbage truck it has no value and
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I opened the door and the headliners
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sagging and it's clear again that it has
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been owned by people who both smoke and
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have dogs and big Alaskan dogs which
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they do not as most Alaskans to travel
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with back in the back under the canopy
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they travel not want to be warm and
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smoke that's right they put the dogs up
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front and so it's again i have to
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restate that it is Alaska and so these
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are wet dogs covered with salt who get
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in the inside of the vehicle and
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perspire and mold and it's just like
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it's almost you almost can't stand to be
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in the cab and my girlfriend is just
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like Alaska way and I'm like oh there
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are so many Alaska's baby and this is
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not the one
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this is not the one that i wanted to
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show you this is the other one the one
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I've been trying to escape the 1i
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thought I had achieved escape velocity
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and now here I am back in this truck and
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dad is like I was down at the cafe in
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Girdwood and some girl that was wearing
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a Indian blanket said that she had a
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truck for sale and i said i'll buy it
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I need a truck so we get back to my
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dad's place where Indian blanket me
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literally like way she was wearing any
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blank and her boyfriend had a sheepskin
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on who I so he pays you know he plays
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$1,500 for this thing and it isn't worth
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forty dollars we get back to his house
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and he says you know loaded up driving
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to tacoma I'm gonna fly down to come
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i'll see you when you get there and so
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we have a wonderful time she and I
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loading up his truck and we get on the
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road and we drive and drive and drive
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drive and drive and driver were all the
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way up in a
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way up in a
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delta junction and your kindness I think
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we're sleeping in the cab
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oh I had had torn out all the headliner
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and all the soft material to try to get
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the dog out of it huh
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anyway we're making it work we cross
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over into the Yukon and I've been doing
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all the driving and finally just wiped
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out and I hand over the driving to her
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and I'm like no I see just take over and
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drive for a little while we're up here
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in the Yukon it's just open highway
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there's no there's not even any trees up
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here just you know just a just pointed
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down the road and I fall asleep and wake
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up to the sound of the motor seizing and
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I go one what is happening you know
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steam and smoke pouring out of it and
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she's like oh i don't know like all
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these lights started coming on and I
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didn't know what they were i just
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figured it was like we telling me that
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that things were going great and you
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know everything that everything you know
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the oil pressures gone temperatures all
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pegged I'm just like oh no theres I it
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wouldn't have occurred to me to say if
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anything changes right
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wake me up and pull over to the side of
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the road and so we here we were with
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this truck full of my dad stuff and it
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was just then the motor was just a lump
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and that was a terrible adventure
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because we were out in the middle of
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literally nowhere and had to hitchhike
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bag and find a guy that had a truck that
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would tell us back to the town that was
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made out of shipping containers and they
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had a phone i guess where they could
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call to the town that had electricity
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and running water and that somebody came
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out from that town and I said to that
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guy look I don't wanna I don't want to
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fix this thing i want to send it to the
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bottom / of a lake and I know you guys
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have a lake up here that you put old
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what I want to do is buy a truck from
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you find a truck in this town that
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somebody will sell me and he was like oh
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I I've got a truck
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it's a Ford f-250 and it's got a Chevy
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motor and I was like sold and bought
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that truck loaded on my dad's stuff in
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it drove it down and then had that truck
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for four years and loved it
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now fast-forward to redding california a
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week ago and I say how the rest of the
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move go
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oh we got my dad stuff down there
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unfortunately the stress of that i did
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not handle that situation as well as i
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wished i had and if the stress of it
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caused my lady friend and me to break up
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also I'd lost my glasses so i was
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driving most of the way just sort of
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orienting myself on large shapes which
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is normally fine except when the sun
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goes down then you have the the the
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depth perception problem because the
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rods in the cone Sheridan County man and
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that the Purkinje shift purkinje shift
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right so so if that was fine because it
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was Alaska in the summertime and the Sun
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was up all the time but as we got as we
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move further south the Sun started to go
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down periodically and that made it even
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more difficult to stew to drive by
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Braille as I was kind of doing
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I almost hit a Mountie because in Canada
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when they want to pull you over on the
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highway a Mountie just steps out into
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the road and waves at you and I look
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like old Barry just stick a leg out
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yeah kind of like they get you on the
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radar and then up the road there's just
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a guy who's standing on the side of the
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road he walks out and flags you down and
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you pull over
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wow you know he very politely flags down
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you pull over very politely he politely
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gives you a ticket and you politely go
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on your way
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canada canada canada yep and I didn't
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see him and I almost ran him over and
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then I locked up the brakes and he came
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running up to the side he was like you
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almost killed me a and I was like sorry
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man I didn't see was like didn't see me
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i was standing in the middle of the road
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and I was like yeah I didn't want to say
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like I don't have my glasses on right
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and anyway that's neither here nor there
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so in redding california i say are no
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outside reading south of south of
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redding several several dozens of miles
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i say look I need to just take a little
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nap I've been driving a lot sort of
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stressed out
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the thing is running or back nearly net
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2015 back in 2015 and I hand the
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controls over to my daughter's mother
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and say like head on up the highway just
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pointed down the road and and wake me
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when you get to the mountains so outside
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of reading it starts to get mountainous
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right away and when that happens
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pull over and wake me up and and i'll
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drive us through the through the crazy
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area because the this is an RV and it's
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you know it can go highway speeds but
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you eat when you're gonna break you have
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to be anticipating when you want to stop
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you know you have to look way ahead and
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well in advance so I go back and I go to
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sleep and when I wake up I i come
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forward in the RV and I say how's it
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going and she says great i mean we've
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been smoking for a little while or and I
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said what smoking what she said yeah
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we're just kind of trailing some smoke
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and I looked in the rearview mirror and
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we are one of those vintage RVs that is
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laying down some battle ship level
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smokescreen and I'm like whoa what whoa
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pull over pull over pull over and almost
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immediately
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the amount of smoke that we are trailing
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quadruples so that we are just boring
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smoke out the back and I'm like boerboel
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overblown and we pull off the side of
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the road but we are in the mountains
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we're past redding we are we're fully in
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the mountains and I'm like how did we
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get here and she's like well I didn't
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want to wake you up and I figured what
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the hell
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and so where we pull over is down in a
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hole right at the intersection of old
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salt lick road and salt lake lake road
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and there's just smoke pouring out of
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the RV so that I I you know I spent like
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everybody out out get out because I'm
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afraid that it's that it is on fire and
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i have subjected my lovely family to
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this adventure thus far but I also now
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at this point feel like we've crossed
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some threshold i do not want them
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immolated in the RV in a sudden flash
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uh-huh so I pull the top off the motor
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I've got my fire extinguisher their
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smoke is pouring out but it's not coming
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from the top of the motor it's coming
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from underneath and I'm like you know I
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don't want to i want to send the I don't
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want to put the fire extinguisher on
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this thing and like that that's now
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that's not going to be good because
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there's no fire so I sit there with the
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RV filled with smoke just sort of like
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you know there's something far too
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broken in me to ever really weep
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unless unless it's my cat getting hit by
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car market in that case you know
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yes i can get it penetrates all the
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other monster
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yeah but I am NOT I am NOT a person who
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in exhaustion and other failure sits and
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this is a bad situation and we are in a
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bad place for this to happen
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and so I say the RV i do not know what
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is wrong with the RV i do not think that
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we have blown the head i do not there is
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no steam i do not feel like we have I do
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not feel like we have seized the motor
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there the place that the smoke is coming
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from makes me think that it is that the
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transmission has sprayed fluid all over
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the bottom of the motor and that that
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that is the cause of the smoke it does
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not seem like it's the motor but I don't
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know and I do not want to start it and I
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do not want to try and drive it so i
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have quite as where this is where this
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is where it comes in handy right this is
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where comes a super-duper platinum
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top-shelf bar brand triple-a service i
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have the top triple-a that you've got
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the secret like triple a black like you
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have to apply
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that's right you can you can use this to
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tell anything i have triple-a that will
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get that truck out of that lake in the
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northern Yukon Territories and get it
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running again like the triple-a i have
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the triple-a that that will rescue a
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plane like I have the triple-a that you
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can use in europe like I have it I have
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the i have this i have the diamond level
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triple-a and so I'm like okay we don't
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have any cell service down in this hole
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in this mountain so I'm gonna climb up
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the road and try and get triple-a on the
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phone and my mom you know as previously
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characterized is very good in these
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situations and she's pretty good like
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navigating her way through a phone tree
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where I often get frustrated
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she's just like you know push to talk to
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her you know push to if you want to use
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triple a's new 15-percent just found at
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walmart Simeon on things like that it's
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almost like that that's her that's a
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cross word for her like she's ready to
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just say okay let's do this thing
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let's figure it out yeah and so all of
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us grown-up adults are our cycling one
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of us will walk up to the top of the
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road call triple-a
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the other you know I'm monitoring the
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motor sometimes where paul also playing
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with the baby and triple-a is still
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running at this point the I mean it has
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to be done right
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no no it's cooked and could you share
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with our listeners the consequences of
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the engine on the RV not running anymore
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oh well when the engine on the RV
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doesn't run neither do any of the system
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and no electric no heat no electric no
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I mean there's there's enough so it's
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stored in the in the in the shore
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battery that we have we have lights we
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have fluorescent light bulb the furnace
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isn't going to run and and we're in the
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mountains and it's winter and there's a
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storm coming and so it's it gets very
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cold so everybody is wrapped in wool
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blankets and and we get our we get it to
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play on the phone now I'm a I'm a
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proponent of triple-a I think everybody
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should have it but i will say that fully
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fifty percent of the time you call
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triple-a you get the worst service in
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the world and it's because triple-a has
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no competitors there's not another
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service where you call it may come
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rescue you
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also i think at least when I was younger
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I i didn't understand what triple-a
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actually was and it's in some ways
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triple-a has always been mostly in the
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insurance business and if you think
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about it like i remember when i first
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had to replace service you get a
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discount get your insurance to triple-a
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in that sense triple-a is more like an
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HMO for your car right some ways right
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in essence isn't perfect analogy but
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what I didn't realize until i started
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using it when I gotta go gotta car again
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and needed it and was that they
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basically there that's a car that you
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carry with a number for a call center
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and then they call it the people right
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and they pay you know they pay other
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people to be there triple-a guys and
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what they're counting on is that ninety
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percent of the people that use triple-a
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don't use it they just have it if they
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need it which they don't
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and when they do it usually is like come
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change my tire
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um it's not a big deal and it's the rare
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situation where where somebody
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legitimately is out in the boonies and i
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am often that guy right a triple-a saved
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save my skin when my other GMC my other
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ill-advised purchase of a GMC vehicle a
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year ago broke down outside of st. Louis
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they told me a hundred miles with with
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everybody in the you know everybody in
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the cab allow tow truck that's nice and
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you pay that much more plus and that
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it's worth it man it's worth I made it
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he told me a hundred miles and park and
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and unloaded my vehicle in the parking
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lot of the sharon and which which you
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know I'd gotten a room there through the
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through the priceline as I'm driving in
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there i was like take us there and it
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was nice hotel and you know that
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Sharon's not gonna kick you out if
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you're staying there
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so anyway but in this case triple-a you
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go through all the things you're like
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hot you know the phone tree and the
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enter your number and then they get you
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on the phone and they want to have all
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this irrelevant information about your
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birthday and and you know what your
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favorite color is and and you're like
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look we're standing on the side of the
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road can't we work all this out after
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you get a tow truck on the way here and
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they're like well we know we have to
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know you know we have to know like the
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average rainfall in the Amazon basin and
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so finally they're like okay tow truck
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will be there in 45 minutes and an hour
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and a half went by and we climb back up
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the mountain call them again and they're
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like oh sorry we didn't have one piece
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of information that we needed and so we
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just didn't send a tow truck
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we tried to call you but you didn't
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answer it's like well yeah we don't have
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cell phone service down in the RV where
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the baby is
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and so we aren't standing up here hoping
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you're gonna call like when yes is not
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like you're stuck at the mall
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yeah right i mean if you say 45 minutes
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you know like 45 minutes and they're
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like yeah we couldn't do it until we
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also got this last piece of information
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but we need you to confirm all the
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information you added before and then
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the last piece of information we needed
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was what are the last four numbers of
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your driver's license number it's just
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like you fucking assholes so they they
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take it and like all right we're going
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no it'll be there in 45 minutes and we
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go back down to the RV we hold under the
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blankets for an hour and a half and then
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climb back up the mountain where is the
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RV well we need to know we tried to call
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we need to know the destination that
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you're taking the RV i'll come on and we
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couldn't send a truck until we knew the
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destination and I'm like I don't
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literally makes no sense it doesn't make
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any sense but here's what's happening
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triple-a is calling tow truck company's
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in the in the larger Reading area and
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they are all saying ah yeah no no thanks
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we don't want to take this contract and
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it's because the amount of money that
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they're going to get for this job from
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triple-a does not compensate them for
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the work they don't feel on this
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particular day and I'm like really
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this is optional for them whether or not
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to take the job at that point at this
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point it's not so different from why we
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can't get cabs in my neighborhood a
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dispatcher calls a cab driver says would
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you like to drive way the fuck out to
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the western part of san francisco ok
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sure they go one block they see somebody
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else they can pick up they take it there
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a tow truck driver who's in the busy
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holiday season is going to make more
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money for a bunch of little jobs than
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one huge job they mean I didn't get all
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their money from ya
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yep and so they are just not coming and
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so they say alright so i say look the
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destination is I don't know I don't know
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that all the companies in reading it's
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friday night it's i called you at
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one-thirty it's now for the number of
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places that we could have taken it is is
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rapidly turning 20 please just send a
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truck we'll figure out where to take it
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they're like okay we'll be there in 45
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minutes or an hour and a half later now
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it's 530 the Sun has gone down the
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temperature in the RV is 34 degrees
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what and a guy comes along in a truck
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and he says hey I saw you here two hours
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ago I didn't stop because i had to go in
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to get my gun cleaned but uh now i'm
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back to you want to ride somewhere and
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he takes me down to Mount Shasta town
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where he has a friend who runs a tow
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truck operation i get that guy on the
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phone he says oh yeah triple triple he's
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been calling me all afternoon but I
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don't have a I don't ever read big
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enough to haul that tanker sorry
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and so I have this nice man take me back
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to the rig
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I climb up the mountain I call triple-a
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this is now that i have i have shortened
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this story because in and what you're
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what you're leaving out as a kindness I
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I imagine is that when you go and they
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say 45 minutes each time and you turn
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off your phone and you just quietly wait
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for what may or may not happen but it
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probably won't even be 45 minutes it's
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that feeling of hopelessness
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yeah that hopelessness and if you you if
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you start to yell at them they go into
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hyper trained a customer service mode
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where they call you sir
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and they say you know they like customer
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service you to death
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oh yeah and so that you don't want to
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get too polite
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yeah you can't yell at them you can ask
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to speak to their supervisor because
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they are the supervisor and so here's
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the most amazing thing I call them
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finally and this is this is the tenth
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time I've talked to triple-a this day
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for the 10th time that one of us has
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talked to triple-a all of the grown-ups
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have spent time on on the phone and I
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call them the tenth time and I get
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someone on the phone who wants to know
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the last four my social security number
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and wants to confirm my birthdate and
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I'm like I was just on the phone with
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somebody and they and the woman says oh
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I don't have any record of you in our
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system as having called today and I do
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start to kind of yell not really yell
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but sort of speak authoritative Lee and
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she says get this she says oh I'm sorry
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but we could not find a tow truck
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company in the region who would take the
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and I said Who
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so what's next no big deal to worry
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about it and she says I'm sorry starting
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convenience you that's kind of that's
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kind of it she says and I'm like what do
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you mean I mean I have triple a diamond
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platinum are vetoing triple-a i'm in the
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mountains in a dead RV with my entire
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you're telling me that there's nothing
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more you can do and she says yeah sorry
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is there anything else I can help you
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with tonight I'm just like I don't I
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don't I don't understand you have
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resources that i don't have can you just
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talk call a can you call the reading
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police can you call anybody
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she's like yeah we've sort of we've
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tried everything you can call a towing
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company she said and try to get them to
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come out and pay the money for them and
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then apply to be reimbursed was just
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like okay yeah i definitely don't put
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that on the poster when you're trying to
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sign people up for triple-a now and then
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she and then literally she says is there
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anything else I can help you with
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dinosaur has it as if i'm going to order
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a t-shirt and so I get off the phone and
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I start calling just I just google I'm
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above on the top of the mountain on
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googling tow truck company's and reading
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I call a couple of them some nice lady
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tells me to call Keith stowing and I
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call Keith snowing and i say i'm in an
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RV i'm stuck on old salt lick road and
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he's like oh you're that guy
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yeah they've been calling here are all
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afternoon
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um yeah all right we'll come get you and
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I was like fucking what are you serious
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and he's like yeah yeah alright we'll
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come get you
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we didn't want to do it but yeah alright
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you call this you talking to us directly
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that's okay okay and I'm like are you
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serious right now is like yeah we'll be
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there in 45 minutes but here's the
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problem
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you have to call us through triple-a so
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call triple-a back tell them that
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Keith's towing says they'll take the job
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tell him it's a t13 and and we'll do it
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I was like oh please don't make me
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culture bleh i'll just pay you the money
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and he said you don't want to do that
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it's going to be very expensive just
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give a rough idea of like how much I
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have no idea what he said was very
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expensive i was just like okay but I
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don't want to know anymore right
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I do not want to know anymore you you be
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paying like the serious rack rate who
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knows i mean i'd be paying the cost of
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the vehicle you know so I cultural a
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again I go through that whole thing
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again all the phone tree all of the put
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in your social security number and you
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can just hear it in my voice it's like
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the voice that i use with customs people
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where it's like I know I've got a bag
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full of Cuban cigars but I'm so mad at
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you right now that i'm gonna i am going
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to fucking white privilege you into
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letting me go through here like just a
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so mad and I finally say called Keith
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stowing tellement sati 13 or time
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telling us atty 13 and she starts to say
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something I'm like just called Keystone
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please just keeps telling let me just
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say it again Keith stowing please
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so she does and for up an hour and a
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half later not 45 minutes an hour and a
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half later now in the middle of the
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night we are we're conserving our body
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heat here comes this rig this magical
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tow truck a magical tow truck that could
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that could basically like pull down a
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water tower it is i'm guessing it's the
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kind of touchy used to toe another truck
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yeah it's a semi towing tow truck while
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she shows up the guy that is driving at
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Travis is a great guy he's wearing
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camouflage baseball hat pretty sure he's
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a deer hunter
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and find out your eyes your new nacho
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he's that is the is he's not so too
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he's not a deer hunter in the sense that
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he plays Russian Roulette he's a deer
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hunter in the sense that he you know he
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believes in the Second Amendment rights
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but he also knows how to backup a
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semi-truck that's carrying an RV on a
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mountain road and he looks up he puts
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the whole family in the cab which was
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something that triple-a told us 15 times
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couldn't be done and off we go and i say
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Travis where we going you got it you
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know better than I do and he said oh
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yeah i know these great guys that repair
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rvs they're just right up the road here
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takes into running backs us in to the
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parking lot which he somehow had the key
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to the fence for backs into this RV
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repair shop that's just called like
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Bob's RV repair the whole parking lot is
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full of RVs backs up and bobs RV repair
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has plugins and water and all that stuff
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for rvs so I hop out i plug this giant
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plug into the side of the RV and all of
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a sudden we've got power we've got
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furnace we've got a stove we've got hot
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water for the shower and so we all sit
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there we order pizza delivered to the
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wrecking yard and we spend another
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family family night
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Oh in that's right three days before
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christmas in the parking lot of this RV
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repair place we walked up to the to the
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arco station and got some twix bars and
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and and then in the morning it was
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sunday morning
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no one from the RV places you know
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they're not around at all and so like I
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left a note on the windshield
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it was like a bros call me up when you
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come to work on Monday you know
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obviously you see this RV that's sitting
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here belongs to me and then we rented a
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car we rented a Dodge truck actually had
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a nice dodge truck
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and we drove north but by that point the
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storm had come in and the pass was not
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closed but an hour-and-a-half wait
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yeah because all the semi trucks were
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putting the chains on and so we drove
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through Klamath Falls fairly significant
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detour but still faster but in the end
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we did not get to seattle until 10pm so
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I missed the engagement party I missed
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the show
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so in conclusion the RV still sits in
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Redding California the problem was the
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transmission
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yeah this is not at this point you I'm
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up-to-date at this point and you and
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when we talked to them last monday you
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were still cautiously pseudo optimistic
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saying like well you know if it's just a
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thing i'll get back in the truck and
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drive back down there and pick it up
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yep so i have that i have the dodge
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pickup truck and I was like talking to
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the guys on the phone on Monday morning
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and I said you know fix the problem and
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i'll come down and get it i still have
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the rental truck i can bring it back and
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they were like well we need you know we
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need until noon to diagnose the problem
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in at noon he said I think we've got to
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figure it out i think it wasn't that big
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of a deal i think we can have it fixed i
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think you can pick it up but but we just
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want to run a one more test so don't
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leave yet
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will you no will call you at 22 came
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around i call them up and how's it going
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over like well we figured this thing out
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01:27:18
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and that thing out but we just want to
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take one more look at it let us just
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look at one more time and then you know
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then you can come get it and so I was I
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was just on the threshold of saying you
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know what I'm just going to start
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driving right I'm gonna start driving
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i'll get down there you know one o'clock
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in the morning I'll Drive it back
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tomorrow but there was just some
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hesitation which was based on having
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watched that thing burn and I was like
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really you guys it's just it's just that
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simple and so I waited at 5pm the guy
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calls me up
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but he says I'm sending you some
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pictures I'm like that's not good and he
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dropped the pan on the transmission and
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the pan was full of metal chunks that
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looked like it looked like someone had
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taken a transmission and hit with a ball
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peen hammer kinda like that kid back at
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the napa auto parts store and Williams
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and the guy was like yeah your
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transmissions really broken and you need
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a new transmission
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yeah and I was like yeah I know what
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that costs
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he's like yeah we can probably get a new
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transmission in here for four thousand
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dollars
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whoa and I was like yeah four thousand
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dollars that's kind of what i thought he
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was like well you know we gotta do this
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to it in that to it and there's a list
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that this and that and and once it's up
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on the on the rack we might as well do
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this and that and so yeah four thousand
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dollars and so I'm in that predicament
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right now which everyone who's listening
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this program that is over the age of 25
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can identify with and maybe even some of
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the people who are under the age of 25
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which is a decision must be made which
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for which there is no good path right
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fix the RV at the cost of four thousand
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dollars at which point i have put you
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know what what seems like a bargain the
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eight thousand dollar RV has now become
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a thirteen thousand dollar RV which
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still has all the same problems that it
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had oh the great thing about the RV
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repair guys as they were like we fix
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your fuel injection problem turns out
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the guys in san francisco put a new
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distributor on there and have and the
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coil is fucked up and it was arcing
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across the like this the spark was just
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flying around the top of the motor there
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that doesn't sound safe for efficient
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now that's not very good and that that's
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happened to me before a bad coil in a
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distributor and you're just but it
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didn't you know what happened to me
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before the thing barely read
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this was a situation where it was it was
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motoring down the highway it was just
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parking so they were like wow that was
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an easy fix
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I was like oh fuck and I said to them
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listening all confidence can you tell me
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did the fact that the coil was arcing
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and the thing was running family did
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that cause us to put undue stress on the
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transmission is the transmission failure
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a result of the bad shop work and there
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was a long pause and the guy said I
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understand what you're asking and it is
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a good question and I can say pretty
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confidently that know it the
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transmission damage is has been ongoing
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for a long time and there's you know
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there'd be no way to prove that the
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additional stress caused this damage and
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and i doubt that it did
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frankly not not enough that it is not
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enough that it would be like it wasn't
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it wasn't a slam-dunk he couldn't he was
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that that's good though
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that's good to hear yeah right i mean it
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and the end result is like I'm at
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yourself again I'm not be honest how
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much I mean the elephant the road how
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much of that do you think was a
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professional courtesy
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that is impossible to know right like
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he's gonna the guy that fixed the truck
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is in the auto repair business in
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California and the guys in the RV repair
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shop are also in the auto repair
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business in California and so who
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fucking knows how America
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oh there might be some American in there
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but it's also not a thing that I can you
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know I can't get in there and say I want
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it towed to a third shop for a third
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opinion that will be the same as this
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opinion anyway so here we are
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I have to either reconcile myself to the
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fact that the RV and I had a very short
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but very magical run
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and that experiment cost me ten thousand
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dollars because if i try to sell this RV
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in the current condition to anyone it is
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probably worth about 1,500 dollars God
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or I feel pot committed to this
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experiment and I somewhere find four
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thousand dollars which I do not
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presently have and say god damn yes the
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RV and iÃve already in this short time
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bonded with one another to the degree
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that I will never leave a man behind and
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I'm going to put this new transmission
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in there and then i will know for a fact
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that it has a good transmission just
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like I know for effective as a good
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water pump and I know that it also has a
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good alternator and a good battery
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because i have replaced those things and
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now good transmission you know it's a
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big big part of of refurbishing here
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vintage vehicle and has to be like some
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part in your mind though you know you
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want to avoid as they say that sunk cost
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fallacy right of feeling like you're
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throwing good money after bad but I mean
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you know the obvious other thing is like
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you know who knows what it is after that
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right i mean it's not a few new so i can
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share with our listeners what you told
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me about what you learned I've learned
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so much which which they want to give
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the give a joke away but what you what
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you were taught about what you can
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expect in the first year of owning a GMC
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RV all right right so all the old guys
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that run these things i'll say look you
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bought an eight thousand dollar RV
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that's great that means that you only
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have to put seventeen thousand dollars
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more into it if you buy a
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twenty-thousand-dollar RV you only have
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to put five thousand dollars into it if
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you buy a ten-thousand-dollar RV you
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only have to put $15,000 in it the
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reality is that you're going to pay
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twenty-five thousand dollars for this
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thing and every one of them cost $25,000
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eventually and what would a little when
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they said that that just seemed colorful
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or did that resonate no I understood
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what they meant and I and I you know and
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we and they nodded at me and i nodded
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back but what I expected was that that
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$25,000 was going to be
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amateur eyes dover several years
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yes seventeen thousand dollars a year
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would be a bit much
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yeah yeah yeah that is not i did not
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that's not your budget when I was like I
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got a thousand dollars lets you know
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like I used to be like what i thought
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was great with money i just saved
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I saved money and that was something
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that my peers a didn't do most people i
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knew would get 50 bucks and they would
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spend it and I was the guy that would
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save it and so I I always had a cushion
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and that was part of my apart i was a
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thing I was proud of always having a
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cushion but somehow in the last few
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years i have just started to be like a
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guy that gets some money and says let's
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live a little and I got a thousand
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dollars i bought this RV now I did not
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have eight additional thousand dollars
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to rain to monkey around me whenever you
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like in terms of just don't get too deep
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on the psychology but part of it would
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be like if you went to that place and
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let's let's let's so you Todd that the
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guy got the sunglasses were that you
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thought was gonna be this much said okay
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look just give me a thousand you can
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have it
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well if that have 20,000 on it and you
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bargain down to 16 you probably would
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have done it right you know i was
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prepared to pay 14 for it well um but
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that was assuming i was gonna get a loan
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for eight and when i discovered that i
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could buy it for eight
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well I had I had it so i just bought it
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in cash right now I could conceivably
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get alone there are a lot of ways that I
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could that I could pursue this repair
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and I and I know that there are probably
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tons of listeners right now again I'm
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going to break the fourth wall somewhat
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and address them directly there are a
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lot of you who are squirming in your
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chair and saying why don't you just do a
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Kickstarter I've been approached by two
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different people to talk to you about
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yeah or patreon or something and we'll
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just we'll just crowds crowdfunded sure
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and the answer is that I have a certain
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amount of adult human pride which this
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is my folly this thing is that my folly
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and I know that you all want to
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participate in it something somewhat and
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at this point there are tens of
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thousands of people shaking their head
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side to side going I don't want to
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participate in this but there are a lot
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of you who are generous and thoughtful
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and caring who want to be a part of this
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folly or at least like save me spill my
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fat from the fire but I'm a full grown
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man and I have made this tingling
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decision and I feel like I need to I
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need to own it and not be one of these
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modern people who turns to the Internet
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every time that there's a problem says
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help me obi-wan you're my only hope
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help me distributed obi-wan and so it's
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not that you know it's not that I don't
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appreciate the offer it's not that I
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don't understand how things work but I
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just have I'm like I that feels like
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going hand-in-hand to a group of people
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that I that I don't I would not go ahead
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and hand too
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yeah I i still find still find that
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difficult to do
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yeah it is different for anything for
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even for things where it's like there
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are people i mean like with this program
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there are people who said that they
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would be happy to give us money for that
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something I've certainly thought about
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but there's something I mean I'm not
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against it exactly you don't mean it's
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just I'm not against it I'm not and I I
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don't want to be critical of other
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people's decisions because it's a
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complicated economy and it's it's
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certainly something I've thought about
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but there's still some part of it that i
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feel like i don't know i have resistance
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yeah it's like making records right I it
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used to be hard to make records and so
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you would go and new script and save and
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you would get a get together enough
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money that you could rent some amount of
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studio time and then you would have to
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budget and figure it out and now it's
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just like I want to make a record and
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I'm put it on put it on the internet and
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and you can sign up to fund me and
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that's wonderful
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I appreciate it but it just feels wrong
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for me personally to do and maybe i will
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evolve and come around and allow people
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I'm fairly certain that I will at some
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point maybe in the next year I mean it
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seems dumb to in order to be a cynical
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is to say leaving money on the table but
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if it's also part of being a gracious
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person is accepting gifts when they're
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given and it was I'm not great at but
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there's certain certain graciousness and
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somebody saying look I'd like you to
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have this is there's a lot of overhead
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to accepting things from other people
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that's true tea and you don't get the
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same vote and this is nothing is any
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person it's just it's just a I don't
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know it's just a little bitch I've got
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that you know once you do that there are
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a lot of people you don't know very well
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who end up being on your ad hoc Board of
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Advisors for life
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well I'm the thing is you need look no
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further than our friend Josh and and you
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know just to keep you know well anyway
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it's it's complicated it's complicated
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i'm not opposed to having a the RV be
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owned in part in common by all of our
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friends and fans who are like excitedly
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and vicariously enjoying this insanity
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which is why wouldn't you gonna say
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journey but insanity works too insane
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journey may be partly fueled by my new
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bipolar medicine and maybe just that
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this is how I've always lived my life
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and and now I'm living it that way again
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consistent with all of the where
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decisions I've made and really eight
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thousand dollars you know in nineteen in
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1991 dollars i was buying old decrepit
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cars then and driving them until they
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broke i just push them into a lake when
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i was done and I didn't have a child
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that I was sitting on the side of the
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road going please let this not be the
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day right that I get the world's worst
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parent award but anyway so I'm conscious
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of that and the here and here's the
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wonderful thing i got an email from a
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friend who is a concert promoter and he
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said listen I've been following your
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what if I booked a tour in California of
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you and some other musicians and we went
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and played all of the weird rich people
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towns like mill valley and sausalito and
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montecito all the places where nobody
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ever plays but people have more money
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than God and instead of a transportation
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budget where I rented a sprinter van to
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carry you guys
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what if we just fix the RV and that was
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the transportation budget for the tour
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that's honest a and I was like now that
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feels honest that feels like exactly the
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kind of deal that would you know where I
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wouldn't wear I would have a tremendous
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gratitude to my friends but I would also
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feel like we had we had done a good
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trade a fair trade and so that
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possibility exists the problem is that
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the guy in reading where the RV sits
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right now is understandably impatient
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for me to make it to someone asked
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what's your sense of the time to make a
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decision here
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well he was like so you know send us the
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deposit will get putting that thing in
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right tomorrow or he'll start charging
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what 200 bucks the datastore it
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well this is what I don't know so I so I
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call out so i called him on the phone I
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talked to him on the phone
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person-to-person station to station and
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i said i am not currently in a position
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to have you go right to work on this
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thing and he got very quiet and just be
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clear it's at least four thousand
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dollars
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be $1,500 four thousand dollars is what
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he knows it's going to cost if
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everything goes ok yeah and he said i
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have i have included in this budget on
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an amount that that acknowledges the
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possibility of cost overruns and so it
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could be slightly less than this
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want to put an amount in here that it
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ended up like not being anywhere close
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and I was like I'm grateful to you for
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but having said like I I'm not ready
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exactly to pull the trigger on this he
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was like well what are we talking about
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and so he and I had a very slow voiced
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negotiation where I said what if we
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started to work on it in February and he
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was like I could keep it on the lot till
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the first week of january and we went
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back and forth like this with a little
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the little badminton birdie of how long
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can I keep it at your place besides
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sucking air
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I don't not quite sure
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BRR and so what we settled on was the
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last week of january i would have a I
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would have a plan let's look at december
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until the last week of january so he has
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little keep it there till January he has
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allowed it
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I can get to be on his property until
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January that's really cool
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well it's very cool and there and he's
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like listen I'd I know where your end
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and I actually pulled the Christmas card
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I was like it's it's two days before
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Christmas and he was like Christmas cup
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he was like i know i know it is and i
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was like and i and i kinda just you know
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I just sort of said in that voice that
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communicated that I was just a regular
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guy who was just trying to put christmas
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trees under his spirit of Christmas on
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the table I was just trying to put
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christmas trees on the table and and he
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was like you know we had a regular guy
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exchange where he was like I know man i
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feel you and I was like I know right
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he was like yep two days before
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christmas and i right
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and so that's where we're at that is
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where we are at 0 and so I have a month
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more or less to both decide and having
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decided conjure up the cash to fix it or
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conjure up the contract the the the
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balls to get a get out of it
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just fold yeah and I just don't I still
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so what so what my mom advise me it was
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stopped thinking about it you have some
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time now just stop tormenting yourself
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every minute of your life with with
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these bad thoughts and let's just look
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for her
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yeah and she was like it literally is
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the day before Christmas don't you know
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don't ruin yourself doing and thinking
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about a thing that you can't do anything
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about but now i'm on the other side of
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Christmas
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yeah we're in the week between first and
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I you know I've got to come up with a
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solution and whatever this whatever this
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offer of a tour is it's not going to be
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until spring or summer and and I don't
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know you know I don't know what his
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ability is to advance the transportation
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budget or whether i would that would
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trend into uncomfortable territory for
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I mean I don't know I'm you and I both
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are somewhat handicapped by our
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inability to accept generosity
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yeah sometimes but it's also like this
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is this is my brains not your brain but
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my brain is you know because I do live
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so much inside my own- head that I can
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come up with a lot of things that won't
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go well and that makes me procrastinate
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my arm that's just how I am about all
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kinds of things but with something like
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this you know there's just all kinds of
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on the one hand there there is this is
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not just you there's all this we don't
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like feeling it's not even the simplest
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thing feeling like a failure but it
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doesn't feel good to walk away from
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something
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right thats its own kind of easy way out
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and you know it's even setting aside the
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logic and the money and all those kinds
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of things there's something that makes
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you feel makes you feel like less of a
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successful person if your answers to
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just quit and you want to try and find
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some clever way to either keep it going
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or to make it better or you know again
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that the two things super interesting
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but I mean yeah you're not gonna get
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that money for four months and then you
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got to think about like what are the
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other things you could get I mean you
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can get four thousand dollars that's
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that's not that hard in itself getting
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four thousand dollars is not an
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impossible thing but then what does it
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take to get that 4,000 what else do you
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are for go to get that or what else do
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you like
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agreed to do right to to get that and so
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that's where it gets complicated further
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complicated in my head by like okay if
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you do get that you spend let's say four
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thousand dollars and as soon as you
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drive it off the lot something else
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happens that last part where in that's
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the self-defeating in my head of like
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you know you know what if what if this
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is what this is just the beginning and
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now you have four thousand dollars
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yeah it's almost certainly just the
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beginning the question is like do you
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how yeah how how far you how far do you
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roll with that before you say like this
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this is not the right time
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yeah right yeah right yeah right like
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that this is not the right time in my
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life to have embraced this weird
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lifestyle choice of being like a RV
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owner and I mean and you know not to
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piss in the punch bowl but it's further
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to the point of why you may not want to
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believe there is something nice and
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something sort of it's a wonderful life
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about you know Harry Bailey walking in
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with the basket full of money and saying
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hey everything solved Merry Christmas
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every time a bell rings there's that
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feeling but like what if everybody on
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the internet gets to celebrate with you
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that your goal was met yay
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I've been patreon and then something
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else happens when they are really on the
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hook huh
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you have investors already took a you
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took around and like now you know what I
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mean it's like then it would it would
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feel like oh you know what I want to
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spend that money if he's not actually
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gonna do this and it's like see it's
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like now you just end up going people in
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a different way
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I don't know that's my head anyway yeah
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and-and-and mind to a I just don't
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yeah right i mean i'm i'm almost back to
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like let's not think about it for
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another week or so and just hope that I
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wish I could do that
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it's such a good idea i wish i could
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just say there's not that much I can do
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about this thing right now and I don't
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need to make a decision about it yet so
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I just don't think about it i wish i
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wish i had a way to do that I wish I
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wish I had that kind of executive
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control over what my mind decided to
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focus on
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yeah i'm i'm i'm learning it and and it
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is better than like laying in bed in the
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middle of the night going
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I am an awful person and this is an
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awful circumstance
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get out of my head yeah right like like
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what what what what good is that gonna
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so you're just just to clarify for the
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listeners and people have been very you
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know kind and generous and I've you know
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been emailed like SI by a couple people
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one person like you have been contacted
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by also and I just said you know if
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there's this this sounds Kurt but when
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people contact me in order to contact
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someone else which is something happens
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more than one might imagine i'm finally
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contacted by sorry to contact someone
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else and I frequently as frequently as i
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get that right uh request from somebody
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i will often just say the same thing
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which is this what did they say when you
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ask them because that's probably the
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same answer
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like if the answer was they didn't
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respond then I'm not comfortable being
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the person to go make my friend respond
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to somebody else and if they said no
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then I really really really don't feel
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like I should do that but just for our
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listeners then in that case we'll break
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down the first wall here
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so you're saying least for now not
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interested in doing a a crowdfunded RV
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repair system
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I you know I think I would I think you
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and I have talked about like doing some
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kind of crowd funding or patriotic thing
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for our program and i think i would be
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more interested in that at in you and in
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the two of us continuing to argue about
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it because we are giving people
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something whereas what i am what i would
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be the service I would be providing our
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listeners and and generous donors by
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continuing to live in this RV and drive
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it around the country like a crazy
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person is less tangible to me and I know
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there are people who would make an
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argument like you the enjoyment i get
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out of watching you Instagram yourself
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driving this RV around is worth some
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small donation to the cause like I
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understand that I understand it but it
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but it feels to me like a little bit i
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don't know less honest or less not
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no it'sit's that there's not a good word
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for it it feels it doesn't feel wrong
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but it doesn't feel right
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yeah if you're not it's weird because I
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mean we're all expect to have these
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really polarized very strong opinions
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about things and this is one of those
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topics where I don't have it sits an
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impossibly weak position or feeling that
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i have about it which is just that
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yeah I could I could see that but then I
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also see like all these horror stories
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on Kickstarter were like oh my gosh
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everything most like the most fun thing
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of all time
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apparently is this cooler that like you
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know has a blender on it and then they
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didn't deliver to their people before
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they started selling on Amazon not
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everybody hates them in like glue sticks
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there's so many ways in which that
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exposes you you know this really goes
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back to probably one of our very first
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public conversations which is when i
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interview you for my video show and I
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made that crack about how like if you go
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to a software review site and if it's
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you'll find these mostly like kind of
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pretty positive reviews if something
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changes and nickel for something
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everything changes everything changes
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yes as soon as money changes hands the
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nature of the relationship really
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changes and it's I think it's one reason
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a lot of us are happy to like hide
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behind more of a business model that
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doesn't you know it
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ocean that way so i'm not i'm not
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against it but if you know I guess we
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can go talk some more smart friends and
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find out what would be involved in doing
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that but i'd like to see you get a fix
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but also don't want you to like be
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investing in this like I mean none of my
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fucking business but like I don't also
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don't want you to have to like be
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funding this albatross for the rest of
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your you know near future
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well and here's the key thing right and
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i think part of what part of why i went
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from being a saver a meticulous saver
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and a a a a saver who saved above all
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like the highest moral good to me has
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always been saving money and the and the
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benefit of money in the bank outweighed
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the benefit of almost any material good
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and that became a tyranny over myself
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and as much as I like as much as I tisk
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tisk and shook my head and my friends
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who were buying motorcycles and guitars
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and and trips and you know and just
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blowing their money and then sitting
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around complaining about how poor they
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were I like had this virtue which was
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then I saved and i freed myself from
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that tyranny several years ago by
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finally acknowledging what I always knew
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which is that money is fake money is
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fake and it doesn't actually have like
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collecting it has no virtue spending it
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has no virtue it is of its false and
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what does it represent you know what is
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the thing that you want and what does
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that mean
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and I realized that I wanted leisure or
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I thought I did and I saved money in
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order to ensure that i had that security
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of being able to just take the day off
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and take the week off that was what that
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was my highest good and other people
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wanted material things and that was the
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and money was just a out a way of of
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accomplishing those things but that the
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money itself is just an it's just
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imaginary
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and so I started to allow myself to
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spend money because I was like you know
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what it comes it goes like fuck it don't
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sit up don't Scrooge McDuck it or small
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get where youre don't lock your goal
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don't small your gold and you're just in
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there with one eyelid open while the
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fucking hobbits sneak in and get your I
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forget the end of that book i read in a
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long time what do they do they get in
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there and they get the the the the the
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dwarves get there
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valhalla back i don't remember well
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small doesn't win that's the that's the
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smokes in an awkward position because
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the more gold in your horde the more you
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have to protect the more you have to
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live and no matter how how good a dragon
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you are that's still no way to spend a
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lifetime
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yeah right so you can sit and say four
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thousand dollars for this transmission
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is half the price I paid for the whole
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RV it's good money after bad it's paul
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this blah blah blah now I've paid
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fourteen thousand dollars for this thing
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that's only worth 14 thousand dollars
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and herpa derpa derp but ultimately like
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all of that is just knowing the price of
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everything in the value of nothing and
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money is is false enough that i need to
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constantly remind myself to spend it
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because fuck it and also you'll make
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more and also leisure is not a very good
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turns out for me because I spent several
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years with enough money to allow myself
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to take the month off and that did not
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produce good mental health and it didn't
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produce it didn't produce happiness
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ultimately yeah
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also any moneys money's a little bit
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like status or what you could call power
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but we all call status money's a little
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bit like status which is where in some
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ways the more you get a bit
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the more you realize what bullshit is
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now but the less you have it the more
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incredibly real and important it seems
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so you know it all seems like bullshit
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until you don't have it and then it
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seems and this is this is why I mean
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what it whereas every conspiracy theory
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come from
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in some ways like this conspiracy
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theories come from trying to explain why
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the world is the way it is based on what
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you know what you think and how you
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think life should be and whether or not
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that has anything to do with reality it
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has everything to do with all the facts
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that are not in evidence and especially
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all the status you don't have well
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obviously something must be going on
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when all those which important people
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have meetings in the a teddy bear picnic
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they must be deciding that must be the
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Jews deciding what movies are going to
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come out and with interest rates will be
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like that's the only plausible
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explanation will know it's actually not
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but that's if you don't have access to
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that that's what it seems like it's it's
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what makes us less empathetic toward
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other people is this constant leveling
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of how much status and many other people
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have and like what they deserve and how
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much of their own feelings they should
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be entitled to right i mean sorry that's
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a little rambling but you know like i
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said the dignity police are always
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digging police are always out there
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looking at other people and trying to
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figure out what they've heard like
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Ernest in like what they deserve
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right i own right and I can't i think
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very clearly this RV which catches on
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fire and leeks and has a upholstery the
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color of pepto bismal both my friends
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and my enemies seem to agree that it's
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what I deserve
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oh my god this just this is went from
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being about car repaired mythology
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