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Happy Birthday Merica · STEVE 8

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  SPEAKER_02: Happy birthday, America.
• 0:02
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, baby.
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_01: America.
• 0:05
  SPEAKER_02: America.
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_01: America.
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  SPEAKER_02: Going on the 4th of July.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_02: America.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_01: Hey man, I didn't know if I if we were even I didn't even know if you were gonna call me on a holiday, but I've been thinking, I've been thinking about you.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_01: I said, well, if you don't call me, I'm gonna call him.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_02: Well, it's it's you know, it's a big day.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm just waiting for my buddy Joel.
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  SPEAKER_02: He's gonna pick me up.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna go down and help set up for the parade.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_01: The OHI Parade?
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_01: The OHI Parade, which is got like 10 people put their chairs out, people put their chairs out for the OHI parade about a month ahead of time.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah I noticed.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's pretty crazy.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_02: Finally happening, huh?
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: We're gonna go set up some more chairs on the stage.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, there's a stage?
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, there's a stage.
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  SPEAKER_01: What's happening?
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  SPEAKER_01: Are people singing and stuff?
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  SPEAKER_02: I think they judge playing?
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  SPEAKER_01: They judge the floats and stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but not you.
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  SPEAKER_02: You're just the setup guy?
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_02: I'm just the setup guy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's cool.
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  SPEAKER_02: Me and Joel.
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  SPEAKER_02: Or my Joel, my friend Joel and I.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_02: We should we should say real English.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_02: Are you gonna um are we making coffee right now?
• 1:25
  unknown: Yeah.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_02: You bought some spiders?
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_02: Here he is.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_02: Hang on.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_02: He's there?
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm just he's getting ready.
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  SPEAKER_02: Hang on.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh, it's getting loud.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_02: Big diesel truck.
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  SPEAKER_02: Hey Joel.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh, hang on.
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  SPEAKER_02: Let me just I'm just getting in.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is Satchel.
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  SPEAKER_02: Say hi, Joel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey, hi.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: Hi, Satchel.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_02: Hi, hi.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_02: This is um this is SS88.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_02: We're we're we're talking about doing a podcast someday.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_02: And this is a podcast about that podcast.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_02: It's not really a podcast.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's a it's a warm-up.
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  SPEAKER_02: What is it, Satch?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a podcast about a podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a real podcast.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_02: It's it's SS88 and it's Satchel Satchel and Steve or Steve and Satchel, I guess.
• 2:17
  unknown: What's the 88 part?
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna explain that.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's Satchel and Steve for eight minutes at 8 a.m.
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  SPEAKER_02: Pacific time.
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  SPEAKER_01: Pacific time.
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  SPEAKER_02: Pacific time.
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  SPEAKER_02: Is it live?
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_02: Because usually like No, we're recording.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_02: No, it's not live.
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  SPEAKER_02: We just record and then we post.
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  SPEAKER_02: But 8 a.m.
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  SPEAKER_02: is like when you do it.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_02: 8 a.m.
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  SPEAKER_02: ish.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, okay.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_01: 8 a.m.
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  SPEAKER_01: for eight minutes.
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  SPEAKER_01: It must be 8 a.m.
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  SPEAKER_01: there now, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: It's 8 a.m.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's it's it's 8 a.m.
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  SPEAKER_02: now, and we're going to set up for the 4th of July parade.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_01: Y'all gotta start early.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_02: Uh no, uh, we're not.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_02: Uh we've been going for a couple hours at least.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he's been he's been up.
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  SPEAKER_02: They've been working.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, you're getting the late pickup.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_01: 8 o'clock's the late pickup.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he they started, they started last night.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he must make a lot of money for doing this.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, big money, big money.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, for this all volunteer organization, right?
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_01: Big money.
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  SPEAKER_02: You know, all volunteers.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And is and it and is Paul a of judge?
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
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  SPEAKER_02: Joel.
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  SPEAKER_02: Joel.
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  SPEAKER_01: Joel.
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  SPEAKER_02: No, Joel is not a judge.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm a video maker like Steve.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Joel, Joel does art like you.
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  SPEAKER_02: He's an artist.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  unknown: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: He said he's a video maker.
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  unknown: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Is he gonna make a video of the parade?
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  SPEAKER_00: No.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna set up the stage.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna we're gonna set up the stage for the judges uh and stuff like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: And how many how many floats are there for them to judge?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh well, there'll be there's about 78 entries.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_00: Oh.
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  SPEAKER_00: But they weren't really be there aren't really any floats almost at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just like dumb people like advertising their bank or their church.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_02: Well, oh, or like cool, well, there's lots of like horses.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, there's horses.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's probably like three horror, three or four horse groups.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um there'll be a couple neat floats where people have done something for the community, you know?
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because there's like the kind of float that's just an advertisement that you're just like, look at me, I'm not really here for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then there's a few where people made something interesting for people who are watching.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Actually do something watching.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's I like it.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's the kind I like.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's the kind we all like.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_01: But it takes time, like it takes time and money and people envisioned.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, there's ways, you know, there's ways you can be efficient, but yeah, generally it's a lot of work.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_00: And that's you know you're making art or you're making something for as a gift, you know.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_00: You know, that's what it that's what it takes.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_01: Or you could just make something really cool that advertises something local, you know, because then you get the best of both worlds.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, if I had a pizza place there, I would say, oh, let me let me give you guys a couple thousand dollars to make a cool float and then put our name on it, you know.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_00: That would be a really good yeah, it'd be a good thing.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_00: And and um You'd love his pizza place.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I like I like pizza.
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  SPEAKER_02: He has pizza place.
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  SPEAKER_02: His pizza place is is a work of art itself.
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  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like, like the whole thing.
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  SPEAKER_02: Do you still have the tower of jungle or the the fountain of jungle, the mountain of jungle?
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_02: I mean the mountain of trash.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_01: It's called the oh, you're I know what you're talking about.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're not talking about the fountain.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, the fountain.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we have the fountain of junk, yeah.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I tell you, if you're gonna make some establishment and people are gonna come there, might as well make it an interesting place to be, right?
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that way people come for the atmosphere as well as the food.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you know, you're trying to make it uh you you want to make it a good place for people to work, a good place for people to things for people to see, a place for artists to gather.
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  SPEAKER_01: We do live music every night.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have a rotating artist in the dining room.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you you get a lot of local art, you know, which is always what make helps to build community.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, it sure does.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's a really cool thing.
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  SPEAKER_02: Nice move.
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  SPEAKER_02: And his, yeah, he's got like, do you still have the van there?
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: So the van he got married in.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I didn't get married in the van.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_02: Well, no, I mean you got you you you got married.
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  SPEAKER_01: We drove the van away after we got married.
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  SPEAKER_02: So they've gutted it and put it like dining experience in there.
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  SPEAKER_02: So and that's sitting right out front.
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  SPEAKER_02: You can sit in the fan and eat.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_02: Whoa.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's so fun.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, the whole thing's cool.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_02: You gotta check it out.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_02: You would dig it.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_02: And then you've and you've done every inch of the outside of the the um in tile.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like he's tiled the whole thing, the whole restaurant.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_01: Mosaic.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_01: But it's but it's not finished yet.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's uh it's got another couple years to finish mosaicing.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_01: But I I I yeah, I I do have a kiln full of tiles I'm about to pull out today, and then I got a you know, another 20 square feet I can go do.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, you're not gonna get bored.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, that's the whole idea.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_01: It's like keep it, keep it going.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_01: Uh performance art always.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm thinking today, like I'm I'm really d I'm really today, I'm I'm struggling.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I I wanna, I'm thinking I might grab my grill and go up there and make hot dogs for the staff today, like in the parking lot, just cook hot dogs.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_01: And that would be kind of and then everybody customers say, Oh, what you know, I want a hot dog, and like, well, when it's not for you.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, but you're grilling in the parking lot because it's 4th of July.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_01: So then the staff gets to eat the hot dogs, and then the people that customers get to eat pizza.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_02: I think you should do that.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think I should do that.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_01: I gotta just throw the grill in the truck and and then some and some uh coals because it's easy enough, you know.
• 7:32
  unknown: Yeah.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_01: And it's and it just it makes because they they uh actually the the general manager I said, hey, maybe get some barbecue for everybody there or something.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, Oh, we already got hot dogs, we're having hot dogs, but they're just gonna put the hot dogs in the pizza oven, you know.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_01: And that's fine.
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  SPEAKER_02: Outside with with a hat, like a with a red, white, and blue hat.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_02: And it's America.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's not a bad idea.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, wrap it up.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, good to good to be here.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Good for America.