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Hummingbird Cake and Humane Society Adoptions From March 9th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: It's a it's called a hummingbird cake.
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  Speaker 2: How many hummingbirds are in it?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure why they call it that. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's because it's so sweet it we will hover around it.
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  Speaker 1: So my my sister in law, Julie, who works at
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  Speaker 1: the Humane Society, made that cake and brought out brought
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  Speaker 1: over a big hunk of it for us. Let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you what's in it. So this cake became popular
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  Speaker 1: when they're A recipe for it was published in the
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  Speaker 1: magazine's Southern Living back in the seventies. Apparently that's when
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  Speaker 1: people sort of started making it. So it's it has
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  Speaker 1: ripe mashed bananas, they have to be over ripe. It
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  Speaker 1: has canned crushed pineapple with you got to keep the
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  Speaker 1: juice too, toasted pecans or walnuts, and then a then cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice,
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  Speaker 1: and a thick cream cheese frosting. And it is the
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  Speaker 1: most delicious cake I have ever eaten in my life. Idiots,
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  Speaker 1: was so good. I couldn't I just couldn't believe it.
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  Speaker 3: Now, that's a stock photo. That's not the.
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  Speaker 1: Actual No, that's not the actual one, because that's that
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  Speaker 1: looks like but it looked but but I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 1: She the cake she brought over looked exactly like that.
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  Speaker 4: That was it anybody's birthday or anything? Now, do you
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  Speaker 4: just get cake? Because she likes that we should do cake?
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  Speaker 1: Because yes, she she she she likes to bake, and
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  Speaker 1: she's a very really good baker, and and she bakes
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  Speaker 1: cakes and she's she's also really good at Humane Society,
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  Speaker 1: Gene and I do everything because just because yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: just huh man, it was I really even, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like that wonderful burnt almond cake that we have have
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  Speaker 1: had shipped in frantiles better than that. It was yep.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, Well see, now you're throwing down a gauntlet telling
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  Speaker 2: you why didn't you bring some in?
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  Speaker 1: Because it's got it, It got it, it got it.
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  Speaker 2: Her make another one?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I said, I said this, I'm guessing this is
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  Speaker 1: pretty hard to make, and she said yeah, it's really.
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  Speaker 1: It's very time intensive and it is hard. But I
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  Speaker 1: had good news from the Humane Society, so I think
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  Speaker 1: it was the last time they were here they had rabbit, right, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: And so when they when the Humane socigny, not when
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  Speaker 1: they're coming back sometime once a month, I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: sometime next week or something. But so they've they've brought
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  Speaker 1: in kiddies, they brought in puppies, hamsters, hamsters, guinea pigs,
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  Speaker 1: guinea pigs, and then they brought in a rabbit. And
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  Speaker 1: rabbits are really hard to get adopted. Yeah. Uh, and
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  Speaker 1: so every other time they've come here, uh, the animal
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  Speaker 1: that has been adopted almost immediately they go back and
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  Speaker 1: somebody calls me and says, I want that, yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: the rabbit not so much. The rabbit no, And I've
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  Speaker 1: made me feel bad. But then that was a while ago.
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  Speaker 1: But then I talked to Julia last night when she
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  Speaker 1: brought the cake over, and she said, oh, oh, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, the rabbit thing, actually it was we had
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  Speaker 1: ended up adopting out twenty rabbits. Oh and probably just
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  Speaker 1: based on that that so the one that they brought
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  Speaker 1: it didn't get adopted right away, but then all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, boom boom, boom boom run. A few days later,
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  Speaker 1: rabbits started getting adopt and we adopted out twenty, which
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  Speaker 1: is a lot twenty rabbits. So way to go, interesting,
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  Speaker 1: way to go. Listeners of the Radio from Hell show,
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  Speaker 1: they're nice people.
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  Speaker 2: The human Society'll be here on Thursday. Oh, parting to katies,
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  Speaker 2: all right, and I don't know what they're bringing.
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  Speaker 1: They're not bringing a hummingbird cake. I'm sure no. Oh man,
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  Speaker 1: I was good. I could I just I was just
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  Speaker 1: not doubt by how good it was. And it was
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  Speaker 1: invented in Uh when did I read New Zealand where
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  Speaker 1: they don't call hummingbirds hummingbirds, they call them doctor birds,
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  Speaker 1: doctor birds.
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  Speaker 3: Well then is it a doctor bird cake?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? There, but here it's a hummingbird cake. That just
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  Speaker 1: don't make no sense because we have because we have
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  Speaker 1: hummingbirds here, they have doctor birds. I'm confusing bird.
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  Speaker 3: But what does it have to do with the cake?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think it's because it's just so, it's so sweet,
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, it'll it will draw them.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm.
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  Speaker 4: Hummingbird cake is called that because it's so sweet and tropical.
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  Speaker 3: And I said, to attract hummingbirds.
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  Speaker 1: Attract hummingbirds.
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  Speaker 2: When do the hummingbirds come back?
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  Speaker 3: Well, they should be here by now, right, because the
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  Speaker 3: spring is.
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  Speaker 1: Spring usually I see the first one I put on.
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  Speaker 1: I used to have a contest with Uncle Todd. We
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  Speaker 1: would put up our hummingbird feeders and see who could
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  Speaker 1: get the first hummingbird, and usually it's uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it might be earlier this year because it's so warm.
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  Speaker 1: It could be mid April, but are usually early May.
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  Speaker 1: They show up, and you know people who say I
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  Speaker 1: was talking to my my therapist and she said, uh, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I just I thought. I started feeling really good about
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  Speaker 1: the weather. I saw my first robin, big fat robin
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  Speaker 1: in it, so it's going to be spring. And I said, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know it's robins don't really they don't actually migrate.
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  Speaker 3: They erect your therapist built.
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  Speaker 1: They mostly hang out, hang out around. Sometimes they'll go
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  Speaker 1: a little ways away if there's more food, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: but generally they don't do long distance migrations. They just
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  Speaker 1: sort of hang out. You just don't see them as
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  Speaker 1: much because it's cold.
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  Speaker 3: Someone says, I saw a hummingbird this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: No, maybe, well, but where are they when you're texting?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe you're in you're in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you list some context. Well, I'll put up my
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  Speaker 1: feeder and see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: Are we gonna get anymore snow or just fine? I
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  Speaker 2: don't think so, you don't think so at all? Probably not. Well,
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  Speaker 2: now I've got a whole bunch of gas for my snowblower.
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  Speaker 1: What do I do with that?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Like you have a because because both of our cars.
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  Speaker 1: Are electric, so you could sell it. It's probably gonna
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  Speaker 1: be worth a lot of money.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, carry that much in Bartertown. You're gonna be a popular.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna have to.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't keep it like till next year. It'll
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  Speaker 3: go bad.
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  Speaker 1: Well yeah, yeah I can't. Yeah, it sort of does
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  Speaker 1: go bad if you Yeah, I think you should. I
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  Speaker 1: think you should get a little red wagon and go
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  Speaker 1: from door to door gas for sale, gas for sale.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what to do with it.
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  Speaker 3: You have a gas powered snow blowing snowblower.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's the big, it's huge, it's a tank,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's got treads.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not kidding.
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  Speaker 3: You live up on Mount Dunes, Yeah, back.
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  Speaker 1: When it used to snow. Now I could go. I've
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  Speaker 1: told the story before.
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  Speaker 2: And when we moved up there, we realized we're going
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  Speaker 2: to have to get a snowblower.
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  Speaker 1: So we went to went to Pennies.
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  Speaker 3: Pennies you know where the lake where the lake is now?
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  Speaker 2: And uh, the guy said thank you, and he says,
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  Speaker 2: you know, here's the snowblowers. And I said, okay, we'll
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  Speaker 2: just take that small one.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: He says, well, where do you live? And I told
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  Speaker 2: him and he goes, oh, you're gonna need something bigger
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  Speaker 2: than that. And I'm like, yeah, you're trying up sell me,
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  Speaker 2: aren't you. Yeah, well sure enough, he was right, you.
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  Speaker 3: Need you need a heavy dude.
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  Speaker 2: So then we got the heavy duty, the big Honda
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  Speaker 2: with the treads, and everything was great until it stopped snowing.
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  Speaker 2: And now I've got all this gas.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you could sell the snowblower to put fuel stabilizer
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  Speaker 1: in the gas.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, is that a thing, and it'll keep
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  Speaker 4: until next Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You just go to go to the you know, like
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  Speaker 1: Ace Hardware or you know three pet the pet boys
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  Speaker 1: go to Pet Boys and.
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  Speaker 2: They have that. Yeah, use the gas for your lawnmower.
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  Speaker 1: I have a guy. I don't have a lawnmower. Or
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  Speaker 1: go up to uh, go up to the Ace Hardware.
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  Speaker 1: They're on Ford, so South, I'll have it there.
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  Speaker 2: Staybill is what it's called a stable and it will
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  Speaker 2: stabilize it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah mm hmm.
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  Speaker 3: See we learned things here.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know that that was even a thing. I
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  Speaker 1: had forgot about that until whoever was mentioned it went,
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You know a lot of people are gonna want to
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  Speaker 4: know how they can keep gas, like because of the prices.
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  Speaker 2: Because of the.
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  Speaker 3: Price is helpful.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really I'm really good at getting gas, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't know about keeping it.
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  Speaker 2: Is it caked humming bird cake? Well see, now you
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  Speaker 2: gotta bring some in.
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  Speaker 3: You can store gasoline for one to.
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  Speaker 1: Three years without stabilizing it. Well, it's his, it's his
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  Speaker 1: ad stabilizer. Keep containers ninety full, store in a cool,
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  Speaker 1: well ventilated area.
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  Speaker 2: And Roberts Robert says, I should use it to make
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  Speaker 2: a V for Vendetta symbol in the grocery store parking lot.
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  Speaker 1: Set it on fire. Oh I had the ples cake
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  Speaker 1: last night.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Why did you just be caught because you
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  Speaker 4: just ordered a cake?
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  Speaker 1: We cut it up and put in the freezer.
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  Speaker 3: No, but I mean you just said, hey, we should
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  Speaker 3: get some cake. You can just do that?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you know why?
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because is it cake?
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  Speaker 3: I just I don't want some cake. Well, they call
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  Speaker 3: get some Okay, I'm getting cake. Get some cake, Get
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  Speaker 3: some cake, all right,