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Bill's Annual Escalante Trip From September 23rd, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Well this so I uh once a year we try
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  Speaker 1: to go to this little place in Escalante. It's now
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  Speaker 1: so you know where Escalant is, right. You go from
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  Speaker 1: you know, you get to Torri where Capitol Ride Escalante
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  Speaker 1: and uh then you then you drive to Boulder and
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  Speaker 1: up Overhell's Backbone and you drop down uh in to uh.
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  Speaker 1: Well outside of Escalanti is where we we are. And
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  Speaker 1: it's just past the Calf Creek Recreation area. And there's
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  Speaker 1: a thing there's a sign there that says Escalante Escalante
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  Speaker 1: River trailhead, I think it says. And you turn and
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  Speaker 1: you go out, go drive down this dirt road through
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  Speaker 1: the trees, and then you have to drive like the
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  Speaker 1: road goes over the you have to actually drive through
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  Speaker 1: the river and you know how it's it's shallow enough
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  Speaker 1: that you can drive through the river up to the
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  Speaker 1: other side. And you get up there and there's uh
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  Speaker 1: this little house and it is just beautiful. Uh shaw
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  Speaker 1: the front door of it X ninety six dot com
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  Speaker 1: slash live. So that's kind of the front door of
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  Speaker 1: the house. And behind it there you can see the
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  Speaker 1: gigantic rock cliffs that that really butt up right against
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  Speaker 1: the back of the house and we stay there usually
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  Speaker 1: three nights, maybe.
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  Speaker 2: This same house you've stayed, Yeah, and we'll go there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, like I think we made it's it's almost always booked.
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  Speaker 1: It's like constantly booked as an Airbnb. And it's and
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  Speaker 1: there's there's nobody out there. You you don't see any
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  Speaker 1: other people. And sitting on the front porch, you're looking
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  Speaker 1: out over this just this vast meadow and then cottonwood
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  Speaker 1: trees and then huge red cliffs over on the other
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  Speaker 1: side of you. And uh, and it's just so quiet
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  Speaker 1: and peaceful. You know. We take our supplies and we cook,
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  Speaker 1: cook meals. There has a nice kitchen and it has
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  Speaker 1: a couple of bedrooms. Now, the next picture show This
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  Speaker 1: is the picture window. So once you're inside the house,
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  Speaker 1: that's the picture window looking and that that red rock
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  Speaker 1: cliff there that looks very close.
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  Speaker 2: It is, I mean, it's like you're right there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's it's ten feet away. And uh, it's
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  Speaker 1: just a gorgeous little house. And so we cook meals
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  Speaker 1: and we have a nice time and there's no TV,
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  Speaker 1: no uh, no internet. You know, there is internet. There's
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a CD player there where we never
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  Speaker 1: mess with that, and it's one there's one big bedroom
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  Speaker 1: and then a smaller bedroom, so it's it's good for
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  Speaker 1: four people tops probably And although people could see that,
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  Speaker 1: so that window seat there, people could actually sleep on that.
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  Speaker 1: It's huge. Yeah, it's huge. You could one person could
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  Speaker 1: sleep at one end, in the other at the other end.
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  Speaker 1: And it's and then we'll usually go out to dinner.
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  Speaker 1: We'll drive back up to Boulder, which is about twenty
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  Speaker 1: minutes away, and go to the Hell's Backbone Grill.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have the lemony clock?
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  Speaker 1: My kid? Did?
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  Speaker 2: I love the lemony clock?
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  Speaker 1: My kid has the lemony clock. I had the the
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  Speaker 1: They had a pork chop special which was just delicious
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  Speaker 1: with little bits of a low tech corn on top
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  Speaker 1: of it and mashed potatoes or whipped potatoes, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: and just a delicious sauce. Hell's Backbone Grill just a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful play And my god, that place was hopping'. We
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  Speaker 1: had a reservation for six fifteen and there were I
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  Speaker 1: bet there were forty people standing around waiting to get in.
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  Speaker 1: You just really terrific. So we usually eat dinner there,
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  Speaker 1: but then we make nice meals down at the house
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  Speaker 1: and I very seldom see any wildlife there. But this trip,
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  Speaker 1: I saw wildlife. And I hope we got the video here.
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  Speaker 1: This is the wildlife I saw. That's the that's my sink.
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  Speaker 1: That's the sink in the house. And that's a video
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  Speaker 1: of a scorpion in the sink that I took. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why it's flashing like that. That's kind of weird,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably our processor.
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  Speaker 1: And I he looks a lot bigger. He looks a
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  Speaker 1: lot bigger in this video than he really was. He was.
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  Speaker 1: He was a tiny little.
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  Speaker 2: Little stinger that's curled up there and get you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I I washed him down the drain, you feel,
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  Speaker 1: And I felt bad about that. I felt terrible about it.
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  Speaker 2: Might have survived.
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  Speaker 1: You were him, I could you know, I could have
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  Speaker 1: picked him up and with a piece of paper.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, my rule is inside is my house,
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  Speaker 2: outside is your house.
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  Speaker 1: But but then I told my kid I I washed him,
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  Speaker 1: and and they were very upset with me.
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  Speaker 2: Did you say, well then, why didn't you you come from?
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  Speaker 1: This is this is my k this is my kid.
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  Speaker 1: Oh there's a black widow in my bed down there? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And I and I said, oh, what and and uh
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  Speaker 1: and they said, I'm gonna I'll get it and take
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  Speaker 1: it outside and they and they did. They captured it.
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  Speaker 2: In class black widow and a scorpion.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'd never seen I'd never seen either. The
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  Speaker 1: only thing I've ever seen in that house is mice.
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  Speaker 2: It's got everything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well now I it's got it. Yeah, we've got
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  Speaker 1: we got a check and see we've got scorpions, we
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  Speaker 1: got mince. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You'll usually discourage you from going back there.
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  Speaker 1: No, why would well?
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  Speaker 2: Because they can hurt yours.
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  Speaker 1: I've been, I've been widow.
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  Speaker 2: Can put you, that can put you in the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Gena, you should never you should not. Could
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  Speaker 1: we set it Gina up a microphone at home? You
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  Speaker 1: should never leave your house. It's a tempter, so the
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  Speaker 1: so you you'll usually just see a mouse once, maybe
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  Speaker 1: one mouse a trip who not realize, like where everybody's
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  Speaker 1: being quiet, and the mouse will not realize and will
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  Speaker 1: come out from behind something and then sort of stop
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  Speaker 1: and look at you and go, oh my good, and
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  Speaker 1: then run.
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  Speaker 2: Back what are you doing here? Still here?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I came out to get some crumbs and here
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  Speaker 1: you are. And that's I've never seen. That's the first
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  Speaker 1: time I've ever seen a scorpion there, but I have
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  Speaker 1: seen The first time I ever saw scorpions was an Escalante.
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  Speaker 1: I was on a This was many years ago, and
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  Speaker 1: I was on a camping trip. We hiked up this
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  Speaker 1: little canyon and camped overnight outside of Oh, I take
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  Speaker 1: it back, No, it was Escalanti. Was outside of Escalanti
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  Speaker 1: and uh. And I woke up in the morning and
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  Speaker 1: my eyes, both of my eyes were swollen shut, and
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  Speaker 1: I thought, what I mean, really just swollen shot didn't
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  Speaker 1: really hurt, but it was just like, what the hell?
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  Speaker 1: And so, you know, I'm putting some car presses on
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  Speaker 1: and getting it in there. The swellings kind of going down,
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  Speaker 1: and we tore down our tent and there were two
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  Speaker 1: scorpions underneath the tarp of the tent.
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  Speaker 2: And I you hadn't felt, no.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm speculating. That's I speculated. Oh, that's why my
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  Speaker 1: eyes are spolling up. And then I got stung by
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  Speaker 1: a scorpion once in Texas too, on the ankle, and
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  Speaker 1: it hurts, but it didn't you know, you're still here.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get sick, and that little guy was you know,
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  Speaker 1: probably it would be like a beasting probably, but they're
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  Speaker 1: I gotta say they're pretty creepy. I was gonna say,
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  Speaker 1: looking at that video, I just their creatures.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to encounter out, which is why they
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  Speaker 2: look like aliens.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they do.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I will stay away from places that have them.
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  Speaker 1: There is again X ninety six dot com slash live.
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  Speaker 2: I found a black widow in the garage this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: So you're never going in the garage again.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I called my husband and I said, get it
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  Speaker 2: now please.
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  Speaker 1: I saw my grandfather on occasion. He was a carpenter
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  Speaker 1: and he worked in basements and stuff, and I was
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  Speaker 1: helping him out something. There were black widows in the
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  Speaker 1: basement and he just squishing with his thumb.
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  Speaker 2: My sister mckel twice ended up in the hospital with
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  Speaker 2: black widow bites. Really wow. Our bedrooms were in the
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  Speaker 2: basement and for whatever reason, her room was like she
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  Speaker 2: has had like it so it's necrotizing, like it kills
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  Speaker 2: your tissue. She's got a hole in her arm where
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  Speaker 2: they had to cut out the dead tissue where it says.
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  Speaker 2: Texter says, scorpions are attracted to water, so he's fine.
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  Speaker 2: Plus They're extremely hard to kill, so.
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  Speaker 1: I think I kind of thought maybe he just swam
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  Speaker 1: down the drain and went I went elsewhere.
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  Speaker 2: Not.
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  Speaker 1: The only way to kill him is to smash them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Burnham. You got to cut their head off
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  Speaker 2: with Burnham. Beat them, shoot them right between between guys.
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  Speaker 2: That's the only way to take beat them.
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  Speaker 1: Burnham, beat them, shoot them right between you. Oh and
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  Speaker 1: then one other place to eat down. There's another place
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  Speaker 1: in Boulder called the Burr Trail Grill. Best Hamburger uh
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  Speaker 1: top top ten hamburgers I've ever had? Really, Yeah, I've
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  Speaker 1: been there twice now, and just their basic hamburger with
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  Speaker 1: a with white cheddar cheese melted on it. And it's
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  Speaker 1: got onions and pickles and tomato and lettuce and and
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  Speaker 1: a and a briosh toasted brioche bun and it's and
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  Speaker 1: it's got to be local beef. I'm sure it is.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure it's like ninety fat content, probably because
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  Speaker 1: it's like you bite into it and the juice kind
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  Speaker 1: of runs down your fingers and onto the plate.
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  Speaker 2: And your beer. It got in your beard, didn't it?
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  Speaker 1: No? Oh? Yeah I did, Yeah I did. Oh wait,
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  Speaker 1: it's still oh is it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry that's with that shy, but.
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  Speaker 1: I think we made reservations all ready to go down
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  Speaker 1: there again next year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you find a place like that, it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of nice to just say we like going there, we
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  Speaker 2: want to go back every year.
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  Speaker 1: There's some nice hikes in the area, which I can't do,
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  Speaker 1: so I stay home and read, and I can I
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  Speaker 1: can hike down and it's not a hike. I can
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  Speaker 1: walk down to the river and sit in a lawn chair,
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  Speaker 1: dangle my feet in the river and read, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but it's just a it's so peaceful.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, other than the critters, it sounds nice. If
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to relax, I don't know if I can
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  Speaker 2: relax around critters.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you have to just decritorize.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know you have to.
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  Speaker 1: Now that now that I mean, I've never seen a
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  Speaker 1: black widow down there. Now that I know they're there,
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  Speaker 1: I would I would just you know, turn the covers
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  Speaker 1: back on the bed and make sure they're not because
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  Speaker 1: they don't. I mean, they're you know, they don't want
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  Speaker 1: to they don't want to mess with you. They want
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  Speaker 1: you to leave them alone. As much as you want
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  Speaker 1: to be lesser.
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  Speaker 2: Now I feel itchy. Whenever I have this, you feel
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  Speaker 2: like there's something.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, I feel scratchy?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, believe me, there's something in this studio. What there's vermin,
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  Speaker 2: There's there's something there.
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  Speaker 1: What are you meaning you right now? I don't know what.
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  Speaker 2: There's something.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you feel it? Oh? Wait a minute, Oh yeah
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  Speaker 1: I do. Yeah, it's making my eyes it exactly. Geez,
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  Speaker 1: all right,