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Where it all began… · STEVE 8

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SPEAKER_01: Yo.
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SPEAKER_01: Dude, you never answer the phone anymore.
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SPEAKER_01: I feel like we're hardly even friends.
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SPEAKER_00: It's been a it's been some crazy days.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you've had some crazy days.
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SPEAKER_01: You're always so busy.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't I'm not, you know, independently wealthy and I spend my time mowing my lawn like you do.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, and and making art and then mowing my lawn and then making more art and then, you know, somehow eating pizza.
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SPEAKER_00: Eating pizza sometimes, and then directing people to to like do your bidding.
0:39
SPEAKER_00: You know.
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SPEAKER_00: When I was a kid, what yeah, I know.
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SPEAKER_01: You you've got you've got you've got a hard life.
0:44
SPEAKER_01: I know.
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SPEAKER_01: It's really hard out there in California with your purses and your skirts and stuff.
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SPEAKER_01: I get it.
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SPEAKER_01: Check it out though.
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SPEAKER_01: I want to tell you myself.
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SPEAKER_00: I gotta do my own work.
0:54
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, I'm the own I'm the guy.
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SPEAKER_00: You've got you've got, as they say, you have people.
1:00
SPEAKER_01: Workers, workers, you have people workabies.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: So nice.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm in Fernandina Beach.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm in Fernandina Beach at this house, and um we're visiting some friends.
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SPEAKER_01: We just arrived like moments ago, so I should be talking to them, but I figure I can walk outside for eight minutes.
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SPEAKER_01: So I stepped out to their porch.
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SPEAKER_01: Their porch has like a 15-foot ceiling and a pool and a hot tub, and it's screened in and these plants, and it's like enormous.
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SPEAKER_01: This porch is like I don't know, 30 feet by 30 feet with columns and uh and the water.
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SPEAKER_01: It's just gorgeous, man.
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SPEAKER_01: You're like, dude, the dude's a harbor, harbor master uh pilot.
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SPEAKER_00: Harbor harbor pilot.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: You know?
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SPEAKER_00: He he steers big ships, steers big boats in from Indina Beach.
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SPEAKER_00: Like a little tugboat.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: With like a heat motor.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_01: Maybe it pays well.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, this house is freaking fancy as hell.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: There's even a guest house for me and my wife.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, my wife.
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SPEAKER_00: That's that's what you you've got, you've got all that kind of stuff.
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SPEAKER_00: You've got homes and things.
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SPEAKER_01: I know, but I don't drive big boats.
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SPEAKER_01: I guess I guess the restaurant's kind of a big boat.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you drive a big boat.
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SPEAKER_00: It's and you feed pizza and you feed the people.
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SPEAKER_01: So check it out.
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SPEAKER_01: When I was a kid, I remembered this the other day.
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SPEAKER_01: I wanted to tell you, so I called you every day for about six weeks to tell you, and you never answered.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: But I still remember what I was going to tell you.
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SPEAKER_00: Now you can tell me.
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SPEAKER_01: When I was a kid, and we would have people over to the house for uh like kid would spend the night.
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SPEAKER_01: When we woke up, my mom would have a little piece of paper folded in half, and it was a menu, and it would have oatmeal, pancakes, chocolate chip cancakes, blueberry pancakes, eggs, bacon, sausage, orange juice, milk, cereal, like everything on it.
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SPEAKER_01: And you and and my friends would get to pick what they wanted from the menu, and and there was like little check boxes.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh man.
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SPEAKER_01: And you would order what you wanted from cream of wheat, oatmeal, cereal, eggs, whatever, pancakes, whatever you wanted, and she would make it for us.
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SPEAKER_00: Bet you everyone loved going to Mama Ray's house.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, we didn't have a lot of people over, but when we did, and my sister too, same thing.
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SPEAKER_01: So sometimes if my sister had people and I had people, or we had a party, birthday party, whatever it was, have four or five people, you know.
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SPEAKER_01: I remember those menus.
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SPEAKER_01: And I think then I was thinking, I said, you know, that might be part of the reason I have a restaurant to this day.
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SPEAKER_01: Maybe that I I had a restaurant when I was, you know, under 10, and and when I was six years old or eight years old.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, your mom ran a restaurant.
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SPEAKER_01: She was running the breakfast, the breakfast, the diner for the kids.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, I don't think people were ordering oatmeal that much, but it was on the menu, which was kind of cool.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, they were ordering like you know, blueberry pay chocolate chip pancakes and bacon with all the syrup.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, extra syrup.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, do you call it no charge?
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SPEAKER_00: Do you call it syrup or syrup?
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SPEAKER_00: Syrup.
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SPEAKER_00: Syrup, yeah, of course.
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SPEAKER_01: Syrup.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: So anyway, that was uh that was my little story that uh that I've been waiting to tell you for a long time.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not that exciting, but it was it was a memory that came to me, and I didn't have anywhere to put that memory except into your podcast.
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SPEAKER_00: Into space.
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SPEAKER_00: Well into your podcast.
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SPEAKER_00: It's your podcast.
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SPEAKER_00: That's Steve 8, dude.
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SPEAKER_00: It's your podcast.
4:36
SPEAKER_00: Well, right, because I'm Steve with a V, and you're not.
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SPEAKER_00: So technically, yes, you're right.
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SPEAKER_00: It is my podcast.
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SPEAKER_01: I I'm I've Steve Ray has uh is was the name I went by all through high school, Steve with the V.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh is everybody that signed my yearbook says Steve.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, you you you say what's they got it wrong too?
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SPEAKER_01: So they they they they were you don't understand how the word Steven is shortened.
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SPEAKER_00: So they were they were like um they were supporting the lie, basically.
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SPEAKER_01: You just don't understand the your own name, basically.
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SPEAKER_01: When it's spelled differently.
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SPEAKER_01: Still shortened to Steve.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I don't know.
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SPEAKER_01: Although Steph Curry went shortened it to Stephanie.
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SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
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SPEAKER_00: That's how you shortened it.
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SPEAKER_01: You could do that too.
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SPEAKER_01: He's a Stephen.
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SPEAKER_00: That's how you shorten Stephan.
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SPEAKER_00: Why would you short?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but he's not Stephen Curry, he's Stephen Curry, isn't he?
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SPEAKER_01: He's Steph Curry.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's call him.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's find him.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's let's invite him to our podcast and see what he says.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe he's yeah.
5:38
SPEAKER_01: Maybe he's yeah.
5:40
SPEAKER_00: But you you you caught me because I think I grew up.
5:45
SPEAKER_00: I grew up listening.
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SPEAKER_00: I grew up reading um, you know, the only the only five books I ever read in my life were Stephen King books.
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SPEAKER_00: And I think he spells it pH.
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SPEAKER_00: He does.
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SPEAKER_00: And I called him.
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SPEAKER_01: And his name is Stephen.
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SPEAKER_01: I know.
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SPEAKER_01: You didn't call him Stephen King.
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SPEAKER_01: Nobody calls him Stephen King.
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SPEAKER_01: I know.
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SPEAKER_01: So I think.
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SPEAKER_01: So I got you.
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SPEAKER_01: I ended up winning that that race.
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SPEAKER_00: Except for look at the name of the podcast.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Hey, I I'm I'm I'm I'm willing to say I was wrong.
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SPEAKER_00: And and I'm not that I'm 100% wrong, but I'm willing to say that I've I've rethought my position.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm glad that you feel that way.
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SPEAKER_01: Because uh that means that that this that is uh the world's a better place.
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SPEAKER_00: It is, it is.
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SPEAKER_00: And when you work for you, and when you do and when you get a purse and you convince other people that's not gonna happen.
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SPEAKER_01: What are you working on?
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SPEAKER_01: Are you making movies and stuff?
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SPEAKER_01: You're making your editing stuff.
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SPEAKER_00: That's what I'm making.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't like I don't like talking about work.
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SPEAKER_01: I know, but that's why I want you to like like what like I want to know what you're made, like are you working on a project?
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SPEAKER_00: No, but here's my here's my fun story.
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SPEAKER_00: So I was recently, it's gonna be quick because we only got one more minute, recently in Laramie, Wyoming, and I found the house that I was basically when I was born in the house that I lived in.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, it was fun.
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SPEAKER_00: I tell you what was fun.
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SPEAKER_00: Here's here's the here's the here's the fun thing that people should do.
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SPEAKER_00: Go to a library.
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SPEAKER_00: I went to a library.
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SPEAKER_00: I went to a library and I asked a human being.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to track down an address.
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SPEAKER_00: And a human being, I couldn't find it online.
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SPEAKER_00: No.
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SPEAKER_00: The human being took me to a bunch of books that probably nobody's opened in 30 years, and I found the address.
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SPEAKER_00: Had my mom's name on it.
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SPEAKER_00: It it said where she worked, and that she lived in this address and she worked here, and I found the house, then I found the address of the restaurant she worked at.
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SPEAKER_00: Where is this?
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SPEAKER_00: In Laramie, Wyoming.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, in Laramie, okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: So there you go.
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SPEAKER_00: Go to the library.
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SPEAKER_00: Go to the library.
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SPEAKER_00: It's exciting.
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SPEAKER_00: It was like I felt like an archaeologist.