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Episode #32 "Eureka Springs Jeep Jam" · The Kevin Stone Podcast

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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And you made them or are they frozen? Well, they
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  Speaker 1: and this is the Kevin Stone Podcast. Apparently, if you
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  Speaker 1: buy a Jeep, you're not just purchasing a vehicle. You're
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  Speaker 1: enrolling into a society. There's a wave. There are clubs.
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  Speaker 1: They've got rallies. There are rules that nobody explains to
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  Speaker 1: the rest of us. And somewhere along the way, somebody
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  Speaker 1: hands you a sack of rubber ducks. I know several
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  Speaker 1: people who own Jeeps, and one of them went to
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  Speaker 1: the Jeep rally in Eureka Springs this past weekend. Naturally,
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  Speaker 1: I had questions about the trails, the parade, how many
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  Speaker 1: Jeeps you can put in one small Arkansas tourist town
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  Speaker 1: before traffic simply just gives up. But my biggest question
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  Speaker 1: was about the ducks. Why do Jeep owners have little
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  Speaker 1: rubber ducks lined across their dashboard? Who put them there?
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  Speaker 1: And do they come with the financing paperwork? Does the
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  Speaker 1: sailman shake your hand, give you the keys, and say, Congratulations,
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  Speaker 1: your first oil change is at 5,000 miles, and here's
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  Speaker 1: your emotional support waterfowl. Now, I got the chance to
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  Speaker 1: talk with Colt Johnson, a good friend of mine who
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  Speaker 1: owns a Jeep and actually went to the Eureka Springs
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  Speaker 1: Jeep Rally. Okay, well, I got a question. Let's hear
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  Speaker 1: it for you. Talking about Jeeps, what made you want
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  Speaker 1: a Jeep?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man. Growing up, both my mom and dad, they've
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  Speaker 2: always had Jeeps off and on throughout the years. I
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  Speaker 2: remember when I was a little kid, we'd take the
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  Speaker 2: top off and go on these little off-road trails and
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  Speaker 2: whatnot in the middle of summer. It was just a
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  Speaker 2: really good experience I had as a child. Looking back,
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to make sure I shared that with my
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  Speaker 2: kids and Show them the opportunity that I had. We
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  Speaker 2: will every now and then still get out, take the
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  Speaker 2: top off indoors, and just go on a day trip somewhere,
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  Speaker 2: find a creek, go jump in, and whatnot when the
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  Speaker 2: weather's nice.
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  Speaker 1: But you went to this Eureka Springs Jeep rally?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Jeep jamming. Well, they call it. It's a week-long event,
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  Speaker 2: and throughout the beginning of the week, they'll have trail rides.
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  Speaker 2: A bunch of them get together and just take off
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  Speaker 2: on scenic roads and make a big loop and come back.
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  Speaker 2: But on the weekend is whenever the exciting stuff happens,
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  Speaker 2: what I enjoy. We'll have a lighted home. jeep parade
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  Speaker 2: of a night on friday nights and uh that's always
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  Speaker 2: fun everybody's throwing ducks and candy at everybody standing on
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  Speaker 2: the streets and uh saturday they always uh meet up
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  Speaker 2: there the passion play there and we all park parker
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  Speaker 2: jeeps and i have vendors there selling stuff and whatnot
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  Speaker 2: everybody can walk around look at everybody's build and that's
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  Speaker 2: what gives me ideas because when i leave there i
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  Speaker 2: have ideas in my head of what i want to
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  Speaker 2: do to the jeep next Last year I went, I
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  Speaker 2: seen everybody running a bunch of aftermarket headlights that had
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  Speaker 2: the halo rings in it. And I told myself, you
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  Speaker 2: know what, that's something I needed to do. And a
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  Speaker 2: few months after I got back, I went ahead and
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  Speaker 2: pulled the trigger on changing out my factory halogen lights,
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  Speaker 2: which were not the brightest in the world, to some
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  Speaker 2: nice projecting LED lights. And now I get bright-lighted everywhere
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  Speaker 2: I go because people think I'm bright-lighting them, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: not intentionally.
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  Speaker 1: Just brighter headlights from what you had on there. So
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  Speaker 1: it gives you ideas of other things to do to
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  Speaker 1: your Jeep and stuff like that. That's pretty neat. How
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  Speaker 1: many Jeeps were there this year?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, just a rough estimate. I'd say a little over 300.
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  Speaker 2: This is the fourth year in a row that I've went.
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  Speaker 2: They've been doing it for six years. Not as many
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  Speaker 2: came this year that I've seen in the past. Usually
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  Speaker 2: that parking lot and grass lot is a lot fuller
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  Speaker 2: than it was this go around. And we did have
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  Speaker 2: a pop-up storm come through right before the last parade
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  Speaker 2: happened that afternoon on Saturday. And a bunch of people
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  Speaker 2: cleared out because they had their tops and doors off
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  Speaker 2: and was getting drownded. But a bunch of us stayed
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  Speaker 2: and waited on it to clear out. Then we started
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  Speaker 2: our parade.
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  Speaker 1: So now you said they all parked together. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: is this like, do they camp out in one spot
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  Speaker 1: or did y'all get hotel rooms? Or I mean, how
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  Speaker 1: did that work?
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  Speaker 2: We got hotel rooms. A lot of the hotels in
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  Speaker 2: Eureka Springs was having like a Jeep rate for the
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  Speaker 2: Jeep rally and whatnot. But that morning they opened the
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  Speaker 2: gates about seven, I think is what time it was,
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  Speaker 2: 7 a.m. on the Great Passion Play where the big
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  Speaker 2: statue of Jesus is there. And It's a pretty good
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  Speaker 2: size grassy lot that probably goes half a mile and
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  Speaker 2: we just all cram in there. They had people there
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  Speaker 2: flagging to get us all parked and once you got there,
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  Speaker 2: you just set you up a chair or whatever and
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  Speaker 2: walk around, just talk to the other people there.
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  Speaker 1: Because I know there's music festivals up there along the
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  Speaker 1: Mulberry and stuff like that. And people camp out and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that. So I wasn't sure if that was
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  Speaker 1: how the Jeep rally would go or not. You said
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  Speaker 1: this was your fourth year in a row?
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  Speaker 2: Fourth year.
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  Speaker 1: Does it get better every year or.
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  Speaker 2: To me, it was until this last year, and I've
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  Speaker 2: seen the turnout was a lot less, and it kind
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  Speaker 2: of made me a little nervous hoping they don't try
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  Speaker 2: to cancel it or anything because it's getting smaller. But
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  Speaker 2: I know it was getting bigger up until this year.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this year was a lot hotter than the past ones,
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  Speaker 1: haven't it? Well, I mean, we've had a longer heat
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  Speaker 1: wave this year than we have normally.
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  Speaker 2: We have, and I think the price of fuel might
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  Speaker 2: have had something to do with it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, $ 4 a gallon. That ain't cheap. Now, I know
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  Speaker 1: that I knew that there was like a brotherhood with
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  Speaker 1: like motorcyclists and stuff like that. I rode a motorcycle
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  Speaker 1: for a while. They've got their own wave at each other,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as they pass by each other and stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that. I had no idea there was some kind
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  Speaker 1: of a brotherhood with the Jeeps like that as well.
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  Speaker 1: There is.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, they even have their own
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  Speaker 2: Jeep wave. And it dates back all the way to
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  Speaker 2: World War II. Whenever the military would be driving their
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  Speaker 2: Jeeps and be passing the other Jeeps and whatnot, they'd
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  Speaker 2: give them two fingers above the steering wheel. And it's
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  Speaker 2: continued on until now. And Jeep people will wave at
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  Speaker 2: other Jeep people that same way, whether you know them
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  Speaker 2: or not.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty neat. That is pretty neat. You're going to
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  Speaker 1: have to tell me about the duck.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, gosh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So that started several years ago. It started up in Canada.
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  Speaker 2: There was a woman... Can't remember her name, but she
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  Speaker 2: had started the whole ducking. And now it has evolved
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  Speaker 2: to how Jeep people will tell other Jeep people that
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  Speaker 2: they like their Jeeps and they'll leave a duck either,
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  Speaker 2: you know, on their hood or whatever. or maybe on
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  Speaker 2: the door handle somewhere, and people will collect them. It
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  Speaker 2: gets big. I've seen several Jeeps where they rely on
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  Speaker 2: the whole windshield with ducts. I try to keep mine
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  Speaker 2: hidden mostly, but I do have a few sitting on
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  Speaker 2: my dash right now as we speak.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty neat. That's pretty neat. So if you see
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  Speaker 1: a Jeep out there, look for the ducts. See how
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  Speaker 1: many ducts they got. Well, Colt, thank you for taking
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  Speaker 1: the time to talk with me a little bit about this.
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  Speaker 2: Anytime.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure we'll get an opportunity to talk again
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  Speaker 1: more later. So let's go deeper into all this. What
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  Speaker 1: happened in Eureka Springs? The event was the six-annual Eureka
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  Speaker 1: Springs Jeep Jam. It ran from Thursday, September the 10th
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  Speaker 1: through Sunday, September the 13th. Organizers called it four days
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  Speaker 1: of jeeps, trails, and community activities. And they're not exaggerating
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  Speaker 1: about the schedule. There were dirt trail rides for people
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  Speaker 1: who actually want to use a Jeep like a Jeep.
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  Speaker 1: There were paved scenic rides for people who prefer to
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  Speaker 1: admire the Ozarks without testing whether their insurance covers being
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  Speaker 1: sideways in a creek. The event also featured a Jeep show, vendors,
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  Speaker 1: skill activities, scavenger hunts, a poker run, Jeep bingo, live music,
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  Speaker 1: and allotted night cruise. The signature event was Saturday's Jeep
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  Speaker 1: parade through the historic downtown Eureka Springs. Hundreds of Jeeps
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  Speaker 1: were expected to take part. If you know the streets
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  Speaker 1: of Eureka Springs, you know that driving one normal vehicle
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  Speaker 1: through parts of downtown can feel like a precision exercise.
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  Speaker 1: A parade of Jeeps through there must have been quite
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  Speaker 1: a sight. The weekend wrapped up on Sunday with a
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  Speaker 1: poker run. Jeep bingo and a goodbye lunch at the
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  Speaker 1: Horseshoe Grill. The official event page says the 2026 rally
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  Speaker 1: is in the books and the organizers have already set
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  Speaker 1: next year's dates for September 9th through the 12th of 2027.
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  Speaker 1: This was not only an excuse to put 200 accessories
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  Speaker 1: on a vehicle and then compare them with somebody who
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  Speaker 1: has 201. The event had a charitable purpose. According to
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  Speaker 1: the Eureka Springs Jeep Jam organization, 100% of the event
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  Speaker 1: proceeds are donated to Peterson Outdoors Ministry. The nonprofit provides
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  Speaker 1: faith-based outdoor recreation therapy for injured and recovering veterans and
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  Speaker 1: their families, along with first responders, people with disabilities, and
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  Speaker 1: people facing terminal illnesses. The organization's work has included retreats,
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  Speaker 1: hunting and fishing events, help with travel and lodging, and
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  Speaker 1: accessibility improvements at its Lodge of Hope. The Jeep Jam
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  Speaker 1: website says money raised through past events helped build a
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  Speaker 1: wheelchair ramp and deck for veterans' housings. It also helped
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  Speaker 1: host military chaplains and their families and a three-day gathering
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  Speaker 1: attended by nearly 30 veterans. That changes the way I
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  Speaker 1: look at the rally. Yes, it's people having fun with
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  Speaker 1: vehicles they love, but registrations, donations, and attendance also help
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  Speaker 1: veterans and first responders get outdoors, spend time with people
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  Speaker 1: who understand what they've experienced, and take part in activities
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  Speaker 1: that may otherwise be difficult for them. This is something
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  Speaker 1: that really hits close to home for me being a
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  Speaker 1: veteran myself. Now we come to the investigation that brought
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  Speaker 1: us here, the ducks. The custom is usually called jeep
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  Speaker 1: ducking or duck-duck jeep. A person sees a jeep they like,
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  Speaker 1: takes a small rubber duck, and leaves it somewhere visible
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  Speaker 1: on the outside of the vehicle. It might be near
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  Speaker 1: the windshield, on the door handle, or by the side mirror.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes the duck includes a small tag that says something like,
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  Speaker 1: you've been ducked. Nice Jeep, or includes the hashtag DuckDuckJeep.
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  Speaker 1: The duck is basically a compliment from one Jeep person
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  Speaker 1: to another. It says, I noticed your Jeep, I like
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  Speaker 1: what you done with it, and I wanted to give
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  Speaker 1: you a reason to smile. The owner who receives it
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  Speaker 1: might keep it on the dashboard, take a photograph and
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  Speaker 1: post it online, or eventually pass it along by ducking
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  Speaker 1: another Jeep. That's why you sometimes see a dashboard covered
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  Speaker 1: with them. Each duck may represent another person who noticed
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  Speaker 1: that Jeep. Of course, once people get involved, a simple
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  Speaker 1: act immediately develops unofficial regulations. You're generally supposed to duck
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  Speaker 1: somebody else's Jeep. Buying 40 ducks, lining them across your
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  Speaker 1: own dashboard, and acting surprised would be missing the point.
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  Speaker 1: That is less random act of kindness and more rubber
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  Speaker 1: duck resume fraud. You should leave the duck in a safe,
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  Speaker 1: visible place without entering the vehicle, damaging anything or blocking
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  Speaker 1: the driver's view. Some Jeep owners love the traditions. Others
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  Speaker 1: don't want a dashboard that resembles a bath toy aisle
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  Speaker 1: at Walmart. Both positions are allowed. There's no Jeep Duck
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  Speaker 1: Enforcement Division coming to inspect your windshield. I also wondered
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  Speaker 1: whether the colors or costumes carried a secret meaning. Is
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  Speaker 1: a yellow duck a normal compliment? Does a camouflaged duck
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  Speaker 1: mean your Jeep is trail ready? Does a pirate duck
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  Speaker 1: mean somebody plans to steal your spare tire? As far
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  Speaker 1: as I can verify, there is no universal color code.
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  Speaker 1: Individual clubs or people may assign their own meanings, but
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  Speaker 1: the wider tradition does not have one official chart. Most
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  Speaker 1: of the time, somebody simply picks a duck that looks funny, unusual,
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  Speaker 1: or appropriate for the Jeep. That has created a whole
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  Speaker 1: side culture of themed ducks. There are ducks dressed like superheroes,
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  Speaker 1: ducks in cowboy hats, Military ducks, holiday ducks, and ducks
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  Speaker 1: that look like they have stronger opinions than the person
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  Speaker 1: driving the vehicle. The more customized the Jeep, the more
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  Speaker 1: likely somebody is to select a duck that fits its personality.
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  Speaker 1: The modern duck-duck Jeep movement is widely credited to a
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  Speaker 1: woman named Allison Parliament. The story began in Ontario, Canada
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  Speaker 1: in July of 2020 during the early months of the
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  Speaker 1: COVID-19 pandemic. Parliament was a Canadian and American dual citizen
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  Speaker 1: who split her time between Ontario and Alabama. During a
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  Speaker 1: trip in Canada, she reportedly experienced an aggressive confrontation connected
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  Speaker 1: to the Alabama license plate on her Jeep. The encounter
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  Speaker 1: left her shaken. Later, while visiting family, she bought a
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  Speaker 1: bag of rubber ducks. The original idea was to hide
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  Speaker 1: them around a friend's home as a joke. Then she
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  Speaker 1: saw a Jeep that caught her attention. Instead of carrying
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  Speaker 1: the ugliness of that earlier encounter into the rest of
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  Speaker 1: her day, she wrote nice Jeep on one of the
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  Speaker 1: ducts and placed it on the vehicle. The Jeep owner
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  Speaker 1: saw what she was doing, laughed, and encouraged her to
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  Speaker 1: share it online. She posted the story using the hashtag DuckDuckJeep.
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  Speaker 1: Other Jeep owners copied the gesture, and it spread far
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  Speaker 1: beyond Canada. Within weeks, thousands of people had joined the
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  Speaker 1: online community. What began with OneDuck became an international Jeep custom.
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  Speaker 1: It also grew into charitable work. including a project Parliament
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  Speaker 1: created to help teachers purchase classroom supplies. Alice in Parliament
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  Speaker 1: died unexpectedly on June 22, 2024, at only 36 years old.
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  Speaker 1: Jeep groups and events have continued the tradition in her memory.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever you think about having a row of rubber ducks
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  Speaker 1: in a vehicle, the origin is hard to dislike. A
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  Speaker 1: woman had an ugly experience and decided that the next
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  Speaker 1: stranger she met would receive kindness instead of more ugliness.
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  Speaker 1: The duck tradition makes more sense when you understand that
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  Speaker 1: Jeep owners already had a community long before 2020. There
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  Speaker 1: is the Jeep wave, where drivers acknowledge one another on
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  Speaker 1: the road. There are local clubs, group trail rides, charity events,
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  Speaker 1: and entire gatherings built around comparing vehicles and spending time outdoors.
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  Speaker 1: Part of that comes from the vehicle itself. A Wrangler
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  Speaker 1: is easy to recognize, easy to customize, and designed around
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  Speaker 1: a sense of adventure. Owners remove doors, change tires, add lights,
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  Speaker 1: name the vehicle, and build it around their own personality.
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  Speaker 1: Once you've spent that much money making a vehicle look
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  Speaker 1: unlike any other vehicle, you probably appreciate it when somebody notices.
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  Speaker 1: The duck gives strangers a harmless way to connect. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: has to make a speech. Nobody has to exchange phone numbers.
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  Speaker 1: One person leaves a $ 2 toy and another person returns
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  Speaker 1: to the parking lot with a small surprise. In an
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  Speaker 1: age when finding something unexpected on your vehicle usually means
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  Speaker 1: a parking ticket, a sales flyer, or evidence that a
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  Speaker 1: bird has made a personal judgment about you, a rubber
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  Speaker 1: duck is a pretty good outcome. I started looking into
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  Speaker 1: this because the ducks seem strange. And they are strange.
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  Speaker 1: We should be honest about that. Grown adults driving around
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  Speaker 1: with enough rubber ducks to populate a small pond is
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  Speaker 1: objectively funny. But strange does not mean bad. The Eureka
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  Speaker 1: Springs Rally brought people together around something they enjoy, drew
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  Speaker 1: visitors into an Arkansas community and raised support for veterans,
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  Speaker 1: first responders, and people facing serious physical challenges. The duck
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  Speaker 1: tradition began because somebody chose a small act of kindness
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  Speaker 1: after somebody else had treated her badly. Neither one is
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  Speaker 1: going to solve every problem in the world, and that's
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  Speaker 1: not the point. A person does not need to solve
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  Speaker 1: the whole world before doing one decent thing for the
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  Speaker 1: person in front of them. Maybe that is why this
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  Speaker 1: silly tradition lasted. It's inexpensive. It doesn't require a committee,
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  Speaker 1: a government program, or a 30-page strategic plan. You see
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  Speaker 1: something you appreciate, you let the person know, and you
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  Speaker 1: move on. So now, I understand the ducks. I'm still
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  Speaker 1: not sure I understand why a Jeep needs 12 light bars,
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  Speaker 1: a ladder, a winch, and tires large enough to climb
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  Speaker 1: the courthouse. But the ducks make sense. And if you
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  Speaker 1: own a Jeep and somebody leaves one on it, they're
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  Speaker 1: not questioning your parking. They're not marking the vehicle for
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  Speaker 1: a secret duck-related crime syndicate. They're telling you they like
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  Speaker 1: your Jeep. Take the compliment, keep the duck, or pass
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  Speaker 1: it along. Either way, the world can use a few
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  Speaker 1: more harmless reasons for strangers to make one another smile.
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  Speaker 1: If you own a Jeep, I want to hear from you.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever been ducked? Do you keep the ducks,
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  Speaker 1: pass them along, or quietly remove them before your friends
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  Speaker 1: see your dashboards? And if you attended the Eureka Springs
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  Speaker 1: Jeep Jam, tell me what I missed and whether you're
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  Speaker 1: already planning to go back next year. You can find
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  Speaker 1: something good, and if the situation calls for it, apparently
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  Speaker 1: leave a duck.