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  Hey, Lisa, Jonah, welcome. It is August 7th, 2026 and
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  Friday and ladies and gentlemen to my left my guest Co host, her
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  name is Hannah Conda. Hello.
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  She comes on here, she's like, you know what, maybe I should
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  stay over here to the side until I say my I wasn't really
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  prepared for a Co host. I'm like, you've got this,
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  you've got this, you got this. So Hannah comes from from her
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  originally, she comes from Utah and she works at the Butterfly
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  Pavilion, which that is who our interview of the week is today.
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  And Hannah Conda also does radio.
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  Well, she did radio. She kind of prepared.
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  I'm a. Retired radio person.
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  No, you say you're tired. Like, like it's not ever going
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  to happen again. It might happen again, you know.
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  Yes, I would love to. I mean, I'm here today.
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  Yeah. And did you have a, you said you
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  had like a podcast? Well so I did 1 show we called
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  it the invisible Co host and I would pretend to interview
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  people but it was myself doing different voices really.
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  Yes. And then we did like I was on
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  the promotions team, so we did like a fun ticket giveaway show
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  too. OK, this is gonna be this is
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  gonna be fun. She she's not prepared for this.
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  I know already, but what happened?
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  You got to be careful with your your cord H you're you're
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  probably just pulling your headphone cord.
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  Oh. OK, I do.
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  I do that to myself on Wednesdays a lot.
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  OK, so my, my, my ears might be going out all right.
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  OK, so. Get your hearing aid the.
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  The first thing that we're going to do is we're going to do mail
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  calling. Since you do voices, I'm going
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  to let you read the mail column of your voices, OK?
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  OK. All right, Ladies and gentlemen,
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  it is that time. It is mail call.
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  Attention mail call. Ramirez.
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  Oh my God. Welcome to Mail Call Your
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  Soldier Spotlight Powered by Work symbol highlighting those
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  who serve and inspire. There I go.
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  Go ahead. So I read that.
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  Yeah. OK.
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  And a different voice. Yeah, let's hear this.
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  Yeah. Today's spotlight is on Vietnam
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  veteran Richard Nichols. OK, now I'm going to talk
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  normal. An Army veteran from Michigan
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  whose service was finally recognized more than six decades
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  after he answered our nation's call.
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  Richard Nichols was drafted into the United States Army in 1965
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  and deployed to Vietnam. Like so many young men of his
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  generation, he didn't ask for recognition.
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  He simply answered the call. While serving in Vietnam,
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  Nichols wasn't on the front page of history books, but he was
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  doing work that was absolutely essential to the mission.
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  His unit built bridges, roads and airstrips, the
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  infrastructure that kept troops moving and supplies flowing
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  throughout the war. He also performed demolition
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  work, clearing paths and supporting combat operations
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  whenever it was needed. When asked about his service,
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  Nichols didn't seek attention or praise.
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  He simply said, sorry, it's covered.
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  Oh my. Bad.
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  Our main object was bridges, but we did roads and laid airstrips
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  and everything else. That simple statement reflects
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  something many veterans understand.
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  Sometimes the biggest contributions are made quietly,
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  without expecting recognition. But after returning home,
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  something important was missing. The medals Richard Nichols had
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  earned during his military service were lost over the
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  years, and like many vet Vietnam Veterans, he never pushed to
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  replace them. In fact, according to his
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  fiance, Judy Morris, he wasn't even interested in pursuing
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  them. She was.
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  For years, Judy searched through military records, filed
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  paperwork, and hit one bureaucratic roadblock after
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  another. Every time progress seemed
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  possible, another obstacle appeared.
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  But she refused to quit. Eventually, she reached out to
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  Congressman John Moulinar. Is that correct?
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  Your guess as good as mine. His office and together they
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  were finally able to locate the missing records and confirm
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  Richard's earned decorations. On July 29th, 2026 at the Albert
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  Schiffer VFW Post in Mecosta, Michigan, Richard Nichols
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  finally received the medals he had earned all those years ago.
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  Among the awards presented were the National Defense Service
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  Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal with Bronze Service Star
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  Achievement, the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Ribbon with
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  Device and the Marksman Badge with Rifle Bar.
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  Do I keep going? I, I, I can't do it now.
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  When Richard was handed those medals, his response was humble,
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  He said. I didn't even know I get them.
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  I never knew it. That one citizen says so much.
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  For many of our veterans, especially for those who served
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  in Vietnam, recognition wasn't something they expected.
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  Many returned home to criticism instead of gratitude.
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  Some never talked about their service.
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  Others packed away their uniforms and tried to move on
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  with their lives. Congressman Malone, she, she
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  pronounced it better than me, reminded everyone at the
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  ceremony that honoring veterans is about more than presenting
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  medals. It's about showing future
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  generations that service matters.
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  It's about making sure history remembers those who answered the
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  call. And perhaps the most touching
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  words came from Judy Morris. She said the medals weren't just
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  for Richard. They were for his children, his
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  grandchildren, and for the legacy of the service.
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  Sometimes recognition comes late, but late recognition is
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  still meaningful. Richard Nichol's stories reminds
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  us that every veteran's service matters, whether they served on
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  the front lines, built the roads that kept others alive, or
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  quietly did the jobs that made the mission possible.
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  Today, military Broadcast Radio proudly salutes Army veteran
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  Richard Nichols. Thank you for your service,
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  thank you for your sacrifice and thank you to Judy Morris for
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  refusing to let his story and his earned honors be forgiven.
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  I'm each train and this has been your soldier spotlight because
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  here at Military Broadcast Radio, we believe our veterans,
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  every veteran has a story worth telling and together we're
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  giving veterans a voice. And with that being said, you
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  know, for all those veterans that have traumatic brain, all
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  those veterans that have traumatic brain injury and you
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  know, you just, you're, you know, you're, you're, you're
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  waiting on this, You know, you're, you're waiting on a
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  ward. Keep fighting.
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  Don't, don't be discouraged. It will come.
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  It will come. Trust me.
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  It it it, it will come because unfortunately for for, you know,
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  traumatic brain injuries, they they okayed that for the Purple
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  Heart like later on in life, you know, so for those that have
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  been hurt or even injured overseas during that time, just
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  just keep the big fight coming. It's coming Top news story for
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  today. This is a this is kind of a sad
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  one. Good morning, everyone, and we
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  are today's top story. We're talking about a story that
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  reminds us why leadership matters and why listening to our
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  service members can literally be the difference between life and
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  death. the United States Navy has announced a major change to
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  its transfer policy following a tragic murder of Petty Officer
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  Third Class Angela Rendeziza. I, I, I think I, I pronounced
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  that right. She was just 21 years old.
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  She served her country with honor, but according to reports,
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  she repeatedly raised concerns about the individual who would
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  later be accused of taking her life.
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  Her story has sparked difficult conversations throughout the
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  military about whether warning signs were missed, whether more
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  could have been done to protect her.
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  As a result, the Navy is making changes designed to give
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  commanders more flexibility to transfer sailors when their
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  credible concerns involving harassment, stalking and
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  domestic violence or other threats.
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  And ladies and gentlemen, that is our top news story for today.
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  It is that time and I, I, you know, I need to, I need to make
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  you a little video, HG. But ladies and gentlemen, it is
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  that time. It's the HG report.
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  All right, weekend sports report coming up here.
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  Got a busy day around the the country with some sports.
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  We're going to start in the WNBA last night.
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  Tight one between the inning and the Fever and the Las Vegas
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  Aces. Chelsea Gray hit 2 clutch
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  threes, one to force overtime after Caitlin Clark missed 2
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  free throws, and then the game winner to lift Vegas to an 86 to
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  84 win. So huge win for Vegas as we're
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  trying to keep pace with Minnesota for that one seed
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  race. Also on some of the news,
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  there's going to be 3 new expansion teams coming to the
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  WNBA by 2030. They're going to be in
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  Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia and the Cleveland
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  Sirens are going to be the first team entering the league in
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  2028. Over to Major League Baseball,
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  we had the battle of the Sox last night.
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  The Red Sox extend their new win streak to eight in a row after
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  Caleb Durian's RBI single scores Nick Sogard to defeat the White
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  Sox in a 13 inning thriller. 12 to 11.
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  We're getting a little bit of a reality check for an LA Dodgers
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  team that felt unstoppable. They have now lost six in the
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  row, swept in back-to-back series against arguably the two
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  hods teams in baseball right now, the Red Sox and the Chicago
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  Cubs. In some NBA news, Pablo Torre,
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  the great sports investigative journalist, has uncovered
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  another undisclosed sponsorship deal in the whole Kawhi Leonard
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  scandal. This time it was a multi
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  $1,000,000 deal with the company who was responsible for
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  installing the Clippers new $100 million video board in their
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  brand new Intuit Dome. Daktronics, a high level
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  anonymous source within the company said it was quote 1000%
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  away for the Clippers to funnel money to Kawhi to circumvent the
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  NBA salary cap. So as of now though, Kawhi
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  leather has still not been suspended for the upcoming NBA
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  season as the NBA continues its investigation there.
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  Then we had our first look at the NFL last night as the Hall
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  of Fame game kicked off. We were celebrating 5 new Hall
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  of Fame inductees going into the this year's class.
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  Quarterback Drew Brees who led the league in passing yards 7
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  times. Running back Rodger Craig of the
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  49ers. First player to record 1000
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  yards rushing and receiving in a single season.
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  Wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, who spent his entire career with
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  the Arizona Cardinals and had more career tackles than drops.
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  Linebacker Luke Heekly, and who spent his entire seven years
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  with the Panthers and then just seven years won.
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  Defensive Rookie of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, 5
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  First team All pros and two second team all pros.
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  And then the most clutch kicker of all time.
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  Arguably the greatest kicker of all time.
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  Adam Vinatieri. Only the third kick could ever
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  be inducted into the Hall of Fame and 24 years of play.
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  He made an NFL best 599 field goals, including the game
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  winners in Super Bowl 36 and 38. Some notes from the Hall of Fame
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  Game. We have two really impressive
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  performances from rookie quarterbacks.
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  Third round pick Carson Back threw for 188 on 15 and 19
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  passing and a touchdown. A little unknown, Cardinals
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  receiver Jalen Brooks recorded 99 receiving yards on just three
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  receptions, but the star of the game was undrafted rookie Haines
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  King for the Carolina Panthers. He threw for 180 yards and two
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  touchdowns and ran for another 39 and a touchdown.
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  So just showing off that great dual thread ability that made
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  him such a force in college. And he actually had the
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  game-winning touchdown. Down three points with two
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  seconds left, he took off from a collapsing pocket, scrambled and
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  dove across the pylon as time expired to score a touchdown and
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  win the game. So great, meaningless pre season
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  game, but we really got some great football that was a lot of
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  fun. And then a few other NFL news
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  stories. We're seeing a running back
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  renaissance. Before 2026, Saquon Barkley was
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  the only running back making over 20 million annually.
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  But now with contracts being handed out before the start of
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  the season, Bijan Robinson, Jonathan Taylor and Jameer Gibbs
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  all join him after their big time contract extensions.
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  Jameer Gibbs now the highest paid running back in NFL
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  history. And then Aaron Donald, the three
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  time defensive player of the year, buying a potential
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  comeback. Maybe he was being yesterday
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  working out at the Los Angeles Rams facility already Stacked
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  defense could be getting one of the most dominant players of all
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  time returning to the field. That is your sports report.
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  Oh, I love it. I love it.
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  Hey and you know what I'm going to add this real quick.
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  Before I came into the studio, I saw a TikTok.
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  So this guy I guess. He's been he's been playing like
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  Japan league and all these other things.
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  His name is boogie Knights. He actually he actually did a
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  tick tock directing them towards the Cleveland Browns trying to
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  get like a tryout. The reason why I bring this out
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  is because Denver Broncos, they're doing a tryout now or
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  no, it's not a different, we have different Broncos and the
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  different Nuggets. They're doing open tryouts.
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  What is your thoughts, HG, on the open tryouts?
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  I think it's, I think it's a fantastic idea.
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  I mean, it's good. Yeah.
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  It it's a good way to just get people to maybe you're, you can
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  maybe find some, some diamonds in the rough.
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  I mean, or at least give guys a chance to showcase their skills.
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  I mean, there's not really a great chance that you're going
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  to make one of these professional sports rosters.
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  But again, it's more tape for you to put out there.
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  So it's, it's mutually benefactual for for everyone
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  involved. You know, sometimes you do find
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  the guy that you can cut get to come off the streets and he can
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  join your team and make a difference.
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  But as rare as it is, but at least they get to put some tape
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  out with a professional sports team and you know, maybe find
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  their way to another to a a lower level league here in
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  America or is something international as well and give
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  them another opportunity. Now, before we go any further,
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  I, I, I, I could not forget everybody that's tuning in
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  TikTok, how are you today? Thank you so much for joining
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  us. We got MJ in the house, Joy, I
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  found out why you didn't get your shirt yet.
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  It got it got caught in the conveyor belt at the post
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  office. So it was returned to Senator.
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  They're getting ready to send it out.
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  So that that's your update from that.
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  We have Amber that's in Amber is really liking you hanging a
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  condo because you're giving her a day off.
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  So yes, and before we go on break, one of the top news.
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  Do you do you Hannah Connor? Do you?
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  Do you like Whoppers? Like Burger King Whoppers
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  burgers? Oh, my grandpa loves Whoppers.
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  Check this out. If you send the text message,
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  well, we can get that information if you really want,
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  but right now until the 14th of August, if you send this text
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  message to this number, you get a free whopper.
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  They're giving out free Whoppers until August 14th, so.
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  All right. I mean, that's.
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  I have no idea why, but just throwing it out there.
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  So with that being said, we're going to choose music and we are
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  going to go on our first music break and when we come back off
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  of that music break, we're going to be hitting the WTF moment.
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  And you know, I was trying to find like the hook kind of like
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  teaser, whatever. But I guess when, when is it OK
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  to sue somebody and when is it OK not to sue somebody?
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  Boy. Is it to the OR is it not to be?
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  That's what confuses me. We'll be back.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, once again, you're listening to show
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  The station All right, everybody, we are
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  back. It's about 30 minutes past the
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  hour, and you know what that means?
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  It is time for the WTF segment. Bam.
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  Everybody seems to like that. Respectfully, it says here Ohio
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  opened their first Bucky's April 6th of 2020, sixth.
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  And you try to go after a small business old their Beaver
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  resembles ours and we have the money.
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  And we're going to try to walk in Ohio 'cause we just built our
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  new spot and we don't want nothing that resembles a Beaver
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  at all to be on anybody's logos because we have the money.
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  Man, kiss me. This business has been here for
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  over 20 years the owner said from my boy at the system of the
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  Inquirer. David said This guy is literally
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  using his stores money to pay for his kids and make sure he
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  can provide and y'all making millions and millions and
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  millions of dollars and y'all going to take away from a small
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  business because y'all greedy than a mother.
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  It's absolutely crazy Beaver his Beaver don't even got no clothes
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  on. Y'all fully dressed.
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  He's still trying to get up and go get a shirt and some pants
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  and shit, but y'all trying to stop him from, you know, his
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  blessings. That's crazy.
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  And this is in Ohio. We stand up for each other.
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  Ohio for life. This is absolutely bullshit.
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  This is absolutely bullying. Y'all just got in Ohio a couple
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  months ago. Damn here.
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  And y'all trying to sue because oh y'all caught wind or yo rich
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  ass peoples or somebody that work in HR pilot drove by the
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  hell there's a Beaver. Let's sue a small business.
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  It's disgusting and crazy. It'd be the richest motherfucker
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  trying to get over like what a small business.
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  And they said they don't even have gas pumps or anything.
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  He just has a local store that people will get that shit from.
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  And y'all trying to take money out this man's pocket because he
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  has a Beaver. You know how many Beaver logos
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  are around the world? And it's in Beaver Creek, Ohio.
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  That's why it's a Beaver. He is in Beaver Creek.
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  They probably got hella Beavers out there.
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  Bucky's I used to for Nuggets and y'all pulled pork or
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  whatever. Y'all sandwiches are phenomenal
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  but we can't respect that though.
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  We can't respect that y'all ain't shit.
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  And with that being said, everybody need to go to Beavers
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  mini Mart and go shop and support them and I hope Bucky's
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  losing because y'all greedy and this is absolutely disgusting.
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  How dare y'all. Come on, Bucky.
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  It would have been better if you just dropped the mic, you know,
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  kind of thing, you know, But I don't know, what do you think?
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  Honestly, I didn't know Bucky's logo.
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  I think Bucky's logo doesn't even really look like a Beaver.
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  I mean, other than the teeth, but it has like kind of a thin
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  head. Right.
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  But also, I think, yeah, it's just because it resembles a
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  certain animal. They don't think they have a lot
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  of grounds to stand on for. This is what I think.
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  I think that it's it's and I I think what started the trend was
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  Cracker Barrel. Remember that that happened, the
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  Cracker Barrel logo, you know, I mean, that thing blew up like
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  their business, everything just it just blew up.
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  I think in this day of an age, it's so hard to get positive
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  attraction, positive news that people are thinking, well, shit,
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  if I can't get positive attraction, I'm going to get
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  negative attraction. So they're suing these people
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  just for like advertising. That's what I think.
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  You know, it, it would make sense, you know, because it just
• 32:49
  doesn't make sense. It just doesn't make sense for
• 32:52
  them to, you know, sue somebody. But I mean.
• 32:56
  They're going down the all PR is good PR.
• 32:59
  Right, Exactly. Well, I mean, OK, so like and
• 33:02
  this if it's a good attorney and this show you're talking about
• 33:06
  like $5000 with as much as it's blown over, you know, blown up,
• 33:12
  the videos and stuff get went viral.
• 33:15
  You know, everybody's all upset, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 33:17
  And I guarantee you if you went to Bucky's today, like it might
• 33:21
  not be packed packed, but there's still, there's still
• 33:25
  got, you know, you know, people, you know, And I'm, I'm planning
• 33:28
  maybe at the end of the month or maybe next month, the CEO will
• 33:32
  come out and say, you know what? We, we have a change of heart,
• 33:37
  you know, we're we're sorry. And then, you know, all that
• 33:40
  commotion, then, then they'll have commotion about them, you
• 33:43
  know, then, then changing their mind, kind of like Cracker
• 33:46
  Barrel. That's what I think is, is going
• 33:49
  on because it is kind of ridiculous.
• 33:52
  It, it really is, but it, it's, it's a cheap way of advertising,
• 33:57
  you know, $5000, you know, lawyer thing.
• 34:01
  I mean, we just got so when there's elevators in some
• 34:07
  buildings and they have like ATV in the elevator, we even have
• 34:11
  one in this building and we bought some, we bought some ad
• 34:16
  stuff just the other day. And I mean, it's, it's 70 bucks
• 34:21
  just for that little thing, you know, ads are really expensive.
• 34:25
  And if we had enough money, you know, I, I, I would sue Disney
• 34:33
  for saying, Hey, Donald Duck. Well, you know, hey, what, what,
• 34:38
  why is he wearing a towel when he doesn't even wear pants, you
• 34:41
  know, kind of thing, you know, why, why is that?
• 34:43
  Do you know Halen, why is Donald Duck wearing a towel and he has
• 34:47
  no pants? That's, that's the question of
• 34:49
  the day. So, you know, we, we can sue
• 34:51
  them for that, you know. Yeah.
• 34:54
  And I think it's kind of hard to have.
• 34:57
  They're like original creative logos and ideas because there's
• 35:01
  it. Really is.
• 35:02
  Things out there? It really is.
• 35:04
  And like, I love AIHG. He's the generation that hates
• 35:10
  AI. And I told, you know, we were
• 35:13
  creating something and I told him I'm like, well, you know, if
• 35:16
  you don't want to use AI, try this method.
• 35:19
  This is what I do ask AI for like a suggestion and then you
• 35:24
  craft it, you know, mimic it, you know, kind of thing.
• 35:26
  Because AI is, you know, to rich people, you know, like their
• 35:33
  marketing director and stuff like that.
• 35:35
  Because rich people, people that own businesses that are far off,
• 35:39
  you know, they have, they have all the they have like a team
• 35:43
  and you know, they don't know how to do the marketing.
• 35:45
  They don't know how to do this. They know how to like, you know,
• 35:49
  supervised kind of thing. So for us Paul people, we have
• 35:54
  AI. But yeah.
• 35:56
  What do you guys think those that are listening?
• 36:00
  Do you guys think that the the same as me as this is all just a
• 36:08
  a publicity stunt, you know, and unfortunately there's a lot of.
• 36:13
  It's got to be I just like they can't really think that they
• 36:17
  have like that, like a judge would seriously hear this case.
• 36:22
  Well, and see, and that's the thing that people don't need to
• 36:24
  realize is like you can, you can do a lawsuit, right?
• 36:31
  Lawsuit maybe cost like 4 or $5000 do initial all right you
• 36:36
  don't have to follow through with that lawsuit like in two or
• 36:40
  three months like that lawsuit could be dropped you know so I I
• 36:45
  I I I I really do think that they're going to drop but it's
• 36:50
  well I think the. Beavers look very different from
• 36:52
  each other too. Yeah, they don't do.
• 36:54
  Bully. Each other one.
• 36:57
  Doesn't the Beaver Bucky's? Doesn't he have a hat?
• 37:00
  This, this. Like I said, this this Beaver
• 37:03
  has no hat whatsoever at all. I don't know.
• 37:06
  His whole body. But Bucky's is, That's true,
• 37:08
  like a hit. Or I get my shoulders.
• 37:10
  Up. Yeah, yeah.
• 37:12
  It's just, it's it, yeah, humans are greedy.
• 37:15
  Makes me sad. And you know what, that's one of
• 37:17
  the thing I, you know, humans are greedy.
• 37:20
  But I think it's a, it's a bigger picture.
• 37:23
  I don't think it's being greedy. I I think the Jews doing it as a
• 37:27
  publicity stunt, You know, Bucky's is already pretty
• 37:31
  popular. Why they would do that, I have
• 37:33
  no idea, but, you know, it is what it is.
• 37:37
  So with that being said, we're going to go into our next
• 37:41
  segment. It is the day, drop the date.
• 37:49
  Today in history. All right, drop the dates.
• 38:10
  The date is August 7th, 1782. What happened today in history?
• 38:16
  The birth of the Purple Heart. Well, it's it's it's back to
• 38:22
  exchange. It's time once again where we
• 38:25
  take a look back at the moment in history that still impacts
• 38:28
  our lives today. During the Revolution, On this
• 38:32
  day, Revolution War, General George Washington established
• 38:37
  what is known as the Badge of Military Merit.
• 38:40
  Now that may not sound familiar at first, but eventually it
• 38:45
  evolved into one of the most recognizable military
• 38:50
  decorations in American history, the Purple Heart.
• 38:54
  At the time, Washington wanted to recognize soldiers who
• 38:58
  displayed exceptional courage, fidelity and notorious services.
• 39:03
  Hey, I pronounced that right. I, I get a gold sticker.
• 39:07
  That was pretty much radical idea.
• 39:09
  In the 1700s, most armies reserved recognition for
• 39:13
  officers or members of nobility. Washington believed that
• 39:20
  ordinary soldiers deserved recognition, too.
• 39:24
  In fact, he once wrote, you know, the road to glory in a
• 39:30
  patriot army and a free country is thus open to all.
• 39:35
  Those words still carry weight today.
• 39:39
  The original badge of military merit wasn't a medal at all.
• 39:45
  It was actually a small purple cloth heart sewn on a Soldiers
• 39:50
  uniform only three Revolutionary War Soldiers are known to have
• 39:57
  received before the award quietly faded into history.
• 40:03
  Then nearly 150 years later, well 1932, on the 200th
• 40:11
  anniversary of George Washington's Birthday, the award
• 40:15
  was revived and redesigned as a Purple Heart Medal.
• 40:19
  We recognize this today, but its purpose has changed today.
• 40:25
  The Purple Heart is awarded to members of the United States
• 40:27
  Armed Forces who have been wounded or killed as a direct
• 40:32
  result of enemy action. Unlike many military
• 40:36
  decorations, you cannot earn a Purple Heart through
• 40:40
  recommendations or nominations. You can't campaign for it.
• 40:46
  You don't ask for it. It is awarded because someone
• 40:51
  paid the price and service to our nation.
• 40:55
  Every Purple Heart tells a story.
• 40:58
  Some stories end with recovery, some stories evolve years of
• 41:04
  rehabilitation and for as far too many families, that metal
• 41:09
  arrives because, well, their love was just never made a hope.
• 41:14
  When you see someone wearing a Purple Heart, remember that
• 41:17
  behind that metal is a sacrifice that changed a life forever.
• 41:23
  Purple Heart also reminds us that freedom has never been
• 41:27
  free. Every generation of Americans
• 41:31
  has had men and women willing to stand in harm's way for people
• 41:38
  they would never met. Whether it was the Revolutionary
• 41:42
  War, World War 2, Korea, Vietnam Desert or Iraq, Afghanistan, or
• 41:47
  countless other conflicts like Iran, that tradition of service
• 41:53
  continues. As veterans, we often understand
• 41:56
  that sacrifice the way many people never will.
• 42:01
  Some wounds can be seen, others cannot.
• 42:05
  Physical injuries often heal with time.
• 42:07
  Invisible wounds sometimes takes much longer.
• 42:11
  But that's why it's important that we continue supporting our
• 42:14
  veterans, active duty service members, and military families,
• 42:19
  not just with words, but with actions.
• 42:23
  That's a keyword with actions. We don't see that very much that
• 42:29
  often. Military broadcast Raider.
• 42:32
  That's part of our mission every single day, giving veterans a
• 42:36
  voice, creating community, and reminding people that no one has
• 42:41
  to fight their battles alone. So today, as we remember August
• 42:46
  7th, 1782, let's also remember George Washington's belief that
• 42:50
  honor belongs to those who serve with courage and sacrifice.
• 42:56
  The Purple Heart isn't just a medal, it's a symbol of
• 43:02
  resilience. It's a symbol of sacrifice, and
• 43:08
  it's a reminder that cost of freedom has always been paid by
• 43:13
  ordinary Americans who answered an extraordinary call.
• 43:20
  Thank you to every Purple Heart recipient and to every military
• 43:24
  who has ever carried that bird alongside them.
• 43:27
  I'm H and that's you drop the date for August 7th.
• 43:32
  You know, and you know, before before we go on break because
• 43:35
  it's, it's about that time to go on break.
• 43:37
  You know, me and you were, we were talking earlier, you know,
• 43:41
  about, you know, what's up with the docs?
• 43:43
  My my daughter. Actually, we, we had a, a
• 43:46
  daughter, dad heart to heart talk the other day and she was
• 43:49
  like, well, you know, you, you're kind of weird and I'm
• 43:52
  like, what you have a, you have an unhealthy fatuation when it
• 43:58
  comes to ducks. And I told, I told Hannah Conn
• 44:01
  to the, the end of the, the, the store, you know, May 22nd, 2022.
• 44:07
  I'll, I'll, I'll never forget that day.
• 44:09
  You know, you know, I, I, I woke up after trying to take my life
• 44:15
  and didn't work. God wasn't ready for me.
• 44:19
  And, you know, I've, you know, on the shelf.
• 44:22
  I I I was earnie one year for Halloween, and I had the rubber
• 44:26
  decky, you know, and I looked at that.
• 44:30
  That was the first thing that I saw when I woke up.
• 44:34
  And I thought about it, you know, and a lot of people don't
• 44:37
  think about it, but, you know, a tornado, a tasami, I mean, you
• 44:43
  know, So, yeah. There we go.
• 44:45
  All right. Yeah.
• 44:47
  Yeah. Just call me Swedish Chef.
• 44:49
  I butcher everything and you know, it's, that's the, that's
• 44:55
  the true mascot of MBR because it symbolizes resilience.
• 45:00
  You know, everybody can say, oh, you know, it's funny funny, you
• 45:05
  know, it's cute and it's funny, but there's a meaning behind it.
• 45:08
  You know, that's the reason why we give the ducks out, because I
• 45:14
  don't want a veteran or first responder ever been in the
• 45:19
  situation that I was in where, you know, I thought my troubles,
• 45:25
  I thought they, they, they were permanent.
• 45:28
  I didn't realize that, you know, sooner or later, you know,
• 45:32
  those, those troubles, those problems would fade away.
• 45:35
  And when you're in that time, when you're in that area, you
• 45:40
  don't think about it. You don't.
• 45:42
  And you don't reach out because hell, that's the reason why
• 45:46
  you're in where you're at is because, you know, nobody's
• 45:52
  reached out to you. You know, unfortunately,
• 45:55
  sometimes, you know, people call you when they want something or
• 45:59
  when they need something. They don't just call you and
• 46:02
  say, hey, Hannah, how you doing? I thought about you.
• 46:05
  I was sitting the duck, you know.
• 46:08
  So when you see a battle buddy or are you thinking about battle
• 46:12
  buddy, just reach out to them like, like, like my friend did
• 46:17
  Tim, you know, I hadn't talked to him in a while.
• 46:19
  You know, he reached out. He, you know, hey, what's up?
• 46:22
  You know, and a lot of people don't reach out to me because
• 46:26
  they see me every Friday. So they know that I'm alive.
• 46:28
  But, you know, think about that. Think if they're not on Facebook
• 46:33
  or they're not doing social media, if they're pretty quiet,
• 46:36
  those are the people and you want to reach out because
• 46:39
  unfortunately with social media, we always post the good stuff.
• 46:44
  We never post the bad stuff. Think about that.
• 46:46
  And today that is, you know, your, your drop of the drop of
• 46:51
  the date and your DWTF segment. It is that time we're going to
• 46:56
  go on a little bit of a music break.
• 46:59
  Before we go, I know we're backtracking a little bit, but I
• 47:01
  did want to, I didn't want to like cut off your momentum, but
• 47:06
  I did want to share this comment from Tim, which was pretty funny
• 47:09
  as well. OK.
• 47:10
  Just going back to the WTF if you can see it on the screen.
• 47:14
  I couldn't tell the Bucky's mascot was a Beaver.
• 47:17
  Someone I feel me. I didn't know it was a Beaver.
• 47:21
  It looked like a rodent with big.
• 47:23
  Teeth, right? That's funny.
• 47:25
  Maybe a Gopher. Yeah.
• 47:29
  That's hilarious. OK, All right, Well, everybody,
• 47:32
  we're gonna, we're going to go on a music break.
• 47:38
  And you know what? We're going to go a couple song
• 47:41
  music breaks since our guest is already here for that interview.
• 47:46
  And Hannah, Hannah Conda says that she has a quiz.
• 47:53
  So if you think that you know about butterflies and insects,
• 47:58
  if you think you're smart, if you're think you're smarter than
• 48:02
  fifth grader, stay with us. We have the phone lines open.
• 48:08
  We'll get we'll get surprises for some answers.
• 48:10
  So whenever you do, stay with us, Don't go away.
• 48:12
  You're listening to the show that highlights all the
• 48:14
  nonprofit programs out there. Be on the VA.
• 48:16
  You listen to the A strange show on the station that's let
• 48:19
  inventions voices be heard. MBR stay with us.
• 1:00:05
  The station where our veterans voices are heard.
• 1:00:09
  MBR talk. Hey, thanks for supporting our
• 1:00:12
  channel by watching and listening.
• 1:00:23
  Oh yeah, ladies and gentlemen, on this August 7, 2026 Purple
• 1:00:30
  Heart Day. But I keep on pushing.
• 1:00:33
  Dedicated to all those soldiers, all those veterans, and raise
• 1:00:38
  their right hand for that blank check given to the United States
• 1:00:45
  to honor with their life. And is that time, ladies and
• 1:00:52
  gentlemen, my favorite time. It's the interview of the week.
• 1:01:11
  All right. Ladies and gentlemen, today it
• 1:01:14
  gives me great honor to present Anaconda.
• 1:01:19
  She might be, she might be here again doing a podcast or
• 1:01:22
  something. We were we were talking about
• 1:01:24
  that so. Hello, how are you?
• 1:01:27
  I am fantastic. I want to tell you that me and
• 1:01:31
  my wife and my granddaughter, we went to the butterfly Pavilion
• 1:01:35
  last weekend and I was kind of astonished.
• 1:01:39
  I was expecting just butterflies, but you guys, you
• 1:01:42
  guys have a kind of a a variety range of insects and stuff.
• 1:01:48
  So that was that was that was interesting.
• 1:01:52
  Yeah, that's like a common misconception people have.
• 1:01:55
  I mean, our name is Butterfly Pavilion, but we have multiple
• 1:02:00
  exhibits. So we have what we would call
• 1:02:03
  terrestrial invertebrates. And for those who don't know,
• 1:02:06
  invertebrates are animals without backbones.
• 1:02:10
  So that's going to be spiders, scorpions, beetles, shrimp,
• 1:02:16
  octopus. It covers about 97% of all
• 1:02:20
  animal species. Jellyfish, right?
• 1:02:22
  Yep. Yeah, Yeah, that was a guess.
• 1:02:25
  I didn't really know. Oh yeah.
• 1:02:27
  Yeah, so or you and like you can think of it, they just don't
• 1:02:31
  have bones. And so we have our terrestrial
• 1:02:34
  exhibit where it's animals that are on land.
• 1:02:38
  So that's where some people might recognize Rosie the
• 1:02:40
  tarantula, one of our animal ambassadors.
• 1:02:45
  We have Hercules beetles. My personal favorite are leaf
• 1:02:48
  insects. So they just look like little
• 1:02:51
  leaves. Oh wow.
• 1:02:55
  Yeah. And then we also have our
• 1:02:57
  aquatic exhibit. So another one of my favorites
• 1:03:00
  are called Sexy Shrimp. OK, because they're these little
• 1:03:04
  shrimp about the size of your pinky nail, and they wave their
• 1:03:08
  tails as a way of communicating with each other.
• 1:03:11
  I think I remember seeing that it it, it looked like one of
• 1:03:15
  those like electric ball things or whatever.
• 1:03:18
  Yeah, they kind of like glow up and that's where we've had
• 1:03:20
  octopus in the past. You can pet a sea star or
• 1:03:24
  horseshoe crabs over there. And I and I think that
• 1:03:28
  gentlemen, that the, the whole, the whole, you know, he had his
• 1:03:32
  computer. He was talking about.
• 1:03:33
  I think that's, I think that that was where you you could,
• 1:03:37
  you could pet them in like the water.
• 1:03:39
  Yeah. OK.
• 1:03:39
  Yeah, which is a cool experience.
• 1:03:43
  You like grab your knuckle and it's just kind of a way of
• 1:03:46
  interacting with our animals. We like to pride ourselves on
• 1:03:50
  having those up close interactions.
• 1:03:53
  So same with the butterflies, they're free flying and you're
• 1:03:57
  not supposed to touch them, but if they land on you it's OK.
• 1:04:01
  So I can ask you, what have have you always been like a fan of
• 1:04:06
  butterflies? Like what?
• 1:04:07
  What possessed you to try to get a job at the Butterfly Pavilion?
• 1:04:11
  Well, because as we talked, I had a background in radio and
• 1:04:15
  like promotions. So I've always loved animals,
• 1:04:18
  but I wouldn't say I was like a fanatic with bugs.
• 1:04:23
  And then when I got the job there, I mean, with my position,
• 1:04:27
  I'm always creating content around them.
• 1:04:30
  And you really quickly get, I say, desensitize them for people
• 1:04:35
  who are maybe afraid of bugs. And you really start to have
• 1:04:39
  this understanding for them as animals, which is a big part of
• 1:04:43
  our mission is educating people about them and kind of showing
• 1:04:48
  them that what you think is maybe just a spider that you
• 1:04:51
  would kill. They actually have some of them
• 1:04:54
  have like personalities, and they're very important to the
• 1:04:57
  environment. And I think they're cute.
• 1:05:01
  So can you have bugs like you? You said bugs have
• 1:05:06
  personalities, Yeah. Can you have a bug as a pet?
• 1:05:10
  Yeah. So they're actually very
• 1:05:12
  popular, I would say, in the pet trade.
• 1:05:14
  So a lot of people own tarantulas, scorpions.
• 1:05:18
  Well, I knew that. I knew that my, my, my, my
• 1:05:21
  daughter really likes that. I hate snakes.
• 1:05:24
  She loves that stuff. So yeah, I, I totally, I, I was
• 1:05:28
  like, like doom beetles or like worms.
• 1:05:31
  Like do people actually have those like pets?
• 1:05:35
  I would say those are not as common, but like people keep
• 1:05:40
  isopods, so that's what we would think of as like rolly police or
• 1:05:44
  they keep them in their tank because they help keep the soil
• 1:05:47
  healthy and they're really good like additional animals to have
• 1:05:51
  in. Like your tank?
• 1:05:52
  So. So how long have you worked at
• 1:05:55
  the Butterfly Pavilion? I've been there for about 2 1/2
• 1:05:58
  years. 2 1/2 years and I've, I've, I've always learned that
• 1:06:04
  like you can read anything in like books and get an education
• 1:06:07
  with like the hands on like what is the biggest thing that you've
• 1:06:10
  learned with them the your three years?
• 1:06:13
  Yeah, that you've been there. I mean, I would say a big thing
• 1:06:18
  that I've kind of that has changed in my life.
• 1:06:21
  I mean, I talk to people, our zookeepers a lot about bugs.
• 1:06:25
  I do research for our posts. So I learn a lot on my own, but
• 1:06:30
  also it kind of opens up a whole world around you.
• 1:06:34
  There's a term called bug blindness, or maybe you've heard
• 1:06:37
  like plant blindness, where when you're not aware of these
• 1:06:41
  things, you're not seeing them. And the more I learn about them,
• 1:06:46
  you just go for a walk and you notice everything around you.
• 1:06:50
  There's so much life around you that you weren't really aware of
• 1:06:54
  before. And I feel like it's something
• 1:06:56
  that's contagious. So like friends around me that
• 1:06:59
  were the same way just from me talking about it to them and
• 1:07:02
  it'll be like they'll send me pictures.
• 1:07:04
  Oh, I saw this butterfly today. Or oh, what kind of bee is this?
• 1:07:09
  A big nits conception is a lot of people think of bees and they
• 1:07:13
  think of honey bees. When you take the time to look,
• 1:07:17
  there's so many different kinds of bees.
• 1:07:19
  There's bumblebees. There's Digger.
• 1:07:21
  Bees. So not all bees do honey.
• 1:07:25
  Pretty interesting. Yeah.
• 1:07:26
  All right. I didn't.
• 1:07:27
  I didn't know that. I know that.
• 1:07:28
  I know that not all cows do milk.
• 1:07:31
  Yeah. So there's over 1000 different
• 1:07:34
  species of bees in Colorado. Wow, OK.
• 1:07:37
  So they each kind of have a lot of them might be solitary.
• 1:07:40
  So they live in the ground. There's leaf cutter bees where
• 1:07:43
  they cut. That's when you see like little
• 1:07:45
  cuts and leaves. Those are from bees.
• 1:07:48
  So they're all great pollinators and our like honey bees, they're
• 1:07:55
  technically not native, but our native bees, they might
• 1:07:58
  specialize on a specific flower. So that's why it's really
• 1:08:03
  important to be planting different flowers in your
• 1:08:06
  garden. Interesting.
• 1:08:08
  You know, I, I, I'm not going to lie to you, I, I've never been
• 1:08:13
  like really like into the butterflies or into the insects
• 1:08:16
  and stuff. But you know, it, it, it did.
• 1:08:20
  It did teach me something when I, when I went there last
• 1:08:25
  weekend. And you know, when he was
• 1:08:26
  talking about how, you know, since you've been working like
• 1:08:29
  you, you look at things a little bit different now.
• 1:08:32
  You know, you're, you're, you're a little, little detailed of, of
• 1:08:37
  different things when you're, when you're just, you know,
• 1:08:39
  walking about. And that's kind of how it is
• 1:08:43
  with when I get out of the media school, because now whenever I
• 1:08:47
  watch a movie, you know, I'm like, oh, that's, that's, that's
• 1:08:52
  B roll. Oh, that's a that's a white
• 1:08:54
  screen, you know, like I, I can't really enjoy the movie
• 1:08:57
  much anymore because I notice all these like details, you
• 1:09:01
  know, And one thing that you know, I've noticed in like
• 1:09:04
  movies and stuff, like they have these, these like B roll to
• 1:09:09
  where, you know, you show the person on the phone and then
• 1:09:12
  they have like the display of the phone over here so you can
• 1:09:15
  read what they're doing. And I'm like, well, what is this
• 1:09:18
  called? They're like, well, it's just,
• 1:09:19
  you know, it's just another form of B roll.
• 1:09:22
  And I'm like, oh, so things, things keep on changing and
• 1:09:27
  thing, you know, you keep on learning stuff.
• 1:09:29
  So it's incredible. Now I got a question and now my
• 1:09:33
  next question is when it comes to the butterfly pavilion, do
• 1:09:38
  you guys have like a secret menu?
• 1:09:40
  You know, like, you know, you go to in and out.
• 1:09:42
  They have like a secret menu that you have, Hey, I want this
• 1:09:45
  but it's not on the menu. Do you have something like that?
• 1:09:48
  Do you guys have like a? Joe, I don't think you're
• 1:09:50
  supposed to eat the insects. Well, no, no, no.
• 1:09:52
  I mean, like, you know, like I, I know you guys have military
• 1:09:56
  discounts, you know, do you guys have some programs that maybe we
• 1:10:02
  were not, you know, we don't know about or yeah, maybe maybe
• 1:10:05
  you guys have something like when we went Saturday, there was
• 1:10:09
  a guy that was on the computer and he was, you know, letting
• 1:10:13
  everybody know, hey, here, here's this.
• 1:10:16
  He was teaching. Do you guys have seminars or
• 1:10:19
  anything like that? Yeah.
• 1:10:20
  So I mean with your general admission ticket, we have stuff
• 1:10:24
  where we have like butterfly releases every day and so you
• 1:10:28
  can learn more about a butterfly's first flight and
• 1:10:31
  kind of see them enter the Conservatory.
• 1:10:35
  We do leaf cutter, can't leaf cutter Ant feedings.
• 1:10:38
  So you can see a colony of ants start to basically devour plants
• 1:10:44
  and they're actually farmers. So they're not eating the
• 1:10:46
  leaves, they're taking them back to a fungus chamber where they
• 1:10:50
  farm these leaves and they eat the fungus.
• 1:10:53
  But more recently, we actually just started a new program, it's
• 1:10:58
  called Behind the Web Tarantula Experience.
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  And so this is a paid private experience, but it's a 30 minute
• 1:11:07
  guided thing where you get to basically learn like whatever
• 1:11:12
  you want and everything that you kind of can learn about
• 1:11:14
  tarantulas or it's a good starter for tarantulas.
• 1:11:18
  And so we have baby tarantulas that are like this big.
• 1:11:22
  I think they're adorable. You can look at tarantula molts.
• 1:11:26
  So it's kind of learning more about the anatomy of tarantulas.
• 1:11:31
  We have other species back there, so like the Goliath bird
• 1:11:35
  eater, which is a very large species.
• 1:11:38
  And then you also get the chance to hold Goldie the tarantula,
• 1:11:44
  similar to Rosie, but she's a different species.
• 1:11:46
  We call them cousins. Oh, yes.
• 1:11:49
  And that's like a huge way that we've kind of made a huge impact
• 1:11:54
  in Colorado with that program is teaching people to maybe not be
• 1:11:59
  afraid of spiders. And when you have one in your
• 1:12:02
  hand and they're really light, I describe it as feeling little
• 1:12:06
  Q-tips on your hand with their. And so it a lot of people have
• 1:12:10
  memories of Rosie before. And that was our version of
• 1:12:14
  bringing the program back and a more sustainable way where our
• 1:12:18
  tarantulas aren't having to work as much and you really get to
• 1:12:24
  learn a lot about them. So.
• 1:12:27
  OK, so you have these tarantulas and like the insects and
• 1:12:33
  everything named. So my next question is, do you
• 1:12:37
  guys have names for the butterflies?
• 1:12:41
  No, not for the butterflies, but.
• 1:12:43
  That would be confusing I think. Yeah, and it's hard because
• 1:12:46
  they're free roaming, so it's kind of hard to track them, but
• 1:12:49
  we do for a pretty decent amount of them.
• 1:12:52
  We have stickers on them, so they're numbers.
• 1:12:55
  And when you visit, it invites people, you can take pictures
• 1:12:59
  and basically log you submit it to a database.
• 1:13:04
  And it helps us track their life spans and things like that.
• 1:13:07
  So what a lot of people don't know is butterflies only really
• 1:13:11
  a lot, most species only live a few weeks to a few months.
• 1:13:15
  Oh, wow. Yeah.
• 1:13:16
  And but through that program, we had one that lived to 11 months,
• 1:13:21
  which is a lot longer than. I heard of.
• 1:13:24
  OK, wow, that, you know, that makes that kind of makes you
• 1:13:29
  think about, you know, when you see a bug around the toilet or
• 1:13:32
  something, you know, don't, don't kill it or don't flush it
• 1:13:35
  around the toilet. Now, now, now I'm going to think
• 1:13:38
  twice, but before before doing something like that and.
• 1:13:42
  There's little ways. I mean, you don't have to be an
• 1:13:45
  expert, you don't have to necessarily know what the
• 1:13:48
  species is. But for example, with bees, when
• 1:13:51
  you look at 1, you could think, oh, is this one more fuzzy?
• 1:13:55
  Is it yellow and black? Is there color variations?
• 1:13:59
  Is there orange on the butt? Is there whatever?
• 1:14:02
  And that's just like a quick way of just starting to notice that
• 1:14:07
  diversity of bees. Now other than people having an
• 1:14:11
  allergic reactions, is there a bee species out there that is
• 1:14:17
  like really really poisonous that could kill you if you don't
• 1:14:22
  have allergic reaction? Not that I can think of.
• 1:14:27
  I mean, a lot of animals, I mean, obviously there are ones
• 1:14:32
  that have strong venom, but most animals are adapted to have
• 1:14:36
  venom that they really only need for their prey and for eating.
• 1:14:42
  So they don't really need something that can kill a human.
• 1:14:46
  They need enough that might immobilize a beetle or an Ant.
• 1:14:53
  So I would say like generally there, I don't want to just say
• 1:14:57
  all bugs that you're safer around, but mostly you're going
• 1:15:02
  to interact with them. Might hurt, but you're going to
• 1:15:04
  be fine. Unless of course you have a
• 1:15:06
  severe allergy. Right, OK.
• 1:15:09
  And you know, and you you said that you had some that you have
• 1:15:15
  some quiz questions today. I didn't know if you, oh, I, I
• 1:15:21
  forgot to ask you, other than like the hidden menu that we was
• 1:15:25
  talking about. Is there like, is there any
• 1:15:28
  history behind like the butterfly pavilion, like how
• 1:15:33
  it's got its name or anything like that?
• 1:15:35
  Tell us a little bit about that. Yeah, so we opened in 1995 S
• 1:15:40
  last year we celebrated our 30th anniversary.
• 1:15:45
  We our we are the first Aza. So Association of Zoos and
• 1:15:50
  Aquariums, the first Aza accredited non profit standalone
• 1:15:55
  invertebrate zoo, which sounds kind of like a mouthful, but we
• 1:16:00
  specialize only in invertebrates.
• 1:16:01
  We don't have tigers. We're not an extension to a zoo.
• 1:16:05
  That's what that means. And Aza accreditation is
• 1:16:09
  basically a recognition that we are meeting like the highest
• 1:16:13
  standards of animal care research and kind of like
• 1:16:19
  experiences with the people. So it's kind of like the Gold
• 1:16:22
  Star of zoos and aquariums. We started, yeah, in 1995.
• 1:16:28
  A big part of our initial mission was kind of we were had
• 1:16:33
  something called the Bug Mobile. So that was an outreach program
• 1:16:36
  where we brought our animals to K through 12 schools.
• 1:16:40
  That that sounds cool. You guys don't do that.
• 1:16:43
  Anymore, No. I mean, so we do that, but not
• 1:16:45
  as a bug mobile. It's like we just go to schools
• 1:16:48
  and organizations and that's our way of bringing it to the
• 1:16:52
  classroom. We also do field trips and
• 1:16:56
  stuff. And then we got our ACA
• 1:16:59
  accreditation in 2014. So we also have throughout those
• 1:17:05
  years, we opened our garden spaces, we had our water's edge
• 1:17:09
  open, which is our aquatic space.
• 1:17:12
  And we've done a lot of research projects that have started and
• 1:17:15
  continued since then. So we have a long history of
• 1:17:19
  essentially bringing our mission to life, which is fostering an
• 1:17:23
  appreciation for invertebrates, educating people on what they
• 1:17:27
  are. And yeah, just kind of making
• 1:17:31
  that impact in Colorado and spreading that joy and
• 1:17:36
  appreciation for these animals. You know, I wonder, I wonder the
• 1:17:42
  and, and, and if you just TuneIn we're we're, we're talking to
• 1:17:45
  Hannah Hitchcock. We'll learn Hannah Akanda.
• 1:17:50
  She works for the Butterfly Pavilion.
• 1:17:52
  She is the what? What would you call it?
• 1:17:54
  Your marketing director? I'm the marketing and
• 1:17:57
  communications coordinator. OK.
• 1:18:00
  And you know, it's recently in like the last couple of years
• 1:18:07
  there's been programs that help veterans beekeeping, you know,
• 1:18:13
  and I didn't think about that. Do you think that, you know,
• 1:18:18
  working as a butterfly pavilion, I don't know if you have any
• 1:18:21
  veterans there, but do you think that it's possible that that
• 1:18:26
  could be an outlet and it would kind of calm veterans down that,
• 1:18:31
  you know, that deal with the PTSD, you know, not only, you
• 1:18:36
  know, dealing with their, you know, disability, but also, hey,
• 1:18:41
  I'm working on a butterfly pavilion, you know, no stress
• 1:18:45
  kind of job. Do you do you think you could
• 1:18:47
  get that from handling the the insects?
• 1:18:51
  Yeah, absolutely. I mean, we have a large staff of
• 1:18:56
  volunteers and so some people, they're retired, some people are
• 1:19:01
  neurodivergent and it's kind of a way for them to connect with
• 1:19:06
  people and connect with the animals and also kind of learn
• 1:19:11
  more, have develop a new passion.
• 1:19:14
  So it kind of gives, helps give purpose, it helps bring
• 1:19:17
  connection. And I think also just with the
• 1:19:20
  animals, it's a fun thing, right?
• 1:19:23
  If you aren't wanting to like volunteer, We also have sensory
• 1:19:26
  friendly afternoons, which might be a good step just to visit.
• 1:19:31
  I think just being around nature can be very therapeutic and kind
• 1:19:37
  of what we're talking about, like it helps you appreciate the
• 1:19:40
  nature around you by. Yeah, you know, when, whenever,
• 1:19:43
  whenever I get a phone call from a veteran or anybody doesn't
• 1:19:48
  have to be a veteran and you know they're having a bad day,
• 1:19:50
  instead of the the first thing to tell them is to go outside
• 1:19:55
  and touch grass like sometimes, sometimes to.
• 1:20:00
  Get away from the bad vibes you have to get out of the
• 1:20:05
  environment, you know, and like, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's
• 1:20:11
  a tragedy. You know, that we've had these
• 1:20:13
  like fires and stuff in Colorado.
• 1:20:16
  But, you know, I don't really look at it as a tragedy because
• 1:20:22
  to start new or to, you know, live life better, you have to,
• 1:20:29
  you have to start from the ground up, you know, you have to
• 1:20:33
  new beginnings kind of thing. So that's the first time I,
• 1:20:37
  that's the first thing that I tell any person that I talk to
• 1:20:41
  that's just having a bad day or anything.
• 1:20:44
  Get out of your environment, you know, go outside, you know, you
• 1:20:47
  know, get, get, you know, just do something, even if it's just
• 1:20:51
  like a, a, a walk around the block 'cause I, you know, I know
• 1:20:55
  that, you know, when it comes to like walking, I'll sit there and
• 1:20:59
  I'll, you know, give myself excuses of, you know why.
• 1:21:03
  And then when I start, you know, pushing myself to, to go around
• 1:21:07
  walking, I'm like, oh, you know, and then I'm, I'm, I just keep
• 1:21:10
  on walking, just keep on walking, you know, But yeah, I,
• 1:21:16
  I really appreciate you coming in now.
• 1:21:18
  I, I don't know if that's all the questions that I told you I
• 1:21:22
  was going to ask, but I, I do want to give you some time to,
• 1:21:27
  to do the, you know, the, the quiz and stuff.
• 1:21:30
  If, if, if we have listeners and viewers that think they know
• 1:21:37
  about insects, HG, you're going to keep track.
• 1:21:41
  And when they say that they win, we'll, we'll send you some.
• 1:21:47
  We'll send you some swag. Hopefully it doesn't end up like
• 1:21:50
  Joy's polo and gets stuck at the post office conveyor belt.
• 1:21:56
  So all right, here we go. I'm gonna, I'm gonna be over
• 1:22:00
  here. So I will say two of these
• 1:22:03
  questions are aquatic. Oh, OK.
• 1:22:06
  So, OK, do you want to start with ants, cuttlefish, jellyfish
• 1:22:10
  or? It's totally up to you.
• 1:22:13
  OK, newly newly born scorpions live where A under their mom's
• 1:22:19
  stomach, B in an underground Burrow, C on their mom's back,
• 1:22:25
  or D in their parents basement. I I know this one, but I want to
• 1:22:30
  give any viewers a chance first. I'm pretty sure I know this one
• 1:22:33
  though. Yeah.
• 1:22:35
  Anybody got the answers? I'll RIP it.
• 1:22:38
  I, you know, I, I, I, I thought, I thought they were in like
• 1:22:42
  their, their their parents like stomach.
• 1:22:45
  Well, holiday like a pouch. Yeah, oh, because if you like
• 1:22:51
  stomp on a spider, which I've done before, like the little,
• 1:22:54
  you know, So I'm like, oh, it's great.
• 1:22:57
  It it's pretty. It is very few species of
• 1:22:59
  spiders that have the babies on their back or if you step on an
• 1:23:04
  egg sack, but that might be a hint for you.
• 1:23:09
  Oh. You have an answer, Timmy.
• 1:23:12
  Timmy Timothy says that they live on their mother's back.
• 1:23:16
  That is correct. Oh, he gets the bell.
• 1:23:19
  He gets the bell. Good job Tim, I'll be sending
• 1:23:23
  you some swag here. So also known as scorplings,
• 1:23:26
  newly hatched scorpions are very vulnerable because their
• 1:23:30
  exoskeletons are still soft. So to stay protected, they climb
• 1:23:34
  onto their mother's legs and pinchers before settling on
• 1:23:37
  their back, where they remain until their first molt.
• 1:23:41
  So if you look up a picture, you just see a bunch of little baby
• 1:23:43
  scorpions. Sometimes it's hard to tell even
• 1:23:45
  what you're looking. At right, Yeah, that's
• 1:23:48
  interesting. OK, and, and yeah, I guess I'm
• 1:23:51
  wrong. I thought I, I, I literally
• 1:23:53
  thought that the babies were in their like stomach or whatever,
• 1:23:55
  just because, you know. Yeah.
• 1:23:58
  All right. Next question.
• 1:23:59
  OK, so just before I ask, do you know what army ants are?
• 1:24:03
  Army ants aren't those like red ants?
• 1:24:05
  Like they, they'll, they'll bite you in the heart.
• 1:24:08
  So they're, yeah, they're predatory.
• 1:24:10
  They're very predatory ants. And so they have like these
• 1:24:15
  large colonies and they're kind of known for their sort of
• 1:24:18
  aggressive hunting strategy strategies.
• 1:24:21
  They'll sweep against the forest floor attacking prey.
• 1:24:26
  And they have different casts. So like, they have different
• 1:24:29
  purposes depending on what kind of Ant they are in the colony.
• 1:24:35
  So my question is army ants, predatory foraging groups are
• 1:24:39
  also known as blank, A raids, B invasions, C parties or D.
• 1:24:48
  OK I didn't know what to put for this. 1D is Anthony.
• 1:24:52
  Okay, all right. I like to throw in a funny 1.
• 1:24:56
  Okay. Art.
• 1:24:58
  So they're called army ants? I'm between 2:00.
• 1:25:01
  I, you know, I'm I because of the canned raid.
• 1:25:06
  They have to have that there. There has to be a reason why
• 1:25:09
  they call it raid. I'm going to say raids.
• 1:25:13
  I I'm going to say it's called an invasion.
• 1:25:17
  So raids would be correct. Yeah.
• 1:25:20
  And I'm. I'm pretty sure it's Indiana
• 1:25:22
  Jones where you see these. But yeah.
• 1:25:25
  Known for their coordinated hunting behavior, army ants
• 1:25:28
  raids occur when hundreds or even thousands of ants leave
• 1:25:32
  their temporary nest in search of food.
• 1:25:35
  Working together, they sweep across the forest floor, hunting
• 1:25:38
  and scavenging for almost anything in their path.
• 1:25:41
  Interesting. And Adams, I guess I didn't
• 1:25:44
  really know, but you know, it's interesting.
• 1:25:47
  Yeah, so you're telling me, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,
• 1:25:51
  those ants that like carried the the one Soviet guy into like
• 1:25:57
  their dad, Those were army ants? Yeah, but I wouldn't say they
• 1:26:00
  could. I don't know.
• 1:26:02
  I'm not quite the expert. I don't think it's very likely
• 1:26:05
  that they're going to carry a person, but a rodent or a small
• 1:26:09
  amphibian like a frog they could take on so.
• 1:26:14
  I'm going to, I'm going to 3D print an Ant man for you.
• 1:26:17
  You can put it there in the display in your office.
• 1:26:21
  OK. What's the next question?
• 1:26:23
  OK OK, cuttlefish have a blank shaped brain, a pancake shaped
• 1:26:30
  brain, B waffle shaped brain, C pretzel shaped brain, or DA
• 1:26:37
  doughnut shaped brain. This one's a little random.
• 1:26:43
  Yeah, I don't know. I'm I'm going to go flat.
• 1:26:47
  Pancake. Yeah, Pancake, it's.
• 1:26:50
  Got to be a pancake, right? You would both be wrong.
• 1:26:54
  It's doughnut. Doughnuts.
• 1:26:56
  Yeah. Like a doughnut hole or like,
• 1:26:58
  yeah. Like it's like a circle with a
• 1:27:00
  hole in it and so. Wow.
• 1:27:02
  They have a doughnut shaped brain and the largest brain to
• 1:27:05
  body ratio of all invertebrates, like other cephalopods, so
• 1:27:09
  that's going to be octopus squids.
• 1:27:12
  Their brain is wrapped around the esophagus and supports
• 1:27:15
  advanced learning and memory. This unique setup helps make
• 1:27:19
  them some of the smartest invertebrates in the ocean.
• 1:27:25
  All right, so. Their brains wrapped around
• 1:27:27
  their esophagus. Yeah, that's fascinating.
• 1:27:30
  I think right. OK, you ready for the last one?
• 1:27:33
  Last one and then, then we gotta get the time to shine.
• 1:27:36
  Yeah, OK. Sorry if I'm.
• 1:27:37
  No, no, no. You're good.
• 1:27:39
  I, I, I'm going to be sorry that you, you're leaving because I
• 1:27:42
  I've had fun with this. OK, go ahead.
• 1:27:45
  OK so jellyfish are made of 95% A Jelly, B fat, C water or D
• 1:27:55
  protein. What do you think?
• 1:28:00
  Do you? Do you?
• 1:28:01
  Know, I know, it's not Jelly. Grape Jelly.
• 1:28:05
  I know it's not Jelly. I have you seen SpongeBob?
• 1:28:09
  A lot of Jelly comes out. True.
• 1:28:13
  Water feels like too obvious because they're they.
• 1:28:16
  Remember what I told you though, I'm not trying to trick anyone.
• 1:28:22
  Wait, I mean can Jelly? Like is there like a way for
• 1:28:26
  Jelly to occur just in nature if like without us?
• 1:28:31
  OK, so it so the one of the answers is Jelly, the other
• 1:28:37
  answer is water was what was some of the others.
• 1:28:40
  B is fat and D is protein. I'm going to say D protein.
• 1:28:46
  I was going to go with protein as well.
• 1:28:48
  You know what though? I'm changing my answer.
• 1:28:49
  I'm going to go with Jelly. I'm going to say they are
• 1:28:51
  filled. OK.
• 1:28:52
  All right. OK, it's water.
• 1:28:54
  Oh wow. That's why I was like, I'm not
• 1:28:56
  treat. OK yeah, water.
• 1:28:58
  It was the obvious 1. So jellies, so their technique,
• 1:29:02
  since they're not fish, we call them jellies, a butterfly
• 1:29:04
  pavilion. But they're made of 95% water
• 1:29:08
  and about four to 5% protein. So that's the rest of them.
• 1:29:13
  They're high liquid content combined with their lack of
• 1:29:16
  bones organs is what makes them so gelatinous and transparent.
• 1:29:20
  Wow. That's crazy.
• 1:29:25
  Yeah, I. Don't.
• 1:29:27
  Wow. I don't know why I didn't just
• 1:29:29
  go with water. That made the most sense.
• 1:29:31
  Well, cuz humans were. We're made of water.
• 1:29:33
  Yeah, we're water too. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:29:36
  Yeah, we are. And somebody asked me that
• 1:29:40
  question, like, what are humans made?
• 1:29:42
  I, I first thing I would say was bones, but yeah, I yeah, we're
• 1:29:46
  made of water. That's interesting.
• 1:29:48
  We're. The only thing separating us in
• 1:29:51
  jellyfish is the fact that we got bones.
• 1:29:53
  Yeah, that's true. We could easily be in the same
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  boat as them. Yeah, that's very true.
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  Well, you know, in some in some cultures, like people eat
• 1:30:03
  jellyfish and octopuses raw. Yeah.
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  I mean, that's so sick, but yeah.
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  Yeah, I mean, I think they at least put.
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  I've never, yeah, I've never had jellyfish.
• 1:30:17
  But I I When jellyfish touch you, it stings.
• 1:30:22
  You don't. Yeah.
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  I mean, it does just depend on the species.
• 1:30:26
  So we have upside down jellyfish.
• 1:30:29
  So basically like what you would consider this kind of body of
• 1:30:32
  it, it rests on the ocean floor and they like pump upwards and
• 1:30:38
  they, they don't have a very strong stinging like I, I have
• 1:30:41
  touched it and it kind of just itches your finger a little bit.
• 1:30:45
  Oh. What's your favorite type of
• 1:30:47
  jellyfish? I like the I like lion's mane
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  jellyfish. I'm not a jellyfish expert.
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  Or I'm getting ready to ask, like, how many jellyfish are
• 1:31:03
  there? I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm that kind
• 1:31:07
  of stupid when it comes to insects, I guess.
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  I didn't. I didn't know, I think.
• 1:31:12
  Butcher the name, but there's a bloody belly.
• 1:31:14
  Ocean Jelly, that's what. I I like them as well.
• 1:31:18
  Wow, that one sounds intense. What type of animal or
• 1:31:21
  jellyfish? Technically what species class
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  they fall into. We might have stumped her.
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  I'm bad with the, I'm good at the like common names.
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  Yeah, as soon as we, it's funny because like the scientists at
• 1:31:37
  my work will be like, oh, what is this?
• 1:31:39
  And they'll be, they'll say what sounds like gibberish and I'm
• 1:31:42
  like, OK, well, what's like the common name?
• 1:31:44
  And they'll be like, oh, it's an upside down Jelly.
• 1:31:49
  A lot of the scientific names like a lot of like Latin, right?
• 1:31:53
  Or or. They take a lot from like Latin
• 1:31:55
  words, don't they? Yeah.
• 1:31:58
  Yeah, pig Latin. I know Pig Latin.
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  All right. Well, I hate to end this
• 1:32:04
  segment, but she has to go to work.
• 1:32:07
  Somebody, somebody has to work around here.
• 1:32:09
  So it is that time. It is your time to shine.
• 1:32:12
  Yeah, I mean. So maybe it might not have asked
• 1:32:24
  you the right question and say you have the right answer.
• 1:32:27
  This is the time that you talk about whatever you would like to
• 1:32:31
  next. Two minutes is your time to
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  shine. Yeah.
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  I mean, I would encourage anyone to visit Butterfly Pavilion, our
• 1:32:39
  website isbutterflies.org. You can just come in on a
• 1:32:43
  regular day and kind of experience our animals.
• 1:32:46
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• 1:32:50
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• 1:32:58
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• 1:33:00
  So we have family yoga next week on August 12th.
• 1:33:04
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• 1:33:08
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• 1:33:11
  We have the sensory friendly afternoons every month.
• 1:33:15
  We have grandparents day in September and we have a family
• 1:33:18
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• 1:33:23
  I mean, if you're not visiting, I think like one take away from
• 1:33:26
  this is just to next time you step outside, just kind of take
• 1:33:31
  in the world around you and see like what you notice and try to
• 1:33:36
  find the coolness in bugs. I mean, a lot of them, they
• 1:33:40
  aren't going to hurt you and there's a lot we can learn from
• 1:33:44
  them. I mean, they're misunderstood.
• 1:33:46
  They're often under appreciated. They might not be fluffy and
• 1:33:52
  cuddly, but it's it's cool like to connect with nature.
• 1:33:56
  So that would kind of be my take away.
• 1:34:01
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• 1:34:05
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• 1:34:09
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• 1:34:13
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• 1:34:16
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• 1:34:19
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  Ladies and gentlemen, it is August 7th, 2026.
• 1:47:16
  Hannah Connor had to get back to work, but we're we're still
• 1:47:20
  here. Amber, we gave her the the day
• 1:47:25
  off so we won't be doing factor cap, but HG has some breaking
• 1:47:34
  news so HG hit it. All right, well, it's, it's
• 1:47:41
  nothing crazy, but our very own Miles the mascot has been
• 1:47:47
  inducted into the Mascot Hall of Fame.
• 1:47:52
  Wow. Let's go Miles, right?
• 1:47:57
  The Denver Broncos long time mascot became a staple of the
• 1:48:02
  franchise in 2001. Is inducted into a 2026 Mascot
• 1:48:10
  Hall of Fame class. Well.
• 1:48:15
  I got Thunder's applause, everybody.
• 1:48:18
  The different Nuggets mascot, Rocky.
• 1:48:22
  Rocky, you, you, you tell me that.
• 1:48:26
  Well, Rocky has to be in the Hall of Fame, right?
• 1:48:28
  I mean, for Miles to make it before Rocky.
• 1:48:32
  That, that, that has to be political.
• 1:48:35
  I don't know, Rocky might be a little younger than Miles too.
• 1:48:40
  So I don't know. If there's a threshold.
• 1:48:41
  There actually on the back computer.
• 1:48:44
  Check and see if it lists a name of like you know, the Hall of
• 1:48:50
  Fame Lake mascots. I I would be curious to see how
• 1:48:55
  many mascots is on that list. I didn't even know that they had
• 1:48:59
  a Hall of Fame mascot, did you? No, I'm just learning about this
• 1:49:04
  as well. OK.
• 1:49:06
  I'm going to the mascot Hall of Fame dot com so let's OK, yeah.
• 1:49:14
  So the BYU cougar, I forget his name, he's in the new class
• 1:49:20
  missus met. OK oh, the the Gamecock mascot
• 1:49:27
  for South Carolina. OK and then Minnesota's gold
• 1:49:31
  Gopher from the Golden Gophers. OK, so we're looking we want to
• 1:49:34
  see I'm on their website. Let's see where is.
• 1:49:39
  Yeah, I would like to see if Rocky made it before Miles
• 1:49:44
  because like for for those that aren't familiar with like Denver
• 1:49:49
  sports or Colorado sports, Rocky is he he's an amazing mascot for
• 1:49:56
  the Denver Nuggets. He does trick shots.
• 1:49:59
  He does like, you know, one handed basketball, like throws
• 1:50:04
  and makes it, you know, he he doesn't on a pretty consistent
• 1:50:09
  level when you go to the games. He's he's quite, he's quite
• 1:50:14
  entertaining, comical. Rocky Rocky Hat is in the Hall
• 1:50:18
  of Fame. He was the class of 2008.
• 1:50:21
  OK. He's been in there for a while.
• 1:50:24
  OK, OK, I was going to say because the the the original
• 1:50:28
  Rocky mascot from what I've been told and and you can confirm on
• 1:50:33
  the back computer, but Rocky the mascot like he he made like 110
• 1:50:42
  or $120,000 a year. Like he really got paid.
• 1:50:47
  He was really, really good. In fact, I think the new mascot
• 1:50:52
  that they got it, it took them months to replace him with
• 1:50:56
  another mascot. And you know, believe it or not,
• 1:50:59
  96% and I didn't know this, 90% of mascots are women.
• 1:51:06
  In fact, when a college and colleges, when the mascot
• 1:51:14
  graduates, they make a huge deal out of it because evidently
• 1:51:20
  people don't know that you're the mascot and, and 96% of it is
• 1:51:26
  women. Not, not, not all mascots are
• 1:51:29
  women, but a huge part of them. And I think the, I think the
• 1:51:33
  reason why is because, you know, women tend to be a little bit
• 1:51:40
  more lovable when it comes to kids and people compared to
• 1:51:46
  guys. And may I tell you what it is
• 1:51:50
  hot in that mascot suit. I, I was a, a tiger mascot when
• 1:51:55
  I was in high school. So I, I know a lot about the,
• 1:52:01
  you know, the mascot, the mascot rules kind of thing.
• 1:52:05
  You know, you know, you're never supposed to take your head off
• 1:52:10
  or I always took my head off for the national anthem.
• 1:52:13
  Probably shouldn't have, but I, I always did.
• 1:52:16
  And it was a lot of fun, man. It was a lot of fun until I
• 1:52:22
  think it was my senior year. It was it was like next to last
• 1:52:26
  game and I used to take my school flag and like run it up
• 1:52:32
  and down, you know, kind of like Purdue Pete mascot and who.
• 1:52:37
  Is in the Hall of Fame by the. Way and I, I ran into one of the
• 1:52:42
  basketball players that that was that was kind of embarrassing.
• 1:52:45
  But yeah, it was, it was embarrassing, dude.
• 1:52:48
  I'm so this is shocking. Apparently Toro made it before
• 1:52:54
  Miles. Who do you think Toro's the
• 1:52:56
  mascot for? Anybody.
• 1:52:58
  Anybody know Toro? Toro.
• 1:53:02
  Bring it on, movie. Bring it on.
• 1:53:05
  No, no, he's a mascot. But what for what team?
• 1:53:09
  He's a bull. Well, what, what what team?
• 1:53:13
  What What? What team has a Toro as a
• 1:53:17
  mascot? The Houston Texans.
• 1:53:20
  The Houston Texans. He made it before Miles.
• 1:53:23
  That seems crazy to me because I feel like Miles is more well
• 1:53:27
  known. Right, right, or in terms.
• 1:53:29
  Of football mascots at least. Like, like maybe it's just bias
• 1:53:34
  because I'm a Broncos fan, but I mean, what are like, who are
• 1:53:37
  some of the great football mascots?
• 1:53:39
  I mean, one that makes sense. We have Blue from the Colts.
• 1:53:42
  Oh yeah. Blue's iconic.
• 1:53:44
  Oh, yeah. So it makes sense that Blue's in
• 1:53:46
  here. Let's see, who else do we have?
• 1:53:51
  Jackson Deville, the Jags mascot.
• 1:53:54
  He's pretty funny. He he's pretty recognizable, so
• 1:53:59
  that one's not too crazy. I know the Raiders got a new
• 1:54:03
  mascot. Like, what was it 2, three years
• 1:54:06
  ago? It's like a little.
• 1:54:07
  The the Kansas City Wolf, the KC Wolf.
• 1:54:10
  He's been in the Hall of Fame since 2000 and. 6 Kansas City
• 1:54:16
  and that Kansas City Chiefs. Yeah, the Kansas City Chiefs
• 1:54:19
  mascot has been in the Hall of Fame.
• 1:54:20
  Oh yeah, that is right. He is a wolf, isn't he?
• 1:54:23
  Yeah, OK. Blitz from the Seahawks.
• 1:54:28
  Yeah. I don't know if people know
• 1:54:29
  Blitz. I wouldn't, I guess.
• 1:54:32
  Yeah, that could. That kind of makes sense.
• 1:54:34
  Yeah. But they have Toro, the KC Wolf.
• 1:54:39
  I didn't think people knew the KC Wolf like that, but I guess I
• 1:54:44
  guess they do. I thought cheese I.
• 1:54:46
  Oh, you never guessed. What?
• 1:54:47
  South I I I I didn't even think he was a wolf.
• 1:54:50
  I, I I thought he was Chuck E Cheese to be honest with you.
• 1:54:53
  What do you think South Carolina's mascot's name is?
• 1:54:58
  Take a guess. Heel.
• 1:55:00
  No. Oh.
• 1:55:01
  South. Carolina, South Carolina not.
• 1:55:03
  You're thinking the Tar Heels, South Carolina.
• 1:55:05
  I don't know. It's cocky.
• 1:55:12
  Is that the Gamecock? It's cocky, Yeah.
• 1:55:17
  Is it? Is it like a rooster?
• 1:55:19
  Yeah, it looks. Like a rooster.
• 1:55:23
  All right, it's that time everybody in C Final thoughts.
• 1:55:27
  Oh, hold on, I got to Scroll down.
• 1:55:32
  Look at that mascot. All right, Final thoughts.
• 1:55:42
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• 1:56:03
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• 1:56:38
  And yeah, well, Anaconda isn't here to tell us what she
• 1:56:47
  learned. Probably her biggest thing was
• 1:56:50
  she learned that, you know, this was Internet radio, and it
• 1:56:53
  wasn't like the decimal radio. What did you learn today HG?
• 1:56:59
  Oh man, a lot, a lot of stuff. I I think the biggest thing this
• 1:57:06
  just blew my mind that like most cephalopods that their brain
• 1:57:09
  wraps around their esophagus. That was crazy.
• 1:57:14
  Just a lot about insects and then vertebrates in general.
• 1:57:18
  Hannah was just a wealth of knowledge.
• 1:57:19
  So that was really cool just talking about that.
• 1:57:22
  And also I just think that the made me realize just that or
• 1:57:29
  reinforce the healing power of nature, right.
• 1:57:32
  And like, yeah, if you especially for like our vets and
• 1:57:35
  I'd be struggling with PTSD, like getting involved with, does
• 1:57:39
  you're volunteering for a zoo or, or anything like this, like
• 1:57:43
  an animal rescue, just something that like connecting with nature
• 1:57:48
  can be really, really healing. Yeah.
• 1:57:51
  You know, the biggest thing I learned today was insects have
• 1:57:55
  personalities. Like, I, I mean, you think
• 1:57:58
  that's common knowledge, but like, I, I, you know, before I
• 1:58:02
  stomp on a spider, you know, I'm, I'm going to think twice
• 1:58:05
  now, you know, because they have personalities so, well,
• 1:58:09
  everybody, it is that time before we go.
• 1:58:12
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• 1:58:23
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