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Truly Significant celebrates Christa Sauers co-owner of 1906, Holocamp Airbnb in Comfort, Texas · GO TEXAN THE Truly Significant

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  Speaker 1: And welcome back to Truly Significant Presents. I'm Rick Tocchini.
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  Speaker 1: We are celebrating....
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  Speaker 2: Texas Wine Month with our owner of the Harlem Camp
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  Speaker 2: Guest House in Comfort, Texas, and it's Krista Sowers. Krista,
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  Speaker 2: welcome to our show.
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  Speaker 3: Well, hello. Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Nice to have you. I can't believe you have a
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  Speaker 2: fire going in the background, which means that somebody is
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  Speaker 2: having a crisp morning in the Hill Country.
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  Speaker 3: It's so exciting. It's really great.
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  Speaker 4: It actually sets the tone for October well, and now
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  Speaker 4: we can be excited for everything else, including sitting outside.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. Tell us your backstory and how you got into
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  Speaker 2: the hospitality industry.
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  Speaker 4: By accident, by actually enjoying wine, which is since it's
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  Speaker 4: wine month, we'll talk about that. My husband and I
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  Speaker 4: live in San Antonio, and we've been coming to Comfort
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, about five or six years now.
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  Speaker 3: Um, and it's become such a magical place for us.
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  Speaker 4: And we would often stay at this house, um, after
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  Speaker 4: maybe sampling a few too many wines in this area, um,
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  Speaker 4: and fell in love with the house and the town. And, uh,
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  Speaker 4: there was an opportunity to purchase the house and I
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  Speaker 4: don't know, it just happened. And now we're the owners
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  Speaker 4: of this beautiful house and the keepers of it, uh,
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  Speaker 4: So we've been having a really good time and enjoying it.
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  Speaker 4: And we've actually, it has been called the Holocomp House
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  Speaker 4: prior to us owning it. And now we are calling
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  Speaker 4: it the 1906 House, spelled in the H-A-U-S German tradition.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I love that. 1906 House. You know how many people, Krista,
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  Speaker 2: go out as couples to places like yours and they go,
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  Speaker 2: could we own a place like this? And they have
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  Speaker 2: this dream or some people call it wild dream. And
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  Speaker 2: when you encounter people like that, what advice do you
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  Speaker 2: give them in terms of what should they be thinking
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  Speaker 2: through as they get into the hospitality and leisure industry?
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  Speaker 4: Make sure you do it when you're not drinking wine. No,
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  Speaker 4: I'm kidding. You know, if it's a place you're passionate about,
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  Speaker 4: like for us, it's super easy.
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  Speaker 3: We love comfort.
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  Speaker 4: When we come here, I don't know if you're familiar
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  Speaker 4: with the movie Brigadoon that takes place in the Scottish Highlands.
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  Speaker 4: My husband and I call comfort our brigadoon. We come
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  Speaker 4: here and it's magical. It's like it's a throwback and
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  Speaker 4: it's just you instantly your blood pressure goes down. So
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  Speaker 4: I feel like if you're very passionate about a place,
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  Speaker 4: the rest is easy. You do everything you can to
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  Speaker 4: keep the momentum going and make it successful. If you're
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  Speaker 4: not real into the place or you kind of like it,
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  Speaker 4: only part of the year or, you know, but if
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  Speaker 4: you fall in love with a place, everything's easy.
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  Speaker 3: It comes naturally.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. There's so many things that have come together
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  Speaker 2: in Comfort and Fredericksburg over the years that People don't
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  Speaker 2: realize when they go out there to visit and you
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  Speaker 2: probably just hit it on the head about your blood
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  Speaker 2: pressure actually goes down. It does. You can leave the
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  Speaker 2: city of Austin and San Antonio and get into the
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  Speaker 2: hill country and something happens to you physically.
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  Speaker 3: That's 100% true.
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  Speaker 4: And people keep saying, are you going to retire there?
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  Speaker 3: Well, maybe.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It wouldn't be such a terrible place. It's wonderful.
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  Speaker 4: You can walk everywhere. It's so friendly. It's got such
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  Speaker 4: a rich history and the topography is gorgeous. You have
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  Speaker 4: everything you need and then some, but you don't need
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  Speaker 4: very much when you're out here.
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  Speaker 3: So it's kind of nice.
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  Speaker 2: It's really nice. And for as big as San Antonio
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  Speaker 2: and Austin are now, people here in their fast lives
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  Speaker 2: need an escape. So how do they find out about
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  Speaker 2: what's the website that they go to, to book a
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  Speaker 2: room two or three nights at your place? Because one
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  Speaker 2: night's not enough.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I agree.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, I think when you get here, you need that,
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  Speaker 4: that 24 hours just to decompress and then you can
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  Speaker 4: go on your adventure.
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  Speaker 3: So you need at least two nights.
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  Speaker 4: I could stay a week and still not do everything
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  Speaker 4: because you do get very relaxed. Um, And that's how
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  Speaker 4: it should be. But you can find us on Airbnb
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  Speaker 4: at the moment. And we plan to do fun events
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  Speaker 4: in the future as well. I'm a classically trained chef
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  Speaker 4: and my husband's a pilot. So he can't do much
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  Speaker 4: of the piloting stuff here, but he can definitely talk
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  Speaker 4: to about the wine country. But we hope to do
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  Speaker 4: fun events and collaborations in the future here on the property.
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  Speaker 4: But we definitely have three beautiful cabins that are surrounding
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  Speaker 4: the pool and the hot tub. So you can relax
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  Speaker 4: in the pool and hot tub. You can stay in
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  Speaker 4: one of the cabins. You can stay and rent the
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  Speaker 4: whole house or the whole property and have a big
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  Speaker 4: reunion as many people do. Most of the people that
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  Speaker 4: come here come from all over the world.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, we've had.
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  Speaker 4: People from Holland, the East Coast, the West Coast, and
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  Speaker 4: they invite their cousins and people they haven't seen in
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  Speaker 4: a while. And they just have a really good time.
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  Speaker 4: And there's enough in town to do for people of
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  Speaker 4: all ages. So everyone can do their things at their leisure.
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  Speaker 4: And reconvene back at the house and have a big
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  Speaker 4: dinner or barbecue or go to one of the many
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  Speaker 4: restaurants or I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a really, really cool thing.
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  Speaker 2: You married a pilot. The pilot married a professional chef. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: my gosh. What more do you people want to hear
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  Speaker 2: other than that? Are you present most of the time
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  Speaker 2: when your guests are there? It varies.
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  Speaker 3: It depends.
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  Speaker 4: For example, we have people coming this weekend, and I'll
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  Speaker 4: be here. And I usually stay wherever there's room. If
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  Speaker 4: someone's renting the main house, I have a cabin that
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  Speaker 4: our family stays in in the back that we don't
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  Speaker 4: rent out, that we can run the business from.
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  Speaker 3: But most of the time I do, I try and
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  Speaker 3: be here.
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  Speaker 4: I can't always be here because if someone rents the
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  Speaker 4: whole property, at least try and greet them and make
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  Speaker 4: sure they're welcome and they know where everything is.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's kind of fun.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot of fun. The guests that are coming
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  Speaker 2: up for this weekend for the Texas Wine Country, one
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  Speaker 2: will be the keyboard player for the Truly Significant Band,
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  Speaker 2: who happened to be a pilot in the Air Force. Oh, really?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And so I hope that your husband is there at
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  Speaker 2: least part of the time to share notes. But what
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  Speaker 2: people don't understand when you stay at a place like
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  Speaker 2: your place, 1906, right?
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  Speaker 3: That's what it's called.
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  Speaker 2: Is that there's a conversation that takes place between you
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  Speaker 2: and the other guest over breakfast and the camaraderie there.
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  Speaker 2: That's part of the escape element from the busyness of
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  Speaker 2: life is the the texture of the conversations are so rich,
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  Speaker 2: much less getting to maybe have food from a professional chef.
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  Speaker 4: Well, hopefully that'll be the case someday. Right now, I
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  Speaker 4: do events for people or friends. Right now, it's Airbnb,
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  Speaker 4: so the breakfast isn't included yet, but maybe in the future.
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  Speaker 3: But it is, the.
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  Speaker 4: Conversations, I mean, if we have guest date in one
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  Speaker 4: of the cabins and another guest date in others, they
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  Speaker 4: can meet by the pool, they can throw food on
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  Speaker 4: the grill together and talk and connect and They're probably
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  Speaker 4: here for the same reasons, either to hear great music
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  Speaker 4: or have good wine or go on adventures.
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  Speaker 3: So it's kind of cool.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. And speaking of wine, you're going to be back
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  Speaker 2: on our live podcast on Saturday from Newsome's Vineyard. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me about how you got to know Nolan Newsome
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  Speaker 2: and all the good people there.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just getting to know Noel and he's a very
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  Speaker 4: nice guy. And we like to support everyone in our
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  Speaker 4: small community. And he's integral part of our wine community.
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  Speaker 4: He grows some amazing grapes that, you know, a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people don't know about until they get to comfort.
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  Speaker 4: I think we have the best wines over here, even
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  Speaker 4: compared to Fredericksburg. I hate to say it, but we
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  Speaker 4: have award-winning wines over here. And once people find them out,
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  Speaker 4: You know, they go, oh, yeah, this is good stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And they start coming here more than they go to Fredericksburg.
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  Speaker 3: That's true.
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  Speaker 4: But we're really happy for people like Nolan in our community.
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  Speaker 4: He is, like I said, very integral to the whole.
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  Speaker 4: All of the vineyards use his grapes.
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  Speaker 3: So he's very important to that community and to us.
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  Speaker 2: He is. But when you combine what you and your
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  Speaker 2: husband are doing with 1906 and Nolan.
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  Speaker 2: At Newsome Vineyards and all the other things going on
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  Speaker 2: there is a certain synergy and chemistry that is really
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  Speaker 2: magical about comfort and we're looking forward to celebrating out
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  Speaker 2: there on Saturday the 24th everybody come out and enjoy
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  Speaker 2: it and you can meet Krista there how long will
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  Speaker 2: you be there on Saturday a couple hours maybe.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'll be in town. I'll be staying the night.
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  Speaker 3: So I'll be hanging out.
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  Speaker 4: Now that the weather's like fire weather, I will be
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  Speaker 4: hanging out in comfort a lot more. And I'll be
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  Speaker 4: joining you guys and, you know, hanging out at the
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  Speaker 4: vineyards as well.
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  Speaker 3: So I hope you can buy the house and check
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  Speaker 3: it out.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. And give out your website one more time, and
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  Speaker 2: then we'll look forward to seeing you on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: We're the 1906 House. We're on Airbnb.
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  Speaker 4: You can find us on the 1906 Estate, the 1906 House,
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  Speaker 4: and each cabin is listed individually, but they're all under
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  Speaker 4: the 1906 House.
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  Speaker 3: So you'll find us there.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic. Well, we look forward to seeing you out there,
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  Speaker 2: and thank you again for being a part of the
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  Speaker 2: Texas podcast. wine month celebration and for being such a
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  Speaker 2: gracious host of part of the truly significant band. And
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  Speaker 2: we're going to look forward to talking to you again
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday. And if your husband is there too, we
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  Speaker 2: want to spend a few minutes with him talking about
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  Speaker 2: flying because that's one of the, what we call side
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  Speaker 2: quests that we're focusing on how people just kind of
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  Speaker 2: lose themselves when they're flying. And you're in the zone.
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  Speaker 3: He does do that.
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  Speaker 4: He flies for Southwest. So he's, you know, his schedule's
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  Speaker 4: revolving door, but hopefully he'll be here Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see. Oh, fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much for joining us. You're such
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  Speaker 2: a wonderful host. The travel and leisure industry is lucky
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  Speaker 2: to have you. And their place is a Christmas place
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  Speaker 2: called 1906. Is there a telephone number you want to
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  Speaker 2: give out with that as well? No.
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  Speaker 4: I am working on that at the moment currently, but
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  Speaker 4: they can certainly go on Airbnb and find us and
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  Speaker 4: we'll have a website up soon too. Oh, also we're
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  Speaker 4: on Instagram. We have an Instagram and a Facebook account.
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  Speaker 4: You can definitely find us there.
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  Speaker 2: You are advanced in social media. Way to go.
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  Speaker 1: Trying.
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  Speaker 2: Well, folks, join us out there on Saturday at Newsome
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  Speaker 2: Vineyards and make sure and write to Krista's organization at
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  Speaker 2: 1906 and Book one of those beautiful cabins and even
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  Speaker 2: consider past Texas wine country. I'm telling you, when you
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  Speaker 2: leave Austin or San Antonio, you're going to go into
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  Speaker 2: a relaxation zone. Take advantage of it, people. Life's too short.
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  Speaker 2: Hope you all have a great week. And thanks again, Krista,
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  Speaker 2: for joining us.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Have a wonderful day. We'll see you Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Be well.
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  Speaker 3: Take care.
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: Big hearted Texans found across our state. Right is how
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  Speaker 1: we're looking. Risk it is on our plate. Boots, it's
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  Speaker 1: what we're wearing. Horses, yeah, we may ride. Farming is
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  Speaker 1: so rewarding.