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#30 | Ryan · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Alright, y'all, I'm here with Ryan.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just gonna do a uh quick interview with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Say hi, we'll say what's up, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alright, so I offered Ryan six bucks to do an interview with me, so we're gonna do one together.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alright, what's your so what's your name, man?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where you from?
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm from Corpus Christi.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um my name's Ryan.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh I'm homeless.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tell him what you do, man.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're selling I make some crosses and roses.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, where are you at?
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  SPEAKER_01: Which corner which intersection?
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm on right now.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm on uh Staples and Morgan.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cool, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: So how long how long?
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  SPEAKER_00: So how long have you been doing this type of stuff?
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  SPEAKER_01: Since I was 18 years old.
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  SPEAKER_01: Alright, alright.
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  SPEAKER_00: How old are you now?
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna be 30.
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  SPEAKER_01: In August.
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  SPEAKER_01: Alright, alright, okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: So to me, this is a job to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cool, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alright, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So so how do you so what do you stay at?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, or what do you what do you sleep at?
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  SPEAKER_01: Or um it depends on how much I make.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like I could pay somebody to stay somewhere, or um I'll sleep under the underpass.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right on, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: So like there how what like the hot season, I guess you don't need really need a blanket because it's it's hot out there.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, look at my face.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I mean I look I'm white.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm white, but it's I look like Mexican you look you look young, bro.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like you you really look young, and when I see you out here, I'm like, man, that guy's young, he's hustling out here, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I try my hardest out here, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I and it makes me wonder sometimes, like, like why you guys out here?
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, why you guys by my choice.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cool, by my choice, honestly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cool, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ryan, all right, bro.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you're from Corpus.
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  SPEAKER_01: Which school did you go in any schools out here?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I actually graduated, I was in uh child protection service, but I graduated from uh New Broncos.
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  SPEAKER_01: So okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh South Pace with a diploma four years early.
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  SPEAKER_01: Damn, bro.
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  SPEAKER_01: So have you been like so I was going to college and they they messed me up.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, alright.
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  SPEAKER_01: So uh from that it's about my choice to be out here right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, for real, for real.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some people's their choice, and I've been hearing like some people are like uh like mental, they have mental problems like out here.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I know you talk with a lot of people, you know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_01: I I talk with a lot of everybody, yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I used to be very shy, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: But when I first started, the original Rose Man, we were it was Christmas, and this guy comes goes by us, gives us a hundred dollars a piece.
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  SPEAKER_01: So from that, ever since then, this was my hustle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dude, that's what's up, bro.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's pretty cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: I like I like to see when people do that instead of just asking for money, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm not begging, I'm not robbing nobody, I'm not you know, killing nobody for any money.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I mean I'm trying, I really am.
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  SPEAKER_00: So is is it difficult for you to like do to do your hustle, even though like people out here?
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  SPEAKER_00: So okay, okay, okay, okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what about with other people that are homeless?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, is it we fight for our corners?
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, all right.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm honestly, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, I mean, I I used to have the one on Crosstown, and they my palms will be there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hey, are you almost done?
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  SPEAKER_01: Or they'll come up on me and I'll be like, hey, you can't do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's out of respect.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's crazy, bro.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, damn.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you got that to deal with, and then you got the police to and then I gotta climb palm trees, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: About as tall as that pole.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I get cut up to get your palms.
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  SPEAKER_01: I I go through rats, I go through roaches, I go through spiders, everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, so do you sell?
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, do you sell pretty good or what?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh sometimes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, alright, alright.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I don't my c my palms, when I climb them, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't need no spikes, yeah, no rope, no ladder.
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  SPEAKER_01: I climb them with my hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's crazy, bro.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alright, so so so you gotta you got the police to deal with, also, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so they hassle you.
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  SPEAKER_01: They they they they they go with you.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, man.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, trespassing, so listening without a permanent.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it it's ridiculous though.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, man.
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  SPEAKER_01: But hey, that it's only one cop that does that to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay, okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: The other cops, they give me thumbs up.
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  SPEAKER_01: Alright, so so it's the same cops that work this this area.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's only one cop.
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  SPEAKER_01: He he told me he arrested me 57 times already.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's arrest me.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a lot, dude.
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  SPEAKER_00: Holy crap.
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  SPEAKER_01: On the same thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so people know you, so people know you in the county.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everybody knows you, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everybody knows me in this area, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the area, okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you go like over there to the south side or something, you you're in different territory.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is my this is my spot.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alright, cool.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like people tell me to go elsewhere, yeah, but I don't.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because I got my regulars that got me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean, everybody knows me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, are there certain days like that you make that you make good money or like okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh like Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: I figure like Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fridays.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Saturdays, Sundays is my worst days, actually.
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  SPEAKER_01: Are you serious?
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  SPEAKER_01: Wow, that's crazy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh Palm Sunday, uh-huh.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh during lit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Is my best day.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's so cute.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then like uh um on like uh like 4th of July, okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Say 4th of July.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'll put red, white, and blue on my crosses.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nice, like they're artificial, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what about like on Christmas?
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  SPEAKER_00: Christmas.
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  SPEAKER_00: Christmas, uh green and red.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what do you do for like when it's cold out here?
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  SPEAKER_00: It gets cold sometimes.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's whatever you can.
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  SPEAKER_01: Whenever it froze that one time, I froze.
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  SPEAKER_01: Damn for real.
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  SPEAKER_01: My hands, I mean, I my hands are still numb.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, man.
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  SPEAKER_01: From when it froze the last time.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's cool, bro.
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  SPEAKER_01: Damn, bro.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I appreciate the time, man.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I appreciate y'all too.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, anything you want to say?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um come buy my crosses and roses.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or uh staples and morgan.
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  SPEAKER_01: Staples and Morgan, alright.
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  SPEAKER_01: Three bucks, two for five.
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  SPEAKER_01: Two bucks, two for five.
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  SPEAKER_01: Alright.
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  SPEAKER_01: Alright, thank y'all.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cool, man.
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  SPEAKER_01: Appreciate you, man.