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The Four Fs on 4th of July · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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  Speaker 1: with on our radio.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the almost Famous podcast.
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  Speaker 3: It's been here and I want to wish you a very,
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  Speaker 3: very happy Fourth of July. This week two hundred and
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  Speaker 3: fifty years goodness gracious, two hundred and fifty more coming
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  Speaker 3: our way. I would imagine, Heather, this is a big
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  Speaker 3: celebration the Midwest.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 4: Tell me about it. I know this is one of
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  Speaker 4: your favorite times of year, right, That's so good.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody comes back home, We get on the lakes. I
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  Speaker 3: take the week off. It's the only week of the
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  Speaker 3: year that I take off from everything. Like everything I
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  Speaker 3: do starting January, I will never book anything for the
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  Speaker 3: Fourth of July.
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  Speaker 2: It is free for me. And we get on the lake.
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  Speaker 2: We hang out.
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  Speaker 3: It is a good reset for me from jumping from
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  Speaker 3: thing to thing. And then we have the parades in Indiana.
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  Speaker 3: We have the fair in Indiana, tons of fireworks in Indiana.
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  Speaker 2: We do it big.
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  Speaker 4: Is there a specific kind of food Indiana people eat
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  Speaker 4: on Fourth of July?
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  Speaker 2: You anything fried?
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  Speaker 5: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: So our Indiana is known for something that really the
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  Speaker 3: country doesn't know much about. And I didn't know this
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  Speaker 3: until I moved away. So obviously we do our like
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  Speaker 3: we're like normal people. So we do our potato salads
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  Speaker 3: and our mac and cheeses, and our hot dogs and
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  Speaker 3: our burgers.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, do it up like that.
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  Speaker 3: But one of the things that is a secret gift
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  Speaker 3: to Indiana and I believe Iowa is a pork breaded
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  Speaker 3: pork tinderlin. So it's a pork tinder loin smashed out,
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  Speaker 3: breaded and then put on a sandwich. It's actually a
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  Speaker 3: Japanese dish, but we've turned it into just a sandwich
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  Speaker 3: as we like to do, and it is so good.
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  Speaker 4: What's it called when you order it?
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  Speaker 2: A breaded pork tinderlin? Oh you're gonna.
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  Speaker 4: Say that like some cutesy name, like it's a piggly
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  Speaker 4: wiggly or something.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, Anybody listening who has driven through the
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  Speaker 3: Midwest and has ordered one will go, yeah, that's a
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  Speaker 3: good that's good. Uh, And they'll know exactly what I'm
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  Speaker 3: talking about.
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  Speaker 4: I've been through the Midwest for work before. What are
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  Speaker 4: those things that you guys have that are on the menu.
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  Speaker 4: They're fried and they're uh little and hush puppies not
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  Speaker 4: hush puppies. The other things, not fritters. They're what's they
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  Speaker 4: come people eat them with gravy. I think biscuits, not biscuits.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, this is gonna drive me nuts. It's
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  Speaker 4: like it's not like cottage cheese, but it's kind of
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  Speaker 4: like cottage cheese.
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  Speaker 2: Cheese curds.
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  Speaker 4: Cheese curds.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's a Wisconsin thing. You go to Indiana
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  Speaker 3: and you know, it's not uncommon for your vegetables at
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  Speaker 3: a meal to be like mashed potatoes and corn.
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  Speaker 2: That's like what your your vegetables.
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  Speaker 3: And if you go to dinner, like your vegetable would
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  Speaker 3: be like a fried okra, fried pickles, fried mushrooms.
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  Speaker 5: Good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Winnie, this Fourth of July will probably be more animated,
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  Speaker 4: I'm assuming than last year. What are you hoping to
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  Speaker 4: do with Winnie on this break?
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  Speaker 3: Animated is a good word. She's she's definitely animated right now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: she does. She doesn't stop. And so a few things
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  Speaker 3: that are on my goal list. One, my parents have
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  Speaker 3: a wonderful pontoon and Winnie currently loves to sit in
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  Speaker 3: the driver's seat of my truck and like act like
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  Speaker 3: she's driving.
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  Speaker 2: M hm.
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  Speaker 3: So I can't wait for her to actually like sit
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  Speaker 3: behind the wheel the pontoon and drive uh and just
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  Speaker 3: twirl around the lake with her doing that, I can't
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  Speaker 3: it just it's gonna bring me a ton of joy.
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  Speaker 3: She also is old enough now where she likes water
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  Speaker 3: doesn't freak her out. And so there's some really cool
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  Speaker 3: like sandbars that are shallow and she can flop around
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  Speaker 3: in those and splash water and run. The town that
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  Speaker 3: I grew up in built this beautiful splash pad for kids.
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  Speaker 3: Last year, she's a little young, like when water sprayed
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  Speaker 3: up it kind of scared her, and so this year,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it's gonna.
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  Speaker 2: Scare at all.
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  Speaker 3: Also, it's like we're getting close, we're not quite there,
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  Speaker 3: Like she's not we're not doing sugar, so like no candy.
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  Speaker 3: But the she she's in the truck.
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  Speaker 2: Stage of childhood.
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  Speaker 3: She loves trucks, points out every truck that comes by.
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  Speaker 3: So the the parade will be a blast. And then
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  Speaker 3: alongside of that the fair is going on, so she's
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  Speaker 3: going to get to see all of her babas, which
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  Speaker 3: is animals.
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  Speaker 2: That's what she calls her dog is a boba. It's brother,
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  Speaker 2: but that's also means cow. Horse, pig, rabbit. So she's
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  Speaker 2: going to see a ton of babas.
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  Speaker 5: I love that.
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  Speaker 4: And then fireworks obviously is not going to be exciting
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  Speaker 4: for her, a little scary.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know yet, you know, I think exciting fireworks
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  Speaker 3: are so weird as a As an adult, I love them,
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  Speaker 3: But I think as a kid, I think the first
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  Speaker 3: time you actually understand what's going on, it could be
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  Speaker 3: a little scary.
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  Speaker 4: Do you do the headphones thing with her to like
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  Speaker 4: muffle the noise.
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  Speaker 3: We'll probably put her inside and let her look out
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  Speaker 3: the window at him. Mm hmm, but yeah, we'll do
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  Speaker 3: the headphone thing. The benefit is so many of my
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  Speaker 3: friends back home have kids around when he's age that
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  Speaker 3: I have a feeling like they'll just be all watching
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  Speaker 3: together and yeah, like you know, there's a power in community,
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  Speaker 3: and so they can all just be confused at what's
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  Speaker 3: happening and you know, maybe have a little more fun
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  Speaker 3: at it.
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  Speaker 4: The real question is Whylan, how does he do?
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  Speaker 2: Because doesn't This.
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  Speaker 4: Will be Percy's first fourth of July. He was actually
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  Speaker 4: born on like July fifth last year, so I'm kind
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  Speaker 4: of nervous as to how he's going to deal with that.
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  Speaker 3: For as wild as my dog is, and for as
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  Speaker 3: you know, much as things bother him, like cars driving by,
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  Speaker 3: fireworks have ever messed with him. He just kind of
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  Speaker 3: like chills. He'll nap during It's weird. I don't get it.
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  Speaker 3: But he also has been going back. That's one thing
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  Speaker 3: that's always fun. He's gone back every year since he's
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  Speaker 3: been born, to Indiana and from Colorado to get to
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  Speaker 3: the water. Like he he'll get out of that truck
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  Speaker 3: and sprint to the lake to swim.
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  Speaker 2: He loves it. It's great.
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  Speaker 3: So everybody's starting the process of getting very excited for
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  Speaker 3: the weeks ahead.
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  Speaker 2: And I couldn't be more excited for it.
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  Speaker 5: I love it.
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  Speaker 4: And then I can't remember if we talked about this.
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  Speaker 4: Do you do a reading gol. Do you do a
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  Speaker 4: lot of reading on this week off that you take.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I like to read.
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  Speaker 3: I'll bring one book. If I can get through one book,
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  Speaker 3: I'll be happy. I'm not a speed reader. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: a very fast reader.
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  Speaker 4: Me neither.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's you know, a lot of this trip
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  Speaker 3: is going to be reading while when he's now, because
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  Speaker 3: so much of it is when she's awake. I want
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  Speaker 3: to experience this year with her in the most possible
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  Speaker 3: like way. So I want to soak it in. But
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  Speaker 3: I'll bring one book and get it read lash Well, no,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to give myself credit. Two years ago I
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  Speaker 3: read THEO of Golden over the Fourth and then all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden, The THEO of Golden made the New
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  Speaker 3: York Times bestseller this year. I've always said to Jess,
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  Speaker 3: that's one thing I can say. I was trendy on
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  Speaker 3: I was before everybody else when it came to how
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  Speaker 3: good the THEO of Golden is. So I need to
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  Speaker 3: find like that perfect like joy filled, rest filled read
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  Speaker 3: that's probably fiction and maybe like a Western theme. I
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  Speaker 3: think there's a book out right now called The Horse.
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  Speaker 3: I think I might go into.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, but I can't forget like you drive to Indiana, right,
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  Speaker 4: So I mean, don't knock an audio book either.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going the whole time. Yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 4: He got one finished in forty eight hours last week.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, whoa it was because I was in
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  Speaker 4: the car for once.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's exactly. The audiobook is my go to
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  Speaker 3: because I walk so much in my neighborhood. Yes, that's
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  Speaker 3: all right, A big audiobook fan Wells got me into it.
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  Speaker 3: Wells Adams got me into it.
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  Speaker 2: He made it.
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  Speaker 3: He I think, Wells has I don't want to like
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  Speaker 3: put this on him if he doesn't, but like dyslexia
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  Speaker 3: and so he has a hard time like sitting down
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  Speaker 3: and reading, but he loves books. And so he was like, no,
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  Speaker 3: listening to a book is not reading a book, but
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  Speaker 3: it is you can say that you've read it once
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  Speaker 3: it's done because you can like talk to people about it.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, yeah, you're right. So I have
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  Speaker 3: a little I have a lot of like pride and
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  Speaker 3: listening to audio books. I can get through them so
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  Speaker 3: much faster, obviously, so much faster.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, and it's great when you find an I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I'm at the point now where I've listened to so
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  Speaker 4: many that it's like, if the production value is low
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  Speaker 4: on the audio book, I'm not finding it as enjoyable
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  Speaker 4: as the ones that hire different actors to do different
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  Speaker 4: voices and do sound effects, Like those are the ones
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  Speaker 4: that do it really really good.
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  Speaker 3: There's one out there right now. Neil Patrick Harris narrated
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  Speaker 3: called How to Murder Your Employer.
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  Speaker 2: It's awesome to listen to.
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  Speaker 5: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry, Heather. It didn't give me. It didn't give
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  Speaker 2: me ideas, but it's so good.
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  Speaker 5: I love it well.
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  Speaker 4: I love all these Fourth of July plans for you.
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  Speaker 4: Have a wonderful week off, Ben. You deserve it, Hey,
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  Speaker 4: thank you so much, Heather. Happy fourth everybody, everybody.
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  Speaker 6: It's Bob getting here from almost Famous, the Ogs and
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  Speaker 6: a little bit famous and Fourth of.
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  Speaker 5: July right around the corner.
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  Speaker 6: Happy Birthday America man, two hundred and fifty.
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  Speaker 5: This is a big one.
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  Speaker 6: But I will tell you, growing up, I would always
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  Speaker 6: go to my lake house with my whole family, and
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  Speaker 6: my parents bought this place when I was three years old,
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  Speaker 6: and it is just my happy place and I love it.
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  Speaker 5: But the big old fireworks, the whole bit.
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  Speaker 6: And now you know, now that I have my own family,
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  Speaker 6: of course we build on that tradition.
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  Speaker 5: We go every year somewhere around the.
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  Speaker 6: Fourth of July holiday, but we've also started doing some
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  Speaker 6: things on our own on the fourth as well, you know.
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  Speaker 6: And for me, the fourth is all about family and
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  Speaker 6: friends and fireworks, the three f's there you go, and food,
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  Speaker 6: the four fs. So man, I just I love I
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  Speaker 6: love that holiday so much. I'll always have the best time.
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  Speaker 6: I got all the red, white and blue outfits going,
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  Speaker 6: and and my boys love to make some noise, both
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  Speaker 6: with the fireworks and just going absolutely bonkers celebrating the
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  Speaker 6: Fourth of July holiday.
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  Speaker 5: So this year, well, actually last year, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 6: Last year we started the tradition too where we watched
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  Speaker 6: the Joey Chestnut hot dog eating Contest, which has also
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  Speaker 6: been a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 5: And I swear to you, I think I could actually compete.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not gonna lie, but if I didn't to do
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  Speaker 6: the buns, I think it'd be totally good to go
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  Speaker 6: and buy buns. I mean the hot dog buns. I know,
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  Speaker 6: kind of girls, but whatever, but you know, they soak
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  Speaker 6: them and they eat them. But I'm a mustard guy.
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  Speaker 5: No ketchup needed.
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  Speaker 6: So this year we'll be going to my lake house
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  Speaker 6: of course, my family's lake house for the lead up
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  Speaker 6: weekend to the fourth, and then midway through the week
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  Speaker 6: we're heading out to North Carolina to our friend's place
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  Speaker 6: for the second year in a row.
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  Speaker 5: And then we're going to Myrtle Beach as a family.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm super duper excited.
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  Speaker 6: I've never been to Myrtle Beach really looking forward to
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  Speaker 6: going there with our kids and just spending the week
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  Speaker 6: and having the best time ever. So I wish all
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  Speaker 6: of you out there the happiest fourth of July holiday.
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  Speaker 6: Happy Birthday, America. I'm all about it. I'm going to
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  Speaker 6: be all decked in the red, white and blue. If
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  Speaker 6: you happen to be in Myrtle Beach and you see
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  Speaker 6: me walking by, make sure you stop me and say
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  Speaker 6: hello and let us know that you love the show,
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  Speaker 6: because I always love hearing it. So thank you, guys
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  Speaker 6: for letting us into your homes and for letting us
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  Speaker 6: into your ears, and for listen and for watching.
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  Speaker 5: And I wish you all the happiest Fourth of July holiday.
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