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C.T.C.S Episode 241 Gone Camping, Squatters, Digital Failure And Planting Pens · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: what's going on? My name is CT. When I'm not
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  Speaker 1: real world. I mean, everybody has to have a job, right?
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  Speaker 1: Episode number 241, going camping, squatter alert, planting, writing instruments,
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  Speaker 1: and oh, failure? Really? This is CTCS. CTCS. Wow, on
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  Speaker 1: this first night, it looks like that we're going to
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  Speaker 1: be visited by squatters, camping squatters. Those are the people
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  Speaker 1: that don't have RVs. They don't have really anything to
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  Speaker 1: sleep in, a tent or anything like that. They pull
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  Speaker 1: in with their car. And most of them will sleep
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  Speaker 1: in the front seat of a car. I do not
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  Speaker 1: want to use the word homelessness. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: do that. I am not in judgment. But it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be very interesting to find out how far the
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  Speaker 1: squatters are going to get into this evening. But they're
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  Speaker 1: all very friendly. I've never met a bad squatter. But
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  Speaker 1: it's very interesting to see that squatting is back at
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  Speaker 1: campgrounds because we ran into this a lot back around 2011, 2012.
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  Speaker 1: The economy wasn't the absolute best. And you do whatever
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  Speaker 1: you can to stay friendly. And to be very camper-like.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's the way it is. But we definitely
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  Speaker 1: have squatters next to us now. You are not going
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  Speaker 1: to believe what we are following witness to here this evening.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, the sunset was just... I've never really,
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  Speaker 1: really ever seen a bad sunset here at this lake.
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  Speaker 1: Because the pictures that we've taken for over 15 years
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  Speaker 1: have just been amazing. But tonight... Right there on the horizon,
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  Speaker 1: you've got the moon, you've got Venus, you've got Jupiter,
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  Speaker 1: and I swear to God, it's also Saturn. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have chat GPT right now, but it's just so amazing
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  Speaker 1: to overlook this lake, and the universe, God, whatever you
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  Speaker 1: want to call it, has given us this unfreaking believable
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  Speaker 1: view of definitely the moon, Jupiter, and Venus, and it's
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  Speaker 1: like you can just reach out there and touch it.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost like the kid has been given permission to
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  Speaker 1: walk into the candy store. Welcome to the second day.
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  Speaker 1: Barely 6 o'clock in the morning and the sun is
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  Speaker 1: already up. Boy, that upsets me because I don't like
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  Speaker 1: it when the sun beats me up. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's a personal thing, it's a radio thing. Because
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  Speaker 1: I remember getting up at 2.45 in the morning to
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  Speaker 1: do the morning show radio over at 95.1 and the
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  Speaker 1: sun was never up. So if I see the sun
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  Speaker 1: that's up, it feels like I'm the one that's behind
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  Speaker 1: the schedule. So it's very interesting to be out here
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  Speaker 1: this early. I mean, it's like 67 degrees. The lake
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  Speaker 1: is just so glossy. The sun is lighting everything up,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm on this path, and this is where your
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  Speaker 1: dog does what dogs do. And you just get used
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  Speaker 1: to the smell, and you get used to being a
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  Speaker 1: dog owner. But, of course, you stay inside the forest.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, by the way, I just want
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  Speaker 1: you to know that I do carry a bag with
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  Speaker 1: me even though we're in a forest, and we pick
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  Speaker 1: up the shit. We really do. Oh, yeah. That's definitely squatters.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm out here, what, barely after 6 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. The squatters are already up, but, man,
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  Speaker 1: they have left a mess. They left a mess. You
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  Speaker 1: can tell they went through all the trash cans, got
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  Speaker 1: whatever they could, and will move on today. But, yeah, oh, God,
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  Speaker 1: this is a filthy mess. You know, is there anything
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  Speaker 1: worse than when you wake up at a campground and
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  Speaker 1: all the calm, the beauty, the rising sun, the geese,
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  Speaker 1: the baby geese, the ducks, everything all natural around you,
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  Speaker 1: and the human has chosen to leave their trash around, so...
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  Speaker 1: I know that I spoke highly last night when it
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  Speaker 1: came time for the squatters to accept them because I
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  Speaker 1: accept all people. But you can't leave a mess like this.
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  Speaker 1: I know they're going to leave it. I know they are.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just not a happy place for me because
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  Speaker 1: I do everything I can to keep my campsite looking good,
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  Speaker 1: and I think they should too as well. But, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to see a lot more of these in
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  Speaker 1: the future, these squatters. Just because you're camping doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: that you're on vacation. That's always been my thing ever
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  Speaker 1: since we started in 2010. And this being the second day,
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  Speaker 1: I know that I loaded this day up with a
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  Speaker 1: lot of interviews. I still do the podcast interviews. I
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  Speaker 1: don't do the editing or posting or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: That's the reason why you do the pre-programming, but that's
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  Speaker 1: just not part of this conversation. But I'll set up
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  Speaker 1: the studio outside, a beautiful control board with microphones and earphones. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's like, wow. You know, when I was
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  Speaker 1: in terrestrial radio, I always dreamed, why am I doing
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  Speaker 1: this inside the studio? I remember being at Coin Radio
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  Speaker 1: back in 1979 and And I would. I would try
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  Speaker 1: to do everything humanly possible to take my show outside.
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  Speaker 1: So here now, during the podcasting seasons that I'm in,
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  Speaker 1: I'm able to do this. I can physically be out
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  Speaker 1: here with nature. And, I mean, just the geese everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you listen closely, you can hear this
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  Speaker 1: campground come alive in my interviews that I'm having. And
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  Speaker 1: to me, that is so important. because for the first
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  Speaker 1: time in my life, I almost feel like I'm part
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  Speaker 1: of the NPR family because I was always entertained and
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  Speaker 1: informed by their presence in journalism by taking the listener there.
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  Speaker 1: People always cringe when you tell them that you're going
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  Speaker 1: camping because they think of it as being this nasty,
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  Speaker 1: dirty old place. And, you know, like we talked about
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  Speaker 1: it with the squatters, they did make a mess yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: But the thing is, though, is that what about the
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  Speaker 1: other time that you're doing things at the campground? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it can be dirty. I remember when we first got
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  Speaker 1: into this and I had to share that with my
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  Speaker 1: wife about, hey, look, you know, we're not going to
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  Speaker 1: a fashion show, but we're going to learn how to camp.
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  Speaker 1: I grew up camping in Montana. But the thing is,
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  Speaker 1: is that, you know, we all think that it's a dirty,
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  Speaker 1: nasty thing and you're out there with the dirt. That
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  Speaker 1: is probably the furthest thing from the truth when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to true RVers. I don't think I've ever met
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  Speaker 1: a dirty, nasty RVer. We still brush our teeth. We
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  Speaker 1: still put our pit juice on. We still do everything
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  Speaker 1: humanly possible. We eat probably better when we're in a
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  Speaker 1: camping mode or in an RVing mode. And so it's
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  Speaker 1: not dirty. And maybe people are finally starting to realize this,
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  Speaker 1: which is why it's so damn difficult to get a
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  Speaker 1: camping spot. But if you don't mind, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: brush my teeth now. I don't want the junk in
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  Speaker 1: my mouth to get in my interviews, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean? Ick. I mean, the sink might be smaller
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  Speaker 1: than the one that we have at home, but you
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  Speaker 1: still got to get that trash out of your mouth,
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  Speaker 1: because I have interviews coming up today, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: need that to be what gets in the way of
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  Speaker 1: me asking questions. I mean, I'm going to be with
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  Speaker 1: Clint Black today, and I don't want anything in my mouth,
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  Speaker 1: you know, dirt, some sort of meat. Oh, see, this
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  Speaker 1: is getting gross now. Ah! This is why people don't
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  Speaker 1: like going camping. But I can prevent that by getting
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  Speaker 1: in the damn bathroom, like my dad would say, and
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  Speaker 1: clean up. I don't know what the temperature is where
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  Speaker 1: you are today or where you are anywhere in this world.
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  Speaker 1: But we're in the middle or actually toward the end
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  Speaker 1: of May of 2026. The average temperature for this time
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  Speaker 1: of year for this area of the world is not
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be up in the mid-90s like it is.
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  Speaker 1: And you're out here in camping with absolutely no real shade.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they've got trees here, but they're professionally cut back.
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  Speaker 1: And to make the campground look sexy, to make it
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  Speaker 1: look approachable, and to draw more people in from other
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  Speaker 1: areas of the country. But when it comes to getting
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  Speaker 1: proper shade, we're getting burned badly. And so we keep
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  Speaker 1: doing everything humanly possible to make sure that we're drinking
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  Speaker 1: enough water or Propel. And I know that on our
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  Speaker 1: first day, we tried to man it up to stay
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  Speaker 1: out here no matter what to weather the conditions. And
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  Speaker 1: that's not happening today because it took well over three
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  Speaker 1: hours to rid the RV of all that heat. We
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  Speaker 1: didn't have anything on, not even fans on the inside.
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  Speaker 1: And it was a 93-degree day yesterday, and it took
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  Speaker 1: until maybe 8 o'clock that night to really cool that
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  Speaker 1: monkey off. So we're having to deal with this heat.
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  Speaker 1: We're still in the middle of this goddamn drought, and
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  Speaker 1: it's very evident here. You can see it. You can
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  Speaker 1: see it. And so all you can do is just
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  Speaker 1: basically try to live with it. CTC! Please do not move.
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  Speaker 1: There's more CTCS right around the corner. CT goes camping
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  Speaker 1: as we get prepared for an interview with the legendary
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  Speaker 1: Clint Black. And how about Mother Nature and that universe?
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  Speaker 1: Planets everywhere up there with a full moon? Are you
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  Speaker 1: kidding me? Above the lake? And the attempt to social
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  Speaker 1: network while camping. Yeah, right. Hey, welcome back to CTCS,
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  Speaker 1: CT Goes Camping. On this particular section, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: be getting prepared for an interview with the legendary Clint Black.
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  Speaker 1: Nature's planet's high above our planet, and we're in awe. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: something just so spectacular. And social networking from a campground? Mm-mm,
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  Speaker 1: not me. CTCS. I think it's so funny that people
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  Speaker 1: are always asking, so you take your recording equipment with
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  Speaker 1: you and you set it up outside on the picnic table?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's a physical studio outside yeah that's
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  Speaker 1: true well what do you do when it is hot
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  Speaker 1: outside like it's been how does that doesn't that ruin
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  Speaker 1: the equipment i'm sure it will but you know what
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  Speaker 1: you you can't reenact an interview uh inside an rv
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  Speaker 1: And say that you're outside enjoying nature as nature is
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  Speaker 1: taking place. So, yeah, I've been burnt many times. And
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  Speaker 1: I do worry about the equipment. And I hope to
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  Speaker 1: God that I buy the right stuff that can endure
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  Speaker 1: the heat. Because, look, I mean, this is nothing compared
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  Speaker 1: to the journalists that are in Ukraine or are in
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  Speaker 1: Gaza or are traveling around the world where there's unrest.
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  Speaker 1: Like the Ebola that's down in Africa right now that's
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  Speaker 1: killing people. journalists still have to get in there, journalists
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  Speaker 1: still have to have the equipment, and I hope to
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  Speaker 1: God that's exactly what I've got here. And to an
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  Speaker 1: average listener of a podcast, what does this even matter, right?
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  Speaker 1: This is what it's like. This is the real life
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  Speaker 1: of being here. It may not be the horrible conditions
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  Speaker 1: that they've got, but it's still, it's very hot, and
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  Speaker 1: your equipment has got to show up. But I'm ready.
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  Speaker 1: If something were to happen that was bad and needed
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  Speaker 1: journalists to step through that aren't connected to corporate America,
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  Speaker 1: that's me. I got it. I've got my batteries. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to go get the story because that's just who
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  Speaker 1: I am, and I think that's what this podcasting is
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  Speaker 1: getting me ready for. A little personal, right? But I do.
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  Speaker 1: I do think that the universe is preparing me for
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  Speaker 1: a bigger job, and it's not going to have anything
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  Speaker 1: to do with doing interviews. I am so sick of
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  Speaker 1: answering emails. Can you do this? Can you do this?
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  Speaker 1: Can you do this? Can you do this? Will you
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  Speaker 1: be available for this? Can you do this? By the way,
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  Speaker 1: can you do this? Can you do this? Can you
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  Speaker 1: do this? Can you do this? And just looking at
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  Speaker 1: my Google, it is a map that I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how I even created this. But I did. It's my
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  Speaker 1: own mess. And I don't have anybody else to blame.
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  Speaker 1: I can't sit here and say, well, you know, when
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  Speaker 1: I was with corporate radio, you know, they just kept
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  Speaker 1: my ass busy all the time. Well, guess what? I
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: guess that I basically became that company. And I do
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  Speaker 1: expect that from me. And that involves answering a lot
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  Speaker 1: of freaking e-mails. And I do get moody. You do
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  Speaker 1: not want to be with me when I'm answering e-mails.
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  Speaker 1: Because they're endless. They just don't stop. Can I do this?
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  Speaker 1: Can you do this? Can you have this done? Can
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  Speaker 1: you do this? Where is this? Ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba. Yes, yes, yes. See,
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  Speaker 1: even though I'm in an RV and I'm camping, do
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  Speaker 1: you think I'm getting rest? No, that's not me. I'm
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  Speaker 1: about six or seven minutes away from an interview with
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  Speaker 1: Clem Black. Oh, it's okay to say who, who. I
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  Speaker 1: run into that all the time. Who, who, who, who, who. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's one of those things where... Oh, hold on,
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  Speaker 1: hold on, before I even go any further. There's a
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  Speaker 1: wren that's up here. A wren is a very tiny bird.
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  Speaker 1: They are so friendly to the human being. See, it's
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  Speaker 1: little things like this that really capture my attention. This
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  Speaker 1: is why I love to go camping. I guess I've
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  Speaker 1: just become my mom and dad, because mom and dad
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  Speaker 1: always did a lot of camping. And as I turn,
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  Speaker 1: all my equipment is on this table. Five minutes away
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  Speaker 1: from Clint Black, and I turn, and there's a beautiful
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  Speaker 1: white crane. There are... How can I... turn this off.
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  Speaker 1: I can't. There's one guy out there fishing. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: he's probably going for bass. A little late in the
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  Speaker 1: afternoon for this, especially with the temperatures up in the
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  Speaker 1: high 90s like this. That's kind of crazy that he's
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  Speaker 1: out there. He's going to get burned like you would
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  Speaker 1: not believe. You hope to God that he got his
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  Speaker 1: suntan lotion on. Okay, so I've got Clint Black and
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  Speaker 1: I'm very excited about this because I'm blessed with the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to help share the history of the people who
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  Speaker 1: helped create your history. Did you just hear what I
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  Speaker 1: just said? And I'm probably coming across as an ass
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  Speaker 1: right now on that. I'm sharing the history of those
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  Speaker 1: that helped create your history. And tomorrow I'm with the
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  Speaker 1: Sex Pistols. Who? Who? Who? What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: What are you talking about? Exactly. And I love it
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  Speaker 1: when you say who, because that opens the door for
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  Speaker 1: me to share the story then. We had to wait
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  Speaker 1: a very long time to come out here tonight. The
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  Speaker 1: sun is finally fucking down. Oh my God. Um... The
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  Speaker 1: sunset was pretty cool. It took long enough. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it took long enough in the way that we're last night.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was like down. And I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if it's because we were paying more attention to the squatters,
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure out if we were going to have
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  Speaker 1: troubles with them. And it's like, no, don't go there.
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  Speaker 1: Don't go there. Everybody has a place. Just please come.
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  Speaker 1: Be welcome. And get some sleep. That's all I want.
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  Speaker 1: But tonight, it just felt like the sun took forever
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  Speaker 1: to get down. I think it was because we were
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  Speaker 1: anxious to see if the moon and Jupiter and... And
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: Venus were up there again. And sure enough, lightly in
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  Speaker 1: the sky, you can see it. You can see them
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  Speaker 1: taking shape. And it's one of those things where I
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  Speaker 1: just got to get some pictures so that when I'm
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: in those moments of being in CS or I'm being
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  Speaker 1: just overtaken by all this podcasting, that I have something
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  Speaker 1: positive that I can turn to and say, God, I
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  Speaker 1: remember that night. God, to see those planets two nights
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  Speaker 1: in a row like this. Get pictures. Please get pictures.
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  Speaker 1: Put it on night vision. Do something. capture your moments
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  Speaker 1: man but it doesn't mean you have to post them
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  Speaker 1: and that's the one thing you're going to learn about
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  Speaker 1: me is that just because I took the picture doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean you're going to get it on social media no
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that we as human beings
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  Speaker 1: we need to just keep to ourself god now I
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  Speaker 1: sound like my dad keep it to yourself don't share
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  Speaker 1: it with everybody just keep it to yourself yeah and
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  Speaker 1: then when I'm gone and you're going through all the
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  Speaker 1: boxes and you want to throw some shit away go
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  Speaker 1: to my phone if you want to see my life
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  Speaker 1: go to my phone I ain't the only one that
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  Speaker 1: can say that I'm not the only one that does
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  Speaker 1: say that. I had to write to a friend. There's
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  Speaker 1: nothing I can do as a human being to create
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  Speaker 1: anything like this. I didn't listen to my dad. I
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  Speaker 1: had to share the pictures with my friend. You know,
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  Speaker 1: to see Jupiter, to see Venus, the moon, and to
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  Speaker 1: be here without city lights, to be here without, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what I know I talked about, how these trees are
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  Speaker 1: professionally groomed to make the campground look good. I get it.
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  Speaker 1: Because the view of this nature this morning was just amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Last night and the night before. And today as we
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  Speaker 1: wake up on the third morning, my wife and I,
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  Speaker 1: we have to separate. And the reason why is because
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: we still have to do our movie promotions. We still
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  Speaker 1: have to be at that premiere. Premieres aren't what you
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  Speaker 1: think they are. It's not what, you know, going to
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  Speaker 1: the red carpet or anything like that. That's the... the
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  Speaker 1: junkety junk that's that's the junk you should say and
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  Speaker 1: and you get to be with the actors and stuff
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: no the movie premieres we get to are so much
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: different than what you're seeing and it means being there
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: by 7 a.m and that's where she is and this
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: is where i am i have a full day of
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: interviews i mean i cannot leave this campground until this
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: full day of interviews is over does it mean i'm
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: gonna be staying late and having to pay extra probably
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: probably As a daily writer, as a journalist, a podcaster,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: a broadcaster of 46 years, I've always believed that I
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: share the stories that my eyes are fixed to. In
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: other words, what I see is what I try to
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: bring forward. And I don't know where I learned that from.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it was because I've studied Dan
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Rather throughout the years or I watched all these people
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: do these horrific news stories. And how they're able to
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: bring things forward. I've always been mesmerized by the announcers
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: at a hockey game, a basketball game, the NFL, Major
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: League Baseball. They speak with their eyes. What is coming
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: out of that mouth had to start with their eyes first.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: And I'm captivated by that. And to be at this
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: lake this early in the morning, the sun is coming
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: up on the third day. Yeah, I'm upset that I
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: have to go home today. If you think I'm upset,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: what about my dog? My dog knew this the very
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: second that we came out here this morning. She knew
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: that this is the day we're going home. But first,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: I keep telling her, we've got to do the interviews, baby.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: We've got to do the interviews. Please don't. Don't bring
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Daddy down. Oh, look at me talking baby talk. Yeah,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: I've done research on that and put that up on
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: the podcast as well about people who speak baby talk
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: to their pets. If you're not doing it, there's something
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: wrong with you. no seriously that's what I read if
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: you aren't speaking baby talk to a baby a human
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: baby or any other animal the problem is you it
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: is not the person that's speaking baby talk it is
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: a natural thing and your body really does go through
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: that and it needs that kind of talk I would
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: say get a god dang plant right now find yourself
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: a tree and start talking baby talk to that tree
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: and maybe that's the reason why I'm here oh god
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: damn look at that that freaking white crane that was
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: here last night is back here again this morning How
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: can you not feel love? How can you not feel love?
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: That's my eyes sharing a story with you. I want
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: to do the interview so badly outside next to this
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: lake today. I have four of them starting at 910.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: And here's my pitfall. And it's one of those moments
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: that I always kind of bring to CCCS. What would
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: you do? See, my wife is the one that usually
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: watches Jazzy, who is my disaster artist, my dog that
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: is really You don't want to come near us. You're
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: not going to get anywhere near us. She's very protective.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: That's the way that she's been trained. You even think
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: about coming near me. She's going to have you down.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: That's just the way Jazzy is. And the thing is,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: is that I'm here all by myself at the campsite
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: with four interviews in front of me. And if she's
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: out here with me and I'm stuck right in the
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: middle of an interview with the Sex Pistols and it's
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: going to be like, what gives here? I mean, yesterday
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: when we're outside, trust me, go back and listen to
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: the interviews that I did during this date. You will
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: hear her go after people. Holy shit. You're at a
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: campground where people are in movement. In her eyes, you
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: must be coming near my human. Ain't gonna happen. So,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's so beautiful out here today. A little
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: bit cooler than what we've had over the past couple
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: of days. My body is burnt to a crisp. but
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I just want to do the show out here but
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: how am I going to do the show if she's
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: going to be ripping everybody apart out here and does
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: that become part of a comedy series where you just
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: kind of laugh it off because that's what radio people
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: do you know I talk about you know sharing the
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: story through my eyes but do I want to make
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: that as a part of my interviews or do I
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: just want to stay in the RV and Open all
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: the shades, look at the beauty of nature, and totally
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: miss out on the summertime breeze. CTCS. Please don't move.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: There is more with CT Goes Camping coming up next
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: on CTCS. Oh, we are packing up to go. No.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: We talk about Dennis Quaid. He was washing dishes. I
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: was at a Panera Bread. And journaling with Taylor Swift?
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: It's all coming up next. Hey, thanks for coming back
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: to CTCS, a special edition CT Goes Camping. On this episode,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: we're going to be talking about packing up and going home,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: washing dishes with Dennis Quaid, and journaling with Taylor Swift.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to CTCS, CT Goes Camping. From CTCS. You
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: know what day number three is, right? Day number three,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: for me at least, and for a lot of people,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: is usually the day that you're going home. And it's also...
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: At 8 o'clock in the morning, an hour and a
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: half before my interviews, it's clean-up time. And that means
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: that you're washing every single pot and pan that you
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: had outside, because I do a lot of my cooking outside.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: And so you've got to wash everything and get everything
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: ready to rock, because once those interviews do pull to
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: an end today... I got to go. But, you know,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: like I said earlier, it might be late. I may
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: have to pay an extra fee for staying in the
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: park late. And if I am running late, I don't
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: need to be bogged down with dishes that didn't get
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: done or an RV that wasn't put away properly. I mean,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: my father was very strict in his rule, and that
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: was when you dump your toys, put your toys away
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: exactly the way that you found them. and your RV
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: is exactly that. Put that damn thing away exactly the
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: way that you found it so that when you come
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: back next time, everything will be working just fine. I
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: do have to laugh, though, about this doing the dishes
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: and recording it because it reminds me so much of
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: the interview that I had with actor Dennis Quaid. He
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: and I were sharing a conversation, and... You could hear
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: him doing the dishes while we were on the other
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: side asking the questions about his band. He's very, very musical,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: and you need to look it up. But just doing
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: the dishes and doing this really put me in that
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: position of how real I get with these conversations with
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: these actors and musicians and things. And what's so funny
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: about this is that Alan and I— and God rest Alan,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: he's no longer with us— but Alan and I, we
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: were listening to Dennis Quaid doing the dishes— And you
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: know where we were? We had our equipment set up
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: at a Panera Bread. So as weird as it was
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: for Dennis Quaid to be doing the dishes during a
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: frickin' interview, it's like, where were you? At Panera Bread,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: having lunch, having a goddamn conversation with Dennis Quaid? I
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: do a lot of writing when I go camping. I
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: have so many journals. I'm going to be honest with
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: you here, okay? I mean, about a month ago, I
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: saw this news story on Taylor Swift and all of
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: her journals. And first of all, I am a Taylor
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Swift fan. I'm not a Swifty, but I'm a fan
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: of Taylor Swift because I'm a mobile DJ, and Taylor
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Swift has done amazing things for my dance floors. But
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: one of the things that I really was so drawn
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: to about Taylor Swift was her transparency. when it comes
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: to keeping journals. And I showed her with a picture
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: of several different journals that were stacked up. I'm telling you,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I actually thought I saw myself in that photograph because
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: that's exactly the way that I am. I literally have
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: three huge bags that I keep with me at all times.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: They're very professional bags. And I call them bags because
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: they're like duffel bags, but everything is inside all of
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: my writing instruments. Holy crap! And you have all these journals,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: and it's like, why do you write all the time?
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Because there's a story. Every step that we take forward
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: in any direction, there's a story. And if I don't
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: write it down, then it's forgotten. And I don't know
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: why I'm sick in the heart like that, but to
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: see Taylor Swift with all of her journals, and then
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: to look into my own life and see just as
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: many journals, there's a story. She found fame. The only
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: thing I want is one set of ears. Not my ears.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Just anybody who's willing to listen to a story. I
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: call it setting up the show. Basically setting up the
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: equipment for the interviews. We're about an hour and a
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: half away from it. But the thing about it is, though,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: it still has to be set up. So, I mean,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: you've got to make sure that you've got all the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: equipment ready. All the equipment is working. That's a pain
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: in the ass because I've been in that position before.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: where the equipment has not been up to par. Hell,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's just the way of the world, man.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's like, you know, you could have the
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: greatest equipment in the world and something's going to send
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: you into a spinal tap moment and you've got to
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: figure out how to get out of it. And it's
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: so interesting because I just saw a thing on LinkedIn
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: the other day from the Media and Arts Center, which
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: is located here in Charlotte. And they did a quote
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: on there saying that about having the greatest and best
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: equipment of all times, but if it doesn't work, what
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: do you do? You have to be able to have
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: that way out, and you've got to be able to
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: put yourself in positions where you're going to be challenged,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: and if you expect a perfect world in anything broadcasting
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: or journalism, you came to the wrong world because everything
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: that we do on this side of the planet before
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: it reaches a listener or a viewer, it goes through
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: a story. It goes through an experience. It goes through
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the ups, the downs, the twists, the spins, the ins,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the outs, And you look at it like that and
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: you can get kind of pissed off if you want
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: to because nothing goes perfectly. And the thing is that
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: you laugh about it because it's like, shit, there's nobody
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: else that just went through what I did. When you
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: know darn good and well in your heart, somebody went
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: through it. And the thing about it is as I
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: set up this control board, I'm in two different rooms.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: And so therefore, I mean, there's a lot of work
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: to go through in setting this up. What am I eating?
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Hot dogs. Hot dogs that we cooked two days ago.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Right out of the refrigerator, man. Eat them cold. Oh, yeah. Oh, man.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: That's the life of a rock star. That's the life
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: of somebody who's on the go. You eat whatever you
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: can put your fingers on and make sure that your
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: body is fortified because when it's showtime, you better frickin'
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: show up. A modern day campground isn't what it used
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: to be. This is not the campground that my parents...
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Let us grow up in. That was people that were
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: trying to get away, to break free of their lives,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: their jobs, their family, whatever. Lord knows you see enough
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: single people out here. They're just trying to break away.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: It's not that way anymore. It's more of a way
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: of life. And just as what we're experiencing today, where
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Lee had to go to a movie premiere, there's a
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: lot of people that left the campground because they're construction
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: workers or they're doing jobs for other companies, and they
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: had to travel here. Where am I going to stay?
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Am I going to put myself in a hotel that's
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: going to cost me, what, almost 300 bucks a damn
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: night because of taxes and everything? The cost of living?
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: So what do they do? They get themselves an RV
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: and they professionally camp. This is their lifestyle. This is
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: their home. This is what they're doing. And I think
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: that's one of the things that we tried to fit
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: into a few years back. And the reason why I
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: do all my podcasting from here, because it's that dream,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: you know, to be able to say, I'm going on
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the road. I want to stay on the road. I'm
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: very jealous of the rock stars because they get to
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: live on the road. And I love that feeling. Something
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: about being that free. And yet, as we've explained this
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: morning by setting up the studio and taking care of
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: everything and putting things away the way they're supposed to,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: you know, it's a job to go camping. It's a job.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Because it doesn't just happen. You've got to put things
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: in forward motion so that things do happen. So we're
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: on a transition walk today basically to help kind of
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: clear out my mind. in the way of understanding what
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: nature is trying for me to understand. And I'm going
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: to sit down here once we get back into the RV.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: And I got to write. That's just who I am.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: I got to write. I got a word vomit. Oh,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: word vomit. Man, I wonder what it smells like to
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: an outsider. Oh, he's just vomiting a bunch of words. Yeah, yeah,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: that's me. I'm going to get a t-shirt that says,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: I am the word vomiter. God, that would be a
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: good book. That would be such an interesting book. The
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: word vomiter. And he goes and he solves true crime stories.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: But he has to put on a suit, but it's
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: not like Batman. It's more like Duckman. Oh, yeah, no,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: forget that. Howard the Duck bombed the theaters. Crap. All right,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: next idea. The strangest things that we do that trigger memories.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: What about your own personal life? What is it that
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: puts you in a state of mind where you go,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: how did I go from this area of my life
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: to back here? Several, several years or even decades. One
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: of them being wrapping up the electrical cord to put
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: it away. And the way that I was winding up
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: the cord... was exactly the way that Bob White and
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Ted at 107.9 taught me how to do it. This
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: was back in the 90s, man, because I would just
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: be like anybody else. I would just put the cord together,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: throw it together, and then sit there and spend the
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: next time, 20, 30 minutes, just getting the knots out
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: of it. So to wind it up today, I'm having
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: flashbacks of Bob White, and because Bob White was Mr.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Ketchup Man he loved his ketchup we spent many many
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: many years together having lunch at the Pine Terrace at
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: the Jefferson Pilot Building and just little things like that
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: just have this way of taking you back and sometimes
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: I often wonder if camping isn't just God's way of
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: saying hey I'm going to replay this movie And in
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: this movie, you're going to recognize the actor, but I
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: want you to study what that actor is doing in
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: life and see if you would have done things differently.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is about this tiny little Wren.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: My God, he just wants to cuddle up and get
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: really super close to me. And I don't have any
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: food for him because I guess I've been trained as
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: a naturalist that I'm not going to give you human food,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: little buddy, because I want you to be able to. Oh,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: God dang it. Woo! Jazzy the Disaster Artist out here
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: with me in the forest. She caught wind of the wren.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: But anyway, I can't do that. I can't give the
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: ducks or the geese human food because they're going to
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: expect it all the time. And they've turned into such
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: little beggars. It gets inside my soul because it's not
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: that I'm ripping them off by not giving them human food.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: I just want to make sure that they stay healthy. Oh,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: there you are. What you got? Oh, yeah, people are
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: on the move now as the sun is up. The
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: temperature's starting to rise. Yeah, people are on the move,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: so therefore she... He's very much aware. I'm telling you, man,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: nobody's going to get anywhere near me. She knows that
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: they're about 300 feet away from me or even further
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: that don't come over here because my daddy, my human guy,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: he didn't want you. It's not that I don't want him.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: I just got a show to do is what it is.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: I don't need to have to explain podcasting to anybody else,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: but that's my bodyguard here. And my Wren, who obviously
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: is my buddy today. I don't know if I brought
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: this up yet today because that's how fast this day
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: is already flying, our third day of camping. I planted
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: another writing instrument. It's something that I got into back
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: in January of 2026 by planting the writing instrument. And
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: what that is, and some people might see it as littering,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: where others might see it as just me trying to
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: communicate with a muse. or the spirit guides and keepers
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: that are part of our everyday planet, that are hidden
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: away and just want to say something. But what I've
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: been doing, especially what I did here, was that I
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: take a writing instrument, brand new, never been used, it's
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: still in its original packaging, and I place it into
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: the forest soil. I know exactly where it is, what
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: rock it's by, because rocks and trees are the greatest
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: storytellers of all time. And then when I come back
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: to this camping area, the last time that I was
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: here at this place, It was two and a half
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: years ago. So for me to retrieve this writing instrument
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: that I've planted, it may be another two and a
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: half years if we're still here. Seriously, if we're still here.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: You know the way of the world. If I'm still
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: here or if another writer comes by or a child
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: comes by and says, oh my God, look at this.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Somebody has lost their writing instrument. I'm going to call
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: it mine. I'm hoping that that rock and that tree
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: is going to teach that person to write. That's who
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: I am. That's my legacy. Just to get people to write.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: to share stories. That's it. That's all I want to
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  Speaker 1: do in life. That's it. It's not to be a
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  Speaker 1: radio broadcaster. It's not to be anything more than someone
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: who said, did you write today? I do feel guilty
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  Speaker 1: about being one of those campers that doesn't like to
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: mix and mingle with other people. I feel guilty about
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: that because it is a community. It is about doing
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  Speaker 1: things together from the fire pits to having barbecue from
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  Speaker 1: other parts of the country because so many travelers come
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  Speaker 1: from everywhere. And I've never been that one person that
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  Speaker 1: will go and start up a conversation with another passerby
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  Speaker 1: or another camper. I guess I just don't come here
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  Speaker 1: for that reason. And does that mean that I'm conceited? Probably.
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  Speaker 1: Does it mean I'm into myself? Probably. And why do
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: I have a microphone in front of me at all times?
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Can I say probably again? Well, I know that my
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: legacy is that I'm probably going to be buried with
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: a microphone. How about that? But no, don't ever expect
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: me to come to a campground and have a conversation
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  Speaker 1: with other people. We talked about Jazzy a lot on
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: this particular episode, and she has a job, and that
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: is to keep people away from me. Oh, my God.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: All I wanted to do was share a conversation with
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: the podcast, and do you think the equipment would be
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: there for me this morning? Hell no. One little mistake.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: I pulled out a mono plug instead of a stereo plug,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: and I couldn't hear my guest on the other side
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: because it was in mono. I don't know. I don't
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: understand the engineering side of what was going on. But
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: there are many times that these podcasts do not happen
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: 100% the way that you want them. And I think
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: we were talking about this earlier. with that article that
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: I read on LinkedIn where you could have the best
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: equipment in the world, but one thing can go wrong.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: And what happened? I put the curse on myself. I
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: cursed myself because of something that I found interest in.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: And it put me in a situation where I had
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: to step back 10 yards, punt, and we still got
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: the ball through the field goal. So if there's a
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: lesson to be learned for anybody who wants to get
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: into podcasting or even in broadcasting, is that when it
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: doesn't work, don't quit. Don't turn your back and walk
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: away like the rest of your generation does. You've got
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: to move forward as if you are that journalist in Gaza.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: I may not read novels or any type of autobiography.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: It's just not my thing. But I will read news
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: headlines until the end of time. and to come across
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: a story about an actor in Hollywood, many actors in Hollywood,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: who are not getting their residuals from these sitcoms that
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: they're appearing on, or they're doing these binge watches, you know,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: 7 to 12 different episodes per season. And a lot
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: of people, look, in radio, come on, I'm going to
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: be very open and honest with you, terrestrial radio, they're
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: not going to pay you. But if they can get
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: you an endorsement, that's how you're going to get paid.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: How do I know this? It ain't a freaking lie.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: It actually happened to my very good friend, Nathan, That
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: they were paying him just by going out and getting endorsements. Well,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: if your sales staff is sitting on their fat asses
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: and they're not getting the endorsements, then he's pretty much
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: doing it for free. The same is true about acting,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: is that you give yourself to that stage with a
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: guarantee or just a mention that you're going to get
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: paid something. Well, the number of actors that are currently doing...
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: instacart they're doing they're doing amazon they're doing side hustles
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: i work for a freaking grocery store you know what
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: i mean you see so the people that are acting
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: and bringing entertainment are the ones that are out here
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: working really hard just to keep the fucking lights on
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: i don't want to say it's not my day but
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: holy crap zoom is either your friend or it's your
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: enemy And when Zoom doesn't want to check in, it
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: becomes your enemy. But you've got to really kind of
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: create a path. This is the part of the business
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: that listeners don't get to experience. When things are breaking
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: down around you. I understand the plug that I had earlier.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: I get it. I made the changes. I created a solution.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: But when something like Zoom is going down, now it's
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: no longer in my hands. But I got into the
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: interview with the Sex Pistols, Glenn, the bass guitarist for
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: the band. But they said, well, you've only got five
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: or six minutes with them. And it's like, mother fuck.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Mother fuck. And, you know, so in five or six minutes,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: you've got to be hitting home runs. You have no
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: time at all to be hitting foul balls with your questions.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: And don't get cocky assed. and keep that goddamn story
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: off from you and make sure it's all about them
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: and what they're doing. Ooh, now you're getting into the
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: head of Arrow Collins. Woo! And remember, this is CT
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: that's gone camping, not Arrow Collins. He's on the microphone
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: probably talking right now because his ego is just burned
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: up right now. All the conversations today are done. My
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: last one kind of blew me away in a really
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: huge way. I guess I never, ever, ever envision those
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: that I share conversations with on the podcast, the authors,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: the actors, the musicians. I never expect them to do
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: a Google search on me or to do any type
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: of research. And so this Debbie Masterson said something right
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the interview about how much I
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: love fountain pens and how I tend to bury them
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: in places like where I am for this camping. And
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: I just, I was like, Oh, my God. I was dumbfounded.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Is that the right word? Because it was like, how
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: did you even know that? And of course, my heart
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: instantly said, because you talk about it enough, dude. In fact,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: it's to the point where it's like, are you talking
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: about it, sharing a story or are you bragging about it?
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? But I said just two
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: hours ago, I put a new writing instrument in the
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: soil in this park. I know exactly where it is.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: I drew the map to it. So that if I transition,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: somebody can still go get the writing instrument. Or if
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: I come back here in two and a half years,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: it's there. Because I believe that rocks and trees share stories.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: And I believe that the majority of all books come
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: from exactly those sources. How do I know that? Because
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: what does a tree do? It sacrifices its life so
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: that you have paper to put in that book. Think
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: about it. Just a weird guy, right? I agree with you.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Really weird. I always want to take my transition walks.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how many days in a row I've
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: spent out here in this hot Carolina sun, the big drought.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: I'm in a forest. It's living, it's breathing, it's surviving.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: And I definitely want to go back into the area
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: where I planted the writing instrument. I want to sit
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: on the gigantic boulder and basically just letting it know
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: that I didn't turn my back on it like my father,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: that I'm here, that I'm going to be back. That
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: I will be returning to use it in future moments.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: But for right now, it's job as a writing instrument
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: is to learn the way of the forest soil. I know.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: What the fuck does that have to do with the podcast, right?
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: It's just who I am. And I'm always grateful for
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: these trees, for these rocks. And once again, this is...
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: so far over people's heads in the way of going, Jesus,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: I didn't come to a damn prayer meeting, did I?
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: How did I get captured? Is this a cult? Hell no,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: it's not a cult. It's just a writer, a storyteller,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: a walker, a visionary, a planner. And I'm just trying
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: to give it to you. Yeah, because I would like
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: to weight off my shoulders and put it on yours. Oh, fuck. Right?
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: All right. The RVs are all packed up. We're going
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: to get out of here about two and three hours
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: ahead of time. And you know how I feel about
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: that kind of shit. You know, three hours early is
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: six hours late for me. Ooh, there it is. The
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: gigantic crystal boulder. The writing instrument hidden behind it. Deep
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: in the soil. I just wanted to come by. I
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: really did. I just wanted to come by. Kind of
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: mess things up just a bit. In the way of...
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: You know, it didn't look natural by digging in it.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: But I'm going to sit on this stone right now.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: And I want to feel its crystallized energy. Because you
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: know how crystals are. Holy crap. You couldn't ask for
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: anything more purifying than a crystal. But, yeah, I just
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: want this moment to be preserved. Because I want to
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: be able to come back... Like I said, it was 2.5
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: years before I got back here the last time. So
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: if another two years goes by, thank God that we
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: were able to put our P's and Q's together as
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: a nation and we didn't bomb every country. It's not
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: me that's doing the bombing. I ain't going to get
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: political on you. But I'm on a crystal boulder. And
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: sitting next to this crystal boulder inside the soil is
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: a writing instrument. That is the reason why I'm here today,
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: is that this writing instrument needed to be planted in
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: the soil for me, for another author, be it for whoever.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: But if you don't start writing, you have to ask
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: the question, where is the fuel? What's going to be
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: the fire starter? And if you found a writing instrument
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: buried beside a rock, then use it. Don't throw it away.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Use it. Hey, that's going to do it for this
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: special edition of CTCS. CT goes camping. You know, we
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: weren't climbing mountains. We weren't trying to touch the nearest cloud.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: We did see Jupiter. We did see Venus and the moon.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: God dang, I'm still touched by that. And I'm sitting
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: on the very rock that is holding the story that
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: I hope to God goes into that writing instrument. I'll
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: see you next time.