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A New Recorder and The Highway · Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show Podcast

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  I don't know how well this is going to work.
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  I bought a new Zoom 4 track recorder.
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  There's some reasons for that that nobody cares about the
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  issues I've been having with my computer.
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  I what I need to do is buy a new computer, but I'm such a
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  cheapskate that instead of buying a new computer for $1000,
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  I try everything else. So this little thing and I'm.
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  I'm well familiar with Zoom and not the not the computer program
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  Zoom, but the manufacturer, the company Zoom that makes these
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  recorders. They sent me an ad they, they
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  got a new one out. It's a, it's a little miniature
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  4 track recorder and that's kind of what I needed.
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  It's got some inputs. It's got 4 inputs into it and
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  two of them are XLR. Again, you don't care.
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  But they gave me a deal on it for $150.00.
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  So I thought, well, I could buy a new computer for $1000, or I
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  could buy this for $150.00, and if this solves my problem, then
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  I'm good to go, right? Of course, that's a great
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  example of the sunk cost fallacy, because now I'm having
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  to use this even though I don't know if it's going to work or
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  not. And more importantly, if it
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  doesn't work. Now, instead of spending $1000
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  for a new computer, now I've spent 1100, almost $1200 for
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  that new computer and the Zoom. I guess I could return it, but
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  this is, by the way, after I spent $175 on a Scarlet 2I2
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  digital interface thinking that would solve the problem, which
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  it did not. And why didn't it?
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  Because Scarlet can't get their act together and the two one the
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  two I 2, which is probably a good little digital interface,
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  does not like Windows 11 to begin with, but it certainly
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  doesn't like Adobe Audition, which is what I use now.
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  In fairness, I do not use the newest Adobe edition, the one
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  that you have to subscribe to get that program.
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  And I've had this conversation with Adobe is I guess the best
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  way to describe it is a steaming pile of shit.
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  It's a terrible program. But I do use the program that I
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  learned back when I was in the radio station 20 years ago now,
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  and I still use Adobe 1.5 addition 1.5.
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  I have 2020 and I've been known to use it in a pinch, but I
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  prefer 1.5. It works.
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  I mean, that's The thing is there's this, you know, it's
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  like, it's like computer games, right?
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  Ben always laughs at me because the computer games that I play
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  are 20 years old. There's a computer game that I
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  love to play that I bought back in 1993 and I still play it.
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  I mean, it's, it's a Windows game, so it's still functions in
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  Windows and they've done updates and things like that.
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  But, but yeah, I, I don't understand this obsession
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  particularly that Adobe has with adding more bells and whistles
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  and this and that and everything else.
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  And it just bogs the, the thing down to the point where it
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  doesn't work. So anyway, I bought a Scarlet
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  2I2 thinking that would solve the problem.
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  So now I'm sunk cost on that. And the only reason I didn't
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  return it, and this is what, this is where I'm stupid, OK?
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  This is where the sunk cost policy gets into things.
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  I didn't return it because I thought, well, if I buy a new
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  computer then maybe it will work with that.
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  That's the way my mind works. I also have a a Macintosh
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  laptop, a MacBook, and it may work with that.
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  I just haven't had to try that. I I love my MacBook, but it's a
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  there's a learning curve with it that I'm just not there with
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  yet. So I've had it for almost a year
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  and I'm still basically just using it like an iPad.
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  I I have all the programs I need to to actually do things and
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  I've started working with like logic Pro and that sort of
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  thing. But the learning curve is much
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  steeper than it was when I was a lot younger.
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  And again, I know addition 1.5 I don't know these new things.
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  So anyway, I am on my way to Sequim WA spelled Sequim, but
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  it's pronounced squim. That's one of the funny things
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  about Washington State is trying to pronounce all the names
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  Swinomish and Suquamish and Puyallup Poulsbo and things like
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  that. Anyway, I'm on my way to Squim.
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  I am actually, if you heard that little rumble there.
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  I am actually in the middle of the Hood Canal Bridge as I cross
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  from the east side to the West side, over to the Jeffrey, to
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  the Olympic Peninsula, to Jefferson County.
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  We have a parade this morning out in Squam.
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  It's the irrigation days parade, which we discovered a few years
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  ago. We was the the base, the the sub
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  vets base that was on the Olympic Peninsula shut down.
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  So when I was the base commander, I was looking for
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  things to get us involved out here on the Olympic Peninsula,
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  which is about an hour from where I live.
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  And we found this parade and and it's a great little parade.
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  It's one of the best attended parades in the area.
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  And so we we've started going to that and they love us there.
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  And there you go. So I'm now basically halfway
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  across the bridge and the water is just calm as I'll get out
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  now. I understand a boat went through
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  here earlier today, but I didn't see it.
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  So I won't know. I'll talk to somebody later see
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  if they know who it was. The Olympic mountains in the
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  distance are kind of cloud shrouded.
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  They're there, but you can there's clouds kind of drifting
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  in front of them. It's it's a hazy day, but it's a
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  great day for a parade. So this is all stream of thought
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  as I reach the other side in Jefferson County.
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  If you're looking at a map, just find the Hood Canal Bridge and I
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  am headed up past the shine tide lands.
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  This is one of my favorite places to come when I'm
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  stargazing. This this area out here at night
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  is particularly dark. The only problem is you don't
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  have much of A view to the West because the the tree line is too
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  close to the beach. But but it's a very nice area.
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  It's very dark and very, very, very pleasant out here.
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  And they've done a lot of work on this road since I moved back
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  here. This used to be basically a 2
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  lane highway with a lot of traffic issues.
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  Now they put in what Bill would call circles of death, some
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  passing lanes, some things like that.
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  But it it'll be an interesting little drive.
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  It's one of my favorite little drives.
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  This and Hwy. 3 to the South Down towards Shelton.
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  I am behind the float. I don't know how far behind I
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  am. We both left at the same time,
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  but I stopped to get a cup of coffee.
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  So I'm trying to catch up to them as we head up the hill
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  here. Oh, I'm not going to make it.
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  There's a passing lane, but I don't think I'm going to make it
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  because this guy's speeding up on me now.
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  I'm going to go by him doing 75 in A50 zone.
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  That's probably not smart. Anyway, I just thought I'd try
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  this thing and give you a little stream of consciousness as I'm
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  driving to Squim for the Irrigation Day parade.
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  Folks. I love it up here.
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  This place is so beautiful. I just hate the freaking morons
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  that run it. We paid 559 for gas yesterday,
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  559 now again, if that's what everybody across the country was
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  paying, you'd kind of go, well, you know, it is what it is, but
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  it's not a $1.70 of that is just Washington state pretending that
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  we care about climate change. That's all it is.
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  It's this climate change, this Climate Commitment Act added all
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  these fees and taxes and everything else onto the gallon
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  of gas. It totals $1.70, meaning that we
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  paid 559. Take $1.70 away from that.
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  What does that equal, right? It's we're under 4 is what we
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  should be paying given everything else that's
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  happening. That's what we should be paying.
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  But instead we're paying 559 a gallon because of this idiocy.
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  And none of that, it's, it'd be one thing if you thought, well,
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  hey, the money's going to go to something useful, but it's not.
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  It's just employment for climate activists.
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  That's all it is. We're not doing anything.
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  Washington State is not even if there is an actual global
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  warming problem. And you know, I don't believe
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  that there is, but even if there were, Washington state's not
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  going to solve it this way. It's, it's ludicrous.
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  But there you go. Saw an article this morning
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  about and we're going to talk about this on what the Frock
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  tomorrow. Self driving cars are going to
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  be the thing now in, in in the rest of our lifetimes, we're
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  going to see completely self driving cars.
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  And I'm just thinking to myself, you know, this is something my
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  son is in favor of. He he thinks this is going to be
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  great. And I just I find driving so
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  relaxing and I find drives like this so cathartic to my soul.
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  I thought sounds ridiculous, but it's true.
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  I find this kind of thing just pleasant.
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  And here I am driving this way, just enjoying it, just enjoying
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  the day. I, I wish I could, I almost wish
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  this was on video because you could see what I'm seeing and,
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  and just the, the Scotch broom on the side of the road, the
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  yellow Scotch broom, the, the pine trees, the Aspen trees, the
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  oak trees. And of course, traffic doing 10
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  miles an hour under the speed limit, which kind of annoys me,
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  but it's just something that I so enjoy.
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  And I, and I read this thing about autonomous cars and how
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  they're going to take over everything and within the next,
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  I don't know, 10 to 15 years, they'll just take over every
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  car. Nobody will drive the people who
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  drive the the the point of the article was that driving a car
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  will become like horseback riding.
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  Now, Once Upon a time, everybody owned a horse, everybody rode a
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  horse, everybody went there. And now the only people who own
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  and ride horses are people that have large amounts of disposable
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  income. And the implication was that
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  driving will become similar. It will become a hobby.
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  And I just can't even imagine that.
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  I can't even imagine a world like that.
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  But I guess progress is what it is, You know, that's probably
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  going to happen. Probably going to be that way
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  anyway. I'm 30 miles from Squim, passing
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  the junction of 20, headed up to Port Townsend, which is where
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  I'll be going on Tuesday afternoon.
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  Cammy and I are going to take another short little trip over,
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  back over to Anacortes. We really like Anacortes.
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  So we're going to go back over there on Tuesday, Wednesday,
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  come back on Thursday, and so I'll get to come this way again
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  pretty soon. I got a good friend that lives
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  out here too, so we'll see how that goes.
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  Anyway, just just wanted to test this thing out, see how it
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  works. We'll give it a listen when I
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  get home, which probably won't be till this evening.
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  If it's good enough, maybe I'll post it.
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  If it's not, well then it'll go to the bit bend like so much
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  other stuff to us. You would not believe how many
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  times I hit record and you never hear it because just isn't good.
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  But I wanted to try this and do a little stream of consciousness
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  as I drove on US one O 1. Well, actually it's W one O 4
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  right now, but eventually it'll be US one O 1 headed out to the
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  Olympic Peninsula. Squim Irrigation Days parade.
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  Take care, everybody.