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Bill's Moab Trip From July 8th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: I was in Moab, which which is a place I
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  Speaker 1: like quite a bit there, and it's still has a
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  Speaker 1: it's still a small town. I mean, it's just field
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  Speaker 1: small and it's in a nice way. But there are
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  Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of people, you know, trying
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  Speaker 1: to change that. There's there's, for instance, there's a there
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  Speaker 1: they're planning. There's a plan afoot to build a new
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  Speaker 1: city right by the Colorado River, a different city called
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  Speaker 1: Echo Canyon. Yeah, and I mean it would be right
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  Speaker 1: on the Colorado. It's it was called Cane Springs now
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  Speaker 1: it's been rebranded Echo Canyon. It includes plans for four
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty housing units, one hundred and two room hotel,
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  Speaker 1: and commercial space. And they want it to be its
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  Speaker 1: own city, not part of Boab. It'll be part of
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  Speaker 1: and it's it's kind of down the the Cane Creek
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  Speaker 1: Road goes down on the Colorado and it's I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if they're building, Moab needs affordable housing.
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  Speaker 2: If they're building, that's.
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  Speaker 1: Not what it is. No, it's it's uh, it will
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  Speaker 1: be well. There are a lot of people opposed to
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  Speaker 1: it in Moab, and I hopefully it won't. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know whom has the final decision probably what is it
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  Speaker 1: Grand County. I think that's county. It's in that that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be who has the final say on all of it.
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  Speaker 1: But they're they're a big sign. So for instance, we
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  Speaker 1: went out to breakfast the yesterday morning before we left
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  Speaker 1: Moab at a place called Cactus Jacks and there's a
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  Speaker 1: big reader sign out in front of Cactus Jacks that says,
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  Speaker 1: tell you tell your senator that our public lands aren't
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  Speaker 1: for sale.
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  Speaker 2: Well that was that was a big, beautiful bill stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're they're really most I think most businesses down there,
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  Speaker 1: most business owners are pretty opposed to, you know, giving up.
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  Speaker 3: Federal lands to private that thing that we warned them
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  Speaker 3: about before the election.
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  Speaker 1: But I was sitting, I was at eating breakfast at
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  Speaker 1: Cactus Jackson. Uh, I guess the the what the waitress
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  Speaker 1: a waitress came over the table. I was in the restroom,
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  Speaker 1: but came over where my wife and kid were and said, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the owner here, the manager here, he wants to know
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  Speaker 1: is that your husband? Yeah? I said, is he that
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  Speaker 1: guy on the radio in Salt Lake? And is that
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  Speaker 1: bill already here? He said, My my, my kid was
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  Speaker 1: going to buy a sticker, a cactus Jack sticker. You
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  Speaker 1: can have one, just have it. It's on the house.
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  Speaker 1: So there are perks, you know, being my being my child,
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  Speaker 1: you get a free sticker. Yeah, a free sticker from
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  Speaker 1: you have to.
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  Speaker 2: Put up with you being dad, but you get a
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  Speaker 2: stick that's true.
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  Speaker 1: But had it really better?
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  Speaker 4: You better report this to accounting.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's right. Uh yeah, it's a really nice sticker too.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, that had a nice time there. There's a
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  Speaker 1: Cactus Jacks was good.
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  Speaker 2: Were you airbnbing or do you okay?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Airbnb and that so we did it was I
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  Speaker 1: went down there because my wife goes down there once
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  Speaker 1: a year and they have a roller derby tournament there
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  Speaker 1: and it's out at the fairgrounds. And the Grand County
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  Speaker 1: really does a nice job with setting things up for
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  Speaker 1: the roller derby people and just really being accommodating. And
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  Speaker 1: there was a county fair going on there, and there
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  Speaker 1: was all kinds of you know, stuff for kids to do,
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  Speaker 1: and there was there was a competing, there was a
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  Speaker 1: country music concert going on, and there was you know,
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  Speaker 1: there was there was some sort of rodeoing and horseshoe
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  Speaker 1: horse showing and all of that kind of stuff and
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  Speaker 1: roller derby, so it all, you know, it all kind
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  Speaker 1: of fits together, and Grand County does a really nice job.
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  Speaker 1: And then the next day, the tradition is that all
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  Speaker 1: the roller derby people, the skaters and their husbands and
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  Speaker 1: the officials and I we we go up the up
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  Speaker 1: the canyon, up the up past the Red Rocks Ranch
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  Speaker 1: where we stayed that time. We go up up there
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  Speaker 1: and we with rafts and paddle boards and we float
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  Speaker 1: down the river for about probably two hours something like that,
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  Speaker 1: two and a half three hours. And uh, there's like
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  Speaker 1: thirty of us floating down the car. That stretch of
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  Speaker 1: the Colorado is just real slow and real placid, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just kind of a nice time out in
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  Speaker 1: the sun and you drink some beer and stop and
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  Speaker 1: stop on a little sandbar and have some lunch and
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  Speaker 1: float down the river. Yeah, it's very pleasant, very pleasant.
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  Speaker 1: And I got to because I'm really terrible on the water.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean, you're terrible on the water.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not good at what being I'm not good at
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  Speaker 1: being knowing how to do water sports and or you know,
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  Speaker 1: ride a paddle board or anything like that. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: fortunately my good friend Hayes has has a raft and
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  Speaker 1: he says, don't worry, Bell, I'll get you down the river.
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  Speaker 2: I get you there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so all I have to do is sit in
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  Speaker 1: the in the raft and talk and turn.
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  Speaker 2: I ain't seated, did you remember.
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  Speaker 1: I just remained seated, and Hayes does all the work.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way to do it. You know. He mans
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  Speaker 1: the oars and hands me a beer if I want one.
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  Speaker 2: And you don't even get your own beer.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to. I'll get you down the river. Bell.
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  Speaker 2: If he's doing the oars, you should be getting him
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  Speaker 2: the beer.
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  Speaker 1: I know, he says, Bill, Bill, I'm here to take
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  Speaker 1: care of you. I said, well, thanks, Hayes, I really
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it. And he was. He's the guy who was
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  Speaker 1: making the pizzas at my birthday. Oh okay, that guy.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, not only does he get you down the river,
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  Speaker 2: he makes your pizzas and hands your beer. Hayeses handy
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  Speaker 2: to have it.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, Hayes made pizza that night we got when all
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  Speaker 1: went back to the Airbnb, and he brought a pizza
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  Speaker 1: oven down from Salt Lake in his truck. This pizza
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  Speaker 1: of he knows he knows what he's doing, and he
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  Speaker 1: made a whole bunches of pizzas for everybody, and they
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  Speaker 1: were delicious. I went to another place in Moab that
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  Speaker 1: was great. I'd never I hadn't seen it there before.
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  Speaker 1: It's called the Doe Bird. And in the morning they
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  Speaker 1: make donuts and uh, and they are delicious, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: just great donuts and kind of interesting, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: there was a pair. No, it wasn't a it was
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  Speaker 1: a doughnut that had a candied pear slice on it
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  Speaker 1: and it was just really good and raspberry and all
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  Speaker 1: this stuff. But then they make the donuts and they
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  Speaker 1: sell them out, usually by noon or so, and when
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  Speaker 1: they're gone, then they start making the chicken. So that's
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  Speaker 1: why it's called the dough Bird. They do they do donuts,
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  Speaker 1: and then when the doughnuts are gone.
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  Speaker 2: Is it dough like Simpson dough?
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  Speaker 1: No, No, it's fried chicken en fried chicken. Now. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't have any of the chicken, but the doughnuts were delicious,
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  Speaker 1: and I would suspect I would suspect that the chicken
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  Speaker 1: was also delius.
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  Speaker 4: Is there a magical moment like at noon?
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  Speaker 3: I didn't wear Both are available and they cut a
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  Speaker 3: doughnut in half and make you a sandwich.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure magical. It wouldn't surprise me if somebody
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  Speaker 1: said only a light shines down crossover when the donuts
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  Speaker 1: are gone, we start with it. So no, I think
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  Speaker 1: there's no crossover, as they say, when the donuts are gone,
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  Speaker 1: then we start making the chicken lost opportunity.
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  Speaker 4: It should be. If we have a dozen donuts left,
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  Speaker 4: then there's that magic moment.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you could have work.
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  Speaker 3: Or twelve people, only twelve people. That's you know, that's
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  Speaker 3: Instagram stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you know I was.
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  Speaker 2: And you say I was one of the twelve.
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  Speaker 4: There's one of the twelve today that got the chicken donuts, and.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a good day.
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  Speaker 1: And then we always have to stop at the Moab
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  Speaker 1: Rock Shop because it's.
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  Speaker 4: Probably you love rock and roll.
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  Speaker 1: That's why it's probably Vinyl, right, it's because my kid
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  Speaker 1: loves rocks, all kinds of shiny rock plan and it's
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  Speaker 1: it's all kinds of rocks, beautiful, beautiful shiny rocks and
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  Speaker 1: just piles of rocks.
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  Speaker 2: Did you buy any rocks?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't buy any rocks, but my child, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if they get a rock polisher. They can make their own.
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  Speaker 1: They do some of that. Okay, oh you mean my child. Yes, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's the thought. We kind of got into that briefly,
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  Speaker 1: but it's it's too uh, I don't know, it's just
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  Speaker 1: it takes you put the rocks in there, and then
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  Speaker 1: it just takes too long.
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  Speaker 4: It's noisy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's noisy, and it takes too long.
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  Speaker 3: Was a guy up the street from where I grew
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  Speaker 3: up who did it? He did all sizes, made a
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  Speaker 3: wall out of polished rocks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, yeah, but it's those the old rock
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  Speaker 1: hounders down there are interesting folks there, you know, they're
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  Speaker 1: they're what you would expect them to be. Grizzled and
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  Speaker 1: kind of Let me show you this one. Here's a
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  Speaker 1: nice rock for.
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  Speaker 2: You holding the pick axe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, literally literally, what's that rock? I'd say, that's
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  Speaker 1: a big that's the Moses Geode Moses. Yeah, well, you
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  Speaker 1: crack that sucker here, I'll show you what it looks
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  Speaker 1: like when it's cracked.
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  Speaker 4: Got some real nice ones here in my overalls.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah I'm not not.
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, wait, they're in my beard. I know what
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  Speaker 4: genus picturing here?
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  Speaker 1: I got rocks in my well, No, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't changed my underwear in a while.
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  Speaker 3: He's picturing stinky Peet toy story exactly what well, and
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  Speaker 3: there was a guy there who looked almost like that.