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Gas prices and Landman the show · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Did you have a nice Thanksgiving Zacchary?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was about how about you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming you traveled down south of the Ohio border. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a good time.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody, big family gathering.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a good family Saturday Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 1: I want, I want to I already did it privately.
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  Speaker 1: I will do it publicly as well, apologize to you
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  Speaker 1: for missing your birthday. Had Facebook not let me know, Noah,
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  Speaker 1: like eleven twenty that night, I would not have known
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  Speaker 1: it was your birthday. And I feel crummy from missing it.
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  Speaker 2: It's not don't worry about it.
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  Speaker 1: I am because you're always so kind and so sweet,
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  Speaker 1: and you got me something from my birthday, and and
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even know it was your birthday, and I
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  Speaker 1: feel terrible about that.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's okay, not a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it is. What are you? Are you
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  Speaker 1: over thirty? Now? Have you crossed the thirty thirty one?
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  Speaker 1: Oh you're thirty one? Just cross the thirty Okay? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, I hope it was a happy birthday for
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  Speaker 1: you to an addition to Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 2: I very much appreciate it. How was yours?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Actually, actually it was pretty dag gone nice.
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  Speaker 2: I saw some pictures that did.
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  Speaker 3: Like Blazer was talking about it earlier, you had a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people, it seemed like, and it just seemed
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  Speaker 3: like a big happy time.
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  Speaker 1: It was. It was, and I had. I complimented the
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  Speaker 1: Queen probably fifty times after the meal. She Wow, everything,
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  Speaker 1: everything was perfect. I mean every she.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, Oh you say she's a great cook.
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  Speaker 1: She has no confidence in her ability to cook, and
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  Speaker 1: yet she brings magic out of the kitchen all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And the turkey absolutely perfect. She did this thing with
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  Speaker 1: the deviled eggs with like mincing up onion and dill
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  Speaker 1: pickle and mixing in with deviled eggs, which was just
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  Speaker 1: a whole new dimension to deviled eggs. The stuffing, she
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  Speaker 1: actually made the stuffing because I told her, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the holidays are not for stove top. You gotta have
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  Speaker 1: real stuffing. So she's like, I've never done this before.
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  Speaker 1: It was amazing and it was good. Yeah, this woman
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  Speaker 1: made me like green bean casserole for goodness sake. If
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  Speaker 1: you can do that, you are a magician in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: So and I hope that I hope that everyone whose
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  Speaker 1: ears are upon us right now had an enjoyable Thanksgiving
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  Speaker 1: and a meaningful Thanksgiving, and and and counted their blessings,
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  Speaker 1: as they say, because even in the midst of crap
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  Speaker 1: we have them. Sometimes they're harder to see than they
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  Speaker 1: are at other times, but the blessings are always there.
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  Speaker 1: And I hope that I truly mean that, that you
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  Speaker 1: got the opportunity to be thankful, to think about those
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  Speaker 1: things in your life that are good and and are
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  Speaker 1: better this year than they were last year, and hopefully
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  Speaker 1: will be even better next year than they were this year.
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  Speaker 1: I wish that for all of us, I really do.
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  Speaker 1: And Mark and I were joking with the Alex earlier
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  Speaker 1: about the gas prices or not. It was with the
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Jordan talking about the gas prices and so forth,
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  Speaker 1: and Mark said he saw buck ninety seven a gallon
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  Speaker 1: when he was in Detroit over the weekend. No, right,
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  Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, man, with the Kroger points, I could
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  Speaker 1: get gas for ninety seven cents a gallon right now. Wow. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: that harkens me back to nineteen eighty five. Wow, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like buying a hummer just so I got something
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  Speaker 1: with a big tank on it.
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  Speaker 2: I got it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so excited for like, I'm so glad that gas
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  Speaker 3: prices are down.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: This is it's just the car that I have now
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  Speaker 3: I have to use eighty nine. So it just feels
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  Speaker 3: like even when it comes down, it's back to where
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  Speaker 3: it was.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah at that so I'm just mad.
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  Speaker 1: And you have to balance that out depending upon the
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  Speaker 1: price of gas, because like I had one of those
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  Speaker 1: ones where you had to use the higher octane, but
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  Speaker 1: I would buy the bottle of octane boost for like
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  Speaker 1: three p fifty three ninety five something like that and
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  Speaker 1: put that in with the eighty seven to boost the
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  Speaker 1: octane by three or four points. Oh okay, And it
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  Speaker 1: actually because the price of the gas, it was actually
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  Speaker 1: more beneficial for me to do that than it was
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  Speaker 1: to actually buy the higher octane gas fair enough and gas.
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  Speaker 1: You know, nobody really publicizes their gasoline these days, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe you guys, it used to be, you know, before
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  Speaker 1: Speedway bottom up, there was Super America, and Super America
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  Speaker 1: used to talk about their clean gasoline. Marathon would advertise
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  Speaker 1: their American product. I remember when Shell back in the
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  Speaker 1: early eighties came out with SU two thousand, which I
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  Speaker 1: used to run in my seventy one Chaville, and then
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  Speaker 1: they came at what was the Ultra ninety three I
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  Speaker 1: think it was. Then over on the west side you
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  Speaker 1: could get something you could not run this straight by
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  Speaker 1: the way in your car, something called Turbo Blue, which
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  Speaker 1: was a racing gasoline, and a lot of guys with
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  Speaker 1: the hot rods when I was a youngster would go
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  Speaker 1: over there and get Turbo Blue, and they do like
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  Speaker 1: a quarter tank at Turbo Blue and the rest of it.
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  Speaker 1: They would put the you know, like the SU two
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  Speaker 1: thousand or Ultra ninety three or something in. But people
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  Speaker 1: don't even talk about the quality or origins or anything
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  Speaker 1: else of their gasolines these days. They I think they
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  Speaker 1: realize everybody's just kind of looking for the same the
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  Speaker 1: same thing, which is the lowest possible price to fill
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  Speaker 1: their tank.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, unless you have an electric car? Does that? Do
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  Speaker 2: they have any like?
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  Speaker 3: Uh like, when you put in your Tesla or whatever,
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  Speaker 3: you go, this is a cheaper charging state I have.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't know. I'm not sure how people
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  Speaker 1: pay for those charging stations quite fir I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: know you use a debit card or credit card, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's priced per kill a lot
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  Speaker 1: or I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I know that you can pay extra to supercharge it,
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  Speaker 3: which means it'll charge faster.
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  Speaker 1: As we were talking about this show Landman that's on
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  Speaker 1: Paramount right now, Billy Bob Thornton works for an oil company,
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  Speaker 1: a small oil company. Yes, And last night as I
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  Speaker 1: was watching, I think it was episode three, he's got
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  Speaker 1: an attorney out there because they're in the midst of
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  Speaker 1: a legal situation, and he shows her the wind turbines
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  Speaker 1: and she's intrigued that the oil company is investing in
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  Speaker 1: green energy, and he clarified to her, No, it's not
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  Speaker 1: green energy, it's alternative energy, because there's no electricity out here.
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  Speaker 1: You know how much electricity it takes to power one
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  Speaker 1: of these pumps. You know how much concrete it takes.
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  Speaker 1: We go four feet into the earth. You cover a
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  Speaker 1: third of an acre with the base of this thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's four hundred sum feet high. We use more to
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  Speaker 1: build one of these things then they will ever make.
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  Speaker 1: They will never ever reduce their carbon footprint. What it
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  Speaker 1: costs in petroleum to build one can't be offset by
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  Speaker 1: the energy they produce. In their twenty year lifespan. We
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  Speaker 1: will be still negative you're using more petroleum products to
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  Speaker 1: put this thing up than you are. So it's not
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  Speaker 1: an alternative. It's nothing it. Believe me, if it was X,
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  Speaker 1: I would have them all over the planet. But it's not.
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  Speaker 1: We need him out here because there's no electric lines.
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  Speaker 1: We're in the middle of nowhere drilling for oil. And
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you, man, it's a great show. The language
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  Speaker 1: is strong, as are most things on the streaming things,
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  Speaker 1: but it is Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I've only got one episode into it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you watched the first one already. Was that opening
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  Speaker 1: scene with the bag over his head not amazing?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, as soon as I was like, what in the
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  Speaker 3: world's going and then I heard him talk, and I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: there's that voice and the way, like the confidence where
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  Speaker 3: it's yes, yeah, like this is what's gonna happen, blah
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  Speaker 3: blah blah.
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  Speaker 2: Either way, we're gonna get what we want.
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  Speaker 1: We are going to get what we want. Yes, Oh
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  Speaker 1: my gosh, what a show. So while I'm waiting for
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  Speaker 1: Tulsa King to start over again with their new season,
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  Speaker 1: I will be watching land Man, And I saw an
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  Speaker 1: announcement today. If you watch Tulsa King, they introduced Samuel L.
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  Speaker 1: Jackson in the last couple of episodes of this season,
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  Speaker 1: and he is he departed at the end of the season,
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  Speaker 1: said I'm a head on down to New Orleans and
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  Speaker 1: uh because he's got a hide out. A contract was
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  Speaker 1: taken out on stallone and Samuel Jackson was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: kill him. Well, he's not going to do it, so
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  Speaker 1: he's going down to New Orleans to kind of you know.
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  Speaker 1: He said, if you did it in Tulsa, maybe I
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  Speaker 1: can do it in Orleans. Well, Nola King is coming
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  Speaker 1: out now, Nola being New Orleans, Louisiana. I'll watch that
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  Speaker 1: and that'll be Samuel Jackson's version of Tulsa King. I
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  Speaker 1: guess yeah, it's man got some good stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Up TV's gotten so more in depth.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. I got happy passing two forty a gallon
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  Speaker 1: today and over the holiday weekend it was coming down,
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  Speaker 1: down down, I got I filled up last time on
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  Speaker 1: uh Friday, I think it was I had seven cents
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  Speaker 1: a gallon off on the Queen's card at a speedway
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  Speaker 1: because she goes in there and buy Slurpey's or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: So I got seven cents a gallon. So I paid
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  Speaker 1: two forty two a gallon, and I was real happy
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  Speaker 1: about that. Then I saw two forty. Today I'm I
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  Speaker 1: am enthusiasiastic of things to come. I really am Tony
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  Speaker 1: standing by with something here on gas. Let's get you
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  Speaker 1: on eight two eighty six the number. By the way, Tony,
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  Speaker 1: you're on sixth en double the ETV at height.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Chuck uh, maybe you can help me figure something
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  Speaker 4: out here. I'm fifty six years old, so been around
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  Speaker 4: for a few years now. But how is it now
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  Speaker 4: that diesel fuel costs more than gas when back in
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  Speaker 4: the day, the seventies, the eighties and nineties, diesel fuel
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  Speaker 4: is always cheaper than gas because it's just the eye
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  Speaker 4: products of it, right, Because my dad and I had
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  Speaker 4: our own livestock feed business and the moving company that
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  Speaker 4: I used to work for. The more diesel fuel went up,
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  Speaker 4: the more we add to add an extra charge for
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  Speaker 4: delivery for that fuel surcharge. So if that got dropped,
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't our prices of our stuff at the stores.
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  Speaker 1: Come The industry that's using that diesel is paying more
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  Speaker 1: for everything, including the diesel itself. And you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: no no logic behind it except for the fact that
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  Speaker 1: we need it and they've got it, and so they're
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  Speaker 1: going to charge everything they can. The trucking industry and
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  Speaker 1: the railroads are paying all kinds of you know, fees
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  Speaker 1: and so forth that they were not paying back then.
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  Speaker 1: And diesel fuel, which just kind of hits to ride
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  Speaker 1: on that and continues to go up. It should be
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  Speaker 1: it should be at least just a little more expensive
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  Speaker 1: than gasoline. Not when you're seeing, you know, a dollar
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  Speaker 1: eighty two dollars difference in a price per gallon, that's
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  Speaker 1: a little crazy. Because remember they were trying to sell
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  Speaker 1: us on diesel back in the eighties. The Volkswagen Rabbit
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  Speaker 1: diesel was alleged to get like eighty seven miles per
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  Speaker 1: gallon or something stupid like that, because that was the
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  Speaker 1: wave of the future. I personally never liked the way
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  Speaker 1: diesel engines sounded in cars. I expect a semi to
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  Speaker 1: sound that way. I don't want a car to sound
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  Speaker 1: that way. And they said, well, you'll get more. It
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  Speaker 1: might cost just a little bit more than gasoline, but
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  Speaker 1: the miles per gallon will be so much more that
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  Speaker 1: it will all set it that that hasn't come to be.
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  Speaker 4: No, And it's always you know, you figure we got
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  Speaker 4: plenty of gas, and with the diesel fuel being a
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  Speaker 4: gas by product of that, there's not a shortage on gas,
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  Speaker 4: so you wouldn't think there'd be a shortage on the
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  Speaker 4: diesel fuel. But it's just the way for somebody to
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  Speaker 4: line their pocket.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. Absolutely, that's all they are doing to is line
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  Speaker 1: in those pockets because as I said, they've got it,
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  Speaker 1: we need it and they know it. And same thing
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  Speaker 1: with gasoline. When the summer comes, when the weather comes
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  Speaker 1: and people start driving more, it'll go up wintertime warming
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  Speaker 1: up your car, if we get like a really deep freeze,
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  Speaker 1: tip down ten degrees or less for a few weeks,
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  Speaker 1: Trust me, it's going to go up because they know
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  Speaker 1: people will be idly warming up their cars, and the
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  Speaker 1: price will go up because they know we're going to
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  Speaker 1: consume it. We have to consume it. And I I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, as long as it's reasonable, I don't see.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think profit's a dirty word. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: profit is a bad thing. Abusive profit is a different matter.
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  Speaker 1: When people will just rake you over the coals, that's
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  Speaker 1: a different matter. But there's absolutely nothing wrong with being
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  Speaker 1: in business to make money. That's why you go into business.
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  Speaker 1: But there does come that time when and see, how
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  Speaker 1: do you walk that line. Well, I don't want government
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  Speaker 1: necessarily controlling that's not good. That's not what capitalism is
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  Speaker 1: all about. On the other hand, I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: I can count on the common decency of my fellow
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  Speaker 1: man or my American corporations. So we're stuck in the
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  Speaker 1: middle this tug of war, and whoever whoever pulls the
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  Speaker 1: hardest wins us for that round. But I'll tell you,
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  Speaker 1: if if energy is cheap, whether it's gasoline, electricity, natural gas,
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  Speaker 1: if that's cheap, everything else gets cheap. That's the key
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  Speaker 1: to the whole bull of wax and the uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: the electricity. Remember when Barack Obama was taking office, he
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  Speaker 1: said he's gonna make it. You know, it would be
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  Speaker 1: financially impossible for anybody to start an electrical supply company.
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  Speaker 1: It just wouldn't pan out. Because they wanted to get
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  Speaker 1: rid of electricity, coal, fire power plants and all this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Without any way of replacing the electricity they wanted to
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  Speaker 1: get rid of. There is utopian and then they're stooped hopedia.
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  Speaker 1: And that's that was stoop topia. If you don't have
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  Speaker 1: a new plan, don't get rid of the old plan
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  Speaker 1: that's working.