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Thank You For Coming To My Ted Talk · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. It's one
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  Speaker 1: more thing. I'm It's going to be a short podcast
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  Speaker 1: today unless something pops into my head. But I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to get this on because I've had this experience myself. Katie,
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  Speaker 1: what are we about to hear?
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  Speaker 2: We are listening to a cattle rancher who is standing
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  Speaker 2: at his truck and his entire herd of cattle are
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  Speaker 2: all facing him, and he is addressing the crowd.
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  Speaker 3: I have good news and I have bad news. Bad
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  Speaker 3: news is I will not be able to get the
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  Speaker 3: well going to give you water. It's not an electrical problem,
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  Speaker 3: it's an issue with the motor. Okay. The good news
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  Speaker 3: is Michael's coming and he'll bring you water. Okay, So
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  Speaker 3: you're not gonna die, You'll just be thirsty for a
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  Speaker 3: while long, Okay. I'm sorry. Thank you for your continued support.
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  Speaker 3: All Right, you have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for your continued support.
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  Speaker 2: Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't even know if you know this about me, Katie,
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  Speaker 1: that I used to work in feed lots for years.
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  Speaker 1: I worked with cattle for years, tens and tens and
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  Speaker 1: tens of thousands of cattle in pens and out and
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  Speaker 1: fields and everything like that, and that is a thing
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  Speaker 1: that cattle do. Sheep don't do it, Pigs don't do it,
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  Speaker 1: Goats don't do it quite the same way. They will
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  Speaker 1: butt you. But cattle, if you're like if you're out
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  Speaker 1: in a field middle of nowhere by yourself and like
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  Speaker 1: you're you're digging a post hole because you got to
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  Speaker 1: replace a broken post on them like that, all the
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  Speaker 1: cows will come over and stand there and just look
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  Speaker 1: at you and just watch it. And they'll just stand
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  Speaker 1: there right around you, like in a nice orderly circle
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  Speaker 1: and watch you. And it's a common thing when you're
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  Speaker 1: out there by yourself to address them, say hey, guys, how's.
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  Speaker 2: It going, And they're just observing.
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  Speaker 1: They're just observing, and it feels like you've got an audience.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that other friends of mine because we'd
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  Speaker 1: be out there working on us. Like then we'd start
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  Speaker 1: talking about how you guys doing. Huh, that's my whole Like, look,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to my ted talk. I want to talk to
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  Speaker 1: you all today about why I like leve no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: hear me out. This is what I like about leather.
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  Speaker 1: You know. We would start various conversations, make each other laughing.
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  Speaker 2: I've said this a million times to family and friends.
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  Speaker 2: I wish they didn't taste so good because they're so
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  Speaker 2: stink and cute.
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  Speaker 1: Man, ah they are. They're relatively nice too, Yeah they are.
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  Speaker 1: They are unlikely to hurt you other than bulls.
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  Speaker 2: My friend has a cow that has Down syndrome and
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  Speaker 2: is blind in one eye, and its name is Jiggles,
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  Speaker 2: and it's the sweetest cow ever, and it comes up
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  Speaker 2: to you and just kind of what's its little head
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  Speaker 2: sideways India and uh.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. It made me want to be a
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  Speaker 1: vegetarian and do Jiggles lives outside I assume.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, amongst the other cattle. But she's just she's not
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  Speaker 2: you know, she just kind of does her own thing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to turn something nice into something not nice.
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  Speaker 1: But when I worked in the feed lots, and this
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  Speaker 1: was many decades ago, gladys.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to go there, I can feel it.
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  Speaker 1: The cattle were not treated that well. And I was
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  Speaker 1: very young and so I just did what everybody else did.
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  Speaker 1: But it was looking back on it is a little rough,
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  Speaker 1: a little rough.
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  Speaker 2: H.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the way cattle were sometimes treated. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: even want to tell the stories or get into the specifics,
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  Speaker 1: but it was grown up me would not be able
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  Speaker 1: to participate or be around that, that behavior toward an
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  Speaker 1: innocent animal.
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  Speaker 2: And grown up me doesn't want to hear about it.
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  Speaker 2: So I think we've come to an ice agreement.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think that goes on anymore.
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  Speaker 2: I would I wouldn't think so, right, I mean times
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  Speaker 2: have changed so much.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, even just for practical reasons, they stopped running them.
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  Speaker 1: We used to run cattle everywhere, just because we're in
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  Speaker 1: a hurry. Like you have giant area of pens, and
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  Speaker 1: you've got a pen, maybe it's a quarter mile away,
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  Speaker 1: and you got three hundred cattle you need to process.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I spent most of my time doing processing cattle,
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  Speaker 1: which is giving them all their shots and everything like that.
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  Speaker 1: See A run them down these alleys and then you
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  Speaker 1: run them into a pen, and then you feed them
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  Speaker 1: through this process and they go through one at a
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  Speaker 1: time where they go in this shoot and like I
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  Speaker 1: would stand there and I'd have like ten different syringes.
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  Speaker 1: Bam bam, bam, bam, bam bam. You give them all
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  Speaker 1: their shots. You get a big clipper clip off their horns,
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  Speaker 1: Blood squirts out and they walk off. It didn't seem
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  Speaker 1: to hurt or anything, just but blood would scuirt out
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  Speaker 1: like a fountain, like a monia, like a money python fountain.
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  Speaker 1: It would just word out barbaric is right. Then you
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  Speaker 1: put them, you dip them, so they would go into
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  Speaker 1: a cage, and then he would be submerged in all
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  Speaker 1: these chemicals.
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  Speaker 2: He's still going, Michael, do you notice that how we
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  Speaker 2: kind of got disagreement that he wasn't going to go through.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not doing the bad stuff. This is just the
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  Speaker 1: normal this is this is okay, this is just the
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  Speaker 1: normal stuff. But they would submerge them in this liquid
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  Speaker 1: and all the chemicals and stuff like that to get
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  Speaker 1: ticks and fleas and whatever else off of them, that
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  Speaker 1: sort of stuff. They didn't dig that too, because they
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  Speaker 1: thought they were drowning. So they would evacuate themselves when
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  Speaker 1: they were submerged. And then you lift them back up,
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  Speaker 1: you open the gate, and then they run off because
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  Speaker 1: they're scared to death. But anyway, we would run them
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  Speaker 1: everywhere and then they just you know, that's actually you know,
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  Speaker 1: running a steer in the heat for a quarter mile
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  Speaker 1: is causing it to lose weight. We don't want them
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  Speaker 1: to lose weight. We want them to be heavy, right,
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  Speaker 1: because you make more money. And then they started walking them.
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  Speaker 1: Oh interesting, that was more out of it saving money
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  Speaker 1: rather than trying to be nicer. Wow. But when we
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  Speaker 1: ran them, that's how I got stampeded the one time.
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  Speaker 1: I've told that story too many times. I won't tell
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  Speaker 1: that story again. But uh yeah I did that for
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  Speaker 1: a very long time. Hmmm, that didn't turn me off meat.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: See, that's the thing is, it's like I've been sent
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  Speaker 2: those like meet your Meat videos. You remember that one
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  Speaker 2: that went around. I think Peta made that crap years ago,
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  Speaker 2: and I saw I can't watch I cannot watch that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I actually just told them I was like, if if
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  Speaker 2: a dog dies in a movie, I'm not watching it.
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  Speaker 2: If like an animal is getting tortured, I'm not watching it.
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  Speaker 2: But I still I can't resist a nice bone in Ribbi.
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  Speaker 1: I ran. I ran over a steer with a tractor
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  Speaker 1: one time. That was completely an accident, completely an accident
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  Speaker 1: in my fault, and it was that was pretty horrific,
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  Speaker 1: And I can.
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  Speaker 2: See did you not see it?
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  Speaker 1: I still did this day. Don't know how it happened.
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  Speaker 1: I was I was turning a corner and I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if it walked up in between or I just
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  Speaker 1: did I was daydreaming and didn't see it or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: but I ran it over. Oh boy. Yeah. And then
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  Speaker 1: and then it was gruesome to watch. But then I
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  Speaker 1: had to go tell my boss and he was quite
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  Speaker 1: unhappy because I was several thousand dollars I just destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: And then you get a chain you put on the
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  Speaker 1: back of your pickup, and then your wrapp a chain
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  Speaker 1: around a hoof and you drag it down the gravel.
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  Speaker 2: Rookie, all right, you know this took a turn. It
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  Speaker 2: started with the really sweet video of a guy giving
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  Speaker 2: his cows a nice talk. You're not going to be
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  Speaker 2: thirsty for long, don't worry, Thank you for your attention,
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  Speaker 2: have a nice day. And now it has moved into
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  Speaker 2: this Mormon horrible play, moved into this.
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  Speaker 1: Horrible place that I don't like. I don't like it.
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  Speaker 2: Michael backed me up.
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  Speaker 1: Please, this is this. This will be my final comment.
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  Speaker 1: So then you put them in a pile, because lots
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  Speaker 1: of cattle die because you hurt tens of thousands of cattle,
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  Speaker 1: so they're dying regularly, so you have a pile. And
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  Speaker 1: then they had something that they humorously called the used
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  Speaker 1: cow truck that would come by once a week and
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  Speaker 1: pick up the used cow truck and then you take
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  Speaker 1: it to a rendering plant where they like boil it
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  Speaker 1: down to make I don't know, folks chew leather or something.
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  Speaker 2: I tried to stop him.
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  Speaker 1: I did on.
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  Speaker 2: National Cheeseburger Day. This is what you do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's pretty sick. If I had remembered that, I
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  Speaker 1: would have kept my mouth yet. I'm sorry you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Ever seen Napoleon Dynamite. There is one scene where the
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  Speaker 1: farmers yes, and the school bus goes by right at
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  Speaker 1: that time. Yeah, it's a funny moment. Well, I guess
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  Speaker 1: that's it.