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The State Fair and Human Composting · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: State Fair starts Wednesday. And I don't know, Zach, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure how many years you spent in Ohio. Were
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  Speaker 1: you here and coherent long enough to remember when the
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  Speaker 1: opening day of the Ohio State Fair was a big deal. No,
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  Speaker 1: it used to be six am. I still remember Governor
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  Speaker 1: Rhodes was there to cut the ribbon, and it was
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  Speaker 1: like a real It was a big deal. The news channels,
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  Speaker 1: television news channels were covering it in the morning, and
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  Speaker 1: generally everybody, if you were in media, you were broadcasting
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  Speaker 1: live from the Ohio State Fair. I mean, just we
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  Speaker 1: all did it. It was wonderful, it was, it was eventful,
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  Speaker 1: and I just I don't have that feeling this year.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why. I haven't for several years. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that's kind of sad because I remember waking
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  Speaker 1: up as a little kid to turn on the TV
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  Speaker 1: and watch the opening of the fair.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I know they broadcast them down their news
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  Speaker 2: stations or whatnot, but I don't remember, you know, for
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  Speaker 2: a long time, scene people like, Hey, I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 2: at the fair broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. Channel ten they were doing a they
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  Speaker 1: did a morning news show down there. When Bob Orr
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  Speaker 1: was still in town, and it was actually beating Good
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  Speaker 1: Morning America. People were that's before everybody had a morning
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  Speaker 1: news show. They used to just defer to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: having the national things, and and you know, Bob Orr
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  Speaker 1: would come on and do a morning news show and
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  Speaker 1: it was actually beating Good Morning America. And then the
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  Speaker 1: next thing, you know, he's called up by the network
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  Speaker 1: and he's a DC correspondent for CBS and and all that.
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  Speaker 1: But it just it was it was very cool, and
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  Speaker 1: you got to meet listeners. If you were in radio,
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  Speaker 1: it was cool to go out there and be able
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  Speaker 1: to meet listeners. They could meet you. And it was
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  Speaker 1: the days before the internet, so your picture wasn't all
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  Speaker 1: over the place. Generally you had some signed pictures, you'd
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  Speaker 1: hand out pictures to people, and it was just, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, it was just more of an event. And
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  Speaker 1: we had this guy who who was the state fair manager.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what you'd call it. His name was
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  Speaker 1: Billy Enman, and Billy I guess he was kind of
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  Speaker 1: cooking the books because well, it was a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: We were, you know, the largest state fair in America
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  Speaker 1: and I think it was US in Texas, if I'm
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  Speaker 1: not mistaken. That used to go back and forth about
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  Speaker 1: who had the biggest state fair, and in men, I
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  Speaker 1: guess was counting people who would go to their car
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  Speaker 1: and come back as another visitor and things like that, and.
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  Speaker 3: Just fudging the numbers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just to make us look bigger than we And
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  Speaker 1: his his big accomplishment when it came to concerts was
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  Speaker 1: he booked this unknown band. They were kids playing in
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  Speaker 1: a uh in a shopping mall or something. But he's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I got to put somebody on stage. So
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  Speaker 1: he booked this unknown band. But it was like three
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  Speaker 1: years before they were actually going to play here because
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  Speaker 1: they did stuff, you know, way to advance and that
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  Speaker 1: they ended up becoming big new kids on the block them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but by the time they actually played the Ohio State Fair,
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  Speaker 1: they were a major act. We had the outdoor grand
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  Speaker 1: stand for the concerts, which was pretty awesome. The last
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  Speaker 1: show I saw there was cool in the Gang and
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  Speaker 1: it was before you know, marijuana was legal, but that
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  Speaker 1: did not stop people from indulging. And there was a
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  Speaker 1: guy who was about four rows ahead of me and
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  Speaker 1: he lit up and about ten minutes into the concert
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  Speaker 1: he left his seat to go to the concession stand,
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  Speaker 1: and about forty five minutes later he came back with
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  Speaker 1: every food product sold at the Ohio State Fair.
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  Speaker 3: It happened, he got good time.
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  Speaker 1: The severe munchies, but it was I enjoyed that outdoor,
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  Speaker 1: that outdoor venue. And now they do what is it
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  Speaker 1: a celest Center now where they do all the concerts.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have any idea.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure which building it's in, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm reading all this stuff today about the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of the Ohio State Fair and the concerts that
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  Speaker 1: are coming, and blah blah blah blah blah blah. I
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  Speaker 1: wish them luck. I hope it's a great fair. I
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  Speaker 1: hope it draws a lot of people. I hope there
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  Speaker 1: are no negative incidents and the weather is good to them.
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  Speaker 1: But it just it's it just feels like it's missing
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  Speaker 1: its magic that they had when I was a kid.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think it's been soiled somehow over the years.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I just the excitement just isn't there
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  Speaker 1: for me anymore. I'm not sure what it is now.
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  Speaker 1: Last week I was up at the up at the
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  Speaker 1: Franklin County Fair, I've never been to that before, but
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  Speaker 1: I went up to help out a little politick in
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  Speaker 1: with a friend of mine that's running and and I
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  Speaker 1: walked around the Franklin County Fair and it was like
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  Speaker 1: being at, you know, the Founder's Day Fair in Mayberry.
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  Speaker 1: Granted it gets busier at night, but during the day,
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  Speaker 1: very easy to get around. There were no long lines,
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  Speaker 1: you had all the the you know, the sights and
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  Speaker 1: sounds that are typical for a fair, and it was
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  Speaker 1: it was a really enjoyable atmosphere. And then the Union
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  Speaker 1: County Fair kicked off yesterday and they opened with Rick
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  Speaker 1: Springfield last night, and I've seen videos from the show.
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  Speaker 1: He was he's seventy seven years Oh my gosh. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I may saunter up to Union County
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  Speaker 1: and just just to kind of walk around and get
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  Speaker 1: that old fashioned fair feeling again. But it's just it's
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  Speaker 1: perhaps I'm just a curmudgeon at this point, but the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State Fair just that that that thrill of the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still trying to find it. I got four to
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  Speaker 1: eight hours. Maybe I'll find it in the next day
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  Speaker 1: and a half. Are you going do you plan on
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  Speaker 1: taking Charlie up there.
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  Speaker 2: No, I never even thought about I didn't think one
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  Speaker 2: second about going anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: You're not a fair person, a carnival person. You don't
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  Speaker 1: like that kind of atmosphere.
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  Speaker 2: I would take Charlie there and stuff too, Like Hilliard
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  Speaker 2: used to have a thing every year, like a very
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  Speaker 2: small fair thing, and I would take him and that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there's nothing wrong with it. I just I
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  Speaker 3: don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'll ask him if he wants to go,
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  Speaker 2: or his mom will definitely know about it, so if
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  Speaker 2: he wants to go, I'll take him.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't know. I wouldn't go down by myself.
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  Speaker 1: Nah, we know. Sometimes it's more enjoyable that way.
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  Speaker 3: I mean fair, but just walk around.
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  Speaker 1: And I got an email. I can't believe it was
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  Speaker 1: from Hilliard this morning. I can't remember what it was.
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  Speaker 1: I just remember going, Wow, that's awesome, like at all
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  Speaker 1: night concerts or something coming in August. I will have
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  Speaker 1: to go back and review that. But I remember reading
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  Speaker 1: it and going, oh, that sounds pretty good. Hilliard does
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  Speaker 1: such a good job of just really standing out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're little, even if they do little concerts. I
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  Speaker 2: had the summer.
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  Speaker 3: They have a.
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  Speaker 1: Little outdoor things night. Yes, yeah, that's a it's packed.
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  Speaker 1: It is packed. The bands I used to go because
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  Speaker 1: we were living up there at the time. The bands
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  Speaker 1: are good, the crowd is full, there's there. I haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen any violence. No, uh, there's no you know, weed
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  Speaker 1: wreaking in the air. There's it's it's it's quite enjoyable.
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  Speaker 3: It's very family friendly. Yes, you could.
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  Speaker 2: Half the people could walk around and drink inside that
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  Speaker 2: little square if you had your wristband.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Stuff. It was still very.
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  Speaker 1: You know, and there's lots of restaurants and stuff right
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  Speaker 1: there in the you know, that vicinity where you can go.
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  Speaker 1: But we lived right down the street, so we could
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  Speaker 1: like walk down driving ornything. Yeah, that was very nice.
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  Speaker 1: So I want to get into Did you see what
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  Speaker 1: I put on Facebook? I've never even heard of this
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  Speaker 1: until today. Composting, composting human beings instead of instead of
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  Speaker 1: burial or or cremation or cremation, Uh, when you pass away,
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  Speaker 1: apparently now composting.
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  Speaker 3: You.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea how this works. I have I
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  Speaker 1: don't know where the idea comes from, but I have
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  Speaker 1: just been besieged with online advertising for human composting. Have
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  Speaker 1: you heard of.
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  Speaker 2: This, I have not, but I guess it's a way
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  Speaker 2: to stay useful after you die.
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  Speaker 1: That's what that's their advertising gimmick right there, that's how
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  Speaker 1: they're advertising it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm paying much, I I I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Know if I'm good with that. I mean, I guess
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  Speaker 1: to each his own, as they say, But I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to think. You know, when I hear composting, I think
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  Speaker 1: of those bins that you throw trash and garbage into
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  Speaker 1: to fertilize your garden, the banana peels and the eggshells
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  Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff, and it breaks down
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  Speaker 1: and degrades and ferments and then you use it as
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  Speaker 1: fertilizer in the garden. That to me is composting. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure what is what is actually involved in this
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  Speaker 1: whole idea of human composting, And I'm looking for somebody
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  Speaker 1: who might know. Maybe there's a funeral director who could
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  Speaker 1: tell me what human composting is, because it sounds it
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  Speaker 1: sounds like something I never want to even approach. And
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  Speaker 1: I got to thinking, what am I going to do
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  Speaker 1: with somebody I care about passes away and wants to
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  Speaker 1: be composted. And somebody asked, Hey, what do you think
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  Speaker 1: he wanted to be it. I don't even know how.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, but this could be like a stealth
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  Speaker 2: sequel to soilent Green somehow, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 2: same kind of concept.
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  Speaker 3: You're not eating the people?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah? What if? What? What? Yeah? Exactly? What if
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  Speaker 1: this becomes like like a big deal. And and people
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  Speaker 1: you've heard of leaving your body to medical science? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what if you leave your body to to agriculture? And
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  Speaker 1: and I there's just something that seems very Matrix like
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  Speaker 1: to me on this whole thing. I'm not sure that
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  Speaker 1: I'm liking it. And and uh, human composting.
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  Speaker 3: Ew is there a Morpheus out there?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Man, do you want the red pill
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  Speaker 1: or the blue pill?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know which I'd take.
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  Speaker 1: I'd take them both, because you're you're gonna You're gonna
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  Speaker 1: lose either way. Man, You're gonna lose either way. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The Matrix when it came out, everybody goes that science fiction.
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  Speaker 1: The more I watch the world around us, the more
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, that actually could have been probably
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  Speaker 1: like a that's a documentary.
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  Speaker 2: Could have already happened and we're just in it now.
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  Speaker 2: It could have happened two hundred thousand years ago.
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  Speaker 1: We could be inside the matrix right now where people
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  Speaker 1: are getting composted when they passed. I just, seriously, I
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  Speaker 1: mean this, If you know what it is, if you've
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  Speaker 1: ever seen it, if you're considering it, if you know
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  Speaker 1: somebody who has done it, I need to hear. I
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  Speaker 1: need to hear the lowdown about human composting