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it's a bike week recap a special birthday roundup and a great opportunity for a baby mama to say hey let me tell you something everybody struggles.
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The difference is some people choose to go through it and some choose to grow through it.
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The choice is completely yours.
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Which one you choose will have a very profound effect on the way you live your life.
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If you find strength in the struggle, then this podcast is for you.
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Do you have a relationship that is comfortable with uncomfortable conversations?
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Uncomfortable conversations challenge you, humble you and they build you.
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When you sprinkle a little time and distance on it, it all makes sense.
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Most disagreements they stem from our own insecurities.
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You are right where you need to be Back on time.
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We need to back off.
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We all take on what we find.
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Ooh ooh, ooh, ooh.
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What it do, what it do.
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Hot, emphasis on hot Diggity.
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Damn, am I so excited to be back with you, boo.
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I said hot because it's hot.
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It's too hot, too hot in a hot tub.
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Woo, get out of the hot tub.
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Too hot to trot you damn right, it is way too hot.
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Well, it's too hot for me, man.
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I'm a bit of a heavy breather.
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I'm not really optimized for these conditions.
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I got to reprogram, redownload, maybe a factory reset for me to be all set.
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Control-Alt-Delete.
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I don't want to go away.
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That's how you bring up your factory, restore.
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Aren't you making me fade to black?
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No, goodness you bring up your program restore.
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Aren't you making me fade?
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to black.
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No Goodness Bring up your program manager by control-alt-delete.
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This is why I'm IT and you're not.
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Is it a task manager or a program manager?
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Tomato, potato Okay.
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All right, fair enough.
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Fair enough Does the same thing?
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Episode 206, and we'll be back with your weekly fix.
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Hey y'all, I said we, and I said we because of you and me, and the fact is, folsom's here.
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Yeah him too.
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Truth be told, my hand on the Cabela's catalog and my beady little eyes to the sky, I don't want to do this episode alone.
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I'm still dragging, I'm still hungover and run down from the longest event of the season so far for Loud, proud American.
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Between that and all the festive festivities, and then you sprinkle in some heat.
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Yeah, man, I'm jealous of your hangover business.
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Go ahead and keep rubbing that in.
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Oh, it's not a rub, I'll tell you.
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Rubs are usually dry and this was certainly wet.
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It was a lot of wetness.
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There was many a times in there when I tried to have a dry day and I was badly influenced by those around me.
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Sitting in a parking lot telling myself I'm not going to drink, chris Woodcock shows up with a cold beer.
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You know what I mean.
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Yeah, sunday trying to dry out after 37 high lives and pickle juice and whiskey later, and I said, no alcohol.
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Today, brother Lance comes in with four shots of Red Stag and an Ultra in his hand and I knew that this day was going to turn.
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First one today.
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Goodness.
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All that's aside all that is aside, what is inside that I need to say today is thank you.
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Thank you for joining me on this week's episode of share the struggle podcast 206 consecutive weeks can't believe it, but together we continue to achieve it.
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And I know we got some new listeners this week, man.
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I met some people in the parking lot of the saloon that were surprised to hear that we have a podcast.
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They get some podcast stickers and they're promising to download and do some listening.
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This week's show is not going to be as deep as some of the other shows.
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This is more of a recap roundup and a big old thank you to everybody that showed up and made our week so special, and we have some definite thank yous to hand out today and some little sticky notes and I love yous and smelly stickers and stuff.
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You know what I mean.
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Smelly stickers.
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Like, if you were handing out a smelly sticker for somebody, what smelly sticker would it be?
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Probably the watermelon oh, okay, that's nice.
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You know what?
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How about for the people that we shout out today?
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Because we got a few, we're going to hand them smelly stickers.
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Okay, we got to think about.
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We're going to hand them smelly stickers.
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Okay, we got to think about what they're going to be, all right.
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All right.
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Your first one's going to be watermelon, so when you're ready to issue the watermelon because you know somebody deserving of the watermelon, then you just throw it in, okay, okay.
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Also, I'm going to apologize in advance if we miss anybody, because it's been a long stretch.
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It's been a long stretch at the saloon.
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We've had some great conversations with many people, we made new friends and we got to reconnect with some longtime friends.
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Some family episode was dropping on a winning Wednesday.
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I had mentioned to you guys that we were off about 60% on the week, but I felt like the big things, the good things, were about to happen, like good things were about to happen, and that certainly was the case.
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Just to get it out there now, spoiler alert we definitely closed the gap on where we were looking as far as the event goes.
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I mean, we didn't match last year.
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Actually, we didn't beat last year or match last year or the year before.
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So it wasn't one of our best bike weeks, but I would say that we definitely had a respectable number and we really really closed the gap over the last few days of the week.
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Yeah, we definitely weren't as behind as we were.
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No, that's good.
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We made a big difference and that big difference is because of many of the folks listening right now, that's for sure.
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So, with that said, when this episode, as I said, was doing that little last rendezvous, I mentioned that we were getting ready for the tattoo contest.
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I was a little nervous about the tattoo contest because it was a Wednesday, right.
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Yeah, it was a pretty scarce day, midweek's tough.
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Nobody wants to party on a Wednesday.
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You know you have people that are there on bike week, but Unless you're an alcoholic.
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Well, I guess that's me.
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Three o'clock, three to six, middle of the week, is a tough time slot to fill, but I was just excited about the opportunity.
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So you know it is what it is.
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You run with it, right.
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Yeah, we did.
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And it rained a little bit so that was making it tough.
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But moral of the story is it was a great opportunity to uh do an event with tommy tommy tattoo for the first time in a long time.
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You guys have heard me talk about tommy leading into this week's show because I've been kind of, you know, pushing you towards uh coming out to hang out with us and spend some time with us.
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And I mentioned that Tommy owns Tommy's Tattoo Supplies, which is a big tattoo supply company, and he also puts on two tattoo conventions a year and one of them is like top five in the world when it comes to attendance.
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So pretty awesome to be part of that and to do an event with him when it's somebody that's done so many events.
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When I was talking to him before this event, he was in Puerto Rico at a taxi convention Spending time with him.
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This weekend.
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He was headed to Sweden for a taxi convention this week.
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That's pretty crazy.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, he's all over the map.
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Yeah, it's pretty cool to listen to his stories about when he went to.
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Was it Mexico with his girl?
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I think it was puerto rico or something.
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Yeah, because he they were speaking spanish wherever he was and he was trying to find directions or whatever, and his girl at the time, like, spoke like, very like, fluent spanish, walked into a tattoo parlor because he's like this is my comfort zone right and basically was like in spanish oh my god, what is he doing here?
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And she didn't know who he was like.
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She knew of him but didn't know that he was like big and famous yeah and like for what he does, and so she was like, he was like oh my god, I'm gonna get shot like yeah, yeah, this is pretty crazy but it was really like the guy was like over the moon that he was like in his tattoo shop.
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So it was kind of cool that we got to hang out with him.
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Completely genuine dude, which is awesome, and a really humble guy.
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And what I want to say about Tommy is that he was totally invested in our event, like he wanted it to go good.
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He actually took $500 out of his pocket to spice up the contest, to get more people to sign up, and he literally went table to table to register people.
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It was awesome.
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He was just trying to push and pull for it Jimmy Snaz from Ink Masters he's an 11 and 13.
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He was super cool.
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We've only had a couple of conversations going into this.
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It was a blast hanging out with him.
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He was super genuinely interested in the business and the brand was passionate about the fact that we're an American brand.
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It was pretty cool and he had a great time.
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It was awesome to catch up with him after and to hear him say just how much fun he had, because obviously these guys all do this stuff all over the place right, so for us to do something in a saloon and kind of make all this happen.
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It was also really cool to give chad chase some local shine.
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I mean, people in our state don't realize how good chad actually is yeah, he's like they take it for granted that that dude's been like on the cover of Ink Magazine and stuff, and I thought it was really cool to kind of give him his shine, put those guys, you know, get them on the platform and the pedestal that they deserve and then see them get some love reciprocated.
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After the event, like the next day, chad came in and I saw a bunch of people like recognizing him from the event and stuff like that was just cool.
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I just made me feel good that like, hey, we, we accomplished something here for our first tattoo convention in 10 years, or tattoo contest, I should say I think it went great.
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I think we did a good job.
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Uh, it was a lot more work than I expected, trying to, uh, dj mc and you know, go through the cue cards the whole time.
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Uh, thankfully tommy has a system and he brought rick with him and rick obviously he was a stud the whole time.
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So I think you take our first event of the week that we had to get down and dirty with and it was a tremendous success, I feel like yeah, I think we had like at least 20 people, yeah, joined in the guy that won had a super sweet tattoo as well.
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He deserved a win.
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We did a Bent Me Saloon contest as well.
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With the actual staff.
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Yeah.
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I think it went really well and we didn't get to make much money that day because we were closed, because we had these obligations, but the connections made the conversations, the relationships that we started to build foster.
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I think it was great.
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So Wednesday tremendous success.
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Thursday we kind of get back to business, trying to figure things out, get back into the routine.
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Every morning we're making more things to get down to the saloon with.
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You're still working full-time during all this.
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Friday was a special day because we had the opportunity to spend some time with some folks that we consider family, some folks that are family.
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And Friday you had a idea of a little birthday dinner, am I right?
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Yeah, it's pretty traditional for us to go out to dinner, or, if you it's your birthday, you choose what you want for dinner.
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So, um, I was like, all right, let me figure out what's a local place that has, like, um, live music or you know, some good food.
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That way we can get get a few of our friends together like we normally do, because we I knew the weekend was going to be really long and we weren't going to do anything on Saturday other than event related.
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So I figured why not?
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And so I found a local hole in the wall barbecue place.
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I think it's called.
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What did we decide?
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Ornell's.
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Texas Barbecue yeah, I think so, genuine Texas Barbecue, like mm called.
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What did we decide?
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Ornell's Texas Barbecue?
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Yeah, I think so, genuine.
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Texas Barbecue Like I left there.
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Slap your mama.
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Slap, your mama is right Well deserved.
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Is that cornbread?
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I'm still thinking about it.
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I didn't even have any.
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I didn't even have any.
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We'll go back tomorrow.
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You're going to bring me back Just for the cornbread.
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I can't afford all them big fixings.
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It was a lot of food for the price and it was genuine Texas barbecue, Like meat's falling off the rib bones.
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Meat sweats.
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I got meat sweats just thinking about it.
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It was delicious.
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And they had southern sweet tea Like real, genuine southern sweet tea, not your fake, unsweetened business.
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Yeah, and they also had mommy mocktails, which I was even more excited.
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That's true, while you guys were getting smammed.
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I was getting smammed.
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I was getting smammed, I was getting juice boxed up, you were getting all juiced up, getting your sugar counts all whacked, I know.
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So we had.
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That's probably why I failed.
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Yeah, let's not talk about it.
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We had a brother and sister, lance and Jennifer Banz, make the road trip from just outside of Syracuse, new York.
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They wanted to come up for your birthday and for the pinup contest and to spend a little time, so they came up.
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Secretively.
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Jen just wanted to see how fat I was getting.
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Maybe they wanted to take you out to dinner for your birthday.
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It was their idea.
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They said hey, you pick a place, we're doing this.
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Should have seen the sticky note on my desk of all the local places.
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I was like where are we going?
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And it wasn't about where I wanted to go, it was where little Paisley wanted to go.
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I'm confident more and more each day by her food choices that this is my kid.
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I had my questions for a while based off of the food.
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Get a grip.
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Get a grip.
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You know that's not accurate.
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Now we're getting into some barbecue.
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It's starting to add up.
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She does love barbecue and potatoes.
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Potatoes is definitely you.
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All that aside, lance and Jen were super awesome to want to come up, spend the time with us and want to take you out to dinner for your birthday.
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We talked Dirk into coming out with us because we have to right, you can't go anywhere without Dirk.
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Think about it.
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No, you can't celebrate a birthday without Dirk.
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You need Dirk His birthday's this weekend.
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Dirk, his birthday's this weekend.
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Anyways, I actually got a surprise phone call that day from one, matt Perkins from Ledgeway Farm, that said hey, man, I'm going to make this dinner.
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What's the scenario?
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Me and Sarah are going to make it down and we want to come out with you guys and celebrate for Adley's birthday, which is so frigging awesome.
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Matt and Sarah, they've we've known them for a few years now.
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They've never been able to fit Bethany's into the schedule, so they don't get to come down this way.
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Obviously they have a full farm and they have, you know, the business and everything going, and right now they're both working full time, plus their event schedule, just like ours, is taken off.
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And matt said I'm making this work.
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I want to.
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It's like an hour and some change.
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Yeah, all the way down here so that was part of the surprise for you.
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I told the barns about it but I didn't tell you.
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And um matt said meet me at your house, and that was a little suspicious he said meet, meet me at your house.
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I got a surprise for you.
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He didn't even tell me he had a surprise.
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He just said you got to go by your house to get to the restaurant and I said yes, and he said all right, I'll meet you there.
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Which also is suspicious.
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How did you know the address?
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He's on things okay.
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Yeah, he's a secret spy.
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Yeah, he might be, I think he is, so they decided they were going to put down.
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He probably flies a drone down here, follows us all the way home.
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He's probably got that bus microchipped.
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He's just a wicked smart guy.
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I think he's got the bus microchipped.
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He's going to know our locations.
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It's not a bad idea.
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I would have done the same thing.
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Maybe I put a microchip in their shack.
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Probably I would have done the same thing.
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Maybe I put a microchip in their shack, probably alright, you're getting me off topic and it's too hot for me to be off topic the point I'm trying to make here is I had to say a little fib to you on the way home and I said hey, you lied no, I created an opportunity for a surprise.
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That's not a lie, that's an opportunity maker you guys.
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You didn't tell me the truth.
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He told me that he had to call his mom to find his wallet.
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Yeah, that's a lie.
