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Life is funny and today, on episode 220, we look at just how much your world can change in a year.
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Goodbyes, hellos and places we never thought we would go.
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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, 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.
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Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
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What it do, what it?
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How did it do?
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Mm, mm, mm, mm.
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Am I so damn happy to be back with you.
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Oh, it's true, it's damn true.
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And this time this episode is just a touch different, and it might sound a wee bit different because this episode of the podcast just happens to be being recorded at the infamous Freiburg Fair.
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In Matilda.
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Oh yeah, I forgot what we named this old girl, yep Matilda, good old Matilda.
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What was the first one, tallulah?
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Tallulah, yeah and Matilda.
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What are we going one?
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Tallulah, tallulah and Matilda.
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What are we going to name our next one?
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See, that's the problem with us.
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We're already talking about our next camper.
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Literally at dinner.
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But we put an expansion kit on the family, so I think it's appropriate that we maximize our space.
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Is it bad that, since we've been on the road, I've literally gotten?
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We had the ambulance?
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and I was like fuck.
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that I am not sleeping in that again.
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Wow, you're the first one to swear already.
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Yep, we're a minute and 20 seconds in Goodness.
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Not sleeping in the ambulance again, and I've literally gotten a new camper every single year.
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Yeah, so this camper.
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This is our second year here with this camper, but it was pretty fresh when we were here last year because we broke it out at windsor and now we're here this year and we're already talking about like man may not bring this one back next year I mean, this is a great one.
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I just think that we need a new layout with the baby yeah, I think the camper is fine, and that's not everything we needed to do.
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We just didn't know when we bought the camper that we were going to be looking for extra space.
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I don't think this year, though, or this coming camper, that I get.
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I should say I don't think I'm going to go up in size I think 28, 30, I'm maxed out.
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I think I haul this size comfortably.
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I don't think we really need any more length on the camper, but some width would be nice.
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A couple more slides would be nice.
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You want some big hips.
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Big hips, don't lie baby.
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I got your big hips right here, them child bearin' hips, oh yeah.
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Birthin' hips Bear said child.
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Oh yeah, birth and hips Bear said child.
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I guess let's just get right into that, because we had a conversation on the way here today that we're going to dip into.
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You were hauling the camper, I was behind you hauling the baby.
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Yeah, on our two-way radio.
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We're using a two-way radio man.
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And you, you know.
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So, yeah me, Pepe, let you hear.
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I don't know why, but all I thought about was no more locked doors.
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No, more locked doors.
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What was that from?
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I don't know.
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It's from some movie.
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Somebody tell me I don't know, but it's, I don't.
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Okay, I'll take it.
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I'll have to find it All right.
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That works, but in that accent that you just found.
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It all came in there, Literally.
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I'll have to find it and show you.
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Well, based on our conversation, and then what we were going to start the podcast off with today is kind of talking about how crazy life is and how much things can change, and we're going to get into a little bit about just how much our lives have changed over the course of the past year.
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But, seeing as how you're talking about Matilda and you're talking about Tallulah, you're talking about the ambulance and all those things, I want to talk about this very campsite.
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Because here we are, we're at the Freiburg Fair, it's Tuesday evening.
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We just pulled in tonight and set our camp up and then tomorrow morning we're going to put the shell up for our vendor space and then we're going to scoot, skit and skedaddle on home and I'm going to go to work, work the night shift, and Thursday you and my mom will pack the bus and I'll finish making stuff all day and night and if all goes well, we'll be back here on Friday to start building our display.
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But the interesting thing is that we have had the same campsite for every year that we've been coming to the Freiburg Fairs vendors.
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So Fairview Site 2077, that's where we're at.
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This is our spot, and I just can't help but think about how different this spot has been over the course of the years and if you've been listening along you already know kind of where we're going here.
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But the first year that we did the Freiburg Fair as vendors we stayed in a 1994 Ford ambulance.
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Remember that.
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I do remember that.
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In case you're wondering, it's called Next Door.
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It was created in 2000.
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And the guy literally says no more locked doors.
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Okay, I'll take your word for it.
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I just had to look it up so our first year here was that like 2021, maybe Because the pandemic stuff 2020, they canceled it, so 21,.
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This would be our fourth year here.
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That sounds about right.
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Yeah, four years.
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So our first year we brought the 94 ambulance and the key is that when we set up as vendors and we stayed in the ambulance, we had to dump every single thing that we had with us onto the field, make a vendor display as much as we could, and then get to the campsite and convert the ambulance into a camper.
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And then get to the campsite and convert the ambulance into a camper.
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Not to share the same story year after year.
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But the first year that we came here, when I rolled into the Freiburg Fair, I lost brakes in the ambulance and it was just a shit show.
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And when I managed to turn the camper or the ambulance into a camper, I forgot all the connections to have power.
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So we had no lights, no heat, no water, no bathroom.
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We literally had to get a port-a-potty and set it up in the middle of an ambulance, and that's what we use for our bathroom overnight.
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We had an air mattress on top of crates.
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We froze our frigging asses off, but we did it and we made it work and at the end of that week, you said I'm never doing this again and you went out and purchased our first camper and then, in 2022,.
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We came back with Tallulah.
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Tallulah, which was a camper with a slide on it on the back.
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That was a manual one that I always felt like I was going to fly out of the back end and flip the camper over.
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This is true.
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But we upgraded to that camper and we learned a lot.
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And then last year we brought this year Matilda to this campsite.
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And then this year we're back here with Matilda and we're also here with Our Matilda.
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Miss Paisley Rain yeah.
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It's crazy to think and we've been talking about it this whole time tonight that we're here recording and then right there in the bedroom, down the hall here, there's a little baby sleeping here.
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I can't.
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I can't even wrap my head around it it's so crazy to think that a few years ago, we were sleeping in this exact same spot in a freaking ambulance freezing our nuts off.
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Yeah, and just a few years later, we're here with our first born child.
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Yep, beautiful, beautiful little child, beautiful little girl.
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She's perfect, she's beautiful, she's fantastic, she's doing fabulous.
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She's going to be fabulous.
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So great, she's so great.
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She's so blessed.
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She's going to be tired of being blessed.
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Anyways.
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I don't know why I had to go into my Trump impersonation right there, uncle.
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Trump.
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Yeah, that's right.
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I can't even fathom the fact.
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I can vividly remember cooking breakfast and dinners outside of the ambulance with a flashlight.
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I remember burning a pizza on a barbecue Like a little propane grill.
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I burned a pizza and I remember trying to feed my mom this pizza and it was like as crispy looking as that microphone over there.
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It was black as night and I had to scrape the burns off and you couldn't see I was sitting there with a flashlight trying to grill a pizza.
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My mom was like, yeah, it's good.
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I just think about like.
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I remember in the mornings being out there freezing my ass off trying to like make a coffee, trying to like toast, a bagel.
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watching the sunrise, watching the steam come off the mountains I can remember it.
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We've come a long way.
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It's unbelievable how much like we've grown as a business when you think about the time that has passed.
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But I can't even believe that just a few short years ago I'm out there freezing my ass off, just grunting through our first year here, and now we're here like absolute pros.
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We've been here a handful of years, we know what we're doing, we know where we're going and they trust us with a freaking baby.
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I don't know.
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It's crazy that our baby is almost a month old already.
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It scares me.
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Time is flying.
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It absolutely is flying.
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Did you just put my cup in your shoe?
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I was trying to put my cup down and not make a noise in the camper, and when you see me go to the cup it's your responsibility to talk so I can get hydrated.
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Oh sorry, you know what I mean.
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I wasn't prepared.
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I was watching this man on the news.
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He had a ski mask on a Halloween ski mask.
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I saw that this pizza's got me a little thirsty over here.
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So Thank you Freiberg House Pizza for dinner.
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Yeah, nothing that we do is on time and on par right, and everybody that listens to this podcast knows that this is just how our life goes.
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No, you know what kind of time it's on Borrowed time, you're not even kidding.
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Just today alone, just to give a little screenshot, a little snapshot this morning.
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Well, god bless you.
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Let's go back to the evening, right?
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Because you texted me.
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I was in the office working at 1030, and you're like, I'm feeding the baby and she's about to go down.
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Let's actually try to sleep, because we got a busy day, right, and, uh, that turned into it's midnight and she's still partying yeah so you got very little sleep and, uh, I got up at 5 am and I said there's no sense in me trying to sleep.
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I brought my mom to work and then I went to work and started making stuff and I managed to catch a nap.
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Brought my mom to work and then I went to work and started making stuff and I managed to catch a nap this afternoon, which was glorious.
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Me too.
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Glorious what?
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Me too, you're catching one right now.
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I can see it in your eyelids.
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Listen, I have a newborn at home.
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As soon as you fall asleep, she's going to start yelling.
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That's what she does to me.
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So, anyways, we then load things up, the stuff we need to get started and to get our camper here, and then we proceed to head out and of course we run into an accident and slow traffic and this and that.
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So by the time we get to our site, we did not have an accident.
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We didn't have one.
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God bless you, knock on wood, knock on wood.
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So we get here right as um like, let's call it nightfall.
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Okay, it was sunset when we were like five miles down the road, so we get here just in time to not be able to see the lines in our campsite.
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There's a d-bag parked across from us with a trailer blocking our like pull-through options or like turnaround options, so we spent an hour finagling away to kitty corner a can of tuna into a parking spot I refuse to say that it was a full hour, because it was 52 minutes.
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I checked.
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I checked 52 minutes I am not, that's not bad.
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I am not, that's not bad?
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I am not that bad at parking my camper.
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I have done it enough times to know, but this boner in front of me every year gets me with this stupid trailer and I'm about to hitch onto it.
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Leave it in the dooryard.
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We're a little side-winded in here.
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Not bad, though I don't think it's awful, I don't think so.
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It's just not the way we normally would be.
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Normally we'd have enough space to park our vehicle in here with us, and we ain't going to do that this year.
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But we'll figure it out, We'll figure it out.
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I'm in my parking spot.
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I don't care if I'm sideways, upside down or on my head.
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But we went from being early, being on time, to getting pizza at 9 o'clock before the restaurant closed, to recording a podcast at 11 to hopefully try to get some sleep.
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This is us, this is our life, this is how we roll.
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Yeah, exactly.
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And then we've got mayhem ahead of us to get ready for the opening day of the fair.
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But things have been going great at home trying to get things done of the fair.
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But things have been going great at home trying to get things done.
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And I don't know the best way to kind of like describe this or put this out there, but last weekend we were blessed with an amazing visit.
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Let's say, am I right?
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Yes.
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So I've been talking a lot and you're watching the news and falling asleep, so I want to let you intro this Would you discuss said visitation that we just had you go?
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Yes, you, you take it, because I'm not gonna let you fall asleep, cinderella come on.
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Well, it was um a very wonderful visit from little miss paisley's godparents.
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They took the trip up from new york and they had the opportunity to bond with her and have some one-on-one time, which was super nice, and she's just so blessed to have the two of them.
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We actually took them to a little car show and we also.
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They came out to a dj party night oh yeah, that's right which was a lot of fun.
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Yeah, so they got to.
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It was a well-rounded weekend.
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They got to spend some time and then partying with us, and we took paisley out um to dinner for the first time with them so a few good things.
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So let's put it this way so the first night, well they, they show up on friday, yeah, and it's truly a blessing to see them seeing her in person for the very first time.
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That was special to see them really light up.
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Absolutely.
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Then Friday night was my last DJ night of the season at the Saloon and they came out and made that a great time.
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I think that we all had a lot of fun there.
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Then Saturday we brought Paisley to her first car show Right and we spent the day just kind of out running around doing things together.
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And Saturday night we brought the little baby out for her very first dinner on the town First night out on the town, and she was able to do that with her godparents.
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I thought that was a special little Chinese dinner it was.
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And she did very well.
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I didn't even drip duck sauce on her head or anything which is a miracle.
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Well, good thing I had her sheltered in the.
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Popemobile.
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Yes.
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You would have got duck sauce or Rangoon in her butt chin.
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Watch your mouth.
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Disappointed.
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Watch your friggin' mouth.
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So we got to spend some time with those guys and then I was also able to work in getting some things done.
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I didn't want to like I felt bad pulling away from them.
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We have a lot of things to do and a lot of things to get done, but I wasn't going to just like go to my office, shelter in place and try to work my ass off you.
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And try to work my ass off you know what I mean Too soon.
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There was one of those in town.
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Yeah, boy Well.
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Can't say that.
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Yeah, okay, well, whatever.
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So the point I'm making here is that I wanted to spend time with those guys, so I wanted to make sure that we were able to do that, and then you just work around it.
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And Saturday night I think, I stayed in the office until about 2 in the morning and then Sunday was 1-ish in the morning.
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But we're getting things done, because I ordered a whole mess of stuff and I think we've talked about it already on the podcast.
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But I am primed to put ourselves in the best inventory position that we've ever had going into the Freiburg Fair.
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So I'm working countless hours, I'm avoiding all forms of contact with other areas of my life just to try to get through this, because I know it's exactly what the family needs and the business needs.
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We have the rest of our season just hinged on the next week of success here, the next what are we here for?
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seven, eight, nine days, I don't know, is it?
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Yeah, I was going to say Sunday to here the next what are we here for seven, eight, nine days?
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I don't know, is it?
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Yeah, I was gonna say I thought sunday to sunday, right 10 days.
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But yeah, you're right it's all on the line, but I truly feel that, um, this is going to be the best freiburg fair year that we've ever had, so I'm excited about that.
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And, um, it's extra special and it's also extra challenging the fact that you know we are here with a freaking newborn.
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I mean, she's three weeks old, right.
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Yeah, it's so crazy to me.
