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Speaker 1: a couple of us out there. Chuck's wearing a red shirt,

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Speaker 1: that's right. Yeah, um, so what is that again? That's

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Speaker 1: mo bro dot CEO slash Charles Bryant. Yes, thank you

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Speaker 1: in advance. Yeah, that's nice, Chuck. All right, let's get

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Speaker 1: to it. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark.

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Speaker 1: There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant in audio and video. Chuck,

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Speaker 1: we're just hanging out doing some recording, uh, doing our thing.

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Speaker 1: I guess this is episode number five million two. That's right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: before we get started, I wanted to point out Josh

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Speaker 1: that on the way in, about twenty minutes ago, in

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Speaker 1: a parking deck, I saw what was probably an eighty

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Speaker 1: thou dollar Mercedes with a license plate that said Rush Fan.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, have you seen that? Yeah. I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: figure out. I've seen it many times. I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: figure out are they talking about Rush I think so

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Speaker 1: or Rush Limbaugh. Yeah. And the first time I saw

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Speaker 1: I was like, all right, and I was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I wonder which one, geez now, doubting myself. And then

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Speaker 1: that was Rushed the band, which I thought, well, obviously guy.

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Speaker 1: First of all, it would have to be and um,

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Speaker 1: it's obviously guy that's some sort of ceo here in

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Speaker 1: but also consider this, it doesn't have a reserved spot. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's true, Russia Limbaugh fan. I don't know if you

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Speaker 1: would say Rush to people call him that, I would

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Speaker 1: people would definitely call him rush, all right. Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: could also love that drug that used to be legal

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Speaker 1: Rush that you'd buy it headshops in like the eighties.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he just loves that. Yeah, he stocked up on it.

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Speaker 1: What is that stuff? Isn't have no eradicated? Or did

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Speaker 1: it convert into something that we like, like PCP, something

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Speaker 1: we know by another name. I don't know, but and boy,

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Speaker 1: we're segueing already, but this is a short one, so

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Speaker 1: I guess it's all right. I did see an internet

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Speaker 1: weird like fund psychedel like mushroom one too. Um, how

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Speaker 1: Oh it's probably rob now, but he did do that

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Speaker 1: he drank. Yeah, you should do none of this, by

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Speaker 1: human beings who get high on um? You know, a

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about fall instead of spring. Yeah, that's autumn,

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Speaker 1: you want. Autumn is my favorite season, Josh, same here,

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Speaker 1: Which makes a lot of sense, except there's plenty of

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Speaker 1: some pretty good guesses. And it all starts with photosynthesis

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Speaker 1: that's pretty neat in itself. That's autosynthesis. So photosynthesis um

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Speaker 1: xanthe xanthophil and the caroteens go hey look at us. Huh,

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Speaker 1: that there's always chlorophyll. Er every plant has an ability

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