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Speaker 1: Bold, reverence and occasionally random. The Sunday Hang with Playin'

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Speaker 1: Buck podcast, it starts now. Off air, we were talking

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Speaker 1: about great white sharks. This is a lessen. You never

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Speaker 1: have any idea what the off air and sometimes they

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Speaker 1: sound very similar to the on air conversations. But you said,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, have you seen this video that you

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Speaker 1: sent me of the shark off Martha's Vineyard? Twenty five

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Speaker 1: to thirty feet great white, five thousand pounds. This shark

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Speaker 1: video is not like way under the water. You can

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Speaker 1: see the fin that is out of the water. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is a monstrous animal. Can you imagine coming into it?

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Speaker 1: This is basically the Jaws size great white shark.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think Jaws, the mechanical Jaws would

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Speaker 2: have been about a twenty footer. And there are great whites.

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Speaker 2: I think Deep Blue is the biggest great white ever

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Speaker 2: seen in the is ever seen as a name for it,

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Speaker 2: and he usually is off the coast of Hawaii's where

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Speaker 2: they've seen it, and that goes over twenty feet. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: a five pounds great white shark they estimate off of

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Speaker 2: Martha's Vineyard. And I'm just saying before I go to

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Speaker 2: eaten by a shark is less than a chance of

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Speaker 2: being struck by lightning. And yet, ever since watching that movie,

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Speaker 2: which you know, in part was filmed on Martha's Vineyard,

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Speaker 2: there are few iconic scenes in Jaws, which is supposed

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Speaker 2: to take place in the fictional Amity. Yeah, but it

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Speaker 2: really is filmed largely in Martha's Vineyard, And I've been

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Speaker 2: to some of the sites. I was like, that looks familiar,

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Speaker 2: and it's oh yeah, it actually is where they film

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Speaker 1: I would argue, and this would be a fun debate

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Speaker 1: sometime that Jaws is the most influential movie that's ever

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Speaker 1: been made. And some of you out there are rolling

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Speaker 1: your eyes when I say most influential movie that's ever

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Speaker 1: been made. I mean a a fictional movie, right. There

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Speaker 1: have been other movies. You could probably to some of

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Speaker 1: the Lenny Reef install crazy videos that she made for

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Speaker 1: the Nazis, things like that, historical films. I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: a fictional film. I think Jaws has influenced people's life

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Speaker 1: more than any other movie that's ever been made because

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Speaker 1: every time you go in the ocean, you think about

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Speaker 1: getting eaten by a shark if you've seen Jaws.

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Speaker 2: And I know it's late and I'm about to go

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Speaker 2: on vacation for a few days. So maybe that's why

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Speaker 2: this is turning into like a bro podcast over here.

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Speaker 2: But it's also amazing to me that as fearsome and

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Speaker 2: can make absolute mince meat of any great white shark,

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Speaker 2: and yet there has never once been in the wild

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Speaker 1: Is that right? Isn't that there are killer whales here

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Speaker 1: where I am in Seattle?

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Speaker 1: Can you occasionally see them like just off the coast.

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Speaker 2: Yes, they're I mean they're dolphins, not whales. They're giant

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Speaker 2: dolphins effectively, so they're as smart as dolphins, which people

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Speaker 1: We did the killer whale enclosure at SeaWorld, which I

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Speaker 1: think is super like they did the whole movie about that.

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Speaker 2: It got all.

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Speaker 1: Controversial black fin or something. I think that's right, And

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Speaker 1: when went after SeaWorld a big way. I don't know

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Speaker 1: this too, I think an elephant just got loose.

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Speaker 2: I think an elephant in Montana at a circus. Yes,

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Speaker 2: True King of the Land animals. Elephant not even close.

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Speaker 1: Nothing even. You could have a grizzly bear elephant interaction

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Speaker 1: in Montana, which is like every kid's dream.

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Speaker 2: Elephant would absolutely destroy it, would would crush the grizzly

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Speaker 1: Sunday hang with Buck.

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty into coffee. I'm pretty into coffee. I'm not

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Speaker 1: live drinking it throughout the course of this show. I

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Speaker 2: You're indoor scarf when you go to the coffee shop.

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Speaker 2: Very important, ever, gonna go star you belong. I have

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Speaker 2: I even get this, maybe a downer. I even now

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Speaker 2: will get espresso martinis when I go into a into

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Speaker 2: I understand, I understand if a lot of you can't

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Speaker 1: Is an old fashion. Big fan of old fashions, like

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Trace and all of their lineage of whiskeys, bourbons,

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Speaker 1: Now I'm really kind of getting into the espresso Martini.

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Speaker 1: So here's the deal. I've been noticing a lot more

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Speaker 1: men drinking espresso martinis because of the coffee. You want

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Speaker 1: caffeine and you don't want to go Red Bull, right,

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Speaker 1: The espresso martini. Actual coffee in it. It's really good,

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Speaker 1: but so Rocket coffee. Yes, Crockett Coffee dot com. It's

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Speaker 1: while you need that delicious, wonderful Crockett coffee. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: Want to do we have a few, call, I've lost them.

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Speaker 2: If we had them, I had them up a second ago.

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Speaker 1: No, I'm getting lit up already by the espresso Martini.

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Speaker 1: point someone tell me of a Martini glass other than

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Speaker 2: Well, one thing is they can they can actually pour

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Speaker 2: It's a bit of an optical illusion. You have far

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Speaker 2: Who's telling me that your wife gets hates when they

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Speaker 1: Trying to know this occurred?

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, Oh I thought it was you, but must

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Speaker 2: ever heard of this? They will actually charge you extra

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Speaker 2: the ice. I had never heard of this either, but

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Speaker 1: Oh that's that's just charge more for the drink. Like

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Speaker 2: But I guess that's it because there's more liquor involved

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Speaker 2: I do drink a lot of coffee, however, So that's

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Speaker 2: Crocketcoffee dot com?

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Speaker 1: How many that is what I drink? Crocketoffee dot com.

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Speaker 1: How many places do you think analyze Michigan school shooting,

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Speaker 1: Morgan Wallen throwing a chair offf talk to a sitting

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Speaker 3: That's fair.

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Speaker 1: Do not throw chairs off the roofs of balconies. But

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Speaker 1: if you do, make sure that it's over a love dispute.

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Speaker 1: If you're a country music singer, Sundays with Clay and

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Speaker 2: Green, when everybody joins us now country music star and

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Speaker 2: he wants to talk to us about his God blessed

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Speaker 2: the USA partnership with Trump, Lee honored to have you

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Speaker 2: you have these God Bless the USA Bibles in partnership

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Speaker 3: We've actually been promoting that God Bless the USA Bible

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Speaker 3: It's yeah, you know, it's a long ride. I was

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Speaker 3: You're welcome very much. God bless the USA Bible dot

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