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Speaker 1: Welcome to This Country Life. I'm your host, Brent Reeves

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Speaker 1: from coon hunting to trot lining and just general country living.

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Speaker 1: I want you to stay a while as I share

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Speaker 1: my stories and the country skills that will help you

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Speaker 1: beat the system. This Country Life is proudly presented as

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Speaker 1: part of Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you the best

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Speaker 1: outdoor podcast the airways have to offer. All right, friends,

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Speaker 1: pull you up a chair or drop that tailgate. I

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Speaker 1: think I got a thing or two to teach you

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Speaker 1: country vehicles. This week we're talking country vehicles. Your signature

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Speaker 1: slid that gets you from the casa to the woods

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Speaker 1: and back. Now, whether you're fixing fence, feeding cows, or

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Speaker 1: chasing critters that ravel amongst the flora, how you get

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Speaker 1: to and fro says a lot about who you are.

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Speaker 1: It's your statement without making a statement, and it's for

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Speaker 1: everybody else's eyeballs. We're going to talk about what makes

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Speaker 1: But first I'm going to tell you a story. My

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Speaker 1: first truck was a six cylinder standard Ship three speed

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three Ford F one hundred long wheelbase pickup.

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Speaker 1: That inline's six cylinder motor didn't have enough power to

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Speaker 1: pull a greasy string out of a catch behind. But

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Speaker 1: it was easy to maintain, and it cranked from the seat,

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Speaker 1: which is always a plus. It was powdered blue, and

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Speaker 1: outside of the gun rack id installed in the back glass.

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Speaker 1: It was as basic of a vehicle as you could get.

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Speaker 1: If it had been a pack of smokes, the outside

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Speaker 1: of the package would have been white and the black

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Speaker 1: print would have only said cigarettes. No air conditioner. The

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Speaker 1: only air turning in the cab was a direct result

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Speaker 1: It was not fancy. I bought it in nineteen eighty two,

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Speaker 1: when I was sixteen years old, with money i'd made

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Speaker 1: hauling hay and trapping. It cost me seven hundred dollars.

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Speaker 1: The dimmer switch for the headlights was on the floorboard.

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Speaker 1: It had an AM radio that could get the local

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Speaker 1: radio station in Warren, Arkansas. But it also the grand

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Speaker 1: old operator on WSM all the way from Nashville, Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: clears a bell on Saturday night if I jobbed a

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Speaker 1: fresh sweet tater down on that five inch nub of

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Speaker 1: an antenna that had survived my ownership. I remember that

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Speaker 1: we'd all gathered up on a back road and built

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Speaker 1: a fire one time, and while I was trying to

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Speaker 1: one evening, someone found a sweet Tater in the bed

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Speaker 1: of the truck and as a joke, stuck it on

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Speaker 1: there and Wila sounded like we was right on the

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Speaker 1: I remember not long after I bought it, that I

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Speaker 1: for a check up over in Monticella that was sixteen

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Speaker 1: I'd ask a young lady whose company I was currently

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Speaker 1: daddy said it was all right. So when I got

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Speaker 1: and seeing the sights of town from the bed of

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Speaker 1: the truck, we took off from Montecella, Arkansas. It was

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Speaker 1: a big deal for a young man to have his

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Speaker 1: paid for himself, and I was feeling plumb, growed and

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Speaker 1: image in my mind of just about every country song

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Speaker 1: that faded in and out of that single speaker in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the dash. Pride is said to go

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Speaker 1: with before a fall. That actual quote is from Proverbs

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Speaker 1: sixteen eighteen. It says pride goeth before destruction, and a

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Speaker 1: haughty spirit before a fall. Well, in my case, it

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Speaker 1: was pride goeth just like the tailgate that fell off

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Speaker 1: your seven hundred dollars truck and is now sliding down

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Speaker 1: a safe distance away. Apparently, the bondo that had repaired

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Speaker 1: and hit a previous owner's damage on the left rear

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Speaker 1: sneaking back up on me. And why not? My cow

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Speaker 1: was paid for and belonged to me, And so did

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Speaker 1: that muffler that had just come loose and slid off

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Speaker 1: the highway and into the clean river, never to be

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Speaker 1: seen again. It seems old Uncle Rusty had overtaken the

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Speaker 1: exhaust system of my chariot of fire and separated the

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Speaker 1: designated spot at a most inopportune time. I ain't had

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Speaker 1: I didn't hear her say goodbye when she jumped out

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Speaker 1: of the truck at a stop signed about half a

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Speaker 1: me till died, and when he did, that old truck

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Speaker 1: And that's just how that happened. Now, getting to where

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Speaker 1: that's important, and folks will have their drouthers about the

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Speaker 1: best way to do that. Their loyaltis to a specific

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Speaker 1: brand of vehicle is intense and unmovable. You hear them

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Speaker 1: say forge stands for found on the road dead, or

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Speaker 1: that Webster's definition of dodge is to avoid and go

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Speaker 1: around Chevrolet, Toyota, GMC, Nissan, all of them. They've all

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Speaker 1: a fan of any conveyance that saves me steps. I

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Speaker 1: used to work with a fello in the woods who'd

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Speaker 1: shake his head in pity and say, whenever we passed

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Speaker 1: that idiot. The good lord on it gives you so

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Speaker 1: many stiff in your life. And that moron is burning

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Speaker 1: And guess what, it ain't even got to be a truck.

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Speaker 1: There were several of us that worked in the woods together,

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Speaker 1: hog hunner. And when I say he was a hog gunner,

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Speaker 1: I don't mean he hunted hogs occasionally. Saying Harry was

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Speaker 1: What's hungry got to do with it? If we got victuals,

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Speaker 1: let's eat. That's how Harry felt about hog gunning. Harry's

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Speaker 1: of blue nineteen fifty nine Rambler with the rear seat

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Speaker 1: removed to accommodate his dogs. The hood came from the

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Speaker 1: factory with two chrome ornaments that looked like front sights

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Speaker 1: on a cold peacemaker. They were placed side beside inches

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Speaker 1: removed them and replaced them with the tusk of a

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Speaker 1: big boarhog, and he'd wired them through each hole. He

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Speaker 1: that would sing going down the highway, and even though

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Speaker 1: it wasn't a four wheel drive, that little lightweight car

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Speaker 1: was unstoppable in the woods, especially when Harry was properly

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Speaker 1: motivated by the boys in Milwaukee, causing him complete disregard

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Speaker 1: There was no mistaken when Harry drove by. He made

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Speaker 1: a statement, your rig needs to serve your purpose. It

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Speaker 1: your comfort, safety and security. Many nights I slept in

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Speaker 1: or to just have a jump start on a spot

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Speaker 1: where I thought a turkey might be gobbling. The next morning,

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Speaker 1: now old Harry had removed a hole rear seat from

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Speaker 1: his little Rambler customizes his rig to fit his mission

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Speaker 1: profile carry beating system. On the other hand, Michael Roseman,

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Speaker 1: the owner of Sunspot hunting lights, the man who had

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Speaker 1: the vision and wherewithal to say, Hey, why don't we

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Speaker 1: helmet that electrical wizard of sunshine and literal light. My friend,

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Speaker 1: my coon hunting buddy, his first hunting rig. It was

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Speaker 1: an eighty model two door old mobile cutlass. It's been

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Speaker 1: said that poor folks have poor ways, and old Mikey,

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Speaker 1: a successful businessman. And that his first hunting rig might

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Speaker 1: to glory. Michael told me about him and his best

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Speaker 1: friend Timmy borrowing that cutlass from Timmy's aunt and how

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Speaker 1: they'd load the dogs up in the trunk and leave

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Speaker 1: to go hunting. He said the rear deck speakers had

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Speaker 1: long been removed from that car, and hounds would take

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Speaker 1: turns poking their heads up through the holes to see

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Speaker 1: and one that makes me laugh every time I hear

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Speaker 1: Michael tell that story. It's a feel good story to me.

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Speaker 1: Two young boys finding a way to do what they

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Speaker 1: much he now makes a living inside the coon hunting world.

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Speaker 1: They don't get much better than that. God bless America.

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Speaker 1: There's two examples of a country boys having rigs that

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Speaker 1: think so. Because if I ask you to picture a

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Speaker 1: hog hunting or a coon hunting ride, I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: conjured up a modified rambler or a cutler. Harry and Michael,

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Speaker 1: they beat the system. Gary Nukelemb, you know Gary Nukelemb

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Speaker 1: daddy to Clay, patriarch of the Newcomb Covey seer of

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Speaker 1: panthers and other mythical creatures. Well, Gary says the measure

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Speaker 1: of a man is directly tied to his ability to

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Speaker 1: buy a used vehicle. I tend to agree it's as

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Speaker 1: imported a skill as knowing where North is and being

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Speaker 1: able to build a fire. Now, if you can do

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Speaker 1: those three things, you can drive, survive, and navigate the

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Speaker 1: better places and friendlier people. Be bad at buying a

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Speaker 1: Moo it at the speed of flip and flop will

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Speaker 1: for transportation. And since I don't recall ever seeing the

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Speaker 1: and toting them places, you best acquire that skill stamp.

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Speaker 1: I recall my dad and I driving through Kingston, Arkansas,

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Speaker 1: birthplaced a Johnny Cash on our way to Rising, where

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Speaker 1: my dad's office was, and we picked up such a

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Speaker 1: fellow once. This man was unknown to us, but back

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Speaker 1: then it wasn't uncommon to give folks to ride you

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Speaker 1: didn't know. There wasn't a whole lot of meanness going on,

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Speaker 1: A rig at word of mouth in somebody's yard Unless

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Speaker 1: you know the used car salesman, steer clear and hunt

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Speaker 1: like men, and both of you come away a winter. Remember,

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Speaker 1: we ain't buying a show truck. We're not looking for

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Speaker 1: her arms. So a little dent here and there ain't

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Speaker 1: gonna bother us. That's character like a broken pair of

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Speaker 1: insurance man. Ain't nobody gonna notice that little dent, cause

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be too busy looking at my neutroller motor

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Speaker 1: when our cruise passed them headed to the river without

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Speaker 1: right direction. If or win and you decide to update

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Speaker 1: your fleet with a new to you country cruiser. I

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Speaker 1: hope you all enjoyed our visit today if you have

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Speaker 1: shared with other country minded folks that might enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: Remember you ain't got to be from the country, Bee Country.

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Speaker 1: This is Brent Reeves signing off. Y'all be careful.