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Welcome back, truth Seekers. I
finally checked into my hotel here in beaver

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Falls, Pennsylvania, which is I
guess five or six miles due east of

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East Palestine. We took off this
morning from the Enterprise Rennakar and Dover,

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Delaware about eight fifteen am, one
stop in central Pennsylvania, and we got

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to East Palestine right around two pm
Eastern time. And I'll tell you there

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is still a lot of work to
be done. Literally, as you're crossing

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the line from Pennsylvania into Ohio,
it is the first town on the border,

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and there is still a lot of
construction. Well, you know,

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I'm sure contracted EPA folks that are
still out there cleaning up a lot of

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people, you know, are simply
out there to keep people away. I

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actually pulled over and talked to a
guy who was just kind of standing there

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with his orange vest and flag,
and I asked him. I was like,

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so, how long have you been
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you know, not quite a year, but you know, ten months or

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so. And I said, so, you guys just here guarding the accident

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and he said, and this is
verbatim, he said, they don't tell

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us, We're just told to keep
people away from here. I said,

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well, okay, I mean it
was obvious, but it also became obvious

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that they weren't allowed to say much. I kind of picked his brain.

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He was very very he was kind, you know, he was cordial.

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That's probably the proper word to use. But he wasn't saying anything. So

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I said, thank you, you
know, take care. But as soon

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as you entered the town on the
right hand side, which would be on

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the north side where the accident happened, again, there's still lots and lots

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of people working on the other side
across the street. It looks like they

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and they kind of set up something
over there. I don't know if it's

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contaminated. Vehicles were there. It's
a process they run it through before they

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take it to its final destination.
But still very busy. And you think

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about it, thirteen months after the
incident happened, and there are still dozens

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and dozens and dozens of people down
there cleaning up or kind of. I

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don't know if i'd call it security, but certainly people who were keeping people

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like me away from that area.
And the further you get away from that,

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as you get into town, it
becomes almost normalized to a certain extent.

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I stopped in at the one lodge
I think it's called the Eagle Lodge.

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They were very busy. I guess
they do dinners and things like that.

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I went to the Masonic Lodge,
which, by the way, if

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you go to Instagram at the fact
Hunter I already posted picture of the Welcome

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to East Palestine sign and pictures of
the Masonic Lodge and the best pictures I

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could get because they're not tolerating people
around that area whatsoever. I mean,

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you have to go through it to
get to town. I imagine there's ways

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you can get to it, but
that is the main entrance into town,

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and the businesses still in that area
are still closed down and I assume will

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be for the considerable future. I
did park my car and kind of walk

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around what would be considered the town
square, small playground, you know,

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patch of grass, and there was
a gentleman sitting there and same he was

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very tight lipt. I asked if
they were being taken care of, and

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he said, yes, they were
being taken care of. And actually more

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than one person said that they were
being taken care of, and that's a

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good thing. At the same time, So when I checked into the hotel

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here, the young lady at the
front desk, she said, she lives

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just a couple of miles away from
there, and she watched, you know,

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that the night had happened. She
saw the gigantic plume and she said,

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literally it was something out of which
you know, we're conspiracy minded people,

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So when she said it was something
out of a movie, I was

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like, hmm, right. And
a lot of interesting things around here.

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There's an air museum right behind the
hotel where I'm staying at. I think

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there may be a National Guard armory
in the area as well. I actually

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meant to have that map pulled up. Actually I'm not live, so I

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can pause. So if you look
on your map, East Taggart is the

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main strip as you come in from
Pennsylvania into Ohio, and much of those

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obvious businesses when you first cross the
line are still closed. Now when you

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get to North Market Street, which
is pretty much the downtown area, that

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entire strip is still closed off to
traffic. However, I think it from

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first look, it looks like it's
closed more due to construction than to anything

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that happened in that incident. It's
a beautiful day today. The one thing

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that really stuck out in my mind. You know, it's seventy degrees here

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today and there was hardly anybody outside. There was vehicles cruising around, but

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there wasn't a lot of people outside. Now maybe they were picking their children

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up from school. Once I get
settled here, I'm going to go back

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into town see if I can find
some people to chat to chat with now

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that I kind of know where I'm
at and I have established my place and

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got my bags unpacked. But it's
very interesting that. I mean, I've

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only talked to two or three people, three to be precise, and all

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three did say that they were being
taken care of. But you can still

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tell when they're especially the young lady
at the front desk here when she was

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describing the incident thirteen months ago,
that that's going to be one of those

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things that sticks with them for the
rest of their life. And the one

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concern she did did have, and
rightly so, was long term effects.

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Right that it's only been a year
since the incident. We know that these

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carcinogens sometimes don't rear their ugly heads, you know, for years down the

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road, right, And we don't
know how much of the water system it's

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infiltrated, and how far down range
it's exposed people. She said, this

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very hotel where I'm sitting at right
now, like they were lined that the

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people from town were lined up here
after the incident to stay here, and

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she said they were full. They
were capacity for quite some time from the

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people from town who lived near now
the houses. I would say the closest

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house to the incident is probably a
quarter mile now, probably an eighth of

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a mile. That's not fair because
if you go on the backside about an

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eighth of a mile from actually where
the train derailed and had the burnoff.

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And we know, I don't have
my mixer here, so I can't really

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play the audio. I could set
it up, but if you guys missed

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the news just within the last few
days, they said that that did not

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need to happen, that burnoff that
they call it. So we still have

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a lot of questions to ask.
It's still very surreal driving over the state

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line and seeing all the construction equipment
and all the people that are still there

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thirteen months later. That really goes
to show what kind of impact it had

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on the environment and what they are
going through right to whatever the process is

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and the EPA. It's a big
deal. If you can talk to anybody

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who's been in the military before,
tell them what happens when there's an oil

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spill, and we're just talking about
like when you're working on a hum V

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and there's oil that gets on the
ground. Everything you have to go through

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for that. It's a big deal. But because the government's involved, it's

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also a very very slow ordeal.
But I think I'm glad that I came

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this much later, because if they're
this protective about that area still thirteen months

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later, I can't imagine how protective
they were of it when this initially happened.

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Now, one of our listeners did
send me an MP three of the

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mayor's speech from May of twenty twenty
three, so it would have been about

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three months after the incident, and
at that point there was still a lot

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of frustration in the community. It
was about a forty five minute tape or

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MP three, you know, audio
file, and there was still a lot

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of frustration, still a lot of
concern the mayor right, he was stelling

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on that he was doing the best
he could and was working late hours,

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hardly got to see his family things
of those natures. But when you're a

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position of responsibility, that is expected
of you. You know, people want

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to be elected just to have a
title, but there are undeniable responsibilities as

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an elected leader, especially at the
town level. Right, you have the

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mayor, and then you have the
county, You have the state, the

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wine I think, right, and
then you have you have the federal of

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course, which is a cluster.
Right. They're more worried about Ukraine and

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Israel, about their own people and
all the illegals making sure they get their

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debit cards and everything else. We
live in a backward society, but it

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is good to see. And this
is just on the very surface. I

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literally drove in, you know,
talked to a few people, took a

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few pictures, and I'm here to
tell you guys, the Massana Call was

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the nicest building in town. Huge
right on the corner, just a huge

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building, and it's a little it's
a very it's a blue collar area,

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but it's nice. These people don't
live in Squalor. It's it's just your

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average blue collar families, right,
And they're like everybody else. With the

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cost of everything going up, they're
just trying to survive, and when you

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have something like this happen, it
turns you on your head because nine times

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out of ten you have to front
the costs and then wait and beg to

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be refunded, you know, like
with the hotels, and even if you

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get a hotel room, you still
pay, you know, order a pizza

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and all these other things to feed
your family. It's just one thing after

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another, and it's a long process. And money is one thing, but

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the other thing that you can't just
deal with is your health. Right,

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Money's one thing. Your health is
everything. And sorry if I'm it's been

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a long day, six hours on
the road, got a very early start.

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So but this is very important to
me because this could be any of

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us, right, whether it's flints, all of these incidents that have been

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happening around our country. It could
be our town next, and it's important

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that we get accountability and the people
are taken care of because they are This

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government is quicker to take care of, you know, other countries and people

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who are not citizens quicker than they
are their own people. But it seems

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I don't know how long it took. Maybe they got taken care of,

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what, you know, care of
the summer, or maybe it's just been

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recently, but it seems like whether
it was the train company or the federal

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government or the state of Ohio,
somebody has come through and helped these people.

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Because I haven't heard a bad word
yet. But I can't base an

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entire you know, opinion off of
having a conversation with three people. So

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that's why we're going to go back. I have a couple of locations pegged

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on my phone. We're going to
stop in and try to talk to some

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people. Hopefully we can get one
or two people to you know, go

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on the record kind of and do
a little interview on my phone. And

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you can again in closing, you
can tell it had quite an impact on

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that young lady when she was telling
the story of that night watching you know,

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the cloud and how surreal it was, and you know how the town

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basically most of the town had to
pack up and leave. It was a

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big deal, a very big deal. And again you can tell it's blue

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collars got all the Trump flags,
and there's one there was one Ron de

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Santa's flag, which I didn't quite
understand. Maybe it was like a dissantis

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for president flag, and I didn't
see it, but it's like I'm not

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in Florida. But again, honest, hardworking people who were crapped on by

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a big corporation, and they should
have been taken care of immediately, and

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they should go over and above.
Anytime you replace something, whether you take

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somebody's time, money, or things
like that, you have to go over

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and above. It's your responsibility.
And I will tell you that those train

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tracks are I mean they go right
down the middle of the town, right

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within a couple one hundred yards of
the school. Now, obviously it derailed

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way before the school, but you
know, one year hauling has met through

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people's living spaces. I mean,
come on, we have to do better

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than that, especially when it's carcinogenics
or carcinogens I guess I should say.

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But again, a good day.
Thanks to Enterprise for upgrading me on my

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car. My car. I paid
for a little compact. They gave me

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a nice little SUV. The guy
was military. He took care of me.

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So thank you to Enterprise. I'm
here the smallest hotel room I've ever

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been in. I might as well
be in Tokyo. But it's clean and

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that's all that matters. I'm not
going to be spending much time in here,

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But most importantly, I want to
thank you the listeners and our donors.

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We have some anonymous donors. We
have m Bunch says they're planning on

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coming to the event in Waco on
April twentieth, Brian Frank, Nathan Stacy.

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We have more anonymous donors, Paul
G. Katie McCoy, Rob Roslin,

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mc tim and Colleen. Thank you
all for your kind notes that are

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with their and also other people who
prayed for me. Because I'll tell you

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what, the Pennsylvania Turnpike it might
as well be a NASCAR race. It's

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been a minute since I've driven on
the Pennsylvania Turnpike. But you're basically driving

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through the mountains and curves and going
through the Allegheny Tunnel, and I felt

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like I was playing PlayStation more than
I was driving. But we got here

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safely, and that's the most important
thing. And I'm looking forward to meeting

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more local people and hearing their stories, ensuring that they were being taken care

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of and they will be. Here's
the important thing. It's important that they

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are continued to be taken care of
right because this could have long term ramifications.

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The other thing I did notice as
I was getting close to here a

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lot of houses for sale. I
don't know if it's just a coincidence.

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I don't have my coincidence jar here
on my mixer right, but there are

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quite a few houses for sale in
this area. There we go. The

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AC just came on, and you
know, these hotel conditioners are loud.

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So anyway, thanks again. We're
gonna get a quick freshen up and we're

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going to head back into town,
maybe find a place to sit down and

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have a meal and chat with some
folks. Again, thank you everybody for

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your support, your prayers. Again. Go to Instagram at the fact Hunter

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to check out the pictures that I
have posted and will be posting. And

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again, God bless you all,
and I'll talk to you again soon