Old Quarter Songwriter Festival

Today, Doug Pike interviews Sarah Piel about the Old Quarter Songwriter Festival.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
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(00:42):
and now fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Here we go. Wednesday edition of the program starts now.
Thank you all for allowing Will and me to intrude
on your launch, your happy hour, Bloody Mary, whatever it
is you're eating, your putting, your yogurt, your pasta, what
sounds good for lunch? Kind of think I just had.

(01:08):
This is the first time, probably in I would say conservatively,
in two years, that I've eaten lunch before I did
the show. I was just that hungry. I didn't eat
a whole lot yesterday, and I think it kind of
caught up with me. I don't eat a hearty breakfast
or anything that even remotely resembles a hearty breakfast. It's
usually a banana and a protein bar. And if I'm

(01:32):
really living on the edge, I'll get Sometimes I buy
protein drinks, not energy drinks. Those I don't believe are
any good for anybody. But the protein drinks at least
at least keep a little fuel in the tank I feel.
And then once I get here, I'm good for two

(01:52):
maybe three cups of coffee and then I put that
down for the day. Anyway, welcome to the middle of
the week, a potential turning point of sorts, really from
the thread of more summer to a legitimate shot at
full blown autumn. Hang on tight, because this is gonna
get really, really good. The forecast let me see if yeah, okay,

(02:14):
so no more nineties, by the way, on the board,
not at all, not a one through the start of November.
And if you can really trust and believe the long
term forecast, and I was looking at a one, I
really trust. Are you sitting down a high on November
third of fifty eight degrees five eight and overnight lows

(02:38):
on either side of that Monday, that's a Monday, overnight
lows on either side of it in the forties. This,
it seems, is the real deal. Fetch your cool weather
clothes from wherever they're stashed right now, from the cedar chest,

(02:59):
the back of the closet, storage facility, wherever you put
your winter stuff. Just go ahead and go get it.
May it may be a while before we really have
to go with it. Now. Low's in the forties and
highs in the fifties. That's kind of the real deal
around here. It could be just the same in November, December, January, February.

(03:20):
That'd be a pretty good day, I think in January
or February. But it could also be in the eighties
then too, So who knows. You're in southeast Texas. If
you're looking for consistent weather patterns and true iterations of
spring and summer and fall and winter, probably need to move.
And by the way, if you're already making plans for Halloween,

(03:43):
the forecast that far out, just so you know, I
have seventy two, low of sixty four, pretty much ideal
for the kids, if that's correct. On the flip side, though,
in a state with millions of people who love the
outdoors and love to hunt, there's a little bit of
a conflict that may influence some families plans and I'll

(04:07):
just kind of leave it in that, leave that part
of it there. So what's happening the Saturday after Halloween
on Friday is opening day of the general deer season,
opening day of Goose season, opening day of South Zone
duck season. Pretty hard decisions are going to have to

(04:29):
be made for some of the younger dads in my audience,
especially my audience over on the Outdoors Show weekends on
Sports Talk seven ninety. We've been talking about forthcoming opening
days all the way since back in about July when
we started talking about September one kicking off dub season,

(04:50):
which is basically a state holiday for a lot of people,
and I think the opening weekend of deer season also
may qualify. There will be a lot of kid, a
lot of young boys and girls increasingly, who just can't
make it to school on Friday and probably won't be
better by Monday, but they'll be back in school Tuesday,

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with or without a doctor's excuse. I guess that's part
of why they had to start requiring doctors' notes to
get kids back into school, because there were a whole
lot of free vacation days taken on that especially on
opening days of I know. I've been on enough opening
days of dove season where big gatherings of people happened,

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and there are as many people in grade school age
as there are in seniority at those events. Market opened. Oh,
by the way, tropical storms still Melissa swimming around in
circles down in the Caribbean, not really deciding where she
wants to go. It's supposed to do more of the
same too, on the way to becoming a hurricane over

(05:59):
the next several days, but so far not looking like
it will threaten us at all. And that's thanks in
great part to the coal front that's headed our way
and due for delivery on that front porch of ours
roughly Thursday. I think next week when we're really starting
to feel it not going to be long though, it's

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not going to be long, and it's going to be
very welcome back to the markets they open down. They're
still down, all four indicators in the red a little,
but not a lot, nothing to nothing to worry about.
I'm kind of hoping it settles out and maybe even
rebounds a little bit by the end of the day,
but who knows. Gold shit, another sixty eight dollars today

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before ten o'clock. I don't know what it's at right now.
At tennish though, it was four forty dollars, so it's
not like it like the bottom fell out of it.
But that coupled with yesterday's drop of I want to say,
maybe a couple one hundred dollars announced, it's certainly more
than just a mine little tick oil was up more

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than a buck. Still not enough to change anybody's vacation
driving plans if you have them, It's not gonna cost
you that much more at the pump, and by the
time that would get to the pump, it may have
splagged back on down a little bit. Oh what were
you at about a minute? Will you thank you? Okay?
I want to go straight to this because I think
it's it's pink panthersh let's put it that way. Over

(07:25):
at the Louver in Paris, there has been recently a
major heist of jewels. I'm talking about historically famous pieces
of jewelry. I don't know. I haven't looked at the list,
but I'm knowing what the louver kind of looks like
in pictures anyway, maybe crowns, maybe Tiara's, maybe necklaces and

(07:50):
bracelets and rings and all sorts of amazing royal jewels. Well,
somebody got in there. Bodies got in there, got away
on little motor scooters. It said, it may kind of
giggle then got that big old satchel full of jewels

(08:10):
just going down the street. Or maybe you just might
have been electric scooters. Didn't think about that until now.
The authorities are absolutely certain these guys are gonna be caught,
but probably not before they melt down all those amazing
historical things. Oh well, okay, I went a little long.

(08:33):
I apologize. I'll shift gears and go to see your cove.
You're probably not gonna find a Crown or Tiera over there,
but what you might find is a redfish. If you're
up early in the morning, go over park your RV,
your camper, your motor home, your pop up trailer, whatever,
on a concrete slab after you've driven down a concrete
road to get to it. Every site over there has

(08:54):
electric water and sewer like I've talked about before. They
got that bathhouse and showers if you want to clean up,
free Wi Fi and a convenience store. Why because somebody
always forgets something when you take off for the weekend,
you ended up buying it at a convenience store somewhere,
you might as well buy it right where you're staying
for the week or weekend or whatever. Alan Nancy Kibbie

(09:15):
on the place. It's right on the water down Tri
City Beach Road, near Thompson's Bake Camp on Galveston Bay
and just a fantastic, wonderful, relaxing place. They enforce anise
noise rule. They enforce a noise rule starting at ten
pm and continuing until six am, shortly after which, on

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the right day you might hear some hooting and hollering
from down to the water where somebody might this time
of year, who knows, catch flounder, redfish, maybe a speckled trout,
maybe a big croaker, maybe a drum. You're gonna catch
some fish over there, I bet, if you know what
you're doing. Great place to enjoy the the waterfront lifestyle
in smaller increments. And if you don't have your own

(10:01):
RV or motorhome or whatever, hol's gonna rent you one.
He's got one that's set up to be rented so
that you and your family can kind of get a
taste of that lifestyle which you are going to like
by the way, you get a little taste of that lifestyle,
and who knows, maybe next time there's a big old
motorhome show in Houston, you'll go down there and buy
you one and drive it over to Cedar Cove and

(10:22):
just park it. Go down there every weekend Cedar Cove
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love it. Cedar Cove Rvresort dot Com.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check us
forwards and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Welcome back fifty plus. It is second segment starts. Now
we'll plod on into the news where fight Nag. He's
a Texas A and M university football game over the
weekend they played Arkansas. Arkansas played them. Aggie's got in
a little trouble find a whopping fifty thousand dollars. You know,

(11:08):
this reminds me of Will. This reminds me of when
in Austin Powers when I guess who was the bad
guy whoever? He was talked about wanting a ransom of
a million dollars, which was nothing, basically, and that's kind
of what fifty thousand is to a major university football

(11:28):
program for faking an injury late in the game that
got them basically got them an extra time out for
that fakery. After a play in which this player in question,
there are eleven guys out on the field and this
one guy is kind of looking over toward the bench.
I saw the video, and there's a couple of You

(11:51):
can just watch the video and you can see why
the Aggies got fined and their head coach got reprimanded,
which is about the same net worth as a fifty
thousand dollars fine to a major college football program. In
any event, this player standing out there in the previous play,
it's over now, and he had virtually no contact really

(12:14):
during that play. But somebody on the sideline, somebody on
the sideline, a young woman, kind of makes a motion
like get on the ground, pushes her hands down, looking
out at the field while the player is looking back
at the bench, and there's actually a guy standing kind

(12:34):
of next to her, a young man, and the video
of the two of them when she shows pushing her
hands down and then turns and kind of smirks a
little bit, and then the guy's closer still to the camera,
and he kind of smirks a little bit, like, oh, huh, yeah,
you know what we're doing, don't you. And I kind
of think that's exactly what they all knew they were doing,

(12:57):
but it was wrong, and they innocent until proven guilty.
But according I guess to the NCAA or whoever whoever's
in charge of all that, yep, yeah you did it,
so you get fined. You know, it's sad that that
goes on in sports, but clearly it did then, and

(13:20):
who knows who else is doing what else that just
doesn't get seen. That goes all the way to the
twenty seventeen Astros issues with the trash can banging, and
the only reason that that investigation didn't go any farther. Yeah,
I'm pretty dog on sure of this is that the

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Major League Baseball didn't really want to open that nest
of hornets, a big old hornets nest, because almost every
one of those teams and since baseball began, have been
trying to figure out what the other team's doing, and
they've done it in many different way forever, and it

(14:03):
still happens in the Little league sometimes, but they're trying
desperately to stop it. It just gets more clever every
time they find out that some kid on second base
is signaling a pitch. Pitch sign to the batter. Used
to be you'd hold your hands out for fastball and
hold them down for curveball. Then it became helmet touches

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or a closed fist, all designed to let the hitter
know what pitch was coming so he'd have a better
chance of hitting it. Short of blindfolding the kid on
second base, you couldn't see it now, and that's one
of the reasons that Major League Baseball went to the
pitch the little pitch caller thing. I can't remember what

(14:45):
they call that, but in any event, that's pretty much
what it is. It relays a signal and sound, and
I guess it probably just says curveball or curveball inside
or whatever. The little buttons on that that thing that
the catcher has on his thigh and the pitcher has
in his ear or behind his ear. That's how they

(15:08):
communicate now, and that's fine. I don't mind eliminating those
things not at all. And I'm pretty sure that somebody
in that stadium knows what the pitch is going to be,
because as soon as the pitch crosses the plate that
pops up on the scoreboard, nobody had to look at it.
They already know. Good heavens, I'm just wasting a lot

(15:28):
of time on this. My guess, like I said, is
that the A and M football program not really worried.
Guy just sat out on the field for about fifteen,
maybe thirty forty five seconds while his training staff and
medical staff come running out there, two or three of them,
and they gather around him, and they're touching his right

(15:49):
leg and pointing to his left leg and doing all
this stuff. And then when they're done, he just stands
up and walks off the field. Doesn't even fake a limp.
Doesn't even fake a limp. At least he could have
done that. Ah, mercy, all right, we got a long
ways to go in very short time to get there.
Coming up next, I'm going to talk to Sarah Peel,
who is part and a big part of the production

(16:13):
of the upcoming music festival down in Galveston. The what
is it, the Old Oh gosh, I gotta get it right,
the Old Quarter. That's the word. I can't get out
Old Quarter Songwriter Festival coming up in the second weekend
of November. We'll talk all about that with her when
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Speaker 1 (18:04):
Aging Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
I'm back. I appreciate you listening to us today well,
and I will make it to one o'clock and then
I'll have to get out of here before I get
there though, And by the way, Shank, thanks for sharing
your lunch. In this segment, I'm gonna let you know
about a music event coming up in downtown Galveston except
for November thirteen through fifteen, and it's gonna gather some
of the best singers and songwriters in the land. And

(18:34):
to explain, I'm gonna welcome Sarah Peel, the brains behind
the Old Quarter Singwriter Festival.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Welcome aboard, Sarah, Hi, thank you for having me today.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
It is absolutely my pleasure because you know way more
about this than I do. So, the Old Quarter in
Arts Downtown got together and gathered up what thirty or
so great songwriters.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
Yes, we're so excited. You know, the Old Quarter has
a legendary history in Texas music and it's where people
go in this region to listen to the songs, not
just here's background music. The Songwriter Festival kind of is
in that same vein that same spirit. It turns into
a three day celebration of original songwriting. It's intimate, it's

(19:18):
lyric driven, and its honors the tusition of artists like Towns,
van Zandt and others while showcasing new voices and carrying
the torch forward. We're super excited to be able to
bring that here to downtown Galveston.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
How long ago did you start booking all these people?
It had to have been a pretty big undertaking, right, Yes.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
It's been quite I mean it's been quite a process.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
You know.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
Art Downtown is a very young nonprofit in Galveston that
supports the local cultural arts district here and we've been
working on this project for probably a year trying to
get it off and make sure that the venues were
going to be appropriate to have the artists that we
wanted to bring in and kind of give us that good, authentic,

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historic vibe that Galveston has.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
How many how many venues have you got on tap
for this thing, because it's going to take more than
one to put thirty people out there, obviously, right over.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
A three day period. So we have four venues, okay,
are historic venues. One is the Neck in Iguana where
we're going to it's a brewery downtown where we're going
to kick off our VIP party on Thursday. And then
we'll have we have the historic Scottish Rite Theater, which
is a beautiful historic theater downtown as well. We have

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the good old fashioned Old Quarter which is legendary, and
we have the Proletariat Poorhouse, which is another cool venue downtown.
Everything's within a walkable footprint, which makes this really a
cool opportunity for people who are coming who've never been
to downtown Galveston. You can walk around, you can see art,

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you can go to hear the music, the live music.
It's going to be just amazing. And if the weather
is anything like it's been here, I mean, we're going
to be it's going to be off the chain.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
You know, you mentioned I had I was going to
ask you whether they all whether the venues were all
within walking distance. Now is that Stone Sober walking distance
or to Margarita walking distance?

Speaker 1 (21:27):
I think both.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
I think you're goody, Okay, that's good to know.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Do you know off offhand how many venues on the
island about now support live music at least on weekends.
I'm just kind of curious.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
Oh wow, that's a good question. We have quite a
few on the Strand and kind of spring the Cultural
Arts District. I would say that there are at least
twenty locations down there. Yeah, so you know, we recently
galaston received a designation as a music friendly destination, and
so bringing in the Songwriter Festival seemed like a natural

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opportunity for Galveston to showcase what we do.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
You know, it's so small stages too, the ones in
the corner of a coffee shop or a sandwich shop
or maybe a little bitty bar club somewhere. That's where
good songwriters and singers become great songwriters and singers, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
Absolutely? I mean, the venues I think hold anywhere like
the Old Quarter holds about seventy five eighty people. And
then Proletariat has a little bit more. It's a little
bit over one hundred, and then the Scottish Rite holds
over about three hundred, and then the neked Iguana is
I think in the hundreds range as well. So we're

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excited about having people down here and experiencing something that
we haven't ever done in Galveston. So I think it's
going to be an accessible for people of all capacities.
I think if you're in a wheelchair, if you're walking in,
if you want to, you know. I think that's what

(23:07):
makes it so exciting to be able to host that. Here.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
Sarah Peel from the Old Quarter Songwriter Festival here on
fifty plus. I saw online and I really like seeing
this honestly, that loud conversation during performances will not be tolerated.
You're gonna be I'm so glad to see that. And
I hope that if they do that, they just get
shown the sidewalk really quickly.

Speaker 3 (23:31):
I believe they will. I think, you know, that is
about Old Quarter. I think anybody who has ever been
there knows that that's really what it's about. It's about
really listening to the lyrics that someone is there to share,
and it is a great opportunity, especially for the young
artists that's new to showcasing their work. It gives them,

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you know, full on audience that is really paying attention
to what they're doing.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Outstanding Search Old Quarter Songwriter Festival. It's really never nobody's
ever too old to become a singer or a songwriter,
are they?

Speaker 3 (24:12):
No, they're not. And you know what's really cool is
we also have opportunity. We have a workshop that Chris
Cheryl is going to be doing on Saturday. So if
an emerging artist then you want to learn how to songwrite,
this is a great opportunity for you to come down
and work with a really good songwriter. So we encourage

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people to come down and participate. And the prices are
anywhere from VIP tickets which is two hundred and sixty
dollars all the way just to fifty dollars for the workshop.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
Fantastic, Sarah Peel, thank you so very much. Search for
Old Quarter Songwriter Festival. That's what I did, and it
pops right up and you can see all of what
we just talked about. Sarah, thank you so so much, and.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
Thank you for giving me a little time. I appreciate
it and I hope you're listen, Come on down, they'll
be there.

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Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
Welcome back. Thanks to all of you who have given
us this hour of yours today, Well fifty five minutes
or so of it, still got five or so to go.
I actually went to a concert and heard them in Mobile, Alabama,
when I was over there playing baseball. It was a
very long time. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, I'm almost positive
it was there. I didn't go to a lot of

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concerts when I was young, and I couldn't tell you why. Well,
a lot of it was because ticket prices. I didn't
have a lot of money when I was young. I
didn't grow up with money, not much of it at all.
But my family still did. Okay, we had what we needed.
We had baseball equipment. My sister had plenty of toys
and the equipment she needed to be in the drill

(28:07):
team in high school. And everything else was just gravy.
We played outside most of the time, the boys did anyway.
The girls tended to play inside. The boys played outside
and on the street I grew up on. There were
six or seven of us all very close in age,

(28:27):
and then every now and and we'd be out, man,
we left a lot of skin on the street, we
really did. We would play tag football out there, we'd
play baseball out there. We just any game that would
keep us outside until the street lights came on. That's
what we were doing every single day. And then every
now and then one of the older kids had come

(28:48):
out and suggest that we played dodgeball and try to
just knock us into unconsciousness. I could hold my own.
I had a little bit of an arm even when
I was young, so they didn't mess with me too much.
They mostly the older ones, the really older ones, the
ones who were six eight years older than us, would

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come out and just be the referee or the umpire
or something like that. It was, I think amusing to
them to watch how unathletic they must have seen us
as being back then, when we were all pretty good.
In hindsight, I don't remember anybody who always got picked
last for a team, and that's usually the indicator. That's

(29:30):
how it kind of worked in high school. Just have
fifteen guys standing around, fifteen sixteen guys standing around on
a weekday or a Saturday afternoon, at one of the
parks where we used to all kind of gather to play,
and you just start picking back and forth. Half of
your shirts, half of your skins. Let's go. It was fun.

(29:52):
Back to the No Kings protests this past weekend. Just
make a little mental note for yourself that the major
news networks, according to story I saw at NewsBusters, gave
that event eighteen times more coverage, eighteen times more coverage
than the March for Life. That's not accidental, and it's

(30:14):
not fair and equal journalism. It's not journalism at all.
It's just a deliberate effort to push a one sided
Virginia agenda. Right now, I honestly don't trust the national
newscast at all. The local stuff pretty much, yeah, because
it's right in your city and you've got a better
chance at learning about it at that local level. But

(30:36):
the national stuff, it's just lopsided as hell. I don't
know how they don't keep from tipping over to the left,
just just lose balance and just go far left and
hit the ground right here in Texas. By the way,
it concerns me that more than twenty seven hundred they
wrap it in quotes in the story potential non citizens

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in the wrapping were found on voter rolls an our state.
After a review of a federal database somewhere, that number
should be zero. There should be no non citizens voting
in national elections, and it shouldn't be hard to find
the sources of those mistakes if anybody ever really goes
after it. I hope that in Texas lawmakers are going

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to care enough to chase this down and no matter
where it leads and put a stop to it. We
just can't do that our vote, especially at the national level,
that's the most important tool we have to ensure fair
and honest representation in Congress, in the White House, when
people who aren't citizens get any say so in the

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outcomes of elections. What we've done is just thrown away
and this applies to both sides. We've thrown away the
one true voice we have. We forfeited that voice as
Americans by letting somebody else tell us who's going to
be an office. I have to show a valid every
idea every time I turn around. You can cash your check.

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You have to show your driver's license. You buy a
hunting license, fishing license, buy a firearm, marriage license, got
to show your ID. But on the left, a lot
of those folks are saying that requiring valid ID to
vote is somehow racists, somehow prohibits people who don't have

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IDs from voting. Anybody who can prove they're qualified qualified
to vote can apply for a free valid ID card
so that they can go ahead and exercise that right
to vote. We got more than ten million non citizens
in this country, probably more than that, and apparently some
of them are clearly finding a way into voting boosts,
and every vote they cast cancels out to vote in an

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American citizen on either side. That should anger people on
both sides, really, but it doesn't seem of interest to
the left, and it won't until they find out some
of those folks are voting Republican. That would be hilarious.
That's all it would take to get mandatory voter idea
for the left to lose an election because too many
illegals voted for the other side. That'd put a stop
to it pretty quickly. Thirty seconds, will yes, no, no, ten, ten,

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twenty five, six seven, whatever that was. There's a new
app This is kind of silly, but it's just a
sign of the times. A big some fancy AI app
that allows you to create fake photographs that look like
you went on vacation. Hey buddy, next vacation I take
is going to be real And yeah, no fake photos

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for me. Audios