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He joins us every month to talk all things agriculture.
Delighted to welcome back the head of the Wisconsin Farmers Union, Darren Von Ruden, is joining us.
Good morning, Darren.
Thanks for making time for us.
How you doing?
Oh, you are so lucky.
Is that a good thing though?
Just to veer off a little bit, Darren, because we hear so much about drought and dry conditions, is this welcome moisture or is this just making it worse?
No, no, this is really welcome moisture because it's at a time of year where we can't do anything in the fields anyway.
So anytime you get moisture on top, it sinks down in and gives you that subsoil moisture that you really need in the middle of summer when it gets hot and could get dry too.
So and the snow we're getting is a wet snow.
It's not a dry snow.
So that adds to that moisture.
Well, that's good.
That's good news.
So much to cover.
There's been a lot going on lately.
I want to start off, Darren, by talking about these grant freezes that we have talked about with a couple of other people.
And from what I understand and correct me if I'm wrong, but a lot of these programs that were offered, these grants that were offered under the Biden administration required farmers in some instances to invest in things and then they were going to be compensated or the cost of this investment would be
subsidized by these grants from the federal government.
Is that accurate?
You know, most of them you have to.
prove the work before you can receive the funds.
There are some that you can request the funds ahead of time to cover like the equipment purchases, construction issues, things like that.
But the majority of the grants, whether it's REAP grants or grants to do transportation projects, EQUIP grants are to do like stream make improvements, fence line improvements.
different things like that in the farm.
The last two there, you have to do the project first and then get reimbursed.
And everything's signed under contracts.
So there's contract between the landowner and the most time the county NRCS or FSA Office Farm Service Agency Office, NRCS is Natural Resource Conservation Service.
So there is signed contracts for all of these.
situations that we're seeing out here.
And a lot of these farmers again have already invested this money and now these grants are frozen.
So what does that mean for Wisconsin farmers?
Well, you know, it's scary really, especially when you're looking at some of the projects and I know of two locally here, a neighbor that has a 600 or 600 sheep.
milking facilities and then they have a creamery there too and have won many awards over the years that this place has been operating.
They put in a solar array last year and the REAP grant that they're supposed to be getting is $70,000 and around the 30th of January or so they received that notice saying that you're
grant is in the freeze mode right now so looking at $70,000 you know that's just not small change and for any producer really you know he's gonna have to go to the bank and refinance in order to keep that project moving it is up and running right now.
but there's the installers, the solar panel providers, they all need to be paid too.
So, you know, at one point are they going to say, you know, we need our money and then that's up to the farmer
to
Well, and we've talked with you before, Darren, about the fact that most farmers money is tied up either in their equipment or the land or a seed or all of those things.
It's not like most of us don't have $70,000 just laying around in cash that we can easily access.
And I think that's even worse for farmers.
So hardly ever have any cash laying around.
But certainly if you have a good banker and an honest relationship there, most of the time you will get an operating loan or the dollars you need to keep things going.
But this is a different situation where you have a bigger project that you were trying to
invest in your future and so operating loans don't necessarily fit into that category and which means it's probably going to need to be refinanced and then you're put yourself in a capital risk right away with the extra dollars having to go to a project that you were of the understanding that you were going to get some assistance from the federal government.
When it comes down to the contract that you make with the government on these sorts of projects
Is there any action to be taken from the farmer?
Can they say, look, we signed a contract.
You said you were going to do this.
I have equipment that's now working.
You owe me the money.
Is it something that can be taken to court?
Or once they get that letter says frozen, that's the end of the discussion until they get an update.
Yeah, you know, at this point, there is a few different groups, national groups that are looking at those possibilities.
So if a farmer or a local businessman is in that situation, there's possibilities that they can join those actions versus going out there on your own.
Because most of the time, if you're that little dairy farmer or sheep farmer or grain farmer,
looking to collect, it's going to take a lot of money out of your back pocket to get it.
So my suggestion would be to make sure you're aware of these national groups that have the dollars and the attorneys to help in that process.
And the biggest thing is make sure that you're fulfilling your side of the contract.
So that way, Uncle Sam can't come back and say, well, you didn't fulfill it.
So you broke the contract.
If you're just joining us, Darren Von Ruden is our guest.
He's the president of the Wisconsin Farmers Union.
and we're talking about these grants that have been frozen now under the Trump administration for work that a lot of farmers have already invested in.
And now they're just kind of in limbo.
What are you hearing from your members, Darren?
Uncertainty is never a good thing.
And certainly with this, when you're looking at having to
go to your banker and make that ask it, you know, at that point in time that it comes, you know, it just adds another layer of stress besides what we're already under.
And certainly with the president's actions in the last 36 hours or so here too with the tariff wars going down, that's just another level of uncertainty that farmers are facing.
And we talked about this a little bit yesterday when those tariffs were announced.
And I've seen some people say,
Well, so what?
So, you know, short term pain, you know, China is going to fill in the void or Brazil is going to fill in the void for the soybeans, but they're going to come back.
That's not what happened the first time around under the Trump administration.
The market share that our farmers lost during that go around have not come back.
And there isn't, you know, that big of a market anywhere in the world.
So once you lose a portion of that huge market, you're never going to get that back.
Brazil had been building their infrastructure to get to that point where something like this ever happened.
They were ready to jump in.
You know, the only thing that could possibly help us to get that and I don't wish this upon any farm or anywhere in the world is, you know, droughts or, you know, other natural disasters that
would destroy part of the crop or a good chunk of the crop, then certainly they would have to come back to the US if necessary.
But with the way the crop production has been going around the world, everybody's becoming more independent and not necessarily needing a foreign market to supply their own needs.
I just find it very
I don't know what the word is, but the fact that Brazil said we should build up our efforts and build up our abilities because America is unstable in what they're producing, like this situation.
So if we can take the market share, we can do it.
Let's start.
Let's invest now in our farming and our ability to export because if America has another one of these again, we can jump in.
And they did.
No
Five short years ago when we seen that same situation or six, I guess now.
But, you know, the federal government forked out over $2 billion to subsidies to crop farmers during that process.
And, you know, that was market share that farmers lost.
And we still haven't regained it.
Farmers had invested
I shouldn't say billions.
Millions of dollars and hundreds of millions of dollars into programs to work with our overseas partners to actually build that trust and relationship through check-off dollars.
And those check-off dollars basically got thrown away in that trade war because we lost all of those partners in other countries.
I've seen some lawmakers comment that, why are we exporting our goods?
We should be feeding our own people.
It seems to me to display a certain amount of ignorance about how markets work.
yet
Is there any concern, Darren?
We spoke to a gentleman who has a channel on YouTube called the Back 40.
We talked to Will a couple of weeks ago about his concern that the goal is to see all farms in the country eventually go to big corporations and just corporatize all of our farms.
Do you hear much about that?
That's been a huge concern of our organization for decades already, you know, and we're certainly getting a lot closer to that in dairy, poultry is already pretty much there, pork production is there, crops are certainly heading that way when you're looking at land prices around the country are two to three times higher than what
They were five, six years ago, and only the largest investors can afford to pay that kind of money for the land.
So, you know, we're concentrating that control of our natural resources into, you know, fewer and fewer hands.
And at some point when it becomes just one or two, this country is going to be in a world of hurt.
Darren Von Ruden is our guest.
We're going to continue our conversations.
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Darin will
address it for us, yes.
Darin Von Rudin is our guest.
He's the president of the Wisconsin Farmers Union, and we are talking about...
The grants that were offered under the Biden administration, now that money has been frozen, even though the money's already been shelled out on the front end.
That's what we were talking about before we got to the break.
I do want to talk, Darren, about something that it seems like, oh my God, both sides agree on, is this right to repair bill?
So this
where a farmer would be allowed
to fix his own equipment rather than downloading some app for several thousand dollars or taking it to the dealership only to fix it.
This would give farmers more freedom to fix their own stuff.
hardware that we need, which is most likely an app to figure out what's going on within the tractor because of the electrification of tractors.
And that means the components to diagnose all the issues around it.
Most tractors are still diesel fuel or gas.
There are electric tractors that are coming online, but certainly not right now.
But the average farmer today can't fix their equipment like they could 10, 15 years ago.
And the bigger issue there too is those local mechanics that are not working for the dealership because they want to be that self-independent provider of a service.
It costs too much for them to buy this hardware or that app in order to fix the newer tractors that could come into their shop.
And so we're really seeing those providers are being harmed by the current system of monopoly control is probably
the best way to put it because they want to be able to control where those piece of equipment are fixed and they want to be able to charge you what they can.
You know locally here we've got a couple of different mechanics that work on John Deere tractors charging 70 or 75 dollars an hour and the local John Deere shops in their
operations are charging 140 bucks an hour.
So, you know, as a farmer that's cash-strapped, as we were talking earlier, is most likely going to want to go to that smaller independent mechanic and get the tractor fixed.
But in reality, that local mechanic is probably going to have to start charging that 130, 140 bucks an hour to cover his costs that it takes to get that app or hardware to
diagnose what's going on within that tractor.
Well and we had talked to Brad Paff about this a couple of weeks ago too and he pointed out you know if your tractor breaks down and you're in the middle of the field harvesting something it's not like someone's right down the road who can come right out there and and and get out there and fix it right away you could be waiting for days or a week.
Yeah and some of that hardware that needs to be replaced once they figure out what's going on with the tractor could be two to three weeks out because of
the issue of supply chain issues.
And most dealerships don't have three, four or five tractors just sitting on the lot that they're ready to let go out to replace that one while it's being fixed.
So you look at coming up here in six weeks, we're gonna be in the...
that in the middle of planting season.
And when you're halfway done and that main tractor breaks down, you're really dependent on that to be fixed in a short time frame versus long time frame.
And, you know, that supply chain issue certainly was bad in 2020 because of COVID, but we're still seeing that effect today on a lot of equipment that farmers need in a short time frame when it's planting and harvest season.
I truly just I do not think people can grasp
how expensive it is to farm in modern America.
It's just, I mean, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars are being spent to make sure that we have food.
And when something like that happens, and the idea of like your tractor being in the field, and then saying, well, this part has to be ordered from Europe, maybe a month, then what are you to do?
I mean, it's ridiculous.
And my only question is,
We're not in a question.
This is for everybody.
Really.
It's like, it's like, we said it's bipartisan.
We love bipartisan.
The problem is bipartisan doesn't mean past.
It means there could be one person saying, well, I don't like it.
Not like it.
So we're not going to do it.
Sorry.
Are you hopeful that
this will, that this will get passed, Aaron?
There's two states for sure that I know of that have passed a similar language, Colorado and Minnesota, Montana, Michigan, a few others have.
went through the process and just didn't get passed in the verse go around but they're going back at it again.
There's also a national lawsuit against John Deere filed by the
a bunch of attorney generals around the country to make this happen, too, to allow those independent mechanics and independent farmers the ability to fix that equipment that comes into their shops or that they own.
We've only got about two minutes left, Darren.
Real briefly, we talked again about the hollowing out has begun at NOAA, now the National Oceanic Administration, which oversees the National Weather Service.
Accurate weather information is kind of important to farmers, isn't it?
It is, you know, because we can look at the weather map one day and decide can we work up a bunch of fields and get ready to plant tomorrow?
Or do we have to wait two, three days?
You know, if there's a streak of rain that's coming through, it means that you're going to have to wait.
And similar in the middle of summer when you're trying to make good high quality hay, you don't want to cut it and then have a week of rain on it.
you know, there's tining issues there.
But then, you know, talking with some of our friends on the coasts, looking at the fishermen going out into the oceans, they depend on that system a lot more than even the farmers here in the Midwest because if a big storm is coming, they need to know about it.
And tides change, you know, in minutes versus hours.
So they need those warnings a lot faster.
Darren Von Ruden is the president of the Wisconsin Farmers Union.
He joins us once a month.
Thank you so very much, Darren.
It's a
was really a great segment and we learned so much.
Really appreciate your time.
Take care.
We'll see you next month.
News coming up next when we return will lighten it up.
A little audio sorbet.
We're talking movies.
Keep it right here on the Civic Media Radio Network.
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We wanted to talk, as we always do, for the last half hour of the program.
We try to lighten things up a little bit because I really do think it's important for our health and our mental health.
What do we call that?
We call it audio sorbet.
So here's the question for you today Oscars were handed out Sunday night.
Yep.
Adrian Brody is still talking.
Oh
Byrne.
What are the longest accepted speeches in the longest the longest five minutes and 40 seconds?
And it was completely humble and yet none of that it was like a really anyway So the Oscars were handed out Sunday night and we started talking about movies before we got on the air Yeah, and it led us to this question.
What is the movie that everybody loves?
But you
Yeah, does nothing for you that you just don't get it.
You don't like it.
It doesn't you don't never don't laugh What is the movie that everybody else loves?
But you there's no wrong answers.
There's no judgment
eight five five seven five two four eight four two eight five five seven five civic You want to share yours?
I
will start
all right.
I will start
right can
start this will be all all the men all the men over 35 or so will be
Gunning for me outraged.
Yes.
I did not do not enjoy the film caddy shack with Chevy Chase Chevy Chase with Ted Knight Rodney Dangerfield bunch of other people from the late 70s early 80s
It
was the it was the first no it was the second national lampoon movie or made by the national lampoon people I
Now, here's the thing is, I watched it far past the age you're supposed to see for the first time.
I feel like most, I'll go, I'll get general and don't accuse me of being a sexist here.
Most dudes see caddy shack between the ages of maybe 10 and 12.
Right when you're being a boy.
And
the scatological things make you laugh, right?
Yeah, I get that.
And so
I saw it later in life.
I saw it in my, I think I saw it in my 30s, my late 30s.
And I was like, this movie's...
Dumb.
This movie is so dumb.
And like, it's like one of those movies where men constantly quote it, and posters in their garages are man caves.
And I just said they're going, it's a movie about golf.
Essentially.
And class warfare, because one person told me.
Yes, moderately about class warfare.
We do have a clip from the classic.
Caddyshack, should Greg lose his man card over this?
Calvin, let's play this clip from Caddyshack, please.
Can I ask you something?
Sure thing.
Shoot, Timmy.
Danny.
Danny.
You take drugs, Danny?
Every day.
Good.
Danny, this is in Russia.
Is this Russia?
This is in Russia, isn't it?
Nah.
Stop thinking.
Let things happen and be the ball.
Be the ball.
Be the ball.
That's one of the best lines in the movie,
actually.
Yeah, I mean...
And also, there's a time when Chevy Chase was really funny.
Like, he was one of the best dry-wit American comedians to do it.
But the movie just overall is like...
It's gag
after
gag after gag, right?
It's gag
after gag.
No, thank
you.
What is the movie that everybody else loves but you?
8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2.
Angie from Monroe is on the line.
Good morning, Angie.
Thanks for joining us.
What is your film that everybody else loves?
And you're like, yeah, no.
Star Wars.
No judgment.
Sorry.
I've never seen a single Star Wars.
I have zero interest.
Anything like that.
None.
Sorry.
I'm so sorry.
Not even curious.
There's
a
lot
of Star Wars
fans like myself who say the following.
I get it.
Harrison Ford's really adorable in that movie, Angie.
I couldn't even tell you who's in it.
Doesn't does
not even
yet, but not curious.
Yeah.
All right.
Sorry.
That's
all right.
Don't apologize.
No, that is perfectly fine.
No judgment zone.
I
slipped.
I apologize.
Nobody nobody who's calling or texting or live stream commenting.
Do not apologize for your opinions on this.
This is no judgment.
We all have them.
We have, the texts have started flowing in.
Excellent.
Someone listening on WMDX.
Thanks, Angie,
by the way.
Oh yeah, thank you, Angie.
As well as Steve from Milwaukee, both say Napoleon Dynamite.
Thank you.
Okay.
Thank you.
Okay,
you know what?
We said no judgment.
I've tried.
to
watch that movie.
It is a
beautiful, simple, innocent film.
I wanted to stick needles in my eyes in the first 15 minutes.
I don't think that's true at all, but you could have just turned it off.
That's
fine.
It's the only one I'll go to bat for, honestly.
Napoleon Dynamite.
Because Napoleon Dynamite, I saw it the first time and I hated it.
And then my friend kind of sat me down and said, here's the backstory of the film.
And I saw it from a different light.
And now I love the film.
I think it's a beautiful, fun,
They don't make movies like that because it's so innocent and it's humor.
There's no There's there's no double entendres.
There's no like excessive violence stupid Pratt falls in common.
Well, there's Pratt falls.
There's physical comedy But it just it's made by a kid who loves movies and it shows and if I feel it and I love it
Yeah, that's you can love you can love it.
What is the movie everybody else loves?
But you hate 855-752-4842, Todd from Depeer, listening in Green Bay on WGBW.
I have two, Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption.
Can't get into either.
That is art that I don't understand.
That's fine.
I understand Pulp Fiction.
I watched it once and I'm like, I'm good for that.
No, I can't do Pulp Fiction.
Love Shawshank Redemption.
Yeah, love that film.
But again, that's not, there's no wrong answer.
Cindy from Appleton is on the line.
Good morning, Cindy.
Thanks for joining us.
The movie that everybody else loves and you're like, no.
I don't know.
There's so many that, I mean, the one they just talked about politics and that definitely, I never got that one.
And then there's all the Chevy chase where they do their trip movies.
Those are just
Oh, my God.
And then what was the other one?
Oh, Wayne's World.
I'm like, oh, my God, really?
Really, Cindy, we just have
a movie.
Cindy, get it out.
Get it all out, girl.
It's a cleansing segment
for you.
I could probably go for another 10 minutes.
I have no
doubt.
Thank you, Cindy.
Really appreciate it.
The movie that everybody else loves.
And you hate Julie from Wausau.
The dance number at the beginning of La La Land was good.
But it was all downhill from there.
I hated it.
I didn't know that movie was a musical.
And me, my wife, my brother and sisters in law, we all went to go see a movie.
And we're like, let's go see La La Land, even though I really wanted to see a different movie.
And I got big footed on it.
The moment it started, the crane on the camera started moving.
I'm like,
This is a musical
feel like you've been I was
so angry I'm like, oh cool.
I don't get me wrong love Ryan Gosling, but a white man saves jazz
Yeah, right and he didn't sing all that well no eight five five seven five two four eight four two a movie that everybody else loves and you're like I Don't get it Calvin.
What is your what is your
film?
So mine is the goonies
It's a movie that my mom and her brothers all love and I just could never sit through the whole thing.
Yeah Do you think you were too old?
I think maybe I was too old and I think I also was in a phase of I didn't like old movies at that time Okay, but at the same time then I have to take that back a little bit because Ferris Bueller stay off is one of my favorite movies ever
Interesting
I know but I don't know and I know it came out later
and it's a different premise sort of, but I think Stand By Me is a lot better movie than The Goonies.
I would agree with you.
Well, those
are totally
different things.
They're totally different things.
I know one's dramatic and one's a comedy, but they're both premises of coming of age and looking for something.
What is the movie everybody else loves, but you hate or you just don't get it 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 Stephanie from Madison joining us on the line.
Good morning, Stephanie.
What is your movie?
Well, good morning.
You know, first, I just want to say in the sense of caddy shit, it is rated R. So I sure hope 11 and 12 year old aren't watching it.
Fair point.
But the movies that I really, really don't get and everybody loved it.
Now I saw it later.
And, you know, so maybe that's what it was.
Forrest Gump.
I just.
Interesting.
I did.
You are not alone, Stephanie.
I did not love that movie.
I the running thing.
I'm going to go run for a year.
If you want to get really like weirded out, like it's based on a book and the book and the movie are nothing alike.
And in the book, Forrest Gump is all.
Horrible person.
Really?
Oh yeah, he's like a drunk.
He's terrible.
Interesting.
Look up all the movies where Tom Hanks either plays a real person or a person from a book.
They almost always change it so much because Tom Hanks is
Tom Hanks.
It's so likable.
Look up the differences between Captain Phillips real life and the movie.
It'll make you upset.
Interesting.
Thanks a lot, Stephanie.
Appreciate it.
8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2.
A movie everybody else loves and you just...
It just doesn't grab you.
Carla from Eagle River on the text line listening on WXCO.
I couldn't stand everything everywhere all at once.
I didn't get it.
I watched it, Carla.
I liked maybe the first half hour.
And
then I was the whole hot dog fingers.
And then the end, I was so lost.
I was so lost.
Maybe it's about seeing it again to like because sometimes you see the second time things open up, but I get that too Brian Texan planes trains and automobiles OMG It's like a nightmare of a vacation.
It's that's a very uncomfortable movie to watch Plains
trains and I
understand that I wouldn't say I dislike it But it's not a movie I go to whereas other people are like I love that movie and I love John Candy.
Yeah
So many texts.
We're trying to get them all.
Texture on WAUK.
I had a shirt in high school.
This is from Robin Green Bay on WGBW.
I had a shirt in high school that said, the boat sank.
Get over it.
Dang.
Never watched the movie.
I assume Titanic.
Yes.
I still refuse to watch it.
Robin Green Bay, Texture on WAUK, Top Gun Maverick.
I was so bored with most of it.
I went to the theater with my two sons.
One of them fell asleep and the other one loved it.
Jane, what about you real quick?
Calvin, just play the clip first.
Everyone will know what this movie is after you hear this clip.
I love you.
You?
Complete me.
Shut up.
Just shut up.
Yeah, please.
You had me at hello.
Oh, kill me now.
Just kill me.
I hated that movie.
Jerry Maguire.
No, no, we got it, Jane.
Hated that movie with a hot heat.
I just
don't like it.
Cesar in Madison on MDX has minus Star Trek.
Everybody I know hates me for it.
We don't
hate you.
I don't hate
you.
We
don't hate you.
Jane probably hates
it.
No, no, no.
Gary in Oregon listening in Madison Barbie.
tried to watch it twice.
I lasted five minutes.
Love that movie.
Love that
movie.
Kara from Sun Prairie.
I haven't seen it in a long time, but I thought the Matrix was lame.
I remember the dialogue being really dumb, and I felt like a third grader could have done a better job.
That's Kara from Sun Prairie.
And Super Franklin says,
Don't hate me, but it's a wonderful life.
I get that.
No
judgments.
No
judgment.
And I get it.
It's just one of those movies that feels forced upon you by other people who love it, like the Wizard of Oz.
You're like, I don't need to see this.
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This shouldn't be a thing.
Today it's from the Associated Press Charlotte Graham McClay with the byline the headline reads one moment calm waters the next a 900 pound dolphin landed on their boat In Wellington, New Zealand a fishing trip turned a berserk for three men when a dolphin weighing more than 900 pounds
appeared to fall out of the sky before crash landing in their small boat.
Dean Harrison and two friends were in this, it's only 16 feet long.
It's not a great big boat.
I'm
surprised it didn't destroy the boat.
Well, yeah, here, just wait.
Okay.
They were fishing off of the far north coast of New Zealand's northern island while dolphins are frolicking around them.
They saw a shadow across the sun and then heard a crash
And then chaos broke out.
This dolphin decided to jump on board and say hello.
One minute everything was fine.
And then like lightning striking, there is a huge dolphin in our boat thrashing around breaking everything.
The dolphin broke every single fishing rod we had in the boat.
Severely damaged the bow as the three guys are hanging on.
One man suffered minor injuries to his arm.
All three are fine.
The dolphin is fine.
The guy's like, well, now we have this 900-pound dolphin in our boat.
What are we going to do with it?
They alerted New Zealand's conservation agency, got directed to a boat dock about an hour away where there were people waiting to help this dolphin.
So in the meantime,
And there is a video and we'll do this in the show notes.
In the meantime, they're spraying the dolphin.
They've got towels over him so he doesn't get sunburned.
And so I know.
And so it stays moist and things like that.
He's fine.
This is the second water.
Related
or later thing that gets video to the last one was someone just get.
I think Calvin
was the whale.
Mouthed by a whale
that spat out.
He
got gummed by
the
whale.
And this one the dolphins like, are you doing?
Are you
fishing?
The people who were waiting for them to get there, what's this happened?
Again, it was an hour away.
Awaiting the dolphin, they named him Tohu, which means a sign in the Maori language.
The dolphin got to swim away.
We all got to walk away.
And now we have a story to tell.
It's a good ending in a situation that could have been very different.
And now he has named his boat Tohu after the dolphin that they helped save.
I love this story.
Nice.
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There is a video of this, not of the dolphin landing on them, but as they were transporting him.
It's all fine.
That wraps up today's episode of.
This shouldn't be a thing.
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I was going to watch it myself, and then, unfortunately, I tripped and landed on some needles that ended up in my eyes, and I couldn't watch the
whole thing.
You and your eyes and needles are
a problem.
Got to be careful.
I just fell asleep.
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