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welcome to another episode of peers over

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beers

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your favorite digital and social

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evangelist podcast

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with your industry veteran hosts michael

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sandoval

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and chris detzel this podcast starts now

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it really does i like the way it does do

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the countdown so three two one

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hello welcome to another episode of

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peers over beers my name is michael

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sandoval

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and i'm chris stetzel hello chris how

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are you doing good man how about you

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you know well i am not in the

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the seven day trial of alaska weather

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for texas

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so yeah i'm assuming you're going to

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cancel your alaska subscription

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oh show

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yes i think what michael's talking about

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is here in texas he lives in el paso and

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i'm in dallas and

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you know we just had kind of a

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big snowstorm but also cold i mean super

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cold for us

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i think three degrees Fahrenheit one

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time it was negative two like at night

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uh 10 degrees i mean it was like five or

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six days

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and we're still kind of in it and it's

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sunny today but 30

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it's gonna get up to 36 but the point is

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is a lot of people didn't have power

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we didn't have hot water for three days

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um

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i was afraid our pipes were gonna bust

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but they didn't luckily

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hot water came back on and i think it

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took like three showers in like five

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hours you know

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because i'm so

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you know so it's it's amazing how

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quickly

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uh things go to mad max beyond

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thunderdome

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uh yeah i know you know i still watch

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the news local news and dallas and

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just watching all the folks just

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i just kind of people are just standing

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in lines and

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um fighting i mean chopping down their

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own furniture to light it up i mean it's

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just it's just nuts

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yeah it was yeah it hurt you know all

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this firewood is gone and

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you know they couldn't sell enough yeah

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or they could uh

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yeah they could yeah it's gone i mean

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they gotta go chop down some more trees

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exactly and folks are chopping down

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trees but they forget that it's still

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wet it won't light

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they didn't know they get in there and

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this yeah

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let's take down that tree where we're

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gonna do and then all of a sudden they

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try to light it and just

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blend exactly

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it takes days to dry out

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uh but i i will admit for for us for

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good for bad for whatever it is uh el

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paso is on a separate power grid we're

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on the

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on the west coast power grid uh the one

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that's connected to

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uh edison ercot i mean sorry edison

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and we get a lot of our power from a

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nuclear power plant

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called palo verde and so i think yeah

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and i can't say a percentage but i feel

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it's a large percentage of our power

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percentages from uh

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is from a nuclear uh facility and when

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they were doing some of the thought that

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i guess el paso was part of the

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discussion to deregulate but they said

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well it's going to cost

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more because power distribution from the

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center of texas is

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further away than the power distribution

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that we get from

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the nuclear power plant that's just only

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a few hours away

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let's tell you how far out we're over

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here yeah you guys are

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yeah what is it like eight or ten hour

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drive from dallas to

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dallas yeah yeah yeah that's tough uh

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i'm glad you're safe sir i'm glad you're

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doing okay and

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i wish you many more warm showers

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to start off you know you sent me

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a fascinating invite to an app called

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clubhouse

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yep and i felt immediately like an

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old man because you are like what's the

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shape cole clubhouse

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you know how to do this had to

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investigate and look at it

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but it's kind of like a like a like

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a a talk if i were to say

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ted's you know the ted's software like

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or the ted's

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what do you call it not ted's pet talk

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ted talks right

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like you could host a proverbial

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clubhouse talk right just get people

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to listen in and it seems to be like

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this

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uh maybe um

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almost like the podcast effect but like

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this information

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distribution easily distribution of

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people getting

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information did you ever do you know

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something called i think it's called

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speaker square or speaker's corner

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in london no so in i think it's in

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regent park but

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you know it's it's where we get the term

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to stand on one's uh soap box

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uh-huh during the victorian area that

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they general on sundays they would take

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soap boxes you know there were these

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large crates sit

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and they would stand on top of it and

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then you would just talk about whatever

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you want

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yeah and so they would soapbox

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they still do it by the way it sounds

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like a little bit this but maybe not so

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