I Love the Shop a Christmas Store: Janice and Rick Griego

Episode Transcript

Bunny : (00:00)
Hi there. I’m Bunny Terry, and you’re listening to the I Love New Mexico podcast. Whether you’re a native new Mexican, who’s lived here for your entire life, or you’re just considering a visit, this episode is for you. Join us as we share a lot of New Mexico stories, talk about all things New Mexico, and include topics like what’s magical here, where you ought to visit, what’s happening, and the things you absolutely cannot miss in the land of Enchantment. We’re excited that you’re here and we can’t wait to show you what an amazing place New Mexico is, because let’s face it, I love New Mexico here at the, I Love New Mexico podcast. We love to do stories that are timely and, and sometimes, um, we wanna do stories that are evergreen that you can listen to any time of the year. And I’m telling you, although this is a podcast with Janice and Rick Griego, who are the owners of the Christmas shop in Santa Fe, um, it’s also Evergreen because they’re open year round. And, um, Janice and Rick, you’ve been doing this for a while. It’s Christmas every day at your house, right?

Rick: (01:23)
Yes,

Janice : (01:24)
It is. .

Bunny : (01:26)
How long have you been doing this? ?

Rick: (01:30)
Since, well, 40 years. Since 83. 1983.

Bunny : (01:35)
Wow. Wow. How, where, where did the idea come from? I’m so curious.

Rick: (01:42)
Well, when we finished, uh, when we finished college down in Las Cruces, we were at New Mexico State. That’s where I met Janice. And we finished and we came back home. And of course, jobs were very scarce at the time because of the, uh, the economy. So there was, the shop was already open. It was open in 77, uh, by Ed Berry. And, um, so the opportunity came up to own the store. So we basically took it, uh, as we joke, we still trying to find what we’re gonna do after college. 40 years later,

Bunny : (02:14)
. That’s so cool. Now, are both of you from New Mexico? I’m curious how you ended up at New Mexico State.

Janice : (02:22)
Well, I grew up in Albuquerque. Yeah. I was born and raised in Albuquerque, and then Rick was born and raised here in Santa Fe.

Bunny : (02:31)
And tell me what year you went, what, 40 years ago? When was that? We may have been there at the same time.

Rick: (02:37)
1980, well, we finished in 80… 1983.

Janice : (02:39)
1983 is when we finished.

Rick: (02:41)
It was, so it was in May of 1983 when we finished.

Bunny : (02:45)
So I went to New Mexico State in September of 1978.

Rick: (02:51)
Okay. So

Janice : (02:51)
We’re, okay. So you, we were there at the same time. At the same time. Wow. Because that’s when I started. Yeah. Did you graduate? No, I lived in WRC.

Bunny : (03:00)
Oh, okay.

Janice : (03:01)
. Cool.

Bunny : (03:02)
Cool. Well, you lived in

Janice : (03:03)
Garcia Hall at one time,

Rick: (03:04)
Didn’t you? Yeah, I lived in Garcia for one semester, and that was enough ,

Bunny : (03:09)
So I want, so, so that’s so funny because I, I love to do this, um, when we, you know, we have a lot of guests, a lot of, not guests, but a lot of people who are listening who are not from New Mexico and maybe have never been here. And, you know, I have listeners who are from all over the world, and I think it’s worth saying that, you know, when we grew up, New Mexico was a small state. I mean, it’s still a small state, but wasn’t it less than a million people when we went to college? What didn’t New Mexico,

Janice : (03:42)
I mean, definitely. Yeah, it definitely was.

Rick: (03:45)
Las Cruces at the time when we were there, was with the school in session, I think it was 42,000 people in Las Cruces. And when it was outta session, it was like 28 or 29,000 people. So you took, I remember that about thir you took about 13,000 people, students out of the equation in the summer in Las Cruces. If you remember in the summers, we, we were there one summer to take some classes, a couple of classes, um, and it was, it was pretty much a ghost town.

Bunny : (04:13)
I did that too.

Janice : (04:14)
Was too campus was very,

Rick: (04:15)
Yeah, yeah. Campus was a ghost town.

Bunny : (04:17)
And it was the summer that Princess Diana married Prince Charles. That’s, that’s the, that’s the year that I was there for the summer and I lived over. It

Rick: (04:27)
Was, yeah, it was, it was, it

Janice : (04:28)
Was.

Bunny : (04:28)
Oh, that’s so funny. Um, that was, so we were at the same time. And, um, I think I lived, what was the athletic dorm? I can’t remember. That was where they put us, us in the summertime.

Rick: (04:41)
Um, what was that? I don’t even know if it’s still there. Um,

Bunny : (04:46)
It’s probably not. It was like a, it was like a hotel motel six, but how cool is that? So, so if you’re listening and you’ve never been to New Mexico, you should know that we’re all separated by like one degree of separation if we’re from here. Don’t you think? I mean,

Rick: (05:01)
Oh yeah,

Janice : (05:01)
Definitely.

Rick: (05:02)
We, yeah, you, in fact, when, when customers come in that are from New Mexico, especially from northern New Mexico, the more you talk to ’em, you end up finding, you know, we might be distant cousins, right? , we might be, we’re related somehow or, or you know, somebody that

Janice : (05:20)
Is related to related. Somebody that, you know, just

Rick: (05:23)
Like yesterday, yesterday morning we had a, a, a couple come in, a brother and sister, and uh, as we were talking, we found out that they grew up here. It wa they were part of the Hesh family, and their mother was my fourth grade teacher. And so we kept talking. No way. Yeah. So it was, uh, so ev ev almost every day somebody comes in

Janice : (05:45)
Something, somebody comes in or that knows, either knows someone in Albuquerque that I know or that he might be related to or, because growing up in, in Santa Fe, he knew a lot more people because it was a lot smaller. Albuquerque was, you know, the big city. So we didn’t know as many, you know, it wasn’t as tight knit as, but yeah, there’s always somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody.

Bunny : (06:14)
That is so cool. So Rick, where did you go to elementary school?

Rick: (06:18)
Uh, I went to our Lady Guadalupe. Oh, okay. It was still open as a, as a Catholic school. So we went to school there. And then when they closed the school down, unfortunately, uh, most of the kids scattered to different schools. And I, uh, I went to St. Mike’s after that. ’cause that was the seventh grade when I was going in. Uh, so, but yeah, we grew up at, uh, uh, in the area and we went to school at our later Guadalupe. And interesting thing about it is, is we, my mother had gone to school there. I had an aunt that had taught there at one time before she moved to California. So we still, we still keep in somewhat keep not really personally contact, but a a lot of the kids that I went to school with, and I shouldn’t say kids, I mean, we’re all older now, but they, they, some of them still come into the shop.

Rick: (07:04)
We still contact, keep in contact with ’em. Um, one particular guy, uh, Arturo Montan, we call him Tui. He’s a, uh, an artist, a Spanish colonial artist, and he does wood carvings and bone carvings. So we used to meet up at Spanish market all the time. And when at his booth, it almost turned out to be a school reunion. ’cause all of us had gone to school together, would sort of meet there at same time during the day. And it was, you know, you’d reminiscent reminisce about what things that we had done and, and don’t admit to

Bunny : (07:37)
. No, no. That’s so cool. Well, my husband, the only reason I ask is that my husband’s mom was the secretary at Salazar Elementary, and I’ll still run into people.

Rick: (07:46)
Oh, really? Okay.

Bunny : (07:47)
Who remember, um, Mrs. Anderson. But that is so cool. And Janice, where did you go to high school? In, in Albuquerque.

Janice : (07:55)
I went to Sandia High School.

Bunny : (07:58)
See, it’s such a tiny, tiny, tiny world. Um, so I want, um, you guys, and, and for folks who, and and we may, you know, we may, this is all audio right this minute, but this may end up on YouTube as a video. Um, you guys are in the background are how, how many Christmas trees do you have in there?

Rick: (08:21)
We got about, I don’t know, I lost count. I think we’ve, we take out, we put up and take down small trees. So total we’ve got about 45, 48

Janice : (08:31)
Trees, about 45,

Rick: (08:32)
About 45 trees.

Bunny : (08:34)
And I came in the other day and I was taking pictures because you have a lot of trees that are very specific to New Mexico, either with New Mexico themed ornaments or artists from New Mexico, right?

Rick: (08:47)
Yes. Right. Yeah. That’s our, our, our main, our our main emphasis has always been New Mexico crafted, locally owned, locally crafted ornaments, figurines, uh, nativities, uh, things like that, that, so we can showcase. We got some great New Mexico artists that, uh, we’ve had for years now. We have one particular artist, David Gallegos, who does replicas of our missions in New Mexico. And, uh, David grew up in UAA Street, and David is, uh, he’s 85 years old and we’ve had his work, what, 40, about almost 40 years. Yeah,

Janice : (09:28)
Maybe a little longer than that.

Rick: (09:29)
A little longer than that. And he’s still, he’s still doing them and still sends them to us. He doesn’t do quite as many as he used to because he concentrates on, uh, the more popular, uh, churches. At one point he was doing about 23 churches. Now we’re down to probably about 12. But he concentrates on those that are more popular from like the cathedral here, Loretto Chapel, San Miguel, Guadalupe, Christo Ray, those churches. And then up north, like the Santo de Chi Mayo, um, the church in Taos, Pueblo, and the church in Rancho et Taos. So it, it, it’s fun over the years having David around because he’s, he’s been with us the longest. The unfortunate thing about it though is that we unfortunately have lost some of the artists that are, have been elder. They have, have passed away. Um, so, but it’s always been our emphasis to concentrate on handcrafted, locally crafted local items because we’re, we’re in a very fortunate position. And where we live is, we’ve got a lot of artists, uh, a lot of artists, and there’s a lot of, um, people out there doing just things

Janice : (10:42)
All times. It’s a mecca as, you know, mecca of artists and, and we’re blessed to be able to have them do ornaments and fig, you know, and figurines and nativities for us.

Bunny : (10:54)
Well, so I have the, um, I, um, I have the mission, I have the Chimayo, um, I have that ornament, and I bought it when my kids were little. I bought it when I lived in Albuquerque. And I came up with a friend. And, um, because I raised my kids in Albuquerque, although I grew up over by Tuum Kerry in Logan. Um, oh, yeah, yeah. Not many people will say, oh, yeah, when I say Logan,

Rick: (11:22)
My, my, well, no, my, my grandfather was from Tuum Care. Yeah.

Janice : (11:25)
Shut

Bunny : (11:25)
The light. Wow. No, that’s so cool.

Janice : (11:28)
,

Rick: (11:30)
He was from

Bunny : (11:30)
Tu what’s his last name? Diego?

Rick: (11:32)
No, his last name was Montoya. Montoya.

Bunny : (11:35)
Okay. Okay. Well, somebody from Tutu, tuum Careri is gonna say, oh yeah, Rick is my cousin.

Rick: (11:42)
True, true .

Bunny : (11:44)
So, um, I came up with a friend, like in October, and, you know, that was when I could hardly pay the light bill. And I came into the store and I saw that ornament. And it still is, um, you know, it’s one of those things when we put the tree up, my kids notice it. So maybe, maybe a good gift for them would be for me to come and pick up a couple of those. You still have some of his work?

Janice : (12:07)
We do. We do. We do. We do, yeah.

Bunny : (12:09)
Nice. Yeah,

Janice : (12:10)
He, he’s, um, we just wait, he, he does it on his own now, you know, basically we put an order in and just say, get him to us when you can, because

Rick: (12:19)
He’s, you know, he, at, at 85, he slowed down a bit. We don’t, we’re not pushing

Janice : (12:23)
Him, we’re not gonna pressure him to bring him.

Rick: (12:24)
So he sends him up about once every maybe three weeks, every four weeks.

Janice : (12:27)
Yeah. He’s living in Albuquerque now. Yeah. So,

Bunny : (12:30)
Wow. And those are, they’re carved, aren’t they?

Rick: (12:35)
They, yeah, it’s all, it’s all wood. Except for like, the crosses on the pieces are are screen door wire that he cuts up and Yeah. And each one is, he does it, he does this all on his own. Each

Janice : (12:45)
One is hand painted. Yeah.

Bunny : (12:48)
Wow. Wow. And I don’t think they’re crazy expensive, are they?

Janice : (12:56)
No, they’re very reasonable. Yeah.

Rick: (12:57)
For the, for the work he does. No, no. For the work he does. They’re, they’re not very, uh, very expensive. You know, our, uh, one of, one of the things that we’ve tr tried to pride ourselves on or do pride ourselves on is when artists come in and they, they show us some of the work that they’re doing. Um, we’ll usually try it out. We’ll try maybe a dozen or two, a couple, two, three dozen to really give us a good mix of what they’re doing. But we’ve always worked at trying to make it affordable for people from all, from all walks of life. And, uh, that’s what we’ve always strived for. And they’ve always been agreeable on the prices that they have. And of course, over the years, materials go up, their time is a little bit more valuable. Sure. So they do raise the prices, but we’ve always tried to, to keep our prices low to, to hit anybody’s pocketbook. Mm-Hmm. Whether it’s a kid that comes in that’s five years old and has a couple of dollars, we’ll, you know, we’ll, we’ll have

Janice : (13:56)
Something. There’s something, we’ll have something for

Rick: (13:58)
’em, you know? So, and then now these kids that came in when they were children or babies, now they’re bringing in their, that’s how old we are. They’re bringing in their own babies.

Janice : (14:08)
That’s how old we’re,

Bunny : (14:09)
And that’s, that’s how old we’re, it’s sort of sort

Janice : (14:11)
Of, that’s how

Rick: (14:11)
Old we’re, it’s an eyeopening think, oh my God, I I, I think I’ve been doing this. It’s long time. You know? And people coming outta the shop, they’ll, they’ll come to the shop and get in front of the counter and we’re behind the counter, and they look at you and go, you’re still here? You’re

Janice : (14:25)
Still here.

Bunny : (14:26)
. Yes.

Janice : (14:28)
We’re

Rick: (14:28)
Still here. Yeah, we’re still here. .

Bunny : (14:31)
I like that. And what do you think, I mean, I know that you do a lot of, um, balloon themes as well, because you, during balloon FIEs has but gotta be one of your busiest times. What, what do you think is the most popular thing you sell?

Rick: (14:46)
Um, well, the most popular thing we sell is the locally crafted ornaments. Mm-Hmm. . But if it’s one individual piece, um, one I would have, it would be a tossup between, in the balloons it would be the New Mexico thing,

Janice : (15:05)
New Mexico balloon

Rick: (15:06)
That has Z on it,

Janice : (15:08)
This the state flag.

Rick: (15:09)
And then in our local Richards.

Janice : (15:13)
Yeah. But we, but the alien is pretty Oh

Rick: (15:15)
Yeah. The alien. We have the alien ship and the alien balloon. I saw that.

Janice : (15:19)
Yeah. So those are very popular. Yeah. Because a lot of people travel throughout New Mexico and Roswell happens to be one of the stops. So they, that reminds them of their trip to Roswell too.

Rick: (15:33)
And then they, it’s inter we’ll talk to, we’ll talk to people and they’ll start exchanging stories about some of the things that they saw in the sky that they couldn’t identify. And so we start saying, well, you know, we’ve, we’ve seen a few things in our life up here in Northern New Mexico up in the mountains that Oh yeah, you, you can’t explain, you can’t explain it. So, hey. Right. You know, so that’s fun. But then, and then in our locally crafted, um, we have an artist by the name of Richard Gabriel, and he grew up in Questa, but he lives in a Saudi now just south, south, south of Te Harris. He’s the one that does the tin work for us. And Richard Richard’s tin work is probably our bestseller. Yeah. Because of the price points. Uh, it’s very affordable. So, and

Janice : (16:21)
Richard teaches tin working, uh, at the community college, Santa Fe Community College, the continuing education. So he, we get a lot of his students that come in too, that are looking for items. And just as, sometimes we have Richard come in and do a demonstration, and he has his own little, we call them his groupies that come in to, to say hi, et cetera, et cetera. But it’s fun because he teaches kids how to do it too. And it’s, it’s just something that we like to have him come in and do.

Rick: (16:55)
Like, he, uh, every year he goes out to, uh, Indianapolis. ’cause he, at the Idle Jordan Museum in, in Indianapolis, they have, it’s like a Spanish colonial week. So they have also inclusive in that week is dead. The dead. So when he’s out there, he pre does demonstrations and talks and so on. But this year, one of the things that they do is they take him to schools. And this year they took him to, uh, the School for the Blind, and he taught some of these, these kids how to do tin work. Yeah. And he was kind of concerned at first. He didn’t know what to expect. And he said it was, it, it was so easy to teach him. And he had a fun time. And, and, and Richard is, he’s six three very soft spoken. He’s like a gentle giant. And during busy, busy seasons like Bull Fiesta and, uh, Thanksgiving weekend, you’ll see him, he comes in, helps us out here

Janice : (17:48)
In the shop. He comes us, he works at the shop for us. Yeah. He helps us out. Oh, wow.

Rick: (17:51)
He helps us out and, and he’s a, yeah.

Bunny : (17:55)
So who’s, who is it that makes the angels? Because I always buy those angels for everybody. Um, the, the wood.

Janice : (18:03)
The wood angels.

Bunny : (18:05)
Yes.

Janice : (18:06)
So that’s Larry Hawkes who makes those.

Bunny : (18:10)
Oh, okay. Okay. Because I, um, frequently when somebody’s moving into a new house, I’ll get, I’ll get an angel that they can hang on the wall. And I gave one to my mom, uh, who recently passed away, and she was like, this is one of my favorite gifts ever. Oh, yeah. And, and then I saw that you have a bunch of, um, you don’t, I mean, we’re not just talking Christmas ornaments. You have a lot of beautiful, um, nativity sets.

Rick: (18:37)
Yes. Those on our local nativities, we have a family from Hemmes Pueblo, this Nias and Loretto, uh, that we started with Carol and Senia again 40 years ago. Unfortunately, Mrs. Nia passed away about 15 years ago. But in that period of time, uh, she had two daughters, a daughter-in-Law and

Janice : (19:01)
Granddaughters.

Rick: (19:02)
Now we’ve got like three, four granddaughters and Wow. Three, four great-granddaughters

Janice : (19:07)
And

Rick: (19:08)
Grand. And then now one of her great grandsons

Janice : (19:11)
Is starting to

Rick: (19:12)
Do, is doing, do work for us. You know? Yeah. So that, that’s the clay activities that we have from Hames. Then we have an artist from Albuquerque, um, uh, friend Gurule who does the, the Gord Nativities Outta Gords. We have her, we have Anita Ortiz from Albuquerque who does the Fusion glass Nativities. And then we have Gina Hennig who does the horse hair pottery, uh, nativity.

Janice : (19:38)
And then Larry does the, and

Rick: (19:39)
Then Larry does Larry who does the Angels Driftwood. He does the driftwood nativities for us. Yeah. So always looking for something different and new as far as the nativity is concerned. Oh, that’s, and then of course, we got the nativities from, we have Nativities from Mexico outta Clay, and outta 10, uh, we have an artist from, we have a gentleman from Guadalajara, and we’ve been carrying his clay nativities since about 1990. Uh, we have another ante who, who we get 10 from 10 Nativities. He’s from also from Guadalajara. And we’ve had his work, what about 20 years? About 20 years probably. Yeah. And then we have, uh, of course, then we have the, the nativities done by the manufacturers. We have the Nia Nativities from Italy. Um, so we have a whole variety of nativities

Bunny : (20:28)
And,

Rick: (20:28)
And all shapes and forms.

Bunny : (20:30)
And so, and, and, and I don’t want, you know, if somebody isn’t looking for, um, local arts, but their interest, I mean, you have everything. I went in there one time because I bought a, um, aluminum Christmas tree from, um, eBay back in the Gee, in the nineties I think. And, um, you had a color wheel, which is what I had in the first

Janice : (20:54)
Grade. Yeah. We had a color wheel.

Rick: (20:55)
Yes. We still do colors. Do

Bunny : (20:57)
You remember

Janice : (20:57)
That

Bunny : (20:58)
Teacher had an aluminum tree in the, in the first, first and second grade, and there was a color wheel. Do you remember that? Yep.

Janice : (21:03)
We, and we still have those, we carry those.

Rick: (21:06)
In fact, we just sold one to, uh, who is it, David?

Janice : (21:10)
I don’t know who we sold it

Rick: (21:11)
To. I think we sold, we sold, we just sold one to David Griego, the ar the jeweler on the plaza here. Uhhuh . He’s got a, he’s got a silver tree. So he, uh, we told him, well, don’t we have a color wheel? So we picked up a color wheel, so we still carry it.

Bunny : (21:25)
That’s so

Janice : (21:25)
Cool. Bubble lights those. And that’s the thing too, is that it, we have a lot of things that, are they nostalgic for people? Like the bubble lights, the color

Bunny : (21:35)
Wheel, right.

Janice : (21:36)
What else? The candle. Well, we don’t have candle clips anymore. Yeah. Those are hard to find. But

Rick: (21:41)
The old C seven C nine bulbs, CC nine, C seven, the old outdoor light

Janice : (21:46)
Sets and the outdoor light sets that, yeah.

Bunny : (21:48)
Oh,

Rick: (21:48)
Wow. And people still use them. Yeah.

Bunny : (21:52)
So when I was a kid, we had bubble lights, that’s all. Those were the lights we had on our Christmas tree. And so, um, I collected some, and I know I bought some from you probably about 20 years ago. And then, and then I moved somewhere and I forgot a box of Christmas decorations. So I need to stock up again on bubble lights. I can’t believe I lost all my bubble lights. So you have ’em, right? We

Janice : (22:19)
Have ’em. We have ’em. Yes, we do.

Bunny : (22:22)
So we talked about before we begin, um, you, you know, this is dropping on the 19th of December, so if somebody needs something special, um, they can come in the store. Where are you located?

Rick: (22:37)
We’re at one 16 East Palace Avenue.

Bunny : (22:39)
Okay. We’re, so you’re just a half a block

Rick: (22:43)
East of the

Janice : (22:43)
Plaza, east of the plaza. Right.

Bunny : (22:45)
You’re like sort between the plaza and the cathedral. Yeah. Yeah.

Janice : (22:49)
Correct. Yeah. Across the street, sort of from the shed from

Rick: (22:52)
The shed. You tell people the shed restaurant. That’s a, that’s a land landmark, so .

Bunny : (22:58)
Right, right, right. They know where to, well,

Janice : (23:01)
Most people will find us

Bunny : (23:02)
. And what, what is your website?

Janice : (23:06)
The website is the shop christmas.com.

Bunny : (23:10)
And we’ll put that link is, it is in the show notes. I just want folks to know that if they decide to go to the website and order something, they’re gonna have to do special shipping to get it by Christmas, right?

Rick: (23:23)
Yeah.

Janice : (23:24)
More than likely. Yes. More than likely. Yeah.

Bunny : (23:26)
Okay. Okay. Well, a lot of

Janice : (23:28)
Times. And then we can always, if they see something on the website, they could, they could always call us. And, and we can take their order over the phone too, and that way we can get ’em the, the exact shipping cost. If it has to be, you hate to say it, but overnighted, you know, a lot of times that one is gonna be more expensive. Um, but we can do that. Yeah.

Bunny : (23:51)
Okay. Well, I, this is, so, this is so much fun because I’ve, I’ve been in your shop, I don’t know, dozens of times. And, um, I, I, it’s always really hard for me to choose. You do have a Marty the Moose Ornament, right?

Janice : (24:07)
We do, but we’re getting low on it right now. Oh, Richard, Richard Gabriel is the one who did Marty the Moose ornament for us. And, um, it’s not on our website because we have, we’re getting low on stock. He’s out of town for a couple days, but we’ll be getting more in, uh, probably on

Rick: (24:28)
Maybe Fi, uh, Saturday, Friday

Janice : (24:30)
Or Saturday. Friday or

Rick: (24:31)
Saturday.

Bunny : (24:32)
I thought that was hilarious when I thought, go ahead. Yeah,

Rick: (24:37)
No, Richard. Yeah, he had, uh, we gave him that idea and he came out with this, these neat Little Moose, and it says 2023 on it, . So

Bunny : (24:45)
That’s the best one for this year, I think. That’s hilarious. It’s, thank you so much for being on the podcast. I’m probably gonna walk down and see you this afternoon. Yeah. Okay,

Janice : (24:54)
. Well, thank you. Thank you for having us. Yeah, thank

Rick: (24:56)
You. Yeah, that was, it was pretty neat. It was cool. Yeah.

Janice : (24:59)
We could probably talk for a long time. Yeah,

Bunny : (25:01)
We could forever. We could, we’ll do it again next year. We’ll do it in the middle of the summer. We’ll talk about Christmas in July. How about that? There

Janice : (25:08)
You go. Yeah. Yeah. We’re here year round. Yes.

Bunny : (25:11)
Thank you so much.

Janice : (25:13)
Thank you.

Bunny : (25:15)
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Speaker 4: (26:13)
I’m back on the road heading out west to the mountain time zone. There’s one thing on my mind.

Speaker 5: (26:23)
There’s

Speaker 4: (26:24)
A girl in New Mexico whose eyes green and hair’s gold. I can’t wait to have her by my.