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You're listening to The Derbacterys, a production of Duck Tape Then Beer,

with additional support from Kuat Racks because you love your bike, athletic greens,

the daily drink for a healthier you, and kicking horse coffee, wake up and kick ass.

Okay, Gabe. Tell me about your hat. Okay, so it started off like this.

Yes, that's a very clean hat. Yes, ended up like this. Oh my gosh, and what is this?

Described to me how you've fixed and repaired it. So, just I ran it for a while, we covered it with duck tape.

And we got it repealed, we put it, somebody covered the bill with some new fabric.

Nice. And all this cover is where they used to be holes and they also sewed that up.

Cool. And what's the orange? Is the orange tape too? What is that?

Yeah, that's all this is tape. Okay, cool. And then you could see in the corner of those a little bail.

Oh yeah. Oh, you can still see the bear. That is cool. That's so neat. I like how that's still the

bear survived through the whole thing. So, Gabe, I'm curious like how long ago did you get that hat?

What else? Three. When you were three? How old are you now? Eight. Eight. Wow. So, has that hat

gone on a lot of adventures? Yes. It has. What are some of your favorite adventures?

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