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Oh! Well that didn't work well.
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Hi guys! I don't know if you guys are still there.
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My phone totally died, I've been here for a while, pretty early...
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and I also under-estimated how cold it is, so my hands are a bit not functional at the moment.
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I had to come back to the... I got, cause this is the kinda person I am...
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I got this rental car. I don't have a car so I got a rental car explicitly to come and do this.
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Totally worth it.
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So right in front of me, I'm going to flip you guys around...
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Hold on... I just found out I can do that.
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So, that is the shed that we were in.
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You can see it there.
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So there's this, it's a shed, and there's rows of fans that go between the trucks.
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They park the trucks between the fans.
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And during the hot months, they're blowing and the turkeys sit on these trucks for hours and hours.
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And they're just crammed in there, I mean if you...
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It's kind of a perverse holiday, honestly.
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These are living beings.
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I don't know how long they're going to sit on the trucks today.
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They're still there. They were there when I got here.
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I got here a little later than I wanted because I saw a truck pull over at a gas station with pigs.
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So I also was with pigs this morning.
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And they were so...
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They were so trusting, these pigs.
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It was coming right up to me and...
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Some of them looked just so terrified.
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It's so hard leaving them too because for them and for these turkeys,
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this is...this is their death day. This is the last day of their lives.
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They, you know, bring them and unload them in the night and in the early morning.
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There's actually a job posting right now online for this facility, of...
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The position is literally called "Live Hang."
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So your job is to pull the turkeys out of the truck and hang them.
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Here's another great thing... oh that's my face, hold on.
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There's... Well I guess you can't see the school bus.
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There's a school bus right here.
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Earlier this morning when I first got here,
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there was a school bus that pulled in to the turkey shed for a little bit.
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So let's see if we can go through.
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See if I don't lose you.
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This is where we were earlier...
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in between these trucks.
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There's where families live.
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Kids play right here, and then here's another one.
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Inside, earlier this morning there were, it was full of trucks that were full.
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But now uhm...
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Now they've been emptied.
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Okay so let me flip you guys back around.
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So... (sigh)
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You can kind of see, I mean this is, it's a huge, huge building and facility.
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And basically...
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There's kind of like a, it's like a really celebrated story actually, this place.
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And, you know it was, it was like a slaughter facility, a slaughter house, and it was going to close.
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And then the local turkey farmers here kind of banded together and raised funds and everything.
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And then they, they bought the facility.
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So now, what it is today, it's primarily a processing plant.
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So they bring in, you know, like... carcasses of other species too. You know, cows and pigs.
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They process the meat all the way through to package ready, like Balogna and these kind of things.
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But, they still slaughter turkeys.
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So the turkeys are, are the only animals that they, they slaughter here.
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But most of it is, is like a plant for processing the other animals.
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So it's kind of seen as this like, David and Goliath story of like...
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you know, like a victory for the farmers.
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But no one thinks of the turkeys though.
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I also have to be careful because eventually they're gonna wonder
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why I'm doing so many drive-bys with an iPhone.
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So again here's the, some of the trucks are in here full.
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All of these were full.
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OK, so that's kind of, that's kind of the runaround there.
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I mean, and you know there's like a (sigh)
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like I said there's a playground right there...
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There's, you know, kids playing in their houses right next to...
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This shed of turkeys.
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It's heartbreaking.
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I don't think...
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I don't know if I have enough battery guys 'cause like,
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I mean, I'm on... I'm like charging my phone literally plugged into this car,
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because I ran out of battery while filming the turkeys.
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So I don't know if I'm gonna be able to get enough charge to bring you guys back...
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To bring you back for the turkeys. I'm hoping...
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Alright, I'm trying to see if I can...
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I can't see my battery right now!
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And, trying to check my batteries to see if I can take you guys back in there real quick.
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Before they take them.
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Alright...
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Alright guys, I'm going to...
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I'm gonna stop this stream really quick, and check my battery.
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And see if I have enough to be able to bring you guys back to the turkeys. OK?
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I think we can make it work for just a little bit longer.
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Although they might be coming out soon, the workers. So we'll see.
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But, actually let's see if I can, let's see if I can keep you guys on here, and get out there.
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Hold on.
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I do have a video for you guys today by the way.
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I got the, it's another Gregor, it's a new Gregor video.
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And I, you know, I worked on it all night.
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I slept about 20 minutes so that I could get that video done and come here.
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So I'll still post that today but I just felt that this was really important
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to share with you guys as soon as I could.
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Alright, let's see if we can get back over there. (door opens and shuts)
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Alright.
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(tumbling noises)
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Oh! I dropped you! It's ok.
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(turkeys rustling and clucking)
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This is nothing to be thankful for.
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(turkeys rustling and clucking)
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(a turkey frantically clucks and struggles in another cage)
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(turkeys rustling and clucking)
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You know they have personalities,
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and they certainly want to live.
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Even if we, even if we say that they're not intelligent, which I don't believe,
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intelligence doesn't have anything to do with wanting to live and with feeling pain.
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It's just one of the justifications we try to use.
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I mean look at them and tell me that they don't know any better.
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(turkeys rustling and clucking)
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A truck load of turkeys this morning.