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Barry Johnson

Barry Johnson

Musician

Jul 13, 2026

5:03
So could you provide additional details on the company and how did SRP choose to work with the company on this project?
5:10
Yeah, Paul.
5:10
At SRP, we get a lot of innovation projects that kind of come our way.
5:15
We're very good about working with the Arizona universities and getting them engaged on appropriate projects to help assist us with testing and verifying and making sure that some of the advancements we're trying to make are accurate.
5:32
And so Grovera came to us and had a nice presentation about these clamps that they could put onto vegetation, both live and dead, and measure the fuel moisture of them.
5:43
And that's a very important industry when it comes to wildfire prediction.
5:47
There's a lot of models out there and indices and things that are looked at, like energy release components, burning index, which is DI.
8:24
So can you elaborate on what role the university is going to play in the project?
2:40
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2:48
By request, Heart Tattoo.
2:51
One, two, three, four.
2:51
I want a heart tattoo.
2:55
I want it to hurt really bad.
2:59
That's how I'll know, I'll know it's real.
3:04
A real tattoo.
7:53
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4:19
How do you do it? [laughs]
4:21
So I think I first did it, like, accidentally, and then what I started doing is I just write parts, like a ton of, like, parts, and then a lot of times a song will be boring from the verse to the chorus.
4:32
And there'll be one part that I like.
4:34
Like, I like the verse that the lyrics are kinda interesting or that the melody is hooky.
4:39
I like that.
4:40
But it...
4:40
when it goes to the chorus, it, like, loses steam, or the chorus is super just kinda trite or doesn't do anything for me.

22 MINS LATER

26:53
Yeah
130:15
[laughs]
130:15
And chewing Bazooka.
130:17
[singing] Eating Doritos and Fritos.
130:20
Eating Doritos, Burritos, mosquitoes.
130:22
Eating Burritos with Danny Devito.
130:25
I was just listening to so much of them, and so much, so many of their, like, lyrics, like, make me, like, actually laugh out loud.
130:30
But I'm also like, "That's so great." And, uh, they kind of s- they will, like, especially Laura Les will slip in like, uh, some kind of just, like, really relatable, like, moving moments of, of, uh, vulnerability in these otherwise kind of like jokey...

19 MINS LATER

149:30
Right.

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