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this is Flores ville home to about six
and a half thousand it's held an annual

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festival since the 1930s war they go all
out celebrating an important part of

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Texas agriculture in history
welcome to the Floresville peanut

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festival every second weekend in October
Floresville puts on this festival and

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it's everything you'd expect from
small-town Texas there's a parade

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there's a carnival there's games for the
kids and of course there's food

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when we arrived the festivities were
just about to begin kicking off with the

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grand parade featuring the local high
school band some fantastic floats and of

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course the royal family whose gowns are
designed by local seamstresses so you

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love your community can you tell our
viewers why they need to come out here

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to Flores well because it's family
oriented parade this would just food the

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carnival ride the parade is my favorite
part and also the food and yeah it's

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just a great family-oriented event that
a lot of people could enjoy

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with the parade wrapping up and hoping

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to learn more I went in search of
someone to fill us in on all things

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Floresville and the peanut festival I
think it's special because it happens we

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celebrate the history of the peanut crop
here in Wilson County it was a big big

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crop back in the day but we still like
to celebrate the heritage and everything

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that for Cole was founded on well it's a
way to get away from the bit that had

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hustle and bustle as they say of a big
city to come on in everybody is so

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friendly we welcome everybody in this is
like a reunion of sorts for the

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community and we as a community love it
we absolutely love it this is the focal

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point of the year especially in downtown
where we can show up a courthouse we can

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show off the peanut we can show up our
downtown and we just appreciate

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everybody coming out

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after a nice chat I was eager to head
out and experience some more of what the

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festival had to offer
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why I come to festivals it was time for
the true star of the festival to shine

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and as I very quickly learned there's no
wrong way to eat a peanut except with

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the shell on obviously the peanut
brittle is first class around here and

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that's something everyone has to have we
also have some peanut ice between

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umberto ice cream
so you can't come to the peanut festival

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without trying something with peanuts so
here we go

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we got some peanut brittle

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that is delicious there you go vanilla
peanut brittle ice cream whoa let's eat

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Oh looks delicious vanilla peanut
brittle ice cream all right we're coming

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for you blue bow
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this is really good thank you for
Isabelle peanut festival

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so when you boil it peanut it's gonna
taste more like a bean okay do you just

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okay
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oh wow yeah I do not know being that we
are in festival I couldn't pass up the

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opportunity to play the carnival game
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when one lands onto a bottle with any
prizes life

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so I get a prize if I miss all of them

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all right here in Texas everyone loves a
good Western shootout and that's what's

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about to happen right now so let's go
check it out

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next up I caught a performance by comedy
hypnotist Rob Zeke whose act left

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festival goers speechless oh you guys
are gonna be open to the count of three

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one two three you can try to pull it but
you cannot get that hand off there one

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two three you're not gonna fall
leg come up with my legs don't move your

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leg try to move this hand is it going
hello

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pull it off there you go watch this
leave all suggestions gone your name is

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Ariel back to the room feeling fantastic
you know everything you didn't show no

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longer feeling light ready to go back
today with you crew wherever you go and

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join the rest of peanut festival one two
three eyes'll thank you thank y'all for

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coming out
after returning to my normal state it

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was time to check out the live music
scene and lucky for us we managed to

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grab one of the music acts and local
artists for a quick one on one all right

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Skylar Hamilton yes ma'am you were born
and raised here in Florida or was your

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true floors villian I am so we're at the
74th peanut festival

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you're gonna play at night right yeah
we're actually playing in about an hour

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what's it like playing in your hometown
it's a great feeling it's a great

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feeling playing for all your ex
classmates and all your friends that you

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grew up with it's a small town it's
gotten a lot bigger than since I've been

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here which is about 11 years ago and
it's getting bigger and better love this

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place
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all right that just about does it for me
here at the Flores Ville peanut festival

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thank you so much this new Floresville
for inviting me out here and you know

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what I couldn't come to the festival and
not leave with my peanuts then well of

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course the fun okay so make sure to put
this on your calendar for next year

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right now I'm gonna try to go ahead and
eat this start planning for next year's

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celebration by visiting Floresville
peanut festival org

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