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The Unfiltered Union Podcast.

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Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.

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Happy 4th of July.

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Late.

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Well, we missed a week because of the holiday.

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Yeah, we did, but love you.

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Anyway, just not as much as America.

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I guess, right?

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No, I feel like we kind of did the typical holiday thing.

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What are you doing?

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I kind of move.

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Yeah.

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My fat was feeling funky.

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It was all smushed.

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Got a nice knee.

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Isn't that like a, not a millennial, a Gen Z thing?

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They don't like knees or something like that?

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I don't know.

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They don't like anything.

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They don't like feet.

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They don't like, we'll get into all that.

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What's your favorite thing about the 4th of July holiday?

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Probably what most people like is...

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Having time off.

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Okay.

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I mean, that's fair, right?

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I know.

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I mean, I like time off.

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Okay.

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Fair.

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Well,

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yeah,

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but so when we were kids,

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do you remember the sparklers that actually would leave a trail as you were doing them?

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It's the same as now.

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No, it's not.

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Yes, it is.

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No.

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Yeah, it is.

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I swear to my goodness, they have changed sparklers.

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So now they don't leave that trail behind.

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Either that or I'm not a kid anymore.

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I think that's part of it.

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There's no magic now.

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I don't know if I agree with that.

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Because when you look at these sparklers, they're not leaving trails.

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It's like they just light up, right?

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But before, it's like they almost had, I don't know if it was a smoke trail or what it was.

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Maybe that's what's wrong with us.

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We're breathing in all that carcinogens and stuff from sparklers.

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And now we're all jacked up.

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That's why millennials are broke.

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Oh, okay.

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I see how that relates.

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But ultimately, like for me, it's all about kids, right?

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We have a kiddo.

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She's nine years old.

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And then we have two nephews, six and four.

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And to see them do sparklers, to see them watch fireworks, it's cool.

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I like it.

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Especially when your nephews fall out of their chair every two minutes.

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Yeah.

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And then what's really funny is when we're watching fireworks,

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he falls out of his chair and then some random person comes.

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Are you OK?

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I'm like, the dude is fine.

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Leave him alone.

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He's not crying.

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He's good.

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It's in grass.

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He's fine.

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He's doing it on purpose.

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Then he kept doing it over and over again to get more attention.

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So he also almost lit something on fire with the spark.

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Oh, my God.

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So it was just a great day.

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That's why they stopped with the smoke stuff because millennials are pyros.

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Yeah, we're pyros and we're just ridiculous.

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Well, even bigger than that, what's your favorite holiday in general?

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I don't know.

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You know, I really like Thanksgiving because I like to eat.

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OK, fair.

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I like to eat.

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And, you know, it's a family like bring everybody together.

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I like the fact that there's no gift exchange at Thanksgiving,

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but you're just having a good meal together.

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That is probably why that's my favorite, because Christmas is nothing but pressure.

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True.

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It is.

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It doesn't have to be, but true.

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I know.

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Well, we've kind of set ground rules that we are only spending money on kids.

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So our nephews, our kiddo, and our extended family kids.

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And then we don't even really do that much anymore just because we're pretty far away.

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But no pressure on Thanksgiving and I get to stuff my face.

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There you go.

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Well,

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I think 4th of July has been mine since I was a kid because A,

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my birthday's right around the corner.

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But also it is when I was a kid, but it also meant summer, right?

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Like summer is here and we're in full swing.

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But now that we're in Florida, that's year round.

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Right.

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So I still like the 4th of July,

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but I am actually enjoying the winter holidays more because I'm not so miserable in

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the cold of D.C.

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Yeah, I like I mean, 4th of July is up there for me, but.

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It's just, I don't know, it just feels short-lived.

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Like Thanksgiving is almost an all-day event.

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Because cooking, and people don't like to cook and stuff.

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Act like you cook.

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I cook almost every single day in this house, okay?

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Yeah.

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Ever since you bought a Traeger, yes.

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Yeah, I bought a Traeger, and I love it.

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I highly recommend a Traeger, especially if you live in Florida where your AC is already cranking.

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Don't heat your house up.

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Just go outside and cook.

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Right, and smoke up the lanai.

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That's okay.

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No big deal.

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Okay, all right.

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Well, along with- I'm contributing to global warming with my Traeger.

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Oh.

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All the smoke.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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And the carbon monoxide.

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Okay.

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I'm done.

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Good.

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All right.

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So along with the holiday of 4th of July summer season comes hurricanes.

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We already had one.

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Yep.

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Hurricane Burl.

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I want it so bad to say that.

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Hurricane Burl.

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Is it Burl?

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I don't know.

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B-E-R-Y-L?

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Or Beryl.

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Or Beryl?

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Burl?

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Burl?

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I guess it depends on which part of Florida you're from.

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I have never met a person in my life named Burl.

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Have you?

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No, but it sounds like somebody who would be on like Walking Dead or something.

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Burl?

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Burl.

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Burl.

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Burl.

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Burl.

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Did Rick Grimes make that name up for the hurricane?

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There you go.

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Right.

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Exactly.

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Okay, I got it.

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Uh-huh.

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Glad we're on the same way.

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Took a while.

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Okay.

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But this was the first Cat 5 hurricane recorded for the Atlantic in June ever.

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Yeah, it's the earliest hurricane ever.

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Mm-hmm.

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At that strength.

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There's a lot of weird conspiracies going on about this, too.

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It's a hurricane.

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What conspiracy can you possibly come up with?

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Well, because Joe Biden's debate performance was.

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Right.

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Was it good?

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Let me ask you this first.

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Was it good?

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Both of them sucked, in my opinion.

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I disagree, but OK.

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Both of them sucked.

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And what does the hurricane have to do?

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Because his debate performance was so bad and it was in the news everywhere.

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They had to drum up something else.

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You know how they deflect.

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It's all about deflection, right?

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Get your mind off of something by putting something else in your vision.

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Oh, my tinfoil husband.

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Oh, no, no, no.

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There is weird pictures,

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like radar pictures,

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and it looks like energy being directed into it,

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like almost smaller hurricanes within the big hurricane.

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Yeah.

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I don't know.

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I mean, I'm not saying it's real or that I believe it.

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It's like the movie Twisters, right?

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Or whatever.

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I'm just saying what I saw.

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Okay.

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Yeah, well, the internet is full of fun things.

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It is.

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Especially now that AI is generating all kinds of content.

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It is, but it doesn't change the fact that Joe Biden sucked at the debate.

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I don't understand how we go from Joe Biden at the debate to a hurricane.

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Regardless, we're moving on.

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He could have at least...

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Taking something to make him a little bit more coherent.

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Back to the hurricane.

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The hurricane was the strongest recorded.

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And whether or not you believe tinfoil hat stuff about the energy in it.

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Why you got to make it sound like I'm dumb?

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No.

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I'm not making you sound like you're dumb.

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That is tinfoil hat.

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It is, but you can't tell me that the government isn't responsible for false flags all the time.

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You never know.

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You never know.

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What about them chemtrails up there?

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What about the Saharan sand that's coming now?

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Meaning we're not going to have any more hurricanes for a little bit.

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That'd be nice.

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That's what I trust Dennis Phillips.

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Okay.

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So if Dennis Phillips,

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who is the weatherman in central Florida that everybody follows because he's

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typically on the money when it comes to hurricane storms,

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et cetera,

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if he says that the hurricane is what it was and that the Saharan sand is now here,

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I say,

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yay.

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What does Saharan sand have?

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See, you're talking about me.

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What?

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The hell does Saharan sand have to do with a hurricane?

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The sand from the Sahara Desert is following the Gulf Stream current.

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The air is coming this way full of dust,

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so it's keeping the hurricane,

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you know,

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revolving wind down to a minimum.

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Because of the desert sand.

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Because of the desert sand.

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See, that's tinfoil hat crap, too.

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All right, you go talk to Dennis Phillips.

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I will.

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I would love to interview him on the podcast.

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Me, too.

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But...

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He is the man when it comes to Florida weather.

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We trust Dennis Phillips in this house.

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And you know why I trust him?

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Rule number seven.

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Because he is not a sensationalist when it comes to this stuff.

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Yep.

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When we get hurricanes down here, we're in Florida, so it's a guarantee.

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We get text messages from every member, like family members we don't even know.

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They text us and they say, hey, are you going to be okay?

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Are you fleeing?

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Are you evacuating?

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Blah, blah, blah.

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And we're like, no, it's nothing.

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It's literally nothing.

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The news down here is saying,

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oh,

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it's going to be 25 to 50 mile an hour wind gusts or with gusts up to 80.

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I'm like, okay.

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So we're not trying to downplay hurricanes.

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And I'm not.

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But I am downplaying the media in other locations when you do see a hurricane

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coming and then you get 100 million text messages from people.

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Clearly, because it's sensationalist in other parts of the country, which is wild.

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Well, I mean, yeah, something's got to make the news, I guess.

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But I mean, hurricanes are.

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They can be dangerous.

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They can be dangerous.

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They can be detrimental to an area, etc.

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But they can also be nothing.

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Exactly.

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But for now, it sounds like we're not going to have any coming up the Gulf Coast.

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What is that?

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Gulf Stream?

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Is it Gulf Stream?

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I don't know.

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Okay, whatever.

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We're not going to have any come up the coast for a little while because of the sand.

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Yay.

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Well, what about all the sand that we already have in Florida?

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I don't understand why that doesn't stop.

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Yeah, we are on a sandbar, right?

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Guess what else happens in summer?

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Heat.

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Well, I guess every four years, but the Olympics are coming.

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Oh, yeah.

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I'm kind of excited.

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Are you?

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A little bit.

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I thought you liked winter more.

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I like both.

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Do you?

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I do like winter more, but I like both.

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I think I like summer more.

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There's a lot of weird stuff going on.

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Is it?

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Where's it at?

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Oh, my gosh.

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Are we a tinfoil hat today?

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Where's it at in Paris, right?

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I think they're talking about like no AC units and stuff.

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Oh, didn't that happen when it was in Russia, too?

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But.

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No, that was the winter ones, and I think it was just a complete sh**hole.

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Well, that's what I'm saying.

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But Paris isn't a sh**hole.

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I'm sure no place is a sh**hole that they have the Olympics.

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I don't know.

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Russia's cold all the time.

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It's winter.

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If it's cold permanently, it's a sh**hole.

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Yeah.

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That's what we fled from, right?

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Yeah.

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And it was only cold maybe, what, four or five months out of the year?

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Rush, you suck, dude.

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I'm all on the commie because of Stranger Things.

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Oh, yeah.

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We'll get to that here in a minute, too.

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We'll talk about your new favorite show here in just a moment.

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But so you are saying that you prefer winter?

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Olympics.

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Yeah.

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I do not prefer winter weather.

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Okay.

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What's your favorite event?

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I like bobsled and I like snowboarding.

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Did I say sled?

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Holy.

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Not okay today.

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I think I just lished.

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We are not okay today.

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Bobsled.

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Okay.

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Was that all right?

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Yeah.

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Okay, good.

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Because you're a millennial and you watched the Jamaican bobsled.

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Cool Runnings.

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Cool Runnings movie.

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Yeah.

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It was a great movie.

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It was.

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It was a good movie.

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It just doesn't make sense.

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I know it's real or it's based on a true story, but.

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It's just like Florida hockey teams winning the Stanley Cup.

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Right.

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Freaking Florida Panthers won the Stanley Cup.

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We ain't got ice here.

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We still won.

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Artificial ice.

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The only ice we have is in our refrigerators and freezers.

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But somehow they won.

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We won.

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I mean,

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in Florida,

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it's been like seven years of having an appearance in the Stanley Cup or something

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like that.

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Well, having an appearance and I think winning, right?

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I don't think we've won every time, but.

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I would say five out of the seven.

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Anyhow, I think for Olympics for me is summer and I am a big, big gymnastics and swim fan.

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And I think again, because millennials, right?

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I think gymnastics is pretty cool though.

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Well, we grew up with really big names in gymnastics.

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Like, um, I can't think of a single one.

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That's

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She's making a very good point.

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Shawn Johnson, I think it was her name.

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But there's a lot of gymnasts.

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I think I have a booger.

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I did.

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Did you see that?

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No.

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Oh, my God.

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I'm leaving that in.

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I'm glad we're not live streaming.

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We are.

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There are a lot of gymnasts who we grew up with as millennials,

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you know,

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who were really big at the time.

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And then, of course, you have swimming and Michael Phelps.

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Like that was a big deal as we were growing up during the early 2000s.

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So like to me, those are like the staples.

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Isn't that weird how Michael Phelps was like 2000?

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Yeah.

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Like I think it was 08, right?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, that seems so long ago.

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It doesn't seem long ago to me, but if you look at the years, it's like, holy crap.

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Yeah, because I graduated in 08.

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You graduated in 07.

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We're old.

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Did I graduate?

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Just barely and only because of me.

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But I got the best sleep of my life on them desks.

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Wasn't there a meme that said, I need a really good nap.

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I'm going to buy a school desk.

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And there was some dude, he went to Goodwill and he saw a school desk.

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He was like, I'm about to take the best nap of my life.

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Well, moving on.

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The big thing in the news right now.

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I think you've heard.

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I think I said this to you.

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Joe Biden not doing.

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Would you stop?

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No.

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Elon Musk has a deal from NASA right now.

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SpaceX won the deal in order to bring down the ISS.

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It is an eight hundred million dollar deal.

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I just, how do you bring that whole thing down?

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I feel like the best thing to do instead of trying to bring it down is just push it into space.

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That's what I was thinking.

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Seriously.

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So this whole project is going to take a decade, literally is what they're saying.

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Like not until 2030 are they actually going to be able to have whatever equipment

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device thing in order to bring it down.

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But why bring it down?

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Because space is fake.

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I can't.

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I can't.

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I just I can't.

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Why wouldn't they do it?

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Don't you think that would be easier than trying to pull it in and not hit people in the noggin?

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Well, I almost wonder if it has to do with like refurb.

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I was as close to saying it again.

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Refabricate.

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Nope.

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I'm going to say refurbation.

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Refurbishment.

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Right.

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Refurbish.

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Okay.

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Not refurbation again.

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There's a shirt out there on store.unfilteredunion.com.

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That's the lensism right there.

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Yep.

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She makes up her own English as we go.

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But if it's like to reuse any of the ISS,

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I feel like I'm being very animated today with my hands and my face.

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Whereas you were just tinfoil hat all day.

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Yeah, I know, but I'm trying not to get punched over here.

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I have not been that close yet.

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We can watch it back.

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But I feel like that may be the case for it, right?

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So like Elon Musk in SpaceX, it's all about bringing the rockets back down, right?

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Yeah.

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Instead of wasting them.

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So maybe it's the same lines where they want to bring it back and maybe use parts, pieces of it.

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I don't think so.

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I think they should just push it out to space.

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It's old.

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Well,

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not only is it old,

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I mean,

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how much damage is it going to go through when it reenters the atmosphere?

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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I think that they should just send it out to space.

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I agree.

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Shoot a rocket up there.

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Have a dude out there with crazy glue and glue it to the ISS and then push the

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button and launch that rocket into space further.

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He sent a Model X or whatever, one of his cars into space, and he's flying around out there.

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Right.

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Send the ISS out there, fly around.

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I agree.

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I don't understand why we wouldn't.

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There can't be super valuable stuff on there anymore.

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It's old, right?

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Dun, dun, dun.

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There you go.

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I'm with you now.

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Is it proof that space is fake?

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Right.

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I can't.

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I really can't.

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But so we have Elon Musk and all the people at SpaceX who are trying to accomplish this feat.

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You have really smart people, right, who are working on all these things.

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Yeah, obviously we're dumb.

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I mean, I'm dumb.

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I'm dumb.

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But I still feel like why not just I feel like that right there is a sound clip.

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I'm dumb.

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I'm dumb.

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Just send it.

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Send it to the Internet.

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OK,

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but recently we went to dinner at a local diner and we were talking with some of

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the waitresses there.

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It was a really slow night.

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Yeah.

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There was nobody else in there but us with our kiddo and these waitresses.

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I have concerns about the future of this country.

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That's what I'm saying.

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You've got these smart people at SpaceX trying to figure out how to bring down the ISS.

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And then you have these wonderful young girls.

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They are in their early teens.

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They are amazing people.

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Not early teens, right?

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Late teens.

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Late teens, excuse me.

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Yes, you're right.

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Late teens.

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They're 18-ish years old.

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Right, close to 20.

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Working, things like that.

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Yep.

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And they just, I think there's a difference.

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No.

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No, I want to talk this out because I think there's a difference, right?

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Where generations past had to learn how to do things the hard way, right?

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We're talking about counting coins.

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We're talking about cash.

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We're talking about...

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just learning history, like things they had to do the hard way.

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Whereas Gen Z, which is what I would categorize these young women as.

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Is that what they are?

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Yes.

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Um,

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that,

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that I would categorize them as Gen Z and there,

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they don't have to do things the hard way anymore.

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Meaning who the heck deals with cash anymore and who doesn't have a smartphone that

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they can whip out and,

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um,

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Find whatever information they need.

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So it doesn't mean you shouldn't know how to do it.

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I'm not saying that.

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It's not.

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It's basic math.

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I'm not saying that it's not a life skill that you should have.

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For sure it is.

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But it's not one that was ever pressed upon them like it was in previous generations.

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Our kiddo learned about counting coins.

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Yeah.

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for like a few weeks in school, like cursive.

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Cursive was like a few weeks in school for her,

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but not as in-depth as it was for us when we were in school because it was pressed

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upon us,

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whereas it's not on Gen Z.

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So all this to say,

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these lovely young women did not know how to count coins,

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weren't sure about historical facts,

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and they were making fun of themselves,

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honestly.

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Oh, yeah.

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Like, they were laughing about all the things.

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And we were, too, but I was still scared.

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Yeah.

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But I mean, you know, they were trying to make light of it.

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And it's because to me, their generation, it's not pressed upon anymore.

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I disagree with that.

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You still have to learn math.

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That's basic math.

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What's the copper coin is one cent.

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The big silver one is twenty five cent.

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Right.

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So when you.

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So twenty five plus one is twenty six.

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It's basic math.

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It makes me angry.

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To an extent, right?

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No,

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because then these schools,

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they wonder why parents get up in arms when they start pushing social policy upon people.

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It's like you can't even teach them how to count coins.

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I get it.

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And why the hell are you teaching them these social policies but not math?

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Well, it's like that's where our next...

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What do I want to say?

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Next iteration of society lies.

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It feels like everything is about social issues now.

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And it shouldn't be.

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Whereas before,

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like what we're saying is it was really pressed upon us to know how to count coins,

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how to do cursive,

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historical facts.

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Do they even do shop class anymore?

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I don't know.

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I know in Florida they do a lot of farming classes, though.

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Yep.

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Which is smart.

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Future Farmers of America, FFA, I think is what it is.

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I never heard of that living in Virginia, in D.C.

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area.

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I had no clue.

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I don't remember doing shop in high school.

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Yeah, I do.

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Yeah, I do.

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I lied.

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Sorry.

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Yeah, me too.

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I remember.

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And I remember that and in middle school.

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I made a little tic-tac-toe thing in middle school.

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Anyways,

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the emphasis for where they are focusing on what to teach the next generation,

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I think is just going to keep evolving,

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keep changing,

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because

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Having information at your fingertips and then the idea of us going to a cashless society.

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I mean, it's just not something that they're focusing on with this generation.

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Which is wrong.

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It'll be really interesting to me to see how the next generation evolves,

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how our kiddos education evolves,

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how.

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These people, these young people that.

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Have so much at their fingertips.

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How they rule the country.

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It's strange to me that we have so much knowledge with the internet and easily

(00:24:13):
access that knowledge with the cell phone that we're dumber as a society.

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Yep.

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I think it makes you dumber.

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I can agree with that.

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More dumb.

(00:24:25):
More dumb as I look at my phone to figure out our next topic.

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Yeah, but you're saving paper.

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So you saved a tree today.

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I'm proud of you.

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Okay, we're in fine form today.

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This is great.

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All right.

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So I saw this article the other day about Tampa's tiny homes.

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I want one.

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So there's a community center.

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I'm looking at my phone as I read this.

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There's a 7000 square foot building that broke ground on Monday.

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And when complete.

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Oh, thank you.

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It'll be a hub for Tampa Hope residents to access services.

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But currently there are 1100 clients since December 2021.

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that have now received permanent housing, whether that is tiny homes or shelter comprised of a tent.

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So essentially what they're trying to do is take the homeless off the streets of Tampa,

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give them these tiny homes for housing,

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them to live in and or a shelter but they're also building a ginormous building

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that's going to provide services like if you were to live in an actual community

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right yeah so this is awesome to me like i can't imagine yeah but did you say that

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they were offering them tents too

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Well, yeah, for now.

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Sheesh.

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I couldn't live in a tent in Florida.

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I know it.

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It's hot.

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It's outside.

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Very hot.

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It was like 110 the other day.

(00:26:03):
Oh, yeah, with the heat index?

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Yeah, we went to the beach, and it was melty.

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I'm going to get off topic.

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Let me come back.

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Okay.

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Hold on one second.

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Kanye.

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Kanye.

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Let me finish.

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Let me come back to this.

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But it's all based on,

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I believe it's a non-profit,

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not-for-profit organization that's doing all this,

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that's doing the groundbreaking of the building and providing all these sites.

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Like, this is a good idea to me.

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I like it.

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And I think the idea of providing a place, and they're not huge houses.

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I mean, like, they're, you know, probably one of those, like, small storage containers.

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Yeah, but is there a toilet in there?

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Is there a shower?

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Is there AC and heat when it gets cold?

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Because it does get cold at night sometimes.

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Yeah, I mean... A balmy 70.

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Anything below 60 is too cold.

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Oh, my God.

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But I don't know.

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I feel like if this works, right, then why can't that be more wide scale?

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If there are organizations who can produce this type of housing...

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Do you know the, the company name?

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Cause I think Tampa hope.

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Oh, okay.

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I,

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at one of my jobs,

(00:27:20):
I worked with a company that did like that,

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did stuff like this,

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except I believe it.

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I can't remember a hundred percent, but I think it was from California.

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They were doing something very similar.

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Yeah.

(00:27:31):
I think modular tiny homes that it was, I mean, it's just like a,

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It's almost like apartment sized houses, 800 square feet.

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I think this is smaller.

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And like in like a village.

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Yep.

(00:27:46):
I thought that was cool.

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You're also creating that community for them, like having nearby people that can support each other.

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Well, and they should do have like a big building, a community center with mental health support.

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Events like games and just like team building exercises,

(00:28:06):
have career day there,

(00:28:08):
things like that to try to get people off the streets and self-sufficient.

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Yep.

(00:28:16):
So I think it's an amazing idea and it does sound like they're modeling it after

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something that they are doing in New York too for their homeless.

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Maybe it was New York.

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Yeah.

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I can't remember.

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It was a bigger state.

(00:28:30):
It was a huge, huge state.

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I just can't remember.

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Okay, go ahead.

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Yeah, but I mean, if this catches on, imagine what it would do for a community.

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I have no issues with this stuff, but you have to promote moving up.

(00:28:49):
Well, promote wellness, right?

(00:28:50):
Promote wellness and promote self-sufficiency because eventually you're going to

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run out of space and you're going to,

(00:28:58):
somebody's going to be in there that could be self-sufficient and take away a spot

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for someone that actually does need it.

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So you got to promote that.

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You can't just say, here's a house.

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No, I agree.

(00:29:12):
There has to be some, what do I want to say?

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Some,

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Ability, some way to reach a path where you can go out on your own.

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Right.

(00:29:23):
And obtain something that you do own for yourself.

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And I agree, but I can't imagine this being a step in any direction other than the right one.

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I just, I don't either, but I can see people, humans.

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Not all of them.

(00:29:42):
There you go.

(00:29:42):
But you know what I mean?

(00:29:43):
We need another shirt.

(00:29:44):
Humans are.

(00:29:45):
There you go.

(00:29:46):
It's just people will take advantage of it.

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I hear it.

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And remove the ability for someone that truly needs it from getting it.

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And that's crap.

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I hear you.

(00:29:59):
You said something earlier that I totally cut you off.

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That's normal.

(00:30:06):
Yes.

(00:30:06):
Okay.

(00:30:08):
Yes.

(00:30:10):
Reminds me of that meme I showed you today.

(00:30:14):
What would you do if your wife apologized to you?

(00:30:18):
I'm sorry, my wife did what?

(00:30:20):
Whatever.

(00:30:22):
Whatever.

(00:30:23):
I'm sorry, what?

(00:30:25):
She did what?

(00:30:26):
This relationship is built on love and trust, okay?

(00:30:31):
Have you seen the new AirPods?

(00:30:35):
What AirPods?

(00:30:36):
There's new AirPods coming out.

(00:30:38):
I guess Apple introduced them.

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And instead of just being the little pack,

(00:30:44):
right,

(00:30:44):
that you put your AirPods in,

(00:30:47):
the front case of your AirPods is going to have an interactive screen.

(00:30:53):
JBL already has that.

(00:30:55):
Well, to me, this is iPod Nano, right?

(00:31:02):
I don't think that's true.

(00:31:03):
Why?

(00:31:04):
I think you saw.

(00:31:05):
I think you got fake news.

(00:31:06):
Nuh-uh.

(00:31:07):
Yeah, you did.

(00:31:07):
I bet you did.

(00:31:08):
I will show you.

(00:31:09):
JBL has it already, and Apple has not announced anything about new pairs of AirPods lately.

(00:31:17):
Apple researching AirPod case with built-in interactive screen.

(00:31:22):
Yeah, but that right there is a mock-up that somebody made.

(00:31:24):
Look up JBL ones.

(00:31:26):
Those are actually real.

(00:31:27):
You can buy them right now.

(00:31:28):
AirPods 3 leak.

(00:31:31):
AirPods 2 with screen.

(00:31:33):
Maybe I did get fake news.

(00:31:35):
I'm pretty sure you did.

(00:31:37):
AI got me.

(00:31:39):
But I do like that idea because it is turn.

(00:31:45):
So this is this is a whole nother topic.

(00:31:48):
Hit me.

(00:31:49):
But you're removing technology.

(00:31:52):
You're packing all this technology into something that's dumb, like headphones.

(00:31:57):
So if you can pack that thing full of music and the only thing you do on your phone

(00:32:01):
is music,

(00:32:02):
obviously most people talk and text and all that stuff.

(00:32:07):
You are removing one crutch that you have with your phone, with your device.

(00:32:14):
Smartphone addiction is real.

(00:32:16):
I knew that's where you were going.

(00:32:17):
Oh, yeah.

(00:32:19):
I have been researching and trying to find a smartphone.

(00:32:24):
Not a smartphone, but a hybrid smartphone, if you will.

(00:32:29):
To be dumb.

(00:32:30):
I want it to be dumb, but I also want it to be able to do certain things.

(00:32:34):
Because my work requires me to have access to the internet and things like that.

(00:32:40):
So I need semi-smart.

(00:32:44):
But I also want it to be dumb enough to where it's kind of a pain in the ass to use.

(00:32:51):
So, Cat, the freaking tractor people, they have a phone called the Cat S22.

(00:32:59):
Wait, Cat, like the heavy machinery?

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Yes.

(00:33:03):
Oh, okay.

(00:33:04):
They have a phone.

(00:33:05):
It's called the Cat S22.

(00:33:06):
Okay.

(00:33:08):
It is a flip phone that runs Android go so I can have Gmail.

(00:33:14):
I can have Google chat, all that stuff on it.

(00:33:18):
I am very close to getting that thing because I admittedly have a major smartphone addiction.

(00:33:25):
It's not good.

(00:33:27):
I wake up in the morning.

(00:33:28):
I grab my phone instantly.

(00:33:32):
Or before bed, I have to read my phone.

(00:33:34):
But if I get this phone with a screen that's this freaking big,

(00:33:38):
I think it's like a two-inch screen,

(00:33:40):
right?

(00:33:42):
I'm not going to want to do that.

(00:33:45):
You're addicted to it, too.

(00:33:46):
Just not as bad as me.

(00:33:48):
Well, I think anyone who has a smartphone is addicted to it.

(00:33:52):
Yeah, I know.

(00:33:53):
It's like a crutch.

(00:33:54):
Do you get the weird feeling when you don't have it on you?

(00:34:00):
I get a weird feeling.

(00:34:02):
I mean, I guess it depends on where I'm at, what I'm doing.

(00:34:04):
If you leave the house without your phone, you're like, again, depends.

(00:34:08):
Like if I'm just going to the grocery store, no, don't care.

(00:34:13):
But if I'm going to two hours away, no, need it.

(00:34:18):
It's just weird.

(00:34:20):
I don't know.

(00:34:21):
I'm going to wiki watchy like I'm going to need it for GPS.

(00:34:24):
I'm going to need it for music.

(00:34:25):
I'm going to need it to call somebody.

(00:34:26):
We'll see that.

(00:34:27):
That's the beauty of this S22.

(00:34:29):
Also, it will work with your car play or Android auto.

(00:34:33):
It'll work with all that.

(00:34:34):
But it's such an Android auto.

(00:34:36):
You got to say the other one, too.

(00:34:37):
All right.

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Apple.

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I said CarPlay.

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Oh, is that a thing?

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Yeah.

(00:34:42):
Okay.

(00:34:43):
But the screen is so small that using it for anything else is almost like,

(00:34:48):
you can,

(00:34:49):
you can web browse on it,

(00:34:51):
but it has a T9 keyboard.

(00:34:54):
So it's not something that you're going to want to sit there and, you know, shoot out messages.

(00:34:58):
We should have a competition.

(00:34:59):
I'll burn your ass up.

(00:35:01):
I don't know.

(00:35:02):
We're so out of practice, though.

(00:35:04):
I know.

(00:35:04):
Like when you and I first started dating, T9 was how you texted.

(00:35:09):
Well, what was weird is I couldn't figure out T9 back then.

(00:35:13):
What do you mean?

(00:35:14):
I had to turn it off because I couldn't figure out that you just type, like if it's the...

(00:35:23):
you don't push the buttons multiple times to get to your letter.

(00:35:27):
You just auto go to the button with the letter on it.

(00:35:32):
This is confusing as hell to say out loud.

(00:35:35):
I don't think you're saying it right.

(00:35:36):
Yeah.

(00:35:37):
Okay.

(00:35:37):
So if you need to hit,

(00:35:39):
I don't have a freaking phone with a numpad on it,

(00:35:42):
but if you wanted a letter,

(00:35:43):
that was the third letter in you type that you hit that button three times,

(00:35:47):
right?

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With T nine, you don't do that.

(00:35:51):
You hit each letter.

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For each button for the.

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So you would hit.

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I forget what it is.

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Nine, nine, five, three.

(00:36:01):
Right.

(00:36:02):
And it would come up with that.

(00:36:03):
But I could never get that through my head back then because I always wanted to hit.

(00:36:09):
Three times nine, three times five.

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Yes.

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So I would screw up.

(00:36:13):
I'm like, why is this doing it?

(00:36:14):
So I turn it off on every phone.

(00:36:16):
So I was texting you with no T9.

(00:36:20):
And we racked up $1,000 phone bills each.

(00:36:25):
No, mine was only five something.

(00:36:27):
My parents were mad at me.

(00:36:28):
It was like 530.

(00:36:28):
My parents were pissed too.

(00:36:30):
They were mad, but at the same time, they were happy that I had a girlfriend.

(00:36:34):
They were like, oh my God, thank God.

(00:36:36):
Little did they know, I would be your only girlfriend.

(00:36:41):
I know.

(00:36:41):
You want to go on your back dating.

(00:36:46):
We actually talked about that recently.

(00:36:47):
Like, could you imagine?

(00:36:51):
Dating today.

(00:36:52):
As an adult.

(00:36:54):
As an adult.

(00:36:55):
Man, I got to go to bed at 830.

(00:36:58):
I got to figure out who's going to be out.

(00:37:01):
Who goes to the bars at like seven?

(00:37:03):
Right.

(00:37:06):
It's still light outside and you're at the bar.

(00:37:08):
The sun starts going down and the street lights.

(00:37:10):
Come on, you got to go home.

(00:37:11):
You just have to start dating in the villages.

(00:37:12):
Yeah.

(00:37:13):
They're the only ones who work or who are up at your hours.

(00:37:17):
Yeah.

(00:37:18):
If the price is right, turns off and you got to go to bed, that means you're an adult.

(00:37:23):
There you go.

(00:37:24):
I'm not doing it.

(00:37:25):
Nope.

(00:37:26):
Nope.

(00:37:26):
I have no desire whatsoever.

(00:37:28):
Not price is right.

(00:37:28):
Wheel of Fortune.

(00:37:29):
There you go.

(00:37:29):
Right after Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy, you got to go to bed.

(00:37:32):
He's getting ready to retire.

(00:37:33):
Say Jack.

(00:37:34):
Yeah.

(00:37:34):
He already did.

(00:37:36):
His last episode was two weeks ago, I think.

(00:37:39):
Aw.

(00:37:39):
He already got him a new gig, though.

(00:37:41):
Well, is Will of Fortune still happening?

(00:37:43):
Yeah.

(00:37:44):
Oh, who is it?

(00:37:45):
Ryan Seacrest.

(00:37:46):
Is it?

(00:37:46):
Yeah.

(00:37:48):
It makes sense.

(00:37:48):
That's on brand.

(00:37:49):
Yeah.

(00:37:50):
Yeah.

(00:37:51):
He's pretty.

(00:37:53):
He really is.

(00:37:56):
Okay.

(00:37:57):
Stranger Things.

(00:37:59):
Dun, dun, dun.

(00:38:00):
Yeah.

(00:38:01):
I mean, it's been out for how long at this point?

(00:38:04):
And I just caught up.

(00:38:05):
So spoiler alert.

(00:38:07):
And if you don't want to hear about Stranger Things, then you need to turn this off or fast forward.

(00:38:12):
I don't understand why it took you this long.

(00:38:15):
I asked you, what, a year and a half ago to watch it with me.

(00:38:19):
Yes.

(00:38:19):
And you said no.

(00:38:21):
Well.

(00:38:21):
And then I finally got you to watch it, what, in the past month.

(00:38:25):
And we watched all of it in like three days.

(00:38:27):
We binged it, yeah.

(00:38:27):
Mm-hmm.

(00:38:29):
But why did it take you so long?

(00:38:31):
Well,

(00:38:31):
you know what's super weird,

(00:38:32):
too,

(00:38:32):
is I had a friend at a previous job who kept telling me to watch it.

(00:38:38):
He's like, you got Netflix?

(00:38:40):
I said, yeah.

(00:38:41):
I said, watch Stranger Things.

(00:38:43):
It's insane.

(00:38:44):
I was like, I don't know.

(00:38:47):
I kind of dismissed it.

(00:38:49):
But now that I watched, I'm like, man, what have I done?

(00:38:53):
It's good.

(00:38:54):
But season five is coming out next year, 2025.

(00:38:57):
Yeah, they'll be 35 years old.

(00:39:00):
Yeah.

(00:39:00):
Millie Bobby Brown is supposed to be, what, 12, maybe 13.

(00:39:04):
And she's a full grown woman.

(00:39:06):
It just don't.

(00:39:07):
Well, it cracks me up that they tried to, like, dress them to where they still look like kids.

(00:39:12):
I'm like, it's obvious.

(00:39:13):
Right.

(00:39:14):
Good Lord.

(00:39:15):
Yep.

(00:39:16):
You guys are... She's a curvy lady.

(00:39:19):
She's curvy.

(00:39:19):
Well, it's not just that either.

(00:39:20):
They all are looking mature.

(00:39:23):
Right.

(00:39:23):
Like, you can tell.

(00:39:25):
I mean, they had to wax their faces because they got facial hair coming in and all that stuff.

(00:39:30):
I don't know.

(00:39:31):
But it was wild.

(00:39:33):
Yeah.

(00:39:34):
What'd you think?

(00:39:35):
I liked it a lot.

(00:39:37):
I...

(00:39:39):
I do.

(00:39:39):
OK, I liked it a lot, but I do think season four was a little bit of attack on.

(00:39:47):
Now, the creator said that they've had this written forever.

(00:39:51):
One through five.

(00:39:53):
But I don't know.

(00:39:54):
It just seems very tacked on.

(00:39:56):
Not that it's bad because it was good.

(00:39:59):
It feels like an amendment to season one through three.

(00:40:02):
One through three was very linear.

(00:40:04):
It made sense.

(00:40:05):
It's progressing with the bad, right?

(00:40:07):
But then you get to season four and it's like, oh, wait, we forgot to tell you about all this.

(00:40:11):
Right.

(00:40:12):
And-

(00:40:14):
there was flashbacks that they were trying to make a story out of something that

(00:40:19):
didn't happen in one through three,

(00:40:23):
but you've already seen the flashbacks in season one.

(00:40:26):
And then they're amending all those flashbacks because you forgot.

(00:40:30):
Yeah.

(00:40:31):
Right.

(00:40:31):
It was like almost a cop out, but it was good.

(00:40:34):
It was just tacked on to me.

(00:40:36):
Yep.

(00:40:36):
I agree.

(00:40:37):
I think that it's,

(00:40:41):
only there, like the only reason why they did that is so that they could have a season five.

(00:40:45):
See, and I don't, from what they say, they had it written.

(00:40:48):
I don't believe it.

(00:40:49):
I don't know.

(00:40:50):
I feel like they were on one trip for season one through three,

(00:40:54):
and then they took a second psychedelic for season four and possibly a new one for

(00:40:58):
season five.

(00:40:59):
So it might not be totally cohesive like we hoped it would be or thought it would be, but I don't know.

(00:41:07):
It just felt like two separate thoughts.

(00:41:11):
I agree.

(00:41:11):
I don't, I still, yeah, I still liked it.

(00:41:14):
It was just, it was almost like they should have did a spinoff.

(00:41:18):
Right.

(00:41:18):
With different characters.

(00:41:20):
Right.

(00:41:20):
For, for this story.

(00:41:23):
Cause the season four and season five,

(00:41:25):
they're about a new big bad that exists in the upside down,

(00:41:31):
which is the alternate dimension.

(00:41:34):
But we didn't know about this big bad in season one through three.

(00:41:37):
Right.

(00:41:37):
That'll make sense.

(00:41:39):
I want to know.

(00:41:42):
Why every character in the damn show cannot just gradually take off in a car or stop nicely.

(00:41:50):
Oh, we got to kick up gravel, kick up gravel and then break their necks when they stop.

(00:41:54):
I don't get it.

(00:41:55):
My how many how many whiplash treatments did you guys have to go through on set?

(00:42:03):
Yeah.

(00:42:04):
So who's your favorite character?

(00:42:05):
That's a toughie.

(00:42:07):
I like a lot of them.

(00:42:09):
I like Dustin.

(00:42:09):
I like Steve Harrington.

(00:42:14):
I'm trying to think.

(00:42:17):
I mean, everybody likes Elle.

(00:42:20):
Just because she's a badass.

(00:42:22):
But Max is cool.

(00:42:24):
I like all of them, really.

(00:42:25):
It is so well casted.

(00:42:28):
Yeah, there's no... I mean, there's hateable people in there.

(00:42:31):
Like, what was her name from this season that was the bully?

(00:42:35):
Angela or something like that?

(00:42:37):
She was a twat.

(00:42:38):
From season four, yeah.

(00:42:39):
Yeah, season four.

(00:42:40):
She bullied Elle and...

(00:42:43):
I mean, she got her head cracked with a damn skate.

(00:42:47):
Let's talk about that for a second.

(00:42:51):
So you have an agitator.

(00:42:52):
You have Angela, right?

(00:42:54):
Who's the bully of L. Again, spoilers if you're not.

(00:42:57):
I already said it.

(00:42:58):
I already seen it.

(00:42:59):
But anyways, so you have Angela.

(00:43:02):
She's bullying L literally the entire school year.

(00:43:06):
And getting physical, too.

(00:43:08):
Right.

(00:43:09):
It gets so bad at one point that they're actually throwing milkshakes on her.

(00:43:14):
They make her fall at a skating rink.

(00:43:16):
Like, they are relentlessly bullying her.

(00:43:20):
Yeah, it's bad.

(00:43:21):
So she, Elle, not being, you know, of societal norms, right, she takes an action.

(00:43:29):
She smacks the girl in the face.

(00:43:32):
With a skate.

(00:43:32):
With a roller skate.

(00:43:33):
Yeah.

(00:43:35):
She's bleeding.

(00:43:36):
Like, it's a lot.

(00:43:37):
But is she validated?

(00:43:43):
I think she's validated after they physically touched her.

(00:43:47):
And by throwing something at her and onto her and then knocking her down, that's physical.

(00:43:54):
Once you get physical, it's fair game to get physical back.

(00:43:58):
To an extent, right?

(00:43:59):
I'm not saying that she needs to get a samurai sword.

(00:44:02):
Right.

(00:44:02):
I just want to be clear.

(00:44:03):
No, I mean, you punch her in the face.

(00:44:05):
I mean, hitting her with a skate, that's pretty rough.

(00:44:08):
Well, I mean, she used what she had.

(00:44:11):
But it just feels like...

(00:44:13):
A lot of people.

(00:44:14):
Well, I shouldn't say a lot of people in the show.

(00:44:16):
Right.

(00:44:17):
It was like, oh, my God, I can't believe she did that.

(00:44:18):
I know that pissed me off.

(00:44:20):
It's like this girl's been terrorizing her.

(00:44:23):
Everybody saw it in the skating rink.

(00:44:25):
Right.

(00:44:26):
And she's the bad one.

(00:44:27):
No, no, no, no, no.

(00:44:29):
They were just treating her like that because she was a weirdo.

(00:44:32):
Right.

(00:44:32):
So in real life,

(00:44:33):
if this were to occur in real life,

(00:44:36):
someone is bullying someone and the bullied took an action.

(00:44:43):
Like, have you seen the videos on YouTube?

(00:44:46):
Those are some of my favorite videos.

(00:44:48):
Where the bully gets karma.

(00:44:49):
Oh, my goodness.

(00:44:52):
Don't be a bully.

(00:44:53):
Don't be a bully.

(00:44:54):
That's our message.

(00:44:54):
Piece of garbage.

(00:44:55):
Don't be a bully.

(00:44:56):
Yeah.

(00:44:57):
Anyway, so my favorite characters, Elle is number one.

(00:45:00):
Like you said, everybody loves Elle.

(00:45:02):
But Max is my number two.

(00:45:04):
I like her.

(00:45:05):
I love Max.

(00:45:06):
Her story is amazing.

(00:45:08):
I didn't like her at the beginning of season four.

(00:45:12):
Well, she went through a lot.

(00:45:14):
I know.

(00:45:15):
I know.

(00:45:15):
I feel like my teenage self back, you know, and all those years ago.

(00:45:20):
So old when you didn't know how to count coins.

(00:45:22):
Right.

(00:45:23):
No, I always knew.

(00:45:24):
But that like identified with that kind of story.

(00:45:30):
I mean,

(00:45:30):
not that I went through trauma like she did,

(00:45:34):
but,

(00:45:34):
you know,

(00:45:35):
you identify with being a melancholy teen.

(00:45:37):
Right.

(00:45:38):
And then to see her be brave and overcome and.

(00:45:41):
Like, that's a beautiful story.

(00:45:44):
Yeah.

(00:45:45):
I really like her.

(00:45:46):
She's my number two.

(00:45:47):
Yeah.

(00:45:47):
Joyce is my number three.

(00:45:49):
I didn't really like Billy.

(00:45:54):
No, nobody does.

(00:45:55):
I know.

(00:45:56):
It's almost like they went too far with him.

(00:45:58):
Yes.

(00:45:59):
Because he is such a hateable character.

(00:46:03):
There's no redeeming him.

(00:46:04):
But you're supposed to almost feel bad because Max felt bad that he died, right?

(00:46:11):
Right.

(00:46:13):
But he treated Max like complete garbage.

(00:46:17):
There's no redeeming.

(00:46:18):
So I felt like I'm like,

(00:46:19):
I don't know how she feels so bad that he got it because he I mean,

(00:46:27):
he bullied her.

(00:46:30):
And did he did he get physical with her?

(00:46:33):
I think they kind of insinuated,

(00:46:36):
but,

(00:46:37):
but yeah,

(00:46:37):
it was like,

(00:46:39):
I don't know,

(00:46:40):
Max,

(00:46:40):
I don't get why you're so depressed about him.

(00:46:43):
Well, and she kind of says it throughout the season, you know, she wanted him to die.

(00:46:48):
Right.

(00:46:49):
To some extent, some unconscious psychological reason.

(00:46:53):
She's like, eh, I mean, pretty valid reason.

(00:46:56):
Right.

(00:46:57):
Ask me.

(00:46:58):
Agreed.

(00:46:58):
The dude treated her and made her life a living hell.

(00:47:01):
Which villain was your favorite over the four seasons so far?

(00:47:06):
Vecna.

(00:47:08):
I have a problem with that.

(00:47:09):
Why?

(00:47:11):
All of the villains through all four seasons, well, let's say the first three seasons, right?

(00:47:18):
They didn't have a human form, right?

(00:47:20):
They're monsters.

(00:47:21):
Yeah, I do like that.

(00:47:22):
That's what makes them scary.

(00:47:23):
Right.

(00:47:24):
Then you get Vecna, and he's of human form.

(00:47:27):
And it's just like...

(00:47:30):
don't personify the bad guy.

(00:47:32):
Let him be a monster.

(00:47:33):
I think they're doing that because you got like, you have to put a face to the final battle.

(00:47:38):
Like we're going to end it all here.

(00:47:39):
No, no, I agree.

(00:47:41):
I think the, the mind flared thing and being smoke mysterious, just right.

(00:47:48):
It's like you can't defeat it.

(00:47:50):
It feels undefeatable.

(00:47:52):
Well, maybe that's why they did it.

(00:47:54):
How do you kill it?

(00:47:57):
I don't like it.

(00:47:59):
I mean, I enjoyed I enjoy Vecna, though, because of see the amended parts.

(00:48:08):
Elle's story with Vecna is really cool.

(00:48:11):
Like she not only did she open the gate.

(00:48:15):
But she sent this dude to some random-ass dimension.

(00:48:19):
Then she opened... She unleashed him first.

(00:48:21):
She unleashed him.

(00:48:22):
She pulled the suppressant thing out of his neck meat.

(00:48:26):
Sent him to an alternate dimension after he goes on a murderous rampage.

(00:48:30):
Yep.

(00:48:31):
And then essentially gives him a home when she opened the gate a second time.

(00:48:35):
Right.

(00:48:36):
It's so weird.

(00:48:38):
And I don't agree with all that either, but that's way too deep.

(00:48:41):
We're not going to that today.

(00:48:42):
Well...

(00:48:44):
I will say, though, how do you think it's going to end?

(00:48:47):
You go first.

(00:48:48):
I don't know.

(00:48:49):
Honestly,

(00:48:50):
I feel like every season I've kind of been like surprised,

(00:48:54):
honestly,

(00:48:54):
because I don't know anything about Dungeons and Dragons.

(00:48:57):
I don't know anything about like.

(00:49:00):
Well, it's all loose on Dungeons and Dragons.

(00:49:02):
It's just.

(00:49:04):
It's not like one for one Dungeons and Dragons stuff.

(00:49:08):
Well, I'm also not big into reading Reddit like you are and diving into all these theories.

(00:49:14):
And I just don't do it.

(00:49:15):
So to me, it's always a surprise.

(00:49:17):
But the only thing I can foresee,

(00:49:20):
and it's a big trope in all sci-fi type series,

(00:49:25):
is Elle has to die in order for the upside down to go away,

(00:49:30):
the alternate dimension to go away.

(00:49:32):
That is how I foresee this happening.

(00:49:34):
I don't know.

(00:49:35):
I feel like that's pushing it.

(00:49:39):
I don't think they're going to do that.

(00:49:40):
That is the only way I can see this happening, because she's the reason why it was created.

(00:49:45):
She got that.

(00:49:48):
Yes, she did create the upside down for sure.

(00:49:50):
But I don't I don't think that they're going to kill her.

(00:49:54):
I think that.

(00:49:57):
The Mind Flayer is going to break loose.

(00:50:00):
From Vecna.

(00:50:01):
Because currently Vecna is like the supreme.

(00:50:03):
He's like God in the Upside Down.

(00:50:06):
He's the mind of everything there.

(00:50:09):
And I feel like the Mind Flayer is being controlled by Vecna.

(00:50:16):
but he's not going to want to be controlled by Vecna anymore.

(00:50:21):
He's going to break loose,

(00:50:22):
kill that fool,

(00:50:23):
and maybe they have some kind of fight,

(00:50:25):
but they both destroy each other.

(00:50:27):
And then it's over.

(00:50:29):
Because then all you have left are those Demogorgons, and they're just predatory.

(00:50:35):
They're like rabid dogs.

(00:50:37):
They're not smart.

(00:50:38):
Worker bees.

(00:50:39):
Yeah, they're not smart.

(00:50:40):
So, okay, they're not going to just come out of the...

(00:50:44):
upside down to go on a rampage.

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They're not smart like that.

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Well,

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the analogy that you said where Vecna is God,

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okay,

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well,

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Elle is like Jesus then,

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where she's going to have to be the sacrificed one to end it all.

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Yeah, but Vecna is evil.

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God's not evil.

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No, he's not.

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It was your analogy.

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I'm saying he's the god of hell, essentially.

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Okay, so he's the devil is what you should have said.

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The upside down is...

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But regardless,

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L is the one who will have to be sacrificed in order for it to all end.

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I don't think so.

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I hope not.

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A lot of people say that she's going to have to close it from the inside and dah, dah, dah.

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It's a trope.

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It's the typical trope.

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And I don't think they're going to do that.

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I hope not.

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This whole show has been like breaking new ground.

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I doubt they're going to do something that's like standard sci-fi ending.

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Right.

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Like Armageddon.

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I hope not.

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So and so, or what's his, Bruce Willis' character.

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He's got to stay behind and blow it up because the freaking technology's not there.

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The technology's not there, and the remote control thing busted.

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Right.

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No.

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Yeah.

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I doubt they're going to do that.

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That's the only way I can see it happening.

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And one other thing,

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I believe they said,

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the creators,

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somebody related to the show,

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they said,

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we're not Game of Thrones.

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We don't have to kill people to make a good story.

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And I was like, thank you.

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Kill Vecna, though.

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Well, that's the one, I guess, huh?

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I have a question for you.

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No.

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Okay.

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I have a question for you.

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Okay.

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What is the opposite of water?

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Fire.

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Okay.

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What if I told you that that is the most common answer?

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Fire.

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But then there are other people who say ice.

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That's not the opposite.

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Okay.

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Right, because it's the same form, right?

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What if I told you other people said air?

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Are we playing Avatar The Last Airbender?

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No, it kind of sounds like it, but no.

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I'm on the fire side.

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But does air sound feasible?

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I feel like that's almost the same thing because water evaporates into air.

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I don't know.

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Okay.

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Last one.

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There was a meme where a woman said, sand.

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What?

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She said the opposite of wet is dry, so sand?

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I almost feel like there's something there, though.

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I don't.

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Okay.

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Well, that's my thought for the end of our... Sand can be wet.

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But is it wet though?

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Because it's not absorbing into the sand particle too much.

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Go out there and pick up some wet sand and tell me if there's a difference.

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