Unfiltered Union

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This is Lynn.

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This is Russ.

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And we're married.

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Are we?

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Yep.

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Since 2013.

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We're the hosts of the Unfiltered Union podcast.

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Where we discuss popular headlines and interview interesting people.

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Our opinions may vary, but we will never censor our guests or our viewpoints.

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Welcome to the Unfiltered Union.

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Welcome to the Unfiltered Union.

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The what?

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I know, in case you didn't notice, we rebranded.

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That we did, and that took a while because of all the work, but I think it was worth it.

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I think so too,

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and I think with all of the new guests that we've had,

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it really goes hand in hand with our rebrand in that we're having interesting

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people come on and not filtering out any opinions of ourselves or the others.

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Yeah, we don't...

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Censor people here.

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Absolutely.

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Even if we don't like them or not like them.

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That sounds really bad.

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Even if we don't agree with what they're saying.

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There you go.

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You can believe what you want to believe.

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Everyone deserves a voice.

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Exactly.

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And I do want to go through kind of a roll call on our last bunch of guests because

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we had a lot in between our,

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you know,

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one-on-one talks.

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For sure.

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And Chris Revis was our most recent.

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He's a Bitcoin expert and author of three books.

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And we will for sure have him back.

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Yes, he's got a... His third book is actually coming out next month.

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Or no, May.

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I'm sorry.

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May 2024.

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And Sergio Halabi is an independent researcher from Bahrain who studies ancient civilizations.

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A world away.

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It is crazy that we get to talk to somebody who's so far away and have these amazing conversations.

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It was enlightening to me.

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Me too.

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I've always been super interested in pyramids and ancient civilizations because of

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the lack of knowledge that we're taught.

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And just breaking down what the pyramids may or may not have been used for was super interesting.

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Crazy.

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Then we also had Reverend Katie O'Donnell.

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Reverend Katie O'Donnell, OCD expert and advocate.

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She designs treatment plans for people who have OCD that are religious because

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sometimes you might not be able to do certain ERP therapies based upon your religion.

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That conversation was crazy, too.

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With your experience in OCD versus someone experiencing it on the religious front,

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I mean,

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you don't think of these things,

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right?

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No, like trying to tell a Jewish person to not be kosher.

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Right.

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That's insane.

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You can't do that.

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They will quit therapy.

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Right.

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Right.

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And then Phoebe Pierpoint, who is a coach for entrepreneurs.

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She was awesome.

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She talks all about changing mindsets and unlocking your potential.

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And I think one of the things that she really did for us was ask the question.

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She said, what, what,

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what is your goal with this podcast?

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Yeah.

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I mean,

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you and I have talked about that a million times over,

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but actually having somebody ask that and then explain it,

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I mean.

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Oh, yeah.

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You can just tell right there Phoebe is on point with her goals.

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On point.

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Right.

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See what I did there.

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Well, the answer to that question, too, changed.

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It morphed for me, and I'm pretty sure it morphed for you, too, that at first we did this as a hobby.

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Yeah.

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We enjoyed it.

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It was fun to kind of sit down and break down latest headlines.

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But as we've morphed into more of like this interview style,

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I get to talk to people that I would never talk to.

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For sure.

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Aside from these interviews.

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Yeah.

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Absolutely.

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I think there are so many people in the world who have stories to tell.

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And I honestly don't care what the story is.

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I think that anyone who has something that they would like to say and can say it well, let us know.

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Come on to the Unfiltered Union and join us and be a guest.

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Yes, if you do have a cool story or you know somebody with a cool story, send them our way.

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Either go to our website,

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unfilteredunion.com,

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or go ahead and email us,

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unfilteredunion at gmail.com,

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and we'll try to schedule you and get you on and talk about your story.

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Absolutely.

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And all the things that have been happening here at Unfiltered Union with the

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rebrand and then all of our guests,

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there's also a lot going on in the world right now.

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Yeah, it's not good.

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Yeah, it's weighty again, isn't it?

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Yeah, it's a common theme.

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But it makes me wonder what's going on, what's happening that they don't want us to know.

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Honestly, I don't know if it's the idea of redirection, right?

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Or if this is the real thing.

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Because it's big, right?

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Let's go ahead and say it.

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We have the documentary out right now called Quiet on Set.

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And it's all about the Nickelodeon child stars who experienced...

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Toxic workplaces, sexual abuse, just all around child abuse while on set for these shows.

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That's so fucked up.

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It's crazy.

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And everybody keeps saying if you watch this,

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it's going to ruin 90s nostalgia type shows for you like Amanda Bynes show.

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I mean, I think based on everything that she's gone through over the most recent years,

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You can't watch that show the same.

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But now knowing that, yes, she has maybe some mental health things that she's going through.

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But it's understandable.

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But there's a reason.

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Yeah.

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Mental illness most of the time comes from trauma.

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For sure.

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And she has trauma.

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Yep.

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Clearly unresolved trauma.

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Absolutely.

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And I am watching the documentary.

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Russ is choosing to opt out.

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And I respect that because it is a lot.

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But to hear their stories and watch their body language as they're telling them,

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you know that they are reliving trauma,

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trying to get this information out there.

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Yeah, no child should ever have to go through that.

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And what breaks my brain is that these people that are not only accused,

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but there's even some that have been convicted are still in the business.

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Yeah.

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And some of them haven't been arrested for the things that they've been accused for.

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And I get it.

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You can't just accuse somebody and expect them to go to jail.

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You have to go through the process and prove it.

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Right.

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And I think that's one of the good things about our justice system.

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But it's so crazy to me.

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That all of these people are speaking out against one person and nothing has happened to them.

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Innocent until proven guilty.

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You can't just take word for it.

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You have to prove it.

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Guilt has to be proven by the accusing party.

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I get it.

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I do, too.

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It's hard, though, especially with all of this stuff that's happening with Nickelodeon.

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These are children.

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Well, and it was 20, 30 years ago at this point.

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And how do you prove that at this point?

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Right.

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That's the that's the messed up part.

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Exactly.

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And they didn't have Internet and stuff back in the day.

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They didn't have Netflix.

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So it was hard for them to find somebody most likely to help them spread their

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voice because the,

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you know,

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Hollywood is just one big giant cult.

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Yep.

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In my opinion.

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Yeah.

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Well, it's it's strange.

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One big figure in there in Nickelodeon TV was in court and he his his side of the house was packed.

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Right.

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Of supporters.

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What you're talking about is Drake Bell's abuser.

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And I'm not even going to say the person's name because they're a piece of shit.

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He was convicted, accused and convicted of sexually abusing Drake Bell.

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And during the sentencing,

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his entire side of the courtroom was filled up with people in support of this individual,

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even though he was convicted of sexually abusing a child.

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That's unreal to me that anybody would support somebody that did something like that.

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And he was convicted.

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He was guilty.

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It is crazy.

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And now, at a layer, right?

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Now you have Diddy.

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The diddler?

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Yeah, there's all kinds of comedians.

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Yeah, going off with the diddlers.

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Some of them are really fucking funny, though.

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It's crazy.

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But you have Diddy,

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who had a mansion,

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a compound in Miami that was raided,

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and he fled the country before the raid happened.

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Which seems like, to me, somebody must have tipped him off.

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And what he's being accused of is human sex trafficking.

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I don't get it.

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This is like wave after wave after wave.

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And we people, we people are being shown evidence of these disgusting people.

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But still nothing happens.

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Right.

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Does fame come at a cost?

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Well, yes.

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Do you have to sell your soul to become famous and rich?

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Yes.

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I really hope not.

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I hope not, too.

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I really want to believe that there are good people, right?

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There's good people.

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When I think of nostalgic 90s shows, Boy Meets World's a big one for me.

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And the fact that Will Friedle and Ryder Strong wrote letters on behalf of Drake Bell's abuser.

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The convicted guy.

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Now,

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there was an asterisk on all this that said that they may or may not have known

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what he was convicted of.

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They may or may not have known...

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you know, what was happening with the abuser at the time.

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But like that hit me hard.

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Yeah.

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But how do you write a character statement on someone and not know what he did?

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I don't know.

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I,

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they did a whole,

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I think they did an episode on pod meets world that I need to go listen to because

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that one hit me hard.

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But going back to Diddy,

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like you have all of these prominent people who are being named for Epstein Island

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and all of these prominent people who are getting rated and having,

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I just,

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I can't wrap my head around it.

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You don't, you know, what's weird is we still haven't really seen that full client list.

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Well,

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someone I saw,

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you know,

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a comment because Facebook,

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Instagram,

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all social media is just so reliable.

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They're working the list, right?

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What do you mean you're working the list?

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Going down each person and trying to figure out what their role is in any of it.

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You know, like Diddy apparently was on the list and look what happened.

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Well, maybe that's true.

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Maybe.

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I just I don't trust the government to do the right thing either.

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It's just breaking my brain, and it's so heavy.

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I mean, seriously, though.

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Think about it.

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Do you...

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Why does it seem very common in Hollywood to have abusers as head figures?

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I'm serious.

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Harvey Weinstein.

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Mm-hmm.

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Now this... Dan Schneider.

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Yeah, this Dan Schneider stuff.

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The abuser of Drake Bell.

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Now did he.

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It's confusing.

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Is it something you have to do to become famous?

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Maybe.

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Maybe.

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This is conspiracy level shit that I'm talking about, but it just makes me wonder.

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I honestly don't know which way is up on this shit.

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I know people say that in movies and shows that they are trying to tell us things

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before they happen,

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right?

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I don't know.

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I don't know which way is up on all this.

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I don't like it.

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Period.

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Especially the Nickelodeon shit where...

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That was mine and your childhood, and these kids that we watched religiously were abused.

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It's crazy.

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It makes me sad, and it makes me super freaking mad.

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Yeah,

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at this point,

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the only thing I can think about the documentary for Quiet On Set is that they're

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finally getting their voice out,

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you know,

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like finally being heard.

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Because Drake Bell had never... The record was sealed.

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He was a minor when it happened.

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So they didn't put his name in any of it, right?

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So he was protected in that way.

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But obviously, you know, it happened to him.

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So he never spoke out about it until now.

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Right.

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And I think...

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The only way to heal is to talk about it,

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whether that's in therapy or try and get some sort of redemption from it,

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you know,

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like try to move beyond it.

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So good for them.

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But man, is it a lot?

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It's heavy.

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It's sad because he's just one on the long list of kids that was abused in the TV industry.

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And that's fucked up.

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Yep.

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Well, speaking of Nickelodeon, the new Avatar show came out on Netflix.

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God, probably a month ago now, right?

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Yeah, it's been a while.

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We've had a lot of interviews.

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But anyway, so the Avatar, the last airbender live action came out on Netflix.

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Oh, good.

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We binged it.

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And hey, OK, we'll get to that in a second.

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Remember that you said we binged it.

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Remember you said that.

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Keep going.

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We watched it and I thought it was good.

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Now, I will put a disclaimer on that, though.

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Don't go in thinking it's going to be the cartoon because it's nowhere near as fleshed out as that.

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But on its own, it was very good, in my opinion.

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I agree that if you go into it not trying to compare it to the cartoon,

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then you'll probably have a better experience.

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But I still feel like there was so well, actually, it's both, right?

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If you go into it thinking or not trying to compare it to the cartoon, it's good.

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And you get a lot of detail.

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Some that wasn't in the cartoon.

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Right.

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But also the vice versa is true where you watch the cartoon and try to pair it up

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to the live action and some details missing.

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A lot of the I will say a lot of details missing.

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Right.

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I mean, of course, you know, going from a cartoon that's I forget how many episodes.

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Episode is that the right word?

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My brain.

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How many episodes were in the cartoon like per season?

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It's a lot, though.

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I'm talking like maybe 30s or 40s and versus doing an eight episode live action on Netflix.

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Right.

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So there's a big difference.

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You can't get that nuanced.

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I get that.

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But there's certain things that just weren't there, like Zuko cutting his hair like that never happened.

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And it did in the first book.

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There's a couple of key aspects that were missing.

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So again, it's both ways.

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Like there's some things in the show, the live action that weren't in the cartoon and vice versa.

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So it was good.

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I will say that it was good.

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But are they also going to run into the same issue Stranger Things has where the kids are aging too fast?

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I don't think so.

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It's only going to be three seasons and they've already signed the next two.

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I really do hope it's three seasons because book three, Fire, that book I think was like 50 episodes.

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I could be totally off there, but it was a lot.

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Yeah.

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I really do hope they do Toph right.

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Me too.

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But...

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I think it was good.

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Definitely was cut.

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A lot of those side quests, you could say, were cut out just to progress the story a lot faster.

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And I do believe maybe Netflix has learned their lesson on child actors and trying

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to get these shows out quick.

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Yep.

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Because heaven forbid there's another strike.

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Right.

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Because now Stranger Things finale is going to have all adults playing kids.

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Yeah.

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I liked it.

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Was it better than the cartoon?

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Absolutely not.

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The cartoon is legendary.

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Forever.

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But it was good.

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On its own, it was good.

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I agree.

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The CG aspects of Appa and Momo and their actual bending, that was all really good.

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It was nuts.

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It was a little graphic on certain parts, too.

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Like the firebending stuff.

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It was like, okay, that's a bit much for a child to watch.

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Yeah, our nine-year-old watched the season with us.

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He said, where'd the guy go?

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We had to fast forward a couple parts, cover her eyes.

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Yeah.

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But it was good.

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I would recommend it.

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Agreed.

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And you said, when we first started talking about Avatar Live Action, that we binged that.

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And we recently just binged Three Body Problem.

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Oh, my goodness.

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And you said that we hadn't binged in a while.

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It had been a month.

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It's been two months.

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Okay.

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That's not funny.

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That's not very far in between.

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We did binge Avatar,

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but we didn't binge it as hard as Three Body Problem because we did have our

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nine-year-old watching it with us because she freaking loves the cartoon.

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But talking about Three Body Problem.

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Seriously, for one season, on my top five list already.

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100%.

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I don't know.

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It's definitely top ten, I'll say.

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I don't know if it's top five because it's quite the cliffhanger, I'll say.

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Yeah.

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You got to hope that more seasons come out and close up on the loop.

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They better.

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I know.

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Because if they leave it like this, then I'm probably going to have to read the books.

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But I'm going to read the books anyways, I think.

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Yeah, me too.

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I do want to.

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It's so hard for me to even talk about the show because of how twisty and turny it is.

(00:17:40):
At first, you're like...

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What the fuck is happening?

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Seriously, the best way I can describe it is Inception, except not dreams.

(00:17:46):
It's the universe.

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They revealed a lot in the first season, which I liked a lot.

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Because you're like, why are these events happening?

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And they give you these little subtle hints.

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And then all of a sudden,

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boom,

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they're like,

(00:17:59):
all right,

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we're going to answer that question that you've had for the first three episodes.

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We're going to answer it.

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We're going to straight up tell you what's happening.

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And you're like, what the fuck?

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It's almost like overload.

(00:18:09):
Yeah, yeah.

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You're like, holy shit.

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But it was insane.

(00:18:14):
It was, or it is so far very amazing.

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I freaking loved it.

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I'm a sci-fi dweeb.

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And this is like the perfect show for me.

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The actors they have, too.

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Yes.

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Are really good.

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Yes.

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I will go so far to say this is better than their first adaptation, which is Game of Thrones.

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I think it's better than Game of Thrones.

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Get out.

(00:18:40):
Nope.

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Goodbye. 100%.

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No, you're lying.

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No.

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Because, no, because do you remember how diehard we were?

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I love Game of Thrones.

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I'm not saying it's bad.

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No,

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let me just say our maternity shoot for our daughter nine years ago,

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almost 10,

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we had a chalkboard that said winter is coming and so is our daughter.

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This is how into God we were.

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G-O-T, Game of Thrones.

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You can't say that.

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yes i can because i prefer sci-fi over fantasy and there wasn't much mind fuckery

(00:19:17):
in game of thrones it was more of like this static political scheme yeah which i

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love don't get me wrong but this one is like you literally say holy shit almost

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every other episode because you're like did that just happen holy shit

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I remember looking at you like 10 times an episode like, what?

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But I still feel like the idea of Inception, right?

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Where we have to go back and rewatch that with the things that we know now about it.

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I agree.

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Because there's so many underlying metaphors,

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things that are said but not,

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that are said in a certain way but mean something else.

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It's a mindfuck for sure.

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Yeah.

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I liked it a lot and I can't wait for hopefully the next couple of seasons.

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I feel like I know more about physics after watching it too.

(00:20:10):
I pretend to know more about physics.

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I know that I am physically here.

(00:20:15):
Yeah, and I don't even want to discuss this too deep because of how insane the twists and turns are.

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It's nuts.

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I don't want to spoil anything.

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Just know that it was amazing.

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I really want to read the books.

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I do too.

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I feel like it would be.

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Although it's probably going to be one of those where I struggle with a lot of the.

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Like Game of Thrones.

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Yeah, names and places.

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Oh,

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especially since it's a Chinese novel and the characters' names don't translate one

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for one to the book.

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Yeah.

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But that's okay.

(00:20:47):
I'm going to break my brain.

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But that's good.

(00:20:49):
We've got a lot of books to read.

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You have a lot of books to read to tell me about.

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No, because we have Chris's book coming out in May.

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Oh, yeah.

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And then we also have these books for Three Body Problem.

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I mean, whoo.

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Yeah.

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Crazy.

(00:21:02):
Yeah.

(00:21:03):
How smart do you have to be in order to write a book like that?

(00:21:07):
But, I mean, seriously, we have been on a kick of watching TV recently.

(00:21:13):
Yes.

(00:21:14):
That's because good shows are actually coming out.

(00:21:16):
Right.

(00:21:16):
The strike is over.

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Shogun's out.

(00:21:19):
I was getting ready to go there.

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Glad we're one mind.

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Shogun is another one.

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That's on FX, right?

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Yes.

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It is all about the Japans back in the, what is it, 1600s?

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Is it considered feudal Japan?

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Oh, yeah.

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Yeah.

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I think.

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Is that what they call that age for Japan?

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Feudalism?

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Feudal?

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Maybe.

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I think that's what it is.

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Time of the samurai.

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Yes, essentially the shogun rule and things of that nature.

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Absolutely.

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Anyways.

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There was the rise of the Catholic Church there too.

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Yes.

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With the Portuguese.

(00:21:53):
Yes.

(00:21:54):
Yes.

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So Shogun's all about a man from England who sails to Japan trying to find what the

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Portuguese have been,

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quote unquote,

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hiding.

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It's supposed to be this big trade that they have with Japan.

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Yeah.

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And full of riches and England wants in on it.

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Portugal is getting rich off of Japan and they're kind of trying to keep it to themselves.

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Right.

(00:22:17):
Yeah.

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So the gentleman from England makes it there and then then ensues all the political

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samurai shogun world of Japan that this gentleman from Britain is forced into.

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Right.

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And culture stuff like the culture shock he experiences.

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Yeah.

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Well, I'm trying to get this to come out of my head, right?

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The idea that anybody from a different country calls the person that is native a savage, right?

(00:22:49):
That idea of they as in the Japanese are calling this guy from England a savage.

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Calling him a barbarian and he's calling them savages.

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Right.

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Right.

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It's really funny.

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But it's like, who's right?

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You know, I mean, I know neither of them are, but who's right in that situation?

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Because you have the gentleman from England who won't take more than one bath a week.

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I don't want to get the flux.

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Because of dysentery, which is because, you know, back then they had unclean water in England.

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It was a huge population in a small area, which lent itself towards shit water.

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Exactly.

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Whereas in Japan, they didn't have that problem.

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So they bathed all the time.

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Right.

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They had bath houses like this was a thing.

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Yep.

(00:23:39):
So who's right?

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Obviously neither.

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But the idea of the culture clash is huge in this show.

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Well, it is beautiful to watch, in my opinion.

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Yes.

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And.

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I will say that I am kind of on the UK guy side and freaking out over their culture.

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It is rigid.

(00:24:01):
It's so rigid.

(00:24:02):
So spoiler alert right now for real,

(00:24:05):
because at the very beginning of the show,

(00:24:06):
spoiler alert,

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there is a scene where a guy speaks out of turn.

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Yep.

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And it's a huge sign of disrespect.

(00:24:16):
Yeah.

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In defense of his quote-unquote lord, if you will.

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Yes, and the lord of the kingdom that he lives in.

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I don't know.

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Fief.

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Whatever it's called.

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Fief I Fofum.

(00:24:28):
Yeah.

(00:24:29):
He spoke out of turn, and he had to kill himself and kill his infant son to stop his bloodline.

(00:24:39):
I'm like...

(00:24:41):
Holy shit.

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Just for talking.

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Yep.

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And the wife of the guy who just killed himself and the child, they forced her to stay alive for honor.

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Right.

(00:24:53):
And she became the consort of the barbarian UK guy.

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And I thought that dynamic was super interesting, too.

(00:25:03):
The consort doesn't necessarily mean pillowing, but she takes care of the affairs in his house.

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Yes.

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So cleanliness, and this isn't to say that she's cleaning his house.

(00:25:17):
She has servants to do that because he's technically this higher ranking person now.

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But it has to be done in a certain way.

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Again, rigidity.

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And she takes care of finances, like making sure that the servants get the dinners ready.

(00:25:32):
And it's nuts.

(00:25:35):
It is extremely interesting watching that.

(00:25:38):
But that culture scares me.

(00:25:43):
I don't know.

(00:25:43):
There's just something...

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It's poetic, right?

(00:25:47):
The whole idea of this time period, to me, like, the biggest thing out of it is poetry.

(00:25:55):
Like, haiku is a big thing.

(00:25:56):
I think it came during this time.

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And the way that they have...

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The other... Well, she... Her name is Mariko.

(00:26:08):
And she is the translator for the guy from the UK.

(00:26:12):
Yes.

(00:26:13):
And the way she describes things, like the eighth wall fence, the...

(00:26:20):
I'm not really here in the moment with you.

(00:26:25):
I can be a million miles away within myself and protecting myself.

(00:26:30):
It's poetic, the way they describe things.

(00:26:33):
It's a solid show.

(00:26:34):
I believe it's only a one-seasoner, which is unfortunate, but it's based on a book.

(00:26:40):
And it's one book, so they plan on it being over, and that's it.

(00:26:46):
But it's solid.

(00:26:47):
I definitely enjoy that one.

(00:26:49):
It's on the more violent end of things, so if you're sensitive, probably skip it.

(00:26:56):
Well, and then my dad told me it's actually a reboot.

(00:26:58):
They did it back in the 80s, too.

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And he said he liked it.

(00:27:01):
Yeah.

(00:27:02):
Totally good show.

(00:27:03):
And again, I think we have really kind of immersed ourselves in Japanese culture at the moment.

(00:27:09):
I love that shit.

(00:27:10):
I've always wanted to go to Japan.

(00:27:13):
One day, I think we will.

(00:27:14):
One day.

(00:27:15):
I feel like I might be really tall.

(00:27:16):
Yeah.

(00:27:19):
You're ridiculous.

(00:27:20):
It might be the only place that I'm tall.

(00:27:22):
You're 5'7".

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You're not that tall.

(00:27:25):
I'm 5'9".

(00:27:26):
Oh, okay.

(00:27:27):
I think you're 5'7".

(00:27:28):
I'm 5'9".

(00:27:29):
Okay, well.

(00:27:30):
You'll get to a yard stick.

(00:27:31):
I'm 5'2", so it's fine.

(00:27:33):
Anyways, by Japanese culture, our daughter loves sushi.

(00:27:38):
She does.

(00:27:39):
I have never met.

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And anime.

(00:27:41):
Yes, and anime.

(00:27:42):
I have never met another nine-year-old.

(00:27:45):
That likes sushi as much as she does.

(00:27:46):
And we're not talking about just California roll.

(00:27:50):
Yeah.

(00:27:50):
We're talking about nigiri, which is tuna on top of a seasoned ball of rice.

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Straight tuna.

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Yeah.

(00:27:59):
It's nuts.

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She loves it.

(00:28:03):
So we would go to this spot,

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and I would get three different types of nigiri,

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which would be salmon,

(00:28:10):
some kind of white fish,

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and then tuna.

(00:28:12):
She'd steal my tuna.

(00:28:13):
Yeah.

(00:28:15):
Every time.

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And it's okay.

(00:28:17):
She's my daughter, but I wanted that damn tuna.

(00:28:20):
That's my favorite one on the plate.

(00:28:21):
So now we've started ordering her own.

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Yes.

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She gets an order of gyoza.

(00:28:25):
She gets a California roll and she gets two pieces of the tuna nigiri.

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I'm probably butchering the way you say that, but it's close enough.

(00:28:37):
If you say so.

(00:28:39):
We went to a place actually in Tampa.

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Yes.

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Called Kura.

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K-U-R-A.

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And it is conveyor belt sushi.

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And we were in heaven.

(00:28:47):
I liked it.

(00:28:50):
I didn't love it.

(00:28:51):
Agreed.

(00:28:52):
The experience was top level.

(00:28:54):
You cannot get that experience anywhere else.

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And I think that's why I enjoyed it so much, especially watching our kiddo.

(00:29:02):
She loved it.

(00:29:03):
Oh, yeah.

(00:29:03):
She was in heaven.

(00:29:05):
I just wish the food was a little bit better.

(00:29:08):
Agreed.

(00:29:09):
You know, when you get to buffets for sushi or this idea of conveyor belt, right?

(00:29:14):
It's going around the belt a couple times.

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Yes.

(00:29:17):
And sushi makes me scared.

(00:29:19):
Hot lights.

(00:29:20):
And we didn't get sick or anything.

(00:29:22):
That's not what I'm saying.

(00:29:23):
But, you know, the flavor, the freshness isn't right to you.

(00:29:27):
Yeah, I like...

(00:29:28):
When we go to our favorite spot, I always get that tricolor sushi.

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But it always comes out and that fish is cold.

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And I love that feeling.

(00:29:37):
I don't know.

(00:29:38):
It's something about that.

(00:29:39):
The coldness of the fish with the little bit of cold ginger and then a little bit

(00:29:45):
of cold wasabi on the top of it.

(00:29:48):
It's the shit.

(00:29:50):
You don't really get that there.

(00:29:51):
A lot of the stuff there was... Room temp, right?

(00:29:54):
Well, and it was cooked.

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True.

(00:29:56):
Another thing that they did was you could actually order straight from the belt.

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Yes.

(00:30:01):
So they had one that was kind of going around all the tables,

(00:30:04):
but then there was one that would come directly to your table.

(00:30:06):
That was cool.

(00:30:07):
And it would literally go ting every time.

(00:30:11):
The other cool part, depositing your plates.

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Yes.

(00:30:14):
They gamified sushi eating.

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Every 15 plates.

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You got a prize.

(00:30:21):
You got a prize.

(00:30:23):
So we had to eat a lot.

(00:30:24):
We were determined.

(00:30:26):
we got to 22 plates so we did get one prize yes we couldn't make it any further but

(00:30:31):
i think it was every five you got a an animation on the screen so there's a screen

(00:30:37):
at your table too that you can actually order specialty dishes from which was kind

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of cool it would shoot it directly towards you and that shit was fast it was cool

(00:30:46):
But it was awesome.

(00:30:47):
I enjoyed the experience.

(00:30:50):
I'm a sushi fan, too, and I'm just very particular about it, I guess.

(00:30:55):
I get it.

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But also, one of the things that our daughter loves is the Gudetama show on Netflix.

(00:31:02):
Yes.

(00:31:03):
It's about an egg who escapes a sushi restaurant.

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It's weird.

(00:31:08):
It is, but she likes it.

(00:31:10):
But they actually have a show, or in the show, they actually have a conveyor belt sushi place.

(00:31:14):
Yes.

(00:31:15):
So she was,

(00:31:16):
again,

(00:31:16):
she loved it,

(00:31:17):
loved the experience,

(00:31:18):
and she even noticed certain things that I didn't while we were there.

(00:31:23):
There was one of the robots that would actually go around in her Gudetama show.

(00:31:28):
Take the drinks and stuff.

(00:31:29):
And take drinks and serve and take away plates and...

(00:31:32):
there was one in this restaurant and she pointed it out to me.

(00:31:37):
Okay.

(00:31:37):
I had no idea what that was.

(00:31:39):
Yeah.

(00:31:39):
I mean, I w I would go back.

(00:31:41):
It was up there in, in expense.

(00:31:45):
I would go back just for the toilets.

(00:31:47):
Oh, see, I didn't go there.

(00:31:48):
Oh my God.

(00:31:50):
These toilets,

(00:31:51):
they were kind of crazy to me and our daughter,

(00:31:54):
but she,

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I mean,

(00:31:55):
you know,

(00:31:56):
she was amazed too,

(00:31:57):
but they're,

(00:31:57):
I believe they're Japanese toilets.

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They,

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There's no touch.

(00:32:01):
You don't touch.

(00:32:03):
You can make selections if you want.

(00:32:05):
Selections for what?

(00:32:06):
They have a bidet.

(00:32:08):
There is other options of like to clean it like in clothes and there's lights.

(00:32:15):
Wait.

(00:32:15):
There was so much going on with this toilet.

(00:32:17):
Did you use the bidet?

(00:32:19):
No.

(00:32:19):
God, no.

(00:32:20):
Why not?

(00:32:20):
I don't know how I feel about a public bidet.

(00:32:23):
Why?

(00:32:23):
I don't know.

(00:32:24):
It's just blasting water in your bunghole.

(00:32:26):
Right, but blasting water and other water had touched it.

(00:32:30):
I don't know.

(00:32:30):
I don't know how to feel about it.

(00:32:33):
But it was just a cool toilet.

(00:32:36):
See, I wish I would have went.

(00:32:37):
Now I have to go back so I can do the toilet.

(00:32:39):
Oh, and it was a heated seat, too.

(00:32:41):
Because I will try the bidet.

(00:32:43):
It was a heated toilet seat.

(00:32:44):
I will YOLO that bidet.

(00:32:45):
Oh, my God.

(00:32:47):
See,

(00:32:47):
but the only thing that I don't like about that,

(00:32:49):
they say it's more environmentally friendly because you're not using paper.

(00:32:53):
got to dry your butt though you can't just pull your pull your chaps up this toilet

(00:32:58):
may have a dryer too you think it dries your butthole i don't know there was a lot

(00:33:03):
of options that answers my question then and maybe we should just buy those toilets

(00:33:08):
for our house no okay

(00:33:12):
Air dryer on the butthole.

(00:33:14):
Still so much going on in the world.

(00:33:16):
We're going to jump from all things popular television and our experience at that

(00:33:23):
restaurant over to,

(00:33:25):
if you didn't know,

(00:33:27):
Russ and I were born and raised in the D.C.

(00:33:29):
metropolitan area.

(00:33:31):
We lived there our entire lives until we moved to Florida about three, four years ago now.

(00:33:35):
We heard about the bridge collapse in Baltimore.

(00:33:37):
Yeah.

(00:33:38):
Key Bridge.

(00:33:40):
Crazy.

(00:33:41):
Yep.

(00:33:42):
absolutely crazy that something like that happened where we're from.

(00:33:46):
Like,

(00:33:47):
I mean,

(00:33:47):
we're not directly in that,

(00:33:48):
weren't directly in that area,

(00:33:49):
but that whole area is the metropolitan of DC.

(00:33:53):
Let me ask you a question.

(00:33:55):
How many bosses do you think said you have to come into work anyway?

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Well, apparently there was no way in or out.

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That's what I'm talking about.

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That, that, that was a, a main commuter bridge bridge help.

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Right.

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That's what I'm saying.

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So if you haven't heard, you can look it up.

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It's all over social media.

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But the key bridge essentially collapsed after a shipping vessel collided with the

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structure with one of the bridge beams.

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And you can actually watch the whole video because they have a live video feed of the bridge.

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So you could see the boat.

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Right.

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lose power twice twice and slam into it right and it's kind of weird here we go i

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know i am not a bridge expert i this is purely opinion take it for what you will

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you go watch the video unfiltered opinion exactly you we should do that make a

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button unfiltered opinion every time we start doing this crap

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But go watch the video and you'll see when the boat strikes it.

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There's a good amount of time, at least a couple seconds.

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Before the whole thing falls.

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I mean, maybe that's how it's supposed to happen.

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I don't know.

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But it's odd.

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Also, on top of that, infrastructure is a big problem in the U.S.

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Well, yes, true.

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But also in the D.C.

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area.

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It is very overpopulated in the D.C.

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area.

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And infrastructure is a large problem.

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Seeing this happen, there's a lot of bridges into D.C.,

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Yeah, the founding fathers purposely picked D.C.

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because it was hard to invade.

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Exactly, as the capital, and also because the South bargained to have the capital in the South.

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But anyways, so the idea of one of these bridges in the Beltway going down is crazy.

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A lot of people don't understand that when a boat loses power, there is zero steering.

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Right.

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It does not.

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You can't.

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It's not like your car.

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If you lose power, you can still kind of coast your way and turn and all that shit.

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You can't do that here.

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Yep.

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There's...

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No power, no steer.

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Well, and whatever your last action was, it's almost like in space, right?

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Your last action will kind of propel you that way and there's no stopping it.

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Oh, yeah.

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Parking a boat is super weird.

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It's totally different than what you would think because you have to have either

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acceleration or forward or backwards to make that thing move.

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Right.

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That's it.

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It's wild.

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So the people were saying, well, why didn't he just steer it out of the way?

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And I'm like, well, if you lose power, you have no way to steer.

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You're done.

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You're dead in the water.

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And if you're moving forward, you're going to keep moving forward.

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I don't know.

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Me either.

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Go watch it for yourself.

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Make your own opinion.

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Make it unfiltered.

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Well, here at the Unfiltered Union, we also decided over spring break to do something kind of crazy.

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What did we do?

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We decided to get annual passes.

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Yes.

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To Busch Gardens, SeaWorld, Adventure Island.

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What else am I forgetting?

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Aquatica.

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Aquatica.

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And discounts to Discovery Cove.

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Yeah, it's like 11 parks that are included.

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Holy crap, is it really?

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Yeah, I think so, but it's all over the country.

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Oh.

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We can go to any of those parks throughout the U.S.,

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Okay, fair.

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But the ones that are most local to us are going to be Busch Gardens,

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SeaWorld,

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Adventure Island,

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and Discovery Cove,

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I think,

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of the 11.

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There's four.

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Sure.

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Glad you agree.

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Okay.

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So we decided to get annual passes.

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We were wondering what to do for spring break.

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We both took a week off with our kiddo, and...

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What do we do?

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So we decided to just YOLO it and get annual passes.

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We went to Busch Gardens for our first experience.

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Now, I had been to Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, Virginia, a long, long, long, long time ago.

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Honestly, I don't really remember it.

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But the experience at the Busch Gardens in Tampa, I think it was really clean.

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It was good.

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the kids area was great plenty of adult rides lots of great animals yes they were

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it was a cool spot for sure but the food was horrible well i mean we didn't really

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try to go out of our way to get anything good though okay we can give it the

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benefit of the doubt they have that big restaurant i can't remember what it's

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called the giraffe thing giraffe restaurant

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Well, they had that one that was like New Orleans or Serengeti something.

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I don't know.

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Serengeti and Noro's is two totally different.

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Very class.

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But it was that we didn't try the restaurants.

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OK, fair.

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We did try grab and go type food.

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Carnival food.

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Yeah.

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So it's not going to be good.

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OK.

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And then parking was a little confusing, too.

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Yeah, well, that was our fault.

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No, I'm talking about to even get into the parking zone in general.

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Remember, we made that crazy left turn into the drop-off area.

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But that's where GPS told us to go.

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Well, you're supposed to drop us off.

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That was okay.

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Once we figured it out, it's fine.

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So next time it'll be perfectly fine.

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I agree.

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But overall, I think the experience was enjoyable.

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We did a lot of the gentle rides.

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Our kiddo's not a big fan of rollercoaster.

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Oh, we did one rollercoaster in the Sesame Street area.

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Greatest faces of all time.

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We do have some really good pictures of her reaction to that.

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That I will not show you because I don't know you.

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Creep.

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Also, again, we had the annual passes.

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It was spring break.

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We decided to go to Busch Gardens.

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Well, that Friday before spring break ended, we decided let's go to Adventure Island, the water park.

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The water park, yes.

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That was a mistake.

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It was the Friday before spring break ended.

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Which to me means it's going to be packed.

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The rides are going to be running.

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Hopefully everybody's split amongst all the rides.

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I agree.

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I felt it in my soul that it was going to be crazy.

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It was going to be pretty packed.

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I mean, we live in Florida, and people come here for things like spring break.

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Absolutely.

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We know this.

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But never in my wildest imagination did I think that there was going to be no food

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available other than churros and icies.

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In that spot that we went to that we waited 20 minutes to get food in line for.

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Churros and icies.

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Churros and icies.

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As well as they had three rides open.

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Yep.

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Three.

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So you have a... It seemed like it was almost at capacity park.

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So all those people were only funneling to three rides.

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Yep.

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The lines were ridiculous.

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Then we proceed to go to use our...

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We have the platinum pass comes with one quick cue a day.

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Yep.

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We're allowed to skip the line once a day.

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And we went to use it.

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And the lifeguard there was like, oh, are we doing quick cue today?

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We were like, fuck, I don't.

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Hang on.

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Yeah.

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I don't work here, though.

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But yeah, you're doing it.

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And he let us on.

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But it was like we were getting death stared by all these people because he didn't scan anything for us.

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It just felt weird.

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Yeah.

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And we did that one ride and we left.

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We weren't going to wait again.

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Yeah.

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So we left.

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It was a waste of a trip.

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Luckily, it's not terribly far from where we live, but it was not worth it.

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It really wasn't.

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That was bad.

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They should have just closed.

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Mm-hmm.

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They should have.

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And we heard a bunch of security guards and other people who are working there

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talking about how many complaints they were getting.

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Yes.

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Guest services line was wrapped around the building for people.

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Yeah.

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either trying to get their money back or complaining and people were getting pissed

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i felt bad for the on the ground employees that worked there yeah because they were

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getting berated yep one of the security people we overheard i don't know why people

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are mad at me we just work here you know i'm like i'm not mad at you nope not mad

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at you but whoever runs this place i think i think it's a mistake to be open yep

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but that's not on you you're just working and i understand

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Yeah, and the wave pool was under refurbation or whatever.

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That's the wrong word.

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What is that?

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I don't know.

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Refurbishment.

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That refurbation is not even a word.

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I need a shirt with that word.

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That's going on the merch shop.

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Refurbation.

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I got to figure out how to spell that first.

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Yeah.

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Holy shit.

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That'll be good.

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I'm terrified.

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So overall, out of the two parks so far, only Busch Gardens was good.

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Adventure Island wasn't fun.

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I will say, though, that we have friends that go to Adventure Island a lot.

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Have never had that experience.

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Have never had that experience.

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So we just had bad luck that day, but still.

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We'll try again.

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We will.

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We have annual passes.

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Yeah.

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And then most recently for Good Friday, our kiddo had out of school again.

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So we decided to use our pass again and go to SeaWorld.

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We did go to SeaWorld and that was another mistake.

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It really wasn't, though.

(00:43:22):
I feel like we put a lot of stress on that trip.

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And if we hadn't have done that, then maybe it wouldn't have been so rough.

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But we were determined, like dot-com determined to touch dolphins.

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And the reason is because we are in Tampa.

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It's a long-ass drive.

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To Orlando.

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To Orlando to go to SeaWorld.

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So we wanted to make sure that if we're going there,

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we're going to do something that's almost kind of unforgettable.

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Right.

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And when we got there, we were like, holy shit, this place is packed.

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But they didn't allow us to book our animal encounter through the app.

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Well, they didn't allow us to book our one free animal encounter through the app.

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Right.

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So as a Platinum Pass member, you get one animal encounter a year included.

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And we were trying to do that.

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Well, we go to guest services and guest services line is like 80 minutes long.

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Yep.

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Insane.

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Yep.

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So I'm panicking because I did not just drive from Tampa to Orlando to not touch a fucking pickle.

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Our kiddo described the touch and feel of a dolphin equivalent to a large pickle.

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Yes, which is hilarious.

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Now I will never, ever forget that.

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But yeah, we drove all that way.

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I wanted to touch dolphin and I wanted all of us to touch dolphin.

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I got on the map and we ran all the way.

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There's a guest services strictly for past members.

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We ran literally.

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Literally from the start of the park to the end of the park.

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We're dying.

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I had our kiddo on my back.

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Uh-huh.

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We were running because we wanted to get it.

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And I was looking at the app and you can see.

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The queue.

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The queue for how many slots are left for these dolphin encounters.

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But you can't book it unless you pay for it.

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And they were slowly going away.

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And I'm like, if we don't go, we're not going to get one of these encounters.

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Uh-huh.

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So we ran.

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We ran.

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And we got it.

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And we touched a large pickle.

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Her name was Haley.

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That was awesome.

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It really was.

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It was worth it for that.

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Oh, yeah.

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But everything that led up to that hump, God.

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But that was on us.

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That was not SeaWorld's fault.

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No.

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We chose a day.

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that everybody has off down here.

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And of course it's going to be crowded.

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Yep.

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And plus it's spring break for a lot of other places,

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other places that are traveling here for their spring break.

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So it was, it was a good experience.

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It was just too crowded for me.

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But I mean, like overall though, it is a very clean park.

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Yeah, no, I've got no qualms with what, with that part.

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Yep.

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It was awesome.

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Yep.

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The kids area, again, had a Sesame Street area.

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We rode a carousel.

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Yes.

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That's like the only ride we really rode.

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We did most of the animal experiences, which they have a nice looking aquarium.

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They have this shark experience, which was really cool.

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Go on this conveyor belt.

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Did the sharks think we were sushi?

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Ha, ha, ha, ha.

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I saw it on your face as soon as you... We were for the sharks.

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That's funny.

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But yeah,

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it's a conveyor belt that you go through this tank that feels like you're inside of

(00:46:47):
it and you got sharks swimming all around.

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It was awesome.

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Yeah, it was a really good experience.

(00:46:51):
And again, we focused on the animals rather than the rides.

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But that's what our kiddo wanted.

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And that's what we did.

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Yeah.

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The only thing we didn't do was food.

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Again, we did kind of the carnival food option.

(00:47:02):
Yeah.

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But what they had available seemed better.

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Yes.

(00:47:06):
Than Adventure Island and Busch Gardens.

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What was that?

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Bar and Grill.

(00:47:11):
No, it wasn't Bar and Grill.

(00:47:13):
It was their fancy restaurant was actually inside of that shark exhibit.

(00:47:18):
Yeah, Shark Cove.

(00:47:19):
Yeah, Shark Cove or something like that.

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Cave Shark Cove.

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But you would sit in that shark tank.

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It was cool as shit.

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Well, you would sit in a restaurant that had a Shark Tank view.

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Yeah, but it was like, it looked like you were in it.

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Because like the whole wall, I think floor to ceiling was Shark Tank.

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Yep.

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And they're swimming right next to people that are eating.

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And I'm like, that's kind of unsettling, but I'll do it.

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But I do think our next stop is going to be Discovery Cove.

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I really do think we need to do that.

(00:47:50):
Yeah, it's a must.

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It's a day resort and it's all artificial, but they have an artificial reef.

(00:47:58):
You can actually swim through and there's fish in there.

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So you're swimming amongst all these nice looking tropical fish.

(00:48:04):
You can swim with dolphins.

(00:48:06):
And then if you pay extra, you can swim with sharks.

(00:48:10):
Never in a million years, but yes to the dolphins.

(00:48:12):
I think the dolphins are actually included.

(00:48:16):
I think you can upgrade your experience, though, and do different dolphin experiences.

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They'll tow you.

(00:48:22):
I want to swim with a dolphin, yes.

(00:48:24):
I do, too.

(00:48:24):
I want to touch another pickle.

(00:48:26):
I do, too.

(00:48:26):
I would love to swim with a pickle.

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I would never in a million years willingly jump into a swim area with sharks.

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If they're there, I get into the ocean.

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Yes, I do swim in the ocean.

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I know that they're out there somewhere.

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But to willingly say, I want to swim with a shark.

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No.

(00:48:46):
I get what you're saying.

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No, you don't.

(00:48:47):
Yeah, I do.

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Because if you walked up to the beach and you saw a shark fin swimming around, you're not getting in.

(00:48:54):
No.

(00:48:54):
Exactly.

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Because you know it's there.

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Right.

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But if you walk up to the beach and there's no shark fin, then you're fine.

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Yes.

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Because.

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Thanks for mansplaining what I was just.

(00:49:04):
Oh, Jesus.

(00:49:07):
That's another shirt we need to make.

(00:49:09):
What was it?

(00:49:11):
I can't remember.

(00:49:11):
Referberation.

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Referberation.

(00:49:13):
Yeah.

(00:49:13):
Write it down.

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I'm going to.

(00:49:16):
I think the last two things that I wanted to hit on here is.

(00:49:19):
This is an hour show.

(00:49:21):
No, it's not.

(00:49:25):
No, it's not.

(00:49:28):
So have you heard of this term called sleep divorce?

(00:49:32):
Yes.

(00:49:33):
What does it mean?

(00:49:34):
You just sleep in separate rooms.

(00:49:37):
So this article said if you're tired of being tired,

(00:49:40):
you might consider what more couples are finding themselves doing.

(00:49:42):
More couples?

(00:49:43):
More couples sleeping in separate bedrooms.

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And while that may sound, you know, really good, like if you're not in bed next to me, I know.

(00:49:57):
Where are you?

(00:49:57):
And then my mind starts going, right?

(00:49:59):
Yeah, but maybe that's the problem.

(00:50:01):
So what, I should just not expect you to come to bed?

(00:50:04):
I don't know.

(00:50:04):
That would be weird.

(00:50:06):
I have an alarm system.

(00:50:07):
You'll know if I leave.

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I don't really care.

(00:50:12):
You do.

(00:50:12):
That's a lie.

(00:50:13):
Well, I mean, it's a comfort, right?

(00:50:16):
It's the security that you are there.

(00:50:18):
Yeah, but then you bitch about me snoring.

(00:50:21):
True.

(00:50:22):
Well, I think the point is... And you bitch about me snoring.

(00:50:25):
What's your point?

(00:50:27):
It's less about you snoring and more about you talking.

(00:50:29):
I don't know who the fuck you're talking to.

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I have a lot to process in my sleep.

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Thank you.

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And then to add another layer in a separate bed in our bedroom.

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We have 76 beds in our bedroom.

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We really do.

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No, we have two.

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And one bed is us.

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And then in another bed, but still in our bedroom, is our daughter and dog.

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Yeah.

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And the dog will scratch his neck.

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Oh.

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In the middle of the night and then like do the little on his arms.

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Do they have arms?

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Legs?

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And our kiddo talks too.

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I guess it's a hereditary thing.

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Oh my God.

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I'm surprised you two haven't conversated before while you were sleeping.

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Conversated?

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That's a word.

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But I just thought about the sleep divorce.

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Like the idea of you not sleeping in the bed is one thing.

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But the idea of our kiddo not being in the other bed.

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Actually sleeping in her own room.

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That's crazy.

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I know.

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Is that a divorce?

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That's not a divorce.

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No.

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That's a sleep adoption.

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De-adoption.

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Emancipation.

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Oh, my God.

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It's about time to wrap this up.

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Okay, so...

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Last quote here of the day.

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You ready?

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No.

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Kid Rock.

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He's so inspirational.

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He's so funny.

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He literally tweeted the other day,

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I'm now driving the field trip bus after banging four hookers last night.

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Dad of the year.

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I could hear it.

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I definitely believe that he would say something like that for sure.

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Love you.

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Bye.

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