Unfiltered Union

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This is Lins.

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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, 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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Taxes.

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That's what we're going to talk about.

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Well, just a reminder.

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Don't.

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Don't do your taxes?

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No.

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Fuck the government.

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Oh.

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Oops.

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You might have to edit that part out.

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Yeah, probably.

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No.

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So taxes are due when this episode posts on April 15th.

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Yeah, Monday, tomorrow.

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Yeah.

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So if you haven't filed your taxes...

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Don't.

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This is not financial advice.

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Right.

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Just a reminder here.

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Looking out for you.

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Ask for an extension if you need it.

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Or don't.

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But do is what we're saying.

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Don't go to jail.

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Exactly.

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That would be a white collar jail, right?

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Taxation is theft.

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And so is inflation.

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Yeah.

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That's how we're starting today.

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Yeah, you want to talk about taxes, so I'm talking about taxes.

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It was just a reminder.

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Trying to do a service here.

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It's a reminder that the federal government is a scam.

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Great.

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You want to dive into that at all?

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Why not?

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Okay.

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They suck.

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All your money is being spent on things that you most likely don't really agree with.

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Like war, for example.

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Great segue.

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World War III?

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It's coming.

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I agree.

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I think we're on the cusp at this point.

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Yeah, Iran just attacked Israel with drones and missiles.

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And I think most of them got intercepted, but it's still an attack.

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Yeah, at this point, it seems like everyone in the Middle East is going at it.

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Oh, yeah.

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And you know who's going to be in the middle of it?

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The U.S.

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And the U.K.

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And the U.K.

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We're going to be the ringleader of war.

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We've got to fund the military industrial complex and get all those big companies paid, which is awful.

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Yeah, this actually wasn't going to be my next topic, but since we're here, we might as well, right?

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So Israel conflict has spread to 16 nations, and the Biden administration says there's no war.

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Sorry.

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Iran's I'm reading an article from The Intercept and it says Iran's retaliatory

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strikes on Israel highlight an American led regional war spanning Iraq,

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Jordan,

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Saudi Arabia and others.

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A bunch of these countries are now on the what is that heightened threat?

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Yeah.

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List like the travel list.

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Oh, yeah.

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Right, right, right.

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So advisory, right.

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It's escalating at this point.

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And people are being warned not to travel to these areas.

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And it's what I think we've been saying for a while now.

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It's been kind of clear that this was building.

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Yeah, for sure.

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And now we're at a point where more are getting involved.

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More things are happening.

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And we'll see what happens on this side in the West.

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I have concerns because an attack from Iran on Israel is a pretty big deal.

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It's not at this point.

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It's not a terrorist organization.

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I mean, you can some people do consider Iran a terrorist organization, but it's a country.

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Right.

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That's awful.

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Yeah.

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And what is this going to spin into?

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Well, what is it already spun into?

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Yeah, but we're not involved in a way that.

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But we are.

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We could be.

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But we are, though.

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And I think that's the one thing that's bothering me.

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Again, like I can I need to do more fact checking of this article.

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But everything that it's saying in this article is essentially we're already there.

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We're already helping Israel.

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We already have resources in the area.

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We are already doing our own counteractions like.

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There's a lot going on that we're involved in already.

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So with all of this that's in there, that's happening.

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And the fact that they're saying that we're there is no war.

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It's like.

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Well, Joe Biden also said that Trump was going to be the one to go to war with Iran.

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Yeah.

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I almost had a reaction.

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I saw it.

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Maybe he should have, but if we get involved, it's World War III.

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We stick our noses in places that we shouldn't.

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And to be honest with you, I think that's one of them.

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I agree.

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We're not world police.

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No matter what that movie said, Team America World Police.

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We're not.

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I mean, we shouldn't be.

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We are right now, but we shouldn't be.

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But this is the reason why people hate our guts.

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Right.

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We go in there.

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We try to spread whatever we're trying to spread or take resources.

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And it turns into a shit show.

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Yep.

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We get terrorist attacks because radicalized people that hate America try to attack us.

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Right.

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Right.

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But why wouldn't you when we're over there drone striking people?

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Right.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Like, we're not even at war.

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Technically, we're not at war.

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Technically.

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Doesn't Congress have to declare war?

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I think so.

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Okay.

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Well, they haven't.

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Right.

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And yet we're over there dropping bombs and killing innocent people.

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And I mean, yeah, we might be killing bad people, but we're not at war.

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We shouldn't be doing that.

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Right.

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Unless we are full on at war.

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Let's stop.

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I agree, but...

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I think this is going to be another one of those things where we don't know.

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They won't tell us.

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Of course they're not.

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Until it gets to a point where it's no choice, right?

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I don't know.

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It's scary to me.

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I agree because of the potential for how big this could get.

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Yeah.

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Who's backing Iran?

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You know, is it China?

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Is it Russia?

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Is it both?

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Is it both?

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I'm pretty sure they're kind of,

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they're not super tight,

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but they're tight enough to where they would probably back each other up in a war

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with us.

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Yep.

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And then we have fallout.

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But then we're also spreading our resources to Ukraine, which it's like, really?

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You missed the segue there.

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I know.

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Yeah.

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The show.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But also what could potentially happen from all this.

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Right.

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Based on the video games, the show on Amazon that just released last week on the 10th or 11th.

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I don't know, but we binged it regardless.

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We did.

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We are done.

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And what did you think?

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I was thoroughly entertained.

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I will admit.

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I don't know.

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I feel like there are still a lot of plot holes missing.

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Like they didn't answer all the questions, but it's season one.

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Right.

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So you got to give it time.

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There's still world building, story building.

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But overall, it was pretty good.

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I liked it.

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Do you feel like it stayed true to the video game?

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Yes.

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In certain ways, yes.

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But I think it was entertaining, and I think a fan of the games will really like it.

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But I also think people that aren't into the games, like yourself, will like it.

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Agreed.

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It was... Do you feel like I would like it more because I don't know the games than people who would?

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No, I was more interested to kind of get your take on it.

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Mm-hmm.

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I liked it regardless,

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just because seeing a video game that I played or a video game series that I played

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come to life was really cool.

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And it was kind of it was brutal.

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It was.

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It was a little bit.

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It was almost on the edge of being too brutal for me.

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I mean, I know the games are they're pretty messed up, too.

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But oh, my goodness.

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It was graphic.

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I feel like a lot of the shows that we watched like back in the early 2010s,

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right,

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really set the scene for how brutal you can go.

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Oh, my goodness.

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Like Game of Thrones.

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Game of Thrones, Walking Dead.

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I mean,

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any zombie flick,

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you know,

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in the 2000s,

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I think it really has escalated,

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in my opinion,

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with how far they're willing to go in the gross factor.

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Right.

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I don't like all that.

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I think it's it's unnecessary.

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Gore, to me, can be too much.

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I agree.

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Like Game of Thrones, for example, the torture stuff.

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It was insane.

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Yeah, that was hard.

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I know they're they're doing it to make you uncomfortable because that is uncomfortable,

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but it's still sickening.

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Yep.

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Gore and torture are not my thing.

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We stopped watching Walking Dead because of that.

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Right.

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We literally cut it off.

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We're like, all right, we're done.

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I'm over it.

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How far are they willing to go?

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And they just kept going.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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And I guess the other reason why we kind of stopped watching Walking Dead was

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because of the fact that it was like the same thing over and over again.

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Felt very repetitive towards the end.

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Yeah.

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We killed this big bad.

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We move in.

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We have this small slice of peace.

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Then another big bad comes in.

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Yep.

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Now we have another slice.

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We beat him.

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Now we have another slice.

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Yeah.

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Well,

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I feel like with Fallout,

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so the way to me that the series played out,

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right,

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is in episode one,

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they introduced us to three character arcs.

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Episode two, we got another one or two characters.

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They were more minor.

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They didn't have a life in the rest of the show.

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But the idea that you can have character arcs like that introduced is

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And then follow them through the season.

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I think they could do a lot of that because they could from what you write.

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From what you said, you picked your character in the game.

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Yes.

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And no character is the same.

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It's an RPG with a lot of customization.

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You can go in there and be a freaking diplomat,

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like put points into speech or whatever it is and sway people to your cause.

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Right.

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Or you can join the factions that are in the show.

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It's it's nuts.

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Yeah.

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And it's cool because it's a Bethesda game, which is based in Maryland.

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Not that we have any claim to that area.

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No, but it's right.

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It's close.

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It was close to our previous home.

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Yes.

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Where we used to live.

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And they were always great games.

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But I will say, I think their latest game, Starfield, is some shite.

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We're just going to go through their games.

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Well, it just was a big letdown.

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It wasn't bad by any means.

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It just was not their standard.

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Their standard is really high.

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You mean the storyline, the characters, everything?

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All of it.

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Yeah.

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It seemed rushed.

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Not a fan.

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Interesting.

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Well, what about Doom?

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Doom.

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Dune 2.

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Dune?

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What are you talking about?

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Another game?

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We're going full on games?

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No, I like Dune 2 a lot.

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Yeah, I think I'm not as impressed with it as I am with Fallout the series.

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Obviously, series versus a movie is kind of different.

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Really, you know, apples, oranges.

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But cinematography, amazing.

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And Dune 2.

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It's nuts.

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So I actually had to go back and rewatch the first Dune.

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Yeah, it took us like six hours.

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Well,

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you know,

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watching Dune 2,

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I had to go back to watch the first one in order to feel like I could watch the

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second one.

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And sure, it helped, but the story is really big.

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Dune is huge.

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Right.

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If you try and dive deep into all of it, it's a big story, almost like Game of Thrones, right?

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You have all these houses and then you have the one...

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king emperor person and i don't know it's just there's so much that i think they

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don't go into they can't i understand but if you're gonna do it then do it right

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but they can't because it's a film i understand but if you're going to do it do it

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right so would it be better as an adaptation on tv so they have the episode after

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episode kind of like game of thrones

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Possibly.

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There's no way Game of Thrones could be a movie, right?

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It's too much that happens.

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So if you're going to do something that has such depth to it, you got to do it to the full extent.

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Because all of this like surface level stuff,

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you don't feel,

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see,

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understand the full motive behind everything.

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No, right.

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It was even hard to, I had to explain a lot of the Dune, the first movie to you.

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Again.

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While you watched it.

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Right.

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Right.

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You're like, OK, what does Spice do?

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It's like it essentially makes them tripping,

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you know,

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but gives them like superhuman abilities to make sure their ship doesn't crash

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while they're traveling in space.

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Right.

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Makes space travel possible.

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Right.

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So it's the most valuable thing in the galaxy, whatever.

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But I liked it a lot.

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I thought it was amazing.

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The graphics were freaking nuts.

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The story was good.

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Obviously, it was good.

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But I can't wait.

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I hope number three comes out.

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Yeah.

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The choreography for the fight scenes was nuts.

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They did a really good job.

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I will say it was a really good job.

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But again, I feel like if you're going to do something like that, you need to go deep because it is deep.

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So again, the idea of motive, like it's his house.

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If you think of House Targaryen, you think of these big houses, right?

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that's heritage.

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That's his whole family line.

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Right.

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So,

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I mean,

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there's a lot more to it than just,

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you know,

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he got reassigned and then boom,

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you know,

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it's like,

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I don't know.

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There's more to the story and it's very surface level and I can feel the very superficialness of it.

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Yeah.

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I mean, the emperor was playing a game and there was more to his game than just reassigning that family.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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And I will say, spoiler alert.

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Oh, God.

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I'm just going to talk about the last scene for a second.

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Spoiler alert.

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If you don't want to hear it, turn it off.

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Fast forward, do something.

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But the last scene, the main character, Paul, right?

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He is...

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essentially becoming the person that he's being pushed to be right yes so you can

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see it right it's almost like the two-sided personality um whoever or when he's

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looking at zendaya i can't think of her name in the movie right now but when he's

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looking at her you know i will always love you and then he turns around and he

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flips his mask right and now he's

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The one, the prophet, the one that's going to save them all.

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He tells the emperor's daughter, like, you're going to marry me.

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Right.

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It's the idea of his two personalities.

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And again, I don't think they go deep enough for us to understand the gravity of that.

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No, I don't know.

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I think it's good for a movie adaptation,

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but I do think that you do yourself a service by reading the books.

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I didn't read the books, but I read a lot of a pretty in-depth breakdown.

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Yeah.

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Because I'm not going to read the books.

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I'm just not.

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They're too much.

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Like Game of Thrones was the same thing.

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I started to read Game of Thrones and I'm like, fuck this thing.

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It's too complicated for me.

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I'm smooth brain.

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I'm dumb and I'm OK with it.

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I need a knowledge base of how everything intertwines and interwebs.

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And yeah, it's too much.

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But that giving me a little bit more backstory by reading through like a wiki type

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page was was kind of helpful.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I recommend it.

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Stick into screens right now on screen.

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If you haven't watched the new Bluey yet.

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So the first Bluey, the first new episode that came out.

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Ghostbasket.

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Ghostbasket.

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Again, spoilers if you haven't watched any of the Blueys yet.

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Mm hmm.

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We are bluey parents.

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Big time.

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We love that show.

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Love, love, love.

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Yes, our daughter is nine years old.

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So technically, she's not totally invested in it as if she were when she was younger.

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I think when, you know, a few years ago, she was really into it.

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Yeah, it's a five year old show and she's been watching it for all five years.

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Exactly.

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I think she's into it so much now because we are.

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It's an emotional attachment now.

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It's a family thing.

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Like we do it as a family.

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Yes.

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So it's not so much that, you know, she could go without it.

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She wouldn't care.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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After that, this last episode, the sign.

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Right.

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Spoilers.

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Right.

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So Ghostbusters ends and oh God, the healers are selling their house.

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And I don't I felt it.

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Why are we so attached to that house?

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To the to everything.

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But I kind of want to talk about that for a second, though, because they sold they had his for sale sign.

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Right.

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And the whole thing about this was the dad bandit got a new job and it was going to

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be in a different city.

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They had to move.

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They were selling their house.

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Right.

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When we decided to move to Florida, I don't think we had that like at all.

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It wasn't the house.

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It wasn't even the town or the state like by.

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Obviously, it was the family that we were going to miss.

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Right.

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That was our lack of a better term pain point.

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Right.

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That's what we were going to miss.

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The idea that we are attached to a cartoon house more than we were to our own.

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Yeah, I didn't really care.

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Like you said, it wasn't the house.

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It was more of us venturing into the unknown that was kind of concerning.

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For sure.

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I had big concerns about that.

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So I could relate.

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We moved down here with nothing.

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With jobs.

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That's it.

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Yep.

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And we didn't have a house.

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We didn't know what school our kid was going to.

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We hadn't even completely sold our house in Virginia yet.

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It was on the market, but we had jobs that started like a month after we got them.

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Right.

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So we had very little time.

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And we stayed in an Airbnb.

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All that was what was scary to me.

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It was like, we're going down there without a place to live, really.

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Yeah, we're going to live in an Airbnb.

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And that was super expensive.

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Not recommended.

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I mean, it was a nice spot for us at the time.

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But that was more of my pain point.

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We had to kind of move quick.

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For sure.

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But yeah, attachment to Bluey's house.

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I felt it, too.

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And I think I think it's less about the house kind of like with us.

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And it was more about her friends and family.

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Right.

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Because she was moving away from all those kids at Calypso's school.

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Mm hmm.

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And it was like, no, I don't want her to leave Rusty.

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Her neighbors.

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Right.

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Her.

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Well, and all the memories that they had in the house.

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We watched all these memories in the house.

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But we had memories in our previous home.

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And those are up here in my head.

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Well, and in photos.

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Yeah, but I did not care about that.

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But I think, like I said, I think the big issue is all those friends and family members.

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Are we going to see them again?

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Right.

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Right.

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That was all the people we got attached to that surrounded them.

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Yeah, that's not Bluey Bingo mom and dad.

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Well, and it wasn't clear at the episode of Ghostbasket that they were coming back.

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Like, are they moving and the show's over?

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Right.

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Yeah.

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I got everybody's news and social media spinning.

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Uh-huh.

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Everybody was like, oh, my God, they're going to cancel Bluey.

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They're done.

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It got so bad and so, like, pronounced on social media that...

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creators of Bluey and the producers came out on social media and was like,

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no,

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we're just going on hiatus for a while.

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We're just taking a break.

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153 episodes later.

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Yeah.

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We need a break.

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We'll be back.

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Right.

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Calm down.

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I don't know how long the break's going to be, but they'll be back.

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Right.

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I believe them.

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I believe it more now than before.

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Me too.

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Because when they showed, again, spoiler alerts, Bandit pulling up the for sale sign.

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They're not selling their house anymore.

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Like, oh, OK.

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Yeah.

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So the so the latest episode was all about the sign.

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It's called the sign.

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Yep.

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The for sale sign and how Bluey was distraught about this for sale sign while Bing

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goes over there oblivious.

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That's the I love that part.

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Yeah.

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but yeah it was it was a solid episode it was all about frisky and radley getting

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married and how life was gonna change for frisky too and radley had the idea of

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moving her out west whatever that means in australia i have no idea probably

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crocodiles there too and blue ring octopus and all kinds of scary shit

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Same shit that we got in Florida, let's be clear.

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But it was all about like change and is change always a good thing?

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And it's I mean, it's bluey.

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So there's some deep ass life lesson involved.

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And it was all about like making the right decision.

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Yep.

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And bandit.

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I loved it at the very end.

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Their house eventually like they had it sold.

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Yep.

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Contract fell through and bandit went from.

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Being kind of hesitant, he said he kept questioning himself.

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Am I making the right decision?

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And to me, that's a red flag.

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If you have to question it like that, you're probably not making the right decision.

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Yeah.

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So that contract fell through and he goes in defiance and rips the sign out and

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throws it in the middle of the street.

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And then Chili runs and tackles him and hugs him.

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She didn't want to move.

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She was completely clear about it.

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Right.

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But she loves her husband and supports him.

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Yeah.

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And he got a good job and he wanted to do it.

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And it was a lot of money and all that.

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But and then it ended up with him not feeling like it was the right decision.

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And he gave it up.

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It was solid.

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Well, there's one more episode before the hiatus happens.

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Surprise.

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Called Surprise.

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What's that going to be?

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I don't know.

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I can't handle much more.

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Well, Chili's sister, the one that everyone assumed was unable to have kids.

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She's pregnant.

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Yep.

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Which was pretty cool.

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I do feel like that episode, The Sign, really closed a lot of loops.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it was Bandit's parents.

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They were both there.

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Bandit's parents, the butterfly.

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Grandpa Bob.

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Greeny.

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I mean, there was a lot of the budgie flying.

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Like there was a lot of callbacks from long, long, long ago episodes.

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I think that's why a lot of people thought it was over.

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Yeah.

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I know.

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Because they were like, hey, look at all these old episode quirks that we're bringing back.

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We're saying goodbye.

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No, they're not.

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Well, the idea of the surprise.

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What do we think it could be?

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And I want to talk about it again and see if we were right or wrong.

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Well, we know it's not going to be them going away.

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Right.

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They're not moving.

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I don't know, because they kind of gave away the surprise of Brandy being pregnant.

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It's chilly pregnant.

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That's what a lot of people are saying, that maybe Chili's pregnant.

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I don't know how I'll feel about that either.

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Why?

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It's going to change the dynamic.

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So?

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I mean, I love Sox.

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Don't get me wrong.

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Sox was the cutest character ever.

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Yeah, now she's talking.

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I know, she's growing up so quick.

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We watched her grow.

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So, like, I don't know.

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It's going to change the dynamic.

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It'll be okay.

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Okay.

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And then I actually on Instagram, I actually posted it.

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I was like, you know, the characters are going to age while they take a break.

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Their voices are going to change.

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Are we OK with this?

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I actually had a lot of people talking me down like the voices have already changed.

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It's 153 episodes of already growing up.

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It's OK.

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Thank you, Internet.

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I wonder,

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I did see,

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this is another spoiler totally unrelated to the episode,

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but I did see an image of grown up Bluey with a kid.

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And I don't know if that's, if they're doing like a flash forward or what.

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I hope not, honestly.

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If they change that part and they make Bluey an adult and it's like following the kids,

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her kids,

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it's not going to be the same.

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No, no, it won't.

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It'll make me very sad.

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Old Grandpa Bandit.

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That wouldn't be any good.

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I wouldn't like it.

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I mean, I don't know.

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I think I would either.

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They can write.

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They're good at writing, so they could probably make it work.

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I got faith in them, but I don't know.

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It would not be the same.

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It'd be like moving anyways,

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because you're going to have to get to know all new characters and how their

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dynamics are and how they interact.

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Like, you know how the Healer family interacts with all their neighbors and all the people at school.

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So for them to move on and if it is Bluey with her kids, you're going to have to relearn all that.

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It's like, no, give me my comfort.

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No.

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And that that picture that I saw Bluey as an adult is.

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Her child looked like Jean-Luc.

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That kid.

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Yeah.

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So it's be kind of weird.

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Well, he is French.

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It's going to be hard.

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Yeah.

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I don't know how they would.

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Are we going to learn French?

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Right.

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Does she learn France?

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France.

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Does she learn the Francis?

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New shirt.

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Does she learn France?

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I'm doing it.

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So what did I say?

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Refuberation is a shirt and it is available on the unfiltered union store.

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Correct.

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We're going to have a new one coming out now.

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Yes.

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Did she learn France?

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Did she learn France from Russ?

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There you go.

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New shirt.

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quotes all day i love it okay so i want to ask you a question don't have you ever

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bought anything from sheen what is sheen no i bought timu stuff timu yeah i bought

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a fishing rod and a fishing uh reel from timu

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I was just curious.

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So Sheen is kind of like a Timu or Wish or any of those fast fashion.

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Yes.

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Fast fashion apps companies.

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So there's a new documentary out on Max.

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It used to be called HBO Max.

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Now it's Max.

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Is it about child labor and stuff?

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No, it's about a woman named Brandy Hellville in the cult of fast fashion.

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There it is.

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And essentially, it's all about how she took things from Sheen, from fast fashion and her claim to fame.

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Right.

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She got famous off of this.

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And in the news has been all the bad things about Sheen, right?

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So she got famous off of this and they're trying to expose and are exposing the bad things,

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the drawbacks about fast fashion.

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So

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Sheen has faced allegations of forced labor and unsafe working conditions in the past.

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However, the company's denied it in a statement to Global News.

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But a lot of people think that the reason why Sheen is a thing,

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it's a big deal while it's so famous and popular and people keep buying shit from it.

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It's tapped into the fast-paced,

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ever-changing trends that appeal massively to the young audience who's looking for

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affordability and virility.

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Virality.

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That one.

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Is it virality?

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I don't know.

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One of the two.

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So I've never bought anything from Sheen.

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I have.

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I did do Wish a long time ago.

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Like 2016, maybe.

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You buy one of them three-headed dogs?

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It's dog meat from Fallout.

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No, he's a good boy.

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OK, but the idea that Sheen is so popular, is so famous, is such a big deal.

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If you think about,

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you know,

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everything on TikTok or everything on Instagram,

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like all the people who are in fashion,

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like they're looking for the latest trends and Sheen can pump them out quick.

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Yeah, but you think about it, too.

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It's not just Sheen.

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Amazon is all about quickness and cheapness.

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Sheen is a seller on Amazon.

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I know.

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I'm just saying, though, Sheen is cheap, right?

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It tends to be pretty cheap and economical.

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People are going for that.

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Economical in the sense that it's cheap for the buyer.

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That's what I mean.

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Yeah.

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That's what I mean.

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It's cheap for you to buy a piece of clothing from Sheen.

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Right.

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Economical in the sense that it makes the company a lot of money.

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Not economical in the way that it contributes to an economy in whatever area.

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No.

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That it is producing.

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No.

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It's probably contributing to China, right?

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Isn't it a Chinese company?

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I'm not sure, but it is definitely Asia-based.

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But they have a lot of suppliers that provide to them so that they can sell, right?

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Yeah, and it's terrible trade.

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Right.

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And I get that.

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I think that's messed up,

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but you can't say that about Sheen and not say that about Apple or any of those

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other companies because they produce their phones in China with terrible labor practices.

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Right.

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Well, and then what does Apple say, right?

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That they try to ensure that this isn't happening and they visit the places.

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And it's like the reason why, though, it's so popular.

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It's cheap labor.

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Exactly right.

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It's terrible conditions and cheap labor.

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I just all the people that cry about that kind of stuff.

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It's like, what kind of phone do you have?

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I guarantee you your phone was made in shit conditions.

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But what phone isn't, though?

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I know.

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That's the problem.

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Mm hmm.

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It's like we I think you and I have said it multiple times, either on this podcast or just in life.

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Right.

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It's talk with your money.

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Right.

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If you have something against your morals, talk with your money.

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But a pop up of Sheen just went into a Vancouver shopping mall area and people flocked to it.

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Of course, it's like they made a name for themselves.

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You know there's problems with it, and yet it's still something that you flock towards.

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Right.

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And like you said, iPhones are the same thing.

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Apple is the same thing.

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Like, if we were to talk with our money, like, what would you do instead?

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There's not really any options.

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That's crazy to me.

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I know.

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There's no real American-made cell phone that's good out there.

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It's crazy.

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Yeah.

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Just because Apple, it says on the back, designed in California.

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It ain't made there, though.

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Right.

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That's for sure.

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It's wild.

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It's super messed up.

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And I don't know.

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I guess.

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What do you do?

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Right.

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You go without a phone.

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Well, do you go without the latest trends in clothes?

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There's all these things that you think that you need, but do we need any of this shit?

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Well, I guess the problem, too, is inflation has taken a lot of people's spending power away.

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True.

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So Sheen is capitalizing on it by having cheap stuff.

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Same thing with Amazon.

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Yeah.

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They undersell stuff.

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They take losses on a lot of items, but they make up for it in volume.

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And Prime membership.

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And Prime memberships selling you on other stuff.

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It's nuts.

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Yep.

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And I'm guilty of buying things through Amazon when I could be supporting my local companies.

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Agreed.

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I think everybody's guilty of that.

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But the problem is, is inflation has taken a lot of our spending power away.

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Right.

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I go to the grocery store and I have to spend $375 a week instead of $200 or less.

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Yeah.

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Those were the days, weren't they?

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And that's what's crazy,

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though,

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is that is not that long ago that we were only spending one hundred seventy five to

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two hundred bucks a week.

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Yep.

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It is nuts.

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Agreed.

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But places like Sheen and they're just going to keep raking in that dough because people need clothes.

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But do you?

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I mean, like as much.

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You will go to jail if you go outside naked.

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True.

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But as much as people buy, like over consumerism is a thing.

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Absolutely.

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No, there's of course people are going to overuse it and buy way too much stuff.

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There's like, oh, it's a five dollar shirt.

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Instead of me buying one twenty five dollar shirt, I'll buy five five dollar shirts.

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Like, no, you only need one shirt.

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Right.

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Don't do it.

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But I do think I do think that inflation has messed a lot of people up and they've

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had to change their habits.

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It is ridiculous.

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Well, along with habits, how much water do you think you drink in a day?

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Not enough.

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How much water do you think you need to drink in a day?

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I need to drink.

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Isn't it your body weight in ounces?

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Almost.

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No, I thought it was close.

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So if you weigh 150 pounds, you have to drink 150 ounces.

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Close.

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So there are a couple of studies that are happening.

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And what they're saying right now is that you might need to drink more water based

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upon your activity level on how often you exercise,

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if your job's active,

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as well as if you live in a hot climate or if you're pregnant or breastfeeding.

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Now, if those things apply to you, then if you are a man, you should drink up to 125 ounces a day.

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And if you're a woman, it's 91 ounces.

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Now, there's a lot of variability to that, right?

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You're supposed to drink when you're thirsty, drink a glass before meals and between meals.

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And then it says if you can stick to eight glasses a day, you will at least feel hydrated.

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And then the old rule of drinking half your body weight in ounces is a good goal to have.

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I thought it was like one ounce per pound of body weight.

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That's interesting.

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Yes.

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So the rule of half your body weight is a good rule of thumb,

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but it doesn't take into account different body sizes as well as your thirst,

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level of thirst,

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your climate and your activity level.

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Well, my activity level is zero or it's negative.

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So does that mean I don't have to drink water at all?

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No, because you are thirsty throughout the day, are you not?

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Oh, I just drink coffee.

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Oh, let's just keep adding caffeine.

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Yeah, coffee is good for you.

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Jitters.

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Jitters and shitters.

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There's another shirt.

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No, I won't do that one.

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That's inappropriate.

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Oh.

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To wear.

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I'll make it a youth shirt so all the kids can wear that going to school.

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Smart.

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