Unfiltered Union

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The Unfiltered Union Podcast.

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So normally when we podcast, we have guests on and we wear clothes that look a little more presentable.

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But today it's all about comfort.

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Well, I haven't even taken a shower yet today, so.

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Sexy.

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So I'm Linz.

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And I'm Russ.

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Florida is hot.

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So showers in the morning is a waste of time.

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Well,

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one of the things that you did recently that I have to give you your flowers on is

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the shower ice cream idea.

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Yeah, you got to do that.

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What do you mean?

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I mean, so Florida is hot.

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Everybody knows this, but the water, like our tap water, is fucking hot too.

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Okay.

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So there's no way to cool off in Florida.

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You can't turn it to cold and it actually turns cold for us.

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Well, to an extent, right?

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It's more like lukewarm.

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But it's still, 90% of the time, it's not refreshing.

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So my idea was to bring an ice cream in and cool off while I take a shower.

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You're just so productive in your showers.

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Because 90% of the time, when I get out of the shower, I am already sweating.

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There was a meme out there that said,

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What it's like to live in Florida is you go take a hot shower,

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then you get out and put your clothes on without drying off.

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That is 100% true.

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I-hundred.

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I-hundred?

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Yeah,

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I feel like we've been doing a lot of comfy clothes and comfiness over the past,

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what,

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week and a half,

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almost two weeks.

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So, kiddo was sick.

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Yeah, for, what, eight days?

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She had a fever for eight days.

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days the old walking pee pneumonia it was crazy so i don't think we've gotten out

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of the comfy clothes just yet no and i'm still i think that's part of the reason

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why i haven't taken a shower yet too because i haven't really been used to taking

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showers regularly regular that sounds horrible yeah it's this house is stanky well

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i mean we were in survival mode is what it felt like i'm definitely still

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recovering yeah still very tired

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Yeah, so is Kiddo.

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She's still recovering, but she's doing well.

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Yes, thankfully.

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It was just crazy.

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We're keeping our activity levels to a minimum,

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though,

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just because pneumonia messes with your lungs,

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and we don't want to overdo it.

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Plus, we don't want to go out.

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A little bit of laces there, but it's getting hot in Florida.

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Yeah, this year is supposed to be a very wet one.

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Wet one.

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Moist.

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I didn't hear that.

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I heard it was supposed to be hot again, meaning like the Gulf is going to be in the 90s again.

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Well, we're getting, what is it called?

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El Nino.

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Right.

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What does El Nino mean?

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The Nino.

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I don't know what it means.

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Apparently, I was just curious if you did.

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Why would you ask me if you don't know what it means?

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I thought I was going to learn something today.

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I was curious if you had looked it up after hearing that it was going to be El Nino.

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But I think it has something to do with the water bulge.

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Like it like bulges on the earth at certain points and it makes more, well, I don't know.

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So it's not, the earth isn't perfectly round.

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It's like an oval.

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No, the earth is, but the water moves, like, based upon pool, gravitational pool.

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I don't know.

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I could be totally wrong.

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We need Dennis Phillips.

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Dennis Phillips is Central Florida's weatherman.

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He is awesome.

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Yeah.

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No, Central Florida.

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He goes from Orlando to Tampa.

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Right.

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He covers that area.

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Yeah, we love him.

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He's awesome.

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He likes one of my meme posts.

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Yeah.

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You felt so important.

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I did.

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I was like, I'm about to be famous, and the podcast didn't do anything.

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Oh, stop.

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I want to see if we can get him on here one day.

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Maybe one day.

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But one of the things about Florida is you mentioned that the water doesn't get too cold,

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so the ice cream in the shower is important.

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Yes.

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Solar recovery.

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Yes.

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Utilizing solar recovery.

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I think it's actually called solar recover.

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Okay.

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I'm sorry.

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I just want to be clear.

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Thank you for mansplaining.

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Oh, my God.

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That's not what that is.

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We're giving advice to use solar recover.

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Uh-huh.

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And you're saying recovery.

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People are going to type it in and be like, I can't find it.

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I got third degree burns and I can't find it.

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It's one additional letter.

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Calm down.

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Yeah.

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So the solo recover stuff comes in a blue bottle and you can get it on Amazon.

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And you spray it on your skin after sunburn and you're not supposed to peel.

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Right.

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Like all the bad things of sunburn.

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We love it.

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I am an anti-snake oil person.

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Like, because I found this stuff.

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I can't remember.

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I was doing research because when I get sunburned, I get hell's itch.

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You're pale.

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Yeah, I am pale.

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You're a fair-skinned person.

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I get sunburned pretty easy.

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And because of that,

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I have always tried to find remedies for that inevitable time that I do get burned,

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which is fucking all the time.

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Yep.

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Anytime we go outside.

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Anytime we go outside, I get burned.

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Well...

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I looked it up on Reddit and stuff and people were like, try this solar recover stuff.

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It's lotion in a bottle or lotion in liquid form type deal.

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And I hate lotion.

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That's makes me feel grimy.

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But anyway, I was like, all right, well, I'm desperate.

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I need to try it because it was so bad.

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My back was itching and I can't scratch that.

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So I was constantly on like the corners of the house and stuff getting after it.

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but I couldn't sleep.

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So we use this stuff now and it's amazing.

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It works.

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And this is not an ad.

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We are not getting any sort of monetization.

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Right.

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But we really enjoy that stuff.

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It works.

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Yeah.

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I like it a lot.

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One of the things you just said though, is that you don't like lotion.

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This is like, Oh, this should be a quote.

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White people say, I don't like lotion.

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I don't.

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It's the worst feeling in the world.

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It's like,

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It's not.

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I don't know how.

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So you take a shower, you get out of the shower and you immediately put lotion on.

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I'm like, I just got in the shower to wash off all the muck.

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Okay.

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I'm not trying to get out of the shower and put more muck on.

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Right.

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But everything in the shower is drying of your skin.

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Keep it dry, baby.

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We're in Florida, so you walk out of the shower and nothing's dry.

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I get it.

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There is high humidity in Florida,

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but it still can dry out your skin,

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all the things that you're using in the shower.

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So to me, it feels good to moisturize when you get out.

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But also use Solo Recover.

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I can't.

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I will use Solo Recover because that actually does not feel like lotion.

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It's more of like a spray.

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It's very fine mist.

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And you spray it on.

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The only thing that I would wish they do is change the bottle up a little bit.

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Oh, right, because when you tilt the bottle, you might not spray right.

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Yeah, because, I mean, you get sunburned everywhere.

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So if you're trying to spray yourself on the back, you might tip it wrong.

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Yeah.

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And you're not getting any, and you get frustrated, and then you got to ask somebody.

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And if you're not around, I got to ask our kiddo, and she's just.

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She's short.

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Yeah.

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For now.

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And it smells good, and it's just spraying it everywhere.

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Like, that shit's expensive, man.

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But it's good.

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It's good.

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Along the lines of Florida, there is a new song out all about Florida.

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Taylor Swift.

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Tay-Tay made a song, and it literally is the Florida song, I think is what it's titled.

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I never heard it.

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We're going to listen to it, and I want your real-time reaction.

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And we're back.

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What did I just listen to?

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Okay, so that's your reaction?

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I mean, I don't know.

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It's okay.

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I mean,

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a lot of people seem like they were really upset by that song for the way that she

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portrayed Florida.

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And she mentions,

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you know,

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smells like weed and little babies and meaning like lotion,

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suntan lotion,

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sunscreen.

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Is that what that means?

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Yeah.

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Like beach bum, the baby member.

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Oh, I mean, that's not a bad smell.

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The weed is.

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Yeah, I don't like the weed smell.

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But so they were saying, you know, the idea that she's, you know, portraying Florida this way.

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And

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The Swifties all came to her rescue and said it was when she got broken up with.

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She was actually in Florida, so maybe that's why.

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I don't think it's talking that negative about Florida.

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I don't think so either.

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Florida's a hell of a drug or whatever.

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Drugs are addicting.

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Yeah.

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It seems like she likes it.

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I don't know.

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I don't see anything negative other than the weed smell.

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Yeah,

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I mean,

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and then Florence and the Machine is on that song too,

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and her whole thing was almost like using euphemisms for Florida life,

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the swamp,

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and those pieces,

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right?

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It's like more of a metaphor than she is making any comments.

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So, yeah, I don't know that I totally understand the outrage other than that one line.

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What, smells like weed and babies?

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Uh-huh.

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I mean, it's kind of a weird line.

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I mean, if you're trying to say it smells like sunscreen, then just say it smells like sunscreen.

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Oh, okay.

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You don't like euphemisms and metaphors.

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Smelling like babies sounds creepy as fuck.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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I agree.

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But I mean, a lot of people do equate the smell of sunscreen with baby smell.

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I equate the smell of sunscreen to the beach.

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I mean, true.

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Yeah.

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I don't know.

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Maybe she should have said that.

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Hmm.

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Smell of the beach.

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So with all of the idea of the stuff that she laid out about Florida, right?

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One of the things that a lot of people keep bringing up about Florida is gators.

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The gators are in mating season right now.

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Wow.

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And they're walking around.

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Wow.

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And everybody keeps playing the Jurassic Park theme song to gators.

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You know that?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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They're making it out to be like gators are everywhere.

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And while we have seen our fair share,

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I think,

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while living here,

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I don't think that they're that oftenly seen.

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The only time I have seen one is when I go fishing.

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Going to their house, so I would expect to.

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Kind of like Kaylee said about the sharks, right?

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Exactly.

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If I go bass fishing in a pond, I am extra vigilant.

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And I keep an eye out.

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That's all.

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Mm-hmm.

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Well, there are other people who post things like, OMG, it's Wix.

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He does a lot of these Floridians versus non-Floridians.

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Oh, yeah.

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And the non-Floridians are afraid.

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Oh, my God.

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And to be honest, before we move down here, I watched so many of his...

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videos yeah we were prepared yeah that he i feel prepared based on what he had in

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his videos yeah um but it was honestly one of my concerns but i i don't think it's

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very valid people treat a lot of people the vibe i get is pure terror from people

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About gators.

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Like they're a menace.

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It's like, no, they're the sign of a healthy and thriving ecosystem.

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Yep.

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So leave them the hell alone.

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Like in our neighborhood, people will call animal control or whatever to come and trap them.

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And that makes me super upset.

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Yeah,

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and I don't know if it's totally true,

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but a lot of people say that once you call on a gator,

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they are killed.

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I don't know.

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They are trapped and killed.

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There's huge places where a lot of them get dropped off too, though.

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Yeah, like Circle B in Lakeland.

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Exactly.

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There's hundreds and hundreds of gators there just smashing all the time, making little gator babies.

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Right.

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Well, I think one of the things that I'm more afraid of about Florida is

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It's the people.

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I'm not.

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The people are nuts, man.

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Yeah.

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They're crazy.

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But there was a couple here in Florida that actually taped lottery ticket numbers

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together and tried to turn it in like they won.

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That's not a bad idea.

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Fucking smart, right?

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Yeah.

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I laughed so hard.

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They got caught.

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Obviously, they got caught.

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fraud possible jail time like they they got cut and i was like oh my god dang how

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has nobody ever tried that before i'm sure they have yeah i think they need to get

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a little bit more sophisticated what do you mean try to like

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Use fingernail polish and erase the numbers and then stamp them on with the same

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lettering instead of cutting and pasting them together.

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Well, I don't know if that's exactly what they did, but they put the numbers together.

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They taped numbers together.

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If they taped them together, just walk yourself to jail.

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Right, right.

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I wonder if this is totally off topic.

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I wonder if AI can predict lottery drawings.

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I'm sure you could ask AI for statistics.

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Like what is the most likely number?

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Oh my gosh.

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It won't work.

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Okay, fine.

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I think that I can't remember the chances of winning the lottery are so small.

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It's not even really worth playing.

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Well, you can only win if you play though.

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Yeah,

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but it doesn't matter how many people play because it's still,

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what,

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seven numbers or whatever,

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six numbers?

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Mm-hmm.

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So the odds are always the same, but it's, like, ridiculously low.

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Interesting.

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Just buy Bitcoin and slowly win the lottery.

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Okay.

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Yeah, play the long game is what you're saying.

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Okay.

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But we all hate being poor, right?

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The economy right now, frickin'.

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Yeah, don't get me started on that.

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Yeah,

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but I feel like we've really,

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you and I,

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we really need to be careful how we phrase this to our kiddo.

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Like,

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we talk about,

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you know,

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finances and make jokes about the economy right now and how the middle class is

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being wiped away.

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Squashed.

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And we, you know, we'll say, we're poor, help me, I'm poor, kind of like on Bridesmaid as a joke.

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Sometimes we say,

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rightfully so,

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like,

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hey,

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we're not going to go out to eat tonight because that's too expensive.

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We don't have the money right now.

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Yeah, sorry, kiddo.

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We can't have sushi tonight.

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That's not the only thing that bugs me about that either is I worry about her when

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she becomes an adult and she has to buy her own house.

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Right.

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The housing market right now,

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a lot of people are saying you almost need to buy a house for your kid if you can.

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Right.

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So that way when they do turn 18, they have one.

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It's mind-bogglingly ridiculous.

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Wages have not gone up for anything.

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But the housing market is... Crazy.

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It's nuts.

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Right.

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We had a two-bedroom house in Virginia.

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A two-bedroom townhouse.

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Two-bedroom townhouse.

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1,200 square feet.

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One full bath.

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That was our starter home.

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Now I'm super glad we bought it.

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It was a short sale.

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Yes.

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So it was... We got a good price.

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Yep.

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That same house that we bought back then, we bought for $200,000.

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Yep.

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It's now worth...

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$460,000.

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That makes zero sense.

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Two bedroom, one full bath.

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I don't understand.

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I can't even wrap my head around why that's worth that much.

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The only thing I can think of is because Amazon is moving into the D.C.

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area.

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It's still the same house as what we had there.

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I know.

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It doesn't matter.

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Right.

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The...

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drywall the lumber yeah all the things that make up that house may not be of value

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but it's a location i just don't understand that at all because it's still you're

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still pricing out 90 for 95 of the people that live there like all the teenagers

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and stuff that work at you know your grocery stores that are bagging groceries

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right now because they're in high school

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How the hell are they going to buy anything?

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Yep.

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My dad bought a house when he was our age or younger, but, you know, by himself on a single income.

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In the early 90s.

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In the early 90s on a single income with me as a kid.

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Mm-hmm.

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So he's able to do that,

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but nowadays you would have to buy a house with a family of 76 working to pay for

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the freaking mortgage.

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Gotcha.

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Or have roommates, right?

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You would have to have people to live with you.

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But even then,

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it's like,

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do you really want to go into that territory where you're splitting a mortgage with roommates?

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That gets kind of sketchy.

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The only way is to rent.

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That's not right.

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And renting is a hard hole to get out of because you are constantly putting your paycheck towards a cost.

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Somebody else's bank.

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Right.

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A cost that you will never recuperate.

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Right.

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Meaning you are not going to get equity into your apartment.

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No.

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You are never going to gain more than what you are putting in.

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Nope.

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There's no, there's no, it's not, renting is not an investment.

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Right.

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There's some benefits to renting, I will admit, like not worrying about maintenance.

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And it's not your house.

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So if your appliance breaks, you just call somebody, but you don't gain anything out of it.

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It's a money sink.

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It's sad.

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Well,

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speaking of things that are sad,

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you and I had a discussion about prison and jail and whose responsibility it is to

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take care of these inmates while they are incarcerated.

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Oh, yeah.

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I remember this conversation.

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We put a pause on it because this is a really interesting topic to think about.

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So there are a couple of specials on Netflix.

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There's a couple of shows out there like, what is it, 60 Days?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And, you know, all of these different shows that give light to incarceration.

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So we started talking about whose responsibility is it if someone were to be

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injured and or killed while they were incarcerated?

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Is it the jail's responsibility?

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Yeah.

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Should the family be able to hold a jail responsible for any accidents that happen

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to those family members?

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So I, and we went off onto another topic too, but let's start there first.

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So whose responsibility is it to protect the individuals in the jail?

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The municipality that the person is being held by.

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So the counties.

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Or if you're in a state prison or a federal prison,

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whoever it is,

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whoever's responsible,

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whoever's putting you in jail should be responsible for your safety because they

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strip you of everything.

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Right.

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You have nothing to protect yourself with.

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So not individual deputies or people who were there at the time should be held accountable.

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Maybe.

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It depends on if they're being negligent or whatever.

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Like, I don't know if it's a one-on-one fight.

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Obviously, it's not a riot because it's hard to...

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If it's a freaking riot, it's like, okay, what the heck am I supposed to do?

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I'm one guy.

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But if it's a one-on-one fight and there's guards there, obviously there are 24 hours a day.

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They should be able to step in and stop that fight and stop that thing from getting too rowdy.

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Yeah, I don't know.

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I don't know.

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It's a weird and difficult situation to be in because that stuff can happen like that.

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But if you get hurt while you're being held there, how can you not say it's on them?

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Not say that it's on the county or on the deputy.

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Which one?

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The local government, the government, whoever's holding you.

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Okay.

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So my thought process on this, and I've been watching, I like 60 Days In.

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I think it's an interesting show.

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Some of the other things that are on Netflix, I like watching it.

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And one of the things that they have pointed out and whether this is just for the

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show to make it interesting or if it's real life.

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Right.

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They say that they will put, you know, up to 20, maybe more people in one block, one cell block.

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Right.

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Right.

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And there will be checks by the guards at random and or certain intervals.

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Right.

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It's not that in most cases, it's not that there is a guard that actually sits in the block.

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So to me,

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even that one guard,

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that one person who is there saying that you could hold that deputy responsible,

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I don't think it should be the specific person.

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It depends.

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It depends on.

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Because there's cameras everywhere.

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True.

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Right?

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So if these two dudes are throwing down and somebody's getting their ass beat and nobody shows up,

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Oh, you're done.

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Right.

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But even if somebody,

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that deputy who's on the block,

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say they're there and they do try to intervene,

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but there's other inmates around,

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like it could quickly become inmates against that one guard.

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I understand.

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So a lot of times they do wait and they do call for backup.

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That way they aren't the only ones responding to an incident.

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How far is backup away?

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It should be a bunch of people in that place.

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Should be.

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Absolutely should be.

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But a lot of these places are understaffed, just like the rest of the world right now.

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And how the hell are they understaffed?

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Something like that.

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Right.

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But it's a hard job.

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It's not a job that many people want.

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It's kind of scary, to be honest.

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You're in there with a bunch of people who don't want to be in there.

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Well, yeah.

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I don't know.

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People are in prison for things that doesn't necessarily mean they're a piece of garbage.

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True.

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Right?

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They don't.

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We're in the wrong place at the wrong time, right?

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Yep.

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You have white collar crimes versus something a little more heinous.

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Yeah, but not everybody in there is a murderer.

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And say your dad goes in there because he saw a girl getting beat up and he took

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matters into his own hands,

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put the guy in the headlock or whatever,

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and the guy died.

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But he's in jail for that now.

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Right.

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And he gets killed in jail.

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You're going to be fucking pissed.

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Well, of course.

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So it's on them.

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They should have to do something for you.

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Define them, though, because this is where I think you and I differ.

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Them, to me, absolutely is, right, whoever, state, county, whatever municipality is holding that person.

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Yes.

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I agree with that.

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I don't necessarily agree with it being the deputy unless, like you said, for negligence.

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Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

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If it's negligence,

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like they're like,

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if they're caught on camera rooting it on or something like that,

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you know what I mean?

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Well, Orange is the New Black was a really good show back in the day.

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And one of the episodes,

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one of the women who were incarcerated,

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the deputy put his knee on her and held her down and essentially crushed her.

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He died.

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He should absolutely 100% be held.

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I mean, this is a show, obviously, but.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Sure, it derives from some truth somewhere.

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But something like that, absolutely, that deputy should be held responsible.

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Yeah.

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But overall,

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I think saying that if a deputy doesn't respond right away,

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it depends on the situation,

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right?

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Yeah, there's a lot of gray area there.

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Clearly, if the deputy is being placed... I'm saying deputy.

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I don't know what other term to use.

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Yeah, whoever.

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If they're being placed in a super unsafe situation for everybody, then yeah, maybe they do need to wait.

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But a lot of that stuff, it's still the state, local, county, federal.

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It's their responsibility to make sure you're safe because they're putting you there.

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Obviously, you'd... Well, not obviously, but...

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The people in there most likely did something wrong and they still are alive.

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They're still humans.

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Absolutely.

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So they,

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and you're stripping them of everything,

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all their stuff,

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all their belongings,

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they have no way to protect themselves.

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So it's your job to protect them.

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Yeah.

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And I feel the same way.

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This is kind of going off on a weird tangent,

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but if a place decides to say no firearms,

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let's just,

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this is just an example.

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And an example of this was the Colorado shooting at the movie theater.

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I believe they had no weapon signs.

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To me, if you are going to take away my right to protect myself, you have to protect me.

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By providing people who are armed.

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Yes, correct.

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A security guard, security officer, something of that nature.

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You should have to protect us because you're taking that away from me.

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You know, you're taking the responsibility of my protection away and you're not allowing me to do it.

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So you need to provide it to me.

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Right.

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So something like this, if it does happen...

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Somebody can intervene.

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Right.

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Because if not, we're all just sitting ducks.

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Yep.

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I feel the same way about schools.

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Mm-hmm.

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Schools should have.

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SROs.

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SROs.

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And if a teacher wants to go through rigorous training and mental evaluations and

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things of that nature,

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why not?

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I'm glad you said mental evaluations because that was the other topic that we kind

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of got into with the whole idea of responsibility for jails.

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We started talking about the idea of someone who commits a crime in the jail that

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they go to versus should there also then be a mental health jail.

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So to me...

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I think there needs to be a separation.

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There needs to be a separation from people who perform crimes and are mentally

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evaluated and found stable,

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right?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Versus people who have clear mental health disorders, mental health issues.

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Yeah,

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you can't really put those people together if they're hearing things and they hurt

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someone out of something they heard in their head.

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Right.

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Uh, that's sketchy.

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Yeah.

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I think there has to be a separation right now.

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The world we live in, there is not enough emphasis on people who are struggling with mental health.

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Oh yeah.

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And we just lump them in with everybody else and say, figure it out.

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Right.

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I know that doesn't do anything.

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There's no, so jail is supposed to be a punishment, but that you come back from, you get released and

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You're supposed to be rehabilitated.

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Yeah, you're rehabilitated when you're released.

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But somebody with mental disorders that make them hear,

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see things,

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it's like that's not going to do anything.

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Right.

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Incarceration does nothing.

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It might actually make it worse.

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Well,

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again,

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this is based on the Netflix shows that I watch,

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but they do provide medicine for individuals.

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That's not enough.

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Right.

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As we know very clearly, medicine is not the end all be all.

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No, it's a 50.

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One of my doctors said medicine plus therapy, two sides of a coin.

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You need both.

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Yep.

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100%.

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And you have to use medicine to help, but you also use therapy to teach yourself how to deal and cope.

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Right.

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And the person,

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if they do leave the jail prison,

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post whatever their punishment was,

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that's not to say that they're going to continue being on that medicine when they leave.

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No, especially if they, I mean, they might not have a job now because they were in prison.

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So they don't have insurance.

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And it's an effort that they have to take to go get medicine.

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Right.

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To go to a doctor, have to get a prescription, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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It's almost like there needs to be two tracks.

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There needs to be a track for the person who is found mentally stable and...

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committed a crime okay go rehabilitate then you have another track that okay this

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person is found not mentally stable needs mental health and medication and they

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almost get like a probation officer after they're released but it's like a mental

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health professional and they maintain their medicine they maintain their therapy

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right and maybe that mental health officer says

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Did you go to the doctor today?

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No.

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All right.

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Well, I got to send you back.

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Exactly.

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You know, I got to, I got to, you have to go back.

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You're not being responsible.

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You're not treating your life now as you have been rehabilitated.

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Exactly.

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You have to take responsibility.

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Just like someone who, right.

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Who committed a crime was rehabilitated as a probation officer.

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They start sliding back.

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They go back.

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Exactly.

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That's what that probation officer is for.

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And they, I mean, when I went to the mental hospital, they gave me a huge to-do list after I left there.

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Yep.

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But they weren't,

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obviously I didn't have like a probation officer because it wasn't jail,

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but I can see them reflecting that in a mental hospital.

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like jail.

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I mean, assuming the person committed a crime, but they are mentally unstable.

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Yes.

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If you go to jail and you are mentally unstable and they've determined it by psych

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psychiatric evaluation,

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things of that nature,

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then yeah,

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I think that you should have somebody to help hold you accountable.

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And if you aren't doing it, then you're not showing that you were rehabilitated and you are provided.

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You know, a psychologist, psychiatric help within the mental health jail.

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I don't know.

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I think they should do things like that because addiction is another one that's a mental disorder, too.

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what we talked about uh with the psychedelic episode yep um when we were talking

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about how addiction is something that potentially could be cured with psychedelics

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but something that does impact mental health and livelihood well when i was in that

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mental health hospital i was also there amongst people who were addicted to

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substances and

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We all,

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the human brain is so complex that sometimes we need a little help understanding

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what's going on up there.

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And it's okay.

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That's the other thing.

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People need to understand.

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It's okay.

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Go ask for help.

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But maybe people that are in jail for doing drugs, they need a little bit more help via therapy.

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Mm-hmm.

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Then cold turkey in them and things like that.

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Right.

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Because that makes it worse.

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Some of the episodes of withdrawal for some of these people.

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They can die.

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Yeah.

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It's bad.

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And you're putting them in there with people who are not addicted and they have to

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bunk with this person and go through the experience of withdrawal with their bunkmate.

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Yeah.

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I mean.

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It's traumatic.

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It's crazy.

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I...

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Was in that hospital and my bunk mate was an addict.

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It was an alcoholic, major alcoholic.

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And he was given benzos while we were there so that he didn't die from withdrawal

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because he was so far gone.

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He would take, they would give him, obviously they would tailor it off, but they would give him benzos.

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So his body got that fix.

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And slowly weaned him off instead of saying, all right, you're on your own, bro.

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You're in jail now.

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You're not getting nothing.

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That's messed up, man.

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Because that will kill you.

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Withdrawals can kill you.

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It has killed people, especially alcohol withdrawals.

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I was smiling when you said Benzo, because if we call our cat that.

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His name is Benny.

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We call him Benzo.

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But yeah, so I think we're...

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I also go with our most recent mental health discussions that you and I have been

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having is recently within our neighborhood,

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we experienced a teenage suicide.

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Yeah.

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Um, and it impacted a lot of people obviously, um, throughout our neighborhood and this, um,

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teen was a teen that actually played soccer with our kiddo.

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And,

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um,

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so we knew of him when we weren't close,

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obviously,

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but we weren't really friends with him or his family or anything,

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but it's still something that you're like,

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man,

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what is happening right in this world to where somebody so young feels hopeless

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like that.

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That's not good.

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Right.

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I don't,

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I don't know what we can do.

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There's just a lack of resources, I think, towards this, especially with kids in schools and stuff.

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They need a lot more help than we did, I think, when we were younger.

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Absolutely.

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The world they live in is totally different from even the world we grew up in.

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I mean, we're millennials.

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I mean, they can't turn it off after school like we could.

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Yep.

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We go outside and play.

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Yep.

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They have tablets and Facebook and Snapchat that they get bullied on 24 hours a day.

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Yep.

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It's so screwed up.

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What you said is true.

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I think...

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The idea of the two tracks for jail, it almost needs to be two tracks in school too.

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They just need to be made more aware of this stuff.

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It's okay.

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The parents' responsibility should be to be able to identify these moments that

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these kids are having where they're depressed or low or identify a change in your

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child's mental health,

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right?

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As well as the school needs to have more resources for when this is identified.

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Right.

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Right, right.

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And what to do, how to respond.

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And if a child reaches out, that's one thing.

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But most of the time, people think...

(00:36:18):
there's no help, right?

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Most of the time people feel helpless, hopeless.

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And that's what leads to things like suicide.

(00:36:26):
And to me,

(00:36:28):
it's just,

(00:36:30):
there has to be a way to get a,

(00:36:33):
these kids to know how to reach out,

(00:36:36):
who to reach out to,

(00:36:37):
what resources are available for how they're feeling.

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And then be adults to be involved.

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Yeah.

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And be able to provide such resources.

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Yeah, the, I don't know.

(00:36:51):
The parenting thing bugs me too.

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It's like, how do you not see things that are happening?

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But I guess a lot of people are just so hands off.

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Well, a lot of people put the tablet in front of them.

(00:37:03):
Yeah.

(00:37:04):
I mean, it's sad.

(00:37:07):
It's no good.

(00:37:07):
It's no good.

(00:37:08):
And these, I mean, like I said, this is a young kid.

(00:37:11):
And he committed suicide.

(00:37:15):
Yep.

(00:37:17):
That's nuts to me.

(00:37:19):
A teenager.

(00:37:20):
Yeah.

(00:37:21):
So young.

(00:37:21):
And I'm talking middle school teenager, not high school teenager.

(00:37:24):
Right.

(00:37:24):
We'll just funnel it down a little bit, but it's, it's terrifying to me.

(00:37:31):
Yep.

(00:37:32):
I wonder if.

(00:37:35):
he had given some reach out.

(00:37:38):
Like if he reached out to anybody or if anyone identified it,

(00:37:43):
you know,

(00:37:43):
like there's always the what ifs,

(00:37:45):
I guess,

(00:37:46):
but it just makes you think.

(00:37:48):
I know.

(00:37:49):
I know.

(00:37:50):
But knowing that he was that hopeless to go through with, you know, that final act is amazing.

(00:38:02):
terrible it's so sad because it doesn't you don't just I don't think that's

(00:38:07):
something that happens overnight no for sure that's trauma over a long period of

(00:38:14):
time well like we talked about with you and with anybody that we've had on the

(00:38:18):
podcast related to mental health it's

(00:38:22):
they come to a breaking point, right?

(00:38:24):
Everybody comes to a breaking point and some people think the Lord are able to come

(00:38:29):
out of it,

(00:38:30):
find help,

(00:38:30):
get resources.

(00:38:31):
And some people don't.

(00:38:33):
Yeah.

(00:38:33):
Some people,

(00:38:34):
they think that their breaking point is the end and they do something that they

(00:38:40):
can't come back from.

(00:38:41):
Yep.

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And that sucks because all of this is preventable.

(00:38:49):
That's the thing.

(00:38:50):
Like,

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There are a lot of resources, but I just feel like these kids don't know about them.

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Well, for sure.

(00:38:57):
Especially if their home life might not be the best.

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Right.

(00:39:02):
Mom, I'm not feeling really, I feel kind of sad today.

(00:39:05):
And they're like, oh, you're just going through something.

(00:39:07):
It's like, no, no, no, no, you need to take that shit seriously.

(00:39:09):
Yep.

(00:39:11):
Not to say that's what happened.

(00:39:12):
No, no, no, no, no, no.

(00:39:13):
Right.

(00:39:13):
I know what you mean.

(00:39:13):
I'm just saying in general, like, pay attention to your daggone kids.

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Yep.

(00:39:18):
Yep.

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If they call out for help, it's your job to answer it.

(00:39:23):
You're their parent.

(00:39:24):
I mean,

(00:39:25):
I really do hope that there,

(00:39:27):
you know,

(00:39:27):
we talked about all of this research that's happening with psychedelics.

(00:39:30):
I really do hope that if there is some clear indication that this is a cure,

(00:39:36):
that it can be used for kids too.

(00:39:40):
I mean, I know psychedelics is a touchy subject for a lot of people, but yeah,

(00:39:45):
It's a touchy subject when you're dropping a magic mushroom that you got off the street.

(00:39:52):
If you do it in a medical environment with X dose, to me, that shouldn't be touchy.

(00:40:01):
It's just like anything else.

(00:40:03):
Right.

(00:40:03):
It's just like getting an IV.

(00:40:04):
Right.

(00:40:05):
Well,

(00:40:05):
I really do believe,

(00:40:07):
and I forget which doctor said this,

(00:40:10):
but I really do believe that everything that we need in order to heal ourselves of

(00:40:16):
any ailment is on this planet.

(00:40:18):
I agree.

(00:40:19):
I believe there are plants and herbs and all the things that we need on this planet already.

(00:40:24):
Yep.

(00:40:25):
So psychedelics to me sounds promising because they are naturally occurring.

(00:40:30):
Yep.

(00:40:30):
And if they can reduce down the dose and really fine tune the dose you get,

(00:40:35):
so you're not just like,

(00:40:37):
I hope this one's not too strong,

(00:40:39):
you know,

(00:40:39):
it's worth looking at,

(00:40:41):
I think.

(00:40:42):
I agree.

(00:40:43):
And it was interesting.

(00:40:45):
None of this is medical advice.

(00:40:47):
No, dude, God, no.

(00:40:49):
We're not that smart.

(00:40:49):
We're not doctors here.

(00:40:51):
Right.

(00:40:52):
But it was brought to my attention that it may be against religion, right?

(00:40:59):
to use psychedelics.

(00:41:01):
And I'm like, why?

(00:41:02):
Well, there's, okay.

(00:41:06):
If we created this in a lab, maybe it could be considered a synthetic drug and against religion.

(00:41:14):
But it grows on the earth.

(00:41:16):
I don't know.

(00:41:18):
God put it here.

(00:41:19):
Right.

(00:41:20):
There's things that I just don't understand why people would want to hamper themselves if it could help.

(00:41:30):
Like somebody with major, major depression tried everything.

(00:41:35):
Yep.

(00:41:36):
Tried therapy, tried Zoloft, whatever, antidepressants, anything like that.

(00:41:42):
They tried everything.

(00:41:44):
And psychedelics, they were like, hey, this is a new upcoming thing.

(00:41:47):
We want to let you try it.

(00:41:51):
And they say, no, it's against my religion.

(00:41:53):
Come on.

(00:41:55):
I'm sorry.

(00:41:55):
I respect your religion and everything, but try to get better.

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Yeah.

(00:42:02):
I mean, I think.

(00:42:04):
We're not saying drop acid.

(00:42:07):
That's the thing.

(00:42:08):
We're not saying do drugs.

(00:42:09):
It's not a drug at that point.

(00:42:11):
Well, right.

(00:42:11):
So to me.

(00:42:12):
I mean, it's a prescription drug.

(00:42:14):
Any type of drug or alcohol or whatever, it's all about gluttony, right?

(00:42:17):
Gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins.

(00:42:19):
Okay, fine.

(00:42:19):
We can get on that track.

(00:42:20):
Yeah.

(00:42:21):
But if you're utilizing something that grows naturally, what's put on this earth.

(00:42:27):
To help you.

(00:42:28):
Right.

(00:42:28):
To help you live to see tomorrow.

(00:42:30):
Yes.

(00:42:31):
Then why?

(00:42:32):
I don't see that being against religion.

(00:42:34):
You're not dropping acid to trip balls and...

(00:42:39):
go to dragon world and fly around on dragons dragon world I don't know but you're

(00:42:45):
doing it to hopefully open your mind up and maybe enhance and remove some bad

(00:42:52):
neural pathways right I don't know how all this exactly works I'm not a scientist

(00:42:57):
but from what I've read and heard it's that's part of it absolutely yeah it's like

(00:43:03):
a self-discovery journey and it helps you kind of like

(00:43:07):
reset your pathways yeah reset your pathways and you're like man why am i depressed

(00:43:12):
about that that is dumb look how big everything is you know things of that nature

(00:43:16):
but i i respect religion i'm not gonna pretend like i'm super religious but i just

(00:43:22):
feel as if you are that down or depressed or that ocd

(00:43:32):
Why not give it a shot?

(00:43:33):
You know, you're not doing drugs at that point.

(00:43:36):
Right.

(00:43:36):
Prescriptions are drugs.

(00:43:38):
Right.

(00:43:39):
But, and can be used as yeah.

(00:43:42):
Benzos are one of them.

(00:43:44):
They are poor cat.

(00:43:45):
They can actually kill you if you withdraw too fast.

(00:43:49):
It's so crazy.

(00:43:51):
Well, staying on this idea of religion, what do you want done with you when you die?

(00:43:58):
What do I want done?

(00:43:59):
Yeah.

(00:44:02):
What do you want done with your body that is left on this planet?

(00:44:06):
So my, when you, when you die, my shell that is left here, I want you to rent a boat.

(00:44:13):
Okay.

(00:44:15):
Put my feet in concrete blocks.

(00:44:19):
Wait, so you're, you're intact.

(00:44:21):
Yeah, anything else is too expensive.

(00:44:25):
Okay.

(00:44:26):
So as is, except your soul has left your body.

(00:44:28):
We just talked to a family acquaintance.

(00:44:34):
And how much did they say a funeral was?

(00:44:36):
Oh, yeah.

(00:44:38):
It was $25,000, $30,000.

(00:44:39):
It was up there, yeah.

(00:44:41):
It was high.

(00:44:43):
Thousands.

(00:44:44):
Like tens of thousands, yeah.

(00:44:46):
I want you to save that money.

(00:44:48):
Okay.

(00:44:49):
Go to Lowe's.

(00:44:50):
Assuming that you go first.

(00:44:51):
I'm going to.

(00:44:52):
Okay.

(00:44:53):
All right.

(00:44:53):
I want you to go to Lowe's, buy two five-gallon buckets.

(00:44:58):
Some quick cement.

(00:44:59):
And quick crepe.

(00:45:01):
Pour that shit into buckets, put my legs in there, and throw my ass in the Gulf of Mexico.

(00:45:07):
That's it.

(00:45:07):
Okay.

(00:45:08):
So I have to weekend at Bernie's you and hold you up.

(00:45:12):
He's sleeping.

(00:45:13):
He's sleeping.

(00:45:14):
You just go rent a boat.

(00:45:16):
Nobody's going to go out with you.

(00:45:18):
How am I going to get your body into a boat?

(00:45:22):
You got a duffel bag full of fishing stuff.

(00:45:24):
I'm going fishing.

(00:45:25):
And I got to carry you in a duffel bag.

(00:45:27):
This is getting way too creepy.

(00:45:29):
Like somebody's going to think that I did it.

(00:45:32):
that i offed you no the only reason why i'm saying to put my feet in the concrete

(00:45:36):
is so you think yeah yeah yeah because you know we i think we would float yeah

(00:45:40):
that's gross yeah and somebody would find you oh my god he got dumped yeah so if

(00:45:44):
you sink me to the bottom at least like i'm part of the earth now the wildlife will

(00:45:49):
start chewing on me and all that stuff there'll be nothing left honestly that's

(00:45:53):
what we should do i'm not paying 30 grand

(00:45:57):
To get put in a box to be put in the ground.

(00:45:59):
Just buy me some $25 Quickrete and some buckets.

(00:46:05):
I can't.

(00:46:06):
My girlfriend.

(00:46:08):
Is this appropriate?

(00:46:11):
One of my friends.

(00:46:14):
And we, I feel like it is a dark topic, right?

(00:46:18):
It is.

(00:46:18):
But that is kind of the humor between me and one of my girlfriends.

(00:46:21):
And she said what she once done with her is you put her body in compost.

(00:46:28):
And you can actually pay to have this done.

(00:46:30):
See, but why would you pay?

(00:46:32):
I know.

(00:46:32):
I hear you.

(00:46:33):
But you become compost.

(00:46:35):
They keep turning you after you're, you know, gone.

(00:46:39):
That is so creepy.

(00:46:40):
You talk about going back to the earth, right?

(00:46:42):
You're compost.

(00:46:44):
I just said that's creepy while I just gave you a murderer playbook.

(00:46:49):
Oh my God.

(00:46:52):
Then I was watching, um, oh crap.

(00:46:54):
I was watching some show and they talked about how,

(00:46:58):
oh,

(00:46:59):
someone sued Mountain Dew because they found a rat in the Mountain Dew.

(00:47:03):
Right.

(00:47:04):
Right.

(00:47:04):
But their, their defense was, they won the case.

(00:47:07):
Mountain Dew won the case because their defense was that rat would have dissolved

(00:47:11):
before it ever got to a consumer.

(00:47:13):
Yeah.

(00:47:15):
Before it even left the factory, it would have dissolved.

(00:47:17):
That's nasty.

(00:47:18):
So that's what I told my girlfriend that I want.

(00:47:20):
Just get a bunch of Mountain Dew.

(00:47:21):
Dissolve me in Mountain Dew.

(00:47:24):
Oh.

(00:47:25):
So what is more morbid?

(00:47:27):
My idea?

(00:47:28):
Nobody's going to see me.

(00:47:30):
Being turned into?

(00:47:30):
You can do that in the bathtub.

(00:47:32):
Yeah, but I, so that's my thing is like, I like the ocean.

(00:47:36):
Right, but I'm going to have to get you into a vehicle, into a boat.

(00:47:41):
Drive slow.

(00:47:42):
Don't get pulled over.

(00:47:43):
Right.

(00:47:45):
Into a duffel bag.

(00:47:46):
Oh, my God.

(00:47:49):
I think we got to cut this whole segment out of this damn podcast.

(00:47:52):
No way.

(00:47:53):
I do want to end it with this, though.

(00:47:56):
I read this article.

(00:47:57):
So Ozempic is a big deal right now, right?

(00:47:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

(00:47:59):
Everybody wants to lose weight.

(00:48:00):
That's the weight loss drug.

(00:48:02):
Right.

(00:48:02):
Everybody wants to lose weight, and this is a way to do it quick.

(00:48:05):
Ozempic's a big deal.

(00:48:07):
Well, they're finding that women who are using Ozempic

(00:48:13):
specifically women who are higher in age, are becoming more fertile.

(00:48:21):
Oh, no.

(00:48:21):
We're going to have a bunch of old ladies in the villages getting pregnant.

(00:48:25):
A woman, 53 years old, ended up pregnant because of Luzempic.

(00:48:32):
Oh, my God.

(00:48:33):
I'm not using it.

(00:48:34):
I'm not going near it.

(00:48:35):
If anybody is on it, go away.

(00:48:37):
Yeah.

(00:48:38):
If you sniff right, you're going to get pregnant.

(00:48:41):
Right?

(00:48:41):
We're not going to the villages.

(00:48:42):
No.

(00:48:43):
Because they might be using it.

(00:48:44):
I'm not going.

(00:48:46):
That's terrifying.

(00:48:47):
Yeah.

(00:48:49):
53 years old and pregnant.

(00:48:50):
Yeah.

(00:48:50):
We had a friend that he was in his 50s, right?

(00:48:54):
40s.

(00:48:55):
40s.

(00:48:55):
High 40s.

(00:48:56):
And he had like a five-year-old.

(00:48:58):
I was like, bro, you're going to be like 75 when your kid walks down the graduation aisle.

(00:49:04):
Graduation aisle.

(00:49:05):
But, you know, I honestly feel like you're more.

(00:49:09):
Stable.

(00:49:10):
Mature.

(00:49:11):
Yes, I agree.

(00:49:12):
At that age and can handle a toddler better.

(00:49:15):
You have more patience.

(00:49:16):
I don't know.

(00:49:18):
You've seen grumpy old people.

(00:49:19):
But I'm talking 40s.

(00:49:20):
I'm not talking 70s.

(00:49:21):
Yeah, but he's going to be 70 when his kid walks.

(00:49:24):
I graduated high school.

(00:49:26):
And then they got to wheel his dad out.

(00:49:27):
And he's like, yay.

(00:49:29):
I can't.

(00:49:33):
Bye.

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