Unfiltered Union

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This is the Unfiltered Union.

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I'm Linz.

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And I'm Russ.

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Here is this week's episode.

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Well, you know, last time we had a podcast, just us two, no guests.

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I told you that you love getting sunburned.

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Can't help it.

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Look at you now.

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I can't help it.

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The whole coastline of Florida is a beach.

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I love the beach.

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But why do you like to get sunburned?

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You saw how much sunscreen I put on.

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I don't understand it.

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See, you need to wear what I wear.

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Oh, and your brilliant idea?

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Yes.

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Uh-huh.

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I really want to develop these.

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Okay.

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Beach burkas.

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Yeah.

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I think it would be awesome.

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I do, too.

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Especially for people fair-skinned like yourself.

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And, you know, certain religious people.

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I'm sure they would.

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Yes, absolutely.

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And it would be very breathable.

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And it would be like that moisture-wicking fabric, so it dries quickly.

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But it also covers.

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Well, there you go.

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You have a million-dollar idea there.

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I think I do.

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I really do believe this.

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No, patent pending.

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Yeah, don't even.

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Don't.

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But I love the beach.

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I can't help it.

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I put a ton of sunscreen on.

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I need to reapply, I guess.

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That's the problem.

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For sure.

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We're there for a while and none of us end up reapplying.

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We get burninated.

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But then we use sun in and it's great.

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Sun in.

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that's the hair stuff and you mean solar recover that one then we use solar recover

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and it's great yeah we're fine yeah it's fine and then we do sun in and make our

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hair change color i'm not a blondie but we attempted to park this after this

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morning uh at a spot near clear water yep and park the car got out of the car

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walked up to where you pay for parking 30 for three hours that was nuts

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Insane.

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$30 to park in a place that I live.

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I pay taxes.

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We paid tolls to get there.

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I paid tolls to get there, and yet they still got to bleed me dry when I just park my vehicle.

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I don't live on the beach, so I got to bring my car.

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Right.

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with stuff yep and it costs 30 bucks and that wasn't 30 bucks for the whole day

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that was 30 bucks for three hours right so we would have to go back out there pay

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another 30 bucks if we wanted to stay because we spent what four or five hours

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there today so we would have had to pay 60 for five hours that's insane

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That's a lot of money.

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But it doesn't make sense to me because it's not consistent everywhere throughout Florida,

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at least on the Gulf side that we've been to where you pay for parking.

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Like there's some that's free parking.

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There's some that's five dollars.

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There's some that it just it depends on where you're going, really.

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But luckily, right down the street, there was a place that it's only five dollars for the whole day.

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It doesn't make any sense.

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And this place was nothing to brag about.

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It was literally like an alleyway.

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It was.

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You have 30 parking spots, maybe a bathroom, a little tent area.

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But other than that, it wasn't anything to brag about.

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They're charging you $30 for a toilet.

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Right?

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I don't get it.

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It's not right.

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It's insane.

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I don't know if it's, like, a private thing.

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I don't... I think it was a county parking lot.

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But still, I think... That's robbery.

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Uh-huh.

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I agree.

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And the idea that it just... It can be different anywhere.

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I don't... I almost wonder, like, why they have to charge us as residents, but they...

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why don't they just charge tourists?

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Right.

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Cause they're not,

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I mean,

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they're,

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they're spending money here in the state,

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so they're paying taxes and stuff,

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but they're not paying property tax in the County and all that,

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all that stuff.

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Yeah.

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I just, it's a scam.

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I pay enough money already.

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So you're going to, you're just bleeding me dry.

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Yeah.

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But it was fun though.

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It was fun.

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And you got sunburned.

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So you're happy.

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I'm not happy I got sunburned.

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There you are.

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You like getting burnt.

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No, I like going to the beach.

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It's fun.

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It was fun.

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But also, earlier this month, there was 988 Day.

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Explain.

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It actually happened on September 8th, and the correlation there, 988, 9-8.

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Huh?

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You see it?

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Wow.

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It's nice.

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But 988 is the suicide hotline.

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So if you are feeling any sort of feelings,

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emotions that would require such support,

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you call 988 instead of 911.

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And it would direct you to people who could help you and support you in those times.

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I think for mental health awareness, like this is big, right?

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Like this is something that it's been around for a while,

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but something that educate people on,

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let them know it's there as a resource.

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Like I think it's important.

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Yeah, I like the idea of 988, but why not?

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Why can't you just call 911 and they transfer you to, you know, just keep it one same number?

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I don't know.

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I'm just I'm just saying I like the idea.

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I think it's smart.

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I think it's easily remembered and.

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Pick up your phone, hit 988, but I just wonder why, like why, why an additional number?

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Well, I guess it's immediate help.

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So is 911.

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Right.

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But if they're having to redirect you to a specialist therapist,

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someone,

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social worker,

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somebody who has expertise in those type of discussions.

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I don't know.

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I just find it weird because 911,

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they take calls for like crime and then they take calls for people dying.

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So it's different.

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They're redirecting you.

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To either the police or the fire department or whatever.

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I don't know.

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9-9-8.

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I like it, though.

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I do like it.

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I'm just being cynical and kind of just wondering why.

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Your unfiltered opinion.

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Yeah, yeah.

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I mean, I like it, though.

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Welcome to the podcast.

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I like that they're doing it,

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but I just think that it should be blended into the number that's already

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recognizable everywhere anyway.

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Well, I think that's just, you know, it's another resource.

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I don't think it's in different or don't use this.

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It's just another resource.

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We always talk about why they separate that kind of health with mental health,

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even though it's all a combination.

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But now they're separating it again.

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Well, I think it's the idea of keeping communication lines open, right?

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If you have this problem, call this.

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You have this problem, call this.

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If you have this problem, call this.

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I don't think that's a negative thing to put buckets and keep lines open.

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If somebody needs immediate assistance on their mental health versus houses burning down,

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why wouldn't you have two lines?

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Because you don't have two lines for somebody's robbing my house.

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Versus fire is burning down my house.

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It should be one line.

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That's all I'm saying.

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But I don't think that it's... You can't call 911.

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No, I know.

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I just...

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I don't know.

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I'm done.

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I just think I just once again,

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I feel like people are separating mental illness from other health things.

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And I don't like that.

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I like the idea that there's an additional resource.

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I don't like the idea that they're separating this stuff.

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It's a part of life.

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And you should call 9-1-1.

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I mean, if you have a mental health crisis, obviously call 988.

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But I'm just saying, I feel like it should be one thing because it's already memorable.

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They're teaching kids about it in school, 911.

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They're probably doing 988 now.

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But I'm just saying, I just feel like separating this stuff again is silly.

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Well, speaking of schools and 911, 988, all these things.

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Recently, across all the United States, there has been a social media trend of...

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kids,

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it doesn't seem to just be teenagers in high school,

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it's any age at this point,

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are putting in either false tips or tips in general related to active shootings and

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or bombs and or things that are happening or,

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you know,

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all the things that we pray and hope never happen to our kids in schools.

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But they're putting in these tips and it is causing a

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What happened recently in our Tampa area is police department with SWAT,

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with helicopters,

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with all the resources they can pull.

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It's costing thousands upon thousands of dollars and man hours.

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And you're pulling officers off of... Crime.

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Actual crime and causing them to waste time instead of being out there actually

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doing what they should be doing.

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And...

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But mind you, if it's a real threat, then I'm glad they're taking it serious.

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No, I agree.

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But when you come to find out it's not a threat,

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all those people that were sent out there,

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SWAT team,

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helicopters,

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all that,

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they could have been picking up somebody who got in a car accident.

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Right.

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You know, airlifting someone or anything.

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They could have stopped the bank robbery.

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I don't know.

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I'm just saying.

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Yeah.

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These kids that are doing this shit, they need the hammer laid on them.

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Well, hold on.

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So it's across the United States.

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It's not an isolated incident.

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It's, you know, I have friends in other parts of Florida that are saying that's happening there, too.

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I have friends in Virginia.

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We have friends, you know, everywhere that is.

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It's just widespread because these kids think.

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they get famous.

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I don't know what they're thinking.

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Right.

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That they can get out of school that they, I don't know what they're thinking, to be honest with you.

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And I,

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I really hope that they either get help or can fully grasp their situation at some point,

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because it's insane that they think that this is okay to do that.

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It's, I don't get it, but yeah,

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The point I'm trying to make.

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Recently,

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one of the sheriffs in Florida came out and said that from here forward,

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any child in school who puts in one of these tips and they are found,

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they will be perp walked in front of the media.

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Their images will be posted online as well as their parents' images.

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And their parents are going to have to pay for these bills.

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Good.

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For all of the sheriff's resources that are being utilized in order to investigate these things.

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And essentially, you know, it's almost like a walk of shame for both the kid and the parents.

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So I don't know how I feel about this on some of like there's so many different things to this.

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And I want to talk it out for a minute.

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The idea of a kid being perp walked, right?

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If they're out to get famous, like if they think this is a social media trend, I'll get famous.

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If I'm being if I'm caught, I don't know.

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I don't get it.

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But if I'm going to get famous,

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well,

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if you give them a perp walk,

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that's certainly going to give them some attention.

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OK, but hopefully that perp walk isn't.

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It hopefully it's a perp walk to juvie or jail.

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I mean, everybody's innocent until proven guilty.

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Oh, yeah, that's what I mean.

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Because what this sheriff said was they're not going to perp walk the parents

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because the parents didn't do it.

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Wow.

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But what they're going to do is they're going to call the media when they're

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getting ready to send this person out,

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probably prior to court,

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and their parents come pick them up.

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They're going to record the parents coming to pick them up and almost shame them.

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Now, one thing that I don't really like, but I almost think it's necessary, is shaming the parents.

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Because sometimes these kids are doing stuff that parents don't have a clue or it's just random.

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Well, I want to stick with the kid for just a second.

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We'll come to the parents in another moment.

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But when it comes to the kids, the kids and perp walking them, right?

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I fully believe that if you can make a threat like this, then you need to be tried, acted as an adult.

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Yeah, you're playing stupid games.

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Fafo.

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Yeah, you are 100% fafo.

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Yep, you are fucking around.

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You are about to find out.

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Yep.

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So I 100% agree with every action that you can take against the kid who is making

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these kind of accusations,

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whether they are real or not,

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to 100% throw the book at them.

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Treat them as adults, right?

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Right.

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But when it comes to the parents, I feel like the parents may need to be held accountable as well.

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Not just footing the bill, but something, right?

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Like there has to be some additional action for parents.

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What you just said is some parents don't know.

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If you don't know that your child is either on some online platform making these kind of threats or

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Or literally seriously has some problem within them that they are legitimately going to carry this out.

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There's signs, right?

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Oh, yeah.

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There's always signs.

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Then the parents need to be held responsible to some extent, some degree.

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I don't know what that is, but.

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I don't know.

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I don't know how you can hold somebody who didn't do anything responsible.

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They didn't do it.

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Well, I guess if you're trying them as an adult, they are no longer a minor.

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But I was going to say they're a minor, so you would hold the parents responsible.

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But you're trying them as an adult, then they're no longer a minor.

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I do think that they should go after them financially for the bill, for sure.

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Because that's resources that other taxpayers are having to pay.

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And your kid did it.

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But I don't know what else you can do to them.

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They didn't do it.

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I mean, did your parents know you went on chat rooms and stuff as a kid?

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No.

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Every 90s kid.

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Well, I'm serious.

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Like, did they know that kind of stuff?

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Like what happened in them chat rooms and everything?

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No.

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No.

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But that's the thing.

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It's like they didn't know.

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They just trusted you.

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Maybe the parents trusted their kid.

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They had no idea this kid had a sinister side.

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Sometimes that stuff just pops out.

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They go to school, especially high school, and they get involved with the wrong people.

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That happens.

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It does.

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Yeah.

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And they change.

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And maybe you don't see it at home.

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Maybe.

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I just have a really hard time with it.

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I agree, but I definitely think they need to be tried as adults.

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And I honestly have a hard time saying even that because I guess there's

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11-year-olds who have been arrested.

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Like, how do you put an 11-year-old through an adult trial, an adult jail?

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Like, oh my God.

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It hurts me.

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Me too.

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It hurts me, but you are playing a really stupid game.

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And their brains aren't fully developed.

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It's like it's it is so hard to know what the right thing is.

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But our kid is younger than 11.

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Mm hmm.

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And she would never do that.

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You can't say that.

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I know.

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Well, that's true.

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But based on what I know, she wouldn't do that.

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You can't say that.

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I know it's hard to think, but we can't.

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Nobody can say that.

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Right.

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You can't say that about anybody, you know, that they would never do something like that.

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You don't know what anyone is capable of, what goes on in their head.

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And I think this is where I kind of wanted to bring in the idea of 988 is mental health matters, right?

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A lot of these kids who are going through these things and either one,

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they think that they're going to get famous,

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that they would never really do it,

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or two,

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they're really going to do it.

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Like that's a mental health crisis, right?

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I I can't imagine what is going through their head if they think that they have to

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take that action or if they think they're going to get famous.

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Like, what attention are you not getting or that you're seeking?

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Right.

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So you think some kid calling a school and saying a threat like that is a mental thing?

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I think there is some mental aspect to it.

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Absolutely.

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If they're really going to carry it out, then that is a mental health crisis.

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That you feel like that is your only way to deal with this situation.

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Oh, for sure.

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I think people are crazy, though.

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But for the people who are just doing it because they think they're going to get famous...

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I don't think that's a mental thing.

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Well, you can almost argue it, though, right?

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Because social media, if you feel so much pressure on social media, maybe you shouldn't have it.

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Maybe you're not mentally prepared for it.

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I think it's kind of interesting that a lot of these local governments and stuff

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are considering and have enacted bans on minors using social media.

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I don't know how you validate that, but I almost agree at this point.

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I know.

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I do, too, because it's like they're being exposed to things out there that are terrible way too early.

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And if there's a way to police it to where you don't let them on there,

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like maybe you have to submit an ID to Facebook or something or TikTok to get on.

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Right.

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It's going to be hard to fake that.

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I mean, everything else you do online, you got to do an ID.

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Like if you want to buy Bitcoin, you got to do IDs or whatever.

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So why not do that with social media?

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Clearly, this country is going through a weird phase of young people feeling like they got to act out.

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And I am about 95% sure a lot of it has to do with social media.

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Oh, 100%.

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Because they see somebody doing something.

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I mean, look, these people were eating Tide Pods.

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Didn't you just, you told me yesterday or the day before the kids are eating straws.

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Yeah.

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To save the turtles.

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Yep.

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Why?

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I mean, that could be a fake news line, but yeah, the kids are eating straws to save the turtles.

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Yeah, straws aren't good for you.

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Don't do that.

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Nope.

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Same with Tide Pods.

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So I just feel like this social media thing is just clearly...

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I mean,

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not everybody,

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but a lot of people are not responsible enough to have it.

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I agree.

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So shut it off.

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If you're not mentally developed enough to be able to handle social media...

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The pressures of it,

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the ideas that these kids,

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you know,

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can get famous quick or get rich quick on social media.

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It's insane.

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Like, I don't know.

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There's something that's got to be done.

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Yeah, it's it's no good.

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We're going down a bad, bad path with our young generations, and it's not good.

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It scares me.

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I do, too.

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So bad.

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The fact that these kids in our in our Tampa area,

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they were forced to turn the entire school,

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turn their lights off.

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Shut their lights off.

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Announced, you know, essentially you need to hide.

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These kids are in class and you need to hide.

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And then red lights were blinking in their classrooms.

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They were under their desks, crowded in a corner.

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Cowering in fear.

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And all of a sudden, helicopters show up.

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SWAT team shows up.

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They then send police squads to each classroom,

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take all the kids out to the gym,

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metal detect them,

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and then yank their bags open and check every single bag.

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Why would anybody want to send their kid to public schools now?

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I have no idea.

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I really don't.

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It's...

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I can't imagine what parents went through that day.

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Oh, well, yeah.

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My biggest concern is someone calling something like that in,

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getting all the attention over somewhere else and doing something somewhere else.

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It's terrifying to me.

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Absolutely.

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Because it did.

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Like, there was multiple schools that this happened with.

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Yeah.

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Across multiple counties across the whole United States.

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So it's like, oh, God.

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It makes me angry because these kids are just trying to go to school and you're

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trying to teach them and make sure they're not don't grow up to be uneducated.

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Right.

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You want smart kids and social kids.

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Yeah.

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But then you have to worry about your kid not coming home that day.

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Because of some random threat that's been dropped and now your kids held there.

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They can't move.

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You can't go pick them up.

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They won't let anybody near that place.

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Not on campus.

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Nope.

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There was parents parking across the street because they weren't allowed on campus.

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And yeah, I can't imagine.

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I mean, how helpless would you feel?

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the because we're in tampa the hillsborough county sheriff's department is the one

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that responded and they did amazing they did they did i mean they responded to a

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lot it sounded like that day was multiple places but they did an amazing job

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keeping everybody safe doing what they could to keep everybody in the know but i

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can't imagine what parents went through that day and i want to homeschool

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Yeah, it's it's nuts that you have to worry about that.

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The world is going to shit.

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And it makes me sad.

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That's heavy.

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It is.

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Now, let's switch gears here.

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I mean, I still want to talk about the police for a second.

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Did you see where they attempted to arrest Tyreek Hill from the Miami Dolphins football player?

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Yeah, I did.

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Did you see that he got arrested at noon and was at the game at 3 p.m.?

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Yeah, and then he pretended to get arrested when he... Didn't he score a touchdown or something?

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I think so.

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And he pretended to get arrested.

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I thought that was funny as hell.

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That was awesome.

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You know, they were Dolphins fans.

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The sheriffs that arrested him, they were Dolphins fans.

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Why?

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Because they let him go.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

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Either that or he has a really good lawyer.

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I mean, he's got money.

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He can pay bail and all that.

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But, you know, I don't know what they charged him with.

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I didn't really dig a whole lot into that story.

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Me either, but it was hilarious.

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He went to that game, like, the same day.

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So...

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I laughed so hard.

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Clearly it wasn't a big thing.

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Right.

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It's Florida.

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It is Florida.

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Everybody's used to this kind of craziness.

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I actually wanted to talk to you about Apple.

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They just had their big event.

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It's glow time.

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Right.

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That whole thing.

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I don't get it, but...

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OK, so their big reveal new button was a button and it's not even a button.

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It's like a touch thing at the top of the phone.

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That's a camera or I don't know.

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It's some kind of weird camera button that feels like a button, but it's not.

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You push it.

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It has haptic feedback.

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I'm like, man, smartphones are done.

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What are you laughing at?

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me it was designed by a man without telling me it was designed by a man what it's a

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button but it's not a button you couldn't find the button no someone pointed it to

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you if you pushed it it doesn't click in oh god if you push into it it doesn't

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click in but it makes the phone buzz so oh my god can't find the button yours has

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haptic feedback too

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okay wow but this got me thinking like there is zero innovation anymore in

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smartphones so what's next oh god it was designed by a man that's all I can think

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of right now it was designed by a man and that's not a bad thing I'm not saying

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it's a bad thing it's a button but it's not a button he couldn't find the button

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okay

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right so you and i started talking about this okay you and i started talking about

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this and we put it on pause because we wanted to talk about it here right the idea

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that apple came up with a button that's not a button um as their big reveal is like

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that

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That's it?

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That's it.

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That's it.

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Right.

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That's it.

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Back in the early 2000s, it was, bam, new phone.

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Bam, new features.

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Right.

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It was big features, like feature drops, way better cameras, Siri, all that stuff.

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Right.

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And now it just feels, it's a button, but it's not a button.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So what is the next phase of the smartphone then?

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If Apple can't come up with anything new, right?

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Like they are the innovators, in my opinion.

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I mean,

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you've got Samsung,

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you've got some of the other phones that are out there,

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but it feels like we're almost on repeat with a lot of these because you've now got

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a phone that can fold,

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right?

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You've got a phone that can...

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Yeah,

(00:27:13):
I think that was intended to be like the next phase of smartphone,

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but I don't think people want a bigger phone.

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They're already big and they're not real rugged yet.

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Those, those foldables, they're kind of, you got to kind of baby them a little bit.

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Cause if dust gets in the hinge, it gets all jacked up.

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Your end inside screen can crack real easy.

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I can't take that to the beach.

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No, no, no, no.

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But, um,

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It got me thinking, too, about the next phase.

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Like, I don't think the foldables are it.

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I think it's wearables, like augmented reality wearables.

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But then that's not a smartphone, right?

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Yeah.

(00:27:56):
So are we seeing the age of the smartphone is over?

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I think it's coming.

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None of this is...

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None of this is innovative anymore.

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Right.

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It doesn't... I used to want to upgrade my phone every single time because it was like, what?

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I got to have that feature.

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But now, I'm like, eh.

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You've got a case of, ooh, shiny.

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But there was reasons, too, for it.

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It wasn't just, oh, that's a new one.

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I want to get it.

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It was... 99% of the time, it was that.

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I don't have Siri, so I want to get Siri or whatever.

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But now...

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I got a button.

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That's not a button, and I gotta find it.

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I push it, and it pretends to click, but the phone just vibrates.

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I can't.

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I think that the next phase is like... The phone fakes it, babe.

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Like glasses.

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You're tripping.

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You need to go to bed.

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I think glasses with an interface built in,

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mics in the arms of the glasses,

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all that is gonna be the next phase.

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Yeah.

(00:29:04):
Well, okay.

(00:29:05):
So we always talk about this, right?

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Like we've said this many times throughout our technology lives, right?

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That they always pre-flight technology and then they refine it until it gets to be

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something that is like,

(00:29:18):
we've had autonomous driving for a long time.

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You think about,

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um,

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the cruise control,

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you think about lane assist,

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you think about like all these,

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the,

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uh,

(00:29:31):
sensors that are on a vehicle like you think of all these things that have been out

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there for a while it's been testing to lead up to us combining it all together

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exactly into the next technology so autonomous driving you have all these pieces

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right same thing i think that we've been building up to what you're saying is the

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next phase of technology of wearables you have oculus rift right you've got the uh

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they do have oculus quest but yes

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Excuse me.

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Um...

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You have glasses that have the microphones in them already.

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In the camera.

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In the camera.

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So it's like we're always building up towards the next phase.

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Well, and the Apple Vision Pro is a really good example of what I think is coming.

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But the form factor is not there yet.

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We don't have the technology to shrink it down to fit in something as small as this.

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Right.

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With a battery life that can last you through a day.

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Right.

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That's the issue, I think, because the Apple Vision Pro, it can be augmented reality.

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It's not just like a game that you're playing inside of this headset.

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It is using your outer environment to show you information.

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Like you can sit in a room.

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And watch TV on the wall.

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A huge screen on your wall.

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Right.

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But the screen's not really there.

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It's just here.

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Right.

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So I think...

(00:31:03):
shrinking that down and putting that kind of feature within like an interface like

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your glasses like what how cool would it be if you're driving down the road and you

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have gps like it doesn't really mess with your vision but you have gps on your

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glasses so you can see it it shows you like a see-through overlay that's like all

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right you need to get over to the right lane

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Because GPS is shit like that.

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Right.

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You're like, oh my God, I got to turn here?

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I know.

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We did that earlier.

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Yes.

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North towards Tampa, south towards St.

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Pete.

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Whoops!

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Went the wrong way.

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Yep.

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But I do think that that's the future because...

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And I don't I mean, I don't know how you really interact with it yet.

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I know the Apple Vision Pro, you can actually use your eyes to scroll and stuff.

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It's creepy.

(00:31:55):
Yeah.

(00:31:56):
But like, how do you type?

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Because I don't want to be I don't want to say things out loud.

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You could type with your eyes to a lot of paraplegics do that.

(00:32:05):
Well, then maybe they pull that in there.

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So that's they pulled in paraplegics and use the technology like blind spot monitoring and stuff.

(00:32:15):
Yeah, I mean, seriously, we talk about it all the time.

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It's out there.

(00:32:18):
They just start to accumulate and creates the next phase.

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But I think that Apple one is the best example of combining things together.

(00:32:30):
So we think the age of the smartphones over.

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It's coming, I think.

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That's crazy.

(00:32:38):
All the smartphone things now are always like software based.

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Right.

(00:32:43):
The upgrades.

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And it's like, well, upgrade the one that I have.

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And clearly they don't want to do that because they want you to buy the new one.

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Right.

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Always.

(00:32:51):
But why?

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Especially with this AI stuff that,

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like Google Pixel,

(00:32:56):
they have put AI at the front and center of almost everything they do,

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including their phones.

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And a lot of this stuff is offloaded to the cloud.

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So anything can run that shit.

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You know what I mean?

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Uh-huh.

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You're saying lots of words.

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Yeah,

(00:33:13):
I'm saying that your phone processor speed and RAM,

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all that stuff doesn't matter because you're sending,

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like if you want to do a photo edit that uses AI,

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it sends to the cloud.

(00:33:25):
Right.

(00:33:26):
It does it on their servers.

(00:33:27):
What's the cloud?

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That's over here.

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Ask Kamala.

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Oh, I'm so sick of politics.

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Not today.

(00:33:36):
Yeah, no, we have to talk about the debate.

(00:33:37):
No, we are not.

(00:33:38):
I do not want to talk about Trump.

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I do not want to talk about Kamala.

(00:33:42):
I did enjoy that debate, though.

(00:33:44):
No politics today, please.

(00:33:46):
I am already so sick of it.

(00:33:48):
And we have a long way to go until November.

(00:33:50):
We do, but it'll be here before you know it.

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It's going to be crazy.

(00:33:54):
We don't have live TV in this house, so we don't really see a lot of the commercials.

(00:33:59):
So that's good.

(00:33:59):
No, I refuse.

(00:34:02):
Every now and then when we're watching YouTube, maybe, but no.

(00:34:07):
But did you hear about the Amazon driver who was so drunk?

(00:34:13):
And I'm wondering if this is a fake headline, but it made me laugh so hard I had to share it.

(00:34:18):
There was an Amazon driver.

(00:34:20):
He was so drunk that he was driving on sidewalks.

(00:34:24):
He actually then drove into someone's house to deliver a package.

(00:34:27):
He drove into?

(00:34:28):
Into the house.

(00:34:29):
Oh, he thought it was drive-thru.

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Into.

(00:34:32):
Yep, into.

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And when he was getting arrested, he actually had a note written already that said, I can drive lit, bro.

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It says it right here.

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Oh, my God.

(00:34:44):
This has to be in Florida.

(00:34:45):
Oh.

(00:34:46):
I was thinking the exact same thing, but there was no palm trees in the video.

(00:34:49):
Dang it.

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But I don't even know if it's real, but I laugh so hard.

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I can drive lit, bro.

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I mean, some people can.

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No.

(00:34:57):
It doesn't mean they should.

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No, nobody can.

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Nobody can.

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They think they can.

(00:35:01):
Oh, yeah, that's true.

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They think they can.

(00:35:03):
Well, clearly.

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Nobody can.

(00:35:04):
He can't because he was driving on sidewalks.

(00:35:06):
Right.

(00:35:07):
And he drove into somebody's house.

(00:35:08):
Right.

(00:35:08):
He was just parking.

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He was just parking.

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Yeah.

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That's convenient.

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Yeah.

(00:35:14):
Okay, last thing I want to talk about.

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Now, this is more into marriage type things.

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I think this is a very important thing that needs to happen between couples that

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have decided to get married,

(00:35:28):
right?

(00:35:29):
If you get engaged,

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one of the things you start talking about besides a date for your wedding and who

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you're going to invite needs to be whether or not you smash cake.

(00:35:40):
Well, you mean like in each other's face?

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Yes.

(00:35:43):
So at most wedding ceremonies here in America, you take a piece of cake and you feed each other, right?

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It turns violent.

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In some relationships.

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I saw a video of this just recently.

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I know.

(00:35:57):
Oh, did you see it?

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I saw a video recently, too.

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He grabbed her head and smashed it in.

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I would.

(00:36:03):
Oh, no, I would kill.

(00:36:05):
That made me mad.

(00:36:07):
That was way overboard.

(00:36:09):
The cake was from her forehead to her, you know, ponytail or however she did her hair.

(00:36:17):
It was on her whole top of her head.

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So this needs to be a discussion.

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I'd have been like, give me that marriage certificate before you sign it and rip it up.

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This is something that every couple,

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and we have a couple,

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I have a cousin and a friend who's getting married next year.

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I'm going to tell them this.

(00:36:35):
This is my only advice.

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Before you get married,

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make sure that you speak with your soon-to-be spouse and you guys describe how you

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would like the cake smashing to go.

(00:36:48):
Yeah, you told me not to do it too hard, but you have to do a little bit.

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Well,

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for me,

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I spent money on hair and makeup,

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probably way too much money on hair and makeup for our wedding.

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But yeah, I wanted it.

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And I did tell you, please don't mess up my makeup.

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That was the only thing I asked.

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I just did a little bit around your mouth.

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Right.

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Same.

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Yeah.

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You started to go for it and then I actually kind of strong armed into the

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into your mouth.

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Yeah, that one video, though, he grabbed her head and pushed it into the cake.

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He didn't even pick a piece up.

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There's a lot like that.

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It was the whole cake.

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I was like, dude, that's kind of dangerous, too.

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There's structure to these cakes sometimes.

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They hold them together with

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shit yep post like there's a little post in there sometimes we had candles around

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ours yeah remember you burned my daggone hand we were cutting it yep and your hand

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got a little close to the flame i said ow everybody's like uh-oh

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they got a knife and he said ow that that was an accident but for yes i think it's

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for nothing else if you get nothing else out of today's podcast discuss that first

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before you get married and yep and smash each other's faces and rip up the wedding

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certificate before it's signed yeah uh we just had a big party today we spent

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thousands on that everything else is we're not married no not today love you

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