Unfiltered Union

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is the unfiltered union i'm linds and i'm russ here is this week's episode you know

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almost every single time we do a podcast i make fun of you for sunburn i can't make

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fun of you this time yeah because you too ha

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I got wrecked yesterday.

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Uh-huh.

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Badly.

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It is, yeah, painful.

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It hurts.

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It hurts real bad.

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It hurts so bad that solar recover is struggling to keep up.

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That's just my face.

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I got the raccoon eyes again, but yours is like your whole body.

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Yeah.

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I don't.

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Outside is awful.

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Outside.

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Well, I mean, Mother Nature does some crazy things.

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Enter Helene and Milton.

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Helene.

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Helene.

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I still stand by.

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Helen.

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If you say so.

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But it just feels like this is probably the first weekend that we've had that's kind of normal.

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Yeah.

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Since all the hurricanes.

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Yeah.

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Oh, I agree because it's been nonstop.

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We've had trash build up in our house because there's no trash service out here.

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They finally restarted it, but now they paused it again because they're getting overflowed with trash.

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yard debrice debris debris and it's crazy yeah the city of tampa just stopped

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recycling service and i believe they did stop residential trash service for now

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crazy yeah our our garage smelled like old food oh i don't even want to trash it

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was nasty

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Yeah, but even driving around, when we would go to, we shop at Aldi for our groceries.

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Exactly.

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Put your own bags in a quarter.

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The quarter thing.

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Yeah, that's a nightmare.

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Quarters at Aldi are the bane of my shopping existence.

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We went yesterday and we lost our trusty quarter.

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We had to dig through our car to try and find a freaking quarter.

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It took us 20 minutes of our Aldi trip to find a quarter just so we could get a cart.

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Well.

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Anyways, driving to and from Aldi, we go through places that are near the river.

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Yes.

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And by the river,

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down by the river,

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I sound like Chris Farley,

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there was debris and people's houses flooded.

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So all their furniture was on the curbside for after Helene.

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Right.

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Well, after Milton... I don't know where that furniture's at.

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Double.

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Like, it's double now.

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The amount of debris, the amount of things that are now at the curb.

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It's crazy.

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And like you said, Hillsborough County is struggling to keep up with all of it.

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So...

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It's just a mess out here.

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Yeah.

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And just to be clear, Hillsborough County is what is in Tampa is in Hillsborough County.

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It's insane.

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It's definitely that was the worst one we've had since we've been here.

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And we were here for Ian, too.

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And Ian was at five upon landfall.

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But we got lucky, unfortunately, for other people down in Fort Myers that

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veered south at the last second.

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It was supposed to hit us head on.

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Mm-hmm.

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Absolutely in burial grounds, man.

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Oh, yeah.

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Keep it coming.

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Well, it kind of did the same thing for this one, but a little bit closer to our disadvantage.

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We were in the northern eyewall where we live, which is where the highest winds and rains are.

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And it was dicey.

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I'm not going to lie.

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It scared the shit out of me.

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I couldn't sleep.

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I went to bed finally at about 5 a.m.,

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after the majority of it passed us,

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but it was...

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It's like a tornado that doesn't stop after 30 seconds.

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Right.

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It's hours.

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Watch the house literally, like,

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Yeah, we have sliding doors in our neighborhood that are in our backyards.

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And they're big sliding doors.

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And that thing was flexing.

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I swore that was going to break.

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That was crazy.

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Watch it.

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I swore it was going to shift.

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Yeah.

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And then the problem with windows breaking is then your house gets essentially

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pressurized from the inside.

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And then it can blow your roof off.

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So that was a big concern for me.

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Yeah, it was definitely it was definitely crazy.

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But on top of it all, we watched Dennis Phillips.

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I can't say enough about him as a local weatherman,

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like just keeping us sane and aware and not freaking out.

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Rule number seven.

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I was still freaking out.

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The problem with hurricanes is you know they're coming.

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Right, but that's also a good thing.

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That's also the benefit.

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Yeah, but if you're going to hunker down like we did, you're like, okay, come on, just hurry up.

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Please, dear God.

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Did you say it was like getting stalked by a turtle?

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Yes, that's what Dennis Phillips says.

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I love him.

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He keeps me sane during those times.

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Moments of the news drawing it out, sensationalizing it, and everybody's going to.

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So he gives us the real of it, right?

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We're going to be in the northern eye wall.

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There's going to be the fastest winds,

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probably the most damage to houses like he gives you the real of it,

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but he doesn't make you freak out.

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So I appreciate him.

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I was.

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I'm not going to lie, though.

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He got a little.

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It seemed like he got a little nervous.

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Number seven.

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You're right.

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Yeah, he did.

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He said he was like, don't freak out.

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He said, now is not the time to freak out.

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It's the time for action.

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I was like, what does that mean?

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Run!

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But the problem with running, you couldn't.

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There was no gas.

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There was gridlock traffic.

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People were running out of gas on I-75 to get out of Tampa and go north.

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Yep.

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People were trying to go to Orlando.

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On I-4.

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On I-4.

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Gridlock.

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And then there's just no gas anywhere.

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We're still recovering from the gas shortage now.

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We're trying to get like stability in our gas system.

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Making that last quarter of a tank.

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Oh, yeah.

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Yeah.

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You just if you have an EV, you kind of made out a little bit unless it got flooded and caught fire.

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Yeah.

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That.

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OK.

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Well, I mean, EV is kind of it kind of lends to one of our topics.

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I don't know if we're going to

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Not there yet.

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Come on, man.

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I was trying to segue.

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He tried.

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It was cute.

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I'm not good at this.

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So we had the kids out for nine days out of school.

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I think when we lived in Virginia...

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The longest kids were out of school was probably close to a month.

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If you think back to what was it, 2010, March 2010.

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The big blizzard.

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Yeah, that one put kids out of school for multiple weeks.

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I would say almost maybe two or three, close to a month.

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And these kids were out for nine days for this hurricane.

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And then they had.

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You can see my nips in this shirt.

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Sorry.

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Keep going.

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Then they had, what, three or four days for Helene.

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So hurricane days are real down here.

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Yeah, it's been over two weeks for the kids here.

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It's crazy.

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And the parents are losing their minds.

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Like,

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we have Facebook neighborhood groups,

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and all the parents are like,

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where are these kids going back?

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Can somebody watch my children?

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Well, everybody's like, put the kids to work.

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Put the kids to work.

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They'll pick up all the yard bags.

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stuff everywhere which seriously i had to tell myself at one point that it's a

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marathon it is not you know a quick hundred yard dash to get all this debris picked

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up although some of our neighbors did it that quickly which good on them but gosh

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but the funny part though is they picked it up but it's sitting in front of their

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house now waiting to be picked up picked up yeah because of all the debris as you

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the debris yeah yes i'm fancy and i'm french

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But did you see that the stingrays had to actually go back to the Tampa Aquarium that were in the.

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I'm not surprised the roof got ripped off.

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Uh-huh.

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So the Tampa Rays, Tampa Bay Rays.

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Tropicana Stadium.

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At Tropicana Stadium, they actually have a stingray.

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that you can actually have your kids go touch stingrays while at the game.

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It's really cool.

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But the poor things had to get moved because the whole roof of the Tropicana got

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ripped off during Milton.

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It was scary.

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I wonder what they were thinking.

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TV.

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Oh, my God.

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What is that?

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There's probably more.

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Well,

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other than being in a small tank,

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but they're probably more used to it than us because I don't know in the ocean.

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I don't know.

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Is it safer underwater?

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You think during a hurricane in the ocean?

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I would think so.

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That's not where the wind is.

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True.

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And if it floods, you're a fish anyways.

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Yeah, you can breathe.

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But does it swirl in there?

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That's what I'm saying.

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Is it like a reverse?

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You know, the whirlpools that people see and get sucked into?

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Is it reverse for them?

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They get sucked into the air?

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Sharknado?

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We talked to our cousin about that before it happened.

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We did.

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She was making fun of us because we're getting ready.

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Not making fun of us, but saying, you're going to have Sharknado.

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And then we were like, well, where you live, people are eating cats.

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During all of this, we have, you know, again.

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Get it together.

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I can't.

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We have family members up north who live in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, all the places, right?

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Well,

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while we're going through Hurricane Milton,

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they're all posting pictures of the northern lights that reached all the way down

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to mid-America.

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Yeah.

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And we're over here like, hi, Nadine.

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Hi, Oscar.

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Is that you?

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Right.

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Yeah, don't we have two developing?

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But they're not going to hit us, I don't think.

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They're in the Atlantic, and one of them is probably going to cross the Pacific.

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Yeah, I thought one was going through South America and crossing over to the Pacific.

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I'm just going to bounce off the Bahamas and go back into the Atlantic.

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Good grief.

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But that's that cold front.

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I think they're controlling the weather for sure.

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We are not going there.

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I do, though.

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We're not going there.

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There's weather control, like cloud seeding devices out there that have been patented and all that stuff.

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I do believe...

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that there are some form of weather control like cloud seeding and what is that

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chem trails all that stuff do you ever when we fly in an airplane do you see that

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stuff coming out the sides of that thing no come on now you good no okay i could

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talk all day about this

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But now that things are starting to really feel slightly back to normal this weekend,

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we went to a pumpkin patch just today.

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It was cool.

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Yeah, that's not where we got the sunburn from.

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Sunburn was actually yesterday during soccer.

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The weird thing is it was like 70 degrees outside and it was cold.

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It's cold for Floridians.

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Yeah.

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And we're all out there.

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Not, I mean, I've got shorts on you.

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Yeah, we had shorts on, but it was windy.

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So you couldn't feel the sun on your skin.

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And then you got home and then you looked at yourself and you're like, ow, it was a delayed reaction.

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But now that we're,

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you know,

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again,

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getting back to kind of normal,

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we went to a pumpkin patch and there's a red tide out there.

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Yeah.

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The beaches are closed.

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Plus you got to give this, give, give space to the people that actually live there.

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Help, you know,

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Don't pollute their area with traffic and people trash.

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Let them kind of get back to their normal.

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Absolutely.

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Let them get back to our Florida strong.

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That's right.

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It's kind of cool, though.

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I will say that Florida does come together after something like this.

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Because this was a major, major hurricane.

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I'm pretty sure there's quite a few people that have died there.

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And have been displaced and have lost everything.

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Billions of dollars of damage.

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Yeah, we're lucky with what we got through, how we got through this hurricane.

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Certainly lucky compared to many who lost everything, right?

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So our hearts go out to them for sure.

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And like Dennis Phillips said, Florida strong.

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Yeah, for sure.

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we'll keep going okay switching topics right yeah i know i thought we were supposed

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to be a comedy podcast we laugh a lot um at ourselves nobody else does somebody

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does somebody's out there laughing yeah they're laughing at us wasting our time

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okay yeah i'll talk to you about movies that we watched as kids

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Right.

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So a couple of them that comes to mind.

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Well, I mean, what do you mean?

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Like watched as kids, like kids movies?

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No, I'm talking like adult movies that we watched as kids.

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Oh, so trauma.

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I mean,

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you can say Disney back in the day was traumatic because you have Lion King,

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the dad dying for like 10 minutes.

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Yeah.

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Tell me about it.

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The freaking Land Before Time killed me.

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Right.

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So parents getting wrecked by the car pits and stuff and gators.

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Kind of.

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But a lot of these movies, I was thinking back like when I first watched them.

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Right.

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So Titanic.

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When did you first watch Titanic?

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I saw it in the movie theaters.

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At what age?

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I don't.

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When did it come out?

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I don't know.

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Well, you got to give me something here.

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I would.

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I watched that in the theater.

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So when you were nine, I watched that in the theater.

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So I was nine years old.

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I saw titties when I was nine years old.

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Okay.

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So what did I say?

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It came out in 97.

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I got it on VHS.

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Yeah, the 73 box set to VHS.

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But so I think I was probably a little bit older, so maybe 10 or if you were nine.

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So I was seven.

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So maybe eight, eight or nine for me, too, when the VHS came out.

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It wasn't always immediate.

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No.

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Anyways, Jurassic Park.

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I watched that.

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I didn't go to the theaters to that, but I did.

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I think we rented it from Blockbuster.

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Jurassic Park was 93.

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Yeah, we rented it from Blockbuster.

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So I was probably like six or seven.

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Jaws.

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I would never let my kid.

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We're going to get to that.

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Jaws.

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To this day, I haven't seen Jaws.

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I get to learn something about you every day and not in the best way.

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I've never watched it.

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You also told me the other day you've never seen, what, Beetlejuice?

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Yeah, I never watch Beetlejuice.

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I can't with you.

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I can't.

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That stuff is not interesting.

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Regardless, Jaws, seven years old for me.

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Yeah, why would you watch that at seven years old?

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I was at the beach, too, with my family.

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It was our family vacation.

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I bet that ruined your entire vacation.

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Yeah, it was horrible.

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How did I go into the beach today?

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Why?

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I got some jaws.

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Did you ever watch Clueless?

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No.

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No?

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Okay.

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I think I was about maybe 10 for Clueless.

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How about Adam's Family?

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No.

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You never watched that?

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I've never seen that.

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Okay, I'm going to say 10.

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I mean, I've seen parts and pieces, but nothing like, not front to back.

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So we'll stick with Titanic and Jurassic Park for you.

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Okay?

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Yeah.

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Those two.

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That's valid.

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When would you let our child,

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our daughter,

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who is now nine years old,

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almost 10,

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when would you let her watch Titanic and or Jurassic Park?

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Never.

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And that's because she is super sensitive.

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She is.

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She is a very sensitive child.

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I will admit that.

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But even knowing that about her, is there an age?

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Is there an age?

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She's going to watch Miraculous Ladybug.

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And that's it.

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For the rest of her life.

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That's it.

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For the rest of her life.

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And Paw Patrol.

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She is very sensitive.

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She's nine right now.

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If we let her watch that, she'd be sleeping in our bed until she's 32.

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Well, I was thinking about The Addams Family the other day.

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I'm like, oh, that's such a harmless movie.

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She could watch that.

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It's weird.

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I don't think she's seen Wednesday, actually.

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Well, even Beetlejuice is weird to her.

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Like, you tried.

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And she was like, no.

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She left.

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So, yeah, I can't imagine our kid watching any of those.

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And to your point, she's a more sensitive child than I think you or I were.

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But just any child, like thinking about my nephews, they are.

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Oh, I'd let them watch Jurassic Park.

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No, they wouldn't be afraid of it.

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Our oldest nephew is six and then our youngest is four.

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So the six year old, you would let him watch Jurassic Park.

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It wouldn't surprise me if he's already seen it, to be quite honest with you.

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Well, the older one, I would let watch it because he doesn't seem phased by that stuff.

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But younger one, maybe I will.

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I don't know.

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I would say you can leave if you want.

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He's not in the four year old is not into movies right now.

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No, he wasn't.

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He wouldn't make it.

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Yeah.

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Although seeing that dude get drug at the very beginning into that cage.

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I don't know.

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He might be out.

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I still remember that.

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You see his hand and he's grabbing and then all you see is this.

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Oh my god.

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That's a core trauma memory right there.

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Our parents were out here letting us watch Titanic, which had sexual content.

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Let us watch Jurassic Park, which people got ate.

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I mean, the dude got eight while he was dropping a Duke.

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Right?

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What a way to go.

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I mean, that poor T-Rex, he tasted poop.

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I mean, it's the whole body.

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You're going to get that anyways.

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Yeah, but at least you don't have it hitting your tongue where the taste buds are.

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Okay.

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It just blows my mind when I was thinking about listing all these movies out in my head,

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trying to think of things that she could watch that are...

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age appropriate or something that she'd enjoy.

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And even Clueless,

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there's a bunch of kids who are dressing as Clueless in their Halloween costume for

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this year.

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And I'm like, wait.

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I don't know.

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I don't even know what that movie's about.

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It's essentially all about losing your virginity.

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It's about losing your virginity.

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So having these kids dressed as clueless, I know the outfits are harmless, right?

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But I don't think I'd ever let her watch it.

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And not until she was 13 at this point.

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Right.

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I mean,

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she knows what all that stuff...

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Well,

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she doesn't really know what virginity is,

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but she knows what private parts and how babies are made and stuff.

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Well, yeah.

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To an extent.

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She's got the biology of it,

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if you will,

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but...

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She's not like...

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I don't think she knows what has to happen.

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Right.

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The drive behind it.

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I'm not trying to break her innocence of that.

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Not until she's...

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Honestly, she's going to learn that at school before she learns it from me.

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And I'm not saying from school school.

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I'm saying from friends at school.

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Yeah.

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That's where you learn a lot.

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That's like a rite of passage.

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Yeah.

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Where you come home and ask questions.

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And you're like, Mom, what the what is that?

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And you're like, oh, shit, man.

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We're at that age.

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All right.

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Here we go.

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Yeah.

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Well, speaking of Halloween, have you heard what the top costumes for this year are going to be?

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Elsa.

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No.

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Good guess, but no.

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So I've got the top 15 here on a list.

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I don't know.

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Guess any of them.

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The top one will Wednesday.

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Wednesday's up there.

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It's got to be Wednesday.

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Wednesday did not make the list.

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This country is going to hell.

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Okay.

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Well, it's been like two years since the season came out.

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Yeah.

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I'm waiting on season two.

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Kamala Harris?

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No.

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People don't want to dress up as a stack of shit.

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Russell Allen.

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You're going to have to take that out.

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No, it's too late.

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I said you're first and middle.

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That's okay.

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She fucking almost full named me.

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Yeah.

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No, you're going to have to take that out.

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No, I'm not.

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Okay, so I have a list in front of me.

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She scolded me on the podcast.

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I'm going to cry.

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Go ahead.

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You ready?

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Yeah, I'm good.

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So I have a list of the top 15 costumes for this year.

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oh i see one of them no you're cheating like wolverine and deadpool wolverine and

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deadpool i said i just saw lady deadpool yes lady deadpool there's actually a call

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out i guess in the deadpool and wolverine movie but i haven't watched it yet um to

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lady deadpool yes and i think it's actually blake lively who's lady deadpool oh is

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it really i think so yeah but i don't think it's not like a huge part no no no i

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get it but there was a lot of

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What do you call it?

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Controversy?

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No, not controversy, but people, all kinds of superheroes showing up.

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I thought it was kind of cool.

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Like Channing Tatum was Gambit and stuff.

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I can't wait to watch it.

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We don't typically go to the movies much anymore.

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More watch them at home on the band.

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It's because it's too expensive.

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It costs a lot of money to go in there because you want popcorn.

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You've got to have movie popcorn.

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Yeah.

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Then you got to have 37 gallons of Coke.

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Yep.

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All that.

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They don't have a regular size.

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Can I please have a thimble of Coke?

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no we haven't gotten to the movies in a while i think the last one was what super

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mario yeah yeah we took took our kiddo because plus we wanted to see the new

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theater that where we live man i tell you what though nice chairs you can put the

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fucking most expensive nap you'll ever take okay focus back to the costumes so top

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15 uh i don't know wolverine's not on there no

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Deadpool and man Deadpool is not on there.

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No.

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Let's see.

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That's strange.

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Yeah.

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You'll probably never guess what number one is.

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I'm going to tell you.

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Ready?

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Yeah.

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It is shrunken head Bob.

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He is from Beetlejuice.

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The little.

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Yeah.

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I know who that is.

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Shrunken head Bob is number one.

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I'm surprised by that.

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So I don't know how much I believe this list.

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Yeah.

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No.

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But that's number one.

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Number two is Ray Gunn.

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Fuck it.

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The breakdancer from the Olympics.

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Oh, that's valid.

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That's a good one.

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Yeah, because everybody can be a breakdancer now.

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Uh-huh.

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That's a good one.

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I thought it was really good.

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Catnap from Poppy's Playtime.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Whatever that means.

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Dolores from Beetlejuice.

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So, Catherine O'Hara.

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I got nothing.

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Okay.

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You know who Catherine O'Hara is?

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Yeah.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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Get it together here.

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Pomni from the Amazing Digital Circus.

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Never heard of it.

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Envy from Inside Out.

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Inside Out has a bunch of them on here.

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So anger, disgust, anxiety.

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Yeah.

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So all of those are on this list.

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That's usually how it is.

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There's a big something that comes out.

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Like Elsa was huge for seven years after Frozen came out.

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Well, wait till the next Frozen comes out.

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Frozen 3 is coming out and it'll be all over again.

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Big ol' hype.

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Then Red from Descendants, which is a Disney movie.

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And then Doctor Doom because we have Robert Downey Jr.

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who's going to be Doctor Doom.

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It's going to be some alternate universe bullshit.

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How whack-ass shit is that?

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I can't.

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I don't like it either.

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Don't get me started on that whole thing.

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Yeah, it's bad.

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They said supposedly I read a thing somewhere online about why they did that.

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And it's because the Marvel movies have tanked.

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They suck.

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Yep.

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And bringing back Robert Downey Jr.

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Was a way to try to drum up interest.

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And I don't truthfully, I don't think it's going to work.

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Me either.

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They're.

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I don't know.

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Disney is not on the right track.

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I don't think Star Wars, they've ruined it.

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They've thrown all this weird shit into Star Wars.

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It's like, just make me a sci-fi movie, man.

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So the next one is... Don't you... Stop.

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It's my podcast, too.

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Uh-huh, it is.

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The next one is Sabrina Carpenter.

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I figured that.

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That's a big one right now.

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It's all over the place.

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We already said Lady Deadpool and then a Chipotle burrito.

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If you dress as a burrito, you actually get free Chipotles is what I heard.

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Well, then why the fuck?

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Why isn't that number one?

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Or is it just your costume?

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One of the two.

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I thought if you just dressed up and went there, you would get something.

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Yeah, something like that.

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Anyways.

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Oh, Wolverine is on here.

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Okay.

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It was number 14.

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You lying.

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I did.

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My bad.

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15.

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Burrito.

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No, 11 was the Chipotle burrito, but I already said all the inside outs and then.

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Oh, okay.

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Wolverine.

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I got you.

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Yeah.

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So Deadpool's not on there, but Wolverine is.

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Lady Deadpool is on there.

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That's nice.

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Who runs the world?

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So, we talked about those Halloween costumes.

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Yes, what else looks really crazy and weird and looks like a costume, but I guess was actually a robot?

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Optimus.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yep.

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I've got big concerns.

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I do.

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Well...

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I do, too, to a point.

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I think AI.

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So what we're talking about is Optimus, Elon Musk, Tesla.

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They are developing a robot called Optimus,

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and it's supposed to be like a in your house all the time on help you do everything.

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Mow your grass, help you do dishes, laundry.

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It's like your personal companion robot.

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It's like C-3PO from Star Wars for all my Star Wars nerds.

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Or if you know the movie, I robot.

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Yes, exactly.

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Exactly.

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It's supposed to be that where it's essentially like a family member and he, they, they had an event.

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I think it's been like two weeks now and they showed it off and it,

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it's,

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it looks a lot like I robot,

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even the,

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the bus that it rode in on,

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like those things rode in on to start walking around.

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It looked like I robot.

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Hmm.

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And I don't know if that is that is that wise branding or is that unwise branding?

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Because I robot is an apocalyptic type movie.

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I think it's wise because people are going to say it anyways.

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Right.

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People are going to say it anyway.

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So why not lean into it?

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Well, Elon is a no known sci fi nerd.

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I mean, he loves that stuff like Starship.

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But I don't know.

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I think branding wise, it was a smart decision.

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But overall, I mean, you're going to have those thoughts anyways.

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You're going to say that it looks like iRobot,

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that this feels like iRobot,

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that it's similar to an iRobot situation.

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What's going to happen, right?

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The whole idea of Terminator, the whole idea of all these other AIs gone wrong, right?

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You're going to say it anyways.

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You're going to draw those conclusions.

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Lean into it.

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But the actual,

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I think it was either the movie creator or the director of iRobot said,

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can I get my designs back to Elon Musk?

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I thought it was funny.

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I mean, I don't, I see.

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I disagree with that.

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And the reason why I disagree with that is because the robot itself is designed to look human.

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It's like, okay, then you need to go talk to God.

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Give his designs back.

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I mean, that's stupid.

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No, I just thought it was funny.

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The bus thing, I will say, though, it did look very similar to the transport in iRobot.

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But the robots themselves, it's like you're trying to make them human looking so that people accept them.

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You can't make it look like

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Something with razor blade.

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Yes.

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I mean, you got to make it look friendly so people will buy it.

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Right.

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But it's supposed to be what?

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20 to 30,000 bucks, I think.

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So he thinks that everyday people can afford them and have them in their home.

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Yeah, I don't know about that.

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Can we talk?

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That's a lot of money.

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20 to 30.

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I think if it's the value that you can get out of one of them things,

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if it's as good...

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Yeah,

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I'm sure you could.

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You could probably do pretty...

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It would be worth the money,

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I think,

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if it did what it was supposed to do.

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I don't know.

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But...

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You're going to talk about them being remoted?

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Yeah.

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So, I guess it was supposed to come across, right, that these robots, the Optimus robot, was being...

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I integrated with AI.

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It was mingling amongst the crowd with no human intervention.

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That's what the idea was behind this presentation.

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Right.

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That's what they said.

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But in actuality, it was actually being piloted is what people are coming to believe.

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Well, it wasn't being.

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So the robots themselves, they were walking themselves.

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Yes.

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That was AI.

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Yes.

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The other stuff was human assisted.

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Yes.

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Interaction between people.

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People could order drinks and the robot would give it.

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But they would actually talk, right?

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Like, okay, well, what do you have?

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Well, we have this, this, and this.

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That was actually somebody.

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I don't know.

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I don't know because there was a word that somebody kept saying to it and it kept

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stumbling over the word and it was like a basic word.

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I don't know what it was, but.

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Yeah.

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But also the other thing that lends more evidence against it being like a real AI

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robot rummaging and socializing amongst the crowd.

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Tesla just got caught speeding up a video of Optimus doing things in the factory, I think.

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So it made it look like it was like super efficient.

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Yeah.

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Come on, man.

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I love Elon and I think he's doing awesome stuff,

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but I don't think this is nearly as close to being ready as they're selling it.

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I know they have to do this shit for investors.

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Right.

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Absolutely.

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It looked fake as fuck.

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Yeah.

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And I mean, I like you said, I get it right.

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They're close.

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They're getting close, but they're probably not as close as they're trying to make us believe.

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Well, I think Elon's biggest thing is technology expands and evolves quickly.

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Yes.

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Like exponentially.

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Mm hmm.

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once you do one thing, it like triples the next step or whatever, you know?

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And I think that's his idea, but he's been promising self-driving cars since I can't remember.

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It's been years.

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Yeah.

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And we're still not there yet.

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Yeah.

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Although the taxis that they had as part of this event as well.

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Yeah.

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But that was such a,

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Right.

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It was almost like on a track.

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It was.

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I think it was at Universal Studios.

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So it was in a contained environment.

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It wasn't like driving on a city street with real traffic, real uncertainty of human drivers.

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Right.

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people walking out in front of you, stuff like that.

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It looks cool.

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And I do hope it comes true.

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Me too.

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Because driving is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a person.

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You can get killed like nothing.

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And if we can take that control away from people and put it into somebody's somebody,

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a robot's hand that can actually do a bajillion processes a second,

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and notice things, or even they all communicate to each other.

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And you'd rather drive than fly.

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I can't with you.

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I can't fly, man.

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I don't know.

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Getting off topic.

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But the overarching idea of one of these robots, would you have one in our house?

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Yeah.

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I mean, I wouldn't pay $30,000 for it unless I was rich, but I'd have one.

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Why are you looking at me like that for?

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Because of the uprising?

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Yeah.

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that is a huge difference between us then because i don't know if i could get

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around having that thing in our house you you say that so weird you say that until

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that motherfucker folds laundry well like if you think about it i mean but if you

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think about it like we've had you know the alexa we've had the google we've had the

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i home like all of the things right

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Had to look around and make sure none of our devices are listening.

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But you've had all those things in the house and a lot of people don't like them, right?

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Because they're intrusive.

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They are always listening.

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They're whatever.

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Yeah, but these are the same people that carry around a smartphone.

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True, but they are tiny, right?

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They are small.

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They're almost like not noticeable unless you know they're in the house and then

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you say the name and then it does the thing,

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right?

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So they're not intrusive.

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You're talking about having something that almost moves and acts like another human.

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Yeah.

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In your house.

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Right, but if it gives you that much benefit... But it doesn't have a personality.

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I'm sure you could probably have conversations with it because it's AI, right?

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You can.

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I recommend people listening try either Gemini Live.

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Well, use Gemini Live if you have an Android phone.

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That was mind-blowing to me.

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I just I don't think I would be able to get over that hump of having something

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that's almost like taking up a whole space as another person.

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Yeah, but that's a generational thing, too.

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You got to think people like us, we're hesitant, but people like our kid.

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Or her kid one day.

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Yeah, or her kid.

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Like if this comes out while our kid is still young, she'll get used to it quick.

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And then her kids, that's what they have in their house.

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It's normal.

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It's the Jetsons, right?

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Yeah.

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Like, oh, hey, Optimus is mowing the lawn.

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Imagine driving through your neighborhood.

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And all you see is a bunch of optimists outside mowing the grass.

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And they wave at each other?

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Well, they wave at you when you drive by.

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Hey!

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And they're like, hey, what's up, bitch?

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No.

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I don't know.

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I feel weird about that one.

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I don't know.

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Yeah, and then you have your rogue AI that goes in there and... He kills everybody.

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Yeah.

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No.

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They're already in your house.

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Just sleeping and they're not...

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I mean, Amazon's got the Astro.

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That's super basic, but it still knows how to navigate through your house.

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You've seen that, right?

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Like the mobile Alexa thing.

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Not in here.

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Okay.

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All right.

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So we talked about some strange things today as far as that robot goes.

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In my opinion, it's strange.

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I can't wrap my head around it.

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But I wanted to end today with what is the strangest compliment you have ever thought about giving me?

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I found this question.

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I found this question from like a couple's, um, like not a therapy couples book couple.

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Like it said, like how to stay connected with your partner.

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Right.

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One of these questions.

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So what's the strangest compliment you ever thought about giving me?

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I'll give you a minute.

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I've got mine.

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You're a good cuddler.

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And that's not strange though.

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But how is that a straight?

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That's a normal compliment.

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How is that strange?

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The other one was, you're really good at laser hair removal.

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See, that's strange.

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That is strange.

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You did a really good job on my laser hair removal.

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We got the Braun device at home, and it's working really well.

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You do a very good job at it.

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See, that's strange, but good cuddler, that's not strange.

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Well, I'm sure you'd be nice, okay?

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I don't know.

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You're really good at folding clothes.

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But you want to replace me with Optimus.

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Well, it'd save you time and we could do more podcasts.

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Yeah.

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Spend more time with the fam.

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Love you.

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Maybe next weekend.

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Love you.

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