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School Field Trips · Nick and Kristen in the Podcast

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  Hello and welcome to Nick and Kristen in the podcast.
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  I'm Nick. That's Kristen.
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  We're married. We got a kid and that's going to
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  come up today. Actually, we we don't try to
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  talk about the kid all the time. We end up doing that because as
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  I'm unemployed, I have nothing to do but take care of the kid.
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  Well, there's nothing. There's not a lot going on in
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  our lives. That yeah.
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  So now. We're not doing anything.
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  No exciting things. I'm not spending any money.
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  I did. I went bowling today.
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  And so it brought up the subject that we're talk about with our
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  kid. Basically there's a field trip
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  coming that came last minute to our kids school.
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  She's very lost. There was not going to be a
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  field trip this year because budgets and all this other stuff
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  and now suddenly we're all going to the zoo like 2 days before
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  the end of. School, it's kind of pointless.
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  Yeah, I volunteered because Kristen said I had to.
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  Yeah. And she did this last year.
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  And so I got, I got the big one. Actually, No, I did the big one
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  last year. Didn't.
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  I yes, because I volunteer weekly in the.
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  Class that's. What it was And so the rule was
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  I'm in there an hour every single week of school.
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  You can at least do the field trips.
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  It's fair, all right, So I volunteered to go.
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  Bring it all. Like I was like, wait, heard
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  about it? Like am I doing the second?
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  I'm like how do you want to switch here buddy?
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  No, that sounds terrible. So I am doing the field trip.
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  Well, I volunteered and you they had it like first to volunteer
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  gets to go. Yeah, they only got 5 spots.
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  And no one has volunteered in this class for anything ever.
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  All of a sudden, everyone volunteered to go and chaperone
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  the field trip to the zoo, which seems odd.
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  It does seem odd. Yeah.
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  I thought that was really strange because, like, at
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  Christmas time and stuff, they needed volunteers for all kinds
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  of things. Yeah.
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  Never had one person except me. Yeah.
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  Volunteer. So I'm assuming that the free
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  ticket to the zoo is the the big selling point because as a
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  chaperone you get a free ticket and maybe they're going to bring
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  the nine other kids that they have.
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  I don't know. But they're just, it seems
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  sketchy because I volunteered and I'm I usually get in no
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  problem and I didn't get to go this year, but I told the
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  teacher that I was going to go or like.
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  You could be the unofficial, so there was 5 official spots and
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  that's where you get to ride the bus and you get your ticket
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  covered, right. But they basically said if you
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  didn't get into those five spots, you can be unofficial
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  volunteers. You just have to make your way
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  down there, like drive yourself and you have to pay for your own
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  ticket. But that they would love.
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  The help? I'd already told Lily I was
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  going on the field trip with her and so guess what?
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  I have to pay for my own ticket and drive myself down there.
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  Which is fine. I much prefer driving myself
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  down there. Last year you drove to OMSI with
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  the kids and there was massive traffic on the bench way back.
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  Oh my God, and you were so miserable.
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  It was so terrible, like sitting on a bus at this age is just not
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  something you want to do anymore.
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  And there's just a bunch of kids and they're all tired and
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  exhausted from the long day at the science.
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  Fair. No air conditioning in a bus.
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  Oh. My God, it's just awful.
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  I'd much rather drive myself. That's fine.
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  If I have to pay for my ticket, fine.
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  Yeah, but I have to go there now because Lily said that.
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  I told. Well, you told.
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  Her you will told her I. Was going to go, so I'm going to
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  that, but I went to I went bowling today for fun, which I
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  haven't done in a while. And when I arrived to the
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  bowling alley, there were two big school buses in the parking
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  lot and I almost turned around and left, but I was like, no,
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  one of the like. I'm here now.
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  It's 20 minutes away. I already came down here.
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  There's got to be at least one lane open, right?
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  I walk in and it's just a sea of children, like around 10.
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  I don't understand what the field trip to the bowling alley
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  does because it's supposed to be like educational, right?
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  Like the? Zoo the.
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  Zoo is supposed to be an extension of all the animal
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  things that they've learned all year because Lily's been doing
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  animal reports and like all the kids have been learning facts
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  about animals. When I've been helping in the
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  class, they've they've been working on sentences and
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  paragraphs about animals. So it's supposed to be like, oh,
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  and to learn more about animals, we're going to the zoo.
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  Like to learn more about this science thing.
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  We're going to OMSI. Like, what are you doing when
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  you're sending the kids on a field trip to go bowling?
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  Like there's no educational value.
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  I don't know if they're all educational.
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  I think that this was just a fun, cool field trip.
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  I thought it was cool. If I was a kid, it would have
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  been great. They'd have all these kids go
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  down and they had pizza and it was just like a fun party.
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  I don't know if it was a field trip for the class or maybe
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  these kids were special. Yeah, maybe they won a class
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  like, yeah, I don't know. But like, yeah, every, every
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  field trip that I was on, I don't remember much, but I
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  always thought it tied into something.
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  Like I remember we went on a nature walk in 4th grade to this
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  little like area that we, we were looking for Native American
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  arrowheads because this, this ravine area was like
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  undiscovered and like, you could find them there.
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  But I remember in 4th grade I didn't get to go on the big
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  field trip. What was the big field?
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  Trip it's to it was to go to like the Dana Point Harbor to go
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  on the Pilgrim, which was a boat I.
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  Don't know any of those words. Yes, so it was so Dana Point is
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  like a city in, in California. It's like right on the water,
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  right. And there was this big pirate
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  ship and like it was 4th or 5th grade or something like that.
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  And all the kids would go down there.
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  They'd be assigned like a job. Because at this point, we're
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  learning. About the mission.
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  And yeah, the explorers and all this kind of stuff.
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  And it was like to and then they would take the boat out or it
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  would stay in the harbor. I don't remember but like you.
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  Also, it was like a like a rideable boat.
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  Yeah, it was like a humongous boat, right?
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  Oh. OK, so that.
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  Was so there was a below that was like a fun thing.
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  Yeah, but it but it wasn't though, because there was a guy
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  on there that would be like a pirate and he would treat you
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  like he would treat the crew like OK.
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  But it wasn't like. There was a.
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  Scrub It wasn't a former an actual pirate ship that had sunk
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  off the coast. Oh, no, no, no, I'm sorry.
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  Visited and so yeah, you're right.
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  No this. Was like a.
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  A pirate ship, right? Yeah.
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  It was like a replica of what it used to be or whatever.
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  And for whatever reason, like they didn't go the year that I
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  was in that grade, Like I didn't get to go and like, like.
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  Nobody in your grade did, or just.
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  No, it was like everybody, because my mom was a teacher for
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  that grade level and every year she would be taking the class to
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  go on the Pilgrim and I never got to go and I don't know why.
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  I'd be curious your mom. I wonder if your mom remembers
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  that? Oh, she's got to remember if.
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  They go every year. Then you've got to ask her why.
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  Yeah, like why my class specifically or?
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  Maybe she lied to you. Maybe your class went and you
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  didn't. Maybe she was like, why?
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  I don't know why I'd be cut out from this.
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  It's not like I was a bad. Kid.
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  Yeah, I don't know. They weren't like, oh, she can't
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  handle the Pilgrim. I mean, maybe I couldn't, I
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  don't know. But the.
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  Good thing is your mom and your dad both listen to this podcast,
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  which I'm curious if you're listening Kristen's mom and
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  Kristen's dad. I want to hear the story of the
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  of why she didn't go. Yeah.
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  Well, I wonder, I wonder if they know, I don't know if there was
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  like out of money that year or whatever it was, make something.
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  Up, make something up make. Up something.
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  Tell me why I didn't go on the Pilgrim.
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  Yeah, I I only remember 1 field trip.
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  It was for orchestra. OK.
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  And it was pretty epic. It was an all night overnight
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  trip to Disneyland. So all night.
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  Yeah, cuz we went to I lived in Vegas and so Disneyland was 4
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  hours probably. As a drive.
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  And so we woke up, we got there early in the morning, all the
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  orchestra got on the bus, we drove down, we played in at Six
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  Flags and then we, oh, no, we played at Knott's Berry Farm.
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  And then I know. And then we went to Disneyland
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  and I think we played at Disneyland.
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  I can't remember. I'm trying to think of the place
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  it was. And it doesn't feel like
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  Disneyland to me, although Frontierland, this Frontierland,
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  is that a thing? OK.
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  Does it have the the people that sit on the bench like the little
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  like the plastic people that sit on benches?
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  I don't know, is that a thing? Yeah, like there.
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  Was a state. Yeah, like, I get them confused,
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  but I remember going then we went to both parks.
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  Yeah. And so that was that was epic,
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  right? And so then we got on the bus
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  after that and drove back that night.
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  And then I don't remember who picked me up.
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  I was like junior high, I'm assuming my mom came and got me,
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  but I could have rode my bike home.
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  I have no idea. It was one of those things.
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  It's like, I wouldn't be shocked.
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  I wouldn't. Be shocked if it was like 11:00
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  at night. I had to.
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  Write well, OK, so let me let me clue you in on something because
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  you said something that just immediately triggered core
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  memory for me. So like you, the fact that you
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  were like, did we play at Disneyland?
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  Yeah. The answer is probably no.
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  You didn't play in the park, but you provided free entertainment
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  for the resort anyways. And I'm going to explain because
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  I was in choir in high school and it was just a common thing,
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  thing that high schools would go down, we'd perform, but never in
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  the park. It was always at like a
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  convention area. And it was always for like in
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  the middle of some dinner and like, we wouldn't know what it
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  was like. I will never forget walking into
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  the Disneyland Hotel and there's like a Convention Center there
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  and it was like a whole ballroom and we were just propped up on
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  stage and they're like, you're going to sing for these people.
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  They all looked very well off and beautiful dresses.
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  They were all eating dinner. We had no idea why we were
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  there. What if it was like Area 31?
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  What's that? Area 31?
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  What's the IT? Could have been like a Nazi
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  rally for all I'm aware of. I have no idea why we were
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  there. And we sang, and it was a
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  Christmas medley. And afterwards they piped snow
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  and it started snowing in the Convention Center.
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  And I went, Oh my gosh, this is magical.
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  And then they went, everybody get out quick.
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  And we were ushered off, huh. And then they were like, OK, you
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  guys could go play in the park. And I was like, that was weird,
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  right? Like who was Who did we sing?
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  For yeah, we like. What was that all about?
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  We didn't go into the hotel like it was outside in Frontierland.
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  There was a stage there. Yeah, there is a stage in
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  Frontierland, OK. Probably.
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  Yeah. All right then.
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  Yeah. But I remember like, there was
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  multiple instances where like, you're gonna go to Disneyland
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  and say we're like, yay. And they're like, not in the
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  park. That's interesting.
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  You're going to provide free entertainment for just some
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  people. It was very.
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  We could have been your only school.
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  Well, was this your performing arts school?
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  Yeah. OK, we sang all the time.
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  In the middle of Knott's Berry Farm, that was.
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  Nothing. Not Berry.
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  Farm. But like it was like we had some
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  contract with Disney where they would just like bust us over
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  there. We'd sing for just like a group
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  of investors or something, and then they'd shuttle us back
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  because it wasn't really, that was only like 1/2 an hour from
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  our school or whatever. Yeah.
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  And we were always like, that was weird, but.
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  You got to go to the park for free.
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  Yeah, but like, it was just a weird.
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  So when you said like, I don't remember singing in the park, I
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  was like. I do you.
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  Were free entertainment for somebody.
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  Yeah, we were definitely free entertainment, but why?
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  Why us from Vegas? Why did we come all the way?
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  Down. No, they did have people come.
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  Were you in a parade or anything?
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  No, well, no. I just came down and we
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  performed on the stage. I remember wearing a cumber bun
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  and a really tight shirt and 90,000° outside and playing.
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  I don't even remember what we played.
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  Probably some Disney songs I would imagine, but I don't.
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  And we have pictures of us next to the like little things.
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  And then we'll we played and we left and so OK.
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  Well, I mean, it sounds, it sounds like an epic, like let's
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  let the kids from Vegas come up for a couple days.
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  But I remember the four hour bus ride back and forth because
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  you're at that age where like you're in the girls while I was
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  in the girls. And so like, you know, hey.
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  If you want to sit next to me on.
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  Some stuff crushes and things like that, that you spend at
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  Disneyland. So yeah, it was.
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  It's good. My girlfriend I think at the
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  time was in orchestra. So you think we got to go?
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  I think. I can't remember if that was.
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  High school or were. You cheating on her or no wait
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  no that was high. No, I didn't cheat on
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  girlfriends till high school. Oh, OK.
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  I thought we were talking about high school.
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  No, I think this is junior high. Oh, yeah, yeah, this is junior
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  high when I was in like, my good orchestra class.
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  Oh, so I know. But yeah.
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  Tell us about the experience that you had on your field trip,
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  if you remember good, good or bad.
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  Because the other one comes to mind is like, I went and I peed
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  myself and some older adult was like everybody pees themselves.
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  Excuse me, that's Billy Madison. Oh, OK, that's right.
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  That's a movie. That didn't happen.
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  Anyways, I want to take a field trip as an adult to China.
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  I think that's called a. Vacation.
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  Yeah, it's called a vacation, but I'm going there for a very
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  specific purpose. It's not to sing or anything,
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  but I want to go. I've been seeing TikTok videos
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  of the Chinese markets, and I was like, what's this all about?
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  And they're like, oh, the Chinese night markets are epic.
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  Like they have all these wonderful street food and all
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  these little trinkets and gifts and stuff like that.
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  Is that China or Japan? No, it's China.
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  Oh, OK. And then, well, they have it,
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  you know, I guess. I can't imagine it's like a
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  common thing. Right now, yeah, I'm sure.
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  But like you go deeper into the market and you get to the dupes,
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  the black market, no, but it's just you get to the dupe market
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  where it's like fake Rolexes and fake designer purses.
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  What's that spot called in LA? Yeah, like the Fashion District
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  or like Canal Street or something in New York, right
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  There's. A place in LA that you go,
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  there's a street and you turn the corner, you're like, those
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  aren't Oakleys. Yeah.
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  Like Oakleys are the O2 O's. But yeah, so like the the
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  Chinese markets now everybody says like these are the ones you
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  go to because that I'm not trying to be like offensive
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  here. But a lot of the the products
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  are made there and then are like shipped to France where they
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  stamp it with the label and then they say like it was made in
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  France. We learned all that, though,
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  during the pandemic. We learned about that in the
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  pandemic. God that was so epic.
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  I know where they were like, by the way, all the luxury brands
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  are made here and we're going to sell them to you all for $30.
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  Why did that happen? What was what?
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  Something happened that like set that off.
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  I don't know. I don't remember what it was.
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  I. Don't remember what it was but
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  like they all turned against all these.
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  They all turned against the fashion.
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  It was like, oh, this is amazing.
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  And they're like, by the way, well, here's the warehouse where
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  we make all the Louis Vuittons. Like the Louis Vuittons aren't
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  made in France. We ship them over there.
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  They stamp them with the logos all over the purse.
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  So here's it without the logos. You can buy the exact same
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  purse. Yeah.
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  So what they do now is they stamp them with the logo in
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  China, and they sell them at the Chinese markets.
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  And so it's essentially the same purse.
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  And I and I like intrigued by that, but there was a creator
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  that I saw that she was shopping and she went to the Rolex
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  station and I was like, I've never wanted a Rolex before in
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  my life. Yeah, you.
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  Know I've never seen you ever wear a watch.
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  No, it's never been something that I've been interested in.
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  And she was scanning over the watches and I was like, wow,
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  those are all really pretty. And I don't know if I'm like old
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  now. And I'm like, oh, watch.
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  This. But she picked up this gold
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  watch and it had, it was square and it had this like emerald
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  green frame of like face. And it was the most beautiful
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  watch I've ever seen. And she was wearing it and like
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  she was wearing it in a couple other videos.
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  And I was like, that's the most gorgeous watch I've ever seen.
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  And she's like, yeah, it looks exactly, I mean, it's exactly
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  like the Rolex. And I was like, I don't, I've
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  never wanted one. And now it's like I'm desperate.
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  I'm like, I can't wait to go one day.
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  Interesting. Yeah, I don't.
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  I, I mean, watches are nice. I like a nice watch.
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  I don't. I mean, I can see watches and
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  appreciate a nice watch. I go, yeah, that's nice watch,
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  but I don't like things touching me.
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  Right. I don't wear a lot of jewelry
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  anyway so it's just like, I don't know why I would be
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  interested. And then I definitely don't like
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  coming from, I wouldn't say the ghetto, but like coming in the
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  from a place where you don't wear flashy things unless you
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  want those flashy things taken from you.
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  I don't have I don't like to wear flashy things like, but you
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  know, we're in Vancouver, WA. Like what's?
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  Going to happen like you don't want to wear you don't want to
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  wear the the fancy stuff because then you are a target, right.
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  But yeah, it was like some it tapped into something in me
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  where I was like. You have this this expensive
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  woman living inside of you. Yes, I do.
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  There's a woman inside of you that is filthy rich and loves
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  all the beautiful things that cost way too much.
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  Money and she can never come out.
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  No, she can't. There's never been an instance
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  where I've led like that's a luxury thing and I'll buy it.
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  I've never owned anything luxury before in my life.
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  We go everywhere we go. There's something that Kristen
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  sees that's the most expensive thing that she.
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  Has I have the best taste? It's amazing.
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  We'll go to, like, the flea markets.
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  Yeah. And she'll go, oh, man, that's
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  beautiful. That's beautiful.
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  She'll walk over. It's the only real thing in the
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  whole flea. Market, I know.
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  And it's $4000. You're like bro.
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  I have amazing taste. It's not amazing taste, no, I
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  have. An eye for I have amazing taste.
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  I have an eye for design. I have an eye for luxury.
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  I'm I'm always able to pick out the most expensive or the
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  clearest diamond in any store. And I've always been like, oh,
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  that's a cute purse. And they're like, oh, that's the
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  rare one that you can only get. Like it's, it's in it's hell in
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  my mind because everything that I think is slightly cute, I
• 16:26
  can't even remotely afford it. If I fall in love with it, it's
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  out. It's it's a mortgage payment.
• 16:31
  Pretty much, yeah. And so that's why buying you
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  stuff is very hard because all those things, I hate them.
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  And everything you point out that you like, it's like, Oh my
• 16:38
  God, that's amazing. Ella, really.
• 16:40
  That looks like cheap plastic. You're like, it's $8000.
• 16:42
  It's some, that's why it's most expensive, because it's gross.
• 16:45
  I know. So it's a, it's a curse and.
• 16:48
  Also a gift. I'm sorry to the oldest, the old
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  rich woman that lives inside a curse.
• 16:51
  No, I should. Have never be.
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  For money, she'll never be satisfied.
• 16:54
  I, I, I heard this quote and I'm going to teach it to Lily.
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  Like you're going to cry anyways.
• 16:59
  It's better to cry in a Lamborghini than a Honda Civic.
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