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Ep 45: The Mythical Creature Showdown — Dragons vs Unicorns · Arguing Ever After

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I just want to come. I just want to give my own baby.
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I just want to give my own baby. I just want to leave with you.
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Hello and welcome to arguing ever after.
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I am Luke and this is my delightful bride, Amber.
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Hello. Together we're the Lord and Lady
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who lock horns The. Count and Countess of
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contention. The Duke and Duchess of
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Disagreement. And the king and queen of
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quarrels. In our podcast, we bicker about
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all things big and small, and the audience vote determines who
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the winner is. Many of our topics are
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frequently submitted by our listeners, which we actually
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like, so if you have a topic you would like us to battle over,
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please send it to us at arguingeverafter@gmail.com.
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We'd appreciate it because here we are, sitting at episode 45.
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45 That's for the Minnesotans. It is for the Minnesotans, which
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is our biggest audience, yes, however.
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Just want to say briefly for a second I thought maybe we should
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have some fun with the intro and you could call us the King and
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Queen of Squirrels. OK, but I didn't.
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You didn't. I didn't.
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Maybe next time. But we were certainly having a
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hard time. The Lord and lady who lock
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horses, we could just throw animals in there and see what
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happens. We.
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Could I wonder if anyone would notice?
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What's a sea animal that counted Countess of?
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Conscious cats. Conch conch conch.
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Why do you go to Conch like the show?
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Yeah, yeah. I don't know why don't you?
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Duke and Duchess of Sea Creature could be cats and dogs.
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I meant C like the letter C. Oh, I thought.
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You C is for cookie. OK, it's good enough.
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For the but I did both. You did.
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I mean, I'm proud of you. That's we did a great job
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together just now. 45 episodes in and we still can't get.
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A That's half of 90. I.
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That's I'm just saying. I mean sure.
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Yep, I mean, and it's 45 more than 0, so wow, there you go.
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Thank you. That's math, people.
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I know, I know. And we've taught them all about
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math. We.
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Did they know it? Now they know it.
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So, but you had a little a little shout out for our ever
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present Minnesotan audience. Yeah.
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And we have some more to welcome, which is really fun.
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One I thought we had already welcomed, but I did not.
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And in the spirit of what we have been doing, we're going to
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teach you all and maybe Luke, a few things about our new
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friends. This is fun.
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It's a little bit we've been doing with trivia.
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So now with trivia. And yeah.
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And yeah, arguing ever after now with trivia.
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So let me know. Are you ready, Luke?
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I'm so not ready. Let's do.
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It OK, OK, so here's some hints for Luke.
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He has a a way bigger, I don't know, advantage than the average
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listener. Because I have to study how to
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say the hello. Because you have to study.
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So I know the countries. All right, so this country.
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Hopefully made it hard. The first one we're saying hello
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to is consistently ranked as having the world's fastest
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Internet. OK, the.
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World. The world's fastest?
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Fastest. Yes, Internet, Yes.
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Roughly 70% of the country is covered in mountains.
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I got it. You do.
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South Korea. The world's first astronomical
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lab is here. Yep, South Korea.
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OK, how do you say hello to our South Korean friends?
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I'm going to make this bad so I apologize but I'm trying.
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I listened to videos, so it's almost it's I kind of like this
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one because it's almost musical. OK.
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And I don't know if now I want to know like is the language
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bordering on musical sort of all the time?
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So anyway, so this is how you say hello, not to your closest
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friend, but to like a person you don't know or a semi formal
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greeting and young I say oh all right.
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So another fun fact about South Korea that is I I thought was
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interesting and I don't know if it would have had anything to do
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with anything. Fastest Internet?
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Fastest consistently ranked, so they are hearing us faster than
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we're putting it out. There, we're hearing ourselves.
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That's amazing. They already are watching the
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episode. On November 11th, they celebrate
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in day. It's a snack day called Pepperon
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Day. Snack day.
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Yeah, it's a national holiday. Do they eat pepperoni?
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No, it's just a brand of a snack that they have that is so big
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and so loved that they're like, it's a national day and it is
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November 11th. So but that I didn't think was
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very helpful or unhelpful. Well, it's fun for.
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Yeah, who doesn't like a good snack?
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I like snacks. Right.
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So, OK, Are you ready for the next country we have to say
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hello to? Yes.
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I haven't decided. It's difficult.
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I mean, I OK, we'll try. We'll try.
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OK. OK.
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Golf is the most played sport there.
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OK. I probably have.
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It it is home to the longest running ballet company.
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Oh for sure. And it's continent.
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Oh, and it's continent. Oh, I still think I got it.
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OK, Poland. You are not right.
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Can I? No.
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Can I give you a couple more facts that might have helped?
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You they have a national strategic reserve of Maple
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syrup. They do, but it is not one of
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my. Facts.
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What's one of your facts? Mac and Cheese.
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It's the Mac and cheese capital of the world.
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No, it's not. Yes, they sell more than
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anywhere else. Yep.
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Congratulations. I have a couple extra facts
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because we have to, because, you know, Canada is our, we're
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South. Canada we're.
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South Canada or Southern Canada? We border Canada here in
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Minnesota, but. They're the number one travel
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destination in the world. Really.
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Yeah. Why?
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Sorry. I mean, hold on.
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Half of the country is the Arctic circled.
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No, no, listen, maybe Canada. I mean, OK, OK.
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Yeah, It's a stable place. It's safe.
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It's beautiful. I mean, it looks a lot like
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Minnesota. So, like, it's definitely
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gorgeous. Yeah, Yeah.
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Smells good. I've been there multiple times.
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Yeah, so there you go. They've got some great cities,
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yeah, some I still want to go to.
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I want to go to Vancouver. I was I was sort of bad because
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it seems like. Oh, they have.
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The Canadian Rockies are really pretty.
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Yeah, yeah, that's see. Yeah.
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Anyhow this? Is my my USA centric?
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Yes, it is thinking. That's what it is.
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I apologize. But you want to hear something
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that I love about Canada? Tell me.
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They're so polite in Canada like this is, they're so polite.
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They have something called the sorry act.
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Oh, sorry, sorry, yes, sorry, sorry act.
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Sorry, so sorry. Because they're so polite, they
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say sorry for everything that they needed to put in an act
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where an apology is not an admission of guilt by law.
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Wow. Because it's just part of the
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vernacular. Yeah.
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They just say sorry, sorry all the time.
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And they didn't want someone to be caught up by a lawyer.
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Guarantee you someone. Did say sorry, yeah, Sir, A five
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times. Which would be an admission of
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guilt in. Our So you're saying you're
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guilty? Wow.
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Yeah, isn't that cute? That's the most polite, cutest
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thing ever. I know it's probably the Mac and
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cheese and all the Maple syrup. I love it so much.
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OK, well, you know what the last one is, but we're just going to
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do this. Also, I just want to say Canada,
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welcome to the party. You're way late to the game
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since we're in Minnesota, but welcome.
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I know, yeah. We also share an amazing natural
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resource, the Boundary Waters. Yeah, together we do.
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It's gorgeous. We share a lot.
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I'm happy that you're part of it.
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I know it's a. It's a that's in.
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Ontario. We're buds, eh?
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We're sorry it took you so long to find us.
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And we're sorry that you didn't know that we were down here in
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Minnesota. So close to you.
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Yeah. OK so the last one, this is
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really just fun facts cuz you know what it is, but it is.
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I also already guessed it so. Everyone I know, maybe, maybe
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they don't remember, maybe they. Don't forgot, you're right.
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Maybe they're only half. Maybe they're sorry.
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Yeah, I mean, we are talking over each other a lot, so they
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might have just kind of gone. OK, shut up, get to it.
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But this country has the continent's oldest restaurant.
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The continent's oldest restaurant.
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Interesting. OK, a lot more clues.
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A lot more you are OK for sure. So it hosts an underground salt
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cathedral. Oh, I think I knew that
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actually. I did not know that.
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Yeah, it has the first written constitution on its continent.
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It does, yeah. Dang.
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Yeah, yeah. And then really.
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Yeah. Yeah, that's what the Internet
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says, so it must be. In Europe.
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Yeah. No way.
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Yes. OK, yes, I guess it does.
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Way to go. If it's on the Internet, it's
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real. It's real, and this one might
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have gotten you there, but I mean, it would have gotten you
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there. This is why I didn't go with
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this one in the beginning. But Copernicus was born there.
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OK. And then finally the most you
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know that actually, well, you would have figured out he was
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born there and not in. Well, sure, yeah.
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But the most important fact? Most important.
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Fact about this place Top fact. It is the largest exporter of
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Amber. Is it now it?
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Is. It has the most ancient magical
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tree set filled with bugs on the globe.
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Yes, yes. But yes, obviously the most
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important stone to our podcast. Oh, 100%.
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Yes. Have I gotten you Amber before
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Amber? No, you've not gotten me Amber
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before. Have I asked you if you wanted?
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It I don't know. Do you want it?
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Do you want one of those big gaudy ones like with a bug in
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it? No bugs, no bugs, no bugs.
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Why do you think they're going to come back to life?
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No, I'm not ready for Jurassic Park.
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No, thank you. I didn't say do you want to
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create adna lab and splice it with current.
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Nope, Living bugs. I don't.
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I don't really. Lizards.
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Let's dig into this a little bit.
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Let's not dig into this. I don't.
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I don't want something with a bug stuck in it.
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I just don't. I mean, maybe if the bug's doing
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something cool. What if it's a spider?
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Oh, maybe, but I. Don't know a Dino spider?
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A Dino spider? I don't think you would actually
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be able to buy that yourself. It'd probably be really
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expensive, wouldn't? It.
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Oh, it would be. You're right, yeah.
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I think they're common. It's defined like mosquitoes in
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them, I mean. You.
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Know mosquitoes, they've been around and and that's not I
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don't think that's cool actually, given that we have so
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many here that would be no fun, but I think it might be fun if
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you had one with a spider because you like to be a little
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spooky. Yeah, but I don't want to bug in
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jewelry. That's just, we'll just put that
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out there. No bugs in jewelry.
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That's not something I like. But if you are hearing maybe a
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little extra nasal, because I always have some nasal, I am
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still dealing with my sinus infection.
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So if I'm not as sharp as I usually am, I think I am too.
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Dealing with your sinus? You are dealing with my sinus
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infection. I, I apologize, but again, here
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I, I'm showing up to work sick. That's what I do right here.
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Don't call this work. Well, this is true.
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This is a lot of work. Listen, we do so much for this
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podcast. You know what I'd like to do
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what I would like to say hello to these people.
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Yes, Oh, you. Haven't.
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You haven't. Oh, that's right.
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OK, here we go, Poland. There's a few different ways, so
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I don't know if I picked the right one.
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I'm a little confused but it's chest.
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OK, sure, Sure. Hello Poland and welcome,
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welcome. Hollow was on there and I didn't
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like that because. It was too easy hollow.
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And then there was 1. OK.
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Nope, I can't remember it but ended in dobri or something like
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that. Again, we are welcoming our
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friends from across the pond. From Polska.
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And. I think that's Polish for
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Poland. A polska.
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Across a bigger pond and just up down the road.
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Pond OK. Well, it's these are our
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friends. Welcome.
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Wait, did I say hi to Canada? I didn't say hi to Canada
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either. Yeah, you did.
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No, we said a bunch of stuff. We said we were sorry.
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How rude. But I didn't say hello.
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We're sorry. Listen, Canada, first of all,
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hello. And I'll give you a second just
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for forgetting about you. Bonjour.
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We. Will never forget about Canada.
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There we go. Yep.
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Anyhow, so we we we are caught up, I think on our countries who
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have who've shown up. So some of you also are real
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near other countries or not, you know, like keep shares with your
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friends, you know, like just just please do.
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That yeah, tell your neighboring countries.
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Or or your neighbors that do your exact neighbors.
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Yeah. Why?
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What if we were like #1 in someone's block?
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The number one podcast on someone's block?
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We. Would own the block and Rep the
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block. Yeah, yeah.
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I mean, let's do it, let's do it or whatever you call your
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neighborhood. Maybe they don't call it blocks,
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we call it blocks. The barrio.
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The barrio. I don't even is that.
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That's neighborhood in Spanish. OK, yeah, yeah.
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So that would be really cool. Let's get us #1 in your area.
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Yes. I don't need to be #1 in the
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world, just in your heart. That's all.
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That's true. I would settle for #1 in
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anyone's heart, yes, even yours. Yeah, well, you are.
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Hey there. Don't, don't just let it.
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I'm gonna take the win. We're gonna move.
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We're and moving on. Moving on.
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Yeah, yeah. So what has been going on?
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What have we been doing? Yeah, Low key, low key.
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Oh my gosh, no. But also some fun stuff is,
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well, I don't know if it's fun. Luke is expecting his 7th Jeep.
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I thought you were gonna say expecting.
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I was like, yes, I am, little baby in there.
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We made some dinner and we put all the salad in here today.
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Yeah, yeah, half a loaf of bread.
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You're expecting your. I think it's.
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Seven, you tried to count. I did.
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That's demented. Why did you do this?
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Cuz you were upset. No, no, I just actually was
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guessing and it felt like the right number.
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Oh well, it might be the right number.
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Right, right. And I like to say you're
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expecting your Jeep, you know, like I mean.
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It's at least that I can count 6 real easy.
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Me too, me too. If you count the ones we've Co
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owned, well, seven XJ. If you count the ones we Co
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owned, it's well over a dozen. Yeah, but I'm counting yours.
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I think it is 7. Yeah.
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Yeah, I think you're right. So exciting.
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Lucky number seven. Yeah, look.
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At that. Yeah, I like that.
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I'm gonna get a license plate that says 7.
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I'm sure it's not taken at all. It's not, especially in the land
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of Minnesota. Prince 7.
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And we'll watch them. Fall.
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But maybe it's not. Maybe it's not.
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Sorry, I'm just saying, everyone, if you didn't like it,
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yeah, yeah. If you liked it, I'm not sorry.
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I'm. Sorry.
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I'm excited for this new one for you.
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Yeah, there you go. Agreed.
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That's what we've been up to. It's the winter edition.
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It's repping Minnesota so hard. Lucky number 7 and it's a winter
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edition. And it's even going to represent
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it better when you get our Arguing Ever After tire cover
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because it's like, that's the number one podcast in our
15:48
neighborhood. Also, for you Gen.
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Xers watching, I'm just going to throw this out there.
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Our initials are a Yay. And we have several Gen.
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Xers that listen, yes, they're #1.
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And if you're not a Gen. Xer, look it up a yay.
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Yes, yes. So I'm excited about that too
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because you know, mine, mine's out there.
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If you see a, you might, if you're local Minnesota, you
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might see you're like, Oh my gosh, I know those two butt
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heads. It's arguing on that.
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Feel free to honk and wave, we'll probably think you're like
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flipping us off, but no. I mean, no, because we have
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Jeeps and we'll be like, we know it.
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You're just being friendly, right?
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Yeah, and if you see it on on her Jeep, you can give her one
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of them little ducks. I have so many ducks.
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If you see it on my Jeep, don't give me duck, because there's
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only one duck. Yeah, it's Gimli, the powerful
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Dwarf duck. Wow.
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OK, yeah, OK. So I mean.
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Just saying. What if someone was giving you
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like a dragon duck? Wouldn't you like that?
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Whoa. I mean, it would depend.
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I'd there's a lot of competition right now.
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There's a strength presence happening on my dashboard.
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Yes, I don't understand what you mean, but it's OK.
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It's a very large, strong duck. Oh, it's a big He's wearing
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duck. You know, like leather armor and
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has a battle axe. Yeah, yeah, OK.
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It's. Pretty aggressive.
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There you go. Well, and that duck craze is not
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just limited to Wranglers anymore.
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I see them all over everybody's dashboards, which is fine and
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fun. I you know what?
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It's weird What? There's a desk at one of my
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dealer groups where the salesperson has their desk
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absolutely covered in ducks. That's cute.
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That's cute. Just everywhere.
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My desk is not covered in. It's covered in a lot of other
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tchotch keys. No, I have enough stuff on my
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desk. You do have a lot of stuff.
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It's actually covered in post it notes.
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Am I the only one who just writes random post it notes and
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sticks them everywhere while they're at work?
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Not at all. My favorite thing?
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I do that except not up vertical.
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I put them like near keyboards and phones and places where I.
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Yeah, that's for the more more stuff like.
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I can't handle them on the screen.
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Just can't I put them up on like the walls around me and how my
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favorite thing to do during a work day.
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This is so fun for everybody. I'm ready is to take off a post
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it because it's done and throw it away.
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Oh my goodness. I love it so much.
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You're my mother. That's weird.
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I'm not though. Yeah.
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Well, she has a similar trait about being excited that she's.
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That's done. Accomplishing a task on a list
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somewhere? OK, Yeah.
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Tasks and lists What do you do about tasks and lists?
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I mean, I definitely have them. It's we're getting into tasks
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and lists season here. It's warming up.
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Yeah, yeah. I've got a I've got a task list
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that that met winter last year and didn't get finished because
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Mother Nature decided, oh, it's November 1st, let's be winter
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immediately. Leaves didn't get raped.
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I didn't empty the the it's the we.
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I got all kinds of problems outside.
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Many chores need to be addressed.
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I don't know. I kind of feel like, you know,
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when you're a kid and you have like a really short attention
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span and you feel like asking like, what's your favorite color
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when someone's talking about something?
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OK. I feel like that, right?
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What is your favorite color? Green, what's yours?
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Yellow. OK, they're complimentary.
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Yeah. Green is grass, yellow is sun.
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You need you need the sun for the grass.
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I don't like that you need the grass for the sun.
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This is perspective. Wow.
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Yeah, OK. OK, so that's OK.
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What's your favorite animal? Favorite.
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Animal. Like that, it's not a pet.
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Sure. I don't know.
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Wow. It's hard.
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OK, an. Eagle.
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Wow. I like them a lot.
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OK, We had a podcast about them. We did.
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I talked about how sweet they were because they're super
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sweet. So it's interesting when you're
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trying to segue into things and like you try a.
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Couple of times you were trying to softball me.
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And I did twice. But it wasn't a so you didn't
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say OK. I did twice and you're like
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cool, I'm going off. That's it.
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Because remember. Here's the thing.
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I'm the king of Segways and we know this.
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OK, well, let's hear it. Let's hear it.
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I'm ready for. It we can't just say I'm ready
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for it. That's a cool open.
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I've learned that from one of the podcasts.
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OK, let's hear a warm, open. Wait, what are we talking about?
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Wow. The other day, what were you
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doing? Welcome to the podcast,
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everybody. I'm actually.
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Welcome to the Segways. I would say in general I've done
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some really great segues. You know, let's talk about this
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shirt I'm wearing today. It says strange things happen
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below sea level. Yeah, yeah, Yep, do.
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You want me to talk about anything that's strange and
20:52
below sea level? See, see, here's the thing you
20:55
want to like. Just have me set it up easily
20:58
for you like that. I was trying to set up my own
21:00
but I think that's not how I was supposed to work.
21:03
I'm disappointed that you didn't take that and run with it
21:06
though. Fine, tell me about something
21:08
that's strange and under the sea.
21:11
OK. Do you, are we, are we asking
21:15
questions yet? We're not.
21:16
We're not ready. I don't know.
21:18
Sure, sure. Hey, you know what, Luke?
21:20
What? This is the most.
21:23
I don't know if I'm ready. Medicated, I could.
21:25
Be I could be ready. You ready so much AMOXICILLIN is
21:30
in the house. It's I'm so amoxicillized.
21:35
Amoxicillized. Yes, I've been making up words a
21:38
lot. Let's make a new commercial get
21:40
amoxicillized. Yes, yes, OK.
21:45
So back to the the kids questions.
21:47
When you're a kid and you just ask those random questions like
21:51
what's your favorite color? Yeah.
21:52
What's your favorite animal? What's your favorite sport?
21:55
Yeah. What's your favorite sport?
21:58
Sucker. OK, cool, cool, cool, cool cool.
22:01
Mine's Oh, I don't know what my favorite sport is.
22:04
Yoga. Your favorite sport is yoga.
22:07
This is not a sport I know. Welcome to the Olympic sport of
22:13
yoga. Yoga.
22:14
How stretchy. How Zen?
22:16
How Zen can you be? I'm the most.
22:19
Well, it can also be very athletic.
22:21
I mean, I know, I just, it's not a sport.
22:23
I meditate the best do. Sports have to have a ball.
22:27
No what? What's a sport that?
22:29
Running is. A sport.
22:30
Running is a sport. Why isn't yoga a sport?
22:33
Let's get into this for a second.
22:34
I mean, break dancing was a sport.
22:36
I know. Why isn't yoga?
22:37
How? Why isn't yoga a sport?
22:39
It's like one of the oldest physical activities documented
22:43
on planet Earth. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
22:46
I don't know. Is boxing a Olympic sport?
22:49
Is like martial arts Olympic sports?
22:53
Yeah. Huh.
22:55
Yeah, is all right. Never mind.
22:58
I have no idea why. You know what?
23:00
Is what is horseback riding an Olympic sport?
23:04
I don't know, I don't know. You know what isn't?
23:08
What's not? Unicorn riding what?
23:12
That was a layup. OK, see you saw what I was.
23:16
Laying about. I did, I did.
23:18
I got it every time. I got it every time.
23:20
That's. Good.
23:21
All right. So earlier today we were looking
23:22
at topics and we had one that we could have discussed and I
23:25
determined that my brain power is not good enough.
23:30
We're keeping this one light. People, yes, it's it's very
23:33
light and requiring little little fun little fun and
23:37
requiring very little research on my end yeah so.
23:40
Also mine. Yeah, yeah.
23:42
So today, say what we're talking about for fun.
23:45
It's fun stuff. It's.
23:46
Fun stuff. Unicorns and Dragons.
23:49
Well, hold on Amber. Let me ask you a question.
23:51
What in this corner? It's the moment you've all been
23:57
waiting for. Wow, this is our first episode.
23:59
Welcome to the podcast #45 yes, Dash slash 1.
24:04
The moment you've all been waiting for, ladies.
24:06
And gentlemen, there we go. In this corner we have Luke
24:09
claiming to weigh in at 185 lbs right showing up with a shirt
24:14
that he tried to segue with, which is not at all a direct
24:17
relation, but it's. Totally a direct relation.
24:20
So our under one, our tally has not changed since our last
24:24
podcast. I'm closing in though, there's a
24:26
chance. It's it, Yeah.
24:27
We're sitting at 9 ties. Luke's got sixteen wins and 18
24:32
losses. You kind of said you had
24:35
eighteen wins. You got to point out the number
24:37
of losses. Well you're right, I do I2 have
24:42
eighteen wins. About to be maybe 17 if things
24:45
go my OH. Please, people, vote on episode
24:47
4. Oh no, they won't be able to
24:50
because this won't be out in time, But vote on the next one.
24:53
You know what to do, you know what to do.
24:55
Vote for your boy over here. What's up?
24:57
What is this argument? Oh, in this corner we have
25:02
Amber, yes, who's clearly firing on all cylinders today.
25:06
All three. And she is clearly winning.
25:10
So that's unfair. And I think we should have more
25:14
fairness in the world. So my question for you today is,
25:18
oh gosh, which mythical creature is your faves?
25:26
That's not the question. Fix it, That's fine.
25:28
This is why. This is why you ask the
25:30
questions. I forget them.
25:32
Which is the cool? Which would you?
25:34
Rather. Have.
25:35
Yeah, There we go. Which would you rather have?
25:37
OK, Which mythical creature would you rather have?
25:40
Go. My gosh, we are really of what?
25:44
What? Of what?
25:45
There's. What do you mean of what?
25:47
Of any of anything. I said mythical.
25:49
Mythical. Yeah.
25:50
What? OK, so I'm going to throw that
25:53
question back at you because I think that it.
25:56
You're reframing. That's what you're doing
25:58
reframing, yes. Hey.
26:00
Luke. Hey, Amber.
26:02
Let me ask you a question. What?
26:03
And ladies and gentlemen, now at the moment you've all been
26:07
waiting for, what's the question, dear?
26:14
Which would you prefer to have? Which would I prefer to have?
26:19
A dragon. A.
26:20
Dragon a Unicorn. A dragicorn.
26:24
And the question after that is why this is what the audience
26:29
wants to. Do OK.
26:30
I bet you half our audience already knows my answer, so I'll
26:33
give the half that doesn't know my answer.
26:35
The answer is dragon people for sure.
26:38
OK? Not even.
26:40
I mean, yes, why it's a dragon. So many reasons.
26:44
So I mean, first of all, there's a large history of Dragons.
26:51
There's a whole mythology situation that goes with them
26:55
and it ties into my T-shirt. Not at all.
26:58
Yeah, literally. The oldest documented creation
27:00
story in the history of humankind is about the dragon
27:04
Tiamat, who was the mother of creation.
27:08
She lived in the dark depths of unknown, below the sea and the
27:14
sky. Who was her counterpart.
27:17
She and he created then the pantheon of gods that were
27:22
worshipped in ancient Mesopotamia.
27:26
I feel like that was the name of the dragon mother on the Dragon
27:29
Prince Netflix series. Probably.
27:32
Well, TMRT's the oldest documented name of a dragon,
27:35
period. So anyway, so that's.
27:38
I mean, that's part of the reason I actually like dragon
27:40
mythology and dragon lore. I've read a lot of books because
27:42
I'm super nerdy about things that involve Dragons.
27:45
Amber's so excited right now. If you're not a video consumer
27:50
of the pod and you're listening, she's yawned 3 times in the last
27:54
two minutes since I started talking.
27:55
This is not not before. She did not start yawning at the
27:59
beginning of the podcast. I said dragon and she was like.
28:02
Hmm, it's not. A like I'm getting punked right
28:05
now. No, it's not at.
28:07
A That's OK. I'll give you a few more.
28:08
Yawns. It's.
28:10
Here we go a few more yawns. So I like the mythology.
28:13
My personal, I don't know. I line up more with the Eastern
28:20
thinking of Dragons. She'd doing it again.
28:22
People were up to three and the Eastern mythology of Dragons so
28:27
ancient, you know, China and Japan and Korea, that whole
28:31
area. They see them generally as
28:34
connected to the spirit of water and air.
28:38
They are benevolent, they are wise.
28:41
They share their gifts and wisdom with people.
28:45
I think that's super cool in a lot of the Western culture
28:49
specifically like, you know, in I don't know, England, Wales,
28:53
etcetera, it's on the Welsh flag or was on the Welsh flag.
28:57
I think it still isn't the Welsh flag.
29:00
Dragons are are like to be contended with.
29:03
So still obviously, you know, magical and powerful etcetera,
29:07
but also people ought to battle with them to there's the whole
29:11
save the maiden story and there's the, you know, the
29:14
dragon is the bad guy. And then in Lord of the Rings,
29:19
which is my favorite book, there's the dragon that hoards
29:22
the treasure. We're up to 4 yawns.
29:25
This is amazing. This is literally for the record
29:27
book and some of our listeners are laughing right along with
29:32
you and I love them for it Anyway, so I think all that
29:34
stuff is really cool. The story of Dragons is cool.
29:36
The reason why I would like to have one is because there's some
29:41
more recent dragon stories that are a little more whimsical and
29:43
fun where people have Dragons literally as like, not as pets
29:48
because you can't really have like a super magical ancient
29:50
creature as a pet, but as a pet who is like your companion.
29:55
So, you know, not like a not like a dog, probably more like a
29:59
cat, Like they're more independent and, you know, like
30:03
you decide to do things together.
30:07
It's a. Mutually, I don't think a cat
30:09
and you decide to do things together.
30:11
Well, the Dragons are a little different than.
30:12
Cats. I was going to say.
30:13
Because a cat decides what to do.
30:15
Yeah. And you?
30:17
Maybe we're the Dragon's pet. In any event, I'm going to keep
30:20
going. So I need to get up to like 6 or
30:22
7 yawns and then I'm good. So.
30:25
So I think it's cool that Dragons can fly.
30:28
That's one thing that they always seem to have as a trait.
30:31
I love flying. I have flown an airplane, little
30:34
one. It was fun.
30:35
I've jumped out of an airplane twice.
30:37
It was awesome. Both times I've jumped off a
30:39
building. Like I'm really into air and
30:42
fast speed. So I think a dragon would be
30:45
way, way fun. Like super super fun.
30:49
And they're magical. OK.
30:50
And the reason I would like to have one is because there's been
30:56
some more recent, more sort of whimsical stories about Dragons
30:59
where they were like this. It was very popular as Aragon,
31:03
the book series where there were dragon riders.
31:06
And then also not quite as whimsical, but more recent story
31:09
from Game of Thrones, they had Dragons that they, you know,
31:13
sort of joined forces, so to speak, not quite like a pet, but
31:17
you know, like a partner. And I think it's super cool,
31:21
but. Queen of Dragons, right?
31:22
Yes. And I think it's super cool, the
31:25
idea that you could have like a gigantic, mythical, magical
31:30
serpent flying creature as your friend.
31:34
As our listeners would know, I am a big fan of flying.
31:38
I've flown an airplane which was tiny but super fun, and I've
31:41
jumped out of two different airplanes for fun for
31:44
parachuting, which is awesome. And I've jumped off of a
31:47
building. So if you get like speed and
31:49
wind involved in the sky, I'm in for sure.
31:53
So that's one of the main reasons I would pick a dragon as
31:57
which I would like to have and the magical aspect of it is
32:02
super cool. I like the idea that like if the
32:05
dragon and I decided we wanted to do something cool with magic,
32:09
like we could do it. Like what kind of magic does a
32:11
dragon possess? Like you mean you say magic, but
32:13
like magic is a broad, broad subject.
32:18
Well, it's nearly as. Specifically, what magical
32:21
powers do they? Have, I mean, it depends on
32:23
what, because they're a mythical creature.
32:25
It depends on what myths you want to read.
32:26
So I mean, literally we started the discussion with the mother
32:30
of creation, right? So that's pretty huge.
32:33
There's also like manipulation of the elements around you so
32:37
they can like turn stone into water.
32:41
There's like the fire breathing aspect of it 'cause you know,
32:45
the fire doesn't come from a literal fire.
32:48
It's like magic. So that's cool.
32:51
And then there's like the, the magical speech thing where like
32:57
they, you know, they can like, like they would get you to do
33:01
something like a, like a glamour from a vampire or, you know,
33:06
something like that. And they can like make
33:12
themselves and things around them invisible.
33:14
They can create like, like, like illusory worlds of around people
33:22
where they think they're in a dream.
33:23
Like there's all kinds of crazy stuff that Dragons can do.
33:26
Wait, they they can build the matrix?
33:28
Yep, we maybe we're all currently living in a simulation
33:32
made by magical Dragons. Maybe I think this is the first
33:35
time the. That'd be that'd be pretty cool
33:37
actually. You would like that.
33:38
Yeah, well, if it's Dragons, not if it was AI, because that seems
33:41
a little too close to home right now.
33:42
Yeah, I feel like Dragons would be super cool so long as they're
33:45
not eating us. I feel like, well, they might be
33:47
eating us if that's. Yeah, what do they eat?
33:49
I don't know, probably people. They're giant serpents.
33:52
Probably people. They eat warm blooded creatures,
33:55
I think. OK, maybe let's just say they
33:57
eat, you know, I don't know, like deer, like, you know, like
34:00
wolves eat deer. Maybe.
34:02
Maybe that's what Dragons eat. Maybe they eat cows.
34:04
Why are we so flippant about deer I.
34:07
Don't know, maybe because there's so many of.
34:09
Them No, no, no, Nope. I know the answer.
34:11
OK, I know the answer because I've seen How to Train Your
34:14
Dragon 1237. There's another whimsical where
34:18
they where they ride the Dragons and they're their buddies.
34:21
And they ate sheep. There you go.
34:23
They went to the Isle of Burke to eat the sheep.
34:25
They did. They wanted all the there.
34:27
You go. I knew the answer to that, but I
34:28
think they also liked fish too. Yep.
34:31
Yep. So fish and sheep is a sheep's
34:34
diet. I would like to eat fish and
34:36
sheep as well. It would not.
34:39
That's awful, but. Yeah, other reasons.
34:41
I would like to have a dragon. I have a dragon tattooed on my
34:45
back. OK.
34:47
And that just seems more fitting.
34:50
I don't have a Unicorn tattooed on my back, which some of our
34:53
viewers may find interesting. Oh, you.
34:55
Should could that be our question?
34:58
Doesn't fit with the the rest of the mythology I have tattooed on
35:02
my body but I have literally committed harder.
35:07
If the listener is really curious of who's committed to
35:10
this podcast episode harder. It's me by a mile cuz I have the
35:15
dragon tattooed on my back. Pretty big too.
35:18
OK. And you, you know what you don't
35:20
have tattooed on you? A Unicorn.
35:22
Take it away, Amber. By the way, she had another
35:25
couple of yawns. We might be up to six or seven.
35:27
Yeah, let's see if she yawns at her own arguments.
35:29
I really hope I don't, but now that you keep saying the word
35:33
yawn, it's like I'll all I can think about is yawning so and
35:38
it's nothing against that. Argument is as news fest.
35:44
OK, so you want a dragon and there's just 0 practicality for
35:50
having a dragon in my mind. I mean, that's that's the point.
35:54
Why? I would want.
35:56
What's What's the practicality of a Unicorn?
35:58
I why I would want a Unicorn over a dragon?
36:02
OK, OK. Yeah.
36:05
So interestingly, unicorns are are not as giant as Dragons.
36:12
This is true. Yeah, yeah, As a matter of fact,
36:16
my understanding is they're about horse sized.
36:19
Yeah, OK. I do like big animals.
36:23
Clearly we have giant dogs. 1 you may or may not have seen
36:26
during this episode. Where do you go?
36:28
A lot of times when they come up, even though they're huge,
36:31
they stay out of frame. Maybe they know.
36:35
Yeah, they're camera shy. Anyhow.
36:38
So unicorns, I see. There's your yawn.
36:42
Wow. OK, this is a contagious,
36:44
contagious episode. Anyhow, unicorns I would
36:48
definitely rather have. I feel like my the world and
36:51
society in which I live in is better equipped to have a
36:55
Unicorn than a dragon. And I think the practicality
36:58
needs to be taken into consideration for getting a pet
37:02
right. You're worried about a parking
37:04
spot? I I Where would a dragon live?
37:10
On top of the building on. What?
37:12
Yeah, you can go wherever you want.
37:14
There already are like farms for horses and people can rent out
37:19
stalls. Why wouldn't I be?
37:21
I could rent out a stall for my Unicorn.
37:23
We need a dragon farm. So I mean, so there is that.
37:29
And you're talking about maybe eating humans.
37:31
Who knows? I'm certain a Unicorn eats like.
37:35
How do you know that? Grass and stuff like that.
37:39
Based on just genetic makeup, that was what you were thinking
37:43
of, like lizards. And you're like, well, lizards,
37:45
they eat that. Horses or whatever.
37:49
The wow, I should have done that.
37:51
Equine. Equine.
37:52
They like, you know, like donkeys, like vegetation,
37:56
vegetation, ponies sometimes. Maybe the occasional salt lick
38:01
or sugar cube, you know, but not humans.
38:04
Not humans. I don't know of any equine that
38:07
eats humans, and I don't want to be possibly.
38:10
Well, I didn't say they did. Well, but.
38:13
You're just weaponizing my argument.
38:15
You didn't say they didn't. I am telling you without a
38:19
shadow of doubt, I will tell you.
38:22
Unicorns do not eat humans. My dragon would never eat a
38:25
human. OK, well, I don't have to worry
38:30
about that. The world is already.
38:33
Wait, what if they were a really bad human?
38:37
I don't I and. We have the magical dragon eat
38:39
it. I mean, I don't like, OK.
38:41
Never mind. I don't need an assassination
38:45
animal. What if it was Unicorn blast
38:47
power? So anyhow.
38:49
But then, OK, so unicorns also have magical powers, but they
38:52
seem more like useful to me, right?
38:57
I don't, I don't know that I need things to transform, but I
39:01
like the idea of having something that could heal me,
39:04
which is like one of the things that people think you know, or
39:06
say that magical, you know, the magic that unicorns have.
39:11
So like there's that, right. So like I, I like the magic that
39:15
they have for me and my purposes.
39:17
This is my pet. I need to take care of it.
39:21
Also. That's what I would potentially
39:23
be getting back because like, what if it could like heal all
39:25
the things that are going on with me, right?
39:27
Like I love that idea. The other thing you were talking
39:31
about was having a dragon and the benefits to you.
39:34
I'm going to tell you there's a benefit to Society of having
39:38
Unicorn. I could have a Unicorn and it
39:43
could do a little work for me, right?
39:44
It's a, it's a work animal too. I could give Unicorn rides,
39:48
charge for Unicorn rides. What people would do that and
39:52
they'd feel safe, man. People would feel safe doing a
39:55
Unicorn ride like they do party. Rides, you're going to, yes,
39:59
monetize your magical Unicorn. I'm going to monetize you're.
40:02
Going to have a sad, sad Unicorn.
40:04
No, I'm not. You're putting it to work.
40:06
Ponies don't seem sad when they're riding kids around, do
40:09
they? No, they seem perfectly fine.
40:12
They're like, this is what I do. I like to run.
40:15
Hard disagree. And unicorns like to run.
40:19
You're talking about at the County Fair.
40:20
You think the ponies are happy? I'm talking, I'm telling you, I
40:23
promise you, we have people who are listening right now to this
40:26
episode, right this very second, this, who have a horse or a
40:31
pony. I'm just saying them, they tell
40:34
you. That the bond between their
40:36
horse and them is just that bond is different.
40:39
Magical unicorns are much closer.
40:43
That's true to a horse. So I'm telling you there's a
40:47
good bond there. Plus, think of all the the
40:49
people who've ever wanted a Unicorn, their dreams would come
40:53
true at riding a Unicorn or riding a Unicorn like, like it's
40:57
this is a this is a service for others as well.
41:01
Not just me, but for others as well.
41:05
And the number one reason why I would want a Unicorn, number
41:10
one. Number one, yeah, is a baby
41:13
Unicorn. It's called a sparkle.
41:20
And how flippin cute is that? It is born joy sparkle.
41:25
Sparkle. That's why I would want a
41:27
Unicorn instead of a dragon. Much more reasonable animal to
41:32
care for and we can have a Co beneficial like you were talking
41:37
about. You wanted your dragon to do
41:39
magic for you. I want my Unicorn to do service
41:43
for others. For sure a dragon could do that
41:46
too. That's that's my argument and.
41:49
You got a horse with a spike on its head and you just want to
41:52
sell it. No, I didn't say sell it.
41:54
No, no, no. Monetize it.
41:56
It's very American. That's true.
42:01
Maybe I want my dragon to eat bad people.
42:04
Gosh, I feel like this that. 'D be pretty great.
42:07
What if, oh, what if I had a dragon and you could pick death
42:13
by and you pick either like firing squad, like you got
42:17
convicted of something terrible or or like you get the poison
42:21
thing or the electric chair. I could get eaten by a dragon.
42:24
I'm going that let me get I'm a feed the dragon.
42:26
OK, your greatest thing with your dragon is to kill people,
42:31
and my greatest thing with my Unicorn?
42:34
It's just a little fuck. Is to provide the dream come
42:38
true for people. My greatest thing is flying in
42:41
magic. OK, well I'm just saying with
42:44
other people, these are the two things just saying.
42:47
Sounds like a pretty simple vote to me.
42:49
I don't know that it sounds that simple.
42:51
I mean, when you were talking about, did you want to tell the
42:54
world about the world? And then you were like, Nope.
42:57
And I'm like, yeah, let's tell everybody.
42:58
You think I'm not going to be benevolent with my dragon that's
43:01
got magical power? You bet.
43:03
I still don't you. You lost that episode.
43:06
Whenever we're bringing up, you know why you bring it up a whole
43:09
business. It's not, it's current.
43:11
That's it's current, that's. Current in the tally, anyhow.
43:15
Whatever. Dragons are awesome, I win.
43:17
That's the argument. Which would you rather have?
43:19
Whether or. Not you like the?
43:20
Argument. Which is awesome.
43:23
And a Unicorn, which is also awesome.
43:24
Just not quite as awesome because no flying.
43:26
Pretty awesome. It's awesome enough that another
43:28
country also put them on the plane.
43:30
It's. Basically a horse.
43:32
Whoa, no, with some magical powers, I'm saying it's a it's a
43:36
reasonable thing to have. And and I think when we're
43:39
thinking about owning animals, we need to think about can we
43:43
really accommodate them as an owner.
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And I feel like you. Can accommodate a dragon.
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I feel like everything is already set in place.
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I would be a responsible Unicorn owner based on I could find
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everything I need for it. That's great.
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I would be the freaking coolest dragon owner ever.
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It'd be awesome. That's it.
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That's our argument. No more traffic.
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That's a fun one to think about. You just hop on your dragon and
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just go to work. God I don't want to work if I
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have a dragon though. Yeah, see.
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I feel like I wouldn't have to. Maybe I'd never have to work
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again if I have a dragon. OK, that's the argument.
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I'm clearly done arguing are. You.
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Clearly you. Clearly are How do they vote
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dear? You know what?
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They could go to the Spotify polls.
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Yeah, they can. That's the best way you could
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comment though, regardless. Yeah, we like engagement.
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We love. Let's have a little chat.
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We love engagement. Let's have a chat in the Spotify
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app or on social media. Wherever.
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We're on all the things arguing ever after.
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We're not super active because we have full time jobs and well.
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So we're very responsive actually.
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And we're sleepy. If you comment, we respond.
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That's true, and it really does matter.
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I'm just saying we don't post like 8 times a day.
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No, that we don't do because we because we're job.
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Jobs and sleepy. That's that's what I was
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talking. About anyhow, but we love it
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even. If you have a full blown phone
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call with somebody about a dragon, let's go.
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I know. Yeah.
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Today, even if you've commented on another one, you're like, oh,
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I don't know, it seems a little no comment again.
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We love it. We love it so much.
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Thank you for listening. Share us with your friends,
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family. Yeah.
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Unicorns. Dragon.
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Everybody. And especially, you know what?
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Share us with your enemies because.
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And your frenemies. And your frenemies, right?
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All of it, all of it, anybody and follow, right?
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That's what we got for you. See you next time, bye.
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Just want to do my own thing. I just want to do my own thing.