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Memorial Day Special · Nick and Kristen in the Podcast

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  Hello and welcome to Nick and Kristen in the podcast, The
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  Memorial Day Special. We, a lot of people, are taking
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  breaks. We're not.
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  No, we're working double time. So we're Nick and Kristen.
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  I'm Nick. That's Kristen.
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  We're a married show that used to be on the radio and now it
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  does a podcast and we're hoping to one day be back on the radio.
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  Yes, but we also have a daughter that's seven that comes up a
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  lot. It's Memorial Day, so I thought,
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  why not do some America stuff? I know.
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  Yeah, I do understand what Memorial Day is.
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  It's like where we, of course, yeah.
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  So yes, I'm not trying to make light of that.
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  I'm not ignoring that. I just thought this was timely
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  that this popped up and I think we should do.
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  It well, it is funny though, like all these brands will come
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  out and they'll be like happy Memorial Day come by 50% off a
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  mattress and it's like, you know what it means, right?
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  It's kind of a somber holiday, but it's been kind of Co opted
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  to like be the start of summer. Yes.
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  And I, I, I was just not feeling and not, I don't think it
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  because of unemployment, but I wasn't just, I just wasn't
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  feeling Memorial Day weekend this year for some reason.
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  My BBQ is still dirty. I haven't cleaned it for the
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  season yet and it just feels like a tedious test.
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  I feel like this isn't a depression indicator.
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  It might be. Because like normally like any
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  chance that you have to like grill burgers or something,
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  you're always on it like 03 day weekend.
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  Yeah, let me get the grill out. And like you had all the grill
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  stuff in your hand and you're like, I'm not even going to
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  bother. You're like, why bother?
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  Like it's not like we're actually going to have any
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  hamburgers. We're not going to go outside.
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  It's always a disappointment and like I'm tired of faking it
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  because we, we go out or I'll go out by myself and it's like
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  they're still kind of chilly outside out here in the Pacific
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  Northwest, but I'll clean the grill takes like 1/2 an hour and
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  you just scrub it down and clean it.
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  Then you get the food prepped and that takes another half an
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  hour. And then I go out there, I make
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  two 2 1/2 burgers. Then we eat them and then I have
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  to clean the grill. Like it's nobody cares.
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  No one, no one wants the corn on the cob.
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  No one I know, but you're the only one.
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  So it's just me and you. How many people?
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  Do you want to cook? For it's not and I want to cook
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  like a BBQ. I want to have like people over
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  and but I don't fight. No, we did this.
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  Last year it was you. I don't like people, so this is
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  different. That's.
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  The problem I don't know who. I would invite.
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  People over. Yeah, and so we had this issue
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  last year where I was like, I want to cook for a bunch of
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  people. I just don't know who I would
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  ask to come over. But we do have semi friends.
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  We could bring them over and cook.
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  Last year we had like the water stuff out like for Lily to play
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  and like, but it was. Just a three still.
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  So it's like, it's just seems like a lot.
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  It doesn't seem worth barbecuing for.
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  It's like because she doesn't need anything I make on the BBQ
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  so it's basically just me and you making well get.
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  Used to it buddy, it's just always you and me.
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  I want chicken, I want carne asana, like I want all these
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  things made on the like grill and I like bone in chicken and
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  I'm the only one that eats bone in chicken around here.
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  So it's just like, what's the point?
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  I don't have. It's like a lot of doing.
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  Now that I've completely bummed out, Happy Memorial Day
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  everybody. What do you have planned for us
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  today? Hope you enjoy your I hope
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  you're listening to this while you barbecue and go.
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  You know what I hate People. Too.
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  You know what? We should invite Nick over.
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  He's clearly not barbecuing. It's.
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  True, if you're within the vicinity.
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  Can you hear me? I'll come BBQ at your house.
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  No, he won't. He doesn't like you, that's why
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  he's not invited to your house. Food, though, that's fine.
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  I don't have to like you to eat your food.
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  All right, so there's a 20 question USA citizenship test
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  and they said that 36% of people that are Americans born and
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  raised can't pass it or only only 30.
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  Six, no doubt. Only 36% pass, so I thought I'd
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  give you the test. All 20 questions.
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  Yeah, I thought that, I mean, if anybody could pass it, it's
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  probably you. So maybe it should be reversed,
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  but these should be quick questions.
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  OK, what is that? Too many?
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  Questions. That's a lot of questions to
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  answer in less than 15 minutes. Speed round then here we go.
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  What does freedom of the press mean the government controls
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  newspaper. The media can publish news
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  without government censorship. Only approved news is allowed.
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  Press conference open to are open to.
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  All the media can publish news without government censorship.
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  Boom, well done, he's working. Question #2 Who was the first
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  person to sign the Declaration of Independence?
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  George Washington, Ben or Franklin.
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  John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson. I'm going to say Thomas
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  Jefferson. John Hancock.
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  John Hancock. See.
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  Like why would I know that? Question #3 Who lived in America
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  before the Europeans arrived? A Native American.
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  No one. It's option A.
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  It was completely empty. Native Americans,
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  congratulations. Welcome to this brand new land.
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  We elect AUS representative for how many years?
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  Oh. 20 US Representative. Yeah, the speed round gets you
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  what is 1 benefit of being a United States citizen?
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  Free health care, you can run for a federal office, Free
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  college tax exemptions. Oh my God.
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  You can run for federal office. That's the benefit.
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  That's the one. Benefit.
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  That's the one I don't want. Yeah, like give me the other,
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  I'll trade. You, I'll trade you.
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  Yes. Name one US territory, Hawaii,
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  Puerto Rico, Washington DC, or Quebec.
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  Name one US territory. Yeah, one of those is AUS
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  territory, not a state or not a outside of our territory.
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  I would say Washington, DC then. Incorrect.
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  That is Puerto Rico, first time in.
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  San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico, all.
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  Right. What territory did the United
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  States buy from? France in 18 O3 Alaska, the
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  Louisiana Territory, Florida or Texas.
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  Well, the Louisiana Purchase was a big thing, but yeah,
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  Louisiana. Boom, correct.
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  They speak French there. They do?
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  Oh, yeah. It's the the Cajuns.
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  Yeah. Under our Constitution, some
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  powers belong to the federal government.
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  What is 1 power of the federal government?
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  They provide schooling, issue driver's license, declare war,
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  provide the police departments. One power of the federal
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  government, yeah. 1. Issue driver's license.
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  Declare war. That's the one thing they can
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  do. All the other states do all the
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  other stuff. OK.
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  What movement tried to end racial discrimination?
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  The Progressive Era. The.
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  Civil rights When was the Declaration of Independence
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  adopted 177461887 or 1791? Who has adopted me?
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  Does that mean? Like yeah, so it was signed and
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  then adopted. So like I'm.
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  Going to say 171776 then. Yeah, OK.
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  All right, what are the two parts of the US Congress?
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  The Senate and the House of Representatives.
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  Boom, All right. Before he was president,
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  Eisenhower was a general. What war was he in?
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  He was World War One. Incorrect too.
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  Eisenhower sounds old. What it does holy What are two
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  ways Americans can participate in their democracy?
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  Oh my God. Vote and join a political party,
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  Pay taxes and drive? Sure.
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  Watch the news and complain. Hey, that's we can't do that.
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  Go to school and work. I mean, you can do all of that,
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  right? But you can vote and join a
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  political party. This feels like now after that
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  question, I feel like this might be targeted, like this feels
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  weird, Forever wrote. This is now trying to tell us
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  something. Why does the flag have 50 stars?
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  50 states? 50 states Who was the president
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  during World War One? Well, not Eisenhower, one of the
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  Roosevelts. Yeah, it's one of the
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  Roosevelts. Teddy or Frankie?
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  I'm. Going to say it's World War One.
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  I'm going to say Frankie. Woodrow.
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  Woodrow Wilson We were way off. The President of the United
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  States is elected for how many years?
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  Correcto What is the statue? Where is the Statue of Liberty?
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  Near Harbor. I didn't do.
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  I didn't do well on this. Name 1 war fought by the United
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  States in the 1900's the Civil War, the Revolutionary War,
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  World War Two or the War of 1812 world.
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  War 2. Let's say the War of 1812 is not
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  the answer. The Revolutionary.
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  War Who does AUS senator represent?
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  All the people from their state. Only the people who voted for
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  them. All the people in their state.
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  What is self government? The government runs itself.
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  People govern themselves through elected officials.
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  States don't need a federal government.
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  The president makes all the decisions.
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  B. But people govern themselves
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  through elected. That's called self government,
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  yes. All right.
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  You passed 70% better than most Americans, but the new citizens
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  still whipped you. That's OK though, I did.
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  Good. You only missed 456 questions
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  out of 20. Very good.
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  American citizen. Welcome.
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  Welcome to America Now. Thank you, Say the Pledge of
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  Allegiance. No I I know the Pledge of
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  Allegiance cuz I hear it in the kids schools I pledge allegiance
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  to. The flag, All right, So
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  hopefully you passed that test and you are now U.S. citizen.
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  I know we did the lightning round.
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  I'm sorry, did the lighting. Yeah, I got to see the answers
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  but. Yeah, I was trying not to read
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  all four questions every time. So too many questions.
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  I don't know if you enjoyed that or not, but comment whether you
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  hated it or loved it and this way I know we.
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  Can do more American citizenship of other different countries.
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  Exactly. We can do more tests every time.
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  For the Lsats, I'm going to take them next week, although I have
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  decided, I think I so I, I saw somebody on the the TikTok.
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  I saw somebody on TikTok. They have no interest in being a
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  lawyer. None.
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  They have no law education. Nobody in their family is a
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  lawyer or anything. But they signed up and they took
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  the Lsats. Now the Lsats is like the SA TS
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  but for law school. So you got to have good Lsats to
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  get into law school. And he filmed himself taking it
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  and he was like, this is the hardest test.
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  How did you get away with it? Well, no, it's from the computer
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  and so he's just filming himself.
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  OK, it wasn't in like an official.
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  Testing, no. And like honestly, like I might
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  have been even a practice test because I think you still have
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  to be monitored. You can't just.
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  Like have an open book. Oh no.
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  Can I have my camera going for this outset?
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  I want to, I'm a social media influencer and he took it and he
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  was like, oh man, like I got like a 167 or something on it.
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  And like all these people commented of like, you could be
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  accepted into any law school of your choice, including in
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  Harvard. With a 167.
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  Yeah, it was like some, it was some number, I don't know if I'm
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  getting it right, but they were saying, like you, if you
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  actually submitted that any law school would accept you, any law
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  school. And some of the smaller ones
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  might even give you full rides. And he had no.
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  And it made me go, you know what, maybe I should take the
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  Lsats. Why you want to be a lawyer?
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  I don't know, but wouldn't it be so funny?
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  Like you do it for the bit, right?
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  Like it's like the side quest of life.
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  It's like I took the Lsats and like did really great.
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  How old was this guy? He was probably like, I would
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  say maybe late 20s, early 30s. So just out of college kind of
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  thing maybe, maybe because like now I couldn't even take the
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  pass the diploma test and pass right now the GED, it's been,
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  yeah, it's been 20 years. There's no way we would even
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  pass the GED, I don't think. I don't.
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  Think you would see? No, I don't think you would with
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  all the math and all the like. No math and reading and science.
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  You probably passed the reading. All that reading and numbers
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  are. Confusing.
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  Well, the math and math is like you got to go algebra like
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  trigonometry possibly like I don't remember how to do
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  algebra. Man, I don't remember like the
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  order of operations when it comes to like a lot of math
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  stuff. I'd have to get a refresher on
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  like OK, do you do the parentheses 1st and then do the
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  But like give me a weekend, I could pass the GED.
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  I don't know, I have to see. You know what, you know what,
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  there's going to be a a ton of people commenting how much they
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  loved us taking that citizen. They are.
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  We could take it right here. We could take.
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  The GED here, you could take it, Nick.
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  Yeah. And then the next day I could
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  take it. And then we'll take the Lsats
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  and then we'll take our SA TS and we're just going to make
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  through, go through all the tests.
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  Honestly, I think we should take the test, but not here, not not
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  so everyone can hear the test. I think no, we should find the
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  time to see if we can find like a test, GED test, you know like
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  a practice one, OK, and take it and see like no training, no
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  studying. Go in and see what our scores
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  are just. Like I'm going to do with the
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  LSAT, so I'm going to become. A lawyer, if you can pass the
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  GED and then we'll go on to pass like the SAT.
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  We'll take some SAT tests and then maybe the LSAT.
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  I know I'm supposed to be going forward in life, but I think I'm
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  going to start going backward. I'm just going to start
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  acquiring like degrees. I'm just going to be a forever
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  student because you know what the hellscape out there.
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  So I might as. Well, just, you can just get a
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  job anywhere. We're like, oh.
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  Actually, lawyer, I'm a therapist.
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  I'm a radio personality. I scored in the highest
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  percentile of Sats and I'm going.
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  To be the guy that's like I DJ sometimes on, I do weddings.
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  I know she's got 9°. I have an Esquire after my name
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  and MFT and LMHC of like all these.
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  I'm acquiring numbers. My tombstone's going to be like,
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  is that even a language? Right.
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  Yeah, too many damn letters. But I know who didn't have an
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  any letters after their name. I got to hold my beer story for
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  you if you want one. Here we go.
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  Hold my beer. It's been a while since we've
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  done it. Hold my beer.
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  And I thought. This people were clamoring for
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  you, I. Know I've heard nothing but
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  comments. This one I stood out to me and I
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  thought it was funny. So the art of distraction, by
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  the way, is very key to if you're trying to steal several
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  $1000 worth of jewelry from your favorite jewelry establishment,
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  you're going to need a plan. So last month 36 year old
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  Anthony walked into a Walmart. You know everyone's favorite
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  jewelry store filled a cart full of fireworks.
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  A diamond's a diamond set. Them on fire in the kids
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  clothing section and while everybody panicked about the
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  fire, he broke all the cases for the jewelry department.
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  It went. I know it's like.
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  Solid. Plan.
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  Good plan. He got away with about $10,000
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  worth of jewelry. 10,000. Yeah.
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  Is that enough? Would that be enough for you?
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  No. From like, want to have this big
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  extravagant escape plan? If I had my dream I would have
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  gotten like a $10,000 engagement ring from.
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  Yeah, exactly. So I was like, what did you do?
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  Yeah, and like all knock off. Diamonds that have the fakes as.
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  You. Yeah, exactly.
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  Like, I don't know what you're going to do with.
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  All this stuff mothers rings with the birthstones.
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  Sorry if you have a mother. Yeah, they're all look at you.
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  How? Dare you?
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  How dare my I dare you judge me? It's for past, present and
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  future. Meanwhile, it's.
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  An Infinity sign. Meanwhile, he costs over $10
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  million worth. Of damage you can't do.
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  The Walmart. So they tracked him down and
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  arrested him. He's now facing all sorts of
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  charges, Yeah, including first degree arson and manufacturing
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  and explosive. He was showing off that gold
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  chain. Yeah, all of his friends
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  singular. Yeah, he's like, you know what I
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  did today? I said, but where all my I
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  thought you were going to my fireworks, Bob, Like, Oh yeah, I
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  set him up. But yeah, here's.
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  But I got you. Yeah, here's a.
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  Diamond Next 2026 class Ring speaking.
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  Of which one am I going to do with my class ring?
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  I still have that. That's embarrassing.
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  Next. Is it?
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  I mean. Do you have yours?
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  It's like it was. Like, no, because possession,
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  and I'm going to say this with all the love in my heart, no, it
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  is no achievement to graduate from high school.
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  It's not. It's no achievement.
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  It's not. I mean, you do the bare minimum.
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  For some of them it is, for some people it.
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  Is like the fact that you graduated, like you gave up.
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  You, well, you can't, you came, you gave up in the beginning and
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  then you were like, oh, I should really put some effort into
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  this. And then you turned it around.
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  But like, I, I don't remember I, I don't remember studying.
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  Like, I don't remember, I remember doing the bare minimum.
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  Yeah, you had two two different high schools.
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  So that's why you may be going to have any loyalty.
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  Like I was like proud to be a go to my, go to my.
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  High school What's wrong with? Like what?
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  Do you think it was Rydell? I'm a nerd like I.
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  I know you like it was the. Only high school I'm ever going
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  to go to. Like it's like this is my high
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  school. This is like these are the
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  memories that I'm going to make and talk about for forever.
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  And most of the time I'm like, I don't remember any of that.
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  I got letters in like some of the like the things that I did
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  and people are like, you going to put it on a jacket?
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  I'm like, why on earth would I do that?
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  Sounds awful. I.
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  Would kill for a Letterman. What are you gonna?
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  I'm gonna walk around with a big puffy, unflattering jacket for a
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  letter that has drama and choir on it like I'm some sort.
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  Of athlete, that's my only break I got.
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  I lettered in tennis and I lettered in orchestra like I got
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  like the the white letter. Orchestra.
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  Is it though? Not in high school.
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  Not in high. School so it would have been
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  cool to have a jacket, but then it was very much like because
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  then you could put like a design.
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  Oh, I can't. Wait to have an I'll fitting
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  coat because. You have the design because.
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  You have the middle of California you'd.
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  Have your name on the back. Then you could have like a
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  design. Mine would be like a Viola.
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  And I was like, I don't know about that.
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  Not that we couldn't afford it anyway.
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  Tennis Ragon Thank God you were poor.
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  That decision was made for. You or you would have wore it to
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  something. We would have gone like back to
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  high school, like the prom, the senior prom.
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  We could have. Wore my.
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  I just. I had no school spirit.
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  I know. Shocker.
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  Yeah. I don't want a class.
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  I think my parents had to make me go to my college, my high
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  school graduation, because I didn't go to my college.
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  I was like, why would I do that? That sounds awful.
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  They're going to mail me the De La Palma, right?
• 16:35
  I'm going to sleep in that day. To this day I think it's the
• 16:38
  most expensive piece of jewelry I own is my class ring.
• 16:42
  It was $650. Nicholas.
• 16:44
  I know it's white gold. It's 14.
• 16:46
  Karat, I'm pretty sure your I'm pretty sure your wedding ring is
• 16:48
  more expensive than that, but you don't.
• 16:50
  Know where that is 450. Bucks.
• 16:51
  Really. Yeah.
• 16:52
  So this is the most expensive ring I own.
• 16:55
  Mine was tungsten and then but that's actually weird.
• 16:57
  So just for the bit, just to see, just to walk around the
• 17:00
  last ring like you won the effing Super Bowl.
• 17:02
  It does look like a Super Bowl ring and it's pretty dope.
• 17:05
  I wonder if it's still fence. I'll check that.
• 17:06
  I'll post a picture. Where is it?
• 17:09
  It's in a lock box somewhere in one of my drawers.
• 17:12
  All right, so I'll go get it and then I'll show it off on the
• 17:16
  next episode. I'll.
• 17:18
  Blinked out. Yes, boom.
• 17:20
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• 17:21
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