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Up A Creek Without A Signal · Nick and Kristen in the Podcast

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Hello and welcome to Nick and Kristen in the podcast.
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I'm Nick, that's Kristen. We are a married couple that do
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a podcast together. We really talk about kind of
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mostly our lives and just like parenting and navigating through
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unemployment at this moment and then just, you know, things that
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pop up and and interesting topics.
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Kristen is also a therapist as her main job now.
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I was going to say on the side, but that's now.
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You're now a therapist. Yeah, that's my official job
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now. It's very strange.
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It's funny because a client of mine who knew that I used to be
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on the radio, she looked at me and she was like, is this all
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you do now? And I was like, this is this is
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it? This is all I do did.
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You know that you got like girl from the radio station I.
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Said, do you? Because I wasn't entirely sure
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she knew the background. And so I said, do you know what
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I also used to do? And she goes, yeah, I kind of
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Googled you before we ended up seeing you.
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And she's like, and I noticed that when I listened to that
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station, now I don't hear you anymore.
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And I said, yeah, the show was eliminated in March or whatever.
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And she's like, oh, well, I hope you end up somewhere, but like,
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don't hope you end up somewhere because I like you and I want to
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see you. And I'm like, no, I know.
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So it's fine. But sometimes you get a break
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while you're giving lessons and stuff like that, or.
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Give lessons I. Guess not.
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I mean, what are you providing? Providing guidance.
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Yeah, there you go finding guidance.
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And do you know what I do? I do.
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I just like, it's like it's hard to, I don't know, I mean, when
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you're doing there. Provide counseling.
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When you provide counseling, all right, sure, occasionally you
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get a break. Someone will call and be like, I
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don't want to get cancelled today.
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And you're like, all right, cool.
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Bye. Not cool, but.
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Today you went and got some in and out, and you also went rock
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hunting. Well, I found that I had like a
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ton of time in between clients today.
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And so I was like, OK, what can I do?
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I kind of Googled on the map. We've becoming rock hounders.
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Yes. We've gotten like rock hounding
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and looking for rocks and like collecting rocks and stuff.
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And we have been finding some like Agates that's really
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popular here on the Pacific, the Northwest coast and everything.
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I found two. Nick has found two.
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Our daughter Lily has found one. And she likes to point that out
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a lot. And she has a running Ledger in
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her head. And so there's a I'm trying to
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be quiet because I know she's in the other room right now.
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But like, my goal was to go out to this little Creek today and
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to find a couple agates and to kind of, you know.
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Have some in our pockets. For Gingerbread, Hansel and
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Gretel, it right, like every once in a while just be like,
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hey, look over there. And then for her to discover
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something and to be excited because I enjoy doing this as a
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family and she's becoming very discouraged because she's not
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finding anything. She wants to find yeah, she
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wants to find 1000. So before we find their third
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one, so. She's exactly.
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She's keeping score and it's it's tough.
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So we wanted to have some some pocket ones that if we were
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having a rough time going along, that she would be the one to
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save the day. Yeah, because I don't know.
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It's I don't know. Are we bad parents for this?
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Are we spoiling our kids? I don't know, but anyways, it
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makes me feel better. I, I, this is something that I
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like to do and I want the family to be a part of.
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And if I have to hear when everyone found one but me and
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all this stuff like it ruins the experience.
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And also she gets very discouraged and she doesn't want
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to do it. And then it's harder to get the
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whole family out. I'm certainly not going by
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myself because of the experience that I had today.
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We. Learned a lesson.
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Today went out to the Creek and I was looking for agates and I
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mean, this was like perfect agate area, very expansive rock
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beds and like people are swimming and stuff like that.
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And I was like, OK, this would be the place.
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And so I'm looking, I'm looking. I spend about like an hour out
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there and I'm not finding anything.
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The sun is beating on me. I don't have sunscreen on my
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arms like it's hot. There's bugs everywhere.
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And I just like threw up a holy Hail Mary.
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I was like, all right, Lord, like just help me find an agate.
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Like life's been tough lately. There's been lots of cutbacks
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cause of money situations. It is unemployed.
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We're having a hard time finding radio jobs.
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There are no radio jobs. Like life is challenging.
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I'm working a lot. It's very taxing on me.
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Just give me this win. Let me find something.
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Take a break from pen. Take a break from all the other
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things that are going on in the world.
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I'm not asking for much here. Just help me find an.
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Egg like I know there's 1000 out here, just help me see one.
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Right in this moment I I step on a rock that apparently was
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covered in like Moss. I slip, my entire leg goes into
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the Creek up to about my knee. So I'm getting my socks, my
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shoes, and my pants all wet. I overcompensate with my other
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leg and so then I fall over and I scrape my knee pretty hard.
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And by the way, I didn't find a darn egg.
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Not even 1. Maybe it was under the rock that
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you slipped on. Did you look under the rock?
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Maybe all the rock? Maybe he was trying to show you
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like, here's a good one. Or maybe when you fell, did your
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hands hit the ground? Like.
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'Cause maybe. No, I didn't have that
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experience, but. You just weren't paying
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attention. The actual prayer was like, just
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help me see one, right? Like it wasn't like help me find
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like see one so that I go Yep, that's it, I can.
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Pocket it inside the like. 'Cause I know that they're
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there. Yeah, I know that they're
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littered around. I know that having one in the
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vicinity is already an answered prayer.
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Yeah, it's just help me see one. It's in the water.
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That's what he was trying to tell you.
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So my leg, my leg is killing me. Yeah, I still haven't seen a
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list. You have to show it to me.
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Are you willing to show? The camera, no, OK, no, I'm not
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ready to show the camera. I need to shave.
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Oh, oh, that up. It's on my leg and like.
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I have those kind of cameras like it's I'm.
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Gonna zoom in. Well, it's been a minute.
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So I was so like I, it was just like, you've got to be kidding
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me, you know, And it all just like came kind of crashing down.
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I had sort of a little bit of a meltdown because I also had like
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my phone in my pocket and I was like, all right, like this is
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now officially like unsafe. I need to make sure that my
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stuff is like away from water. I need to make sure that I'm
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texting you where I am. Yeah, I wouldn't go alone
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anymore. Yeah, I think this is a partner
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thing because. I had to go down this like steep
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hill and there was like, oh, I'm like holding on to tree trunks
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and all this kind of stuff. I'm like, oh boy.
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And it's like if I fall and knock myself out, there would be
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no one to find me. And I don't.
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Know where you were? You didn't tell me where you
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were. Coming.
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I didn't tell you because I didn't know.
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It was just like on my map and like I was like, OK, I don't
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know what, it's not like a park. I was like a mile marker too in
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Washougal or whatever it was. It was just like there was
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there's no like name of the place.
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I was completely alone and I was like, oh OK, I need to be
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worried about like twisting my ankle and not being able to to
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get myself to help or safety. And if you lose your phone in
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the Creek, I can't find you. Exactly.
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Yeah. All right, So we just don't go
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alone. Now, yeah.
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And I was thinking about it. I was like, how would he find
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me? And I was like, well, we have
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our location set on our phone, so you would know where my phone
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was. And also like the last thing on
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my laptop, actually, like if you opened it up and looked at it,
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you would see like the area that I was in because I was like
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zooming in, going is there a Creek there?
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And then I was like, OK, yeah, that's a Creek.
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All right, great. So by then.
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By. Then I have.
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To get into your office first, wherever you're.
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That's, well, you know where my office.
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And, well, you know, I can find your car, so I have a tracker on
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the car too. So that's creepy.
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Well, I mean, it comes with, I pay, I pay a premium for that.
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And yeah, so like, it's a Kia thing.
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Yeah, but you? Would have to find.
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So I could find the car and then get, I could be in the area of
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where you are. And then yeah, if you're alive
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still, I can just call your name and hopefully you're responding
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if not bleeding out. So how about we just don't go
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alone? I know it's like, I don't have
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the best track record for like, you know, not hurting myself.
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So it, it was a good sobering thought of like, OK, I probably
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shouldn't do this alone anymore. Yeah, but the chances to do it
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with just you are going to be very slim.
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Now that summer's coming. It's true, but we have camps and
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stuff we'll find. We'll find time for us to go.
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Or like you said, we find. We'll just order them online and
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then have them ready to go. Half I'm like 90% there to
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pulling the trigger on that because I'm just like, I just
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want to and yeah, like does that make me seem horrible?
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I mean. I don't think it makes you
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horrible, but it like, it's like I'm balancing 2 acts as a
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parent. Yeah, one act that she needs to
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learn how to deal with disappointment, of course, and
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learn how to overcome adversity. You know, like if it's something
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she wants to do, then she has to dedicate her time to it and get
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better at it and and go out more and be.
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But she's 7 and it's hard to find that motivation on her own.
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Like she's just going to stop doing it when it's something we
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want to do. And if we start bringing home
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rocks, she's going to be even more upset.
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So it's like if I do find him, I have to hide him or I have to
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deal with her upset and then she just has to like I don't.
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Think we have to go? That far away to brew in her own
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like emotions. Or we could wait, yeah.
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I think it's not a this or that situation, right?
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Like, I'm not saying every time she goes out she has to find
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something. It's just when we have found
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five and she's found one, like it gets discouraging for her
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because they're hard to find. And so it doesn't have to be
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out. Everybody finds the same amount
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all the time. And there's been plenty of times
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that, like at school, she didn't get called up to be part of the
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games at the Assembly. And so she was sad or like
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somebody else got to win a prize at school.
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Like she's experiencing discomfort and disappointment.
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She's learning those lessons. It's just do does the thing that
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I enjoy as a family have to become a conduit for
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disappointment? But can I have something where
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it's like the whole family's excited to do it and we're have
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a good time? Like if I have to make the
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manufactured magic to do that for a free activity that gets us
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outside, has us bonding us as a family, like it's not hurting.
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Anybody. It's true.
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And it's only when we don't find something like it's only when
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we've already searched for it. Like we're not going to go out
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and throw one on the rock. I'm like like you found 27.
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No, that's what I'm really. Saying 1.
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Yeah, it's not gonna be crazy. It's when we see the frustration
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happening. We all right, time for a pocket.
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Action, all right? Yeah.
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And it's not gonna be every time, right?
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If we haven't found nothing that she hasn't like, yeah.
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So anyway, so now that you're hold up because you have a leg
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injury, you can sit there and play with your squishy.
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Yeah, so. Oh, I didn't bring my squishy.
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I wasn't aware of how intense people have gotten about in
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these, like little squishy what I guess they'll call them.
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What do they call them like? Stitches.
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Fidgets. They're like little squishy
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balls. We Kristen had a couple and one
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of them got stolen from one of her clients, she thinks
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allegedly. No, I mean I pretty much saw it
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happen. But they may listen to this
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podcast. And so allegedly, allegedly.
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And so we went down to get her another one.
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This is a place called the Craft Warehouse that has just a bunch
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of them that I was like when you said a bunch, I thought you
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meant like there was a little area where they had all the same
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thing. But no, this is their main bread
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and butter. We walked in and there was like
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5 different rows of only squishies in different shapes,
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colors, sizes, styles. This is a craze.
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I had no idea. Well, it's the Nito craze.
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So Nito is is the brand of the like cube.
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Now that's the knockoff, Nito. Yeah, this is the knockoff.
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This is Weedo. And then there's the glitter
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dumplings, which are really popular right now.
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If you have a kid, you probably know what all those are.
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They're very popular on TikTok. And so Craft Warehouse sells the
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knockoff needles if you're. Wondering where to?
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Get them glitter dumplings and they used to sell the actual
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needles but they they get very little in stock nowadays.
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But yes, the kids have gotten really, really into squishies
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and and the price has shown. I don't know if it's just
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inflation or if it's the the squishy industry supply.
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And demand, man, baby, because these were like $2.00, no like
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barely $2.00 and now they're 10 bucks a.
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Piece, they're $10, it's so expensive.
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And there was like this little butter stick that I wanted to
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get. It looks like a stick of butter
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and you can squish it. And I was kind of not like super
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in love with it, but I thought it was cute.
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It was 1299 and I was like absolutely not the problem.
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With that one is it smelled like butter too, like it didn't need
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to smell like butter, but they have.
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I'm serious. I was like blown away by the
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squishy craze and I, I got one of course, because I was like,
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while I'm here and I have all these squishy options and
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Kristen got one and Lily got 1 and so the family is full of
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squishies now. Just like one of those things
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when you're like doing something when you're talking or when
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you're just watching TV, you can kind of just keep your hands
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busy. It totally yeah it works.
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It feels good. And it's not like strenuous, but
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it's resistant enough to give you like a well.
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Give me the other one because this one's too hard.
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The gem 1 is too hard. This is one that we got a long
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time ago and it's like you have to really pull it.
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There's levels. Of.
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How much you hate something? But yeah, like it.
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And then it all kind of, oh, I just, I think I broke it really.
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Oh my God, that thing was. Oh, I broke it.
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Well, here's the kids. Welcome to the PSA for
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squishies. Oh, no, don't pull them that
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hard, would you? Yeah, maybe I've been.
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I've been ripping on this thing for.
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A while. Just as time goes on, it gets
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harder. Because it's been a year since
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we've we've had it I. Don't remember it being that
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hard so this will eventually but.
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Like uncorked it. I don't know if you can tell,
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but like, yeah. Look at that.
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I want to. Yeah, they all.
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Have inside spots? Is that weird?
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Like I want to see what? Like we all want to see what's
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inside, don't we? Hold.
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On let's see if I can peel it open like here's the little cork
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can. We is it just gel?
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Yeah. It's like a thick, gooey gel.
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Now touch that, is that like? No, I'm gonna.
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Touch it. Oh, don't worry.
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I'm gonna touch it. So it's really sticky, like
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super. Oh my God that is heck of
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sticky. That's probably dangerous, but
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yeah, I'm gonna stop touching it now.
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You should probably. Stop touching it.
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And by the way, my supervisor at work, she's like, I bought a
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bunch of squishies and she's like, I popped one almost
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immediately and she's like, so sticky doesn't come out of
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anything really. 10 out of 10 don't recommend.
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And I was like, OK, yeah, we'll. Have to figure out what's
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actually inside of it. Yeah, it's kind.
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Of cool though. It does.
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Looks like hard candy, yeah. I know that.
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Like, yeah, I mean, they have a time.
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Oh, it's all like. Buy a couple.
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It's all like empty now. I could hollow this out
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completely. Probably because it should keep
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its shape anyway. Well, you're here for the live
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action. The section of a squishy that's
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now a year old and it gets to go in the trash now.
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This is even more satisfying than the original fidget.
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Yeah, but you can only do it once.
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That's true, but it's what people on TikTok are doing.
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Oh really? They're like popping them and
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they're like microwaving them and stuff.
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Don't microwave it, that's very dangerous.
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Yeah, don't. I saw that.
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People are, if it explodes, well, because it may not explode
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and you pull it out as soon as you squeeze it and it pops, that
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stuff is going on your face, yeah, and not coming off so.
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It's and it's incredibly, it burns.
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Please do not microwave. It's like, but it is pretty
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cool. Let me see.
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Oh, it's. Clear.
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I know it's clear, all right, but it's incredibly sticky.
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My hands are still sticky. Yeah.
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What is it? Immediately he touches it.
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Even when I said it's incredibly sticky, he's like, oh, OK, I got
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to know. That's what I'm saying.
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Don't touch it. Look at that.
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Well, you can see yourself in it.
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Look it this wasn't meant to happen.
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Oh, I'm upside down. All right, well, thank you guys
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for watching and hope you enjoyed this weird podcast that
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went from I don't know. How somebody listening on the
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Spotify is like, I have no idea what's going on.
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So if you were only listening to the audio of this, I encourage
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you to go over to our YouTube channel and check it out because
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that's really where you're going to see.
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We also have Spotify video too, so like but you can also just be
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listening. So watch this back.
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This is cool. What's sticky and?
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I don't even know how to dispose of it at this point in the
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garbage I guess. All right, upside down, Nick
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says thanks for watching. Don't forget to like and
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What else should we pop?