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Have You Seen This Bunny? · Nick and Kristen in the Podcast

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Hello and welcome to Nick and Kristen in the podcast.
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I'm Nick. That's Kristen.
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We're married. We do a show together, formerly
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a morning show and now now it's a podcast.
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It's a podcast show and. That's cool.
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You can on demand it whenever you want.
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Yeah. If you haven't, if you're just
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catches for the first time, be sure to catch up.
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We got about 45 episodes. But unemployed for a minute.
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Yeah, so you can catch up. And now I'm seeing just more
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people getting fired from radio. It's a rough time out there.
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I don't think we're ever working on radio again, Kristen.
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I don't think it's looking good. Well, I planned.
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Yeah, you sure did. So I I don't know what I'm going
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to do. I full.
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Time therapist over. Here and so I'm thinking now
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full time influencer, this is my chance to really lean into
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becoming an online influencer like everybody else is.
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Basically it's been something I've been avoiding because I
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don't feel like I'm that person. But I do have a monetized
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YouTube channel that does pay me monthly without any effort.
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So imagine if I put some effort into it, what I can do.
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So now that I've got time for effort, should I put my effort
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towards that? No.
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Look, you have this YouTube channel that you've had for
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forever. You've had plenty of time to do
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something with it. At this point, I have zero.
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I have 0 accountability from you to get this done.
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Well, because I've always had a job and so it's always been
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like. But this isn't like a passion of
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yours or anything like it's you. You wouldn't be building it from
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the ground up, but it certainly wouldn't be bringing in the
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money that a normal job would have.
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I don't know these people, they post 345 times a day.
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If I went up to that level and started like mostly focusing on
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the fat guy and all the fat things, I don't know, it might
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be worth a shot. A shot.
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And you've had three months of unemployment now to do that, and
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it's still not getting done. Yeah, 'cause I've been doing
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other stuff, I've been trying to find a job and I had.
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But that doesn't take 8 hours a day.
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I had hope and sure. So I was like, oh cool, but.
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You can have hope and I'll. Make this podcast.
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You can have a job and. I could.
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It's not one or the other, both can exist in the same time.
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You can continue to look for a radio job while also focusing on
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this. Yeah, I know.
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I just never, I never thought that that was going to be with
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the way I had to go. I know it's so I'm.
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Saying as though it might have to be the way I have.
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To it's it's fine, but it needs to be an and it needs to be a
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job at Costco and a full time influencer.
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It needs to. Be a job at the Postal Service
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and. I can't do both.
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A YouTube no. I'm either a full time
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influencer or I work. At Costco full time single guy.
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I I have time before I have to work at Costco so before that
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happens I should try and see what happens.
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You can try, I will give you 90 days, OK.
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That's pretty much all I got left.
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So anyway, that's not what we're going to talk about.
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We did have a hold my beer that we're just going to kick that
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show off with. Here we go.
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So a guy got banned from all Six Flags because he tried to eat
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chicken Nuggets on a roller coaster, and you're like, that
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doesn't seem so bad, right? Yeah, but there's no rules
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against that. There are rules against that
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actually, and I don't know about specifically chicken Nuggets,
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but the lengths is why this guy went to even by the end of it,
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he was like, Nah, they did the right thing.
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So there's that influencer named I'm not doing stupid stuff named
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Alan. It's a stunt with a tent.
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Well, it's I don't want to give all this information.
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I don't want you following him. He's an idiot 10 piece chicken
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nugget while on a roller coaster.
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So he snuck Nuggets onto the coaster by putting them in his
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underwear. So.
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I mean, there was other places to put it, you know what I mean?
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Nuggets is what we're we're going with.
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Here, but like you can put them in your pocket.
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Well, they might check to go. Directly.
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Nobody's checking your pockets before you go on the hot man
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with Disneyland. You.
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Can't bring any food? Well, this roller coaster goes
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90 miles an hour, so. OK, but.
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Still, so they have to check you for food or I don't know if they
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check your pockets basically. So he had his friend film him.
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While he was doing this, he sat in the back row.
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So in case anything happened, he brought sauce along so that he
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could dunk his Nuggets. It was all for, of course,
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social media. So it was called the Millennium
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Force. It's at Cedar Point in Ohio.
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It's the world's first coaster to exceed 300 feet in the air,
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and it reaches 93 miles an hour and last two minutes.
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So. Exactly.
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So the first thought you're like, oh, how back at the speed,
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well, it's a serious risk to choking.
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And at that speed, if you lose a nugget and it hit someone in the
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face. Yeah, it's like.
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A projectile. It's like a projectile.
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So they saw the footage, they saw what happened, and they
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immediately banned him from all Six Flags.
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He's banned from the Six Flags. Cedar Point for sure.
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He's like, oh man, like I grew up there.
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I'm so sad that I don't ever get to go back.
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But I I agree with their judgement.
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OK, but here's my question about this whole thing.
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Like I've heard this before. Like, oh, I got banned from
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Disney. I got banned from Six Flags.
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Like how do you get banned? Like I know the the incident,
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there's an incident, but like how does the actual banning
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work? Yeah, how do they like how?
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Do they determine you're the guy?
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Because like you could go walk up to the ticket counter and
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your friend could pay for your ticket and be like, hey, 2
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tickets here's my credit card and it could be some a non Allen
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name and they could be like all right, right over here gentlemen
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they. Must have a picture of somebody
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facial. There's not a post of like Six
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Flags Most Wanted and they're constantly like.
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How many people are banned from Six Flags for Life like this
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guy? He's going to be known like.
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You're Alan, but you just grew a mustache.
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You shaved your head. Go like this, you know, I mean,
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it's just like there's no one, there's no, there's no person
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that works there that cares enough to not let you in.
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I agree like it's some 18 year old guy.
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They're like. I don't.
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Know man, come on, just don't do it again.
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Just like the right operator who was just like, I can see there's
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Nuggets in your underpants, so I don't.
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Care so he had a a season pass so he at least can't get a
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season pass anymore. Unless somebody buys.
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Even then, he's got to take his picture and stuff like you have
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to register who you are, so change your name.
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No season pass, but you can still pay full price for tickets
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to go to Six Flags Cedar Point. I don't know.
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Yeah, it's a good point. I don't know how they're going
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to actively. I just don't know how they
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enforce it like Disney, I kind of believe that they could have
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facial recognition like there's people going around like the
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Terminator, like being like and it like turns red and they're
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like, I know subject identified and they just banned for mooning
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Mickey. Show them the Mickey Ears badge.
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I'm like, I'm sorry, Sir, you got to come with.
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Me. You got to come here, Yeah.
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I mean, yeah, I don't think Six Flags spend on that kind of
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deal. So Six Flags and things like
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that in the amusement parks are all for kids joy.
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But nothing brings kids more joy than their stuffed animals.
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That's true. 7 year old Lily, our daughter has several
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thousand stuffed animals as I'm sure a lot of kids.
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Yeah. And there's like a there's a top
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five. Like there's a ranking.
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If she had a Myspace now, all her stuffies would be on there.
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Like the five I know the five the.
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Five, the top five, and then there's a 6th 1:00 because
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there's the Super cats that are all 5 little Ty cats, and then
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there's a little Bunny. And the Bunny is I would say top
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three. Like she she thinks of this
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Bunny highly and it's name is Arrow because she reads these
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books called the Magic Hidden and the Magic Bunny.
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And there's a Bunny in it named Arrow.
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That's Magic. And we recently lost Arrow at a
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park. This was traumatic.
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This was I saw the trauma in my child's eyes happen in real
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time. So we went on a bike ride and we
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ended up at a park. Then we go to a lot and she went
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out, she played on the park and then she we left and went to put
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the bikes back in the car and ride.
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As we were putting the bikes away, she's like, have you seen
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my bag with Arrow in? It she has a little Fanny pack
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and she puts Arrow in it so he can experience the bike ride
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with her. Yes.
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And I said, no, you don't have it.
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And she said no. So we had to immediately throw
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the bikes in the car and then drive back to where the park
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was. And we got there and the bag was
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there, but Arrow was someone had come up taking the stuffed
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animal out of the bag, threw the bag on the ground and ran away.
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And so like I, I had her run ahead of me in in the park
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because I was like, let me park. You go, you can handle like you
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find it. Because I knew there was a bunch
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of kids at the park that day. Things were going to go sour.
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And so I get there and she is the most dramatic child I've
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ever seen in my life. And so she have you know how at
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the end like when Darth Vader like breaks everything and goes
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no. Yeah, that's a rage and emotion.
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Yeah, that's what I saw when I walked up at the park and she's
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like crumbled and like crying because.
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She found the Fanny pack, but not the arrow.
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She. Found the Fanny pack and not the
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arrow. So I was like hey, get your head
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out of your ass. Let's we got to find this Bunny.
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There's a limited time, just like all the other mysteries. 48
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hours. After 24 hours, that bunny's a
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gun our. Bunny's a gun.
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So like, put your tears away. We got we got things we got to
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do. And so I was like, go check and
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go ask those those people over there if they've seen a Bunny.
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I'm going to ask these stupid little kids over here if they've
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seen a Bunny. Which I was like, the boys took
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it for sure. But I was worried that they
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buried it or something like that.
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Because it's like a, the, the park is on, it's in like a
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little grassy area, but down the way is this lake and it's, it's
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got like a beach. So there's sand and there's
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rocks and then there's the lake. Immediately I was like, oh,
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somebody threw it in the lake. That's.
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Just a big jerk. Exactly what I thought.
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And so I'm looking around, I don't see anything.
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There's it's a big park I'm looking at, like there's a party
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over there and I'm like scoping on all the kids and I'm like,
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which one of you little punk stuck it?
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There's a party over here. There's.
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A party over there. And so I went to that party over
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there and looked at those little kids and those didn't have it.
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And so a good 8 minutes. And that's where my hope was
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like, I was like, I don't know, this is going to end.
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Badly this. Bunny's gone.
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Occasionally she would do the no and breakdown and start.
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Crying again. She ran and hid behind a tree.
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I know I felt terrible. I was like, this is going to be
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a very bad day. And I'm walking around and I
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look over and there's right next to the park, there's a little
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girl on a tiny tricycle looking at me.
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And so I'm looking at her and she's looking at me and I'm
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looking at her and I look down and she's holding the Bunny.
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And I was like, that's my Bunny. And so I walked over there a
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good 20 feet from where I've been running around looking for
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the Bunny. She's.
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Seen you. She's seen there's no way she
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didn't see me and her and my daughter.
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Yeah. Dramatically and I look over and
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she's next to her parents, who definitely saw me doing this
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like there was no doubt I was holding the bag with which she
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removed the Bunny from and so I I walk over and I was like, did
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you find that Bunny? She's like, she just holds it
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out and hands it to me so. She knew she took.
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It and I was like, oh, thank you very much.
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And there was like some fruit snacks in the bag.
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I was like, can I give your daughter some fruit snacks?
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I said like, thank you for being honest.
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And she's like, no, she was sitting there and then she's
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like, no, we're good. And like parents didn't say
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anything, didn't do anything. And I was like, I walked away
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from it going well, like, first of all, the reunion was
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adorable. I took the Bunny out.
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I was like Lily and she's like, and she went like, it was like a
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dramatic. It was like like like you hug
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your child after losing her amusement.
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Park. And I was like, like, worth it.
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But then as I'm walking around, like those flipping parents saw
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me walking, walking around for 15 minutes or 10 minutes,
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holding the bag, looking frantically for this Bunny,
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knowing their kid had the Bunny because I looked at you.
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They. Know that the I looked.
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At they were standing right next to him like you didn't if if
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Lily walked up to me holding some random Bunny, I be like,
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where you get that Bunny, bro? Yeah.
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And then it would be like, if someone comes back for that,
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we're going to give it to them. Right.
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And there you guys are running around, run around.
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Hey, have you seen a Bunny? Have you seen a Bunny?
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And they're like, and they're just, you think they talk.
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You think they're talking about this.
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Bunny Yeah, it's to me. I feel like they're like, I hope
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they don't talk to me, you know, like I hope maybe we'll maybe
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we'll get away with keeping it. But they didn't hide it in their
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pocket or anything. Maybe they could have.
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Yeah, they could have. So maybe I was just heightened
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by the. Experience, I think you were
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heightened by the experience. I mean, could it, could it be
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the way that you're you believe it could be?
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Absolutely. I don't see the benefit of that
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for for them like. The free toy, yeah.
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The free toy, but like you can find free nonsense wherever you
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go at a park and most parents are like even don't touch that
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Yeah, that's. The other thing, no.
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No, no, we don't take stuffed animals, especially from random
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places. This.
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Girl was like cuddling this bear.
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I was like, I was like, EW, I wouldn't.
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Like, you don't even know what house this has been in and like
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who's been on that Bunny and like what dog carried it in
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their mouth and stuff. So I, I would like to believe in
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the goodness of strangers that that maybe they didn't even
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realize, or maybe they were so absorbed in their own life that
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they weren't looking at you. I mean, I understand our
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daughter's very dramatic, but like, maybe they just go, what's
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that noise? They look over there and they're
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like, I don't know, like some kid cry, some kid crying about
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something. You know, we don't get involved.
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I mean, maybe you and I do just because we're Snoopy.
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But like most people kind of mind their business.
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That's what I'm like, trying to just kind of let it go, but I
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would imagine. But the young girl knew.
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She knew right away. Because when you came over, she
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was just like here. I know this is what you're
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looking for without even asking, but she was young.
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Yeah, I don't blame the girl. Like the girl was like, I'm
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keeping this bear a free bear. Or free Bunny.
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But yeah, as a parent, I feel like I would have been
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observant, waiting for the person to come back, had my
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daughter bring the Bunny over, get someone's attention and be
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like, hey, we found your Bunny, kind of like, and like, are you
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looking for a Bunny Perhaps? You know what I mean?
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Like, you see someone running around looking for stuff, you
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know, you found stuff. The odds are they're looking for
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the thing you found. So I don't know.
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I was just like, I was like, I already have, like, upset that
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my daughter had to like, first go through her first dramatic
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experience and then like to have parents that were just like,
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yeah, I guess, you know, whatever.
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Was glad you found me. Yeah, you know, it's funny,
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'cause immediately when you're telling me the story, 'cause I
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didn't go to this, thank God. I would have been like a basket
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case. But like, I know that if you
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have a young child out there in that they watch Bluey.
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Like, I immediately thought of the turtle boy episode.
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So Bingo finds a little stuffed turtle at a park and she plays
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with it. And she was very much like, can
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I take it home? And her dad Bandit was like, no,
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I think we need to leave it just in case the owner comes.
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And like immediately I was just like, don't all parents feel
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that way? Like, yeah, maybe you can play
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with it for now, but then like leave it.
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And granted, they hadn't left yet, so they don't know what
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they would have done, but it was it's very, it's very similar of
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like. And then if anything, this was a
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great teaching moment for Lily because afterwards I had a talk
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with her and I was just like, you know, when we go to park and
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you find bracelets or you find necklaces, like that could be a
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little girl that goes home and realizes her favorite bracelet
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or necklace because she always wants to keep it.
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And I'm always like, but what is that girl feeling?
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Maybe she's going to come back to the park.
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And it always felt like an abstract concept before this
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moment. And afterwards, I was like, how
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would you have felt if somebody just decided to keep Arrow
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because they thought it was cute?
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Like, that's how we should treat, like, the little trinkets
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we find at parks. And she was like, yeah.
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That's a good point, yeah. And yeah, we have to talk about
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crying. And I was like, what do?
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You. Mean about crying Well, when we
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were coming on the way home, I was like, I was like, you did a
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good job. Like I told you, we were going
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to find it like we just got to stay focused.
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Like the crying didn't solve. The game.
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Now you can cry. I'm like, you got 10 minutes,
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you got to focus and then do the thing.
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We focus. We handle, handle our business.
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Then afterwards we can cry. And it was just like, now you
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can cry and we're good, so. Yeah, but now she doesn't want
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to cry. I know she.
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Wanted to cry from happiness I know, but it was like it was
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fun, it was funny and not funny every 5 minutes to look over and
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see her like run away. But we found it, thank God or
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that would have been a really bad time.
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We would have had to find like, because knowing us, we would
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have haunted down the damn Bunny.
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Well, I bought that Bunny in Michigan.
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When? I was called Grandma.
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Grandma's going to go get this Bunny from this exact place,
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send it to me in the mail, and then someone, and then we're
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going to miraculously find the Bunny.
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Somewhere, the Bunny appeared on the doorstep.
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I think that's where I would have drawn the line with the
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whimsy. I would have been like, look, we
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lose things sometimes. I'm sorry, I don't know.
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She would have walked around all.
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Sad I don't even know how to look for that Bunny.
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Small brown Bunny, I know. The fact is she she didn't even
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care anymore. Like she's like, whatever, I
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found the money. She's got 100 other animals to
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deal with, but. Take a breath.
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You did good. Good job it.
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Was a disaster averted? Yeah, it was a hair wing dime.
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I, I I wanted all. Right, wrap it up.
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What else you have to say about this?
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I was. Going to I was going to get into
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like, have you ever lost anything that you, you know,
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traumatically affected you? And the only thing I can think
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of is my ghost monster helicopter.
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But what about you care about this ghost monster helicopter?
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I don't know, I don't really have attachments to things cuz
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I'm not a. Weirdo.
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All right, Well, thanks for watching.
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Have a good day. I'm gonna go.
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I'm gonna go handle my business and then cry.
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Yeah.