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Clean before the end of the year 2 and Backpack Traditions · Scott & Ally on Demand

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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I came across this yesterday, and it made a lot of sense to me this question because sitting there thinking to myself, we're getting into a time of year where I could see a lot happening.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you have a lot happening between now and the end of the year.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just gonna get very busy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah, and as the weather turns, you might do this.
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  SPEAKER_00: 25% of parents say their goal is to organize this before the end of the year.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is it?
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  SPEAKER_00: There's something that pops out at me right away.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I know somebody else said it too, so I'll just uh I'll just mention it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Say it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is close.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the reason is you're getting rid of that old season.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, my kid's not gonna fit into this next year.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're not gonna wear those same shorts, they're not gonna wear those same shirts.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a good one.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not the right answer, but I thought that was a really good one too.
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  SPEAKER_01: Closets also fell into that.
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  SPEAKER_01: We had a number of people that had said that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um shoes was another one, too.
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  SPEAKER_01: Shoes of school lunches.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's another one.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, let's see here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, yeah, finances when you're organizing your kids' finances?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, good on you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I will tell you this.
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  SPEAKER_01: The first person that popped in, because we we kind of went back and and uh checked on this a little bit, and I gotta scroll down because now I have yet another uh fresh batch of text.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, from 1725.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is candy, it it is their kids' toys.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what they're planning to organize.
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  SPEAKER_00: So especially those McDonald's ones that they never play with that are at the bottom.
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  SPEAKER_00: You just throw those away.
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  SPEAKER_01: But beyond that, out of sight, out of mind.
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  SPEAKER_01: Beyond that, the the you grow out of things.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like you go from the the the toddler stuff, which always you still, I swear to God, if you've had kids, you will find until they're 25 a random duple duple block sitting somewhere in a drawer in a living room.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they'll be 25, they'll be in college.
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  SPEAKER_01: You'll be like, oh well, right now it's the weirdest thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right now it's annoying if you find it when they're 25, all of a sudden Scott's crying in their in their room.
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  SPEAKER_00: I miss those days.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's true though.
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  SPEAKER_00: My neighbors are just in the process of moving.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they put a bunch of their kids' toys right on the curb.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god, the kitchen, uh, the uh toy kitchen set.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let me tell you, greatest day as a parent when you can unload that toy kitchen set.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because it doesn't just come with the kitchen and the little toy microwave.
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  SPEAKER_01: Eat all the eggs and the pots and pans food and all that?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is nothing better.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will tell you, if you are in this phase as a parent that has a toy kitchen in your house, the day is gonna you think the day they're out of diapers is hot, uh, wait until that toy kitchen is sitting on the curb.
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  SPEAKER_00: Scott wants to just pummel it across the room.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, it's funny because with my neighbors moving, they had all this these toys on the curb.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, you know what happens?
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  SPEAKER_00: Families are walking, they're little kids, and these little kids are like, oh my gosh, look at this, look at this, look at this.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the the parents uh were really hesitant.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're like, I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I could tell they were being hesitant of like, should we take it off the curb?
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  SPEAKER_00: Should we not?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it meant for that?
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  SPEAKER_00: So I look and uh I said, There's some good treasures in there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those people are moving.
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  SPEAKER_00: You take all those.
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  SPEAKER_00: Clarox swipe it, but you take it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You take all those.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, these toys look like brand new.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I know.
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  SPEAKER_01: You still Clarox wipe them, for sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, do you really want the measles?
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, look, there's 700 cases in PA.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do you really want them?
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  SPEAKER_01: No, you don't.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not this time.
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  SPEAKER_00: By the way, excellent.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I was looking for an excuse to take a vacation, maybe.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, maybe.
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  SPEAKER_01: 1104.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is Ashley.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is a great, great text.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I think I started a new tradition in our house.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah?
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  SPEAKER_01: So it ties into book bags from Ashley.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was her answer.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, we know that's not the right answer.
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  SPEAKER_01: We know it was toys.
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  SPEAKER_01: And think about this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not only Candy, I'll call you later.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not only the phase, yeah, you can either have drive-in or uh yard FLX.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, it it's not just the phases of life with toys where it's duplo duplo blocks.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's really hard to say.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna lie, I have no clue what a duplo block is.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a giant Lego, it's a it's a baby Lego.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I know exactly what you're talking about.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you and I play with regular Legos.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, we've never but anyway.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh well anyway, I used to years ago.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh but the Duplo are like the ones so that when you're a toddler, they're real big.
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  SPEAKER_01: Either way, then you go to Fisher Price, then you go to the toy kitchen, then you go to the then you start it starts growing in the street.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then you're back to Legos.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right, exactly.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, eventually it does come back around.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the new tradition I think we started.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I left the kids' backpacks from the end of the school year last year just hanging on the hooks.
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  SPEAKER_01: Never, we never emptied them last year.
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  SPEAKER_01: Really?
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  SPEAKER_01: We just left them hanging.
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  SPEAKER_00: I couldn't do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: So a couple days before well, I knew I already had everything out of them that I needed.
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  SPEAKER_01: I already had report cards and stuff like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: This was this was the extra hard work or extra, you know, math books for Gavin, which Lydia, it's coming, don't worry.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we did the dump and toss three days before school.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now they got new backpacks, obviously, because you know, you do that every year now, too.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't remember if my parents did that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't remember if I carry the same backpack for ten years or not.
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  SPEAKER_00: We got new backpacks every year until we got to high school.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then I had my jansport and I had that thing for th at least three years.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, is that where it shifts over?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now if I if I still had that jan sport, I wish I had that jan sport.
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  SPEAKER_01: You'd carry it everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh my gosh, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: That thing was that was solid.
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  SPEAKER_00: That could get like six books.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not that kids have six books anymore.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, you'd be surprised.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we got to Gavin's and, well, he's a bit of a hoarder in his backpack.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh-huh.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we got it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna lie to you, there were three-month-old bags, Ziploc bags of crushed up potato chips in the bottom of the bag.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm glad you didn't say bologna sandwich.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh no, that was that.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, had I if if anything like that was in there, I would have done this smelled it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Way better.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, that too.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have to walk by him every day.
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  SPEAKER_01: But there was something so gratifying.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we dumped out Gavin's fifth grade book or his backpack, and I'm like, you don't need that math book out of here.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's like it was just this sort of freeing moment in the back of my head.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm sitting there thinking, yeah, I know you're gonna restock it.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's two people in this world.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's the people who love throwing stuff away, which is me, and then there's the other people who love keeping everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's Zach, unfortunately.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, just get rid of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't, I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: So is the Zart box from pre K?
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, he's got everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: And everything's got a reason now, too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, well, you know, my dad gave me the okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have a family story for everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eventually you're gonna have to get rid of something, or it's not coming in this house.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean what?
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  SPEAKER_00: Storage unit?
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  SPEAKER_00: What?