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Toe Photos For Dough · Nick and Kristen in the Podcast

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  Hello and welcome to Nick and Kristen in the podcast I am Nick
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  that is Kristen. This is our podcast.
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  We used to do a morning radio show and now we're a good 41
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  episodes into this podcast about going on three months.
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  Yeah, it'll. Be almost three months.
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  Yeah. Oh.
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  My God, I can't believe it's almost been.
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  So wild. Yeah, so we got to let go in
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  March and it's just been, you know, hell.
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  Of a sense. Hell yeah, pretty much. 1/4 of
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  the year. That's crazy, Yeah.
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  And so we're hoping that something happens soon.
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  Fingers are crossed and the phone is on.
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  We're just waiting for those calls, man, Waiting for the
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  calls. Any day now.
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  But yeah, we have a 7 year old daughter.
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  I talked on the last episode about our letterman's jacket and
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  my class ring and how it was my prized possession.
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  I took me two minutes to find because I I know where
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  everything is and so I have it here in the box and I vaguely
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  remember what it looks like and I have to explain.
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  You get to choose. Did you ever get to do a class
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  ring thing? Well, yeah, you had the option.
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  OK. But you didn't go through and
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  like choose all the sides. OK, well I had to go through and
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  choose what I wanted. On each side you get to choose
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  your custom sides you get. To it's going to be so gaudy you
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  get. To choose the color of the of
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  the stone. And then I got they had
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  something you could put behind the stone and I know I got
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  something behind. The OK, so this stone is blue
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  yes. I just that was a shot in the
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  dark, so thank you for confirming.
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  The thing underneath the stone could be a symbol.
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  OK. Is it?
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  Yeah, it could. Be a symbol.
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  So is it the Superman symbol? It is not.
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  It's nothing copyrighted. It couldn't be anything that I
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  like. It had.
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  You had options. You had a list of options.
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  OK, So what was your mascot? It was a.
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  Warrior. OK, so there's a warrior behind
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  the stone, and your last name is on one side.
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  OK, I don't remember. That no.
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  OK, all right, forget it. I let's just I got enough of it.
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  Right. OK.
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  All right. Well, what?
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  Yeah. I don't know.
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  If you like, you're not going to be shocked by it.
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  So here, here's the ring. Let's see if I can get the
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  camera to focus. Oh, yeah.
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  Oh, I OK, what's the other side say?
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  Oh, it doesn't say. It doesn't say your last name,
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  but it says your first name. OK, so right on the name.
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  All right, so let's come a little closer, see if we can get
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  this to focus. Oh my gosh, is that a Ying Yang
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  symbol? See if you can get it.
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  Yeah, move it out a little bit. Focus.
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  No, it's too, too close. No, but it'll it'll focus.
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  Back up a little bit. It's not set to there you.
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  Go. All right, so 2002 year I
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  graduated. It's a Ying Yang.
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  I don't know why that was an option, but I was in the martial
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  arts tent, so it makes sense. Wasn't just because I'm weird.
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  And then you have Nick on one side and then the American flag
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  and a bald eagle because America.
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  America, y'all. And then I don't know if you're
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  able to see the stone. No, it needs to be cleaned you.
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  Need to. Be cleaned?
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  No, I'm just saying like jewelry needs to be cleaned.
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  Yeah, so let's see, we got this inside.
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  There's like a warrior in the back.
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  Of course there is. Yeah, of the.
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  Let me see. Yeah.
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  So let me, by the way, we're in the same studio.
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  She's over there. It doesn't look like she's over
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  there, but she's over there. So it was a $600.00 ring.
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  This is now. Worth 614 karat white gold.
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  It was like my prized possession.
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  It's still the most expensive piece of jewelry I own.
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  It might be the most. No.
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  Yeah, it might be the most expensive thing I own.
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  So what's this? Is that?
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  Western High. Western high school shout out to
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  western high school Las Vegas Hello all the people listen.
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  From there half of the year class is dead because they've
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  been died in stabbings. It seems like every year it goes
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  by another person dies. You're half right.
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  Yes, and let's see if it fits. Barely.
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  Oh, no, no, it's stuck on you forever.
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  Yeah. Let's see, is that the finger?
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  Yeah, I put it on my biggest finger, so yeah, bam.
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  Still fits I. Shouldn't it's not?
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  It's not as gaudy as like I thought it was gonna look.
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  I mean, it's not attractive. Like, at all?
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  Yeah. If I just had, I was just like,
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  talking like this. You wouldn't.
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  But I mean, like, what does that say about a man in his 40s
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  wearing his high school ring? Like it's there's just something
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  like so cringy and icky and about it I.
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  Don't know. Do you think that would be like
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  a red flag? Yeah, if you were like dating a
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  guy and you look down and you're like.
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  I'd be like, what's that? And then he's like, oh, my high
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  school ring. I'd be like, oh boy, yeah,
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  'cause it. Bringing up the nice jewelry.
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  Today it really signals like high school was the best time of
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  my life and it and I've never gotten over it.
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  It does feel that way. Yeah.
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  It it wasn't for me. No, I know.
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  And like, but if you're still wearing it to this day, I would
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  question like if any, I don't think I'd get along with anyone
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  who's where high school was their best time in their life.
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  Those are there's the people that are like, Oh my gosh, I'm
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  so glad I'm out of high school. College was much better.
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  And then there's the people that never recovered because high
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  school was the greatest time of their life.
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  And I know you. Can have the people, you can
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  have the people that peaked in high school but also had a good
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  life afterwards and are normal people.
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  I mean, maybe, but like, I just haven't really seen that.
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  There's a lot of people I know that I don't even, I don't know
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  who listens to this podcast. Whatever.
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  If I'm going to be offending somebody, I'm going to offend
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  somebody, they'll just unsubscribe.
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  A lot of the people that I went to high school with like all
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  married each other and like they all live in the same town and
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  they all like work at the school.
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  And yeah, well, that's success for them though.
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  But they're they're living a great.
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  Life, I'm not saying I'm not knocking anything against it,
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  but it's just like to me, that's just like, oh, like I didn't
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  have a great time. Like I didn't meet anybody that
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  made me go. You know what?
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  I want to stay in the same town for the rest of my life and do
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  this over and over again. They clearly did.
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  And they wanted to see the world.
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  I'm not saying they don't have aspirations, I'm just saying
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  like I didn't experience that same high school.
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  I didn't experience like, Oh my gosh, I love this place.
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  I never want to leave. Like I was very much like, can't
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  wait to be done with this. Never looking back.
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  But thinking back, wouldn't it be it?
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  Wouldn't it be nice to have a community?
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  Because that's total. You get the community and that's
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  why a lot of people you'll see in their hometown because they
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  have the 20 people around them that they go into high school
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  with. You have friends that are built
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  in that you had since high school, like I'm saying.
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  I'm not knocking, I know, but. It's an immediate.
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  Babysitter, like, Oh my gosh, like I there's an emergency
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  happens. Like, can I drop this off at my
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  best friend's house who lives 2-2 blocks away?
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  Yeah, I know. I've known their their husband
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  since high school because we all went to high school together and
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  our kids are all the same age. Like, that's amazing.
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  And it's the kind of community you don't want to move away
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  from. It's true, yeah.
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  That's what I keep. Saying I didn't build a
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  community in high school. So to me that looks very foreign
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  because I'm like, how did we have two different experiences
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  where like you were so like, I love all these people so much.
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  I want them in my life for the rest of my life where I was very
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  much like I could take it or leave it.
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  You know, like maybe they just two.
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  Different experiences. They might not even want the
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  people that they have in their life in their life.
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  It might just be that they didn't want to go anywhere or
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  they got a job or they got pregnant soon, early out of high
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  school. I don't know.
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  And they're like, well, I got to get a job at Walmart.
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  Walmart's right here. And then I'll stay and I'll
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  become a manager at Walmart. And and so it's like why I move
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  now. I got a house.
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  Especially in Orange County. I'm sure they're still living at
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  home, some of them. Yeah, I'm sure living in their
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  parents houses after they downsize Exactly.
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  Got a sweet like handshake deal on that.
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  So I mean like look. Sounds like the easy, the easy.
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  I'm not knocking it. No, I'm not saying you are.
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  But we took the harder route. Yeah, and here we are having to
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  pay $20.00 for a babysitter. So it's, but we also saw a lot
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  of stuff and experienced a lot of cultures.
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  So it's. Like there's pros and cons to
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  everything. Exactly, and so I will cherish
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  my class ring as I move through. Actually, I don't know.
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  I don't know. This is something you pass down
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  to the Lily. Want this Lily?
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  No, she's just. Going to melt.
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  It down nobody. This isn't like a family era.
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  Should I melt it down at this point?
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  Well, you said we're three months in.
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  Let me see if it's actually 14 year old.
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  Yeah, should. Be a I'm not entirely sure that
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  this is the highest quality silver it.
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  Says 14 karat. Yeah, 14 karat.
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  Gold 14 karat. White gold, so melt it down.
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  I know what am I going to get for that Let's like.
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  Probably nothing really. I don't know what white gold's
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  going for. Yeah.
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  All right. But we do have a friend here and
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  she is keen on making Nick a a little deal because she knows
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  that Nick has maybe some time on his hands and he's a great
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  photographer and she's a doctor, she's a podiatrist in the area.
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  And she said, hey, I got some new products coming in, I need
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  some new head shots. Can I make Nick a deal if he
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  shoots some photos for me? Can Ioffer him a couple of my
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  services for free? If you don't know I have, I
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  don't want to. I mean, how would you describe
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  they're not gross feet? No, you don't have gross feet.
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  I don't have gross feet, but you have.
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  Man feet with a a fungus toe. OK, so yeah, you have fine feet.
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  If you trimmed your toenails more, they would look less like
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  eagle claws. But like you have one big toe
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  that as we all do, the toenail looks like petrified wood
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  because at this point there's there's been no like the fungus
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  has moved in. It's had a family.
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  It's passing down its generation wealth to the little fungus that
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  are living there. Nothing's ever been done for the
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  whole community. You've they never left high
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  school. They never.
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  Left. They peaked, so they you've gone
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  to a couple doctors and they've given you like creams to put on
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  it and you've never really been consistent with it.
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  They've never treated the toe. They've always treated because I
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  had athlete's foot for a while. Yeah.
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  And like I just had the really dry feet.
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  And so they treated that. They gave me the and like a day
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  later, it was way better. I was like, Oh my God, that was
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  amazing. The toenails.
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  Never quite recovered. Yeah, I lost the I've the
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  toenails come off because I tried to treat it with something
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  and it worked, but it killed the whole toenail.
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  And so when it grew back, it was like, Oh my God, look at that
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  beautiful toe. And then immediately got the
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  fungus again. So yeah, it looks like Tiger's
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  eye, if you like. It's like it's got grains in it.
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  I think the petrified wood's a good.
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  Little petrified wood. Yeah, that's a good.
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  And so like our, our friend Doctor Who was like, hey, I can
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  treat Nick's foot and I'll give him several treatments in
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  exchange for like some photos and stuff like that.
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  And I she she told me about this and I said yes.
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  And she goes, well, don't you want to check with Nick?
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  And I was like, no, I don't need to check with Nick.
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  It's an. The answer is yes, he'll do it.
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  We've traded a lot of things in our careers.
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  I've traded commercials for. You know, we traded our whole
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  system that we have in the air conditioning system.
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  That's right. We did commercials for two
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  years. They gave us a free $20,000 air
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  conditioning. That's right, yeah.
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  This is the first time I've ever treated or traded foot fungal
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  antibacterial for pictures. So this is like no no Do I after
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  this? Do I sell my feet online?
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  Do I? Because then because now I have
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  to take promo shots on my foot too.
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  Because she wants to drop down there.
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  Because she's a. Before and after she's doing
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  like social media with it. And so she's kind of like, we'll
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  walk through the process, we'll film it, that kind of thing.
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  She, she used me as a foot model once, but I guess the pictures
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  didn't come out. So she's like, can you throw
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  your own foot in there for free? And I was like, sure.
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  So like it's going to be a whole foot thing Lilies going to do.
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  She does these scans that show like orthopedics, like what
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  could help and all that. And.
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  Literally like we're literally selling our fee picks for money
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  at this point. That's.
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  That's where we're that's where we're at in our careers.
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  Yeah. Is that now it's we've come to
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  the feed pick. You know what you do?
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  You do it. Recession indicator.
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  Yeah, you. Know this might she may know
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  other feed people that or other people that need pictures done
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  for their business because she's just starting her business.
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  So this is word of mouth is very powerful.
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  It's true if you need a good foot.
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  Hit up Nick. I'm going to have a great foot
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  in about two months. Yeah, then we got to treat the
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  other because the other foot's going to look all old and dusty
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  compared. And I don't have to shave my
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  foot before I take pictures of it.
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  I have I got a hairy toe. That toe that's petrified wood
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  is also hairy. So if you ever.
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  Want she's taken, ladies. By the way, if you have a foot
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  thing, I can cure you of your foot thing immediately.
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  Yeah. Well, we're all looking down at
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  my feet. Kristen's looking at the stars
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  she has now gotten into well. She don't say I've gotten names
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  I. Don't want to say you got into
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  but you've been a staunch what You've been adamantly against
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  the astrology. Science.
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  I'm a denier. Yes, I'm a denier.
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  You don't believe in astrology? It's not really a science.
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  Astrophysicist hate astrology. No, but somehow you got roped
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  into checking your sign and what it says.
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  About you. I'm pulling it up right now,
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  yeah. And what it says about you.
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  And you were like, that's surprisingly accurate.
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  And that's how they get you. Yeah.
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  So. Let's see what you got.
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  So like, it was, it's frustrating to me because, like,
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  they say generic things and then you immediately go, yeah, I am
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  compassionate and independent. But it's like, I don't know if
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  it's like, true or not. By the way, this was like I had
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  10 minutes to kill him between clients.
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  I saw something on TikTok and it was like, Oh my God, look up
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  your star sign. So I was like, yeah, I'll do it.
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  And then I read it and I was like, oh, that's interesting.
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  Right. So like I asked Chad GBT.
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  Because it goes all the way to the day you were.
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  Born, right? Yeah, it's to the minute, like
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  to the minute you were born. So I'm gonna, my core
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  personality is an Aquarius sun. I was born in February, so I'm
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  an Aquarius. I don't know what the sun means.
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  Sun. Well, there's a sun and a moon.
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  I'm a sun so dark in the light side.
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  I'm described as an independent thinker.
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  I'm emotionally complex, creative, but cerebral.
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  Well, OK. Yeah.
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  So like I'm creative but I have to like follow directions.
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  That's both, though. Like that's, yeah, that's like a
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  you're hot and you're cold. Right, that's kind of weird.
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  I. Am aren't I?
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  I'm helper oriented and humanitarian OK and drawn to
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  authenticity and meaning. Aren't we all?
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  Yeah, so you naturally observe people closely, value emotional
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  intelligence, dislike controlling dynamics, and crave
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  relationships where you can be yourself.
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  But like, everybody's like that though.
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  Yeah, well, yeah, it's true. Well, let's see what it says
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  about me. Let's see, because I know I hate
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  all those. Things well, I didn't look you
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  up, but I looked up who we are together as our star signs,
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  right. So it basically said that we
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  have this this pairing of Aquarius and Sagittarius have
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  great conversation. They're very humorous and
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  curious. That's true.
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  They love to share ideas and dreams and they have that best
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  friends feeling. Oh, interesting.
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  And I was. Like, I mean, that's, yeah.
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  Sounds right? OK, that's great.
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  Here's where it gets complicated.
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  Oh, interesting. Aquarius can intellectualize
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  emotions or become emotionally distant when overwhelmed, and
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  Sagittarius may avoid heavy emotional profit processing.
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  Oh, so it's not the drama or the trauma, it's the stars.
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  Yeah, maybe. I don't know.
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  The stars make me emotionally distant.
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  This relationship can sometimes be emotionally avoidant I.
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  Don't know. What you're talking about but
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  also deeply connected mentally while sidestepping vulnerability
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  and freedom focused instead of emotionally grounding.
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  So we enjoy our freedoms and stuff like that.
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  Yeah, I can see that. Well, yeah, we're not tied to
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  her because of our. Emotions.
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  We do well together when we're traveling.
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  We're good travel buds, yeah. That was the first Test.
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  Creating projects together, maintaining individuality within
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  the relationship and keeping life interesting.
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  I don't know about. That, yeah, I don't know.
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  Yeah, the kids keep me alive. Interesting at.
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  This well at this point. OK, well that's, I mean, I feel
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  like that's everyone that's listening.
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  Do you agree with all that too? I don't think I'm emotionally
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  avoid it, but I definitely think that you emotionally avoid being
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  vulnerable I. Was talking about and so talk
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  about, think about your partner and if all those apply to you as
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  well, then we're on to something.
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  So you didn't look me up at all. How do you look me up?
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  I want to know. About it, well, I don't know
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  what time you were born or anything.
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  I can tell you, let's do it. What's the Where's the website?
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  Well, no, it's just ChatGPT. Oh.
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  You. You just.
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  What do you? Mean you just use ChatGPT.
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  I use it for everything. What do you mean?
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  Like I don't have like star sign.com that's.
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  Where I thought you got it from? I just said dude, well.
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  That's an AI trying to do my and it knows who you are on ChatGPT,
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  so I. Yeah, 'cause there was a couple
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  times where I was like, you are a therapist and that is very.
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  Some reasonable I can't ask my ChatGPT, you have to ask yours.
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  You have to do a so. So, December 12th at 12:48.
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  OK, so you have a sun sign in Sagittarius.
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  Damn right. You're you are adventurous.
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  All right, Optimistic. OK.
• 16:19
  I am. Honest, curious, somebody that
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  likes to explore and somebody that enjoys your freedom.
• 16:28
  No, it's just it's written in a different way.
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  I'm trying to read it so that it's not so like whatever.
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  Sagittarius people are often directed and candid, energetic
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  and future focused, philosophical or spiritually
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  curious, Restless if they feel trapped.
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  I get that. Playful and fun loving?
• 16:44
  I get that. They value independence,
• 16:47
  authenticity, growth experiences over routine.
• 16:51
  I mean. I don't know.
• 16:53
  I don't know if I get that from you.
• 16:54
  I don't think of you as often. You have authenticity and I
• 16:58
  don't think I'm authentic. No, I don't mean that like on a
• 17:00
  mean way, but I don't think you crave authenticity.
• 17:02
  Like I don't think you value it I feel.
• 17:05
  Like, I like, I, well, that's why I don't have any friends and
• 17:09
  that's why I struggle pandering to people because I I don't feel
• 17:17
  like it's true. But yeah, I don't know.
• 17:18
  Well, thanks Chad GBT. Yeah, that's what Chad GBT says.
• 17:21
  There you go, something to do. Today, now that I've done done
• 17:23
  it about you, I don't know how see some of it applies some of
• 17:26
  it. Doesn't now it's like wait a
• 17:27
  second? Wait a second, you said he was
• 17:29
  smart? You're just making all these.
• 17:30
  This can't possibly be right then.
• 17:34
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• 17:35
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