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Sorry Don't Sweeten My Tea · Serious Beef Podcast

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  I'm Abby and I'm Anna, and this is series beef welcome.
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  All right, I was ready at that time.
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  I think it. I know.
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  I was like others I'm going to record always.
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  I'm going to. We're going to start.
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  And I'm typing on the phone. I'm going to here record.
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  Because last time. You were like, I was like, OK,
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  ready start. Yep.
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  I'm like what in the? World.
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  You said you were ready. I'm a big fat liar.
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  So. OK.
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  OK, so let's talk about our beef.
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  What's our beef, girl? I got some major beef.
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  I mean it is prime. Filet Mignon.
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  If you will. Have you done?
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  It I'm telling you what. OK recently I took a trip to
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  Chicago love to go up to the Windy City and visit wouldn't
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  want to live there. Wish I could have a condo up
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  there so I could go up whenever I want and not have to worry
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  about hotel and stuff. But I do like to visit.
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  We go up of course we have a concert, the AK Pop concert to
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  go to. We get on the train.
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  We always, if we stay in the city, we take the train because
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  I don't want to drive around downtown Chicago.
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  If we stay out like Rosemont, places like.
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  Yeah. Further out, we'll go ahead and
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  drive anyway. So we're staying.
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  We're staying. We're staying in Greektown.
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  So we go ahead and drive up. I mean, we go ahead and take the
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  train. Sorry.
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  And we we get on in Saint Louis and then in Bloomington.
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  We're going to pick up my sister.
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  Yeah, OK. We're going to pick up your
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  aunt. Mayor, we know.
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  Everybody knows Mayor she, she drives over, it's like maybe 45
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  minute drive or whatever over from where she's at parks and
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  she goes to Bloomington Station. So we get on the train.
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  Your sisters, your two sisters sit together.
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  I get in the seat, it's 2, two seats, OK.
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  And I have the seat next to me and I put my bag on it, my
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  little tote bag. And the conductor comes.
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  They're called conductors that come, they come through.
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  Yeah, take your ticket and they and they whatever.
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  And she says, everybody get your stuff off the seat next to you.
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  We have a full train, so don't have anything on the seat next
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  to you. If it's empty, make it available
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  for somebody getting on. Well, I'm my sister's going to
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  take this seat. We've done this many times.
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  This is the first time we had a crew.
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  The conductors were all women. OK, we've always had normally a
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  banger. We love it.
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  Normally, I'm all for it, I'm all for it.
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  Not this time. Oh no, we didn't have our usual
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  guys that were our conductors who are normally very helpful,
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  very nice, and do not have a problem with me keeping this
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  seat for my sister. First of all, to clarify, I'm
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  also in a walking boot for Achilles tendonitis and so I
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  struggled to get on the train. Sorry, back up, back up.
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  First thing they did was they sent us to platform A when we
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  should have gone bastards. Because I don't know.
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  I don't know if you've. Ever.
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  I've never read the track. You know what?
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  In Saint Louis, you have to go up an escalator.
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  OK, cross a like a bridge. It's all indoor.
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  It's a rope hanging. Kind of thing.
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  It is. It is.
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  We swing across the rope. Across.
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  Alligators below. Now the tracks are below you.
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  Cross this bridge it and you go down another escalator and it
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  takes you out to your platform. There's an A and there's AB.
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  That's not a huge station. OK, well, they sent us to A and
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  then they went, oh, sorry, you need to go to B.
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  Now there's only one escalator. It can be reversed to going up
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  or to going down. Well, it's going down well, so
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  we can't go back up. Now you have to climb.
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  So they're on the opposite. Sides.
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  Yeah, we have to go now. We have to go back up, go over
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  and come back down to get to the other side.
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  Yeah, well, I'm not climbing stairs with my massive suitcase,
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  which is full of freebies that we made.
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  There's no clothes. It's all freebies in a boot.
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  Right. And the person made the
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  announcements like, sorry. And we're like, no.
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  Sorry, sorry. I'll sweeten my tea, everybody.
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  Legit. Everybody goes back up.
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  We go to the elevator, Liv and I go to.
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  Liv says. Sam goes, I'm going to take the
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  stairs and Liv says I'll stay with mom.
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  So we go to the elevator, we go up, we go over, come back down.
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  Now we're going to get on the train.
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  No one is helping anybody with their luggage, helping anybody
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  get on. Usually the guys, there's
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  several guys there that are helping you get your suitcases
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  up, especially if somebody's in a wheelchair, whatever, they're
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  helping people. There's nobody there helping.
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  I don't know where they all were.
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  They're all were implied for me, I guess.
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  I don't know, I'm struggling. On to the train.
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  Sam is helping get help and get my, she came down, got my
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  suitcase, whatever. We made it.
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  We're like, OK, we're fine. But now she walks through the
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  aisles and she sees my bag, and she's like, you're going to need
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  to move that. But she doesn't say it like
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  this. She's like, you're going to need
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  to move that. Oh, boy.
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  That's how she says it. It's very aggressive and it's
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  very sharp. And I said, oh, my sister's
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  getting on in Bloomington, So if you don't mind.
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  I mean, I can move the bag and everything if you still want me
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  to. But I'm going to have my sister
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  sit here. Yeah.
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  And she's like, that's too far. What do you mean?
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  It's too far, you know the trick doesn't and.
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  I'm like, we're going all the way to Chicago, baby.
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  I don't know what the problem is.
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  I didn't say that. I just kept quiet because she
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  she just said that's too far. And then she goes no saving
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  seats like that and I go wow. I literally said wow because it
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  was so mean and it was so hard. Like that, that kid that's in
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  kindergarten with you, that's like, just like.
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  I, I literally said wow. And I looked over at Sam and I
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  said that's new because I was like, no one has ever talked to
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  me like that on the Amtrak people.
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  The conductors have always normally been very, very
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  helpful. Where are you going?
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  Where do you guys always? Talk about a positive we have.
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  Always had an excellent experience riding I I love
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  riding the train. I will pick the train over
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  flying any day any day. It's so much more roomier.
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  Everything about I I normally typically very much so love you
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  don't have the massive amount of security to go through to get
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  on. I mean it's excellent.
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  Not this time, not this, and I said, well, normally the
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  conductors are are are super nice about it.
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  They know she's getting on. She's bought a ticket.
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  You know she has a seat. They're OK with her this being
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  her seat. You know, can I just let her
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  have this seat? She has a ticket, right.
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  It doesn't matter if I save this seat for her.
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  She's there's a seat coming to her, you know right.
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  I understand it's the full thing.
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  This isn't like a somebody we're sneaking on the train.
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  I'm not sneaking any by on. She's bought the seat and she's
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  looks at me and she's like, if you don't want to comply, I will
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  remove you from this train before we even get started.
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  Ma'am, I already took the bag off the seat.
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  What in the world I had not I had before I could even reach
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  for the bag and move it. She's like if you don't want to
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  comply, she was going to kick my ass off that train.
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  Jesus and save a liver like. You know they're.
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  Freaking out, I'm going to. Kicked off Get kicked on the
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  train. Right.
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  I'm like. What is happening?
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  What alternate universe? Have I landed in?
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  We went to plan from a probably should have just stayed over
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  there. You know, like whatever trains
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  come and put me on that one because this bitch right, it's
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  like I'm listen, I'll move it, that's fine.
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  And I literally said I'm moving it, don't worry about it.
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  And I moved it and put it under my seat so that the seat was
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  open. Unbelievable.
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  It's like, I'm just going to say something to some.
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  Every single person comes to sit down and be like my sister.
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  I never had to say, well, that's, that's my, my text.
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  My sister said OMG almost just got kicked.
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  Off the train. God.
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  Because she's a child. Had to talk to my sisters.
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  And and find out robbery your story you go right at that you
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  were not being too. Mean no, I was not.
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  It it is, it is out of character.
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  I I you you've freaking atone with people before, but usually
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  they start it. You know what I mean?
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  It's. Like she started it and I did it
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  phone. With customer service, because
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  I've got to do it too, that you're just like, all right, I
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  need to, I need to speak to your manager like, you know, I, I
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  don't want to do this, but you know what?
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  We're too. Far gone.
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  I'll be very honest with you, I But you don't.
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  Usually come in. Like I'm not going to comply.
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  I, I, I will make an effort to absolutely not come in hot to
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  people because we all know you're going to catch more flies
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  with honey than vinegar. Like people respond better to
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  you being nice and and whatever and helpful.
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  I got a story about that. I got to tell you.
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  And, and, and I'm only, like you said, the only time I'm ever
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  going to not be try to be really nice is when, like you said,
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  someone's giving me a hard time 1st.
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  And like I said, it's typically it was some kind of customer
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  service where they're not willing to help me or whatever.
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  But I mean, that's, I really don't want to do that.
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  No, but who wants to do that? I don't want to act like that.
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  And I literally said, you know, this is my sister is getting on
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  in Bloomington. Normally she sits with us.
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  It's not usually a problem, you know, and that's it.
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  I'm not like, I'm like, hey, bitch.
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  And I'm like, no, no, absolutely not.
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  And I did turn to Sam and I said, wow, that's new.
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  I was so shocked, right? And I'm sure that pissed her
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  off, right? But I, I was, I was stunned
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  because I've never been talked to like that on with Amtrak,
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  even flying anything like transports, normally people are
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  quite helpful to get you in your seat, get you going.
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  I've never been never heard because that's the thing so
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  sharp and so mean in my life. I.
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  Feel like with, with planes and, and trains and and automobiles,
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  if you will. No, like in my experience,
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  especially on planes, like the stewardesses and whatnot are
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  like they're no, they don't usually come in bitchy.
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  Not usually because because we both of us know we are going to
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  be trapped on this metal death machine legit for God knows how
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  long we're together. And so we don't really want to
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  piss each other off. You know it's usually they
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  don't. Come in too hot 'cause they're
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  they're stuck there too. It's also at the end of day,
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  it's a business. You are a customer of their
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  business, paying typically. They're trying to make you happy
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  and as comfortable as they can. Correct.
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  Not everything's going to be hunky Dory all the time, but
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  they're going to try. Yeah, the conductors, like I
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  said in the past, we were in the train many times.
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  They're normally extremely helpful.
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  Now they like to get keep you moving because they do have a
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  tight schedule. I don't have a problem with
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  that. No.
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  And but they'll also be really helpful.
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  Now here's the here's the flip side.
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  Now we're going to come home. We're coming home from Chicago.
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  I get a I'm getting a text from am tracker.
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  You get texts and emails about updates, making sure, because
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  they'll let you know if your training is delayed or if
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  there's issues. They'll also tell you like enter
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  the best place to enter is on Clinton St. because then you go
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  into like the grand, the concourse, which is the waiting
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  area. And then you listen for
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  announcements when it's to board and, and you know, so they'll
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  send you helpful information. And then they said if you need
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  assistance, ask for red cab service.
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  And I was like, oh, what is red cab service?
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  I'm in a booth. This I do need assistance.
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  It was a struggle to get on in Saint Louis.
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  So maybe I should check that out.
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  We we walk in, there's a gentleman who is in the Grand
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  Concourse. Like, they stand there, which is
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  which is beautiful. I can't wait for you.
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  You have to travel with us and on the train because Union
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  Station to Chicago is gorgeous. So anyway, so we go in, the guy
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  standing there and he looks at lives to live as a jumbo
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  suitcase. You understand that we all have
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  very big suitcases because we went to two concerts while we
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  were there. Yeah.
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  So you have to have two concert concert outfits.
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  You have to have two concert outfits.
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  Abby, she makes the face. She makes the face.
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  I would say I agree but only because I was probably like
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  sweaty in that one and I would wear a different outfit.
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  Agree. Agree.
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  But your concert outfit is going to be a jeans and T-shirt.
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  Their concert outfit's going to be, well, Sam's in the cowboy
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  hat, boots, and with lots of fringe.
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  Legit. I did see the picture.
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  And and live there, there, Sam, and live there.
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  Concert outfits are over the top.
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  Yeah. And where Mayor and I, we're not
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  quite as over the top, but they were.
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  They have big feet. Sorry, I'm throwing I'm I'm
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  giving this information out. They have big bees and they're
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  wearing boots. You already, you already.
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  Well, we were remember we were talking about the 19 like 40s or
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  50s stewardess thing and you were like, yeah, my children,
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  they can never do it. They got like giant hands and
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  big heads, whatever the fuck you said about.
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  Us. I'm like, I don't think, I don't
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  know if my children can walk down the airplane without
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  hitting their head saying it would.
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  Be too tall. But anyway, we already.
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  You already done through thrown all of us.
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  Under the bus. I'm not even sure if you can
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  imagine how big these boots are that they they have packed.
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  It takes up one whole side of the suitcase.
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  OK, so plus, like I said, we made 400 freebies.
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  Sam went insane. Sam went insane.
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  She loves this group. The group is called Twice.
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  It's a girl group. She adores them.
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  Not just love, she adores them. And she's like, we got, we got
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  to make a lot of freebies. We got to make a lot of
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  freebies. We got, we had 200 freebies for
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  each day. And she insisted that we go to
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  both days. She insists she was.
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  I don't care. I'll pay.
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  I'll pay whatever it takes. We're going on both days and
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  we're like, we honestly couldn't tell her no, we couldn't.
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  She was so excited. And we're just like, you know
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  what you're willing to pay? We're in mayor, mayor, mayor's
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  like I'll pay for a hotel. I.
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  Paid for food, ubers, you know we all figured out I did pay for
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  my tickets but anyway, so I wasn't putting it all on her.
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  I'm like you can pay for Liv so but then Liv got a job so woo
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  Hoo. Anyway, so long story, Long
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  story short, we're on our way home, OK, And we go ask this
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  gentleman about Redcap service. He's like, Oh yeah, here's a
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  little area, sit here, I'll give him a call.
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  He calls. I got four people come.
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  We need you to pick him up. The one lays in a boot so she
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  doesn't need assistance. OK, Little dude comes with a no
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  little It was a gentleman. It was a man.
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  Little guy comes with a with a he's driving a little cart with
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  with a little trailer on the end.
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  He puts all the suitcases back there.
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  We sit in a little. Seating.
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  Area golf court kind of thing. He takes us.
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  Right to the right to the door. Of the train, they didn't even
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  check our tickets. They did.
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  They don't check your tickets to get on board.
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  They do not check your tickets prior to getting on.
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  The minute you get in your seat, you know, before we we leave the
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  station, the conductor will come down and scan your ticket.
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  What I'm hearing is that we need to be packing a boot every time
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  I go on the trip. And then so we can ask the
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  Redcap through the Ric and Betsy in Chicago, you can get Redcap.
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  I don't know if you can get Redcap in Saint Louis.
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  Now, what's really funny is that a red like Redcap is a actually
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  like a, there's like a mythology around this, around a creature
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  that is called a redcap. It's like, I think it's like
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  Irish or like Gaelic kind of thing.
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  And it's like like a little evil gnome that wears these like red
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  hats. And then when you said a little
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  guy pulled up, I was like. And stole our luggage I.
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  Was like, it's like a little fake evil, fake creature thing.
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  Yeah. And so like it's red cap
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  service. And then a little guy goes, I'm
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  like. Lookout that he was worried.
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  Don't. Don't call the red cap.
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  He literally was wearing a red cap.
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  That's really funny. And he was so funny.
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  He was giving people shit along the way.
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  These two people were sitting here eating ice cream and he
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  goes, you got some for me. And they're like, and they look
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  over who he goes. He's like, this is.
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  Messing with you. We didn't keep on going.
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  And so then he's like, you guys heading, you guys heading back
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  home? And we're like, yeah, we're
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  heading back to Saint Louis. And he's like, what were you up
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  here for? And we tell him twice he goes,
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  oh, twice and forget I'm I'm over my sex kind of guy.
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  And we're like, we just found out they're.
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  Touring. They're going to be here next
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  over. We'll be back.
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  We had. We had a great conversation with
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  the red cab back. It was amazing.
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  He takes us right to the door. He loaded all of our luggage,
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  which probably was way. Lighter on the way back.
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  You would think. But we had to go shopping.
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  And not a single suit you're inside for Abby.
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  No, no. And I did, but I left it at
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  home. I sat down and.
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  Went grab. I didn't bring your stuff
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  anyway. No, no, no, we thought, well, we
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  have to have a suitcase now so we can go to the K Pop North.
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  Store. And and we spend all of our food
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  budget and we couldn't eat the rest of the trip.
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  But you know what? We had a great.
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  Time and we came back thin. We came back, came back so thin
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  and I had pop tarts in my bag. It was fine.
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  Not a scone. Not just scone inside scone next
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  actually Mus eggs when they're back in October.
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  They're out in Rosemont and that's the hotel with the
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  scones. So we're pretty excited because
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  I literally said where are they? And Liz says Rosemont.
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  And. I went the hotel with the
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  scones. Amazing.
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  So we're so excited. Anyway, so honestly, kudos to
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  Amtrak for the trip home. We had our usual guy conductors
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  and they were great. And of course, Mayor sitting
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  next to me and the guy comes down and scans her tickets and
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  he's like, he goes, we're in the Saint Louis car because they put
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  you in car by where you're getting off typically.
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  And he goes, OK, you guys are going to Saint Louis.
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  He turns in there and goes, but you're going to Bloomington.
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  She goes, I know, just tell me which way to go because they
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  don't open every door when they make a stop because they'll open
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  the door for the Bloomington people because you can't just
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  get off. It's quick.
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  You know, they stop, they kick your butt off and they move.
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  You know, we go on, we don't. Thank God when they get to Saint
• 17:14
  Louis, they'll stop. And if you need a smoke break or
• 17:15
  whatever, you can get out because then that train will go
• 17:17
  on to Kansas City and whatnot. But they don't stop and let you
• 17:21
  off at every, not every door opens.
• 17:22
  So she's like, just tell me which door to go out.
• 17:23
  And he goes, OK, you're going to go out down here.
• 17:25
  And then he went on his way. He didn't care that she's in the
• 17:28
  wrong car. He didn't care.
• 17:31
  You know, he wasn't, he wasn't. She meant business, but it was
• 17:35
  unnecessary. I'm like, somewhere along the
• 17:37
  line, maybe somebody must have given her a hard time or
• 17:42
  something. I'm sure people get angry about
• 17:46
  having to leave the seat open or whatever so that now she's just
• 17:50
  a hard ass about it and it was so unnecessary that I and she's
• 17:56
  not wearing a name tag because I am going to file a complaint
• 17:58
  with that. I absolutely am.
• 18:00
  It was so it was so mean. Do not threaten me to kick me
• 18:05
  off a train when I was doing nothing wrong, right?
• 18:07
  I'm like, that was so uncalled for.
• 18:10
  My thing is, my thing is like if it had been in a situation where
• 18:13
  somebody needed the seat and you were like being like, I'm not
• 18:17
  giving the seat up or whatever this is.
• 18:18
  That's a completely different situation.
• 18:20
  But absolutely nobody is sitting here.
• 18:22
  Honestly, it what does it. Matter right now, at that point,
• 18:26
  it did not matter again, we're the first stop in Saint Louis,
• 18:29
  so we're going to go all we're going to whole bunch of stops.
• 18:31
  And if somebody got on and they insisted on handing that seat,
• 18:34
  I'm going to let him sit there. I'm not going to be a jerk about
• 18:37
  it. But again, I know that there are
• 18:40
  enough seats that for the tickets that they've sold.
• 18:43
  I know this. I know.
• 18:44
  Yeah. OK.
• 18:45
  So there's no reason for for her to say that to me.
• 18:49
  And, and you know it, My, my mayor says to me, just tell them
• 18:54
  I'm in the bathroom if anybody asks.
• 18:56
  You. Oh, good call.
• 18:57
  The call but no one ever asked me if they could have the seat
• 19:00
  because I was sitting in the aisle in the window seat was
• 19:02
  what I left open. Yep.
• 19:04
  And so it was a non issue. Yeah.
• 19:06
  And it normally isn't a non issue.
• 19:08
  It never has been in the past. And I don't know, is a non
• 19:11
  issue. Yeah, it always is a non issue.
• 19:13
  And she made it an issue that didn't have to be.
• 19:17
  And so it was really uncalled for.
• 19:19
  And I'm like, I couldn't. She didn't wear a name tag and I
• 19:23
  took her. I took her picture with my
• 19:26
  phone. How did you Did she know that
• 19:28
  you took her picture? No, she does not know Sneaky
• 19:32
  because I'm like, if they ask who it is, I'm like, this is all
• 19:34
  I have. Here's the picture, right?
• 19:35
  This is who it was when we found out this woman didn't even work
• 19:38
  for Amtrak. I'm a Rancho.
• 19:39
  She just likes harassing people on train.
• 19:41
  This is she's like a hobo and stole a stole a hobo.
• 19:45
  She's got her little knapsack. Exhale stick.
• 19:46
  Walking around, no saving seats like Oh my she's.
• 19:50
  Riding the rails. My God, she's like no saving
• 19:53
  seats because we're riding the rails.
• 19:55
  I guess, and I normally love to ride the rails, but that was a
• 19:58
  very unpleasant that was. Yeah, that's an unfortunate way
• 20:01
  to get because there was two, there was another.
• 20:02
  Lady conductor and they weren't very nice.
• 20:05
  I'll tell you what, they were not nice.
• 20:07
  Oh dear. Now when we go to boat, we go to
• 20:09
  Debarg Debarg D board. I don't know why, I don't know
• 20:13
  what the word is, but to get off the train in Chicago, she's
• 20:17
  standing there by the door. And that's when I took her
• 20:18
  picture because we were like lined up and I just went gleamed
• 20:21
  out and clicked. So so I get to the door and Sam
• 20:24
  gets my Sam goes down 1st and she takes my suitcase and then
• 20:28
  I'm going to slowly come down in this boot and she takes my hand
• 20:31
  and helps me down. I wanted to kick her with the
• 20:34
  boot but I did not. I'm like, you're mean.
• 20:37
  You were mean to me. But I need the help.
• 20:40
  But I need to need your help, so I'll take your hand.
• 20:42
  But OK. So anyway, that's enough about
• 20:44
  that. OK, well then that was
• 20:46
  unpleasant. Let me tell you a really quick
• 20:49
  funny story. OK, my Co worker, let's lighten
• 20:52
  my Co worker told me Lisa OK, who just retired, just retired.
• 20:56
  Good for her. She told us this story.
• 20:58
  Congrats on your retirement, Lisa.
• 21:00
  She does not listen to this. You know what we're putting out
• 21:02
  in the world anyway? It's OK.
• 21:03
  Yep, it's OK. She tells me the story like
• 21:06
  maybe the week before she's going to retire.
• 21:07
  OK, All right. She cracked me up.
• 21:09
  I should preface that the reason the story came up was because
• 21:12
  another one of our Co workers had mentioned that, like, he had
• 21:15
  gone on like a weekend vacation when he was in high school or
• 21:18
  like, gone with his buddies and had accidentally left the, like,
• 21:22
  garage freezer standing freezer slightly ajar.
• 21:24
  Oh, no. And so everything ruined,
• 21:27
  ruined. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she says.
• 21:30
  But her and her husband went on a trip, yeah, on vacation or
• 21:34
  something like that, on a trip or whatever.
• 21:36
  And so her daughters were at home.
• 21:40
  They were in high school at the time.
• 21:41
  So they were. They were leaving home for the
• 21:43
  weekend. Certainly.
• 21:44
  And so the daughters have a party.
• 21:46
  Of course they do. Of course.
• 21:48
  They do, and she. Said She tells us that
• 21:52
  everything was like, fine. Like they weren't.
• 21:55
  Thrilled with the girls, but it was like, whatever, except that
• 22:00
  somebody or some multiple people had taken all of the meat out of
• 22:06
  their freezer and just stolen. They stole the meat for.
• 22:09
  The, and they had like half a cow or a full cow and they, they
• 22:13
  bought all the stuff and they put it in the freezer.
• 22:14
  So they use it. The rest of her, somebody
• 22:16
  fucking stole all of it. She's like, she's like hundreds
• 22:18
  of dollars worth of steaks and and all this go on go.
• 22:21
  On this is spicy. These high school kids went out
• 22:24
  there and go man, these people got, they got some high quality.
• 22:27
  Beats in here. Imagine being in high school,
• 22:29
  some serious. Beats the further.
• 22:33
  I thought you're going to steal it.
• 22:34
  Look at me. Imagine being in high school and
• 22:36
  you come back and like you're like, OK like the party, like
• 22:39
  nothing got broken, everything's fine and your parents go.
• 22:42
  But then you find out that somebody had fucking stolen all
• 22:45
  of like an entire cow out of your freezer.
• 22:48
  It's Can you imagine going out there and they open it and it's
• 22:50
  empty. Holy shit.
• 22:54
  Oh man, you guys would have to earn that money back.
• 22:56
  I'll tell you what, she was not happy.
• 22:59
  She. Was not.
• 22:59
  Happy and I'm like I want names because.
• 23:03
  First of all, who's going? Home with a couple of steaks.
• 23:07
  Who's cooking these things? Half of a cow.
• 23:11
  What in high school was going home with all this meat as a
• 23:14
  parent? Wouldn't you be like, where did
• 23:15
  you get these? Steaks, right?
• 23:18
  Or do they be like, alright, sold, let's let's cook it up?
• 23:21
  I know what's the thing? If I showed up and I was like, I
• 23:23
  got like 12 steaks, you'd be like.
• 23:25
  No, I would not. I would not.
• 23:27
  Ask any Yeah, but my father be like, I'm not going to ask any
• 23:30
  questions about the where these steaks came.
• 23:31
  From plane goes outside bars with the grill.
• 23:34
  He's like. What wings?
• 23:36
  We are very disappointed. He's pouring the lighter fluid.
• 23:38
  And all the charcoals. He's rubbing the sea salt.
• 23:42
  He's like a very disappointed, very disappointed.
• 23:47
  Oh. My God.
• 23:50
  Oh my God, that's hilarious. This is this is really tough for
• 23:54
  me. Overcooked.
• 23:56
  Meat. This is harder on me than it is,
• 23:58
  but you, Oh my God. That is so funny.
• 24:02
  OK, All right. Well, that's a great story.
• 24:06
  I thought so. Do you want me to finish telling
• 24:08
  you about about Chicago real quick before we go?
• 24:10
  On Was there more? You said the whole thing from
• 24:12
  beginning to when you got on the train.
• 24:13
  Come hell, there is one funny story.
• 24:15
  OK that you I've been saving. OK, well, hit me with it.
• 24:17
  Hit me with it. We are staying out in Greektown
• 24:21
  and so a gentleman that my sister works with recommended a
• 24:25
  restaurant called Taco Burrito King.
• 24:28
  Oh, OK. I was going to say the dancing
• 24:31
  Zorbas. No, because that is a Greek
• 24:33
  restaurant. It is in Chicago and there are a
• 24:36
  lot of Greek restaurants out there.
• 24:37
  Yeah, in in Greek, my big fat Greek.
• 24:39
  One, it is true. It's true.
• 24:40
  But I don't think it. Really.
• 24:41
  He recommended the Taco Burrito King.
• 24:44
  And it's out in Greek town for some reason.
• 24:47
  I don't know, you know, whatever.
• 24:48
  So we get back from the concert the first night and Sam and Liv
• 24:53
  are going to go to an after party, meet up with some friends
• 24:55
  that were actually up there. And Mary and I were like, I'm
• 24:57
  like, no, I'm in a boot. I didn't wear the boot to the
• 24:59
  concert because just standing in the boot is very uncomfortable
• 25:02
  and I'm uneven. I've been there.
• 25:04
  I wore my very squishy Chuck Taylors of the high tops and I
• 25:08
  love them. So I was fine.
• 25:09
  I was fine. I was not in any pain.
• 25:10
  So I wore those so many. I'm like, I probably shouldn't
• 25:11
  be on my feet anymore tonight. So I'm going to we're going to
• 25:14
  stay at the hotel. My very first Grubhub order.
• 25:18
  I downloaded the app, did my own Grubhub.
• 25:20
  Order. Oh my God.
• 25:21
  I'm going to delete that app immediately.
• 25:22
  That shit is so expensive. I just saw Ashley.
• 25:25
  That was crazy expensive. Anyway, we ordered.
• 25:29
  We ordered 2 tacos each and one burrito each.
• 25:32
  Why? I don't know.
• 25:32
  We never eat that much food. I don't know why we didn't just
• 25:34
  order each like a Taco, but whatever.
• 25:38
  The bag arrives. It is so heavy that you could
• 25:41
  have knocked somebody out. Oh my God.
• 25:44
  We get upstairs and we look at this food.
• 25:46
  The burritos are a foot long. This sounds like a great place,
• 25:50
  and they are. A It looks like a foot long
• 25:54
  sandwich. It's a this giant.
• 25:56
  Oh my. God.
• 25:57
  The tacos are so fat they don't really even fold up that much,
• 26:03
  it's insane. Oh my God, how much?
• 26:05
  We ate each, ate one Taco and we split the burrito and then we
• 26:09
  rolled into bed because we were so full.
• 26:11
  We were like so full. So now we've still got 2 tacos
• 26:15
  and a burrito in the fridge, right?
• 26:17
  And so I text them like we still have the this of you guys when
• 26:19
  you get back if you're hungry, if you want it.
• 26:20
  Well, we had a connecting door, but somehow we accidentally shut
• 26:23
  our door all the way and there was no doorknob and they
• 26:24
  couldn't get it. They couldn't get the food.
• 26:27
  So the next night mayor and I were like, well, we're just
• 26:30
  going to eat our lift doors. If you guys want to order from
• 26:32
  something, go ahead. We're going to eat this.
• 26:33
  So she eats the tacos. So I've got a foot long burrito.
• 26:37
  I'm not going to eat a foot long burrito, but whatever, I've got
• 26:38
  it, I've got to go microwave it. There's a microwave down the
• 26:42
  hall. Down the hall, take a lift,
• 26:44
  there's a microwave. OK, imagine this full on
• 26:47
  burrito. This thing is huge.
• 26:48
  And it's hefty. I mean, it is, it is full of
• 26:52
  it's very, very heavy. Yeah, I it, it solid.
• 26:56
  It is solid as a rock. Since it's been in the fridge.
• 26:58
  I could have broke a window with it.
• 27:00
  I kid you. Not it is that much going on
• 27:03
  with this burrito. It is that much going on.
• 27:08
  I have this, I have no plate. I have no nothing.
• 27:12
  I have nothing. OK, so I have some napkins.
• 27:16
  I put it on some napkins and I carry it down and I because I'm
• 27:20
  not going to just put it on a microwave.
• 27:22
  Everybody's in microwave in their food, and I don't know
• 27:23
  what's on this rotating plate. Oh my God, no.
• 27:26
  You could put it on a plate or something.
• 27:27
  Well, I have to put it on napkins because I don't have a
• 27:29
  plate. So I put it in there and I put.
• 27:32
  It's so big. I did 2 minutes.
• 27:34
  OK, so I wait. Like case feeling warm, I'm
• 27:37
  going to flip it over and do another minute because that's
• 27:40
  how the top part's probably cold.
• 27:43
  OK, I do another minute. I open the thing and the cheese
• 27:47
  is now running everywhere. It has melted and it's running
• 27:52
  out of the microwave onto the floor.
• 27:55
  I'm like, Oh my God, yes, I am. It's on this in the microwave is
• 28:01
  on this rickety table that shakes every time you try to
• 28:04
  open or close the door. It's terrible.
• 28:07
  I have one napkin in my hand. I I.
• 28:09
  Wipe up the. Cheese, throw the napkin away.
• 28:12
  I put my hands under the napkins to pick up the burrito.
• 28:15
  It is so hot that I am. Burning my hands, I have a.
• 28:20
  Pepsi a bottle of Pepsi under this armpit like actually like
• 28:25
  the crook of my elbow okay and I'm holding the burrito Pepsi
• 28:28
  over here in the crook of my mouth I.
• 28:30
  Take off running. It is so hot that I am running
• 28:36
  down the hall. We're down at the end of the
• 28:39
  hall. I run.
• 28:41
  Mayor, thankfully has propped the door open with the little
• 28:43
  bar thing. I hit the door with my all of my
• 28:47
  body. Boom.
• 28:48
  I burst into the door. I go, I go.
• 28:52
  Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh my God. It is midnight, mind you.
• 28:58
  I'm screaming, Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh my God as I run down the
• 29:01
  hall. It isn't burning my hands so
• 29:03
  bad, Jesus pouring onto my hands.
• 29:06
  It isn't burning the fuck out of me.
• 29:08
  And I burst into the door. I run past the connector.
• 29:11
  This sees me go back past the door.
• 29:13
  Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh my God. Holding the burrito.
• 29:16
  I'm going to embarrass myself, but I RIP apart and throw the
• 29:22
  burrito on the counter. Say this Luma's sitting on the
• 29:34
  bed in the room, just like what the fuck is happening?
• 29:39
  Maybe her is standing in between the two beds and she sees me
• 29:42
  come bursting through the door. Oh my God, Throw a burrito on
• 29:46
  the counter. There's like a the dress where
• 29:49
  the TV is. There was like a.
• 29:51
  Bag on there or the luma foil that I came out of.
• 29:54
  Threw it in there and when motherfucker, my hands are on
• 29:59
  fire. Why didn't you bring?
• 30:02
  The the little phone with. You.
• 30:03
  I don't know, regards. I run into the bathroom and run
• 30:08
  my hands out. Of cold water, my God.
• 30:11
  I had set my Pepsi down. The cheese had come out of the
• 30:13
  burrito and wrapped around my Pepsi.
• 30:16
  While I was running down the hall, I took a picture of the
• 30:20
  burrito with the cheese wrapped around the Pepsi.
• 30:23
  I kid you not, what an experience AB I'm telling you my
• 30:26
  hands were on fire dying. That's the burrito with the
• 30:30
  cheese. The cheese.
• 30:31
  Was wrapped around the fence. Look how big the well, now the
• 30:34
  burrito. This is this giant ass burrito.
• 30:37
  Look at this thing. Wow, it's huge.
• 30:41
  So it was really, really hot. It was really, really hot on the
• 30:44
  ends especially, which is where my hands are.
• 30:48
  So we're now we're just laughing hills hysterically because then
• 30:52
  mayor and I both had to had to pee because we were going to
• 30:54
  pee. Her pants were alive sore.
• 30:55
  I'm still I'm still not over it. My hands thankfully no permit
• 30:58
  damage. I'm good.
• 30:59
  Well. I was going to say, it's like it
• 31:01
  burned your. Fingerprints off so you'll never
• 31:02
  get caught. It's true.
• 31:03
  I'm safe. Nobody knew that.
• 31:04
  Nobody. Nobody knew.
• 31:05
  The cheese left in that microwave was from me.
• 31:08
  I literally had to run my hands under cold water.
• 31:10
  And then I was like, OK, I'm fine.
• 31:11
  I'm fine. Of course I couldn't eat all
• 31:12
  that. It just was, you know, I ate
• 31:14
  what I could. I did what I could and.
• 31:16
  Can you imagine? Liv sees me go running past the
• 31:19
  door and she's like, what is happening?
• 31:21
  I'm like, the boy is too hot. Oh my God, hilarious.
• 31:27
  OK, so that was the funniest thing that happened while we
• 31:28
  were up there. I'll tell you what.
• 31:30
  So I couldn't see myself, but according to Mayor me bursting
• 31:34
  in through the door, carrying a very hot burrito and screaming.
• 31:39
  Oh my God. Oh my God.
• 31:40
  Oh my God. And live, seeing me run fast,
• 31:44
  I've never run that fast in in many, many years.
• 31:48
  I was, I was, I know I had taken the boot off good because I I
• 31:53
  went to the concert without it and I was in.
• 31:55
  I was probably, I was in my just like these tennis shoes.
• 31:58
  Whatever. Yeah.
• 32:00
  And yeah, I felt no pain while running down the hall, except
• 32:03
  for in my hands. My foot didn't hurt at all at
• 32:04
  that point. OK.
• 32:05
  So. OK, OK.
• 32:07
  Well, I'm gonna do a juice sauce.
• 32:08
  OK, let's. What's our sauce?
• 32:10
  What do you got? Our sauce is space sauce.
• 32:12
  Oh, legit space sauce. Let me tell you what space sauce
• 32:16
  is, Anna. Hit me with it.
• 32:17
  Space sauce generally refers to the hot sauce that astronauts
• 32:21
  bring on the International Space Station to combat taste fatigue
• 32:26
  caused by microgravity. Legit, legit.
• 32:30
  It's a, it really is space sauce.
• 32:31
  They Yeah. I don't, I, I take it it's
• 32:34
  space. It's just hot sauce.
• 32:35
  But like, they call it like, it's space sauce.
• 32:37
  You know, that's awesome. Of course it's face sauce, isn't
• 32:40
  it space? So but yeah, you can have taste
• 32:42
  fatigue apparently. Wow.
• 32:44
  And so they bring the hot sauce to kind of like.
• 32:46
  Combat that. Yeah.
• 32:48
  Wake them up. Wake up, taste buds.
• 32:50
  Who knew? I didn't know that.
• 32:51
  That's an interesting fact. Apparently so why hot sauce and
• 32:55
  microgravity fluids shift to the upper body, causing congestion
• 32:59
  that dulls the senses of of smell and taste, making food
• 33:03
  feel bland. And so hot sauce kind of helps,
• 33:07
  certainly like one kind of clear some things up, but also you're
• 33:10
  such an intense. It's such like an intense like
• 33:12
  flavor kind of thing that it helps you one of the things you
• 33:15
  can still taste. It's not so bland.
• 33:17
  Wow, huh. Who knew about that?
• 33:19
  I did not realize that hot hot sauce is considered like a
• 33:22
  staple space on space venues. Huh.
• 33:25
  Me. Yeah, I did not know that.
• 33:27
  Nope. All right.
• 33:27
  Learn something new today. I'm gonna tell you about the
• 33:31
  first untethered, untethered spacewalk.
• 33:35
  Oh, because untethered. Untethered.
• 33:38
  OK When did that happen? There have been.
• 33:40
  Seven, apparently that have happened on purpose.
• 33:45
  Yes. I'm like, was this?
• 33:49
  Were we supposed to do that? OK.
• 33:51
  Yes, OK. There have been seven.
• 33:53
  There have been 7 in total. Tethered.
• 33:56
  Do they have like a jet pack on so they can fly back?
• 33:58
  Correct. Oh, OK.
• 33:59
  Cool, cool, cool. OK.
• 34:00
  That's what it like. But you're not tied off.
• 34:03
  But you're not tied off on the fucking thing.
• 34:04
  No, no, no. It's like if you start drifting
• 34:06
  too far. You're going to be.
• 34:08
  If you're something malfunctions on your suit.
• 34:09
  Yeah, you're going to froze. Freeze in death, Freeze in
• 34:11
  death. That's freeze in space.
• 34:12
  That's all folks. You run out of air, you run out
• 34:16
  of air and that's it. Yep, there's been.
• 34:18
  There was one in 1994 that was called the SAFER test. 1994 that
• 34:23
  90. 4 safer test that's a cat like it's a acronym for
• 34:27
  simplified aid for Eva rescue. So it was a, they were testing a
• 34:32
  device that would help them move freely and to test like
• 34:36
  emergency rescue capabilities. So it was just a, it was just a
• 34:38
  test, but they and they haven't had to use it.
• 34:39
  But that's 94 in 84. 84 is when. Is when they did the thing.
• 34:45
  I'm specifically talking about Bruce.
• 34:47
  Bruce McCandless the second. What a name.
• 34:50
  Nice. Bruce McCandless the second.
• 34:53
  You have undoubtedly seen of this photo, probably of him.
• 34:58
  I will show you. Let me see it.
• 35:00
  OK, there are two photos that I'm going to.
• 35:02
  Show you first. This one.
• 35:04
  You've only seen this photo. This is Bruce.
• 35:06
  This is Bruce and the other guy, Bruce McCandless.
• 35:09
  The second. Damn, I you know what?
• 35:10
  I never knew his name. And when I was in college, I
• 35:12
  went to a Bruce party and I could have been Bruce
• 35:15
  McCandless. Damn, do you know who I was?
• 35:18
  I was Bruce Souter. Also.
• 35:19
  Awesome. What?
• 35:20
  Year. What year did you go?
• 35:21
  It was in. It was in 89.
• 35:24
  OK, see, it could have been Bruce McCain.
• 35:26
  Could have been fine, but and then Robert Stewart took that
• 35:30
  photo. He was the only.
• 35:31
  He was the other. Guy, he was the guy and they
• 35:33
  were both out there. That's incredible.
• 35:35
  But they did. They did 6 space walks in total.
• 35:39
  Legit. In 1984.
• 35:41
  And they have a jet pack on thing.
• 35:43
  You saw it. I see.
• 35:44
  It looks like the jet pack to me.
• 35:45
  Yes, yeah. So he's got, he's got the thing
• 35:47
  on him. Look at him.
• 35:48
  Because, you know, now see the earth.
• 35:50
  Behind him, that's. Incredible.
• 35:51
  Now here's the thing. I've always seen this photo.
• 35:54
  OK, OK spacewalk. OK, but the photo that I had not
• 35:57
  ever seen is the zoomed out photo of how far away he was
• 36:02
  when they when it was this. It's gonna be terrifying.
• 36:05
  Look at him. That's him.
• 36:07
  He's very far away. Oh my God, look, I zoomed in.
• 36:11
  Look, look at this. You can't even see the Earth.
• 36:13
  Y'all, he's so far away. Look how far away he is out
• 36:16
  there so. The guy taking the picture is
• 36:17
  also doing a. Free, I believe he's in a free
• 36:20
  he's. In a no.
• 36:21
  Guarantee, no guarantee that he was doing an untethered thing
• 36:24
  while this guy are they? Is he Well, they're in space.
• 36:26
  The international OK, no shit out of you above They're
• 36:29
  orbiting the Earth. I don't clearly right.
• 36:32
  Are they? Was the space station.
• 36:33
  Built there. I don't know by then.
• 36:35
  I don't know. We got to find out when did this
• 36:36
  happen. 8484 OK, OK, OK, so Challenger is where he was.
• 36:43
  They launched from the Kennedy Space Station in February
• 36:46
  February 3rd, 1984. He was in.
• 36:49
  They launched Challenger. My gosh.
• 36:52
  Which I believe was used multiple times.
• 36:55
  Yeah, before it blew. Up.
• 36:56
  So he was on Challenger launched.
• 36:58
  So they're just up there on Challenger orbiting the Earth,
• 37:02
  is what they were doing. Because the space station was
• 37:04
  not built. The assembly didn't begin until
• 37:08
  1998. OK, I felt like that was too
• 37:10
  soon. He so his.
• 37:12
  So they're just up there. They're just up there ordering
• 37:14
  and orbiting in the in the Challenger.
• 37:16
  OK, OK, OK. And so the untethered, the
• 37:18
  untethered walks are called like an, it's like an Eva is what
• 37:21
  it's referred to as OK. And so it's like his first Eva
• 37:24
  lasted 6 hours and 17 minutes. Are you for real?
• 37:28
  He's jealous loose he and he's having the time of.
• 37:31
  His life and then the second one, which was Stewart.
• 37:34
  So they were not going at the same time.
• 37:36
  But somebody, so somebody, he's out there on Challenger.
• 37:39
  The dude is on Challenger. He's taking a picture of him.
• 37:42
  He's well, he. Might be outside too, but he's
• 37:44
  certainly he's tethered. Thing.
• 37:46
  Yeah. And he's taking a picture of how
• 37:48
  far away he was. Wow, he got that far.
• 37:52
  It's he's in the Manned Maneuvering Unit, the NMU.
• 37:55
  That's so. Oh, I'm so sorry.
• 37:57
  That's photographed by Robert Gibson, whoever that guy is for
• 38:00
  you, Robert. Sorry, Rob.
• 38:02
  That is so terrifying and amazing at the same time.
• 38:04
  So 6 hours and 17 minutes. And then Stewart was in was on
• 38:08
  the second Eva. His lasted 5 hours and 55
• 38:11
  minutes. Wow.
• 38:13
  And they're just out there tooling around in space.
• 38:15
  And then so it launched on the 3rd and then on February 11th,
• 38:19
  after 8 days in orbit, Challenger made the first
• 38:21
  landing on the runway at Kennedy Space Center.
• 38:24
  Was that the first? I guess so.
• 38:26
  First time Challenger went up. Wow.
• 38:29
  Yep. So.
• 38:31
  Wild, That is wild. He so Yeah.
• 38:38
  So he's he did the first untethered.
• 38:41
  Space, and that was in 1984. Now technically the astronauts
• 38:45
  were also not tethered when they went on the moon, but that I
• 38:47
  don't really count that they're talking like.
• 38:50
  Loose in space they cuz they had land on the moon and they had
• 38:53
  the the suits on that would keep them from flowing away.
• 38:56
  While on the moon, some gravity on the moon.
• 38:58
  There is some correct correct SO.
• 39:01
  But yeah, no, it's like, wow, that's that's amazing.
• 39:05
  Yep, I didn't realize it was that long ago.
• 39:07
  And he served, he served the same guy before his flight.
• 39:13
  He served as Mission Control capsule communicator, the
• 39:16
  Capcom, if you will. If you've heard that to more on
• 39:19
  Apollo 11. And he did.
• 39:21
  And then he finally got to go up.
• 39:22
  Yep. So during the first So he was
• 39:25
  the Capcom guy during the first lunar moonwalk with Neil
• 39:29
  Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin? Yep.
• 39:31
  And then, before joining the astronaut crew for the Apollo 14
• 39:34
  mission, on which he also doubled as doing, he also was a
• 39:38
  Capcom. But he was all on the mission
• 39:40
  he. Was on the mission.
• 39:41
  Yeah. And then?
• 39:44
  Folks, you have to understand this about me.
• 39:46
  Abby knows this about me. I love space exploration.
• 39:51
  It is fascinating, is insanely cool to me.
• 39:56
  Show. Give me a move.
• 39:57
  My favorite movie all time. Apollo 13.
• 40:00
  Yeah, incredible. Hidden Figures.
• 40:01
  I'll probably watch that tonight when I go home.
• 40:04
  And because I watched Apollo 13 while I was getting ready to go
• 40:06
  to the concert. No shit.
• 40:08
  I thought it was hilarious that Artemis is up there on the way
• 40:11
  to the moon and they show Apollo 13 on.
• 40:13
  The on the moon wild. I was like.
• 40:15
  Wow. Wow, you don't?
• 40:16
  Need to be manifesting. That this channel is not afraid
• 40:19
  of jinxing anything. They're not either.
• 40:21
  They're not. And I'm like, you know what?
• 40:22
  I don't care. This is my favorite movie of all
• 40:24
  time. I love it.
• 40:25
  I watched it while I was getting ready to.
• 40:26
  Go well, so OK, so he was McCandless Bruce I'm just
• 40:30
  calling Bruce Bruce stop saying McCandless.
• 40:32
  Absolutely, absolutely. So Bruce was part of the
• 40:36
  investigation. He was a Co investigator on the
• 40:39
  M509, I don't know astronaut maneuvering unit experiment that
• 40:44
  was flown on Skylab. I don't know what any of those
• 40:46
  things mean, but his work on on this being a Co investigator is
• 40:50
  what led him to be in collaborate collaboration on the
• 40:53
  MMU that I the manned maneuvering unit that and that's
• 40:59
  what was used during like the space shuttle, like free walks.
• 41:03
  And even though he's classified as like a pilot because he'd
• 41:08
  worked on that, that's why he was in the MMU thing for.
• 41:13
  The six hours when he was out there, Yep.
• 41:15
  Wow. And then he's also response he
• 41:19
  was responsible for crew inputs on the development hardware for
• 41:23
  the Hubble Space Telescope. OK, the solar Maximum repair
• 41:28
  mission, the and the International Space Station
• 41:32
  program. What a career yes.
• 41:34
  I thought you'd like to hear about this guy cuz I don't think
• 41:36
  most people even know this man's name.
• 41:38
  Don't. Even know this man's name?
• 41:39
  No, I didn't even know this. Name.
• 41:40
  He worked, but yeah, so most people don't know this name, but
• 41:43
  he's the Capcom guy in which is a big deal if you're in Mission
• 41:49
  Control, that's a very big deal that you're the Capcom guy for
• 41:51
  the Apollo 11 mission when they were on the moon.
• 41:54
  And then he went on, did the first flight and then he also,
• 41:57
  but he worked on like I said, the Hubble telescope, the
• 41:59
  International Space Station, etcetera, etcetera.
• 42:01
  So. What a career.
• 42:03
  I am blown away. My face, my jaw is like.
• 42:06
  Dropped so I thought you would like.
• 42:08
  To hear that, I loved hearing that.
• 42:11
  Thank you. Yes, that's amazing.
• 42:14
  And then I believe he's. That guy's living a dream.
• 42:17
  Literally. Let's see.
• 42:19
  Incredible. There's the STS 31.
• 42:24
  Let's see. Well, we were talking about
• 42:26
  space because Artemis, just the people, the astronauts on
• 42:29
  Artemis 2 just got home yesterday, right?
• 42:33
  Was it yesterday, did they? Or was it Friday?
• 42:35
  And. Look, they they just they did
• 42:37
  get back. They got back safely, OK, I will
• 42:40
  watch the live streams of those. They live stream them and it
• 42:43
  makes me so nervous because I'm like, look at this.
• 42:45
  If I'm watching a live stream and they and it's like something
• 42:47
  goes wrong and they blow up, I'm gonna I'm just gonna carry well
• 42:50
  for. The rest of my life, you know,
• 42:51
  and, and and I absolutely get get that because they showed
• 42:56
  Challenger, you know, that was a huge deal.
• 42:59
  This teacher was going to go up with these, these astronauts.
• 43:02
  I had decided to become a teacher and they they put this
• 43:07
  out there and I'm like, Oh my gosh, I'm not a teacher yet.
• 43:10
  I was studying. I was still in college.
• 43:12
  I couldn't apply. Yeah, I would have.
• 43:14
  I would have done it. That was a dream.
• 43:17
  Go to space. Yeah, it's very cool.
• 43:19
  I I would have absolutely applied to be the teacher to do
• 43:22
  that. And so I'm so excited because
• 43:25
  I'm like, OK, this goes well. Like maybe they'll keep doing
• 43:29
  it. You know, maybe I'll get a
• 43:30
  chance. Maybe I'll get a chance.
• 43:31
  Yeah. And then to stand there and
• 43:33
  watch that, it's so sad. Actually, I could cry thinking I
• 43:37
  know So you know what? RIP to the people on Challenger
• 43:40
  and and we. Were just talking about the
• 43:42
  Columbia. The Columbia that that those two
• 43:44
  accidents devastating and those people deserve to be remembered
• 43:49
  and further their contribution and their sacrifice, I guess
• 43:54
  because it every time you go in space, you have to know that
• 43:57
  there's a chance that you you won't come back.
• 43:59
  I mean, because there's so many things that could have that
• 44:03
  could go wrong. And, and, and The thing is crazy
• 44:06
  about that is that it's a tiny little thing.
• 44:09
  A tiny little thing. Oh, who knows what it could be,
• 44:11
  can determine, can, you know, be catastrophic.
• 44:16
  And so you take a chance every time you go.
• 44:18
  And it's like if you're willing, you're the people who are still
• 44:21
  willing to to try and to explore and to learn and and experiment
• 44:26
  and do new things. Like that's amazing.
• 44:28
  Well, yeah, kudos to them. Well, that's like, that's like,
• 44:30
  you know, we, we watched a whole thing.
• 44:33
  The guy that we went to go see at the it's not the foundry, the
• 44:40
  factory. OK, the factory.
• 44:41
  Yes, the explorer guy who was what?
• 44:43
  Was it on? Actually, what's his name?
• 44:46
  I. Josh.
• 44:47
  Gates, you want to go see Josh Gates, so he he does a show.
• 44:50
  Have you never remembered Josh Gates name?
• 44:51
  Not fucking remember. His name, remember.
• 44:53
  His name and I don't remember any of this so I can't really
• 44:55
  give you a hard time about. It so so Josh Gates had a show
• 44:58
  like all the Tales from the Explorers.
• 45:00
  Tales from the Explorers. Do you know about the Explorers
• 45:02
  Club? No, Oh my God, I want to be.
• 45:05
  In this club it is a very. Exclusive club.
• 45:09
  What? The Anna The Explorers Club.
• 45:13
  Is and I can't save seats either.
• 45:14
  Apparently it's. The worst club is this like very
• 45:18
  prestigious, like you get into these Forest club, like the
• 45:20
  people who are like they're the first ones to the North Pole
• 45:23
  kind of thing. This is this is who was in SO.
• 45:25
  It's not actually a club. Somebody just named and said
• 45:27
  these people are in this. Club.
• 45:28
  No, it's it's a club. Do they have meetings?
• 45:32
  Yes. Is somebody like the president
• 45:33
  and isn't it secretary and treasurer?
• 45:35
  Yes. I'm not even kidding.
• 45:38
  Yeah, damn, I'm never going to be in this club, the Explorers
• 45:41
  Club. I just got in trouble around the
• 45:42
  train. An American based international
• 45:45
  multidisciplinary professional society with the goal of
• 45:48
  promoting scientific exploration and field study.
• 45:51
  It was founded in New York City in 19 O four and has served as a
• 45:54
  meeting point for explorers and scientists worldwide.
• 45:57
  How? Damn, that's amazing.
• 45:58
  Yep, they host a annual dinner. I bet Shackleton could have been
• 46:01
  in that. Club Shackleton isn't, Oh my.
• 46:03
  God. What have I done with my life?
• 46:11
  It's a little waste. Oh man.
• 46:15
  I do like do they ever give? Out honorary memberships to
• 46:18
  people who really really really really like I.
• 46:20
  Don't know, they only just recently started letting women
• 46:23
  in. Oh, OK.
• 46:24
  Well, you know, I can't be surprised by that.
• 46:26
  I should not be surprised. Probably a bunch of white dudes
• 46:29
  that started it and it's been a struggle.
• 46:31
  For the women. Well, that's the whole thing,
• 46:33
  'cause we're watching this thing in like the North Pole.
• 46:35
  It's like there's some controversy about whether it was
• 46:38
  a white man or a black man who. Got there.
• 46:39
  Oh, legit got there first, yeah. But they have they sled.
• 46:43
  They've got the sled at the club.
• 46:44
  Wow. So Josh Gates got to go see and
• 46:46
  touch the sled. To go, oh, that lucky, that's
• 46:50
  incredible. Women were first formally
• 46:52
  admitted as members to the Explorers Club in 1981.
• 46:57
  Not until 1981. Well, you know, let's be honest,
• 47:01
  they probably weren't even allowed to explore.
• 47:02
  So, you know, look, Amelia Earhart probably could have been
• 47:08
  in that club, but she would have survived.
• 47:11
  Damn it. She.
• 47:13
  Might be in it, I don't know you.
• 47:14
  Some people are added later, you know.
• 47:18
  Or. Whatever.
• 47:18
  Yeah. So some iconic members would be
• 47:20
  Theodore Roosevelt, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
• 47:24
  Of course. Let's see Sir Edmund Hillary and
• 47:28
  Tenzing Norgay who are the first to summit, the first to the
• 47:31
  summit of Mount Everest. OK, Rolled Amundsen led the
• 47:38
  first expedition to the South Pole.
• 47:40
  So, you know, you get the idea. OK, OK.
• 47:42
  All right. All right.
• 47:43
  Gotcha, Gotcha. But yeah, Jane Goodall's in it.
• 47:47
  And she should be good for her. That's incredible.
• 47:51
  That's an incredible club. It's, it's very, it's quite
• 47:54
  cool. Now, I don't know if you can go
• 47:55
  visit, I don't know if you can go visit it or not, but there is
• 47:58
  a there is a place. In in it's in New York.
• 48:00
  Wow, that you can. Well, I'll tell you what I I
• 48:04
  someday. Now I've been to where did I go?
• 48:09
  Where did we go? And we saw that we're where did
• 48:11
  it show you? This is the first.
• 48:13
  On the 1st floor. Who put those tusks there?
• 48:18
  Probably. Somebody from 19-O.
• 48:20
  Four massive tusks. Yes, because it's probably these
• 48:23
  fucking rhinos. Rhinos that probably don't exist
• 48:26
  anymore. Oh my.
• 48:27
  God, I'm a little offended by this.
• 48:29
  There's like a little thing on the street.
• 48:30
  It's a, it's an actual place. They have a building.
• 48:32
  And yes, damn. You seem so surprised.
• 48:36
  I'm not happy about the tusks, but you know, what are you going
• 48:38
  to do? Where were we, Abby?
• 48:41
  Where we went and did we went And this cool museum about
• 48:44
  space. I know you were with me.
• 48:46
  I know we, we were there. Where were we?
• 48:49
  It was very, very cool. Were we in Chicago?
• 48:54
  I don't remember, but anyway, I remember walking through this
• 48:56
  museum. We were, we were down in Florida
• 48:58
  when you were little and we could see Cape Canaveral 'cause
• 49:00
  we were at Cocoa Beach, 'cause I was, to be clear, see the
• 49:04
  shuttle right over on the launchpad to see the launchpad.
• 49:08
  To be clear for the listeners, I was also obsessed with space.
• 49:11
  When I was younger, yes, Abby, Abby and I share the same the
• 49:15
  the obsessions of even just to learn new things, you know,
• 49:20
  we're all about it. If we're on vacation, like, give
• 49:22
  me a museum, you know, or a cool historical site, like let me
• 49:27
  learn something while, you know, I don't know.
• 49:29
  I don't know why I find that cool, But nobody wanted to go
• 49:32
  over and see Cape Canaveral. They just wanted to hang on the
• 49:35
  beach. And I'm like, it's right there.
• 49:38
  I. Can't see it.
• 49:40
  So someday I someday I want to get back there.
• 49:42
  But I did get to Alabama. There is the Greater Saint Louis
• 49:47
  Air and Space Museum. Yeah.
• 49:49
  Did we go there? I'm sure I've been there.
• 49:51
  I know I have been there. I wasn't, just wondering if that
• 49:53
  might have been it. And maybe it was, I don't know,
• 49:55
  I can't remember. But in Alabama, they have, I
• 49:58
  don't know if they still do Space Camp, but they, you know,
• 50:01
  they have the whole space camp and kids could go whatever.
• 50:04
  But if you, I had a friend in college who they do still do
• 50:08
  space Camp. Do they?
• 50:08
  OK? Who?
• 50:09
  Who? His sister lived near Space
• 50:13
  Camp. OK.
• 50:14
  And he lived in southern Tennessee.
• 50:15
  And so, oh, man, it was just like right on the border, I
• 50:17
  guess. And so we went over there to
• 50:19
  visit his sister. And then he's like, you want to
• 50:21
  go to Space camp? And I'm like, yes, please.
• 50:24
  And so we went to space camp for the day.
• 50:25
  Oh my goodness. And we got to go tour
• 50:27
  everything. And then you can go in the
• 50:30
  rocket simulator. You get strapped in like you're
• 50:34
  going to go up in space and they do the little simulation and it
• 50:38
  feels like you're being launched.
• 50:41
  You get you get to feel, you know what it feels like to be
• 50:43
  launched in space. I did not get sick.
• 50:46
  I did good. It was fine.
• 50:48
  It was incredible. I thought it was amazing.
• 50:51
  And so, yeah, I, I was like, I didn't even know if Space Camp
• 50:54
  is still even being operated, but it is.
• 50:56
  So that's cool. It is to go to Space Camp.
• 51:00
  If your age is 9 to 11, it is approximately $1800 to go now.
• 51:07
  I think you have to go for like a week or something.
• 51:08
  I thought that would it would be more than that.
• 51:10
  So if you're ages 12 to 14, it's $1900 OK, and they're age 100.
• 51:15
  If you're a little bit older, OK space, there is Advanced Space
• 51:18
  Academy, which is fit for ages 15 to 18.
• 51:22
  That's about two grand. And then there is Space Academy
• 51:25
  for educators, so like teachers, and that's about 1200.
• 51:27
  Oh my God. And then there is there is the
• 51:31
  Adult Advanced Space Academy which is another 2 grand.
• 51:36
  I could do that. You could go it's a week long
• 51:38
  adventure with hands on interactive space missions or
• 51:40
  you can and other. Activities.
• 51:42
  How? What's Is there an age limit?
• 51:44
  It says adult. Just adult.
• 51:46
  Doesn't matter how old I am, there is the.
• 51:48
  Adult Space Academy, which is $800, three days, two nights.
• 51:54
  If you always wanted to be an astronaut but we're too old for
• 51:56
  Space Camp, we have a camp for you.
• 51:58
  Adult Space Camp is an adventurous weekend experience,
• 52:01
  allowing campers to assume roles in hands on interactive space
• 52:03
  missions and, you know, other things.
• 52:05
  Holy shit, I'm gonna. Do it.
• 52:07
  There is also Family Space Camp, which is $800 a person.
• 52:11
  You can take the whole. Family.
• 52:13
  You can take the whole family look.
• 52:14
  You know what? Your dad and I, your dad, your
• 52:16
  dad asked me where I want to go for our anniversary this year.
• 52:19
  We're going to. Fucking space camp I'm.
• 52:22
  I'm going to see if he. Wants to go 800 bucks?
• 52:24
  Hell yeah. Parents, grandparents, aunts and
• 52:26
  uncles are all invited to bring your future astronaut, engineer
• 52:29
  or scientist export everything space Camp has.
• 52:31
  Can you imagine if I asked if he wants to go to space camp for an
• 52:33
  he'd be like what the fuck is wrong with you?
• 52:35
  Well, let me let me pull up the Adult Space Academy 'cause
• 52:38
  that's the $800 one. I.
• 52:39
  Assume Adult Space Academy Heck. Yeah, you calendar you can book.
• 52:43
  Oh my God, you can. Get there as early as as May
• 52:47
  15th. It's all they got
• 52:48
  availabilities. But I had to bring Abby along
• 52:50
  for her anniversary because. You can get $800.00 for the
• 52:54
  space Camp. I'll float you.
• 52:56
  I want to. Go.
• 52:58
  Oh my God. This is why we need a sponsor,
• 53:01
  so somebody can send us. Our sponsor can send us to Space
• 53:04
  Camp. It's only 800 bucks a person.
• 53:07
  That's not bad. Include your meals.
• 53:10
  God I hope so, you know what I mean.
• 53:12
  That's a lot. 3 day on site. Overnight accommodations for
• 53:17
  Friday and Saturday nights of camp.
• 53:18
  All meals beginning with dinner Friday evening through
• 53:21
  breakfast. Sunday morning activities.
• 53:23
  Train like an astronaut on the Multi Access trainer.
• 53:26
  Construct and launch your own model rocket.
• 53:28
  Learn team building exercises in our low elements.
• 53:31
  Ropes course. Oh that might be a deal breaker.
• 53:38
  Test your. Test your engineering skills and
• 53:41
  designing A protective heat shield.
• 53:43
  Participating. We're burning up.
• 53:44
  Participate in a simulated space mission.
• 53:47
  Yeah, that's incredible. Now the rope course, that might
• 53:51
  be a deal breaker. That's a little.
• 53:52
  Tough I don't know if I can do. It that's a.
• 53:54
  Little tough I know for a fact. I know for a fact I can't do it.
• 53:57
  That's incredible, you guys. That's absolutely incredible.
• 54:01
  Yep. Well, I was there for a day.
• 54:04
  I got to go for a day and tour a little facilities and do the
• 54:10
  little simulator and it was, it was really, really cool.
• 54:14
  I'm so happy they're still operating.
• 54:15
  That's very. Cool, there are there is a
• 54:16
  museum with operating hours so. There is a museum, you can go
• 54:20
  through it. It's it's cool.
• 54:21
  That's you're ever in. I think it's near Huntsville,
• 54:24
  AL. Do you ever Is it Huntsville?
• 54:29
  Yes, Huntville. Yeah, Huntsville.
• 54:30
  If you ever, ever in the area, go check out the space camp.
• 54:34
  It is cool, yes, but but I, you know, I know a lot of people,
• 54:38
  not a lot of people. Some people poo poo space
• 54:40
  exploration as far as it's a lot of money.
• 54:44
  Oh yeah. I mean, it's a lot of money.
• 54:46
  Rocket fuel. That ain't cheap.
• 54:47
  My God, you think gas is cheap? Expensive.
• 54:49
  Now for your car, imagine what you'd have to pay if you needed
• 54:51
  rocket fuel. It's expensive, it is, and a lot
• 54:55
  of people. And it's dangerous.
• 54:56
  It is dangerous, it is. Not just not just the launches,
• 54:59
  but even like the simulated flights and the practice things
• 55:01
  have people have died in those people have died now not not
• 55:04
  nearly as many in modern in modern times because they are
• 55:08
  able to say do unmanned test flights now and that's true it's
• 55:11
  way it's much easier to do an unmanned test flight whereas
• 55:14
  back in the day, yeah, you know, because.
• 55:16
  Because I know, yeah, I know they've done a lot of test
• 55:20
  flights. I mean like the 60's, the 50s
• 55:22
  and the 60s they were doing trying to send a guy to the
• 55:24
  fucking moon. Yeah, they're not doing
• 55:26
  unmanned. Flights and we've learned a lot
• 55:28
  since then too as well 100% your experience as your best teacher
• 55:31
  and the more you learn about what works and what doesn't
• 55:33
  work, you know obviously you can you think they were worried
• 55:35
  about hot sauce up on the first Space Flight you know they're
• 55:39
  like. Eat your bland food and and quit
• 55:41
  your bitches. Just be happy you get home a
• 55:42
  lot. Guess what?
• 55:43
  You're in space in the 60s. You're.
• 55:46
  Literally. You're literally in a washing
• 55:48
  machine. What is the what's the line that
• 55:51
  Jim Hubble in the Apollo 13, his mother says if they can send a
• 55:56
  washing machine to space, my Jimmy can fly it because the the
• 56:01
  little granddaughter's, she's scared that he's not going to
• 56:04
  get home. And it's it's kind of a cool,
• 56:06
  cool line. But anyway, yeah, you're
• 56:09
  literally up there almost like in a tin can.
• 56:11
  You know, it's like you're, you're happy if you get home
• 56:13
  alive. Yeah.
• 56:14
  You know, so they've learned a lot.
• 56:16
  Well, in in 1969, yes, you are very just happy to kind of make
• 56:20
  it back. Exactly.
• 56:21
  And so the fact that people were willing and lining up to do it
• 56:24
  is, is incredible. We put a man on the moon before
• 56:27
  we had a floppy disk. Just to be clear, legit legit.
• 56:30
  Yeah, before we had mobile phones, MRI machines, personal
• 56:33
  computers and the Internet. All before all of that.
• 56:36
  You're right. Yeah, I looked up things that
• 56:38
  were. Gonna absolutely, you know, so,
• 56:40
  you know, I get, I get it because you think about where we
• 56:45
  need to spend money to help people, you know, have food in
• 56:51
  the home and, you know, education and yeah, those are
• 56:53
  those are incredibly important things.
• 56:56
  And so, you know, on one hand, it's like, I am conflicted about
• 56:59
  it a little bit because it's like, OK, that money probably
• 57:02
  could be used to help a lot of people.
• 57:06
  But also I know for a fact that it won't be.
• 57:10
  Well, so now here's my and I'm not going to, I'm not going to
• 57:12
  get political on this and and I don't want to either.
• 57:15
  No. But my thing is, if you look at
• 57:18
  our budget for the cut for the nation, for our nation and the
• 57:23
  percent of the budget that's going to say NASA for space
• 57:25
  exploration versus the percent that is going to let's say like
• 57:29
  the military, military for developing weapons and things
• 57:32
  like that. It's a lit it is what's the word
• 57:37
  extremely disproportionate for how much people say hate on NASA
• 57:42
  correct. I'm not saying it's a small
• 57:43
  amount and I'm not disagreeing that like that money could
• 57:45
  probably. Could be used to be helping.
• 57:47
  People, but I would say that that it's like pointing the
• 57:50
  finger at one person for for accidentally dropping a piece of
• 57:53
  trash in the ground and not like pointing a finger at an oil
• 57:56
  company for dumping, you know, in the ocean for destroying you
• 57:59
  know what I mean? Like that's where it.
• 58:02
  You know, I totally agree. With you, it's very it's I don't
• 58:05
  know for me, I'm not disagreeing, but I.
• 58:07
  I think and I, I'm the same way because I've heard people who
• 58:10
  say that and then I'm thinking in my, in my mind, though, I
• 58:12
  also know that they, it is for, I mean, they're doing a ton of
• 58:19
  experimentation and they're learning so many things.
• 58:21
  Well, and also satellites. For your phone, you want better
• 58:24
  service launching satellites well, in your TV now too.
• 58:28
  I understand everything's strange 100%, you know, it's
• 58:31
  like. You got dish.
• 58:33
  Hell, you don't even need a dish anymore.
• 58:34
  No I know, but if you have a Dish Network.
• 58:36
  Exactly. So it's like it's, and it's not
• 58:39
  just that they do a lot of medical too.
• 58:41
  There's a lot of things. There's a.
• 58:42
  Lot of stuff that we don't even know about, for one, but they've
• 58:45
  learned a lot of things and they've been able to use it and
• 58:48
  apply it here as well. And then I also think about like
• 58:51
  our plane, it's kind of bugged, you know?
• 58:54
  And it's like, because they're like, well, why do you want to
• 58:56
  build a space station on the moon?
• 58:58
  Well, because we want the Lunar Chronicles to to happen for one.
• 59:01
  Oh my God. Let me tell you something.
• 59:02
  No Focus series. So we don't want that to happen.
• 59:04
  Are you? Kidding.
• 59:04
  No, we don't. We don't want that to happen.
• 59:06
  We don't. Realize what you said.
• 59:07
  Don't. Know what happened?
• 59:08
  It's a joke. It's a joke.
• 59:10
  Well, OK, also they did they've done a lot with developing solar
• 59:15
  panel like technology, correct, because absolutely you said rock
• 59:18
  fuels found it expensive when you're up there, the more the
• 59:20
  more we can do with solar powered, you know, devices find
• 59:24
  a way. You know, to somehow come up
• 59:27
  with things in order to save our asses down here too.
• 59:29
  I'm like, I'm all for it. I agree.
• 59:31
  For one, because we got to find a way because we have messed up
• 59:34
  our environment. We have messed up this planet
• 59:36
  big time. Well, in some ways.
• 59:37
  Looking at like we're studying our atmosphere, we're studying
• 59:40
  these things and we need to, we do need to know these things
• 59:42
  because we're fucking up our. Atmosphere, because who knows if
• 59:46
  we can't even repair the damage that's been done.
• 59:48
  So it's like, right. I don't know, To me, it's like
• 59:50
  I'm all about trying to learn and expand and explore and you
• 59:56
  know, it, to me, I it's like, I know it's a lot of money, but
• 1:00:00
  it's, at least to me being used for a positive thing, you know?
• 1:00:05
  Yeah, I don't know. That's that's what we'd look at.
• 1:00:07
  To be clear listeners, if you are a person that believes that
• 1:00:12
  the moon landing was fake. Don't.
• 1:00:16
  Bring it up, please don't to me. Don't bring it up to me either
• 1:00:19
  because. I will die on this hill that it
• 1:00:23
  genuinely is easier for them to send a man to the moon than it
• 1:00:29
  would have been for them to fake that in 1969, in 1969, actually,
• 1:00:34
  when we, when we don't have, when we don't have digital
• 1:00:37
  cameras, when we don't have like the special effects technology
• 1:00:42
  that we have today. Dudes from the 60s with special
• 1:00:45
  effects? No way.
• 1:00:46
  Right. There's not like, oh, we're
• 1:00:48
  like, we're slowing it. It's like, listen, it, I, I
• 1:00:52
  cannot stress this enough that the government in the in the 60s
• 1:00:57
  did not give a flying fuck if these people lived or died.
• 1:01:01
  They wanted to be the first ones to put a man on the moon.
• 1:01:04
  That was the goal. We have to beat the Russians.
• 1:01:06
  We have to beat 100%. Yeah, they like they wanted a
• 1:01:10
  man on the moon, full stop. They would never have faked it
• 1:01:14
  because if if they had, it would have gotten out because there
• 1:01:19
  were spies everywhere. Oh.
• 1:01:21
  Yeah, Oh. Yeah, and as soon as it got out
• 1:01:23
  that we faked the moon landing, it would have been it.
• 1:01:26
  That's true. Been it.
• 1:01:27
  That's true. Also listen, I fully support
• 1:01:31
  Buzz Aldrin punching a man in the face for accusing him of
• 1:01:33
  faking the moon landing. 100% good for you Buzz Aldrin.
• 1:01:37
  Yep, good for you. But who was in what, in his 70s
• 1:01:39
  when he punched his face? He's probably probably honestly
• 1:01:45
  his 80s. If I'm if I'm being honest, you
• 1:01:47
  know that I'm thinking about it. He had it and at that point.
• 1:01:49
  I don't care. I'm gonna punch you because how
• 1:01:51
  many times I'm. Fucking yeah, I've been up on
• 1:01:53
  the fucking moon. Fuck you.
• 1:01:55
  Like, listen, absolutely. The moon landing is real.
• 1:02:00
  The Egyptians built the pyramids.
• 1:02:01
  It's true. It's true.
• 1:02:03
  Yes, there are ways dinosaurs are real.
• 1:02:05
  Yes, it's true. The earth is round.
• 1:02:09
  The earth is round, Oh my God. And not just a, not a.
• 1:02:12
  Disk it's a. Sphere.
• 1:02:14
  It's a sphere. Gravity is real.
• 1:02:17
  We orbit the sun. We revolve on our axis.
• 1:02:21
  I don't know. I don't know.
• 1:02:24
  What more we need if you don't think.
• 1:02:27
  Warming is real as well, like. There is a change, there is a
• 1:02:31
  hole in our ozone. So I know, yeah, it's happened.
• 1:02:35
  El Nino is happening this summer.
• 1:02:37
  We're all going to burn to death.
• 1:02:38
  Just in case you're wondering, I.
• 1:02:40
  Don't even know what that is, and I don't want to know.
• 1:02:41
  You know what, Liv? Didn't know what El Nino was
• 1:02:44
  either. It's a weather I have, I have
• 1:02:45
  heard about. It's a weather you brought
• 1:02:46
  people. Yeah.
• 1:02:47
  El Nino and La Nina come, come. Patterns happen every so often.
• 1:02:50
  And El Nino is coming this summer and it's good.
• 1:02:52
  Makes things even hotter. To a theater near you.
• 1:02:53
  So, you know, you know how much I love that.
• 1:02:55
  But well, let's talk about Artemis a little bit.
• 1:02:57
  Artemis 2. Yeah, talk to me.
• 1:02:59
  Artemis 2 just took a trip around the moon.
• 1:03:04
  I think just it's crazy exciting to me, Crazy exciting.
• 1:03:08
  And so they let me see, let me find it.
• 1:03:11
  They lift it off on Let's Find It.
• 1:03:16
  They blast off from Florida on April first.
• 1:03:19
  OK, so that's when they took off at 6:35 PM anyway.
• 1:03:23
  And so they spend the day. Eastern Time.
• 1:03:27
  I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.
• 1:03:28
  It doesn't matter. It is Eastern Time.
• 1:03:30
  OK, so they then, so they spend the Earth, spend the day
• 1:03:36
  orbiting the Earth, and then they make the trek out towards
• 1:03:43
  the moon and they send back this incredible image of the Earth.
• 1:03:48
  Which and let me. Take a picture that took let.
• 1:03:49
  Me tell you something, if you I am.
• 1:03:52
  I'm terrible at physics, OK? I took physics when I was a
• 1:03:55
  senior in high school and I hated it.
• 1:03:57
  I took it too. Breezed, and I truly mean
• 1:04:01
  breezed through algebra, geometry, trigonometry.
• 1:04:05
  You had a calculus and you had a head for math.
• 1:04:07
  I could not fucking get it. And I never understood why I
• 1:04:11
  couldn't get it because it seemed more simple and it's very
• 1:04:14
  math based, right? It would love me to write me.
• 1:04:17
  I loved math and I felt like this should be not again, not
• 1:04:21
  simple, but like it's very cut and dry.
• 1:04:23
  It's like this. Is why?
• 1:04:24
  Why wouldn't you have an easy time with that too?
• 1:04:26
  That one that. You did.
• 1:04:27
  I could not. You know, Sam hated it too.
• 1:04:29
  I hated it. And I will.
• 1:04:31
  And I look, you know chemistry. You know chemistry.
• 1:04:33
  I'll tell you why. Why you didn't have a good
• 1:04:36
  teacher? That's true.
• 1:04:38
  I did not breeze through those math classes.
• 1:04:40
  Math was always very hard for me.
• 1:04:42
  Yeah, OK. And I wanted to take physics and
• 1:04:45
  I had to go to the teacher and get permission because I had not
• 1:04:49
  taken trig yet. I was going to take it the same
• 1:04:52
  time and they wanted you to have that first, but I didn't have
• 1:04:55
  enough time to get it. It was my senior year, sure,
• 1:04:57
  because I was, in my opinion, behind in math.
• 1:05:00
  That was again, teacher's fault from Six Radio anyway.
• 1:05:03
  Plus I don't have the A mine for math like you guys do.
• 1:05:06
  And thankfully you guys got your dad's brains.
• 1:05:09
  I think you got both. You guys are you guys.
• 1:05:11
  Are really lucky because mine is more one's left, one's right.
• 1:05:14
  I forget which one's which. Analytic, because I have the
• 1:05:16
  more creative. Creative.
• 1:05:18
  I'm really good at English and English reading, writing and
• 1:05:22
  reading and that side. So teaching kind of worked for
• 1:05:25
  me. But anyway, I had to go to her.
• 1:05:28
  Her name, it was a nun. Her name was Sister Genevieve.
• 1:05:30
  And I love her Genevieve. I loved her.
• 1:05:33
  She was an amazing teacher. Yeah.
• 1:05:36
  And she says, you know what? If you want to do this, I will
• 1:05:39
  help you. This is a this is what a teacher
• 1:05:41
  should do, right? If you're not teaching because
• 1:05:43
  you want your kids to succeed, then get the fuck out of the
• 1:05:45
  classroom. That, that.
• 1:05:46
  I mean, I will die on that help. And she helped me.
• 1:05:49
  She helped me through it. And she made it incredibly
• 1:05:53
  fascinating. And so I loved it.
• 1:05:56
  And boy, was it hard. Oh, yeah.
• 1:05:57
  I mean, it was hard for me, but I could go to her anytime.
• 1:06:00
  And my brothers were very good at math.
• 1:06:03
  And so they helped me. Yeah.
• 1:06:04
  And so I was really lucky, had a great support system.
• 1:06:07
  And I, I loved it. But I knew that it was not
• 1:06:09
  something I was going to be able to continue to do safe
• 1:06:12
  throughout. Like my brother is an engineer.
• 1:06:14
  I would love to have his brain and be able to do the things
• 1:06:17
  that he does. And he and he could understand
• 1:06:19
  it and, and do the math and whatever.
• 1:06:21
  And so he did, but I could not. I mean, I did it.
• 1:06:23
  Glad I did it. I loved it.
• 1:06:25
  I thought it was incredibly fascinating.
• 1:06:26
  But wow, it is tough to wrap your mind around it.
• 1:06:29
  Right, I don't know what the deal is, but I I'm not good, I
• 1:06:32
  will. It's still like bothers me and I
• 1:06:35
  don't understand it. Gotcha.
• 1:06:37
  But the point is, is that when you were talking about like the
• 1:06:39
  reason that they don't just like, because I've heard a lot
• 1:06:42
  of people like, well, wouldn't it just be faster and use less
• 1:06:45
  fuel if they just kept going to the moon?
• 1:06:47
  And the answer is no, it would use more fuel because they don't
• 1:06:50
  use fuel really while they're orbiting.
• 1:06:51
  So they orbit the Earth. Yeah, because they're and then
• 1:06:53
  they orbit, but then they use it as like a slingshot.
• 1:06:55
  So they use their momentum of coming around in the moon and
• 1:06:58
  then they literally slingshot. Yes, they slingshot themselves
• 1:07:01
  around the Earth to the moon. And then they did the same thing
• 1:07:03
  around the moon coming and then slingshot themselves.
• 1:07:05
  That incredible. Incredible.
• 1:07:07
  Yeah. And somebody figured that shit
• 1:07:08
  out. And they figured out how to get
• 1:07:10
  us in position like what the perfect day was so that we would
• 1:07:13
  they would be able. To orbit us, you're going to go
• 1:07:15
  on the perfect day. And that's the thing.
• 1:07:17
  Because they talk about how when they're coming back, if you
• 1:07:20
  don't come back in at the right angle, the right time, whatever
• 1:07:24
  it is, then you can skip off the atmosphere and shoot back out
• 1:07:29
  into space, and then you're screwed.
• 1:07:31
  Like what? That blows my mind.
• 1:07:36
  Well, you think? So they got to have it figured
• 1:07:37
  out exactly when they can come back in too.
• 1:07:41
  Isn't that amazing? Yeah, that's amazing.
• 1:07:43
  But this picture of Earth that they took, I know that's that's
• 1:07:47
  wow, that's wow. I think it's so cool.
• 1:07:50
  It is so cool. So, so now, so now they fly out
• 1:07:54
  to the moon clearly, and they get to go around the backside of
• 1:07:58
  the moon that we don't see, I guess because it looks like,
• 1:08:00
  doesn't the moon orbit? I said the same thing to you,
• 1:08:02
  doesn't? It orbits.
• 1:08:03
  I mean, it doesn't revolve. Revolve or rotate.
• 1:08:06
  Yeah, it doesn't. Does it not?
• 1:08:07
  I guess not. We it says this.
• 1:08:09
  They went around and saw the backside the minute nobody gets
• 1:08:11
  to see. OK, I'm going to do a little
• 1:08:12
  while. You tell me.
• 1:08:13
  We only see one face of it and then the commander, his last
• 1:08:18
  name is Wiseman lost his wife to cancer.
• 1:08:21
  I know but and her name was Carol CAROLL and they named a
• 1:08:27
  moon crater after his wife. So they they named here and it's
• 1:08:34
  this crater. You can see the name Carol there
• 1:08:38
  and so they show a picture of them him hugging him in space
• 1:08:41
  cuz he's like we named this crater after you're.
• 1:08:45
  He lost his wife. I'm gonna cry to the cancer.
• 1:08:47
  I know. I'm like, Oh my God, that's so
• 1:08:49
  beautiful. Also, I know why we've only seen
• 1:08:52
  one side of the moon. OK, why?
• 1:08:53
  OK so it's it's tidally locked to Earth like yes the tides yes.
• 1:09:01
  So basically rotates on its axis at the same, it rotates on its
• 1:09:08
  axis in the exact same amount of time as it takes to orbit the
• 1:09:11
  Earth. So it's like as it's spinning,
• 1:09:14
  right? Or as it's spinning, it's also
• 1:09:16
  going around the earth. So it's spinning, but it's.
• 1:09:19
  Logged so that's why that's why. OK, well the crew of the Artemis
• 1:09:24
  2 did make the trip around the moon and set a new record for
• 1:09:28
  the farthest flight into space. Insanity.
• 1:09:32
  Insane, that is. Incredible.
• 1:09:36
  So they reached this, the apex on Monday, April 6th and they
• 1:09:40
  went dark for 40 minutes while they were on that far side of
• 1:09:44
  the moon because they so they have no communication with Earth
• 1:09:49
  while they're over there. And so then they, let's see,
• 1:09:54
  they traveled back into, you know, obviously then they come
• 1:09:59
  back around and then we can have contact with them again.
• 1:10:02
  So they, the new record is 252,756 miles from Earth, which
• 1:10:09
  surpassed Apollo 13's record from 1970 by more than 4000
• 1:10:15
  miles, according to NASA. Wow so Apollo 13 has set the
• 1:10:21
  they because they went around and slingshot it back to get
• 1:10:24
  them home too, but they went further out Wow that's
• 1:10:27
  incredible so now they sent some photos of the eclipse from the
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  far side. That's insane.
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  Oh my God I love it. That's so wild.
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  The. It's crazy.
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  It's crazy to to think about. So then they came home and they
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  splashed down. They hit the discernible
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  atmosphere at 75 miles above the Pacific Ocean at a blistering
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  speed of 24,000 mph that if at that speed you could get from
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  Los Angeles to New York in 6 minutes.
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  That's so crazy. Can you imagine going that fast?
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  No, that's crazy. So the heat shield held it was
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  great. It's 16.5 feet wide and it
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  reached about 5000°F. Wow.
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  It's about half as hot as the visible surface of the sun.
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  So and for about 6 minutes they're they also have a
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  blackout again for re entry. Yeah, that you can't speak to
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  them. And then they come in and they
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  splash down off the coast of San Diego, CA.
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  What a great, what a great place to land.
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  What day did they come back? It doesn't say 2 days ago it was
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  on was on Friday. I thought it was Friday so it
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  was the first. Fly by in over 50 years.
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  That's so cool. Yep, that's so cool.
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  So I'm very happy that they all got home safe.
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  Me too. And they had an amazing trip.
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  What a what a story to tell, right?
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  What a vacation. That's way better vacation.
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  That's way better than me. Actually.
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  That was work for them, I guess. But what a work trip.
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  That's way better than my vacation story of running down
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  the hall with my hot burrito it. Seemed like it also was more of.
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  A successful I'm a little embarrassed now.
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  My trip wasn't quite as cool. Awkward.
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  I did see it twice, twice. Twice was so nice we had to see
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  it twice. This is.
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  The moon and then and then there's a little bit of the
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  Earth, a little tip, just little tip of the Earth.
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  Little tip of the earth. Wow, so how cool is that?
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  AB? That is very seriously cool
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  stuff. If you didn't get a chance, I'll
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  post some pics. Oh wow, I'll post some pics that
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  I could steal off the off of NASA's you actually, it's there.
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  You can download these high res images.
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  FYI, they just looked out there for people to see.
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  Well, we're going to do that and we'll post them so you can see
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  what we're seeing because it's some cool stuff.
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  Yep. Oh my gosh, we talked so much
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  about spaces. I know.
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  That's OK. That's cool stuff.
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  It's a cool topic. It is.
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  And we'll hold back and we'll save the topic for next time.
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  All right? Well, I don't know about you,
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  but after this I'm gonna need some serious beef.
• 1:13:14
  And and some serious. Face sauce, sweet bye bye.