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4 Inches Is Too Big | Thursday September 18, 2025 · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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Speaker 1: It is time believe your worries outside and laugh with
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Speaker 1: us inside the treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley, along with Trey
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Speaker 1: Trenholm and Raj Sharma. Jerry cauld will be along shortly.
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Speaker 1: I have to admit something that's fairly embarrassing. My brain
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Speaker 1: tricked me today, trick me good and hard.
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Speaker 2: How's that.
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Speaker 1: I read a headline and I tricked myself into thinking
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Speaker 1: it was something other than it was. Okay, so I'm
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Speaker 1: going to read this headline to you, and then I'll
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Speaker 1: tell you how I misinterpreted it. A cheating scandal has
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Speaker 1: rocked the World Stone Skimming Championships. That headline tricked me
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Speaker 1: because I thought it meant a cheating scandal between contestants,
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Speaker 1: like they were cheating on their spouses with one another
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Speaker 1: and in collusion to fix the World Rock Skimming Championships.
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Speaker 2: I was wrong.
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Speaker 1: It was less nefarious as far as personal matters, more
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Speaker 1: of a competitive cheating scandal because some of the competitives.
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Speaker 1: Some of the competitors were found to be using suspiciously
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Speaker 1: circular stones, and you're supposed to use natural ones. None
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Speaker 1: of this has anything to do with anybody's spouses. As
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Speaker 1: far as I know, This is how social media algorithms
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Speaker 1: can mess with your brain. It's been showing me too
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Speaker 1: much relationship ye stuff, and I've I started looking too
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Speaker 1: deep into a matter.
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Speaker 2: And it tricked me. So that's where I am.
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Speaker 3: And how long have white people been doing this sport?
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Speaker 4: It's an excellent question. I didn't even know the answer
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Speaker 4: to that one.
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Speaker 2: And further record, that's not white bashing.
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Speaker 1: You're not saying it's bad that, you're not saying it's dumb.
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Speaker 1: And honestly, it's just stereotyping, good old fashioned stereotyping.
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Speaker 2: That's okay, you know.
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Speaker 5: Honestly, is it white?
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Speaker 4: Because it doesn't seem stupid enough to be just a
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Speaker 4: white only sport.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's white skydiving, it's white.
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Speaker 5: Mountain climbing.
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Speaker 3: Mountain climbing is white skydiving. I think is kind of
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Speaker 3: if you don't have a fear of heights. I think
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Speaker 3: it's kind of open to everybody.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but have you seen some of the videos where
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Speaker 4: they take like a trampoline up between yes, two hot
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Speaker 4: air balloons. You know, I I've that just reeks of
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Speaker 4: of Anglo.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't think that's I don't think that's
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Speaker 1: ever been a black guy idea.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like they had a TV show on called
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Speaker 3: Extreme Ironing. It was on for one season. I don't
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Speaker 3: know if you ever saw it, and it's people like
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Speaker 3: that would iron like on the side of a speedboat,
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Speaker 3: and I was like every episode, I'm like, here's the
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Speaker 3: whitest people in the world.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes, though, you can get that wrong, because if I
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Speaker 1: told you that there is a competitive bed making championship,
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Speaker 1: would you assume.
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Speaker 2: That's white people? Nope? Who would you assume that is?
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Speaker 3: I would go Former Housekeeping, like fifteen year to twenty
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Speaker 3: year veteran, Hispanic male, Ok, maybe Hispanic female.
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Speaker 1: They might have a few, so they might have a
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Speaker 1: few competitors. I don't know, but the Competitive bed Making
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Speaker 1: Championships was loaded with Asian.
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Speaker 3: Asian Oh Asian people too.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I can see that as well. And I
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Speaker 2: tell you what, man, you want to see how to
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Speaker 2: make a fricking bed? My god?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that includes putting the comforter in the duvet
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Speaker 1: cover with the buttons.
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Speaker 2: Oh wow, I was I've seen a lot of.
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Speaker 1: Things online that will blow my mind, but seeing someone
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Speaker 1: fill a duvet cover with a down comforter in seconds
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Speaker 1: every single time mind blown.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, when they when they do the when housekeeping comes
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Speaker 3: in here and they do my bed, it takes I
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Speaker 3: mean all of about three minutes and they're done, like
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Speaker 3: it's fantastic, Like it takes it takes them longer to
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Speaker 3: do like the bathroom stuff. Yeah, and it does for
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Speaker 3: the bet because they have that. It's down to a science.
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Speaker 3: And I've stood there, just just stood there with the
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Speaker 3: dog and just watch. I was like, look, I touched
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Speaker 3: my dog. I was like, you need to watch this.
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Speaker 2: This is a ma. You're trying to tell your puppy
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Speaker 2: you don't know how good you have it.
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Speaker 3: That's exactly right.
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Speaker 1: So anyway, the World Stone Skimming Championships were recently rocked
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Speaker 1: by a cheating scandal. Not cheating spouses that were competitors
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Speaker 1: or anything like that, now, just the actual rocks they
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Speaker 1: were using. Some competitors were found to be using suspiciously
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Speaker 1: circular stones. Here in the States, we typically refer to
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Speaker 1: it as stone skipping, but I guess across the pond
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Speaker 1: they call it stone Skimming Championships. According to the competition's rules,
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Speaker 1: stones must come from naturally occurring island slate and fit
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Speaker 1: through a device called the ring.
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Speaker 5: Of Truth.
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Speaker 2: To ensure they are the right size.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now, it's pretty impressive that a
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Speaker 1: predominantly white sport would be brave enough to have any
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Speaker 1: item called the Ring of Truth to ensure they're the
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Speaker 1: right size. By the way, the Ring of Truth allows
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Speaker 1: for stones no bigger than three inches in diameter. So
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Speaker 1: maybe another reason why this is such a popular sport
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Speaker 1: among the whites.
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Speaker 3: I don't want to know how they measured the wrongs
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Speaker 3: with stones to find someone with four inches four inches.
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Speaker 1: I mean, but imagine the trash talking would just be legendary.
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Speaker 1: I skip with the stones from stone Hinge.
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Speaker 5: Their performance enhancing rocks.
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Speaker 3: Yes, sorry, it was a competition hosted by the Rock.
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Speaker 2: That would be amazing. That's a beautiful branding opportunity.
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Speaker 1: The Rock Skimming Championships organizer said that when the offenders
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Speaker 1: were caught, they held their hands up and ultimately apologized.
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Speaker 1: They were eventually disqualified. He did say there was a
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Speaker 1: little bit of stone doctoring. They shaped it so that
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Speaker 1: it was perfectly circular and fitted our three inch measurer.
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Speaker 1: The problem was we didn't just notice at the time
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Speaker 1: that they were using suspiciously circular The event was held
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Speaker 1: in Scotland. It was actually eventually won by an American
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Speaker 1: Yay Go America named Jonathan Jennings. He managed to skip
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Speaker 1: his stones for a total of how many feet do
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Speaker 1: you think? How many feet do you think? American Jonathan
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Speaker 1: Jennings skipped a rock to become the world champion in
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Speaker 1: World rock skimming.
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Speaker 5: So he said, how many skips?
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Speaker 2: How many feet?
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Speaker 5: How many feet? Here eighty.
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Speaker 2: Raj?
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Speaker 1: And he guesses, op, he is so stunned. He locked up,
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Speaker 1: just like me the other day, Raj, What is your guess?
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Speaker 1: How many feet do you think? American World Rock Skimming Championship,
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Speaker 1: World rock Skimming Champion Jonathan Jennings skipped a stone to win?
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Speaker 3: How many feet?
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Speaker 2: How many feet?
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Speaker 3: Six and a half?
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Speaker 2: All right, Trey's guess was eighty eighty feet? You are
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Speaker 2: both way way low this.
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Speaker 1: This guy skipped a rock five hundred and eighty feet
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Speaker 1: roughly two football fields. Think about the longest skip you
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Speaker 1: ever got out of a stone. And now watch this
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Speaker 1: guy just a literated yes, because my number is zero.
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Speaker 2: You've never done it?
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Speaker 3: No, you never?
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Speaker 2: Or is it because you tried and failed or you
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Speaker 2: just never even tried.
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Speaker 3: I've never seen the the reason to try to skip
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Speaker 3: a stone across water. Oh, my dad's never like, son,
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Speaker 3: let's let's go out by the pond and you know,
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Speaker 3: reminisce about things in the and then skip stone like
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Speaker 3: we didn't do that.
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Speaker 2: It was commercial.
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Speaker 1: He didn't take you around the shoulders and pull you
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Speaker 1: in and say, today's son, I'm going to show you
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Speaker 1: some things. I'm going to show you some things that
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Speaker 1: every father shows his son.
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Speaker 2: He did.
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Speaker 3: And then it was like math books and physics books
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Speaker 3: and calculator from.
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Speaker 2: T I and you weren't allowed to skip any of those.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 2: No, Yeah, I'm incredible.
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Speaker 1: I am absolutely stuck five hundred and eighty feet for
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Speaker 1: shooting a rock across the surface of a body of water.
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Speaker 2: That is stunning to me. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: How big is that arm just one side? It's massive?
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Speaker 3: Or is he an ambidextrious skipper? I don't know how
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Speaker 3: that works. I don't know the categories. Is it like
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Speaker 3: you know, number of skips or length of y like
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Speaker 3: you're saying, is there purely?
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Speaker 2: It's purely how far can it go?
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Speaker 3: Okay, that's why Maybe it's that's why it called skimming,
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Speaker 3: because it's skimming off the top. They don't care how
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Speaker 3: many times it bounces.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, honestly because if if you're really thinking about it, though,
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Speaker 1: at five hundred and eighty feet, I don't think you'd
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Speaker 1: be able to physically count how many skips that stone makes,
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Speaker 1: Like you'd have to do it by computer or something.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, what's the what's the prize like for something
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Speaker 3: like that?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I was just more concerned about the uh, the cheating scandal. Okay,
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Speaker 1: it says here the competition does not involve millions in winnings.
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Speaker 1: It's held annually to raise money for local causes, including
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Speaker 1: several community projects and charities. So uh, basically bragging rights. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's a charity event.
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Speaker 4: So not near as scandalous as the bass fishing you know,
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Speaker 4: tournament cheating that went on.
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Speaker 1: No, because that was serious money involved, as we know
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Speaker 1: from years ago.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that involved stuff in weights down our.
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Speaker 2: Mouth, plus the stuff with the fish.
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Speaker 1: All Right, now that we've I've embarrassed myself enough about
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Speaker 1: misunderstanding a headline in the news very important, I'd like
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Speaker 1: sall online, but I want to make sure we're all
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Speaker 1: aware of this. That's all great of an idea I
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Speaker 1: think it is. We've all dealt with aging throughout our lives.
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Speaker 2: We are all.
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Speaker 1: Getting to an age to where we're thinking about, you know,
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Speaker 1: how we're going to live out our golden years partly
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Speaker 1: because we've seen it with our own eyes our grandparents. Perhaps,
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Speaker 1: if we were lucky enough to see great grandparents in
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Speaker 1: nursing homes and such, we might be dealing with putting
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Speaker 1: a parent in a nursing home soon, if not already
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Speaker 1: dealing with that type of scenario. And what to do
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Speaker 1: in the golden years is something that's kind of now
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Speaker 1: at the forefront of our minds, dealing with it with
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Speaker 1: family and thinking about the same time, what are we
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Speaker 1: going to do with ourselves? Right, And we've talked before
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Speaker 1: about how you know, nursing home retirement home for gen
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Speaker 1: X is probably gonna be fun because we're gonna have
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Speaker 1: some fun stuff in there. We'll probably have a bar,
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Speaker 1: We'll probably have some other types of activities. We'll probably
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Speaker 1: have video game video games setups and things like that.
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Speaker 2: So I'm not entirely not looking forward to retirement home living.
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Speaker 1: But I saw a great idea the other day that
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Speaker 1: I think should catch on, and that is turning abandoned
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Speaker 1: malls into retirement homes. Three floors of pure nostalgia, food court, arcade,
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Speaker 1: Orange Julius Smoothies, and a movie theater showing classics on
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Speaker 1: repeat and all.
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Speaker 3: The women live in Forever twenty one.
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Speaker 2: Sure reclaires.
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Speaker 1: I can finally, I can finally get my piercing I've
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Speaker 1: been putting off. I don't know why this popped up,
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Speaker 1: but I have seen a couple of times. I think
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Speaker 1: it's all torn down now, But the old Colin Creek
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Speaker 1: Mall and Plano.
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Speaker 2: There's a video.
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Speaker 1: There's like an account called Abandoned Malls or something like that,
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Speaker 1: and it showed the abandoned Colin Creek Mall. Then when
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Speaker 1: I saw the picture of this guy just holding a
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Speaker 1: sign saying abandoned mall should be turned into retiring into
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Speaker 1: retirement homes. Three floors of nostalgias like.
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Speaker 2: That would be awesome.
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Speaker 1: You get to reuse some real estate and we get
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Speaker 1: a cool environment in which to live out our golden years. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: I just thought that's a fantastic idea. No one's gonna
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Speaker 1: do it, but I wish they would. All the camember
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Speaker 1: all the people can hang out of things.
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Speaker 3: Remember it's the only store that's empty.
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Speaker 2: Why did I come in here?
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Speaker 5: You never have to stock new merchandise.
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Speaker 1: You don't, especially when you go in, especially when you
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Speaker 1: go into things remembered and you want to get something personalized,
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Speaker 1: which means you have to come back next week to
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Speaker 1: pick it up. You're just gotta have a wall full
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Speaker 1: of stuff with people's names on it that they never
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Speaker 1: pick up. It's going to be like those coke bottles
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Speaker 1: with someone's name, like Dimitria, just to have some of
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Speaker 1: the residents run it. That'll never even get engraved. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but you can through all the time.
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Speaker 5: Man.
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Speaker 3: But like the food court could be run by the
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Speaker 3: residents too, Like that'd be hilarious because if they just
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Speaker 3: forget your order, they're just going to keep making so
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Speaker 3: you just gotta pay one time.
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Speaker 1: Basically, the Orange Julius machine is just going to be
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Speaker 1: left open and it's just a matter of running a
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Speaker 1: cup underneath it every few seconds.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be Yeah. But like I like the
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Speaker 3: idea of a bar in a nursing home. The only
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Speaker 3: thing I saw that was close to that is when
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Speaker 3: I first moved back from LA I was just doing
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Speaker 3: quick like Uber Eats thing or Postmates, and I delivered
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Speaker 3: to a nursing home that was across from Valley View Mall,
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Speaker 3: across the highway, and I delivered from Specs and it
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Speaker 3: was a hefty order and I was like, what is
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Speaker 3: going on? And they're like, oh, we have happy hour
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Speaker 3: every Friday, and I was like really lately, yeah, like
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Speaker 3: from five to seven thirty it's open bar and they
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Speaker 3: get the requests with what they like to drink, and.
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Speaker 1: Because not everyone in gen X is all about drinking,
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Speaker 1: because our generation was the first to be like drug,
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Speaker 1: let's do them. Next to the bar might be an
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Speaker 1: actual cannabis bar, like a microdosing mushroom stand or something.
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Speaker 2: And there's all sorts of possibilities that I feel.
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Speaker 1: Like gen X is going to embrace when it comes
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Speaker 1: to the nursing home lifestyle. But again, I just I
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Speaker 1: like the idea of doing an old an old mall
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Speaker 1: because we grew up in malls.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, malls were fun.
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Speaker 1: What better place to be stuck in until you die
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Speaker 1: than a place that you enjoyed as a child, because
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Speaker 1: it's sure as hell isn't gonna be Chucky cheese That
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Speaker 1: was not fun because for most of us, you grow
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Speaker 1: up then eventually, I like, even if you liked chuck
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Speaker 1: e cheese or showbiz pizza as a kid, then you
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Speaker 1: grew up, you had kids, and then you had to
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Speaker 1: take them to those places and you don't want anything
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Speaker 1: to do with them anymore.
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Speaker 2: The mall is still I think it's still in play trade.
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Speaker 5: There's a reason.
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Speaker 3: There's a reason that Chucky Cheese now serves beer.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I think it always has.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't know that interesting?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they knew from the Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And also, did you guys see the video of Chucky
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Speaker 3: Cheese getting arrested?
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, amazing. Did we not talk about that on
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Speaker 2: the show?
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Speaker 1: I had that on my list, And that's one of
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Speaker 1: the things I can ever remember, if we all, if
20:50
Speaker 1: we talk about certain things I had that was it
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Speaker 1: happened in Florida.
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Speaker 2: I think it was in.
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Speaker 1: Tampa, and it was Chucky Cheese being arrested for credit
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Speaker 1: card front Yeah.
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Speaker 4: But it wasn't the real Chucky Cheese, just the guy
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Speaker 4: put the Chuck E Cheese outfit on just to try
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Speaker 4: to fool the cops.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that shows you how stupid he was. He
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Speaker 1: tried to He should have tried to crawl inside the animatronic.
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Speaker 5: He should have gone in the ballpit that too, That's
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Speaker 5: a better.
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Speaker 2: Spot to hide.
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Speaker 3: He's gonna come out with some sort of fungal disease.
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Speaker 3: You don't want to be in the ballpit they did like.
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Speaker 5: Better than the other ballpit. He's going to Yeah.
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Speaker 3: But my favorite part of that video, and it just
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Speaker 3: makes me laugh, is when they're just like literally telling
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Speaker 3: Chuck e Cheese to stop resisting.
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Speaker 2: I was like, that is hilarious to me. He's not trying,
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Speaker 2: he's not resisting. He can't get his He's.
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Speaker 3: Never worn the cost before, so he doesn't know how
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Speaker 3: to get his arms around comfortably.
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Speaker 1: It turns out the costumes a little more restrictive than
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Speaker 1: I guess he was planning. The thing I like to
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Speaker 1: think about is that's Florida. So it probably was not
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Speaker 1: the first Chucky Cheese they arrested, nor will it be
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Speaker 1: the last, Nor will it be the last. So Trey,
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Speaker 1: you look kind of skeptical. Are you not on board
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Speaker 1: with the retirement malls?
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Speaker 5: I mean, you know you could.
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Speaker 4: I mean, ice skating rink is going to be a morgue. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: I mean, and I guess you have different levels because
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Speaker 4: at a certain point, some people won't be able to
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Speaker 4: get to the second level, and.
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Speaker 1: Then some people, as you pointed out, should not be
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Speaker 1: allowed on the ice skating rink.
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Speaker 4: Oh, I think by that point the majority of people
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Speaker 4: yo broken hips of.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, or is that just where they throw you when
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Speaker 1: it's your time because it's already cold storage.
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Speaker 5: You know that's I mean multiple uses.
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Speaker 1: Sorry, sorry, sorry, Jerry, it's time. It's time to go
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Speaker 1: to the ice drink.
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Speaker 2: No, I still feel fine.
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Speaker 3: Oh that's a that's a great idea for a horror movie.
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Speaker 3: The ice rink.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure.
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Speaker 1: And one of the five or six final destinations, I'm
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Speaker 1: certain they've done at least one scene at an ice drink.
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Speaker 2: If not, then that's just opportunity.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this could be like the nursing home version of
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Speaker 3: the Purge.
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Speaker 2: Once a year, they just let them go after each other.
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Speaker 5: I think. I think that's why they wear diapers.
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Speaker 2: That's a different urge.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of things I would consider doing for
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Speaker 1: a million dollars. But there's one thing that I don't
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Speaker 1: know if it's even an official competition or if it's
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Speaker 1: just you know, hyperbole. But are you guys familiar with
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Speaker 1: an anachoic chamber?
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Speaker 5: I am not.
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Speaker 2: No, so.
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Speaker 1: For one million dollars, could you stay in the world's
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Speaker 1: quietest room for one night? The catches The room is
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Speaker 1: an anachoic chamber. The room is minus twenty four point
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Speaker 1: nine decibels, and that is so low that you'd be
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Speaker 1: able to hear your own body's internal sounds, heartbeat, breathing,
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Speaker 1: even blood moving through your veins.
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Speaker 2: That's going to be a note for me.
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Speaker 1: Supposedly, the longest that someone has been able to last
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Speaker 1: in one of these rooms is about an hour. I
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Speaker 1: initially saw this story because it's said, for one million dollars,
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Speaker 1: could you stay a night in this room? And no
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Speaker 1: one's been able to stay beyond an hour. And that's
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Speaker 1: even an extreme example. Most people can't make it fifteen
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Speaker 1: twenty minutes.
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Speaker 5: How big is the room?
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Speaker 2: Uh, let me see if I can get you a
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Speaker 2: decent answer.
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Speaker 1: An anacoic chamber is a specialized room designed to absorb
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Speaker 1: nearly all sound and electromagnetic waves, creating a nearly echo
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Speaker 1: free environment. These chambers are characterized by their sound absorbing
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Speaker 1: materials like foam or fiberglass wedges on the walls and ceiling.
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Speaker 1: They're used to conduct precise measurements of sound emitting devices
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Speaker 1: and electronic equipment by eliminating unwanted reflections. Visitors often find
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Speaker 1: their resulting silence disorienting, as they can hear their own
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Speaker 1: internal body sounds, but they're also used for research and
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Speaker 1: testing in fields ranging from acoustics to electronics. The room
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Speaker 1: that I have seen is in Minnesota. It's ore Field
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Speaker 1: Laboratories in South Minneapolis, and it has been confirmed by
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Speaker 1: the Guinness World Records as the quietest place on Earth.
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Speaker 1: It absorbs ninety nine point ninety nine percent of sound
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Speaker 1: based on the size. I'd say the size of a
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Speaker 1: good sized master closet or bathroom. And I don't know,
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Speaker 1: and I don't know if there's a light on when
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Speaker 1: you're in.
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Speaker 2: There, that's an even bigger no.
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Speaker 1: By comparison, a typical quiet bedroom at night measures about
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Speaker 1: thirty decibels. This measure this chamber measures at minus twenty.
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Speaker 1: It's made of three point three foot thick fiberglass acoustic
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Speaker 1: wedges and double walls of insulated steel and foot thick concrete.
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Speaker 1: My god, this sounds like a nightmare. According to the
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Speaker 1: place that runs the room orfield, they say, in the
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Speaker 1: anacoic chamber, you become the sound. One reporter lasted up
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Speaker 1: to forty five minutes, and most people leave after half
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Speaker 1: that time, tortured by the eerie sounds of their own body.
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Speaker 2: Ugh, I do not want to be left alone with
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Speaker 2: my own head for that long. That's from the sound
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Speaker 2: of it, no pun intended.
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Speaker 1: I don't think you would really be able to hear
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Speaker 1: your own thoughts over the noise of your own body.
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Speaker 1: They say, the only stay in the room for an
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Speaker 1: extended period of time is to sit down. A person's
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Speaker 1: orientation is largely secured by the sounds made when walking
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Speaker 1: or standing, and as those sound cues are taken away,
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Speaker 1: perception becomes skewed and balance and movement become almost impossible.
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Speaker 2: Feats.
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Speaker 4: Ugh, I get in my mind, I just assumed you
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Speaker 4: laid down in it to begin with.
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Speaker 1: That would make sense, But yeah, the fact that no
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Speaker 1: one's been able to make it past an hour just
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Speaker 1: just sounds so. I mean, because it's one thing like
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Speaker 1: if you like you kind of feel your heartbeat, but
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Speaker 1: really being able to hear it is one thing.
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Speaker 2: I don't like.
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Speaker 1: Mouth noises at a normal room volume, like people slurping
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Speaker 1: and smacking and stuff that drives me off the wall.
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Speaker 1: I can't imagine. I don't think I would last five
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Speaker 1: minutes in this room because I don't like hearing moist
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Speaker 1: wet noises.
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Speaker 2: That's all you are is a big ball of moist
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Speaker 2: wet noise. That's right.
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Speaker 1: The room is minus twenty four point nine decibels. The
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Speaker 1: only things lower than the decibels in this room are
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Speaker 1: the Eagles' latest ratings. If you're wondering, yes, that is
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Speaker 1: the reason why I wanted to read this story.
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Speaker 2: Huzzah.
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Speaker 5: And no one can stay there for my very much
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Speaker 5: time either.
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Speaker 2: Time spent listening way down. Well, your long game is
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Speaker 2: certainly better than theirs.
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