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The Great Wolf Getaway! · Nick and Kristen in the Podcast

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Hello and welcome to Nick and Kristen in the podcast.
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I'm Nick. That's Kristen.
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We are married. We used to be a morning radio
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show and now we do a podcast and we have a 7 year old daughter
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and we may look exhausted and it's because we are exhausted.
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We took our daughter on a surprise trip yesterday, which
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is why we didn't have our podcast.
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The very first podcast that we missed, and I'm sure you're
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thinking, well, wait a second, a surprise trip, Aren't you
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unemployed radio personalities? Like how are you affording that?
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Well, this was booked and paid for four months ago.
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And I was like, oh, we're going to be good.
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I'm not going to spend another cent at this thing.
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So we took our daughter to the Great Wolf Lodge and we debated
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kind of like going back and forth, like, how do we want to
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tell her? Do we want her to get her
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excited? And we decided like, no, let's
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just surprise her with this. Yeah, So we put her in the car
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right before school. She thought she was going to
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school. We said we've got a couple
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errands to run before we get to school.
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We're going to take you today because usually she takes the
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bus. And so we got in the car and we
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started driving and about 45 minutes went by and she went,
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this is a long car. This is.
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Long, what are we doing? Like, and I was like, well, you
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are going to be late for school. And like very quickly you're
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like, oh, we have to run to the post office.
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Yeah, She doesn't know where the post office is, how far it is.
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She's like, oh, OK. She was like, yeah, OK, Sat.
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In the back played on her like like she did some games.
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Yeah, she had drawing, she had an activity book back there.
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Didn't notice the luggage in in the seat behind her.
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We. Had to secretly pack the luggage
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while she was not looking. Yeah.
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And we were like, there's no way she's going to make it to the
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entire way. It's about an hour and a half
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trip. Yeah.
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And at one point she even was like, this feels like a really
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long car ride, like, we're going to the Great Wolf Lodge.
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And we were like, that's weird. It's like, Nope, just the post
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office. And I thought, surely when we're
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driving past the Great Wolf Lodge, she's going to look up.
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But she was deeply ingrained in this activity book.
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Yeah, we, there's a big sign in front of the Great lodge, this
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great Wolf lodge. I was like, here we are at the
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post office and mom's recording and she's like, oh, OK.
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She's like, yeah, didn't look up, Didn't look up.
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So we pulled into, like, the area where you drop off, like
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your luggage and stuff. And I said, Lily, like, let's
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get out and mail this package. And she was like, OK, she gets
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out of the car, doesn't even notice.
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I don't have a package in my hand.
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And I open up the door. And only then is when she
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realized. Well, 'cause you started
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recording. I did start recording and she
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was like. Here's the video.
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Just taking a video of you coming into the post office.
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You're just so cute. What the heck?
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There's Wolf. Wait,
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this is not. The.
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Post office, she's, she's been there like 4 or five times, so
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she knows the place pretty well. But yeah, it's she's not a good
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age because we tried to surprise her before when she was young.
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It never landed. No, anytime we did anything she
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either cried or didn't understand what was.
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Happening. She would get super overwhelmed
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and like, didn't know how to handle it.
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Now she's like, has regulated emotions and now it's like, oh,
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excitement. Yeah, that's a good thing.
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And we were still worried because going there and like the
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reveal, she was either going to be mad or super happy.
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And then you said yeah. Yeah, it like so she runs away
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like in that video. Sorry if you're just kind of
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listening to this. It's like the our daughter
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running in through the lobby. Yeah.
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And at the point that I stopped recording, she all of a sudden,
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like, put her head down and got really sad.
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And I was like, you have got to be kidding me.
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And I go, what is it? And she goes, I just wish that
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Dad was going to come. And I go, he's just parking the
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car. He's not dropping us off.
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And she was like, really? He gets to come, too?
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I was like. Yes, yeah, I was unloading the
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car and so I said go in with side with mommy and drop off the
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package because we were at the post office and she's like, OK.
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She thought you were dropping us.
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I know we were the package and you were just going to take off.
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Which is super sweet that she thought of me because usually
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she's like Mommy me day. So I'm happy that she was sad
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that I wasn't. Going to.
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Be there. And then I was I got there and
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she's like, yay. Exactly.
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But OK, can I? Can I talk freely now?
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I mean, you might as well look we've.
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Gone on the radio anymore? It's true.
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Well, yeah, they didn't pay us to go to Robot Lodge, and
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they've been super nice to us for the last like.
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Five years duper nice. They've like hooked us up with a
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couple rooms a couple times, not for anything, just because we
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wanted to go. And then they like, they gave
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this family down the street a whole trip, like for free
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because it was their dream to go to the Great Wolf Lodge.
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So before you start. Before we start.
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Talking. I'm not saying anything bad
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about the. Great Wolf Lodge does a great
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job. It's like a mini Disneyland.
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Our kid prefers the great wolf lodge over Disneyland like any
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day of the week. My kid loves the great wolf
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lodge. I always have such a blast
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seeing her have so much. Fun.
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It's a nice affordable getaway that's right down the street if
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you live in the. Pacific Door, right?
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We don't have to sell anything. We're not on the radio.
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Anymore just want to know like. We love the place.
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We're always going to be going back, however.
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However, Kristen has a history. I don't like water parks, okay?
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I'm allowed to not like water parks.
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I used to work at a water park. I know exactly what happens at
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water parks, okay? And that happened several times.
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It was the first time it's happened while we were there.
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It's true. And it's not anyone's fault at
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the Great Wolf Lodge. OK, But like the Kitty area all
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of a sudden closed and I was like, I know what that's about.
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And they had the skimmer out and I was like disgusting,
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disgusting. And then like there's this one
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area of the pool of the areas that like it.
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To me, it's my cringe factor times 10.
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Every time I'm in there, I'm just like, I can't deal.
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And so I looked at Nick and I was like, hey, can I take this
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this pool out? Oh really?
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This? Is the gross pool yes, like.
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It I, I'm not saying, I'm not saying anything, I'm not
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elaborating, but I was just like, can I skip this area?
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And he was like, yeah, sure. And like I went on a ride.
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She. Didn't tell me why she skipped
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that. Area I went on a little tube
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ride because I was it's a fun thing, right?
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Like it was fine. And then after a while I was
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like, you know, poor Nick's like taking the brunt of this.
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I was like, let's go back to this other area, like this other
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area that she likes to play. Not going to the Kitty area
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because I already know that that's been closed Now they have
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reopened it. I don't trust it.
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Yeah. Well, it's probably clean.
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Yeah. I don't know the science behind
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that. No.
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Of like just. Scooping.
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I mean, I know what AI know after having worked at a water
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park, but we're going back to the other pool area that I don't
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mind that's also closed. Yes, that is the wave Bull.
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We'll just say what? It is well, the wave, it's the
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wave bull, and both Nick and I were like, do you think it was
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the same kid? Like, do you think like, what
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are the odds? You know, I mean clearly, but
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look, accidents happen. It's.
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I understand there's. Lots of things.
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But two in within an hour, yeah, was new for us.
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And at that point I was officially skeeved out.
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I was like, I have to go shower and and delouse myself
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immediately. We're done.
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And at that point she was starting to get emotional about
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stuff. She's like, and I was like,
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you're hungry, you're tired, let's go take a rest.
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I never had a problem with pools and public places until we got
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together. Yeah, like I would spend my
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childhood and wet and wild. Same here.
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Yeah, I know. And so it was never.
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But then you, as soon as you worked there, it ruined it for
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you, which is why I never worked anywhere.
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I liked eating because I was like, I don't want to know.
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I don't know. You made it.
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Sausage you. Made.
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I don't want to know. So yeah, same.
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And now that I know that, that's why they closed pools.
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I was like, oh, look at that. They're like cleaning for some,
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it's a random clean. Yeah, they are, but they're
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skimming. Yes.
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And it's, it's gross. Like, so I used to work at Wild
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Rivers, which I think is like a now defunct water park in Orange
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County. I was a lifeguard and I was in
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the little kid area and I worked the lazy river.
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That's where, like, I mean, most adults were in the lazy.
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Yeah, that's where we jam. And I mean, at least once a day
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we had to close it because somebody had an accident.
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I just thought it broke. And we would skim it out, we'd
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throw it away and like pour chlorine, and you would have to
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wait like 20-30 minutes or something like that.
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And then you just reopen it and I was always like, disgusting.
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I wonder what the science is like because the water is moving
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constantly. It's constantly getting filtered
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because it has to go through like a filter.
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I don't think it is. Though there's, I mean, it's a
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pool, all filters, all pools have like filters.
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So like it's getting going through the water circulating,
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it's got to like go around and there's jets and stuff.
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So I'm assuming that it's circulating.
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Right. Yeah, but all to get like it's
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circulating the same water. Yeah, but it's probably, it's
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not like. Going through like a Britta
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filter it might be, you know what I mean?
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And like fresh drinkable water is coming out.
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It's all the same. Stuff and then, and then what
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does chlorine do exactly? Like it just, I mean, if it
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doesn't neutralize the poop and then the poop's still there.
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Don't say it. I'm just.
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Gonna, I don't know. I don't know what it does, but
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it was just kind of like, and I'm not a biochemist, but we
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still just go, yeah, that looks good.
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And then like, leave it closed for 30 minutes, let people
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forget about it and then be like, oh, it's open.
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And then people are like lazy river's open.
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Don't know why it was even closed.
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No problem here. I mean, and like Nick was saying
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he's like, it could have all of this could have been closed
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before we even showed up. So like, and we all got in the
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water. And I get it.
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I understand. I just, I just hate water parks.
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Our daughter is obsessed with water.
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She is the happiest she's ever been and she's playing in water
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and I love that for her. But the next place we go to is
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going to have to have a pool in the backyard because I can't do
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these community pools. We already paid for our cruise.
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Yeah. So that'll be the ocean.
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The world's largest toilet, as you call it, that is not
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filtered, but it's. I don't have a problem with like
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the, the, the ocean, I guess. Like I'm not going in the
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Willamette, Like I'm not going in like Venice Beach water in
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California or anything like that.
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Like this is the Bahamas at Disney's private little island
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thingy. Like I'm hoping it, you know,
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junk and plastic isn't floating up to the top and we'll see.
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Yeah, I yeah, I'm imagining they keep it clean, but they're still
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kids. Yeah, all concentrated in one
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area. And I know you asked, you were
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talking about this question. And so I wanted to ask you,
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like, has your parents ever surprised you with a trip?
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No, I've never been surprised with a trip.
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So this is this was nice to do for in fact, I I had the
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opposite where I was told I was going on trips and then I never
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went on trips. So it was used.
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It was as bait. And if I don't know if my mom
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listens to this podcast, but I am still scarred by Oasis Water
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Park. All I wanted to do was go to
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Oasis Water Park and I got promised several times that I
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was going to go. Never went again, Never saw
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them. What the heck is Oasis Water
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Park? It's a water park that was in
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California, Southern California, and it was like we went once it
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was great. And I got told that that was
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like the Dang of the fruit that was dangled whenever we got
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money, we're going to Oasis Water Park.
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They never remembered. I remembered every.
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Day, I know. Well, yeah, as a kid.
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Oh my gosh, that's so formative. Like, I remember your mom
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talking. Yeah, talking to your your
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cousin or your niece. Sorry, your niece.
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And she was like, if you get good grades, I'm going to take
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you on a Nickelodeon cruise. And I was like, they don't even
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have Nickelodeon cruises. Like that's not even a thing.
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And I was just like, that's hard.
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Yeah. Yeah, the she's intent.
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She her intentions are are there are.
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Well, yes. Well, intentions.
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But she doesn't. She forgets sometimes that she's
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broke. Well, you always think like, oh,
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in six months from now, my portions will change, right?
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That's how we think sometimes. You kind of have to be like, you
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know, you have to make sure that you're not promising something
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that you can't deliver on. And that's always, that's always
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been a thing with us for Lily. It's like, if I can't promise
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it, I'm not going to say, but like Lily was saying, like, are
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we going to come back to the Great Wolf Lodge?
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And I was like, yeah, we are. I don't know when, but we are.
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And I said and it and I go, and I don't even know if it's going
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to be this one, but at some point in the future we'll come
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back to 1. Yes, because there are 20
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located throughout the country. And so we, if we end up having
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to move, hopefully we're near one of those and we can drive to
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the new one and she'll be excited that there's a new one
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there that she wants to try. But I don't remember my parents
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ever surprising me with the trip, and I wonder if that was a
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thing before social media 'cause I feel like like here I was.
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That's a good point. Filming her surprise, Yeah.
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You weren't gonna share it though, I think.
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I wasn't gonna share it. It was just for me and I watched
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it like 9 times in a row after that.
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And then I was probably never gonna share it.
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But you were like, oh, let's put it up on, yeah.
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Let's share it like so many people have grown up with Lily.
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Or well, I mean, have watched Lily grow.
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Up, I know. Like even one comment she's
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like, I remember when she was born.
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She's so big. I know well, if you've been
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listening to us from the Bay, like you remember like the Bay
13:07
Area baby because I was broadcasting from the hospital
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while I was pregnant with her on medical like bed rest.
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And so now seeing her as like a 7 year old is got to be, it's a
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humbling experience for us for sure.
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But as a listener, that's got to be weird.
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You feel like you know her. It's true.
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And so, yeah, we don't share much of her, but we thought this
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is a cute and she's so adorable. I know.
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And somebody said she looks like me.
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And then starting to see it, like I was doing her hair like
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in the mirror and like her jawline and stuff is very me.
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She has this kind of like tiny little face, which I sort of had
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when I was younger before I discovered fast food and like
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cooking and stuff like that. And she's.
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Yeah, she has like the high cheekbones.
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She. Used to like used to be me.
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She. Used to look just like Nick so.
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Wild. Yeah.
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And then I was hoping one day she started looking like you.
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And here it is. She's turning around.
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Thank goodness. No, but she was so cute when she
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looked like you and she's always going to have your like almond
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shaped eyes. Yeah, I'm not even sure if she
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looked like me. She just had a round head and I
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have I maybe I just have a round head like a.
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Baby have a basketball. All babies look like me because
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I have round heads. Very true.
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But yes, we're happy that she's starting to look like Kristen.
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She's going to be tall and lean, and we've already started to
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talk about dominant recessive genes.
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For some reason she was talking about that.
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She wanted to know about like eye color and stuff like that.
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Like why do I have blue eyes but you guys don't have blue eyes.
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So we're exhausted. Yes, it has been a whirlwind
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last 24 hours. After this I'm going to take a
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nap because I didn't get enough sleep the night before and I'm
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so so tired. So thank you for understanding
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that we missed a podcast. But we did hear from people,
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yeah. They were like, where's the
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podcast? Which was nice.
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I. Mean you guys are listening, so
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thank. My gosh, thank.
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You are we taking Monday off? What do you think?
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Do you think we want to do a Memorial Day podcast?
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I mean, I don't see why not. I mean, we it's just a normal
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day for us. That's.
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True. All right, Well, then we'll talk
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to you on America's Favorite Holiday.
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Or more. I don't.
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Know. Isn't that 4th of July?
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I don't know, Memorial Day weekend, you can catch up on all
15:08
the episodes. Thanks for watching, bye.