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We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat. · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: We're gonna need a bigger boat. It's one more thing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm one more thing. That is a quote from the
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  Speaker 1: movie Jaws, back when we used to make American movies,
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  Speaker 1: which we'll start making again now with a new one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent tariff on foreign films, make fake sharks great again.
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  Speaker 2: That's probably in your pantheon of like your top, if
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  Speaker 2: not ten, top twenty all time recognizable movie quotes, isn't
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  Speaker 2: it true, gonna need a bigger boat. Yeah, yeah, Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: I thought this was at least mildly interesting. Michael is
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  Speaker 2: just back from a trip to the shore, correct, Michael,
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  Speaker 2: that is correct. Yeah, yeah, the Mighty Pacific where the
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  Speaker 2: Great White haunts the depths and choose on seals, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The wife and I just wanted to escape, and we
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  Speaker 3: wanted to get into nature. So that's what we do.
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  Speaker 3: We go out to the ocean and just sit there
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  Speaker 3: on the coast.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: That's fantastic. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Do you ever do any tide pooling.
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  Speaker 3: I've done that once or twice, but generally I just,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just sit there and just relax, close the eyes.
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  Speaker 1: My youngest son especially loves the whole pide pooling thing.
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  Speaker 1: Oh is that right? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Judy and I we both love it. We've for
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  Speaker 2: years and years and years since we first got married. Anytime,
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  Speaker 2: we're especially at the Pacific Ocean because it's much rockier
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  Speaker 2: than the Atlantic, which mostly just sand, which is great.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like beaches and the water is warmer, but
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  Speaker 2: the rocky inlets and stuff of the Pacific are just
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  Speaker 2: dream come true. If you're into tide pulling. The number
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  Speaker 2: of fascinating little creatures you can observe. If you're into
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  Speaker 2: that sort of thing, it's really cool.
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  Speaker 1: So read Steinbeck's Cannery Road to learn more.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, I don't. I think I read that in
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  Speaker 2: high school.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, another one of those books you should read
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  Speaker 1: when you're older.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, you're like, Okay, he's angsty and wants that
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  Speaker 2: they have a different life. There's something I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Can we go chase girls and try to get beer?
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  Speaker 1: Anyway?
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  Speaker 2: So, speaking of the sea shore and sharks, is there
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  Speaker 2: any phenomenon in human life that gets more attention relative
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  Speaker 2: to its actual significance than shark attacks? Winning the lottery?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe? I mean, like anything, I don't. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that's even close. There's no significance to a shark attack
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  Speaker 1: really winning the lottery there, there's some human element, story,
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  Speaker 1: the way people handle it and stuff that you could
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  Speaker 1: you know, you could do write long papers about. There's
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  Speaker 1: nothing to a shark attack. It's very, very rare. The
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  Speaker 1: whole story is in one sentence, you got by a
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  Speaker 1: shark and died.
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  Speaker 2: Or survived. It sucks hard if you are the bye tea.
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  Speaker 2: Lord knows, but I mean incredibly all Lord, it's so
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  Speaker 2: incredibly infrequent, but we spend a lot of time thinking
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  Speaker 2: about it and talking about it and reporting out it on.
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  Speaker 1: The news and that sort of thing. Do you have
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  Speaker 1: any fear of that. I've never worried about it once
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  Speaker 1: in my life.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit, A little bit I did as a kid.
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  Speaker 1: I'm from Kansas and didn't see the ocean until I
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  Speaker 1: was twenty. That's part of it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I would say, you don't get to brag
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  Speaker 2: about your courage. And Judy and I spend a fair
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  Speaker 2: amount of time on the Atlantic coast these days, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't worry about it, but I'm aware of it.
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  Speaker 2: But generally it's somebody. Shark nips at somebody to see
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  Speaker 2: what they are and think. So God that's not a
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  Speaker 2: seal air and moves on. It's fatalities are very very rare.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, if you got blood rushing out of
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  Speaker 2: your lower leg, that's a long day. I mean, you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have a long, unpleasant day. Having said that, I
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  Speaker 2: read this entire article about how they're coming up with
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  Speaker 2: suits for people who are in the ocean of fair amount, surfers, divers,
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  Speaker 2: whatever that use LED lights on the suit, just one here,
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  Speaker 2: one there, one air and it disrupts the silhouette of
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  Speaker 2: an objecked like a surfer for instance, or seal decoys,
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  Speaker 2: which is how they're trying to figure out if this
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  Speaker 2: works or not.
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  Speaker 1: But the shark is trying to figure out what that is.
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  Speaker 2: And if you break up the silhouette of it so
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  Speaker 2: it appears to be a couple of different things by
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  Speaker 2: having an LED light right in the middle of it,
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  Speaker 2: the shark's like it, I don't know what that is,
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  Speaker 2: but it's sure not a seal, and it moves on.
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  Speaker 2: So they think the greatest shark attack avoidance mechanism or
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  Speaker 2: method they've ever come up with, these little LED lights
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  Speaker 2: that just confuse the shark's eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, doesn't that put a skip in my step that
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  Speaker 1: they've eliminated one of the one in a billion ways
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  Speaker 1: that I could die the most likely.
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  Speaker 2: Spend your time in the ocean. No, no, you don't
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  Speaker 2: get to play the hard ass here.
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  Speaker 1: You don't get to Can you come and put anything
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  Speaker 1: with like heart disease or car rex or anything that
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  Speaker 1: might get me? Ooh, guy got et by a bear
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  Speaker 1: the other day. And where was it? It was one
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  Speaker 1: of your eastern states?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, him and his dog too fluffy anyway, So I
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  Speaker 2: don't know.
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  Speaker 1: The dog didn't occupy the bear long enough that he
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  Speaker 1: could get away, or maybe he wasn't that kind of guy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm hurling my dog at the bear and run.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, wow, I'm running.
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  Speaker 1: I believe in a hierarchy. You know, my family needs
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  Speaker 1: me more than you. Pop occupy this bear while I
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  Speaker 1: get in feats don't fail me? Now.
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  Speaker 2: You know it takes a certain kind of guy to
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  Speaker 2: admit that out loud, But you're one hundred percent ride.
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  Speaker 2: Heck yeah, I mean if I were to and I
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  Speaker 2: can barely make these words come out of my mouth,
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  Speaker 2: if Judy and I are hiking.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna shove Judy at the bear.
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  Speaker 2: With our dog oh, I was.
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  Speaker 1: Thinking of the same thing, and I hurl.
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  Speaker 2: I was pausing for effect, let me do my art,
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  Speaker 2: and I heard a hurl poor Baxter at the bear.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, I find that so repugnant I can
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  Speaker 2: bury it in my mouth.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting, this kid. This came up just the other day.
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  Speaker 1: Who was I with? And they thought it was horrific
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  Speaker 1: that I said that. To me, it's just like her
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  Speaker 1: percent the obvious choice. I got two kids I got
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  Speaker 1: to take care of and support. Hmm, I'm not you know,
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  Speaker 1: they say, whoever was who was I with? But they said,
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  Speaker 1: oh no, I would protect the dog. I'd probably get it.
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  Speaker 1: You're nuts.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Well, this reminds me this might be like
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  Speaker 2: the ultimate test of something I like to talk about
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  Speaker 2: on the show, which is how there are certain people
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  Speaker 2: who are willing to deal with unpleasant adult realities. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember of a good example of an
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  Speaker 2: issue that I've talked about this before.
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  Speaker 1: But you get certain.
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  Speaker 2: People who say we've got to do something, and you say, well,
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  Speaker 2: that's not going to work. It's a waste of money
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  Speaker 2: and it's abusive to the taxpayers. But we've got to
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  Speaker 2: do something, you know, okay, Well, unless you can come
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  Speaker 2: up with something smart, we're not going to do anything.
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  Speaker 2: Those people have to figure it out for themselves. Are
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  Speaker 2: you willing to confront unpleasant reality or not? If the
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  Speaker 2: answer is not, if you are not willing to admit
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  Speaker 2: you would hurl your dog at thet a bear's hungry jaws.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna lob him high in the air to even
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  Speaker 1: give myself more time, right off I go?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Yes, a trick employed by many A brother, perhaps
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  Speaker 2: while playing rough with his other brothers, Sure tosses the
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  Speaker 2: ball a little high in the air, then belly tackles
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  Speaker 2: his brother while he's looking up it.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, that's exactly right.
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  Speaker 2: If you are not willing to admit you would hurl
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  Speaker 2: your dog at the bear, you cannot be in charge
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  Speaker 2: of anything.
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  Speaker 1: I might yell thank you, pop pup. I'll remember you
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  Speaker 1: over my shoulder as I run. You're a good dog.
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  Speaker 1: We're a good dog.
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  Speaker 2: Right right, yeah, okay, anyway, where were we? I guess
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  Speaker 2: we probably did enough of the shark attack thing. I
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  Speaker 2: just I find it interesting that somebody had this idea
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  Speaker 2: and it actually works.
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  Speaker 1: Cool. It'll probably become very standard. It might be the
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  Speaker 1: end of a shark attack.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder, Yeah, put them on the bottom of
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  Speaker 2: surfboards and all, because a surfboard with like a couple
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  Speaker 2: of hands paddling looks just like a seal.
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  Speaker 1: Do you, Michael, you're at the beach with your wife. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just sitting on the beach, you said. But yeah, were
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  Speaker 1: you literally just sitting there, like staring out at the water,
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  Speaker 1: or were you reading or listening to music or.
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  Speaker 3: Just sitting there and we were just talking.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, talking amongst yourself.
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  Speaker 2: We were talking.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, you know, she wants me to and when she
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  Speaker 3: gets cremated to put her ashes around you know, the
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  Speaker 3: coast and stuff like that. So I asked her, you know,
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  Speaker 3: where would you like? So we were trying to decide
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  Speaker 3: on spots.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, she'll murder you long before that's necessary.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty young for that conversation. I'd be a little concerned that.
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  Speaker 3: She's oh, no, up, Yeah, she's doing fine. But it's
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  Speaker 3: just you know, she was thinking about it, and so
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  Speaker 3: I asked.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I could sit there and watch the waves for
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  Speaker 2: an hour without the slightest boredom.
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  Speaker 1: I could do it right now. I don't know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna what if you miss a TikTok.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Lord, drown him. Drown him right now. He's feeding
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  Speaker 2: dogs to bears. He's scrolling through TikTok and Nature's wonders.
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  Speaker 1: A monster, you know.
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  Speaker 3: The wife and I were at the State Fair and
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  Speaker 3: a carnee approached me, and so I grabbed my wife
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  Speaker 3: and pulled it right in front of me so she
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  Speaker 3: could engaged.
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  Speaker 1: You did, well, I guess that's it.