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Call Him Dr. Nick · Nick and Kristen in the Podcast

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  Hello, welcome to Nick and Kristen in the podcast.
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  I'm Nick, that's Kristen. We do a podcast together.
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  We're married, we have a daughter and we used to be on
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  the radio and we were recently let go back in March.
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  So I guess not recently anymore, about 3 months a.
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  Quarter 1/4 of the year. Yeah.
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  And I've been slowly like declining because my whole
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  identity, my self worth was that I'm a radio guy.
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  I've been a radio guy for 20 years.
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  And that's all I know confidently how to do.
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  And that's all like the only job I've had for the last 20 years.
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  And so it's just been, it's been real fun trying to figure out
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  who I am as a person. It's also been really fun
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  watching him try to become a person at with outside of the
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  radio. Yes, and and, and so it's.
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  I spend many days just staring out of windows going what am I
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  going to do with my life like. You should be looking for a job.
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  I had a career I like. This was the end.
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  This was no, I know it's not necessarily over.
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  It's just the, the jobs are drying up.
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  AI is coming for everybody's job.
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  So at at least I'm, I mean, I, I don't want to say at least I'm
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  not alone, but I'm not alone. Lots of people are going through
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  this. Lot of people laid off right
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  now. Thankfully they just came out
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  with a list for the 10 most AI proof jobs.
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  So one of these is going to be my next career, OK?
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  Because you got to find a career in something that's not going to
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  be taken over by AI. So here.
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  We go #1. Physical therapist so I could
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  become a physical therapist. Yeah, I mean, you're going to
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  need a doctorate for that. OK, Right.
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  Well, then we'll just pass surgeon.
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  OK? I feel like I'm.
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  I need a doctor. If he's going to all of a sudden
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  start applying to medical school.
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  Dentist is #3 all right, Well, all right.
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  So far it's not looking good, right?
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  Construction managers. That's what I was just going to
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  say. Well, I said construction, but.
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  Yeah, construction managers. Yeah, managers.
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  So the ones in charge like the foreman's, yeah.
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  Things like that. So first I have to get into
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  construction, learn about construction, become really good
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  at it, and then oversee construction in a couple of
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  years. Sure, that's cool.
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  All that stuff. Police and detectives is another
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  one that's not. I disagree.
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  I think that AIS come. I think Robocop's coming for us
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  all. I yeah, I could see that.
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  The police state, there's so many cameras everywhere.
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  I just sort of feel like things are just going to start popping
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  up and it's going to start being like Minority Report, where it's
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  like they hit you up before the the thing happens and you're
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  like, what? Yeah, I don't know, like you're
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  arrested. You thought about it.
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  Yeah. All right.
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  Well, not that I mean right now, yes, obviously we need.
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  Psychologist is the next one. Psychologist.
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  Yes. Therapist.
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  It's not on the list, no, but psychologist is.
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  I did go to school for psychology.
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  OK, well psychologist again is another MD.
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  Yes, but I've already got a medical, I've got a head start.
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  I almost got a associate. What's the you have?
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  What's the middle degree with four bachelors?
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  Associates. Associates.
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  I almost got an associate. 'S almost got an associate, so
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  you have a high school education.
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  I do and I went to all the All I need is math and English.
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  He did take dream psychology so he's pretty much halfway to
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  being in MD and passing out I. Also took sociology.
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  For everybody. Psychology.
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  I took other other other psychology classes.
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  You always focus on the. Dream with a psychiatrist than
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  you are, but I'm not. Information security analyst.
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  What the heck is that? Got me.
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  That looks like that sounds like something you could do.
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  Yeah, information. I'm good at gathering security.
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  I feel tough. Analyst is where you lose me.
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  OK, Yeah. I don't analyze anything.
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  Dental hygienists, they have those advertisements so you can
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  be in a dental. You can go to a six week
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  correspondence course, you know, type of thing.
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  I. Feel like I have, my hands are
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  too big for that. I feel like you have to have a
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  certain like you have to be built a certain way no to become
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  a. Like a dentist already, he's
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  starting to make excuses for. Why he can't just like don't
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  dentist have don't dentist like notoriously have like small?
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  Hands. I've never heard that before.
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  I've never heard that in my life, I think.
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  What are you even talking about? Because they they have to.
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  Like they're known for having small hands.
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  I swear, I swear every now I've I've had I've had multiple I've
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  I've had female dentists and I've had male dentists.
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  I've had more male dentists than I have a female.
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  So this is what I'm kind of basing it off of.
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  Every dentist that I've met has been a normal sized human being
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  and at no point was I ever like wow he has very tiny.
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  Hands. You don't touch a lot of hands
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  of dentists. Yes, I know, but you would
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  notice if they were coming at you like you, if they were just
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  like little tiny, like little peopley hands.
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  I like little numb hands. I have the little toys.
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  Hi. The little tiny hands like you
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  would be like, wait a second, like that feels really, I know
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  exactly what you're looking for right now.
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  Very fine. You gotta settle for a tiny
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  flick, OK? Yeah, but it's yeah.
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  Like hi, hi. We're going to put it we have a
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  tiny hand finally get in here. I have a tiny.
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  But anyways, so yes, no, never heard that.
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  A day of my life. Well, all right, I'm going to
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  Google it after I'm done. OK, Social workers is number 9.
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  Hey, you could be a social. Worker, yeah.
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  Like that's a step down, I think.
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  Yeah, it's a step. It's a step.
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  Yeah, I would say down. It's just it's a different kind
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  of counsellor than what I do. You have already probably the
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  training to just kind. Of yeah, I could move into that,
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  but that's more paperwork than I.
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  Wanted to and you're and you're already set.
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  So we're looking for me and so I could be I could be a therapist.
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  I mean you. You could be a therapist.
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  You make it seem easier. You should be able to use and
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  then #10's a lawyer. Yeah, so.
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  Although lawyers are getting in trouble for using AI.
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  Yeah, they're using AI to like create court cases.
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  And the judge is like, that's not a real court case.
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  I've heard that from multiple. Like sources?
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  Like and and steel. Versus flowers, this happened.
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  Like that never was a thing. Yeah.
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  I mean, I know that we're all very worried in the therapy
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  world about AI, but it's maybe in 15 years we're worried about
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  that. But I think.
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  The people will more than it happens.
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  I think the more AI takes over, the more human connection people
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  are going to want. I think so too.
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  And so I think you're good. I think, well, and I think that
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  a lot of people are just immediately back.
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  They're fighting against AI. It does seem that the people
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  have turned. We have we embraced it for like
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  a good six months. Everyone was on the ChatGPT like
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  a bandwagon, oh, isn't this cool?
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  And we'll use. It to do our secretary stuff.
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  Yeah, the court of public opinion has turned and now it's
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  like, Nope, we don't want this. Don't like the AI ads, don't
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  like the AI photos, don't like AI telling us what to do.
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  We don't like this anymore. And.
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  So I shouldn't probably learn AI then, that's what.
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  You told me, I mean, I mean. I got to.
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  Learn it's going to, it's here to stay.
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  It's just to what capacity, Yeah.
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  I mean, I think you you're going to find a job, but it may just
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  be something that you're not super passionate about.
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  Yeah, that's going to be weird. I know I've never I mean, I
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  have, I haven't in 20 years worked for a job that I didn't
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  love my job. And so to just go and be like a
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  person that goes to work and does the job and then comes home
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  and then has fun seems like a so far away from what I'm normal.
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  It's very, it's going to be very bizarre for you.
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  Because like, you're doing it now when you go to work, you do
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  the job, you come home, you're not having fun.
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  You're not like, this is exciting, you know?
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  Yeah. I like what I do, but it's, it's
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  been a real mental adjustment because it's like, oh, like I
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  don't just kind of fart around with my friends, you know, like
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  I don't just talk to my husband on the radio and have fun and
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  make jokes and all this kind of stuff.
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  Like it's serious work. And it's like, oh, like I'm in
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  an office all day. And that feels really strange
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  and like why am I not home so much?
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  Can you imagine me like having to wear a button up?
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  Shirt I know I feel like you're just I feel like you'll be at
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  six months Max at all these jobs.
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  I mean, yeah, well, I think of Incredibles.
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  Like. Like Mr. Incredible, like I'm
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  not Mr. Incredible, but he wanted to be a superhero.
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  That's all he knew how to do. And so you see him just like.
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  Like selling insurance policies and he's like miserable.
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  I know. What do you?
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  Want like I feel like that's going to be but I'm going to
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  find something. I'll find something.
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  Yes, you will. Yeah, I'll, I'll become an
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  influencer. If anyway.
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  So again, we already had someone hit us up for the sponsorship.
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  Oh well, let me see the money first.
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  Yeah, OK. So you do want to get outside
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  and do more things. Yeah, because you are now stuck
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  in an office. However, a couple of podcasts
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  ago you fell and banged your leg really, really hard on a rock
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  and now the bruise is coming in and you're like baffled by how
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  big. This thing, I mean, like, I
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  can't believe how big this bruise is.
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  Like, yeah. So what?
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  We're like, I mean, literally like this.
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  Big Have you shaved your legs? Can you show your?
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  Legs, I mean, I don't know if you'll be able to see it to be
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  honest. I don't think I get my knee up
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  that high, but like it's it's such a bad bruise that just
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  putting my pants on in the morning.
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  If it if the jeans brightly, like lightly brush against the
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  bruise, I just go like I rested my leg while we were watching
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  TVI had my legs propped up and I rested my leg on top of it and I
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  went ha ha. And I had to like, take it off
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  and I look and it's swollen. It's like a sweet spot.
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  Huge. It's this big old knot you got
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  to put on my leg and stuff. Yeah, I think the ship has
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  sailed. Well, it'll make it feel better.
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  Will it? I don't.
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  Know it helps it heal better, like you're contracting and
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  restricting and all this. Other stuff I know and it just
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  like made me I keep replaying like that whole day because I if
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  you don't remember real quick rack recap is like I went down
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  to this little Creek. I was looking for rocks for Lily
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  and like I think about it now and I go what on earth was I
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  doing? Because it was like this very
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  steep incline down to this rocky area on this very fast rushing.
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  River. And I was like, I mean, people
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  were like, there was some people that were swimming like up.
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  So I could have fell in somebody, I think.
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  Somebody would have noticed, but I would have had to scream for
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  help because they were probably, they probably didn't even know I
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  was there. I was trying to be quiet, but I
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  was like, what was I even thinking?
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  And then the climb up was super steep and I was having to hold
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  on to like tree roots the whole way.
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  And I was just like pulling myself up And I was like, oh,
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  well, look at me, little adventure.
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  And then I was like, rest my head at night And I was like,
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  that was super dumb of me. Like for a grown woman with a
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  child, yeah. I can't just be doing that, not
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  telling people where I am and like, yeah, because then I had
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  fallen backwards and hit my head on the rock.
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  That would have been it for me. Yeah, that's how those movies
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  start. You know where you, like,
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  disappear. I know they're looking for you.
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  That's how all the documentaries start.
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  So have we been to this place before?
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  Is this no it was a place I went.
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  I I I kind of looked it up. It was near the area like where
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  my work is and I I thought it was just going to be this little
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  Creek. It wasn't it was like this
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  massive river. Well, we'll.
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  Have to go when I'm I mean. It was a great place to go,
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  like, and it's definitely off the beaten trail.
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  So I was like, oh, this is going to be great.
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  There's going to be lots of stuff.
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  You look for an hour, I couldn't find anything.
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  Right. Yeah.
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  But you know, I don't know if it was like the best mental state
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  either because I'd already like banged my knee and like stuck
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  my, my whole leg in the water. So I don't know.
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  It's it's one of those things. So we'll, we'll go back and
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  we'll try it. So today is Friday and we have
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  now three technically 2, technically 1 total day.
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  Left Seriously. Of school, there is a field trip
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  on Monday for Lily, our daughter, to go to the Oregon
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  State Zoo. I'm going with her.
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  Yeah. So technically I don't have
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  that. That's not a day off for me, no.
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  And then Tuesday and Wednesday she has half days.
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  What is that point? So it's one whole day.
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  What are? You doing guys?
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  And then summer hits and man, it's going to be, it's going to
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  be crazy around here. I don't know if I'm mentally
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  prepared for. This I'm not mentally prepared
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  for it because right now I my, my free days are like Wednesday
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  and Fridays. Those are my like off days and
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  it's just so nice to be like this Wednesday was awesome.
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  Like I baked, I laid around. I kind of got re refreshed from
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  the week and it's like now it's like Oh no, I'm going to be
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  playing, I'm going to be outside, I'm going to be at
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  parks. I'm just not ready for this.
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  And she's in a couple camps, but not like a lot.
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  Yeah, I mean, obviously parents have been doing this for.
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  Generations. No.
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  Of course, thousands of other parents have to go through the
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  same thing, so we'll we'll be. Fine, we'll be fine.
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  We didn't. Laugh.
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  I don't think anyone's looking forward.
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  I just think that like, yeah, like when summer comes around,
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  like the kids are looking forward to it.
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  And now as a parent, I just have a whole different perspective
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  where I'm just like, what am I going to do with this kid?
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  All summer long and now for me as a parent who doesn't have
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  anywhere to go. Like it's me and this kid just
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  staring at each other for 8 hours a day until you get home.
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  We should get her to play the game Scratchy, scratchy.
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  What the hell is Scratchy Scratchy?
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  OK, so I've been wanting to talk about this for a minute and it's
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  insane to me and it feels so blatantly awful that I can't
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  quite wrap my head around this. I was talking to a child and I
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  was like hey, how was your weekend or whatever?
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  And they're like great. I levelled up on Scritchy
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  Scratchy and I went What the heck is this?
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  I don't know what any of those words.
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  I like being a marriage and family therapist 'cause I get to
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  learn about all the stuff that. Oh, yeah, that's true.
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  Yeah. And I said, what is this?
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  And they said it's a app that you can play.
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  And what it is, is your avatar washes dishes.
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  They just wash dishes. And then after a certain amount
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  of dishes, they you get paid. And I was like, OK, sure.
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  And then they said, and then you can take that money to go buy
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  lottery tickets. And then you scratch off the
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  lottery tickets and you can win a lot of money.
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  And I was like. In the game, right?
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  It's not like real. Stuff, yeah, like just in the
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  game. And then they're like, yeah,
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  then you go back to washing more dishes and you earn more money
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  and you buy more lottery tickets and you hope to win more money.
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  And I was like, So what do you buy in the game with the with
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  the money? And they were like, oh, nothing.
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  You just try to get as much money as possible.
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  And I go, but you don't spend it on anything.
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  And they're like, no. This feels like training the
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  youth. That's what I'm saying.
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  Like, isn't this training kids to be like, addicted to
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  gambling? Feels like that's because that's
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  how I live my life. I do a little job, I use my
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  money to throw it away on something useless and then I
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  just do the job and do it again. Like it's it's not like in the
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  game your avatar buyers a shirt. Or it's.
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  Just like you just have this random bank account and I was
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  just like, OK, And I was like, there's no way they're
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  explaining this right. So I looked it up and it's like,
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  Nope, that's the game. And there's like that's.
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  Definitely by Big Lotto, like Big Lotto has come up with this
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  game to train kids to want to play so.
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  Oregon and Washington state lottery like got together and
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  they were the whole like it's all the Lotto.
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  No, absolutely the whole lottery.
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  But I was just like, and I even said, I'm like, this feels like
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  it's training you to want to play the lottery like as an
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  adult. And he was just like, I don't
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  know. And then and then I was like,
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  OK, well, what happens if you get the big prize?
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  Like what happens if you like. Win the lottery.
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  And they were like, oh, well, then you have a lot of money and
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  I go, do you play anymore? And they're like, well, yeah,
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  you keep playing because you can see how much you can get.
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  And then do you compare bank accounts?
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  Is that like, who's the baller like between you?
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  And your friends maybe like in the railroad, what you got?
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  To be like. Once you're on Scritchy Scratch,
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  I'm up. To 3.5 billion on scritchy
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  scratchy son, you can't mess with me.
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  Like what's the flexibility? But there's like no point to any
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  of this. Like you don't.
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  It's not like Sims where you like buy a house.
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  Yeah, these new. Generations.
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  These new generations of kids have killed gaming like it's
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  just, it was so the future was so bright it had to wear shades
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  in the era of video games. And then Fortnite came out or
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  Call of Duty became not a game and more of an online presence.
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  Online gaming is killing gaming because it's just, it's a
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  repetitive thing. You go into a room, you do the
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  thing, and then you start over and you do the thing again.
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  Who can do it better? But it'll start.
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  Over Call of Duty and and Fortnite are collaborative.
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  You can put on a headset and you can play with your friends.
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  Yeah, but you can play with your friends and you can hide and you
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  can level up on your guns. You can be different characters
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  and pick different avatars. Repetitive.
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  It's just every game. Repetitive.
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  You can say the same thing about Mario.
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  Oh, you hit the jump, you jump on a mushroom and you try to
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  save the. Different all the levels are
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  different you're going through, but it's the same all the 8
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  levels and then the. Same thing with Fortnite you.
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  I mean, the same thing with Call of Duty.
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  It's, it's hunting, you know, people in the war in different
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  locations. It's the same thing with Mario.
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  Whether you're underwater in the fire pit or in the clouds,
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  you're doing the exact same thing.
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  It's just a. Different scenery.
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  They've taken the creativity out of gaming.
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  Like you're just going into a room and killing each other and
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  see who can do it faster. I mean, and then you start or
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  you just build blocks. Like you take your blocks if you
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  build it, which I mean, Minecraft's fine.
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  But it's not step one, wash dishes.
• 16:14
  Step 2. Make money.
• 16:15
  That's where we're, that's what I'm saying.
• 16:16
  That's where it's going. It's slowly gotten there to
• 16:18
  where it's like, well, we're just going to just do this one
• 16:20
  thing now. It's like.
• 16:21
  Remember when Angry Birds, I mean Angry Birds, is repetitive.
• 16:24
  But it was like a stupid phone game.
• 16:25
  These are the games people are playing like FarmVille.
• 16:27
  At least I had to learn how to, I had to learn business where
• 16:30
  I'd be like, all right, well, if I sell a number of these, I sell
• 16:32
  a number of these. I can plant some of these and I
• 16:34
  can grow those and make more money.
• 16:35
  I just. I was blown away my my flabbers
• 16:39
  were gasted because I was just like that's not a real game.
• 16:42
  This is obviously being described wrong. 100% a real
• 16:45
  thing. I don't even know.
• 16:48
  Don't let your I'm going. To say don't let your kids play
• 16:51
  scratchy scratchy it doesn't sound like.
• 16:53
  A Ask your kids if they're playing scratchy scratchy and
• 16:55
  then delete it from their phone, please.
• 16:56
  Do all right. Well, thank you for witchy
• 16:57
  washing our show. I hope you had a yeah.
• 17:01
  Nick's going to go look at dentist's hand pictures.
• 17:04
  I'm going to look it up, I'm telling you.
• 17:06
  It's a thing. Open your mouth.
• 17:10
  Bye.