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Nick's Day At The Zoo · 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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This is the podcast. We're off and rolling and I am
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back. I survived.
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I went to the zoo today with my daughter and 100,000 other
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children. Yes, I am dying to hear really
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all about this because I haven't really heard this story yet.
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Yeah. So first of all, I thought it
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was just our school that was going to the zoo.
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It was not. It was every school in the
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district. So as I was sitting there
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waiting for them, because I went independently, so I drove and I
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parked. Loads of parking.
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I've never seen as much parking there.
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And I got there and like 4 buses pull up.
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I was like, all right, time to go, yeah, let's do it wrong
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school district. Everybody got out.
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I was like, oh, that's not our schools.
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And then those went away. And then four more buses came in
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and those kids unloaded. Those weren't our school either.
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And then four more buses, four more buses.
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I was like, Oh my God, everybody's here today.
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And then finally the our school came and we got off and I was
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lucky because it's 4 kids to one parent and I was the extra so I
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had two parents to four kids. So it.
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Worked out well. And it was pouring the whole
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time. It's like on the way there, it
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was raining. It was kind of like a just a
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spittle drizzle. Like if you've ever lived or
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been to the Pacific Northwest doesn't really like rain, rain.
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It's just always wet and there's always something coming down.
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Like you can wear a hood or a lot of people don't even wear
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the hood and you just kind of you get wet and, and
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progressively got worse as the day went on.
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And I was, it turned out all right.
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I brought 3 umbrellas with me so that I can protect all the kids
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because I don't know, I, after going to these last couple
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events, I've realized that not all kids have clothes that are
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waterproof. And I thought I should bring
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something just in case my kids are wearing something not
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waterproof. And it turns out that one of my
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kids, or two of my kids, no, one of my kids wasn't, yeah,
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immediately got their shoes wet. They were soaked.
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Or like they, they would have been soaked if I didn't give
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them an umbrella. And but everybody, you know,
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listened. Nobody was crazy.
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Major growth for me. Oh, from last year to this year.
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Well, did you tell any kids that This is why nobody likes them?
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I did not. Oh my gosh, that is a growth
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from last year 'cause that's something you said to a
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kindergartner. I was so proud of myself last
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year. I pretty much the not.
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Pretty much. What did you say exactly?
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Verbatim again. Well, he was being a Dick and he
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was being a bully. And I said like, look, bro, This
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is why nobody likes you and nobody wants to play with you,
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Nick. So I know I was.
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That's fine. I did much better this time.
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I had kids that were well behaved and we we kept it all
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together, so I'm proud of me. For not not scarring any.
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Children. Oh, that's.
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Nice. Good job I.
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Didn't yell at anybody. Wow.
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This bar is like. In hell.
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I'm just saying. I'm just saying it was good for
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me. I've I've grown since the.
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Last year, gosh, what's second going to break grade.
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We're going to bring are you going to say good job to one of
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the kids? Maybe I might be like helpful
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even, who knows, But yeah, it went OK.
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What? Tell me about the other parent
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that came. The other parent was it was
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nice. It was it was a guy.
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Did you meet like friends? Did you talk like, is this a
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buddy that could possibly be buddies?
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You spent all day at the zoo together.
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No, I didn't ask any questions. I didn't talk to him about
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anything. He's he's his kid.
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Was there. I was like, well, no, I didn't,
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man. I said which one's yours?
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And he said that little one. I said OK.
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I know, but like you had a moment where you had another
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adult and you were forced in a situation where you had to spend
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3 hours with each other. You didn't like say like, hey,
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like what's been of your experience at the school so far?
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Does your kids seem to like it? What do you think of the
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teacher? Like you never did you start any
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conversations? No, we, it was very, it wasn't
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that kind of that kind of visit. We had four children that we had
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to keep track of and they're loud and they run.
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And so we never got to just, we were just, there was never just
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strolling as the kids looked at the polar bears.
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We were all like OK let's let's keep this moving.
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We got 3 hours to get through. This.
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Yeah, but it's not a big zoo. The Oregon stuff.
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But we did it in perfect timing. So we went, yeah, we went
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through and saw everything and everybody saw all the animals,
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saw the elephants, saw all the all the things we wanted to see.
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And then at the end, we got to play in the little play area.
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And then during that time, I had to pee.
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And so. So you.
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Didn't get a chance to talk to that guy.
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Yeah, he, I know he works at a school, OK, because he said.
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Oh, I work at a school and you were like, oh, I bet he works at
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a school. I.
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Was like oh cool. Context clip.
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And then our friend Nikki was there and she's like, what
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school? I'm like, oh, that's a good
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question. So, OK, because I, because I
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asked you this question, like when you got home, I said, oh,
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dude, like I'm just envisioning poor our parents, our teachers
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or our kids teacher being like, all right, everybody, we're
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going to the next exhibit. We're going to see the polar
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bears. Yeah.
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Like the flag like this is so and so's class.
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And you were like, no, the kids just ran off.
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And I was like, what do you mean?
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And you were like, oh, we were just in charge of four kids all
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day. We didn't even see the teacher.
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That's how these all are. So when we went to OMSI, the
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museum last year, it was like, here's your 4 kids, see is it?
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See you at 1:30 I. Just don't know if I'm OK with
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that. Why not like 'cause I don't know
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who this parent is? Well, I'm with one of the kids.
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Well, if you want to, if you cared enough, you'd volunteer.
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Well, I know, but like, well, but like what I'm saying is like
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next next year for second grade, like I don't know what the field
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trip is, but like imagine both of us are busy and she has to go
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and there's another chaperone. Like it just feels weird to me
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that like she's just going to go off with some random person.
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Yeah, they're all in the building still.
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Like they can't go anywhere. You're in charge of them.
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They know who they are. So it's not.
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I know. They don't have any personal
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affinity for my child. They'll be like, oh, I lost one.
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Yeah, well, I lost that. The teachers get one, the one
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mouthy one. That's it.
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The. Teachers are going to get mad if
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they lose. Them, yeah, I know, but what are
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they going to do about it at that point?
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Well, they they're going to find them.
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Hopefully don't do that again. Yeah, well, we could sacrifice.
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That they know. They know who these parents are.
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They do they have to do background.
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Checks, yeah, they have to do background checks.
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Like I'm not assuming, I'm not assuming anyone's going to like
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steal anybody, but like I'm just saying like if there's my kid
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has like an accident or something like that and they've
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got three other kids, like how are they, you know, it's like,
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do they pick up my kid? Are they allowed to touch my
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kid? And I don't know, pick them up
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if they're hurt. Or well, yeah, so I thought
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somewhere along those lines today because there's things to
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climb on there. And so and it was wet and they
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were climbing on him. I was like, sounds like a zoo
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problem. Oh my gosh.
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If they like if they put. Their front teeth on the polar
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bear. Their face on the polar bear I
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go, Oh no, sounds like the zoo shouldn't have done.
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That zoo should have closed this.
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Area We're suing the zoo because they should have known, yeah.
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I guess, but do do you? Did you see any animals?
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Yeah, they were all out. So we saw there was only a
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couple exhibits where they weren't there, but we saw lions
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and tigers and bears. Oh.
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My yeah. Did you see the first time I
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ever saw the bears? I know I haven't seen it.
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There's. Some bear crazy stuff happening
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today. What do you mean?
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We walk up? One of the first things you see
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is like the bear. Yeah, it's like the the Pacific
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Northwest exhibit. Yeah, you walk up bears, right?
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I've been there 8 times, never seen.
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Never seen one bear. Today I saw three walking
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around, walking around on the bears.
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There's four, so I think, I don't know, there was 3.
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And then by the time I got from one side of the bridge to the
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other side of the bridge, everyone was like, hey, look, a
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bear. He had climbed all the way up,
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I'd say 10 stories, a tree. He was, I was like where?
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And they're all the way at the top.
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In that tree, man. Of the tree this big black bear
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was and I said it out loud, only one parent heard me I was like,
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I hope he gets down slowly and like and he's not going up there
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because he hates living in the. Zoo.
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Yeah. This is the only place I can get
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quiet. It's.
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Like, I hope he he gets down in a calm man.
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Yeah, he. Doesn't toss himself off the
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tree. Is that what you're?
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Saying pretty much and it doesn't fall, it doesn't jump.
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You know, I don't know what happened, but I know that I
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didn't hear any clearing you. Didn't hear any.
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Oh my gosh, the bear. I can't take it anymore.
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I now I knew. I know that bears can climb
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trees. I did know that, but I didn't
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know that they climbed so high. I didn't realize that either,
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but this one, no one seemed concerned.
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But I doubt that they would show concern.
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Those trees are there for them to climb.
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Yeah, I'm assuming so. I'm assuming if a bear climbs a
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tree in the woods, it knows how it gets down.
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So. Yeah, I mean, did you see the
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goats? Yeah, they were all wetting into
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the side, like a lot of them were kind of off to the side
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everything. Was under the water.
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That's the like only animal I ever see at the goats.
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I saw the tigers, we saw lions. The Tigers are always kind of
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out. I.
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Saw the polar bear. Very polar bears active.
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Yeah. So yeah, it was good.
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We saw bald eagle flying all sorts of stuff.
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Haven't we? Yeah, it was pretty cool.
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Yeah. And Lily had a good time.
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And they, I, my, the teacher was like, you know, you can take
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yours home if you want. I was like, Nah.
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I was like, why would I do that? Put her back on the bus to put
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her on the bus and she can spend another day at school.
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Well, but there's nowhere to sign her out.
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How would that be? OK.
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And turns out she was sitting next to the teacher.
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Our daughter was sitting next to the teacher.
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And so I was like, oh, that's why you wanted me to.
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Think she's like I just want her to be kind.
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Of quiet. She just wouldn't stop asking
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questions. Well, and it's funny because she
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came. She came back with a book.
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Yeah, so she wrote. A book My Day at the zoo book
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did I wonder if if the teacher gave her that assignment to kind
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of squelch the the talking on the bus knowing Lily.
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The talker Knowing Lily, I doubt it.
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I think this was her idea of 100%.
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You know, but how did she get the paper?
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From Well, she went to the classroom for a.
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Little bit and. So she started her book there
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and that's where I was like, oh, OK, I bet you this was like her
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project because it's not like she probably had anybody to talk
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to on the bus. Like I don't know if she has
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friends on the bus. Well, I don't know who all went,
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but I mean, she's, she's very chatty.
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She. She.
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Makes friends. Yeah.
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She knows everybody. Everyone seemed really nice.
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Everyone seemed like Lily while we were.
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Walking Oh yeah, everybody likes Lily, but she just, she talks
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quite a bit and especially if the day after the soup, but all
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the kids talk, you know, but Lily's just like like and so if
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she was sitting next to a grown up, I'm sure that grown up was
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just like. Yeah, be quiet.
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Glad you're going away. So yeah, it was but successful.
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I didn't take any pictures during I said I was going to
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take like document here's me getting wet at the I didn't have
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time to take pictures of me at all.
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So it was very much like, let's go keep every.
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All right, all right, come on, move it.
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Along I texted you and I didn't hear from you for like an hour
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and I was like, oh gosh, what's going on out there?
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And like I I worked all day and like every time I went to go get
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a client I had I have to walk by this window to to get to the
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waiting room or whatever. And the first time I walked by
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it was like slightly drizly. I was like, Oh, that sounds so
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bad. And then like I did an hour and
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then I came back and it was like kind of raining.
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And I was like, OK, this is starting to get miserable.
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And the next time I was just like pouring.
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And I was like, well, maybe it's not pouring in Portland, even
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though it's only like 20 minutes away from here.
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Yeah, by the end of the day it was it was raining.
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Yeah, it was significant. You could hear it.
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Yeah. But on the drive home, I got
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another classic adventure of Nick Steele.
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I was driving home. And if you don't?
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So mirrors. I learned a lot of things about
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mirrors when I was younger. Mainly the one thing is that the
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angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection, which means
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that if I can see you in the mirror, you can see me in the
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mirror. And so you may not know that.
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That's why the truck drivers always say if I if you can't see
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me in my mirror, I can't see you.
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Exactly. And if you have a mirror on your
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side, mirror in your car and you look over and you can see the
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face of the person behind you, they can see everything that
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your face is doing. And I saw this person stuffing
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their face and picking their face as I was driving, sitting
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in traffic. I just full, I was wondering why
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the person in front of me was kind of really not staying in
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the lane a little bit. At one point she was flossing
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her teeth and then she was eating an apple.
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I was. Like on the highway, Yeah.
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I was like you eating an apple. Was the flossing before because
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I would feel like the? Flossing was weird too.
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I was. Like and she didn't floss
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afterwards, instead she picked her nose.
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So she was picking her nose, picking her teeth, eating an
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apple and I like full face of them.
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It felt like I was watching ATV show where they.
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Said look at me while I do it. I.
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Was like, you know, I like having love using that Katt
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Williams meme, you know, I could see.
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You right, Yeah, I haven't seen that, but but yeah, I mean, she
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probably doesn't know, right? And she's probably oblivious.
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Like why is anyone looking at me?
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Whatever. I do weird stuff in the car,
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nothing like that. And then it said new driver,
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there's a sticker on the back said new driver.
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And so that's why I thought she was swerving.
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But I, I, I don't, I think they sell those at the VMV like they
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must give them to everybody. They must give them.
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And people use them to make excuses for them sucking.
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Every 3rd car is a new driver out here.
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I don't know what it is, and they're always the worst, which
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makes sense, but I'm like a stop.
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Stop excusing your poor behavior.
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You're a new driver, sure, but get better then, yeah?
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If anything, it makes me want to challenge you where I'm like,
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all right, well, what are you going to do if I do this?
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Okay, so your story reminds me of like, what's the weirdest
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thing you've seen while driving? And I've seen somebody eat
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cereal out of a bowl with a spoon and it had milk in it.
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I. Felt like that was me.
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And I just remember like passing this person and being like, how,
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how are you doing that? Like it's not an on the go food
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and Apple is is fine. I mean, because it's a handheld.
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One hand, yeah, but it's like it's gross though, right?
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You're down to touch everything afterwards cause like apples.
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What, you just twat? What you get hands gets all
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sticky. Are you putting it in the the
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cup holder afterwards? Like how are you wrapping?
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The toss it into the road. She's just like.
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I'm going to eat all of it, but it's like, if at any given
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moment, especially after coming home from like a Little Caesars,
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you're going to find me with a slice of pizza in my hand.
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That's a That's a handheld pizza.
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Handheld food. A burrito Taco, Not so much
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because of the crunch and the taco's tough, right I.
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Have done a soft Taco on the road because they keep they're
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in the bag and Taco. Bell quesadilla is a little
14:20
challenging. I mean, it depends on where it's
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from, right? And how warm it is.
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But like, I've never the bowl of cereal threw me.
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And isn't like eating. Ramen.
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That's like the, like, expert level.
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Yeah. Oh man, if I saw somebody eating
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ramen I would just appreciate it.
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It was like, well done, well done.
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Be a wild yeah. What would be the other worst
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thing that you could see? I don't know.
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Steak. Corn on the cob.
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Yeah, 'cause you'd have to have it.
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Your, your, your. Can't you drive with the
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steering wheel here and you'd have to go like that?
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Yeah, and you'd have to have the little Pringle, the little
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things that poke in 'cause if you did it with your hands burn,
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it'd be like. Buttery and.
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Then just be like wipe it off. Somebody got a full seafood boil
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next to them. But I have eaten a full
15:04
cheeseburger and. Oh, but that's handheld.
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Yes, not not the big ones. And then I've eaten Chicken
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Mcnuggets and sauce, Yeah. Your your sauce kills me because
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you've got to be like, well, I need the condiment dipping sauce
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and I'm like, all right, we're driving.
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Put it in the in the bag, in the box with it and then you dip,
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Yeah. And you eat and then you put
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fries in. Yeah.
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So that's, I mean that's. Hard.
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Well, the 4th of July is coming. Can we all make a 4th of July
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resolution that will try corn on the cob in the car at least one
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time as a driver? Barbecue chicken and corn on the
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cob. I think that we have to try
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because. Chicken wing in one.
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Hand stick it on a stick and you can eat it like this.
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That would be fine, but it's the two hand.
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I can't eat corn on the cob like that.
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Yeah, I know how. To cut it, that's the best way
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to do it. I know it gets in your teeth and
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everything, but it it does, it does make it.
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No, it's nice. It makes it better.
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I understand. What it is?
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Yeah, but I don't want to knock out my 2 front teeth.
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The first time you cut it, I was shocked.
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I'd never seen anybody do that before.
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You take, you're like, you cut it off.
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I was like, is that how do I get the corn off of there?
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I mean, not for like normal people I'm sure, but like I have
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a problem biting into things. Yeah, I'm very, very sensitive
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of my my 2 front teeth. Which is weird because I've had
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my teeth knocked out and you haven't.
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Yeah, well, no, I have had my teeth knocked.
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So yeah, I've shattered MY2 front teeth before and so I I
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had humongous teeth and so this is them filed down.
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But so now I'm like super duper worried because I'm like can't
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file it down anymore. Yeah.
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Mine aren't actual teeth, so I worry that if I bite into I, I
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never, I haven't been bitten into an apple in 20 years.
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Yeah. Nicks 2 front teeth are just
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spearmint gum, yeah. It's it's like the it's.
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The little square, the little chocolate gum jigglets.
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They're just jigglets, yeah. But yeah, all right, a challenge
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to you out there. Eat something weird.
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Today, go eat something musical in the car.
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But if you didn't know an accident, this is not my fault.
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Don't say you heard it here, that we didn't actually
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challenge you. And by the way, I forgot to say
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They're going to start making the putting the team together.
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This is for like professional level players that just didn't
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get drafted into the NBA. So it's like high level
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basketball. And now I'm going to read you
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the official sponsor. This is too much for whatever.
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Well, no, I just want to say I appreciate them for reaching out
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and sponsoring us. So this is our two week sponsor.
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You said get a sponsor, I got us.
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Money, I know, but it's pity money.
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It's well, yeah, but we appreciate the all the pity.
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So the Nick and Kristen in the morning.
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Oh, no. God.
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Oh God, I take that. Back Oh Nick and Kristen in the
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podcast. Default Nick and Kristen in the
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default is brought to you by the Clark County Trash Band is a
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You are butchering this. Can I do it?
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No. Give me it.
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All right, Chris, you're awful at this.
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Not saying with enough enthusiasm.
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Excuse me, I'm just getting to it.
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You're just reading it. Get to stop Nick and Kristen in
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the podcast is brought to you by the Clark County Trash Pandas.
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A slam dunk for Clark County basketball fans.
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I butchered a little. Bit I don't think you need more
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enthusiasm, so you can choose A or B.
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I'm going to do it again, I'll just read it slower this time.
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the best. I already know the answer, but
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