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Monday Mini: Entertain Us · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to Stefan
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  Speaker 1: never told you a protection of iHeartRadio, and today we
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to have a quick update on entertainment we're
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  Speaker 1: enjoying because there's a lot of moving pieces where you
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  Speaker 1: have a book coming out. If you haven't heard about it,
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  Speaker 1: and it has caused both of us a lot of stress,
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  Speaker 1: please enjoy it. But it has been a whole thing,
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  Speaker 1: oh man. But I'm very excited for you to check
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  Speaker 1: it out. But a part of that is sort of
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  Speaker 1: the stress relief of entertainment and what you look to
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  Speaker 1: when you are having these moments. So we just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to have a quick conversation about that. There are a
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  Speaker 1: couple of things that have come out recently that I
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  Speaker 1: know you all know I'm a fan of, So just
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  Speaker 1: a check in a check in it I like it.
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  Speaker 2: Which by the way, yeah, I have restricted Annie from
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  Speaker 2: buying things because the things that she loves like there's
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  Speaker 2: it's too easy for her to get the things that
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  Speaker 2: she loves them like. But I might have bought it
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  Speaker 2: for your birthday, so you're not allowed. Literally had a
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  Speaker 2: like a band her from buying things.
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  Speaker 1: Do it again, Yeah, which was funny because I had
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  Speaker 1: just bought a bunch of stuff, but there was nothing
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  Speaker 1: that was in your realm.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like we were good because I didn't even
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  Speaker 2: know about those sides. We're good, but everything else I
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  Speaker 2: don't just stop now, just stop. But yeah, we wanted
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  Speaker 2: to have a check in because you know, we haven't
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  Speaker 2: talked about phone games. We haven't talked about cozy gaming
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  Speaker 2: in a while, which I'm not doing a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I've kind of backtracked on the cozy
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  Speaker 2: gaming on the switch. You did tell me a few,
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  Speaker 2: and I did see one advertised because it was like
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  Speaker 2: the Oxen Free too.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I'm going to talk about that, but yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I saw that. I'm like, maybe I need
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  Speaker 2: to get that. Sounds like it could be up my alley.
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  Speaker 2: But then you're saying all these things and I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe not, because I've discovered I am
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  Speaker 2: real lazy when it comes to these games, Like I
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  Speaker 2: liked the Animal Crossing, but I don't want to actually
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  Speaker 2: create the village, so it still looks pretty bare and
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  Speaker 2: looks like an island without rodes, because I'm like, why
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted to be an island with a few houses.
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand the problem here. I've built up the
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  Speaker 2: museum if people were wondering. And that's why I've been
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  Speaker 2: sending you things because I'm like, here, I take these
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  Speaker 2: fossils because they're just in my pocket now, and I
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  Speaker 2: kind of made my house to what it is. But
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  Speaker 2: I keep being I'm told that I need to do more.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I've gotten a what's the next what's the
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  Speaker 2: next bit? So I'm very being very lazy because i
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  Speaker 2: haven't been on for a while. So if you looked
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  Speaker 2: at my island, there's a lot of weeds that I
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  Speaker 2: need to go take care of. Missed out on a
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  Speaker 2: few festivals. They I have a lot of roaches in
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  Speaker 2: my house.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's a thing I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 2: Go back and find it, Annie, But I do. I
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  Speaker 2: wanted some of some like easy easy gaming, like we
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  Speaker 2: talked about coffee talk. I'm like, so, if y'all have
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  Speaker 2: some suggestions where I could just barely do things, let
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  Speaker 2: me know, yeah, because I am missing out on a
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  Speaker 2: few things. The phone games. I'm still playing just like
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  Speaker 2: a few games, but I've been doing less and less.
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  Speaker 2: I've been playing the Love and Pies which I've told
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  Speaker 2: you about before. And I will say with all the stuff,
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  Speaker 2: all the games that I've played thus far have celebrated
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  Speaker 2: like Pride Month, and it was nice to see and
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  Speaker 2: had these little backstories and very cute. Okay, because I
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  Speaker 2: told you about the couple in Love and Pies where
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  Speaker 2: it's her uncle and his husband who have been together
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  Speaker 2: for years and years and years, and they had the
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  Speaker 2: whole like backstory of how they met and then like
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  Speaker 2: creating things together. It was very cute. So really still
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  Speaker 2: enjoying that one. Doing the still the June's Journey. I
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  Speaker 2: do that every now and again, not as much anymore
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  Speaker 2: because much like Animal Crossing, you have to build it up.
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  Speaker 2: And I've made a mess of my town on island
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  Speaker 2: and there's no way if I'm gonna change it. I'm like, guys,
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  Speaker 2: I'm done. Someone needs to tell me how to do this.
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  Speaker 2: Like my good friend his island looks amazing, Like I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: what he's got, resorts, he's got like all these things.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not doing so well. I don't know what happenings
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  Speaker 2: function for.
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you that I recently got to go
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  Speaker 1: to the beach and I played Animal Crossing, when I
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  Speaker 1: was at the beach and my friend's very friendly mocked me,
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  Speaker 1: made a lot of jokes, asked me a lot of
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  Speaker 1: questions about my island and how it was going. But
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  Speaker 1: my island, I don't surprise to anyone, is very star
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  Speaker 1: wars need so you you should see, Samantha. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: have a tattooine based flag and the song of my
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  Speaker 1: island is the Imperial March.
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  Speaker 2: Did you create that? Because you have to create that yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I looked it up. Somebody's done this for me already.
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  Speaker 1: I just need to look it up and someone had
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  Speaker 1: done it for me.
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  Speaker 2: Amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I need.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't visited your island.
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  Speaker 1: I need.
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  Speaker 2: I need to do this soon.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually like that's the two high points of it.
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  Speaker 2: Did you get all your fruits? Because I try to
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  Speaker 2: send you I have all my fruits.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. This is what I was worried it would
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  Speaker 1: happen when I started playing it is now I'm a completionist,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm just like I had to finish the museum.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't take as long as you think. Oh you
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  Speaker 2: know what, I don't try and travel, so I've got
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  Speaker 2: all of my fossils. I don't have all of my animals.
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 2: That's that I didn't finish my museum. I'm a liar.
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  Speaker 1: That's the finish forever.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because you have to go. But eventually Harvey build
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  Speaker 2: a whole island and you can go to see him
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  Speaker 2: every day.
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  Speaker 1: I did, but he doesn't change his art really only
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  Speaker 1: on Mondays. This is embarrassing.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't even know that.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, because I am a compoys.
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  Speaker 2: Now this is fun. I'm glad you're more into it
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  Speaker 2: than I am. Now, yeah, okay, if you do this,
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  Speaker 2: I'm I will say. I think on top of this.
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  Speaker 2: The reason I have slowed downs because I've been way
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  Speaker 2: too much on TikTok. I told you the other day
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  Speaker 2: I was not going to get on it all day.
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  Speaker 2: I did not.
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  Speaker 3: I got on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I failed.
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  Speaker 1: It's tough.
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  Speaker 2: That's really hard. Automatic it is well now like if
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  Speaker 2: you've noticed, there's a whole thing where the articles are
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  Speaker 2: coming out. We talked about it before that people are
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  Speaker 2: searching more on TikTok than they are on Google. And
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  Speaker 2: I've done this and future plans. I planned to go
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  Speaker 2: to New York for my birthday, and so I'm going
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  Speaker 2: through scrolling through TikTok to find like best places to
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  Speaker 2: eat because my trips revolve around food, food, and food only.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care about the sites. I don't care. I
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  Speaker 2: just want all the good foods. So I'm searching like
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  Speaker 2: different people. Of course, so now my feed is all
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  Speaker 2: K pop, K Drama, New York. Oh and Cay skin Care.
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  Speaker 2: They got me with that too. I'm like, what is
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  Speaker 2: this stuff? A whole different story, but yeah, so I'm
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  Speaker 2: very like caught up on TikTok. Also, if you live
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  Speaker 2: in New York, which I think we have a pretty
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  Speaker 2: chunk of a good chunk of listeners, give me your
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  Speaker 2: recommendations about food or something that I can't miss. I'm
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  Speaker 2: coming in September and I want to eat all the foods.
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  Speaker 2: I've been there before. I've been a few times, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm coming in concentrating on food and not people because
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  Speaker 2: usually when I go to New York, I just go
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  Speaker 2: to hang out with people. Nope, this is for my birthday.
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  Speaker 2: I want to go eat the foods and I guess,
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  Speaker 2: see some things. You tell me what I need to do?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, if we need to listen, that's what I'm up to.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what about you?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you did mention one of my big ones. I
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  Speaker 1: hesitated to bring it up because there is there strikes
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  Speaker 1: going on and I didn't know this, but one of
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  Speaker 1: my very favorite games, Oxen Tree, which I've mentioned before
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  Speaker 1: the show. I've talked about before the show, was an
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  Speaker 1: indie game, but it was bought by Netflix. But the
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  Speaker 1: sequel came out a couple of weeks ago, and I
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  Speaker 1: loved it, and I did recommend it to you. The
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  Speaker 1: only thing is, and I told you this, it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of for me, it's kind of stressful because you have
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  Speaker 1: to make your Basically, you get like someone says something
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  Speaker 1: to you, and you have to choose between like three
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  Speaker 1: text bubbles really quickly, not really quickly, but quickly are
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  Speaker 1: they fade. Nothing happens to you if they fade, other
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  Speaker 1: than you might not get like the ending you want
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  Speaker 1: or something. You can't die in this game. But sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I stress out because I'm watched the subject of this
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  Speaker 1: meaning came in my head and it's it's a kind
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  Speaker 1: of like Stranger Things. It's a very like eighties radio
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  Speaker 1: signal creepy game, but it's very like text based and
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  Speaker 1: kind of cute. Like the design is cute and fun
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  Speaker 1: and I really enjoy it. I've already played it. I
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  Speaker 1: played it on my steam deck, not a sponsor, but
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  Speaker 1: it was really, really fun and I told you it.
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  Speaker 1: Also the ending, It's the first time in a long
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  Speaker 1: long time that I've had an ending where I actually
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  Speaker 1: like laid awake and I was like, well, what does
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  Speaker 1: it all mean?
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  Speaker 3: Then?
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  Speaker 1: What is this? Just because everyone agreed on what the
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  Speaker 1: good ending was and I was like.
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  Speaker 2: Is that good?
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  Speaker 1: What is reality?
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  Speaker 2: What is reality?
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: It's sort of the heart of the question is what
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  Speaker 1: is reality of that game? And also asks a lot
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  Speaker 1: of interesting things about motherhood and I really like at
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  Speaker 1: the end, like no spoilers, but there is kind of
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  Speaker 1: this whole conversation about what it is to be a mother,
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  Speaker 1: but also like that's not all you are, Like you're
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  Speaker 1: more than just a mother, You're more than just all
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  Speaker 1: of these things. And it was just it was a
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  Speaker 1: really interesting conversation I'd love to come back to because
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  Speaker 1: it was kind of like you've been thinking of her
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  Speaker 1: in this one way, but here are all the facets
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  Speaker 1: of her where she's a person outside of that. It's cool.
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  Speaker 1: That was cool. We did go see Barbie separately, but
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  Speaker 1: we did both go see it, and I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about it more for sure, but I mostly what
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  Speaker 1: I just want to mention here is that there was
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  Speaker 1: a young boy sitting behind me and he cried in
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  Speaker 1: fear at the kitts and I was like, you are right, kid,
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  Speaker 1: you are correct, and that is.
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  Speaker 2: The correct ones you're gonna be, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, honestly, I wasn't annoyed at all. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, mm hmm, this is terrifying you, right, I'm
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  Speaker 1: with you, kid, with you.
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  Speaker 2: In my audience. So we went to a theater that
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  Speaker 2: is independent, that's an independent theater and had to close
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  Speaker 2: down and then got reopened wonderful and it is real old,
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  Speaker 2: like I forgot how old. And I went in. I
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  Speaker 2: was like, oh, yeah, yeah, you have to be was yeah, well,
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  Speaker 2: you have to be in the back road to actually
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  Speaker 2: appropriately see the screen the way it's like, there's no tilt,
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  Speaker 2: it is all flat and it's just screen like literally
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  Speaker 2: what you would think of the old school movie. I
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  Speaker 2: was like, oh, there's no amenities to this at all
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  Speaker 2: except for the people and the culture and you're giving
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  Speaker 2: money to good cause whatever in the Beneth theaters. But
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  Speaker 2: like my whole crowd of people were mainly older people
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  Speaker 2: that I noticed that there was stuff. There was stuff
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  Speaker 2: when that I was younger. But I saw a lot
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  Speaker 2: of older men and I was very interested in that.
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  Speaker 2: Like I saw like probably fifties and older men with
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  Speaker 2: their wives or like just I was like, there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of y'all. Wow, I wonder if it's like this
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: is a little historical context of what this was. But
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  Speaker 2: I found that interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was. I mean, like we we probably
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  Speaker 1: will come back and talk about this more in depth later,
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  Speaker 1: but my crowd was very there were a lot of
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  Speaker 1: like shocked gasping, especially from the women of like mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of giggles like yep, yeah, that's yea
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  Speaker 2: knowing knowing giggles.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, the knowing giggles. Yeah, that was really fun. What
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  Speaker 1: we Do in the Shadows came out new season. I
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  Speaker 1: have loved it. There was one about gay Pride Parade
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  Speaker 1: and it was very fun.
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  Speaker 2: Is it completed?
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  Speaker 1: Huh No, okay, it's uh. They release every actually today
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  Speaker 1: one came out. It come out on Thursday, but if
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  Speaker 1: you're streaming it, it comes out of Friday, right and
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  Speaker 1: it's on episode five of ten. But okay, there is
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  Speaker 1: there was one about Pride Parade that was purposely very
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  Speaker 1: like people are being tokenizing of your quote gay guy,
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  Speaker 1: but at the end it had such like a like
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  Speaker 1: happy acceptance of it. So we have to watch that.
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  Speaker 1: I made all our friends watch.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I have to build mine up till it's
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  Speaker 2: over so I can be.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you're you're the opposite of me. Yes, I like
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  Speaker 1: to have the space it out, but I also want
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  Speaker 1: to know because I can see all the descriptions of
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  Speaker 1: the other ones, and I want to know. There was
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  Speaker 1: also very funny cameos with the Energy Van Pireate Council.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Oh it was so annoying, but purposely
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  Speaker 1: and hilariously. So I've been enjoying that. I did just binge.
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  Speaker 1: I did binge good Omens, which some of you have
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  Speaker 1: written in about, and I am actually working on an
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  Speaker 1: episode based on a suggestion of our listener good friend
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  Speaker 1: Jamie about shipping and good Omens is going to be
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: a big part of that episode, the shipping of good Omens.
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  Speaker 2: But we've seen their like parody show where they're doing
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  Speaker 2: zoom together and they're just being annoying with each other.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you have I gonna have to find one because
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  Speaker 2: all they're doing is arguing with each other, and we're
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: talking to each other, and then they bring their wives
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  Speaker 2: into the play. It's quite funny. Michael Sheen and David Tennant.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, the they were very cute in it. And I
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  Speaker 1: again no spoilers, but I was like, Okay, I.
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  Speaker 2: Think it was a BBC series during COVID and people.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, oh I did see it. I don't. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: watch it, but I did, like I remember hearing about that. Yeah, yes,
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  Speaker 1: so I can prepare for this episode. Oh my gosh. Also,
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  Speaker 1: I watched The Bear, which everyone was telling me to
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  Speaker 1: watch because I guess I'm on a food show. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I wouldn't have sent that to you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I love the show.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I loved it. But I think this goes
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: back to what we talked about in the episode we
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: did about. I think it was the strike episode, but
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: like these genres, people were framing it to me like
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  Speaker 1: it was a comedy that is not a comedy that
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: made me never want to go to a restaurant ever.
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  Speaker 2: Again, I would say it's a feel good dramedy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's like it's not as hard because.
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  Speaker 1: I was waiting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the way I have framed it in my head
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  Speaker 2: was that this is going to be traumatic. Everything's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be the worst, and they're gonna all hate each other
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  Speaker 2: and things are gonna go bad. And then you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: there's some funny bess. Okay, Oh that's so sad. Oh okay,
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  Speaker 2: it's not going to end badly yay. Like that's the
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  Speaker 2: emotions I had, because I had no idea going and
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  Speaker 2: I didn't want to watch it at first, because you know,
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  Speaker 2: I hate sad things and embarrassing things, anything that makes
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  Speaker 2: me cringe, and that's why I assumed the entire thing
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  Speaker 2: would be It wasn't. I was pleasantly surprised, but I
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  Speaker 2: waited forever because that's what I thought it was.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had so many people suggest it to me,
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  Speaker 1: and I guess that I don't know, but I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was gonna be comedy, and so it was sort
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  Speaker 1: of a I was very stressed about it. I always
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  Speaker 1: have known that work in the restaurant is quite stressful,
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  Speaker 1: especially in a restaurant of certain I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: say caliber, but like expectation of what has to be.
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  Speaker 2: Did you watch season two okay, we're just starting season two.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my well, yeah, I'm a little stressed out because it's.
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  Speaker 1: Already I mean, dear for I don't want to but
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  Speaker 1: the final episode I was literally like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: I'm too stressed. But I don't think it's anything. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's more just you are feel guilt for the
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: pressure we put on people in restaurants. Right. I guess
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  Speaker 1: I did enjoy it. I do. Every time someone suggests
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  Speaker 1: something to me, I trust that they know that I
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: would like it, and they're almost always right. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: also like TV shows stressed me out anyway, and then
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  Speaker 1: I'm just reticent in case, like what if I don't
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  Speaker 1: like it, I have to say something. But no, I
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  Speaker 1: did really enjoy it. I did really enjoy it. It
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  Speaker 1: stressed me out because I was like, if there, this
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  Speaker 1: is what restaurants are putting people through that I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I feel terrible that I did like it. Just Tip
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  Speaker 1: really well, yeah I do, But they have a whole
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: conversation about Tip in there. Also, I have a fan
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: fiction update, because, as you know, I have been publishing
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: fan fiction.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's her name, Amelion?
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: And so far it's been great and I've had great comments,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: and people give me suggestions and I write them even
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: though I'm like, I would never have this idea or
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: write this idea, and then I do, and I'm like, actually, no,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: you're right, this is cute or whatever. But I have
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: had some interesting as we talked about in our episode
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: called dub con, which is dubious consent, I've had some
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: interesting conversations about that with commenters, where like, either they
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: think I'm being too I'm warning people too much and
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: that makes it like sound scarier, and then people leave
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: and then it's not that bad. But I'm like, so
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: I don't want to. I just I would rather warn
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: people too much than not warn them. But then I've
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: also had people by people. I mean one person who
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: came at it from a completely different way than I
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: interpreted something and was like it was interesting because I think,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: I like, ultimately everyone identifies with one character over the other, right,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: And in this I identified with the character that I had
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: much more like insecurity and self doubt and all this stuff,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: and I had the other person identified much more with
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: the other character that doesn't have and was like, never,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: you could never convince me that someone would be like
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: this and all of this stuff, and I was like,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: I am not going to have this fight right now.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I could, but it was just interesting to see like
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: the because I do think there it was a flaw,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: like it's not a good thing. I didn't want to
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: portray it as like a grid, this is insecurity, this
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: is damaging all of that stuff. But it was just
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: interesting to hear from someone who was like, oh no.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: But also on top of that, I have had trouble
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: reading fan fiction lately because all I can think about
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: is I should be writing fan fiction. And so I've
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: learned like it feels like it is become I do
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: this all the time. I made it a job. I
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: made it like a thing. I made it it took
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: something I enjoyed and made it like, oh I have
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: to do this, and I'm trying to balance it out.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I've also discovered that creativity like really gives me energy.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: It really does. Like I was so tired the other
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: day and I made this like very silly dungeons and
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: dragons collage, and it gave me so much energy just
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: doing this ridiculous thing. But it's I'm gonna have to
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: figure this out because I don't want to lose fan
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: fiction to I feel like I have to go write
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: fan fiction. Yeah, I don't know.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: That would be so sad.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: I would be very very sad. I wouldn't be very
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: unhappy to this. But I have just discovered it's really
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: like it used to be something I did, like after work.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I would check and I would read it and it
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: would be an nice, kind of like decompressing thing, and
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: now it's become well, now I've got to write because
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I have to publish, like I'm gonna have to. I'm
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: gonna have to figure it out.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Can you take it high?
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: Oh no?
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Oh my listeners. I always say listeners, even though they're readers,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: and that's just who listen. People could find me. I
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: always make that mistake. Yeah, I gotta. Yeah. It just
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: feels like I have pressure, especially when I'm writing and like,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: and I actually enjoy this, but I'm writing in pretty
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: much a fandom that's like not many people write it
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: anymore because it's forty plus years old. So I feel
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: like I have to or else it'll just die out
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: and no one will write, and then what will I do?
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: But that's not been true. People are still writing that.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: It may just be they are, but they don't. They
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: don't write it as much like I remember when I
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: first started reading this compared to what it is now,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: and it's very much lower. But again, I actually kind
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: of like that because I don't then it's not I
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: have to read forty stories at night, which is what
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: it was at one point. It's much more like it's
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: just this handful. But I don't want it to die
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: out completely. I'm feel like I have to contribute. I'm
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: making a lot of panicked motion. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: And I do have a kind of a fiery happy
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: hour coming up about oh some fan fiction stuff, but yeah,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: so look forward to that every time. Yeah. But also
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: just to mention, I had this on the calendar for
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: a long time this especially with Oxen Free, I really
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: wanted to talk about it. But there is still ongoing
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: strike stuff, which we still totally support, and so it's
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: kind of a strange place to be when you're like,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: I'm really enjoying this media. It was done before the strike,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: all this stuff, but it just feels kind of strange
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: of right, hmm. My hope that they get what they're
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: asking for, which is not that much to be honest, right, absolutely, Yeah,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: So there's our media update if you have any suggestions
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: some cozy lazy games.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's something less lower than cozy? What's what's less
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: than that? Like hibernating? Is our hibernating games? Is that
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: the worst?
• 24:45
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• 24:51
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