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Dancing Is Dead · Nick and Kristen in the Podcast

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  Welcome to Nikki Kristen. In the podcast today, we're
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  talking Michael Jackson, the movie that I still haven't seen,
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  but I really want to. No spoilers please.
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  Yes. There is a concert phenomenon
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  that I I it's creeping me out, and I think it's creeping a lot
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  of people out. But I want to bring it up to
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  Kristen. And then I found out we're
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  probably going to be rich because there's 10 things from
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  the 2000s that are collectibles, and I have most of them.
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  Lovely. All I got to do is throw them up
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  on eBay and get rid of my whole childhood.
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  I'm sure they're in wonderful condition as.
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  Well, they're not bad. I did sell my all my action
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  figures recently for like 300 bucks.
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  I know. And so, so the Michael Jackson
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  movie, if you don't know, I grew up and still am a huge Michael
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  Jackson fan. Like I know every word to every
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  song from Michael Jackson. Like I'm, I'm that guy.
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  I would sing and I would perform like concerts of Michael
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  Jackson's songs when I was a kid.
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  And that was the performance that I would put on.
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  I would dance. I would do the spinning.
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  I would do the falling I would do.
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  The Oh really? It was like full on.
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  And so, yeah, he was the first death that like actually hit me
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  because when he I was like, I sat down in front of the TV and
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  I was just like staring at the TVI was like what?
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  Like no way. And I was like 24.
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  I know we were dating at the time.
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  That's right. You texted me or something and
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  you're like, Oh my God, she died and I was.
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  Like, oh. You're like back.
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  I was like, see you. I saw the new movie is out and
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  like before it came out it didn't get very good reviews.
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  Like a lot of the critics were kind of bashing in.
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  The people are saying it's OK. The people have rated it like
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  90%. A lot of people are saying it's
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  really emotional to them because they grew up with Michael
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  Jackson, that I said this wonderful story.
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  But then the critics are saying, yeah, but it bypasses all the
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  controversy of his life. And can you really have a fair
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  biopic if you're not talking about the controversial?
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  Stuff based off of just the trailers and leading up to this
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  movie. I clocked it as a almost exact
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  replica of the Elvis movie. So that's what my friend went
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  and saw it. He's like nailed it, exactly
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  like the Elvis movie. Like if you've watched Elvis,
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  the guy does a great Elvis impression.
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  He feels like he's Elvis. They focus on one thing about
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  his life, like the drugs and how they just propped Elvis up.
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  And it was quick in between performances and iconic moments
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  of Elvis. And that's basically what they
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  do for Michael Jackson, from what I'm hearing, is they don't
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  address the prison or like the the child, the child stuff.
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  Yeah. And they don't address all the
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  controversial. It's focused on him and his dad.
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  So that relationship I know but. As it's going through that
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  relationship, it's an. Interesting relationship.
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  Yeah. Like if it wasn't for his dad,
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  there'd be no Michael Jackson. Yeah, but like, I mean, it's
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  torture, right? I mean, essentially that's the
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  whole thing. Like I.
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  Don't. Yeah, I don't.
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  Obviously we don't. Know, but I am not a Michael
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  Jackson fan yeah I like thriller.
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  I like it at Chris or Halloween time just like everybody else
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  right like but I just don't get the Michael Jackson hype.
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  I don't know what it is. Everyone's like falling all over
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  themselves for this guy. And I was like, it's OK.
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  I like to beat it, I guess. But like, there's a handful of
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  songs that I'm like, yeah, those are good, but I'm not like this
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  huge. Like he's like insane to people.
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  Yeah, I, I don't take it that far.
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  Like, if I met Michael Jackson, it would be, I wouldn't like
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  break down in tears, but it'd be like, holy crap, I met Michael
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  Jackson. And like, I wouldn't cry at his
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  concerts, but I would like, but I would love to have seen him
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  perform like ever, you know? He's a performer, he's great,
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  but there's a lot of great performers.
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  I know. And I just wanted to see that
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  one. Same with like Freddie Mercury,
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  like I would love to see great, but.
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  Would you? Do you want to see this movie
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  then? I do.
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  I think I don't want to see it in theaters, so I think I'm
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  going to wait. But I do think.
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  It's a big screen type of thing. Yeah, I do eventually want to
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  see that. Maybe, I don't know, maybe the
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  songs in the iconic moments would be pretty cool on on the
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  big screen. Maybe I will go OK.
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  Go clear yourself. I figured, but yeah, yeah, it
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  was. I used to sit in front every
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  time he released a new music video.
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  Like I think that was just the era I know that you grew.
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  Up in that era, I grew up in that era, I just wasn't a part.
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  Weren't a part of the the Michael thing?
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  Yeah, like I just wasn't like a lot of these icons like Madonna
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  and Michael Jackson. It's like all these really
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  iconic people I'm kind of met about.
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  But it's basically what people do for Taylor Swift now.
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  I know, but I'm kind of meant about Taylor Swift.
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  Like all these really, really big icons.
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  I was always sort of just like, OK, yeah, not a big deal, you
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  know? And even in, like the height of,
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  like, Britney dumb, I was never like, I never even saw a Britney
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  concert or anything like that. Like I had her albums.
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  But like, I've never been like somebody that was like, Oh my
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  God, they're the most famous person in the whole world.
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  Yeah. Yeah, I don't really care that
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  he was famous. I just liked his music.
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  He just made me dance his good songs.
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  I jammed out OK, and I liked all the music videos.
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  So like, I watched a lot of music videos when I was a kid.
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  That's how one of the ways that mom kept me busy.
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  Like they brought me in front of the TV and I just watch MTV.
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  Lovely. I saw all the stuff.
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  So yeah, I I do want to see it. I hope it's good.
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  My friend who's also a Michael Jackson fan said that he liked
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  it, so I'm excited. But Speaking of concerts and
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  things like that, Michael Jackson would be very
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  disappointed with the way people are acting at concerts now.
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  I don't know if you've seen this.
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  Do you know what I'm about to talk about?
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  I noticed it and they pointed it out when Sabrina Carpenter
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  recently brought Madonna out on stage.
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  And you look out in the crowd shots that they see, and
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  nobody's dancing. Yeah.
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  Like the crowd is frozen at a Sabrina Carpenter and Madonna.
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  They're playing Vogue. Nobody's voguing.
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  No. They're all.
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  Yeah, it's zombies. Why?
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  Why is that new to you? It's well, like I didn't never
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  seen it. I've seen people holding their
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  phones and like, you know, like, excited, but they're frozen,
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  Yeah. In place, they want to get the
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  good shot. Yeah, it's and it was like, what
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  the heck. Because that could make them
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  money. I know, isn't that sad?
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  Like no one Michael Jackson would be.
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  Pissed. Yeah, it was very sad.
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  But also, this kind of corresponds to something else
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  that people have been talking about for a while.
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  Dancing is dead. Like dancing is dead.
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  And the reason is a lot of people are saying is because we
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  live in such a filmed like community, like everything.
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  Everybody's filming everything all the time.
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  And there's no like just let loose at the club and do silly
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  dances because you might end up as they're like, Oh my God, look
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  at this person like on the Internet, like you might go
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  viral on TikTok. So nobody dances anymore.
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  Like, people are going to clubs and they're going to things, but
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  it's just kind of like because they don't want to end up on
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  somebody's film. Unless they've got the full on
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  footloose like coordinated dance.
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  But even that like that's coordinated to be filmed on
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  TikTok, like everybody's so worried about being filmed and
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  looking embarrassing and being embarrassed and going viral and.
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  Nobody's shot, which is insane. Yeah.
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  And like, yeah, with Sabrina Carpenter and Madonna, like, I
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  mean, you're there, you're seeing it.
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  Heck, I'm taking out my phone because I'm going to go if I'm
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  that close, my film, my, my shot could go viral on TikTok and it
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  could make me $40,000. You're darn right I'm taking out
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  my phone and I'm looking at. It sad like and I saw like a
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  bunch of my friends over at Stagecoach, the ones that used
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  to that are still in radio. Yeah, those still.
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  Those guys, those people. The.
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  The handful left. Haven't called in a while.
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  You know, like the friends that you thought you were.
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  Friends I know. But yeah, they're all at
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  Stagecoach and same thing. They're like they're seeing
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  crowd shots and they're all just.
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  Nobody's filming. And to be fair, I did the same
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  thing when we were at CRS. Now CRS is this like kind of
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  exclusive? Yes, I know.
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  But we're it's this exclusive event full of just radio
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  insiders and all these intimate performances with these big
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  stars. And like, we were, I mean, just
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  as close as I am to Nick right now, that close to Ella Langley.
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  You're darn right. I took out my camera and I
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  filmed a little bit of it and I put it on TikTok because I was
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  like, heck, who knows? It could end up going viral as
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  this like behind the scenes kind of shot and it could end up
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  making me money. But I only filmed 15 seconds.
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  I was like, I only need 15 seconds, seconds.
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  Same. I filmed it and then I put it
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  down and then I I listened and watched her perform.
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  Yeah, there were people in front of us around us, like full on
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  recorded the whole song. I'm like, you're not watching
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  that bag. No, where are you putting that?
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  Because copyrights are striking everywhere.
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  So what? How are you making money?
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  But it's. The same people that have filmed
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  fireworks like there's. Almost just stupid.
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  People filming fireworks and it's like you're never going to
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  look at that again, like you've missed now the firework
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  experience. Yeah, because you had your phone
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  out. And I do that.
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  I, I think I started this with Lily where I will take out my
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  phone to film something, capture a second of it, and then put it
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  away because I want to live in the moment with it.
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  Because I feel like I don't want Lily growing up with like, this
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  being, you know, like, yeah, that's Daddy being this guy.
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  Like, you know, like you can't see Daddy watching you.
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  They're just a film. So I I've made a conscious
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  effort to not film her and just enjoy what?
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  She's but she's catching on, though, and I don't know if it's
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  because of us, because when something good happens, she's
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  always like, take a picture, a picture of that.
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  Yeah. Filming that society.
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  And I'm just like she. Wants to watch herself do it
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  again. Yeah, she wants to, and that's
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  OK. Like, I'm kind of OK with that,
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  yeah. I'll let her do it.
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  Yeah, I'll do it. But she's always like, oh, what
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  a pretty leaf. Take a picture of it.
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  I'm just like, well, let's look at the leaf first.
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  Let's have that experience. And then afterwards we can take
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  a picture of it. You know?
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  Exactly. No, it's that it sends.
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  It's a weird. World that we're.
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  Living in Very strange. Next time we're at a concert or
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  like being a DJ at a wedding is very, this is very discouraging
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  because I've noticed that too. Like there's, you know, we're
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  trying to get this dance floor full of dancers.
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  So keep dancing, please. Yeah, let's bring dancing back.
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  All right, now on to me being rich.
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  So 10 things that have from the 2000s that are now collectibles.
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  I'm pretty sure I have most of these, and if you are around my
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  age, you may have them as well. So tour merch is apparently big
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  now. I can see that.
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  Do you have any merch from any tours or any concerts?
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  You went to No, I don't have anything because everything a
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  tour merch is always so expensive and I was always a
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  bigger gal and so I never had any options to buy like tour
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  shirts and stuff not. When you were not in the 2000s.
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  You weren't a bigger. No, I was like, I was bigger in
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  the 2000s. Yes, like, yeah, absolutely.
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  And so like, and you spend all your money going to these tours
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  and then you don't buy the merch because you just, you don't have
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  any money left because you're broke.
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  You know that's true. I think I have one and it's a No
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  doubt shirt. Well, that's cool.
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  From 1999 or whatever their first tour.
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  I know, but now kind of Gwen Stefani's a little.
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  Is she? We don't know if we like Gwen
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  Stefani anymore. But it's a tragic Kingdom tour
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  like and I have, I have, it's a jersey and it's got the 10 on.
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  It Oh my gosh, I can totally get money for that.
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  So that's. What?
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  That's in one of my one of my carts I'm sure.
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  It's not kept. Well, iPhones, it might, yeah.
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  There might be some, I don't know iPhones, if they're still
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  in the package obviously, or even just your old ones.
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  I don't have any old iPhones. I've always returned those so.
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  That's when I get money back for them.
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  IPods I do have an iPod. I have an old like 30 gig white
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  iPod in perfect condition except it needs a battery replacement
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  because it's like after a certain amount of times they
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  don't charge them. But I've seen people they're
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  like redoing them. There was a guy I followed on
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  TikTok that took it apart, found all the parts, put it back
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  together and made it work again. Well, it's nice because I mean
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  like the unfortunately we live in a society where if an
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  electronic breaks, we throw it away and buy a new one and that
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  junks up the landfills. And it's like, it used to be you
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  could buy parts for things and fix them and have those things
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  for a really long time. And so there is this kind of E
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  like environmental kind of response to like, no, I want to
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  keep this for a while, send you parts.
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  Yeah. And so that's what they're
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  doing. They're like making them work
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  again. I almost want to like figure out
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  how to do it so I can fix mine. That would be great.
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  And just have an eye because you're not connected to the
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  Internet. You just sit back.
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  And that's why I've always bought my music.
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  I everyone that streams like Spotify and if you're streaming
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  this on Spotify. Thank you.
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  Thank you, but you don't want to keep this forever anyway.
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  But like for music, I always buy music and so I have it on a hard
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  drive and that's where I never have to stream it.
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  Same same with like movies. I try to buy the ones I really
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  like. All my Superman movies I have
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  all my Star Wars movies I have so that for that reason, gaming
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  consoles like the Nintendo 64, especially in pristine
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  condition. I have a 64.
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  I have, I also have a Super Nintendo.
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  I also have a regular Nintendo and I also have a PlayStation 2
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  and I also have a PlayStation or I have an Xbox 360 like.
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  What are you doing? Why are we doing this podcast?
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  Sell this stuff and make this rich already.
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  Just saying I have all the good games from Nintendo 64.
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  I have 4 controllers from Just saying all in great condition
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  because I never had any friends. If somebody needs those kinds of
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  things, please e-mail Nick. First editions like the original
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  run of Harry Potter that yeah, those are still good.
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  I don't have the Harry Potter one.
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  Yeah, Pokémon cards, obvious. I have a couple of those.
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  Huge Tamagotchi. I don't have any Tamagotchis.
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  You you did have 1 though. Didn't you did have one, Yeah.
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  Barely Tamagotchi person. I tried to be.
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  I think everybody tried to be. Yeah, but you have ADHD so that.
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  Thing died all the time. Yeah.
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  I've never, I would always forget I had it.
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  And I'm like, oh damn. Everyone played.
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  God didn't feed. It again he's dead again Lego
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  sets didn't couldn't afford Lego.
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  Sets. Our friend Kathy knows all about
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  that. Yeah, she collects those Lego
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  sets. DVDs.
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  We have two big bins of DVDs, Yeah.
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  And Blu rays. So physical media is booming
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  once again. I'm ready for.
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  IT people are ready for analog band.
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  We're sick of the digital world because we have tangible things
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  we can hold and feel now. Yeah, and they've got us buy
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  like the throats now, because if you buy something digitally and
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  it goes away the next week, yeah, you're screwed.
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  You're like I. Just paid 20.
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  Dollars and now you can take it away from me at any point or if
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  I stop subscribing to HBO Max, like I don't get that movie
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  anymore. Exactly people are sick of.
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  It dude, it's annoying so I buy like I said, physical media so
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  if you need something. I got.
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  Two guy I got 2 sets of all ten seasons of Smallville.
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  Boy, I know. And then VHSI don't have.
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  I think I have I know where I can get VHSI got a guy that has
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  probably a bunch of VHS so I. Didn't know we have Avhs.
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  Guy, although a lot of them are recorded from TV.
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  I spent no, no, no, no. You didn't like the clam shell?
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  When I wasn't watching, like that's how I watched the MTV
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  videos. Like she didn't put me in front
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  of MTV, she put me in front of the recorded videos on Avhs cuz
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  you just put in the VCR, you record.
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  So I saw the same 200 videos over and over again for most of
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  my life. So that's why it's so sad.
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  Certain songs trigger things for me cuz I'm like, I remember that
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  video. So yeah, those are the 10
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  things. I I think we're gonna be rich.
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  But well, then please get on that because no, I'm gonna.
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  Save that for a while. Really, really really need it.
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  I feel like we get, we're there. Try to find a job 1st and then
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  maybe we'll see Yeah, for and then I'll sell my lightsabers.
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  What's that's a whole nother. That's gonna be a sad day, I
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  know. But thank you for watching and
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  hopefully we have good news the next time we talk to you.
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  But. Probably not, yeah.