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Wellness Check from September 30th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, is it time to talk?
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  Speaker 2: Ye me, I'm feeling no.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, it's a time to talk to Elena Wood. She
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  Speaker 1: is with Nightingale College and she's here to She claims
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  Speaker 1: that reading can help your health and wellness reading of
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  Speaker 1: all fairs.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, I totally agree with.
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  Speaker 1: This, reading medical books. So what what do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: Reading? And reading is one of my favorite hobbies, Elena.
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  Speaker 2: I will go with you on this.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I love that reading is fundamental, That's what
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  Speaker 1: I say. So how does it help? Elena?
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  Speaker 3: In a lot of different ways. One of these ways
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  Speaker 3: is that reading can help us to reduce stress, even
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  Speaker 3: reading for just five minutes, and this particular aspect was
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  Speaker 3: casual reading, So reading for fun could help reduce stress
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  Speaker 3: by nearly twenty percent. And not only does it support
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  Speaker 3: in the moment, it also helps us to better manage
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  Speaker 3: future stresses as they arise.
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  Speaker 1: So just take a break if your feelings really stressed,
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  Speaker 1: and or should you just read? Read every day for
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  Speaker 1: at least five minutes?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I.
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  Speaker 3: Think you can definitely do both. But having that really
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  Speaker 3: great habit just kind of built into your day will
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  Speaker 3: really help with that long term support.
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  Speaker 2: Can I tell you my habit Elena.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, So on my nightstand, I have several different books.
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  Speaker 4: And the reason I have several different books is it
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  Speaker 4: depends on my mood what I need I have. I
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  Speaker 4: keep like a David Sedaris book that's always there. If
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  Speaker 4: I just need something totally light and funny, I've got
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  Speaker 4: a scary book and a maybe kind of a self
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  Speaker 4: helpy kind of book, and I have to read something
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  Speaker 4: from one of those before I go to bed at night,
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  Speaker 4: even if it's just a couple pages.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I have several books on my nightstand as well,
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  Speaker 1: but they're all contained in one thing, a Kindle An
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  Speaker 1: e reader, so that I can just pick and choose there.
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  Speaker 1: So what about Yeah, what about now? It says here
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  Speaker 1: reading makes us feel less lonely.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: So this was a great study that was done on
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  Speaker 3: some social groups that often feel more isolated, such as
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  Speaker 3: the elderly, and it showed that the folks within these
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  Speaker 3: social groups who read more actually felt less lonely because
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  Speaker 3: they had developed sort of a connection with the characters,
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  Speaker 3: with the authors, with the people in the book. And
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  Speaker 3: so while they weren't necessarily getting more social interaction and
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  Speaker 3: it's definitely not a replacement for wecial interaction.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't just just shut everybody out and read a book.
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  Speaker 1: You know you don't.
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  Speaker 3: Want to exactly exactly, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And now read this. Reading helps us sleep better. That
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  Speaker 1: that is. Every once in a while I have insomnia,
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  Speaker 1: and I find that if I get up out of
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  Speaker 1: bed and go sit in a chair and read, I
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  Speaker 1: start getting I get really sleepy, and then I'll finally
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  Speaker 1: fall asleep.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, Reading is this really great way to kind
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  Speaker 3: of switch the brain off a little bit at night.
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  Speaker 3: So it helps us to let go a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of our worries, of our to do list for tomorrow
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  Speaker 3: and just kind of immerse ourselves in something that can
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  Speaker 3: be a little bit more relaxing or like Gina, does
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  Speaker 3: whatever you happen to be in the mood for in
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  Speaker 3: that moment.
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  Speaker 1: And then what does this helps us to Now, reading
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  Speaker 1: can help me navigate difficult situations. Just the other day
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  Speaker 1: I was reading Brain Surgery for Dummies, and that I
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  Speaker 1: think I kind of know how to do it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it sounds like you've got that one fi. Yeah. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: So reading can help us to gain a deeper perspective
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  Speaker 3: on a lot of different situations in life. This might
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  Speaker 3: be times when we see ourselves reflected in characters in
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  Speaker 3: the book. There might also be times when we gain
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  Speaker 3: a deeper understanding of people whose situations and lives are
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  Speaker 3: different from our own. Or like you're saying, of course,
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  Speaker 3: we can learn different skills and things like that from
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  Speaker 3: reading as well. I wouldn't recommend that you go and
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  Speaker 3: do brain surgery.
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  Speaker 2: No, I probably won't get licensed and.
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  Speaker 3: Things like that, but yeah, you have a better understanding,
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  Speaker 3: you know that.
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  Speaker 1: For Domies series of books, though, it's amazing how many
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  Speaker 1: things they how many subjects they cover, and they're actually
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  Speaker 1: they're actually pretty good. I mean they give you a
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  Speaker 1: pretty good overview of a lot of subjects. Then finally,
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  Speaker 1: what is this survival advantage?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this one is really interesting. And so this was
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  Speaker 3: done specifically around books and longer form reading like articles
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  Speaker 3: or social media books. But there's this special cognitive engagement
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  Speaker 3: that we gain while reading these longer forms stories, books,
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  Speaker 3: et cetera that helps us make connections to different events
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  Speaker 3: that are taking place throughout the story, and that skill
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  Speaker 3: translates directly into life so that we're better able to
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  Speaker 3: make connections with things that are happening in our own life.
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  Speaker 3: And it translates into a survival advantage, which is pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So reading it, it's do it, get a library card,
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  Speaker 1: read it, do it.
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  Speaker 3: Visit your library, get the Libby app, do all the things.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so, Elena, where can people find out more about
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  Speaker 1: this sort of thing and all of the other lovely
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  Speaker 1: Nightingale projects.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can learn more about this as well as
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  Speaker 3: Nightingale's amazing programs by visiting Nightingale dot Edu.
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  Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Elena, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Take care.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see reading. I used to read way more than
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  Speaker 1: I do now. As a kid, I read constantly. I
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  Speaker 1: think I'm always reading, and I and I stay like
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  Speaker 1: in the summer, I wouldn't usually like to go out
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  Speaker 1: and play. I would just lay under a tree and read.
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  Speaker 2: It's my favorite. I have to every day every day.
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  Speaker 2: I can't go. That's my bedtime ritual.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter how tired I am, even if literally
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  Speaker 4: I will read like a page sometimes and go, Okay, that's.
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  Speaker 1: It, just one page and that's enough.
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  Speaker 4: I mean other times I get sucked in and read chapters.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm just finishing Cloud Cuckoo Land.
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  Speaker 1: And I tried to read that. I didn't didn't really
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  Speaker 1: care for that awesome. Well it's all over the place,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it.
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  Speaker 4: But that's kind of what she was just talking about though.
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  Speaker 4: It's like four different stories.
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  Speaker 1: That can jump, and it jumps all over, yeah, back
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  Speaker 1: and forth.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but if you stick with it, it's I I
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  Speaker 4: liked it.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's a very it's unusual. It's very unusual.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds cuckoo. Yeah. I just reread for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: It was the fiftieth anniversary of The Monkey Wrench Gang
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  Speaker 1: and I read it back in like the seventies, probably
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  Speaker 1: m late seventies, and then so I just reread it,
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  Speaker 1: and it was interesting to me how how much of
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  Speaker 1: it I sort of thought of didn't. I didn't think
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  Speaker 1: of it as highly as I did back when I
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  Speaker 1: read it the first time, because.
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  Speaker 2: It's so well, you're in a different place, and it's.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of sexist, you know, it's kind of sexist in
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  Speaker 1: certain respects, and well, you know anyway, But I mean
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  Speaker 1: it's still it's a good book. I mean, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a good read. But I had different viewpoints
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  Speaker 1: about it when I read it this time. You read
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  Speaker 1: books over more than.
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  Speaker 2: One sometimes it's hard because I have so many.
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  Speaker 4: I have just a stack that because I'll read a
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  Speaker 4: review of one, I'll go, oh, that sounds good, and
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  Speaker 4: I'll order it.
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  Speaker 2: And I have a lot of books I need to
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  Speaker 2: get through. So I don't like I've read the stand
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  Speaker 2: like three or four times. I've read that.
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  Speaker 1: But you but you'll but you'll watch a movie ten
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  Speaker 1: times or twenty times, I mean a few. So my my,
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  Speaker 1: like my wife does not. She hates to see a
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  Speaker 1: movie more than one. She said, I've seen that movie.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to see it again, even the one
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  Speaker 1: she likes a lot, because she said, there are already
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  Speaker 1: too many movies I need to go see another one.
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  Speaker 2: But sometimes there are comfort movies.
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  Speaker 1: Well I agree with that.
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  Speaker 2: Like I need to not think right now.
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  Speaker 4: I want to just go someplace else for a while,
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  Speaker 4: and I know that that's a good place I can go.
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  Speaker 4: That's a that's a rewatch of a movie Mystery Science
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  Speaker 4: Theater episode, Absolutely same thing for me.
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  Speaker 1: Comfort Right there, yep.
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  Speaker 2: Or J J's Star Trek from nineteen ninety nine, Adam,
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  Speaker 2: right there,