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Hakuna Matata: The Hidden Gems of Lion King 1 1/2 · Systematic Geekology

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  What happens when you finally look beyond what you can see?
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  We're going to be asking this question a lot more on today's episode of Systematic Ecology.
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  We are the priests of the Geeks.
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  I'm your host, Christian Ashley, discussing the Lion King one and a half.
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  And I said we because it's not just me.
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  I'm also joined by the wonderful Alex Matthews.
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  How's it going, Alex?
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  Hello.
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  It's going good.
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  How you doing?
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  I'm doing all right.
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  It's a fun day.
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  I rewatched this film last night and I'm feeling pretty good.
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  That's good.
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  So.
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  So, Alex, we have just to drive in to see a direct to DVD sequel to a Disney film.
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  Somehow.
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  What is your first reaction or the first thing you want to say after seeing this film?
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  What was my first reaction?
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  It's been a long time since my first reaction, but I remember really liking it and I thought it was really funny.
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  I think it's up there as one of my favorite movies, honestly.
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  Okay.
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  Okay.
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  See, I rewatched it last night and I don't know, it just wasn't as funny this time around.
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  I don't know if I'm just older and it's not.
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  Not meant for me anymore, but, like, it's still good, don't get me wrong.
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  But I don't know, it just didn't have the I.
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  Whatever nostalgia I had for it.
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  And I'm still like, I'm ready to.
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  I'm in it to win it for this one.
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  But it's like, oh, man, I remember the jokes landing way better last time.
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  Just might be in a different phase of life maybe.
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  So I'm getting shocked looks shocked.
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  Looks of.
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  Of hatred.
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  Your hatred directed my way.
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  There is just shock and disbelief.
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  I know.
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  I'm just shooting up.
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  Make it.
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  Make it seem like that.
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  No, no.
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  It's genuine looks of shock.
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  So, Alex, as you're dealing with this shock, can you introduce what the movie is, why you picked it out of the list of what we had earlier and.
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  Yeah, just.
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  Anything else you want to say?
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  Well, this movie is bit.
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  Well, it's Lion King one and a half.
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  So basically it's like the story in between the first and the second movie.
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  And from what I remember, I think it's kind of like how Pumbaa and Timba.
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  Nope, Timon met.
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  There you go.
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  And like a little bit of their childhoods and some like, BTs of what they were doing behind the scenes with the main.
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  With the first movie, I think.
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  Yes, yes.
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  That's Basically how it is.
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  What was the rest of your question?
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  Yeah, so, like, why.
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  Why did you pick this one, like, out of.
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  Out of the list that we assembled, why this one?
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  Oh, because this one was my favorite of all of them there.
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  Funny story.
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  Funny story.
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  There was one time I was studying with my roommate for exam week, and she was like, I like to put on movies on mute when I study because it helps her focus or something.
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  I don't know.
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  So she put on this movie in mute.
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  Right.
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  But I've seen this movie, like, plenty of times beforehand.
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  So this is also when I first probably started discovering maybe I have adhd.
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  Because when she put that movie on, I didn't study a thing.
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  Instead, I just watched the entire movie and mute because I knew exactly everything they were saying.
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  It's always good for roommates.
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  Help each other out like that.
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  Oh, yeah, yeah.
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  That's wonderful.
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  Yeah.
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  This.
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  This is a very fun movie.
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  You know, if the Lion King is Hamlet, if we're going Shakespeare, then this is definitely.
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  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.
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  If you've ever done that play.
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  It is.
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  It's pretty much spot on.
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  Timon and Pumbaa fill those roles really well.
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  It is a fun movie.
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  I have issues.
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  We'll get there.
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  But at the end of the day, I think this was a great pick because, I mean, it's one of the came in at time in the Disney era, as it were, of sending out direct to video sequels of
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  everything.
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  But this is like both a prequel and an intercool, which makes it even more fascinating to study because, yeah, I know those scenes from Lion King, but also here we get some stories for how some of those things
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  happen in the Lion King.
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  Yeah.
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  You know, in the midst of I just want to be king, like knocking what was one of the giraffes over or something like that.
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  And that causes everyone to fall down like it does in the original film.
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  Like, it's funny stuff like that that brings a certain charm to this film.
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  So, Alex, were you introduced to.
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  Same way I was, you know, back in the day when these home releases were coming out to the movie.
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  Oh, yeah, yeah, I think so.
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  Yeah.
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  Because I think, yes, we're gonna say yes.
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  Yeah, because we got all the different sequels to Aladdin, like Return of Jafar, King of thieves, like Bambi 2, the Cinderella sequels, like, all that time.
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  It's kind of.
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  It's one of those contested parts of, like, Disney history of like, is it worth making a sequel if you're not going to put it in theaters?
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  Is it?
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  Or is it just.
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  Some people would call it slop because it's just straight to video.
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  I wouldn't agree necessarily, but I understand where they're kind of coming from.
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  So this was a very experimental one that, like, kids, a lot of these jokes just aren't going to go.
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  They're not going to understand them.
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  And that's.
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  That's part of the fun, too, is that Disney has always done things where adults can get things kids can get, things that, like, there's some things that I definitely missed as a kid that I can see more now.
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  Like, I hadn't read Rosen France and Gildan Stern were dead.
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  Are dead when I was a kid.
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  But now I can appreciate that more now.
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  So in regards to the film itself, Alex, like, what do you love?
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  Is there anything about it you don't love?
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  Hmm.
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  I don't think there's anything about it that I don't love.
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  Okay, well, so it's good.
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  Accentuate the positive.
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  What do you love about it?
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  Yeah, I like that we got a backstory for Timon and Pumbaa and how they became the besties that they are that we see.
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  I appreciate the, like, the comedy they put in there throughout the movie.
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  I mean, the first movie was, like, still kind of funny, but it was also kind of serious.
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  This movie is more comedic, in my opinion.
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  Yes.
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  And I liked the.
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  Like I said before, like, the things in the background that they did that affected, like, the main story and how we saw that in this movie, too.
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  So.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, that's what I liked about it.
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  Yeah, I'm with you there with the backstory thing.
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  Like, getting Timon's story is a lot of fun.
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  Like, he doesn't fit in with the rest of the meerkats.
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  He's not really, like, a goofball, but more like he can't focus the same way they do.
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  They're on the constant panic state of, oh, no, we can be eaten any second now.
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  So we're going to dig these tunnels just so we can avoid being eaten.
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  So we can dig tunnels, as he kind of points out, and showing, like, you know, his mother, his uncle.
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  And this very interesting idea of, like, kind of making meerkats Jewish, really, in a sense, with how they talk to each other, the words that they use.
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  A lot of mute issues thrown in there.
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  I thought that because of that for years that Nathan Lane was Jewish, but I just looked it up earlier, and apparently he's not.
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  So I thought that was like, an actor.
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  Shout out as it were.
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  But, no, I think it was just more like a design decision.
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  It's like, yeah, we'll just make him Yiddish.
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  Sure, that works.
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  Then Pumbaa.
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  I wish they had focused a little bit more on him.
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  But, like, we knew from the first film, like, why.
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  You know, because he smells so much and that he didn't get along.
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  So we didn't really get to see, like, you know, his family or anything like that.
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  But maybe that would have taken too long.
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  Yeah.
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  I love how, you know, they insert themselves into certain things, you know, in the original film, to explain, oh, this is why they're bowing.
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  I'm not big on how that's done, but I'm big on why they do it, like a film wise.
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  Because my big thing, it's in the original film, too.
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  I don't do fart jokes.
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  I don't do scatological humor.
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  It just does nothing for me.
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  So there was a lot of it in this film.
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  And even as a kid, I was like, yeah, whatever.
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  So I think they did a little too much.
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  But I will say one more thing I do really love is the confrontation scene with the hyenas at the very end where they're trying to stall for time.
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  And Timon is just like.
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  Well, proposes to.
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  What was it?
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  Shinzi, the female hyena.
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  Just to, like, buy a couple of seconds.
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  It's like, well, obviously.
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  No, but it's one of those, well, I gotta figure out something.
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  I gotta waste time so we can dig these tunnels underneath them.
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  Like, yeah, like.
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  Like I say, this is a fun film.
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  It's, in my opinion, a heavily flawed film.
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  But if you get great enjoyment out of this, I would never tell you you're wrong.
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  So, you know, Alex, we've been doing this whole thing about the faces behind us this entire time, focusing on that a little in the drive in as well.
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  Like, how do you think that this plays into our yearly theme?
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  Well, I think because it high.
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  Because I feel like Timon and Tumba are, like, a favorite duo for many people in the Disney universe.
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  So the fact that this movie is, like, being basically their backstory, I think.
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  I think we get enough of their backstory in the original film where we don't need it there.
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  And this is, like, a welcome addition.
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  Like, yeah, you don't need to watch this movie when the original exists.
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  But, like, it does enhance a little bit of where they came from, why they make the decisions, why.
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  Why is Timon seeking that hakuna matata that, you know, rafiki kind of being Like a stealth mentor in this film.
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  And I love Rafiki in this film.
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  I should have added that earlier.
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  Like, he's just like that perfect, wise sage who's gonna screw around with you and, you know, mess with you a little bit and sometimes get you to.
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  Get you to teach yourself without him saying anything, which is pretty funny.
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  So we get some nice things there.
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  But, like, someone, like, not fitting in with this, you know, meerkat society, wanting peace and rest and not having to worry constantly about being eaten by hyenas or any other predator.
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  Like, so, of course, he seeks the perfect, lush place he finds with a lunch, bunch of bugs with his newfound friend that takes a little while to get, you know, friendly with.
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  But, you know, they become pals.
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  And, of course, Simba is involved with that.
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  So, like, kind of enhances how they're able to care for Simba, you know, as, you know, basically brothers, in a sense, in that mix.
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  I think it does a well enough job of, like, establishing so.
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  Well, speaking of, like, their friendship, their brotherhood, like, how does this film build up that friendship between Timon and Pumbaa?
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  Well, because you see, like, throughout the movie they're basically at a movie theater watching their memories or something.
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  Like, their backstory.
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  It's like a DVD commentary.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  They're.
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  Yes, because they're really talking about the first movie, but not sort of.
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  They are, but they're filling in, like, little plot holes that didn't really need to be filled in, weren't really noticeable in the first movie.
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  But they're filling it in anyway.
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  It's a little meta.
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  Yeah.
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  And wasn't there at one point they had, like, a disagreement.
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  They had disagreement.
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  I think one of them left it.
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  I can't remember what it was.
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  And then they came back.
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  Yeah.
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  I think they know they paused the movie at one point.
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  I remember that.
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  So that one can go, like, get refreshments or something like that.
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  Yeah, I just watched this last night.
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  I should remember.
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  But in the film itself, they do have an argument when, you know, Simba's going off, you know, to Pride Rock.
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  And Timon's like, I'm not leaving this behind.
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  Hakuna matata, man.
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  And then eventually, he has that moment of, oh, I'm in the wrong here.
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  I need to go help my friends out.
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  And he races.
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  Actually gets past Pumbaa, who's been running.
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  But, like, he reveals.
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  No, actually, I was just kind of running a little slower so you could catch up.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Okay.
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  Okay.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  You know, I don't know I feel like they've always.
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  There.
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  They were always going to stick as friends out.
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  Because I don't think there was any, like, crazy conflict for them to not be.
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  Except for that moment you just said.
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  Yeah, there wasn't, like, a big, huge conflict between.
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  It was more like Timon not appreciating him at first.
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  And being, like, wanting to be a solo guy, you know, just making his own way in the world.
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  And Pumbaa just happened to be around him.
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  And it was.
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  It was very condescending with how he talked to him.
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  But eventually it started changing in the film of being, like, growing more appreciative of him.
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  So, yeah, it's not really, like, a massive fight between the two of them.
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  There's little things at the start that you can see the edges are there and that it's refined over time.
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  To where they established their hakuna matata together and their little paradise.
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  Yeah.
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  And through it all, like Pumbaa, he always stuck with Timon, regardless.
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  I think.
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  Regardless of how Simone, like, treated him at first, too.
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  Yes.
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  And then Timo eventually came around, right?
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  Am I remembering this correctly?
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  Eventually, yeah.
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  He kind of cooled down a little bit.
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  Not as.
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  No, Hot, hot fire.
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  Tempered.
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  Like this one scene early on where, like, you know, Pumbaa makes nests for both of them.
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  And there's obviously one bigger for him and a tiny one for Timon.
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  And Timon takes the bigger one because he has more space.
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  So Pumbaa's, like, forced to, like, be in this little, tiny.
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  And yet he's fine with it because he's a positive guy.
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  Even though he should have said something.
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  Yeah.
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  I think it just built, like, a better understanding between the two.
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  Yes.
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  With that friendship helps go.
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  It was.
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  It had a rocky start, but they made it work.
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  Yeah.
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  Because you had one guy who didn't want anyone at all, and one guy, all he wants is to be around people.
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  And he can't because of who and what he is.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  And, of course, later on, Simba, too, is, like, thinking that he killed his dad.
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  And wanting to fit in again.
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  Finding, you know, a new family, as it were, with two older brothers.
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  So I think one of the things from what I remember last night, one of the themes of the film is kind of like, how about people who have a hard time fitting in?
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  How we can find ways to, like, fit into other places where we don't belong here, but maybe we belong here.
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  So, like, what do you remember about what it had to say about people who are having difficulty in, like, fitting in to where they are, where they want to be.
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  I may not be remembering this correctly, but pretty sure, like, at some point.
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  Well, obviously, we see in the first movie that Pumbaa eventually accepted himself for who he was with, like, his gas and everything.
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  And was just proud about it.
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  We see that in the first movie.
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  So I think in this film, because it's been a long time since I last seen it.
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  But Timon basically helped him, like, overcome that.
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  Right.
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  Overcome him not fitting in.
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  Yeah, that's part of it.
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  Because, like, they essentially become a found family.
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  Yeah.
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  In that sense, Pumbaa, like, not fitting in because of the way he smells of how that and how terrible it is.
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  Like, no one wants to be around him.
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  Like, and it's something he can't control because it's just part of his anatomy.
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  I'm sure there are people in multiple ways that that could factor into.
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  Like, obviously, this is more fantastical.
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  And, of course, you know, Timon himself does not fit into his meerkat society.
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  Because this is what we're all about.
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  I mean, I love.
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  I.
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  I was just at Chicago Zoo not terribly long ago with my niece.
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  And they had a little meerkat den up there.
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  And you could see, like, obviously they're way safer there than they would be out in the wild.
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  But they're still on the alert.
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  They're looking out and making sure that nothing bad can happen.
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  Because they know what can happen if they don't.
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  You know, they can eaten.
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  And tomorrow it's like, I don't want the stress of all that.
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  Like, is this what life is?
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  Just, like, going around and, like, digging holes just so we can avoid being eaten?
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  Like, I'm not about that.
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  Let me find, you know, my place where I can get that hakuna matata.
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  My.
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  No worries.
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  So that means leaving behind a place he wanted everyone else was fitting into him.
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  Yeah.
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  And it's not really focused on too much, but, you know, similar to trying to find a new place after, like, he had a structure, like he was the next guy in charge.
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  And now suddenly, that's all taken away from him.
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  And obviously the original film does it way better because he's the main character.
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  But we get enough of it here to where we see a little bit of how that could make him into who he's going to be.
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  Yeah.
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  All right.
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  All right.
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  So a final question for our main discussion here, Alex.
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  Where do you find your hakuna matata?
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  Where do you get to the no worries stage in your life?
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  Finding my hakuna Matata.
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  No worry stage in life.
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  I, you know, I think that.
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  I think that's something that I'm constantly trying to find.
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  Like, I'll find it and then I walk away and I gotta come back and find it.
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  I don't think it's like, it's something that you gotta act.
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  It's not constant.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  But when I do find hakuna matata, I'm kind of just like, I find myself crocheting a stuffed animal with YouTube on, like some funny YouTube video or.
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  Or a deep discussion thing with the hot button topic.
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  And that's just my hakuna matata.
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  Or another one would be, I'm traveling and I'm away from home and I'm doing exploring elsewhere.
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  Hakuna matata.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, I'm with you.
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  It fluctuates.
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  It's not like I can go here and immediately every pressure is relieved and the weight is off my shoulder and I can just relax.
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  Like, doesn't exist.
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  Especially, you know, in this time of transition where I'm still trying to find a pastoral job somewhere that is.
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  That is no fun being in that in between.
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  But I do find it occasionally, you know, when I am reading, when I can shut everything else and have some music on because I need two things going on at once.
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  Because my biochemistry sucks, to be perfectly honest.
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  Like, other people, they can just have one thing and that's it.
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  Me, I need like two or three.
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  Yeah.
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  So my rest is going to look way different than other people's rest.
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  Like, I remember in college, all the way back, like, I had to have the TV on at night in order to sleep.
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  And I had two roommates at that time and they didn't like it and I felt really bad.
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  But, like, we had to, like, work out.
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  Okay.
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  You can listen to this much and this and that.
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  Because I was disturbing their rest, you know, and finding the balance between all that, that roommate swing, that is a really difficult way, but you got to do it in order to get through.
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  But I do.
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  Like, right now, honestly, I'm not the Jesus juker or anyone or anything, but I've found rest working with youth at our church.
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  And our youth pastor has given me multiple opportunities to preach.
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  And there's always that setup right before.
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  Like, I'm not good enough.
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  They're not going to listen to a thing I say.
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  Like that imposter syndrome kind of nonsense that gets in everyone's head.
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  But then when I start, it's over.
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  It's like I'm in the flow.
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  I Feel good.
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  I.
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  I know that I'm doing exactly what I'm meant to do, and I.
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  I find immense rest even in the midst of something that.
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  That is work.
• 19:09
  Yeah, I think I'm the same way, too.
• 19:12
  Now that I'm thinking back.
• 19:13
  I was just at.
• 19:14
  I was just volunteering at a church camp last week, and I felt so much hakuna matata.
• 19:20
  Like, when I tell people, because there's a camp full of middle schoolers, and I tell people that they're like, oh, my gosh, I must have been so stressed.
• 19:26
  And I was like, no, it was actually really fun.
• 19:30
  Like, I was in the zone.
• 19:32
  I don't know if me being an extrovert, too, but like, that.
• 19:35
  Because I also found a balance of, like, moments like, quote unquote chaos, but also moments of, like, quiet, too, where I was able to sit outside under a tree with my Bible just reading.
• 19:46
  Or, like, when I was with the kids, we were, like, playing dodgeball.
• 19:50
  I was teaching them line dances, and I was just.
• 19:53
  That was.
• 19:54
  That was also akuna matata.
• 19:56
  The whole week, there was not a single moment of, like, stress or anything.
• 20:00
  So.
• 20:00
  Yeah, I definitely relate with you on that.
• 20:03
  I also just got back from a youth camp in the middle of the hot in Tennessee, and it was a blast.
• 20:10
  It was also extremely stressful.
• 20:12
  Like, it's one of those paradoxical things of, like, this is causing me stress, but at the same time, I feel so good about what I'm doing.
• 20:19
  Yeah.
• 20:19
  And I feel comfort in that.
• 20:20
  So, like, having students come up to me and, like, trust me enough to talk about what's going on in their lives and, like, knowing that I care about what they have to say and that I'm going to be
• 20:28
  a safe person they can be with, means the absolute world to me.
• 20:32
  Oh, yeah, I definitely agree.
• 20:34
  Like.
• 20:34
  Like, two nights ago, I was yelling at you because you were past curfew, or, you know, you didn't.
• 20:40
  You weren't where you were supposed to be or something like that.
• 20:42
  And yet, right here and now, like, we're having a conversation that also matters in a different way.
• 20:47
  Like, love it.
• 20:48
  Yeah.
• 20:49
  Yeah, it's great.
• 20:51
  So anything else to say about the Lion King?
• 20:53
  One and a half.
• 20:54
  Hakuna bata.
• 20:55
  Hakuna matata.
• 20:57
  How are you scoring this out of 10?
• 20:59
  Oh, I would give this a 10.
• 21:01
  It's one of my faves.
• 21:02
  Okay, I'm gonna get a 10.
• 21:04
  Here's where the fellowship ends.
• 21:06
  I'm giving this a six.
• 21:07
  Like, this is solid.
• 21:09
  Like, I definitely enjoyed rewatching it last night.
• 21:12
  But this top, I guess I'm just a different man than when I was a kid when this first came out.
• 21:16
  Wow.
• 21:18
  You know, that's fair.
• 21:19
  That's fair.
• 21:20
  As we grow up, I think our sense of humor will change with that.
• 21:23
  That's fair.
• 21:25
  So, Alex, question we've been asking at the end here, so what kind of flavored tea or lemonade would we bring to the drive in?
• 21:33
  Oh, lemonade, peach, peach, lemonade, peach lemonade tea.
• 21:39
  Ginger or mint ginger tea.
• 21:41
  Okay.
• 21:43
  Yeah.
• 21:44
  My answer remains unchanged.
• 21:46
  Much like my tea, all you do is you put a lot of sugar in there, you know, as God intended, and that's all you need.
• 21:52
  No different flavors, no nothing.
• 21:54
  You give me a cold iced tea, ice sweet tea.
• 21:57
  That's.
• 21:58
  That's everything.
• 21:58
  Call me vanilla without putting vanilla in there.
• 22:01
  I don't care.
• 22:03
  And that's okay.
• 22:06
  You know what?
• 22:06
  Thank you.
• 22:10
  All right, guys, thank you for all you do for helping us out in this drive in series.
• 22:15
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• 22:16
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• 22:19
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• 22:25
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• 22:33
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• 22:40
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• 22:44
  But remember, we're all the chosen people.
• 22:46
  A geekdom of priests, Hakuna matata.