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I Was Thinking Special: Simone's Thoughts #2 · I Was Thinking…

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  Hello everybody, beautiful people around the world.
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  It's your host Simone. And welcome to a mini episode of
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  I Was Thinking Simone Stott. Hey everyone, and welcome back
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  to a second rendition of Simone Stott, our little miniseries
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  When You Know something comes up to where one of us isn't
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  available for the main series, but we try to make sure we still
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  give you content. So on this episode of Simone's
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  Thoughts, I was given questions by the lovely Gina.
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  Thank you, Gina once again for giving me these questions.
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  All right, so she asks me what are 7 songs I think Nam Joon
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  needs to hear when he gets out of the military.
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  Now I'm not going to lie, I was somewhat oddly nervous when she
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  asked me this just because I feel like I've said it on here
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  before, but I'm not like a music head.
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  I never have been when I was growing up honestly.
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  Truth be told I really didn't start listening to music like
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  that until I got into BTS. Which I am thankful for because
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  I feel like getting into them like helped me open my eyes and
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  my ears to just like. Not only K pop but just like
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  music I missed out on when I was younger.
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  Newer artists exploring different genres, seeing what I
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  liked and didn't like. Because honestly even now I
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  still heavily learn more towards like I want to say it's like
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  that pop hip hop if that makes sense.
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  Like it's not strictly pop and it's not strictly hip hop even
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  though I do listen to both. But the ones that are kind of
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  infused like pop hip hop is the ones I lean towards mostly.
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  I don't really do a lot of like ballads or like slower songs or
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  sadder songs, even though as I'm getting older I am opening
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  myself up to more like R&B type music.
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  But other than that, like if it's too slow I kind of get
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  bored or like I started tuning it out.
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  So that's usually the type of music I leans towards.
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  And if you know anything about BTS but also specifically Namju,
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  not only do they make music, but they listen to a ton of music,
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  always have. Like they are not shy of sharing
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  their love for music as well as introducing their fans to newer
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  artists songs they're listening to.
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  Nam June still, even in his service, will sometimes go on
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  his Instagram stories and like, just share a screenshot of songs
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  he's listening to. So I was like, well, not to like
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  compare music, but I was like, well, Dang, will he like a music
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  I recommend? And like, this question is for
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  fun and it's all hypothetical. It's not like I'm ever going to
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  have a chance to like actually recommend him music, but still.
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  So I did struggle a bit, but I did come up with some songs that
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  I have on my playlist which also showed me how much I listen to
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  not only BTS, but I have a lot more K pop in my Apple Music
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  than I thought, as well as tons of songs I grew up with, mainly
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  between the years of 2011 and 2018.
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  Those are my prime time years of growing up and then smaller
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  artists or not that big of artists here and there and like
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  some newer songs. But other than that.
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  So I did want to try my best to list songs and artists most
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  people aren't familiar with. And I may make a Spotify
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  playlist so you guys can listen to this as well.
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  But my first two are actually songs.
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  When I discovered them, I actually did think of Nam Gene,
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  especially my first one. It gives like sad boy but like I
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  don't know how to describe it. It's like sad boy but hopeful in
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  another way. Or like I don't know if hopeful
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  is the right word. Maybe like daydreamy.
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  I think that's it. Thinking of escapism.
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  I guess you can say it is by an artist named Raleigh Richie, and
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  I apologize if I don't pronounce that name correctly.
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  However, that is also his stage name because his real name is
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  Jacob Anderson. And for people who do actually
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  watch television, if you see a picture of him, he may look
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  familiar. And that is because he is the
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  actor who played Grey Worm in Game of Thrones and he's
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  actually been making music for a while.
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  Looks like all the way back until 2013.
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  But the song I want to recommend to Nam June that I do actually
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  think he would like, it's called Time in a Tree.
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  Maybe that's why I also think about him too, because, you
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  know, it has to do with trees. Nam June nature, we'd nickname
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  him Namu, which means tree in Korean, all that good stuff.
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  But I think he would actually really like that song.
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  And there's actually another song by the same artist that I
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  think he would like one of his older songs, but it's called
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  Blood Sport. Now moving on, I apologize
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  immensely if I butcher this because it's in Japanese.
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  So the artist's name is called Sawan Sawano Hiroyuki, and the
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  song is called Time featuring Renault Na.
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  And I actually did get that song from an anime.
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  I cannot remember which anime it was.
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  I am that type of person. If I hear a song and opening or
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  closing credit enough, I will actually go out and find it,
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  listen to the whole thing and if I like it enough, I'll download
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  it. I have actually quite a few
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  songs that were from animes that I have on my phone.
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  All right. My next one is actually from a
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  girl group here in the States now.
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  They have gone through some member changes and they went
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  through another one. They went from 5:00 to 4:00 and
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  now they're currently 3 girls. But still they deserve all the
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  support that they can get. Very talented women and I also
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  like this group because they inquire a lot of acapella in
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  their music. So they're one EP that was
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  called Click that came out in 2023 when it was the four of
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  them. I really, really enjoyed that
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  project. So the song off of that project
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  that I would recommend to him is called XO.
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  One of my favorites actually. Probably is still my favorite
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  from that whole EP #5. I have another group here from
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  the States. Also went through some member
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  changes. I don't know their whole story
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  because I just discovered them last year.
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  So they used to be called group therapy.
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  It was two guys and a girl. I do not know all of their
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  names, I apologize. But I do know the thing that
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  they had in common and what they would promote on TikTok because
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  that's actually how I found them.
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  I think one of their videos promoting one of their songs
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  came up on my FYP and then I checked them out and actually
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  like their music was that they're all former like child
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  stars and they make music. So one song by when they used to
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  be called Group therapy is called DYSBF with an exclamation
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  point. And when you listen to the song
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  it's basically like an acronym for Do Your Shit Best Friend.
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  And then my next song actually. So it's from the former group,
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  Group Therapy. But since one guy left, now it's
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  just the girl and the other guy I believe.
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  I believe their names like because they do music on their
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  own too. I think her name is like Jada.
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  I don't remember if there's more to, but it's like Jada and Swim,
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  but their duo name is Party of two and they actually just came
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  out with this song and another one that was kind of blowing up
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  online. The one that was going viral is
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  called Poser. But the one I would recommend
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  that I listen to the most that's off the same little like project
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  is called Mad Love. So I would actually recommend
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  Mad Love to him. And then last but certainly not
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  least would be the British rapper Lady Leisure and the song
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  that I would recommend would be called From the Jump.
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  So those are my 7 songs I would recommend to Namjoo when he gets
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  out the military if I could. And then another question that
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  Gina gave me was for Run BTS, is there a game I would like the
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  guys to revisit now after they all get back?
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  And how do I think like the show would be different or the same
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  maybe so honest. And I'm not even exaggerating.
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  I'm pretty sure there's over like 400 episodes of run BTSI
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  don't I don't remember all the games they've played.
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  And I know there's a lot of Korean games where like I didn't
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  understand that they're playing until they started playing and I
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  just there's too many. I cannot remember one that I
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  think they should revisit. I do like the ones though when
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  they would like get into heavy debates over like the stupidest
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  shit. Like I don't think they should
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  have this debate again but like make it to where they have to
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  discuss something. Like when Jin brought up
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  recently the one buts or two buts.
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  Like that's funny to me because it's so ridiculous but they get
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  so heated when they debate about it.
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  Like divide them up into two teams, have them debate about
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  something stupid and then we can do.
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  I don't remember the name of that episode, but like when they
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  were in the school and they had a forbidden, forbidden word and
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  then they got on Hobie because they made his forbidden word his
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  laugh. That was diabolical.
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  But it was the funniest thing ever.
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  So listen. And I think they did it again
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  too when they were at some type of pool, but they had a
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  forbidden like movement. So like one of the members, I
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  have a feeling it was probably JK, like every time he touched
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  his hair they would get dunk with water, all of them.
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  So something like that. Maybe they can have another
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  forbidden word or forbidden like movement.
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  And I know water is the safest, but maybe they can do something
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  else. I don't know.
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  But do I think it'll be like different or the same?
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  It depends. I've said several time on the
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  show, like I get weary of trying to predict quote, UN quote what
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  they may do because I don't know.
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  And I don't like work for hype or anything.
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  So like, like right now, Jen and Hobie have been surprisingly
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  with all the activities they've been doing since they've gotten
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  out. So I don't know what the other
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  members want to do. And I've always been a big
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  advocate of like, if they want to rest for a bit, let them
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  rest. If they want to jump back into
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  activities, let them do that as well.
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  But I will just be here and receive whatever I am given.
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  So I think Run BTS will probably stay the same.
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  Especially seeing like what Jin was doing with Run Jin is still
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  going to be chaotic, finding varieties of things for them to
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  do to like have fun and things like that.
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  I actually wouldn't be surprised though.
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  I know Jin was doing this because he was by himself.
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  But I do see like maybe the members bringing in more guests
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  wouldn't be surprised on that. Maybe 2, depending how long they
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  want to do run epis, like run BTS episodes to maybe there are
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  some episodes where not all seven of them are together and
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  that would be OK too. I would be interested in seeing
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  like maybe UNIT episodes and seeing what they would do,
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  whether it is playing games or like going out doing something,
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  scavenger hunts. I think that'd be pretty
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  interesting. The only thing I do want to see
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  when they come back though, is the muscle measurement that we
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  were promised before they left. Honestly, I think the only
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  members that really want to do that is Tay Young and Jungkook.
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  But hey, I'm fine with that. Especially their last picture of
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  both of them in the gym. Yeah, I'm pretty sure they're
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  ready to officially compare their muscles to see who have
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  gotten bigger, which I'm not sure if you can compare because
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  obviously body types are different, but like Tay's arms
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  are huge now, but like Jungkook has gotten so much broader, like
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  his chest and back, it's like so wide.
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  I can't even explain it just And then maybe they'll try, maybe
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  we'll try to measure to see if they're bigger than Nam June or
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  not. Honestly, I could see that.
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  I could definitely see that and I could see JK maybe wanting to
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  compare to see how much bigger he's got into compared to Nam
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  June. That'd be funny.
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  But that's the only like it doesn't have to be the whole
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  episode. I just need at least 15 to 20
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  minutes of them, like comparing and doing measurements and then
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  like feeling each other's muscles to be like, oh wow, you
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  got so big and just do what men do.
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  It'll just be funny even with this to like depending on the
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  activities they're going to do when they come back and then
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  preparing for the group. Like they've already pretty much
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  told us they are going to prepare an album and go on tour,
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  especially since they couldn't because of COVID and permission
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  to dance was pretty sure actually they didn't really go
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  to a lot of places. I think they only did Seoul, LA
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  and Vegas for permission to dance.
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  Right? But it's a new era anyway.
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  So it's like, I really don't know how long run BTS is going
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  to last. But I wouldn't be surprised
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  either if they don't give us as many episodes as they used to
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  just because they may be busy doing other things.
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  And I think it's kind of been pretty much been confirmed that
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  they are going to continue doing solo activities as well as group
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  activities. So I just want to make sure they
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  don't burn themselves out. But I wouldn't be surprised if
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  they do run episodes like heavily when they come back.
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  And then when they start doing more activities like the album,
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  the tour, and then whatever solo adventures they may do, they
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  will slow down on it. Especially since now all of us
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  are afraid if they're all going to do some type of solo tour or
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  not. I don't know if they're going to
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  jump into Run BTS like instantly because we got those JK rumors
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  for the fall of this year. Terrified if Namjing goes on
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  tour because again, I have to be there.
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  And I don't know what like Jim and her Tay may want to do if
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  they want to do a solo tour or maybe they can do like a mockney
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  tour. I think Lala brought that up in
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  one episode. That'd be pretty cool too.
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  Again, we will just see. But we are almost there for all
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  of us who has been there for some of us who's been there from
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  the beginning, maybe came in during like dope era or like
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  idol era and then watch them go in thinking it would be 10,000
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  years until they came out. We've made it guys, OK, we made
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  it through the trenches and they will be home soon and I am so
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  excited. And for the new fans that came
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  during their solo eras and haven't experienced all seven of
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  them together. Welcome.
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  You are in for a ride. But it is a very emotional,
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  happy ride, I promise you. I just let me stop talking about
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  it because I feel like I'm going to cry.
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  Also, I cannot wait to see what's going to happen at the
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  Hope on the Stage finale because it's during Festa and we're at
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  least going to get Nam, June, Tay, Jimin and JK back.
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  We still got another week for you and Gee, but we'll just see
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  what they're going to do there. Whether it's just showing them
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  in the audience they get on stage, I don't know.
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  I don't know. I can't predict anything.
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  I'm just ready. I am ready to have my seven men
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  back. Anyway, that will be the end of
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  Simone's thoughts. Let me know, how about you give
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  me two songs you would want to recommend Nam Jim when he gets
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  out the military? And how do you think Run BTS
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  will change when they all come back?
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