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Breaking Up Over Politics · Podcast - Big 98.7

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Did you know that three and five people dump their partner just because of political
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beliefs. That's crazy to me. For me, yes, you it's more
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of a if somebody is so wrapped up into it, like we have kids,
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and so for me, how we parent is definitely gonna be like the
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number one thing. Yeah, you know what I mean. But there are
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certain people who it's just it's a deal breaker. It depends on how into
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it you are. If it's like bleeding over into your personality. If like
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how you are as a person is directly reflective of your political beliefs, I
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probably won't like you, you know, one way or the other. I
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mean, that's just how it is. But yeah, I just can't imagine
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getting to the I mean, maybe if you're just dating and you go on
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maybe one date and you don't discuss politics, and maybe the next one right
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you find out or you start going through their Facebook feed and it's like,
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oh god, who you supported? What? I mean, my husband and
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I are pretty in line. I'm way more liberal than he is. He
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tends to be a little bit more conservative than How are you possibly in line?
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You just described the complete opposite in the things that in my opinion are
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super important. That's where we're where we're in line. Does that make sense,
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Like that's the hard things that I'm like, Okay, here we are.
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Yeah, and then I tend to be a little bit more liberal in
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certain conversations and whatever. But overall, yeah, no, that's that's about
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right. Yeah. With my wife and I it's not. Yeah, we're
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definitely in agreeance on most things. Now. We're not overly political people in
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general. Yes, you know, I trust me. I'm educated on the
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process and just you know, civics in general, and I think that's important.
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But you can dive into just candidates and issues as much or as little
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as you want, and it's not going to change. So I try not
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to make my life revolve around it or affect my relationships in any way.
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I think that that's one of the hardest things. And we've seen friends and
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people and it was probably you know, four years ago, where they just
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if you did see to eye, they would just like delete unfriends. I
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have a couple of family members who take it to that level where they unfriended
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like all of us on social media, like I don't ever talk politics,
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but just because of the way they are it's it's wild to me that people
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have that kind of behavior. It is it's hard to understand. I mean,
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I guess it's just something to be interested, much like sports or music
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or just it's it's a thing some people just care a lot about and they
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put a lot of their time into it, which is totally up to you.
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But now otherwise don't really care. IM not going to dump my wife
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for that unless she has some radical change. If I come home today and
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she's shaved her head, we might have to have a conversation. That would
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be like in reference to like a neo Nazi shaving her head, not just
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like two thousand and seven Brittany. In that situation, I might stick around
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just to be supporting, like in a minute in the morning, Big ninety
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eight point seven. We were fed a lot of myths growing up, and
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finally somebody stepped up, and I'm talking about the University of California did a
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whole study on these myths that our parents told us growing up or that we
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experienced, and I'd like to debunk them now. If you are okay with
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that, Yes, it's amazing to me. You might tell me something right
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now and I will still roll with it. In fact, I'm probably using
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it with my kids maybe wild how this happens, Well, you remember ever
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having a stomach ache and getting force fed ginger ale as a child, all
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the time, ginger ale and seven up just in general, saltine crackers,
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seven up. I mean, where did that even come from? Well,
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here's where it came from. Is that actual ginger apparently can help with a
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stomach egg but ginger ale most of them don't include actually any ginger at all.
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It's just a flavor, right, And so it's really not doing anything
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for your stomach ache. But you know it, I guess for a parent,
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it makes you feel like you're doing something, but really it's doing absolutely
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nothing other than being just sort of a nice treat. And isn't that the
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big part of when you're sick as a kid, just getting like comforted,
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whether that be a fun drink or food. Oh, it's not actually helping
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with the illness, but it is funny, how whatever. Like I think
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I had shared this with you. Every time I wanted to go home sick,
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my grandma would have to come pick me up, and it's like she
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knew and so she would make me have milk toast, so she would put
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you just put a piece of toast, put milk over in it and have
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to eat it, And was like, oh, maybe it's not worth Why
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I don't even have a clue. Bread soaked in milk. It's so gross?
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Why is that? I don't something somebody would want to do. Apparently
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that was supposed to help the old tummy hikes. Another myth they debunked in
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this big study gum staying in your stomach for seven years, which is so
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it's always a bizarre amount of time. Why would it Why would it be
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in there for that long but then suddenly is then gone. Just told this
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to my cat. You did it? You did. I was like,
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that's going to be stuck in your stomach. Make sure you spin it out.
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Oh man, that's good. And listen, we all knew we as
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a kid, and you maybe were one of them that like swallowed their gum,
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Like instead of throwing their gum away, they would just swallow it.
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Yeah, So what are those like? How did those kids not all just
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seven years later all pass away? They just have really bad digestive tracks.
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Well, that's the thing they do say in the study that while swallowing gum
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is not recommended. I guess, probably because you could choke on it.
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If you do accidentally, you're likely going to pass it like any other indigestable
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food. What, Yeah, get out of here. I know the whole
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You shouldn't swim for thirty minutes after eating. Yes, of course we all
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heard that. I guess that's a myth. There's no supportive evidence at all.
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I mean they say, I guess what I heard is there? It
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could cause it a cramp. Well, you'd have like you could get a
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side egg if you're actually swimming hard, but usually you're just like playing.
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Yeah, but that's not because yeah, if you're it's going out into the
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middle of the lake to swim some exact labs and then h finally, chicken
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soup crying a cold and fed some Campbell soup as a kid when you were
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sick. Yeah, what is the what is the whole chicken soup thing?
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Well, they say chicken soup is warm and comforting when you're sick, but
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it's not a cure. Drinking any hot broth when your sinuses or stuff can
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help clear them out. Okay, so there's some relief there. Yeah,
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But as far as like the actual virus that you're experiencing not going to happen.
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Also, you're going to ruin your eyes if you sit too close to
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the TV. Myth. They say, while it can strain your eyes,
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it actually won't do any long term damage. You're fine. And again I'm
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still using a lot of these with the kids. Weird. Well, isn't
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it weird now? Because we were told all the time as the kids,
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because you'd want to sit right up next to the TV. Yeah, and
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that was the whole thing. But now everyone's screens are literally in their face.
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Oh yeah, like whenever if the kids are playing on an iPad or
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some minutess like, no, push it back a little bit, you're gonna
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you don't want it too close because some brigs for some reason, he'll like
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hold it right by your pace. But can you even see what's happening there?
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Taking a minute in the morning seven to play this little thing we do,
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it's called is it weird? And what we do is decide to the
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things we do are weird? Are you ready, Amanda? I'd like you
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to start if you could. All right, this has to do with my
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dog. Every time I get forget. You have a dog, because once
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you had those kids, your dog's presence on social media just vanished lous around.
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Am I wrong to feel bad for the dog? And maybe it was
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more so your previous dog Veno God rest her soul. Yeah, it was
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just disappeared. Yeah a kid, well before kids for sure. Yeah,
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yeah, I just I just always I guess I had a soft spot in
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my heart for your dog, who is not in existence anymore. Well,
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I will let you know she's she's well, she's fine. And every time
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I'm like she comes up anything, I automatically like clean her eyes, like
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take the little iboogers out, and then in her ears. I always am
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like looking in her ears and picking at him and like there's always like weird
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stuff. It's kind of gross, but I do it all the time.
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And my husband is the one who pointed it out. He's like, why
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every single time you're with the dog, like that's what you do. It's
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like I can't just like pet the dog. I'm always like messing with the
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dog. Does that make sense? Yeah, it's very odd. Yeah,
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it is odd. I'm going to go as far as to say it's weird,
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right because I think of like if this was a human it would be
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like basically every time you came around, I'm like, dig it in your
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eyes, your ear, Like that's just weird behavior to do. Yeah,
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they say, you're not even supposed to clean your own ears. I do.
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Now you're picking through your dog's ears. I know. Oh listen,
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I love dogs. I don't have a dog. I enjoy not having a
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dog. But you kind of just let them be dogs, right like we
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like you did brush their teeth? No, I mean where do you try
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to? Well? Remember I did tell you in another episode of Is it
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weird that I sometimes will wipe her bum with a baby wife? Yeah?
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See, that's just it. That's that's super weird. Yeah, I honestly
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that that's all weird. But that's why we're talking about it, all right,
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man? Is it weird that I would request to move tables at a
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restaurant? Oh gosh, have be so. Well, here's what would be
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the reason. I mean, there's a couple of reasons. One, I
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do this often when there's a loud group next to me because I cannot stop
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it people talking loudly. It never fails either. Yesterday, my wife and
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I nice little Sunday wanted to get out of the house. So we went
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to have dinner and at a nice restaurant we like in town and went on
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the patio and we were the only ones out there. Right away, I
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thought, well, this is just my style. Yeah, relaxing, beautiful
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evening. And then of course, just right on cute party is seven the
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loudest people you've ever heard on otherwise quiet patio. And then there was like
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a sort of foul smell emitting from the group, and so I just looked
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at my wife Lauren. I'm like, I can't do this. What's going
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We're going inside? So just got up, moved our stuff. Oh that's
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a bummer, but for who? For you? Yeah that you guys like
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have a nice situation. Yes, And I get like, you're not gonna
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get you I audios. You never know what's gonna what's gonna go down.
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But that's unfortunate. I was thinking, if you were in like an inside
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at a place, would you wait, what would you say? Here's this
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was like a different situation because you're on the patio and it can very easily
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be like, oh, we're just going to go in. We got cold.
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Yeah, And that's what I told the server because I wanted to move
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to just a different spot on the patio, but like, that's so awkward
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because they're going to see us get up and move right just down the way
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a little bit. That would be super weird. I thought about doing it
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anyway, because who cares, I'm not going to see him again. Yeah,
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I have friends that will go out with sometimes, and I find this
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to be weird restaurant behavior. I don't care if I'm in a booth a
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high top blowtop. If they ask, you know, I'm like, usually
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i'd sit it a high top. Like that's kind of really my vibe.
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I go back and forth on what I like. I seem to take a
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day and just kind of test out the three different options. So and I
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think it depends on how many people you're with or whatever. Like I don't
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want to be squished into a booth, but they are just like all,
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wait, never a booth, Like you can never ever sit in a booth,
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and they just it's just funny how people have I think. I think
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I like the booth. I like when the kids are with and we get
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a booth because then Wilson on the outsides and I feel like somehow that's like
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holding them in. It is and you know not to mention the privacy.
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You know, it's like you're not out of the open. Yeah that's true.
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Yeah, is that you would agree? As far as the privacy,
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I would say privacy God, Amanda in the morning on signe seven. I
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know Amanda Stills the Sea. Let's see bring it. Will Smith debuted a
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brand new song and to be et Awards. It's called you Can Make It
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very inspiration. It is trying to heal with the battles up heal and if
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God is for real, you just want to reveal. Listen, so many
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tests for the flesh, exhausted, caspit to catch your breast, walking through
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the valley, and the shadow with death when you think you've got nothing left,
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keep going ahead, you get mad. So he is not the Will
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Smith that we're used to. I mean, listen, I was banging big
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Willie style so much in the late nineties. That album was incredible. Yeah,
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but this is like a weird, serious inspirational vibe. But whatever.
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It felt very much like Kanye's Sunday Service when he was doing those a little
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bit. No, well, I mean the rapping style or because it you
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know, I'm just trying to figure out. I don't know. I didn't
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listen to his it was and an that wasn't an album, that was just
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him. Well, I feel didn't he have a full album like that.
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I don't know. I feel like he did about four years ago. That
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was his version. You're right, the man listen Big Willy wants to get
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back into the music. Cool. I don't think it's going to go anywhere
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other than you know, like he can still rap that, but you don't
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think it's going to be like he's not going to be getting jiggy with it
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anymore. I would be open to getting jiggy with it, but this sort
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of thing like though you can do it go as I think there's enough of
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that all right. Taylor Swift's Airs was in Ireland's over the weekend and Swifties
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went wild thinking that she really did not know Travis was going to be there.
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There was a bunch of videos at surface, like the moment she saw
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him and just like totally like, oh my gosh, I can't believe you're
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here. Really, she strikes me as somebody who's probably got his location already
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on her phone, so that I don't believe that. Well, I mean,
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which is you know, listen, that's my wife and I have each
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other's just hilarious first first date. I'm thinking she probably wanted that find my
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iPhone? Oh my gosh. Well, anyway, whether you believe it or
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not, he was there. He was in the VIP ten with Julia Roberts
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and Stevie Nicks. Julia Roberts just giving him like this big old hug.
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Well, my mind has just blown because we what we hear of t have
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everything about it. Yeah, he's just like a cool, down to earth
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guy. But if I'm Taylor, there's gonna be moments, especially Stevie Nix
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and Julia robb Yeah, I'm looking at trap going don't say anything, stupid?
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What are you? What are you talking to them about? Is he
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like pulling out like pretty woman lines? Is he you know, like just
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being super basic, like oh my god, Stevie Nicks, I love that.
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What's that one song you guys do? Uh? Oh Landslide? Yeah?
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I love Landslide. I don't want oh thank you? Or are they
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just awestruck of him too? I don't know, the whole situation is very
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bizarre. I'm going to guess Julia Roberts isn't exactly starstruck meeting Travis Kelsey unless
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he's a big cheap span Yeah, I don't know, never know. Justin
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timber like, I don't know what he was trying to do here. He
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was trying to poke fun of his legal troubles in front of legal troubles his
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d uy, and from what we know, and I'm pretty sure it was
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just a duhy, why would you make light of it? Listen, So,
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is there anyone here tonight that is driving a knockskin that's so dumb that
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it's not it's not funny? First of all, so he was doing the
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whole thing. Has anybody been in one of my shows before? But is
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anybody driving? Come on? He drove drunk? Unless again because his lawyer
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made it seem like there might be more to it anything short of him just
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being a misunderstanding and he was totally sober. I don't know. I just
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don't think we need to be laughing about a duy dude. And it's almost
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like he needs this affirmation, like you guys still love me, right exactly?
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Who who? They bought tickets to your show? They love you as
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anybody. No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Anytime you do
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that the whole like, no, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.
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It's not kind of annoying like a in the morning, big nutty eight points.
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Now here's what you need to know. Well, the fallout from Thursday
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nights presidential to bacons in he is with Democratic officials and party members sending mixed
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messages about the future of President Biden's re election campaign, but it did spend
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the day yesterday with his family at Cam David. Early reports said that they
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are urging him to continue running. Some are saying it's time to dip out,
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but it'll be interesting to see how it all unfold. We do know
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Governor Bergham is currently over in West Fargo at Randy's Diner. Two. Fox
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and Friends is over there this morning, seeing a lot of people having breakfast
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over there and just being a part of it. Getting anybody showed up just
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to get their usual practice and there's all that going on. Like what the
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heck is that literally these bright lights is actually eggs inside out. To across
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the one billion marker at the box office in just nineteen days. It was
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the quickest for any animated film Frozen two held it before with twenty five Days,
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but I gotta go see this. Never never saw the first one.
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Why would I don't have kids? But you know what, not even sure
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who the characters are? Interesting? I know I have not seen the first
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one, But how many like families with older kids went and saw this,
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Like it doesn't feel like it's just a little kid movie, and I feel
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like that's how they're making them now anyway, I mean, I don't know.
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I guess Okay, here it is. Inside Out is a song by
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American alternative rock band Eve six. Does that sound right? Nope, that's
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that's gonna be this song. I should know. My band opened for that
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very bad. You would think not a month ago, right. Taylor Swift
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is a huge fan of Simone Biles and this is pretty cool. So over
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the weekend they had the US Olympic Trials in Minneapolis at the Target. So
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yeah, and one of her routines, her floor routines, Simone Bile said,
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you're ready for it from Taylor Swift? Oh she used that song?
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Yes, And Taylor said watch this so many times and still unready but she's
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ready though. Oh that's cute, isn't that cute. That's good to you
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know, listen, women supporting women. I love to see it. You're
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here for that, absolutely, and I'm ready for it. You can say
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I am ready for the summer. That is one thing I love watching gymnastics.
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I get locked in. Yeah, even swimming. I mean, you
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can start watching that. It's just it's good. It's so competitive, Like
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how close those races aren't you know? Yeah? Absolutely, even a track
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I love watching that too. It makes me anxious because every time they're running,
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I mean they're going so fast, like you could just trip in one
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second. And for me, it's like the skinning of a knee, Like
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I can't does that happen often? And I don't think so, but I
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think about that, I'm like, ohoo. I kind of get frustrated watching
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like the longer distance running because it looks like on the TV that they're just
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kind of casually jogging. I'm like, hey, I know you got more
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in the tank than that. And no matter how many times I watch track,
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I always feel like there's an advantage for somebody who is on the inside
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when they're like in the back. I can't get that out of my mind,
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and like ooh, well, the inside they start way back from everything.
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Do I have an opposite Yeah, well that's why they even it evens
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it out because when they start on this starting line. Yeah, the person
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on the inside of the track is like way back and its staggers like h
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still frustrating for me to watch, Like I feel like somebody always has an
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advantage, no matter why. I know. I mean, I'm sure they
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all have like their preference on all which spot they like to be in,
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I would think, but I think just the I don't even know what the
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geometry of it all. I think it all works out. That's surely wrong.
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Oh gosh, all right, today it is going to be most a
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cloudy chance of some thunderstorm Taia seventy four. Like, get Amanda in the
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morning, come on, get up on Big seven. I saw something that
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I wanted to share with you. I saw it and I thought, oh
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wow, this is helpful. And so if your parent, like Amanda,
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especially if you got young kids, this is gonna be very very helpful.
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I think I'm ready for So listen, it's summer. You might be going
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to like public pools, you might be going to the park a lot with
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the young kids, and I imagine it can be very difficult to get them
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to agree that it's time to go home. Oh yeah, that's always that's
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always a challenge. We do our best, Like you always kind of set
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that intention before you go. Hey, just a reminder, you know,
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when we say it's time to go, we're gonna go. Okay, And
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that's not reasonable, but works about seventy people. Right. One thing I
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know about young children is well, reason isn't exactly they're strong, right,
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strong point. But here's a hack. A mom shared online that I saw
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this. I thought, oh, this could be helpful for Amanda and anybody.
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So basically the hack she realized and she did it by total accident.
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They were going to the pool and she was in such a hurry to get
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to the pool she forgot to bring any sort of snacks or anything, and
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so it got to the point where the kids were very hungry and she's like,
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well, we're gonna have to go home if you kids want to eat,
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and so it clicked in her brain, just don't bring any food and
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that way, when they get hungry, the only option for them is to
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go home. Just like anything, when it's like make that person as uncomfortable
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as possible, and they'll be like, okay, yeah, that's right.
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Now you're using starvation as a tactic. Is an interesting move. But hey,
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if it works, that is interesting. Okay. I mean, do
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you bring snacks everywhere you go? No, we've kind of. I mean
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sometimes I'll have a little snack in my purse or whatever. But for the
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most part, the thing is is it feels like everywhere you go anymore you
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can buy snacks. And my kids know that it's just there. It's like,
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no, we don't want to be buying that. But a lot of
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times you can't bring snacks for free to a lot of places because they want
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you to buy the concessions. You see it everywhere. Even I remember growing
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up, like in church, kids can't sit through a forty five minute service
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without you know, munching on some serials some something to do. Yeahah,
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and that's a problem even in my old age. Now it's just eating for
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something to do. It's really a lot big snack boy. Wow, guilty
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is charged with the snack boy