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Larping as Americans · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American mamas. Dear mamas, did
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  Speaker 1: you know that people in Poland spend the fourth July
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  Speaker 1: LARPing as Americans?
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  Speaker 2: Let's ask our American mamas. Mamma, Mama and Joy.
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  Speaker 1: Is now our American mama is Terry Nedeville and Kimberly Burlison.
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  Speaker 1: The first question I think most people will ask is
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  Speaker 1: what does LARPing mean? And that is live action role play.
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  Speaker 1: And yes I knew that before the question was asked,
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  Speaker 1: which I think demonstrates how big of a nerd I am.
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  Speaker 1: But apparently on the for July, folks over in Poland
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  Speaker 1: live action role play. So basically they're dressing up and
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  Speaker 1: pretending to be Americans, and not just Americans, but perhaps
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  Speaker 1: backwoods Mississippi, Kentucky, you know, mountains, swamp overall.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they basically set the sea, they set this fake
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  Speaker 3: fictional scene that's supposed to be Pristine Park, Ohio, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: and the players it's a it's a holiday, it's a
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  Speaker 3: holiday resort, but they turn into your you know, mullet
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  Speaker 3: beer drinking crazy And at first, when I first saw it,
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  Speaker 3: I thought, oh, this is a compliment, and then I thought, no,
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  Speaker 3: this isn't a compliment. They're trying to show the shortcomings
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  Speaker 3: of America.
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  Speaker 1: And then after I.
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  Speaker 3: Got past that, I thought this, why is everyone so
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  Speaker 3: obsessed with us?
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  Speaker 2: Everyone is so obsessed with us?
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  Speaker 3: Can you imagine anybody having a LARPing experience for Paul,
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, where is Poland? Yeah, I mean it's funny.
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  Speaker 1: Be fair. We do have Renaissance fairs, which are it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like live action role playing medieval Poland, or
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  Speaker 1: at least medieval.
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  Speaker 3: D We're thinking Game of Thrones. Nobody's thinking location. You're
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  Speaker 3: thinking Game of Throne.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. When I saw the pictures, I was like, you
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  Speaker 4: I thought, oh, that's Before I saw the pictures, I
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  Speaker 4: thought that's cool. They're they're wanting to imitate Americans on
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  Speaker 4: the fourth of July, celebrating their country that they love
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  Speaker 4: so much. And I saw the pictures, I was like,
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  Speaker 4: what is this. It looked like, you know, they had
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  Speaker 4: trailers in the background, so clearly they're they're in a
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  Speaker 4: trailer park theme, and the boobs are coming out of
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  Speaker 4: the girls and the overalls, you know, the men are
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  Speaker 4: wearing the overalls, and they have the cops with their hands,
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  Speaker 4: you know, their hands behind the back of the cops
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  Speaker 4: have them cuffed, and I thought, this is how they
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  Speaker 4: see is America? Is this or is this how our
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  Speaker 4: media portrays us to other countries? And they just see
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  Speaker 4: this wonder well.
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  Speaker 3: THEO Vonn had El Langley on recently and he was.
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  Speaker 1: Taking and by the way, a lot of these people
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  Speaker 1: live action role playing. They look like they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: be THEO Vonn.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yes, well that's what my point is.
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  Speaker 5: THEO Vonn.
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  Speaker 3: There's this this site he loves. It's called country Hoodlums
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  Speaker 3: on Instagram. Y'all go check it out.
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  Speaker 5: It's crazy, okay, but that's a exactly what these people
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  Speaker 5: look like in are acting like, So that to be
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  Speaker 5: is what they're looking at because all they have to
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  Speaker 5: go on is social media, you know, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know what, they can have fun doing that, Like these
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  Speaker 4: people that they're trying to imitate and act like they're
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  Speaker 4: so bad. These people are fun. If you've been around
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  Speaker 4: real life country people, they are up for a good time.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you had a bonfire, yeah, that would
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  Speaker 1: have been because because they didn't have somebody there with
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  Speaker 1: a shotgun, which I'm like, how'd you get that? In Poland?
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  Speaker 2: Well, there that's true.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they talked about also they have they like the
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  Speaker 4: discrepancy between the wealthy elite and then the you know,
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  Speaker 4: the poor.
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  Speaker 2: Uh trashy side.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I did not see one picture of anybody trying to
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  Speaker 4: portray the wealthy elite. They all wanted to have the
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  Speaker 4: fun and have the mullets and the you know, all
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  Speaker 4: of the fun side of it. Just Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They said that it's designed as a social drama that
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  Speaker 3: explores the complexities of the America. Can dream the complexities.
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  Speaker 1: Oh so they're actually trying to bat They're.
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  Speaker 3: Trying out like they had a sign that said America,
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  Speaker 3: but the meat in America.
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  Speaker 4: Was like highlights the rest of it. Yeah, well, let
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  Speaker 4: me tell you something. Poland and everybody tell them, there's
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  Speaker 4: not another country in this entire world that you would
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  Speaker 4: able to live in except for America and the freedoms
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  Speaker 4: that we have. We're free to be whoever you want.
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  Speaker 4: If we want to be the wealthy elite, if we
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  Speaker 4: choose to be more of the you know, Theovonne type
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  Speaker 4: or whatever, we are free to do that. So to
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  Speaker 4: poke fun at that when you would give anything in
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  Speaker 4: this world to have what we have, people come from
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  Speaker 4: all over this universe to be where we are and
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  Speaker 4: have what we have. So if you want to role
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  Speaker 4: play and do that, go right ahead. We're fine because
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  Speaker 4: we know who we are, we know who we love,
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  Speaker 4: and we love Americans well.
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  Speaker 1: Especially since if you look over the last twenty years,
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  Speaker 1: there's been a phenomenon where Mississippi actually has a higher
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  Speaker 1: GDP per capita than most of Europe. Now you know,
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  Speaker 1: there you go. That was one of our lowest ranking states.
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  Speaker 1: Now they have higher GDP. Then you know, I think,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it is Germany, but certainly higher
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  Speaker 1: GDP per capita than Spain, Greece, Italy, maybe even Poland,
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  Speaker 1: although Poland has been rising up. But if you want
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  Speaker 1: to be making fun of our backwoods, just remember they
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  Speaker 1: can afford an air conditioner, and folks in Poland for
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  Speaker 1: the most don't exactly.
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  Speaker 3: It's like they say, everyone's trying to get in, but
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  Speaker 3: no one wants to leave. So we're doing something right obviously.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, it's fun to dress up like you know,
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  Speaker 1: do that.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes we'll dress up. You know, we got Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Look, if you haven't been to a bonfire, you're
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  Speaker 1: missing out on a good time. I'd like to ask
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  Speaker 1: for our American Mama is a question good to our
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  Speaker 1: I'm then ask the Mama's button. Tearing out Abou Kimberly
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  Speaker 1: Bro listen, Thank you so much, Thank you,