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25- Would You Want to Know the World is Ending? · Arguing Ever After

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And here we are with some exciting news.
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Party time. Some folks may have already
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heard it, but not everybody. That's true.
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We have certainly some listeners only we put it all over social
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media. Yeah, we did.
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Because we're kind of annoying like that.
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Well, we got to be. We have to be right.
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You all want to know. I want to get in everyone's ear.
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I do too. I do too, and in that effort we
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are going to be on a radio station.
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Yes, we are a local radio station here in Saint Paul.
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It's WFNU Frogtown Radio. Yes, and Frogtown is the
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nickname of a neighborhood in Saint Paul where we did a lot of
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our growing up. Yeah, so it's really fun.
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I mean, you can also find it online, You can stream it.
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It's a really great station with a, gosh, just a bunch of stuff
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you don't find everywhere else. And I really would recommend you
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go look WFN. You Frogtown Radio?
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Yeah. Maybe you'll find something you
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like that isn't us. I know, but obviously look for
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us too on there. So we're.
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Going to be on Fridays at midnight.
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Now what we're doing is they're airing.
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They're we're airing, yeah, our podcast that, you know, we
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already have released and recorded because our main
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delivery is through the nation of podcasting.
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Yes. But getting to more listeners on
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a very cool local radio station in our hometown is super fun for
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us. We got to go to like a little
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radio station mixer over the week and we got to meet all of
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the different volunteers. It's a nonprofit radio, so we
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got to meet all the different volunteers who are the different
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broadcasters for all the times and line UPS throughout the days
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and and so many very interesting people.
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And we had a lot of fun discussions and like my
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extrovert was like, I was in party time OverDrive for a few
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hours. It was awesome.
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It was. You did very good.
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I did really good. I was a little nervous about how
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I would do because settings like that are usually difficult for
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someone like me. Introvert.
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She's an introvert, in case she's not a vampire.
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I'm an introvert. I mean, I can do fine in social
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settings, but I'm like one of those people I I can't talk to a
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whole slew of people at once very well and feel comfortable.
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And you're really good if you know people.
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If I know people and it was really fun because like a lot of
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these people, almost immediate friendships, maybe it's just
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because we all have interest in hearing ourselves talk.
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I have no idea almost for sure, but they're they were so fun.
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It was just a lot of fun. I was afterwards, so we're
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getting in the car, you know, and I'd said to Luke I was like,
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oh, I'm not even having too much stress, sweat or anything like
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that. I did not know you sweat when
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you're like in a delivery setting, you said.
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Oh yeah, I get it really bad when I'm doing a presentation.
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Yes, yeah. What?
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I had no idea. Yeah, I love a presentation.
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Put. Me in front of the room.
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No. So if there's anybody I work
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with who maybe has seen me present, yes.
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I was sweating, I promise, but it was so cool.
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I mean, like this radio show. I mean, we met people who were
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kind of DJs and then there was a food, the Umbuji food critic,
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food critic, but just. There's a couple that talks
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about relationships, there's a bunch of cool stuff.
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Yeah. And there were a couple who had
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been there, you know, doing this stuff for 10 years.
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Not a couple, a couple of guys who'd been there for 10 years.
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Really lovely, lovely people. I don't know where this is going
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to grow to, but I regardless. I hope and and I believe that we
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will get some new listeners, followers and sharers.
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That's our hope and learn things right from other people who are.
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I mean, we are fortunate that we're not live.
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That's true because we can go fix things that we say.
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Yeah, this is our third take I. Think we're yeah, 3 or 4, I
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can't remember. They do have, though, a video
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podcast booth setup there that's like super advanced.
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It's a little bit more high tech than our couch ring light
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smartphone and Bluetooth microphones from Amazon.
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Well, and I was talking with one of the DJs there and he had said
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maybe we could do a collaboration on something and I
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thought this would be great. So I don't know.
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That was actually like, we've had people say that people that
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we know over the months, then you know that we've been doing
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this and that's always fun and cool.
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But to have like people that are actually in the business of
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putting themselves out there on the radio in a professional
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setting say that they want to collaborate is like, wow, that's
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totally different and really cool.
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Well, and that they're reachable, right?
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Like we've had a couple of people online say that, but it's
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like, you know, like that interaction, I think, I don't
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know. I don't know, check them out.
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And we can certainly add some more information when we get
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closer, for sure. Or all we are, we might already
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be on the radio, but you know what?
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We're not well. By the time, yeah, by the time
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this releases, we will have been on 2/2 times.
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I can't do math. But I don't know we're it.
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Might be three or two, I don't know.
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Yeah, we're excited. And I feel like it's one of
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those things that, well, obviously we are super, super
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unprofessional or anything like that.
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You know, it's, it's like a little nudge that, you know,
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hey, it's, it's, it's interesting to enough people for
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sure that someone was like, we've got you.
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We went on the radio and we're all for that.
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So, so, but again, we are looking at where we are today in
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our in our lineups and stuff like that and coming off of a
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holiday, which technically we haven't hit yet, but, and you're
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listening. Yeah, we're off a holiday.
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We were kind of looking through some of our topics and, and
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something came to me that I really wanted to discuss.
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And after thinking about it a little bit more, I thought
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actually the timing's really well.
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OK, so picture it. Picture this.
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Sicily, Yeah, 1950. Three December the World, 1999.
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Oh, OK. Yes.
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He knows where I'm going with yeah, I do.
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Everybody in the world was unsure what would happen come
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January 1st, 2000. It's still so crazy to think
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that that was actually a thing that nobody thought of when they
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were building computers and clocks.
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Right, right. Wait, we need another digit for
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a new Millennium? Oh boy.
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So for the youths who have no idea what we're talking about.
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Yeah, there was a time, Picture this picture.
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There was a time when there was no smartphone, right?
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There was know, barely, barely a cell phone by the late 90s.
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Like, they were there, but like, not everybody had them.
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There were still pagers out there in the wild.
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You had to get your information from the news and the newspaper.
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Yeah, there was not social media.
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No, I think Myspace existed. Oh, I don't know, in the late
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90s. Oh yeah, it did.
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It did it. Did 99?
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It would have, yeah. But it wasn't like, I mean, it
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was rare to like be on my like I never had it in my.
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Space and. Like I know 10 people that did
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or something. And so, yeah, like you, you just
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got your information from like, like the analog sources as they
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call them now or or legacy media as it's called now.
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Well, so all of us, I don't know, non tech people heard that
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there was going to be a problem. Because the tech people said it
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was going to be a problem. Because the computers weren't
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set up with the year 2000. Yeah, and there were people that
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thought, and this was actually reported on the news and
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newspapers, that there was the potential for nuclear bombs to
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go off. Oh, I don't.
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Remember the nuclear bomb that was?
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Part of the reason people thought the world was going to
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end is because if all the clocks don't reset correctly and they
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trigger the bombs, we may all just get turned to glass.
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Wow, wow, that was part. Of the party, like it's a 1999
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vibe. It was like, you know, well
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what, what if all this just wrecks everything and we die,
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right? I remember the big thing being
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like for banking systems, everything shutting down, like
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you wouldn't be able to spend money because we were really
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digital then too, you know, I mean, it was the.
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Beginning of the digital age for sure, right?
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But. I mean like all of your banking
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stuff would have been online. You could dial.
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Up to the Internet? By plugging into a phone line
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and listening to the tone of doom?
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Sure. Enough things were digitized
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that if if it couldn't handle the change of going from 1999 to
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2000, literally the everything as we knew it would have been
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gone for sure. I mean, our workplaces were
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concerned like everybody, like are they going to figure it out
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in time? That was the big question.
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There was a. Lot of money spent on IT to try
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to figure out, I don't know, 'cause I, I, that was nowhere
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near the world I was working in, but to spend or to figure out
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how to ensure that. January 1, 2000.
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I mean, and, and I remember sitting there like, is the TV
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going to turn off? Like, we weren't sure we were
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sitting there at, you know, 32. One and we're.
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Like, OK, we're we. Made it.
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Nothing happened. Yay.
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It was just so funny. I mean, and and thinking about
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it now, like thankfully, I'm sure.
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I hope they have something there for 2100.
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I don't know it maybe. What if they planned ahead
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though? I bet.
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They did, I bet. I don't know, maybe there's or
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at least 2/5 numbers. I'll bet you they added a
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character. Maybe, yeah, that's enough to
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get into Star Trek timing, is that.
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OK, I have no idea when that happens, but anyhow, it it was
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kind of tying into what I was thinking about, which was like
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the concepts of the end of the world.
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You know, there's been a ton of movies about it, maybe not ton,
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but enough movies about it. There was that really big one
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with gosh, that guy Leonardo DiCaprio, wasn't it?
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I don't know, couple years ago that was the end of the world.
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Yeah, but that was about like a comet or a meteor or something.
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But yeah, sure. No, but I don't know.
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I actually didn't watch. I saw just the ending, which is
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probably the worst thing to do. What?
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Was that called? It was actually kind of good.
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It was a big deal movie. I don't.
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Know. Don't look up.
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Don't look. Yeah, that's what it was.
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Called. I only watched the last couple.
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I mean, I you probably. Fell asleep.
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I don't. Know I wasn't really that
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interested in it because I mean like the concept of the end of
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the world is, is something I, I don't know, I don't know about,
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but it's funny because there's always in movies the reasons I
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ever watch it are the types of things I like to watch, you
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know, will be, you know, like the government knows and they're
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not telling anybody and you know, like the do we tell like
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aliens. Like.
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Aliens. Yeah, or a meteor like in that.
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What was that one movie? Gosh, I'm going to a lot of
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movies with Bruce Willis. And yes, that was.
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A great movie, yes. I don't know if they told the
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people, they must have told the people, because why would you
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have the drilling? Yeah, it was.
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No, it was the whole thing and you know, the whole world was
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watching and in the movie they were like watching the TV.
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Kind of like Y2K, but obviously different, right?
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Right. Well, and I think like with some
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of those, like people have those shelters that they've built.
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What I don't know about I don't know.
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End of World Fallout. Shelters.
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Oh, maybe. That's what it's called, Yeah.
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I was watching ATV show recently.
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There was a TV show called like. Survivalists or something there?
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Was a really funny TV show with this.
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Oh gosh, isn't. There like a big bunker, like a
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government bunker where they have like all the.
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Seeds. DNA.
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And plant seeds and like, all kinds of sciency stuff, yeah.
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They're ready. I want to.
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Check it out. I don't is it?
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Do they have like a swanky section I feel like but isn't it
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like. In Antarctica or something, I
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don't know. I would.
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Be willing to bet that the Super rich have like purchased plots
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of land and just dug down deep and spent millions of dollars to
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build like mega swanky cool like living places that were stocked
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to the brim with unexpiring canned goods and freeze dried
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meals and. Yeah.
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Oh, no. All this stuff exists.
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It's kind of. Scary to think that if the world
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ends, only the Super rich are gonna survive.
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I mean. It's scary for them.
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They're. Screwed.
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Right, right. Who's gonna do?
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All the work I don't. Know but like, I mean, they'll
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they'll. I don't know they'll survive
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till the end then I'm sure they have enough they figured out.
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OK, if I'm gonna live 40 years, this is how much food I need.
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Sure. Or what have you, I don't know.
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And maybe. They're gonna bring their staff
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with them, but this is. Yeah, of course.
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Why? I mean, if you can build a
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Fallout Shelter or something, you can build a couple extra
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rooms for other people that you're like, I want you to come,
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you know? But like, how do you choose all
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of that? Oh, that's a whole nother.
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Who would you choose? Oh, that's a good we could talk
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about that right now. I feel like, well it would
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depend on what you had for space, but.
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I'm gonna make it really hard on you.
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Oh, you have? This isn't the question, but
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this is a question you. Have room for four people.
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Four, I'm not going to answer that because I might alienate.
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I'm not. I refuse.
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Clearly. Clearly you and our child are.
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Yeah, of course. Of the Is it 4 plus me or
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including me? No.
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Including, including. Me so just one more person I get
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to bring. What if we had like 4 kids?
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Well, we don't. Is it just?
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A + 1 scenario. So like, yeah, I'm not answering
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the question, not at all. I don't know the answer.
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I have some thoughts and they're controversial, I'll tell you
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that. OK.
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And so who would yours be? It would be you, our daughter,
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and you, listener. OMG you're bringing the audience
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with just. Just you who's listening right
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now that's. Controversial and everyone knows
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that you're lying to them. It's a lie.
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No, they don't. Oh my goodness, chances are.
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It is a listener. I mean, I'm not, I was thinking
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about this. I'm not kidding.
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This is messed up. Now, I'm going to just say it
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because you got me into and I, I say some controversial stuff, so
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it's not gonna be one of my parents.
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And I think they would agree with me.
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What about the dog? Yeah, Well, OK, so anyway, so I
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would lovingly part with them and it would wreck me, right,
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For sure. Well, you're losing everybody,
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yeah, but I think. That they would agree.
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I really do. It's hard to know for sure
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because people are so very motivated for self preservation,
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right? That, you know, I mean, it's,
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it's, it's wild our, our drive to, to live knowing that each
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one of us is guaranteed to die. It's kind of wild to even think
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about. But, but I think that my parents
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would say no, that's right. And I, I don't know who actually
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the, the 4th would be, but I think it would be a close
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friend. Cuz I think you need family and
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I think you need a friend outside of family.
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I think I. Don't see and that's really that
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is. Tough it is.
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Tough. I don't know that I'd want to
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actually be in the shelter because like, what?
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You just want to die? That's a.
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Lot of work. Well, you can't.
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Because I picked you. Ha ha ha.
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Oh, that's a good point. Why do I have to be in the
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shelter? Because I.
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Need you there? No but if.
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It's my shelter. What?
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I don't have to be in the shelter.
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You're just. Going to go die you.
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Are child and two listen. Oh man.
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Yeah, I don't know. That's a really interesting you.
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For sure would save yourself. I know you would.
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For the sake of our child, I'm sure you well, OK.
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That would be the hard There's no.
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Way that you would let yourself go while she's destroyed over
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you leaving. There's no way you would do
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that. I don't.
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Know that's now we're getting way deeper.
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I just was well. It's a heck of a question.
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It is a. Heck of a question.
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I didn't even. It wasn't even something I
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thought about beforehand. We did.
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Talk about should we expand on this topic in future episodes?
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And that maybe could have been a future episode, But I'm glad we
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talked about it now, yes. And, and we could, we could have
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really talked about it in great depth the 4th.
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Person I'm gonna bring is gonna be some sort of either science
18:29
person that helps us find new survival or survivalist type or
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farmer type. I don't, I don't know.
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There's a lot of possibilities in there.
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Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I guess it, but some of
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it. I mean, I've grown.
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Stuff. I've put a seed in dirt before
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and watered it. I don't know.
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I mean, like, you don't know what the other end is going to
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be unless you have that information like, well, it's
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going to be. Bad.
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I mean, if you're going into a Fallout Shelter, we're talking
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nuclear winter. This is what they call it, where
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all the things die, right? Right.
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I don't want to. I don't want to live through
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that. I don't know.
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That sounds awful. I don't want to.
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There was a movie. That came out about that
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recently that I wanted to watch where like they had, they had
19:11
done the math and like enough people had survived and they had
19:14
then they were like, OK, so then here's where we are on the earth
19:18
and where we need to get to. But it they were way wrong.
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And so they went out of the shelter and like had to traverse
19:24
like all of a continent or something to get to the place
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that was supposed to be safe. And I didn't see the movie.
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So of course I don't know what happened, but I imagine they
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arrived safely through much trial and tribulation.
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I can't. Imagine though, anyone who has a
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Fallout Shelter will be like, hey, I have spot for four, let's
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leave it up to these two podcasters.
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I feel like we wouldn't. Why not?
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No, we're not hitting anyone's. That's a bummer.
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Are we not anyone's 4th? I'm really sad about that.
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Yeah, We're Not One's 4th. But they can continue to listen
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to us after What if we are? What if we don't know and we
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are? That would be nice.
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That would be nice. To know, I'll think that you
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know what if you're. Listening and you and you think
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we're maybe one of your fourths just or your plus your plus one
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is really the math because you might have 4 in your so the idea
20:13
was plus one don't so. Just which one, though?
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Let us know. If we're A + 1, Oh, yeah, Don't
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say it's Luke or it's Amber. Yeah, don't say that.
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I don't. I don't want to know.
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Oh, that would be hard too. Like, what if you got picked as
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a + 1 and then it just separate from your family to survive?
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Oh. Gosh, do you go like this?
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This is way too deep. Oh, this is way too deep.
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I don't think I. Would go.
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No, if it was. Bail on you and our child.
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I don't think that's happening. Why?
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I have zero. I've already told you I didn't
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even want to go in at all. I'm.
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Sticking it out, Yeah, yeah. I don't know.
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So the original question, this wasn't even it, but we got into
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some interesting. We'll sidetrack there.
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Was if you, Well, this isn't the great question, but the great
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question. The great question, if you knew
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like a month before the end of the world, yeah.
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Would you tell people? Well, I thought that was the
21:09
question, no? That's not the question.
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It's like a month before the end of the world.
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You happen to know that it will be the end of the world.
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Would you tell people? Specificity here is problematic
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for my brain. This isn't the.
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Big question. You don't need to worry.
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There's no vote tied to this. I understand, but OK, so my
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answer to the it's a month is I don't I don't think I'm telling
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because the word gets out and then and then we don't we run
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out of food. Yes, right.
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That's the real truth because everyone's going to be like I'm
21:43
bailing, right? So not interested in working
21:48
anymore. And so then that would mean, you
21:51
know, like the food supply and there would be a crazy, I mean,
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you saw what happened with COVID and toilet paper.
21:57
People were like, what? I'm not going to be able to wipe
22:00
my behind or whatever. Like I need to, I'm going to go
22:03
buy all the toilet paper. And that was just because there
22:05
was like, you didn't know if you knew the world was going to end,
22:10
there would be people like killing each other trying to
22:12
just stockpile food, Right, Right.
22:15
So I that's I'm not. Trying to that's a all right.
22:18
So let's go like 10 days out. I don't know how the supply
22:28
chain of the world works. That's oh.
22:30
I bet there is a number. There probably is I.
22:33
Bet you just. I bet you that everyone.
22:35
Just stopped working. How many days do we?
22:41
Have oh I should have googled that but I didn't.
22:43
This this wasn't going to be our original topic for the day so I
22:46
did 0 research. You're getting close to it, OK.
22:50
One week. Is is that you've?
22:57
Known for three weeks. No, no.
22:58
You know what? You know what?
22:59
I'm not. I'm not.
23:00
Where do you get to answer? You've been putting me on.
23:03
How about you? No, I wouldn't.
23:07
A week. And you're not?
23:08
No. No, I wouldn't tell anybody.
23:12
Why not? So?
23:15
Because there would be enough panic, even like you were
23:18
talking about with the toilet paper and stuff that we've gone
23:21
through in the past, there would be enough panic that people
23:27
would stop doing things. And for a week, Did I say a week
23:33
or did I say 10 days? OK.
23:36
Also, selfishly, that would mean I couldn't do anything for a
23:40
week. Nobody's around doing it.
23:43
Like everybody's like, great, I'm going to do whatever I'm
23:45
going to do for the last seven days.
23:47
You're still going to have panic.
23:48
You're still going to have greed.
23:49
You're still going to have all of those things that, you know,
23:52
like are really difficult. You know how if you you're like,
23:57
great. But if you say I want to go
23:58
visit my family, well, it's a week.
24:00
I don't have enough gas or whatever to drive my car.
24:04
You'll have a run on the gas stations because everybody's
24:06
going to be like, I want to make sure I get to wherever it was
24:09
the last place I wanted to get to within driving distance
24:12
because you're not going to have pilots flying or anything like
24:15
that. So there would be all of that.
24:18
And I probably very selfishly would be like, great, no, I do
24:21
want to actually go somewhere. And if I don't have gas in my
24:24
tank, I'm not going anywhere. So I'm stuck for a week without
24:30
you could. Ride a bike.
24:32
But not if it was tomorrow. By the way, the Illuminati did
24:37
not tell us anything. This is not a hint.
24:40
Wow. Like we don't actually know
24:42
listener. If you were thinking we had
24:44
insider info on that, the Illuminati.
24:47
Has not went in the world we. Don't no we.
24:49
Don't which is. Probably for the best it's.
24:52
Really for the best cuz we would podcast about it or just.
24:55
Gonna talk about it. By the way, y'all.
25:00
So sorry to break it to you this way.
25:02
Yeah, yeah. Wow.
25:04
How would you want to? No, no, just kidding.
25:07
Oh my. Goodness.
25:09
Yeah, so I wouldn't I wouldn't tell anybody.
25:11
OK, what would you do in a week? Oh, you weren't sure?
25:16
I. Mean feel like there's probably
25:20
enough supply OK to get through a week.
25:25
So then I feel like I would tell, I mean, like, I, I
25:29
probably wouldn't take it upon myself to be the guy that told
25:32
the world necessarily, but I would tell enough people that I
25:39
cared about probably so that they could quit their jobs and,
25:45
you know, live there last week as they'd wish.
25:48
Yeah, but. Then the word's going to get
25:50
out, so sure. But maybe not fast enough that
25:53
it becomes hugely problematic. OK, three days.
25:58
Why do you keep? Why?
25:59
Not. OMG, well, if I said yes at a
26:02
week, I'm going to say yes at three days.
26:03
Well, OK. You said just a few people.
26:06
You said you were going to say it a week.
26:07
Your friends like the world. Would you tell the world the
26:11
world is ending in three days, I mean.
26:13
Probably because I would want everyone to have that chance.
26:16
But also, like, I would be totally terrified of like, you
26:21
know, that movie. We're talking about movies.
26:23
We talk about movies a lot. Do you know that movie, The
26:25
Purge, which I've never watched? Do you know the premise?
26:28
No. So I.
26:29
Don't either, but where? Were you going to talk about I
26:33
think I. Know enough that I'm going to
26:35
attempt to say what I think the the premise.
26:38
So it's I think I think and feel free to correct me audience.
26:41
They will. I think it's the the the
26:46
government or something. It's like there's some sort of
26:50
like, Oh my gosh, like there's no crime.
26:55
And then one day out of the year.
26:58
Everything. Is legal, Yeah, I've.
27:00
Heard of this SO? People like go bonkers while
27:04
they go all murdery and bad things and it's not, it's not
27:09
healthy, it sounds. Awful it's not.
27:11
Good. So I guess I'd be worried about
27:14
the darker side of human nature coming out because it almost
27:19
certainly would in a lot of cases.
27:21
And I don't want to be like unsafe in my own end of the
27:25
world scenario. So I don't know, Like I feel
27:29
like I would want everyone to know, but I would be super
27:31
concerned that somebody would want to come hurt me or mine.
27:36
Why would? They want to hurt you.
27:37
What have you done? What if I?
27:38
Because I'm the guy that told them, I don't know, killed a
27:40
messenger, right? I guess I never really thought
27:43
about that being a the Messengers.
27:45
Get killed a lot. I just want you to know.
27:47
Do they? Yeah.
27:48
In the movies, well. No, I was in history like, you
27:51
know, like our actual, like human history.
27:54
OK, There's a reason that seeing exists.
27:57
Well, sure, but I'm saying because.
27:58
Back in the day, don't do it. The messenger, she just got
28:02
killed, which doesn't. Seem like a very effective way
28:05
for communication. Like if you're like, hey, I
28:07
don't like the message you're sending, send the person back
28:09
and then do him on the other side.
28:12
What if they just sent back part of the person?
28:15
That's a pretty effective answer, wouldn't you say?
28:18
Oh, I. Suppose I would have never came
28:20
up with that solution. Why are you coming?
28:22
Up with that right to it without an issue.
28:25
Wow, wow. It's a little sick and twisted I
28:27
was. Imagining it was back in the
28:29
like, Middle Ages or something and you were like the ruler of a
28:33
fiefdom and some opposition came and said we're going to take
28:38
your land or something and you just do them in and then send
28:42
back the, I don't know, the hand of the person or something.
28:46
That's super interesting and just.
28:48
Write Nope. On the hand.
28:53
Yeah, OK, OK, just Nope. On the hand and then yeah.
28:58
No, all right, all right. That was not anything I would
29:02
have come up with, but you know, I I'd have been like, send them
29:06
back and maybe I'm part. Of the problem I think you.
29:08
Are and. Well, we don't.
29:10
Know, I know. The good news is we don't know
29:11
when the world's gonna. End Don't tell Luke because
29:14
Luke's got a plan. So I don't.
29:16
Just say no, no I don't. No, no, we're not cutting people
29:19
up. This is not part of my plan If.
29:21
You are sounds pretty gross. The representative of the
29:25
asteroid. Sure, Luke.
29:27
Will say no and send your hand back to the asteroid, weirdly.
29:32
I would have no problem doing in an alien species really, if
29:37
they're here, if they're here to destroy us, not asteroid, but
29:41
like, you know, a hostile force. Interesting, I mean.
29:46
Here, if it's a hostile force and they're coming to take me
29:48
down, I'm going to take you down.
29:50
Interesting. I don't know how I would feel
29:52
about that. I don't know if I'm.
29:53
Capable though, because most likely if there's a if there's a
29:57
alien species that's space ready, they probably have better
30:02
weaponry. So maybe potentially they would
30:05
be like, oh, cool, you want to Take Me Out?
30:07
Not happening. Here's my laser gun.
30:09
Yeah, I'm in Star Wars. Hey yo, we got a Star Wars
30:13
reference. I think we're.
30:15
At about half the show, just need a.
30:16
Blaster. Is that in Star Wars?
30:18
Yeah, a blaster. Are you kidding?
30:21
OK, good. Not at all.
30:24
The laser. Guns that everyone uses in Star
30:26
Wars are blasts. The Pew.
30:27
Pew. Pew.
30:28
Pew. Yep, that's a.
30:29
Blaster. OK.
30:30
Hey, for those of you who also didn't know it was called a
30:33
blaster, now you know. Great fact.
30:37
Great fact. OK, so.
30:40
Interesting. You would, but you would tell
30:44
people. Yeah, I.
30:46
Wouldn't. I don't know.
30:47
I don't even know. You wouldn't even.
30:49
Tell me you just no, just we're all going to die.
30:52
Yeah. And you're keeping it to
30:53
yourself. Yeah.
30:54
I. Would keep it to myself man,
30:55
that's. Messed up, I don't.
30:57
I don't know that what would you?
30:58
Do differently what? What?
31:00
Do you mean are you just going to keep on accurate?
31:02
Because if you don't tell someone like, like, are you
31:05
going to work? See, it's, it's suspicious.
31:13
You just be like, oh, I'm not working today.
31:15
Oh, I'm not working. I'm not working again today.
31:19
Then if you're not telling me the truth or, or our child, you
31:23
got a feign sickness for however many days it is to carry out the
31:29
lie that you've told your work is I'm not going to work.
31:32
And then you gotta, well, I'm not going to work because I'm
31:34
sick. Well, you don't look sick to me.
31:36
I don't. Know that that's not true,
31:38
right? How do I know that I'm not sick?
31:42
I mean, I don't know what you're talking about right now, but
31:44
sickness comes with symptoms. Right, I don't know that I'm not
31:47
you're saying? You're currently a walking
31:49
symptom machine. I could.
31:50
Be right. I mean that sounds like who
31:53
knows, maybe it is delusional. I don't know it's I would I
31:56
would definitely doubt my own knowledge even if it was like
32:00
there's no way it's not true. I'd be like, I don't know, I
32:04
don't. Think I don't think.
32:05
No, I don't. You would.
32:06
You would tell. You would tell, I'm pretty sure.
32:09
OK. Well, Luke, let me ask you a
32:11
question. OK, so ladies and gentlemen,
32:16
here we are. The moment you've all been
32:17
waiting for in this corner, claiming to weigh in at 135 lbs
32:22
with a popping fresh haircut. Yes.
32:25
Thank you, Renee looking. Tight.
32:27
Looking good with I'd forgot which.
32:35
You're winning. You're gonna have to do the
32:36
count. OK, I'll let him.
32:37
Your turn. I'll let him know.
32:39
In this corner we have Luke with a hoodie that I think is maybe
32:43
getting a little small. Maybe.
32:46
Maybe it's gonna be my size soon.
32:48
I like. This hoodie a lot, stay away
32:50
from my stuff. You're coming in today with
32:54
seven wins. OK.
32:56
Five ties, OK. And you have 9 losses.
33:03
No, there's still a few out there.
33:06
We're going. The wrong direction I mean.
33:08
I'm thinking I'm feeling pretty good anyhow, so let me let me
33:12
ask you a question. Luke I.
33:13
Literally, we talked so much about the topic I forgot what
33:17
this specific question is, so I'm excited to hear it.
33:19
There you go. Let's go.
33:22
What do you want to know? That the end of the world is
33:27
coming. OK, So it's the flip side of
33:33
what we discussed, Yes. So the end of the world is
33:37
coming, and we don't. The method doesn't necessarily
33:40
matter whether it's the sun's going to explode or an
33:42
asteroid's going to hit us or it.
33:44
Won't matter. Doesn't matter.
33:46
We're all going to get naked out.
33:47
Yeah, and we're assuming that we don't currently own a super dope
33:52
Fallout Shelter. No one.
33:54
'S invited the podcast OK. So.
33:56
So we're going to die. Yes.
33:59
So that's the premise. Do I get a time frame?
34:02
Is it, I mean, are we, do we got to be specific?
34:06
I feel like we got to be specific about that.
34:07
We'll go. A week.
34:08
So if it's like. Five years out, I heck yeah I
34:11
want to know, but I'm probably five years.
34:13
Out probably. Still going to go to work for a
34:15
little bit because you need money, you know what I mean?
34:17
Like would you tell? Other people five years out?
34:19
Oh no. No, because you said the world's
34:21
got to operate anyway. So I feel like it's got to be a
34:24
near a near number, like maybe got to be around a week.
34:27
OK. A.
34:27
Week. Yeah, I said that.
34:28
We'll go with the week. Do I want to know the world want
34:32
to know is going to end? Yes, absolutely yes.
34:38
Yes, because I I don't want to go to work, no offense.
34:42
Like I actually enjoy my job and the people I work with.
34:46
But if I've got 7 days left of, of my life, I want to spend it
34:52
in a way that has as much meaning as possible.
34:57
And that probably would require more free time.
35:00
So you know, like a week is not a lot of time.
35:05
I don't know if I would want to go like maybe I want to go to a
35:08
place I haven't been, like go to some beautiful location like
35:12
vacation style type idea. Or, or maybe maybe it's just
35:17
that I want to do a lot of interaction with the people I
35:20
care about and love, and I want to fill my last days with as
35:26
much connection as I can. And I mean, not going to lie,
35:31
I'm I'm probably not going to be trying to eat right.
35:35
I'm probably not eating a salad for lunch every day.
35:38
And you'll. Be so uncomfortable at day three
35:40
having a. I'm having a little, I'm not
35:42
having like a peckish breakfast either.
35:44
I'm talking we're going to hit it hard.
35:47
I'm, we're getting hash Browns and eggs and oh God, grits and
35:51
waffles and just man, I would eat so much food.
35:54
I bet you I'd gained 40 lbs in a week in a week.
35:58
I don't even know if that's possible, but I would try.
36:03
And yes, I would just want to do the stuff that I enjoy.
36:06
Like I enjoy connecting with people.
36:09
I enjoy beautiful sights and I enjoy being creative.
36:17
Like I would probably write some stuff for no one.
36:20
To read because the world's going to end, but you know.
36:23
What? But I would probably do it.
36:24
I would probably do it because it helps me to, you know, it's a
36:27
culping mechanism often. And I would like to spend time
36:33
with you and I would like to spend time with our child and,
36:36
you know, with close friends, with my parents.
36:39
Like there, there would definitely be a lot to do in
36:45
that seven days. A lot.
36:48
I mean, there, you know, you probably wouldn't be able to do
36:50
all the stuff you wanted, might not be able to go on a go on a
36:54
sweet vacation to some, some randomly cool beach or mountain
36:59
or who knows. But I would, I would definitely
37:03
want to know because I want to live it up.
37:05
I want to do it right. And for me, that's about it's
37:11
about connection. It's about love.
37:14
OK, OK. And you and.
37:18
Obviously I have to have some kind of an opposing.
37:22
What if we both had the same answer?
37:25
What like it wouldn't work for this podcast, But what if we
37:29
both had the same answer and then just like vote for but we.
37:31
Didn't. But we don't.
37:32
No. And we?
37:33
Don't. Which is weird, no?
37:35
And I really I got to. Hear this reason now I.
37:37
Really would not want to know for many reasons because like if
37:45
I know, I don't know if others know either direction, whether
37:49
others know or they don't, I feel like it would just be so
37:53
much grief that I would be going through every day for whatever
37:59
time frame. If it's a week, if it's ten
38:01
days, like I would just be grieving.
38:05
And if I'm alone in that information, because honestly, I
38:08
wouldn't want to share it because I wouldn't want other
38:11
people to be scared to be, you know, grieving as well.
38:15
Like I, I, I don't, it's like the ignorance is bliss.
38:23
What? Right, right.
38:24
No, I mean this, I mean this totally.
38:25
Like think about when we've gone to places where there's going to
38:29
be some sort of natural just like hurricane, right?
38:33
And everybody's so scared, you know, like literally there would
38:37
be a bunch of people who are just so scared.
38:39
And you're going to have people who are going to try to figure
38:41
out, well, how, you know, whatever, whatever the solution
38:44
is, you know, they're going to or there won't be a solution,
38:47
but try to figure out what the solution is.
38:48
And this is about. You, not everybody else, I.
38:50
Know but like this is what I'm saying.
38:53
Like if I I wouldn't want to know.
38:58
I also would not share if I knew, right?
39:00
Like but that wasn't. The question we already did that
39:03
right, but. I well, actually, I don't know
39:05
that I did talk too much about that, but I wouldn't want to
39:08
know because I seriously, I would be sitting there grieving
39:13
for other people and I would be grieving for my own life and I
39:17
would be grieving for what could be, you know, and like the the
39:22
concepts of the future. I don't.
39:24
So you're just going? To do this alone like big
39:27
secret. Right, that's what I mean.
39:31
I, that's probably where I would be because I wouldn't want
39:34
everyone else to be sad and scared and all of those.
39:37
I wouldn't want that for people, but I also wouldn't want to know
39:42
either way. I would not want to know if
39:44
everyone knew I I wouldn't want to know for myself either,
39:48
because I would be living in that, right?
39:51
Like if I don't know and tomorrow I go to, I mean, yeah,
39:53
I'd probably, I don't know that I would care.
39:55
We'd see on the other side if I'd have any opinion, if I'd
39:59
have the ability to have an opinion, all of that.
40:01
Like, I mean, whatever, I go to work on the last day, I go to
40:06
work on the last day, you know, like, but I'm not.
40:08
Scared, messed up. I don't.
40:10
Think it is and you're just going to.
40:11
Be sad the whole time and not tell anybody I would.
40:14
Be very sad. Yeah, Yeah, I would be really
40:18
sad because like, I mean for a that would be.
40:20
Like a rough week in the household it would.
40:23
Be it would be, I would just be crying all the freaking all the
40:27
time. And I'd be like, what's wrong?
40:28
You'd be like, I can't tell you. And I'd be like, what did I do?
40:32
And you'd be like nothing. And you'd be like, wow, take you
40:35
to the hospital and I'd be like, good it is.
40:38
Gracious, yeah. I mean, but like, I wouldn't
40:41
want to know. It would be so sad.
40:43
It would be so scary. It would be you were talking
40:48
about getting to do the things you want to do even at a week
40:50
you wouldn't because like, I'm sure if I knew, I mean, and if I
40:55
didn't tell people right, then I maybe could possibly do those
40:57
things, right? Like if you're like, oh, I want
40:59
to go see a place I've never been to before.
41:01
If I knew and only I knew, I could go do that.
41:03
But then at the same time, I would be looking at all these
41:05
people just living their life. I'm sure part of it I would
41:09
probably have some jealousy too. Like none of these people know
41:12
what's going to happen and they're all able to just be
41:16
happy, right? Or be where I am not happy and
41:22
I'm probably not even being right.
41:25
Like there would be no, I don't think I would find any joy in
41:29
knowing I just. Think that's awful?
41:32
Selfish. Why?
41:34
Because you're. Just taking away other people's
41:36
opportunity to finish out their life in a way that suits them.
41:39
You're just doing it in a way that suits you.
41:42
I don't think that that's selfish.
41:43
I'm saying that I, I would not want to put that burden on
41:48
others either. I don't want to know and I
41:51
wouldn't want that burden to be on others.
41:53
So it's sort of an interesting. I don't want to know.
41:56
That's my answer. Wow.
41:58
And I don't think that that's selfish that I don't want to
42:00
know either. I think that's just a why.
42:05
Why? For the pain.
42:07
All it would be is pain, you know, I mean like, 'cause but
42:11
this, this rock we live on, although it has many, many
42:16
flaws, is kind of a big deal for who we are, right?
42:20
Like that would be super sad to know that everything that I know
42:24
and exists is over in a week. I don't want to know.
42:28
So Illuminati, when you have a supervation, don't tell me.
42:34
I don't want to know. I don't want to know I.
42:36
Mean that is, we are very much in disagreement on this topic.
42:43
I know, I know and that's a fine with me.
42:46
I just I don't think I could be happy.
42:48
How could you be happy and enjoying what you when I just
42:54
don't? I don't do that for me.
42:56
That's tough because, you know, to your point, and of course
43:00
we're discussing again after the argument, which is difficult,
43:02
but it's I don't think happy is the word that I would be
43:07
thinking I'm achieving. I think there would be a certain
43:11
bittersweetness to it where you know, like, like, to your point,
43:17
grief, like, you know, much like when someone passes on and you
43:23
know, you have the loss and the pain.
43:27
But but also at that time, you draw in close to the people that
43:34
are in your life and you experience it together and you
43:38
figure out how to hold each other up and how to be, you
43:43
know, how to be genuinely true good souls together.
43:50
I think that's what I'd be looking for.
43:51
And that's why I said for me, it's about love.
43:53
It's like, of course, of course there would be pain, but I'd
43:59
want to do that with with my people.
44:02
But you. Would know like you want to know
44:04
so that you can do that I try I don't I wouldn't want to I think
44:10
I live a good enough life today on a daily basis that I I don't
44:15
think that I would that's. Fair.
44:16
I mean, I, I think I do too. I just, I just don't want to go
44:19
to work. I know.
44:20
You don't want to. Work.
44:21
That's the big like, because a lot of my life actually already
44:23
lines up with much of what I said, right?
44:26
And I. Have contact with others and I
44:28
have good and genuine relationships that are fostered
44:31
well but but I spend, you know, a decent chunk of my life
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working like most most. People do.
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Most people do. I just.
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Wouldn't want to do that. I would want that additional 50
44:43
hours to be spent with people that I care about because I
44:48
can't. And, you know, in any given week
44:50
because of work, I can't like both have time with you and our
44:57
kid and my friends and my family.
45:00
There's not enough time to get it done.
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So I would just wanna have more time to do that.
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Yeah. But I.
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Mean also your friends might be like cool, I literally have the
45:10
people I wanna spend time with Yeah right and that might be a.
45:14
Different circle and that's. Not you, you know, like.
45:17
Ouch, that that could be. Oh.
45:19
I thought we were closer, that could be there could be people
45:22
were like I have, we could have one.
45:24
We could have one last great friends get together right?
45:28
We could or not. They might not want.
45:30
You wouldn't. Want to have it though?
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Because you don't. No, I don't.
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Want to know? Don't tell me, don't want to.
45:34
Know like there's. Again, I don't think I'd live a
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bad enough life. Maybe you'd get.
45:37
Lucky and we'd have a friends get together.
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Maybe. I mean, what does it matter?
45:41
I can see my friends today every, you know, like, I don't
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really, I don't know. I don't see that the difference
45:47
in what I would be doing then would be worth the grief I would
45:53
be going through. Ignorance is bliss for me.
45:56
That's where I'd want to be. And you know what, if I had to
46:00
do the work that I have felt is important enough to have my
46:03
career be in it for a day to be ignorant, fine, OK, fine.
46:10
I'll show up. I'll clock in.
46:13
So yeah, that's that's that's it.
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That's it. The big question is, would you
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want to know? That's a deep.
46:20
One it. Is that might be.
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The deepest one we've done. I don't.
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Know I kind of feel like best cartoons ever the.
46:30
Depth that reached? Really.
46:32
Deep. Yeah, really deep.
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Yeah, I I think there are some that are maybe a little deeper
46:38
than others. This is a big one.
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This is. Definitely up there.
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Well, I hope you guys enjoyed it, yes.
46:44
Yes, we. Certainly did.
46:45
That was a good, good and deep discussion that I probably could
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go on for another hour talking about all the variations.
46:51
And, you know, maybe we will. Maybe, maybe we'll continue
46:56
after the record. Yeah.
46:58
We might, we might and. So how would they vote for the
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winner of this episode? Darling for the.
47:05
Winner of this episode is done on the Spotify polls, Yes.
47:10
However, like if there are things we haven't thought about,
47:13
also comment on any of our social medias.
47:16
Yeah, comment on the Spotify because we are like kind of a
47:19
big deal in the Spotify comments.
47:21
We're holding a high record and we'd love this, apparently.
47:27
Just nobody comments on not our. Audience.
47:30
Not our folks. Our folks are in it, but the
47:33
other? Ones out there, nobody's engaged
47:35
so. Again, This is why I would bring
47:37
you listener. Yeah, you're the 4th, you're the
47:40
4th and the. Other question.
47:43
So anyhow, vote for us there and then also like share us, yeah.
47:49
Tell your friends. Listen.
47:51
Share, vote. And then the other new thing is
47:55
find us on WFNU Frogtown Radio Frogtown.
47:59
Radio Fridays at midnight. Yeah, and on their app.
48:03
On their app. Which is they?
48:04
Stream it so you don't have to be in the broadcast range to
48:07
find it. Yeah, and.
48:07
You can listen to the other folks that are also on that
48:10
show. There's some great ones.
48:11
Like I said, we got to meet and and I.
48:14
Just had a revelation, hence the surprise look on my face for you
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audio people. You didn't see me.
48:21
I got so surprised. We have now recorded, though I
48:23
don't know which order they're gonna air in.
48:25
We have now recorded 26 episodes, which I've been
48:30
talking about for like a month. That's 1/2 of a year.
48:34
Yeah, yeah, that's quite a deal. I mean, look at.
48:37
That. Wow, we are.
48:39
I mean, I, I wasn't not in it for the long haul when we
48:43
started this deal, but it's still fun to see a milestone
48:46
come, no? That's a really big one too.
48:48
The rest of them? Have been metric ones like the
48:51
Spotify metrics say that you know 3 and 7 and 20 or whatever.
48:54
For me like 26 is a big marker it.
48:57
Is I mean, I, I didn't see us ending no.
49:01
And now I really I don't see it setting for a long time.
49:04
We have a whole new audience, people who haven't gotten to
49:06
know how wonderful we are. How?
49:11
Upset I can get sometimes. Don't talk to me about
49:14
Christmas, No. Not about Christmas.
49:16
Don't do it. No, there's a few.
49:17
Things that are maybe blueberry doughnut esque, but the end of
49:22
the world is not one of them. I think we we ended on a pretty
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reasonable note here, but thank you all for listening.
49:29
Yes. Indeed, And we'll see you next
49:31
time. Bye.