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Sorry...Monopoly or Gold Sluicing? · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: Or bingo or hit me or something. It's one more thing.
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  Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
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  Speaker 1: One more thing. That was confusing. I'm confused.
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  Speaker 2: So the other day, my youngest high schooler had a
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  Speaker 2: friend over in the afternoon. They had the day off.
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  Speaker 2: Teachers conferences, which seems to happen like every other week. Um,
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  Speaker 2: had a friend over and kid shows up with a
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  Speaker 2: deck of cards and they play a lot of cards,
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  Speaker 2: very religious family. I don't think they do video games
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  Speaker 2: or TV or whatever. And so he shows up with
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  Speaker 2: cards anyway. And so my son likes playing cards and
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  Speaker 2: they played cards for a couple of hours and I
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  Speaker 2: was in the other room doing stuff and they're laughing
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  Speaker 2: and having a good time and everything like that. I
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  Speaker 2: thought that was really awesome. That's got, it's got to
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  Speaker 2: be better for you on ways I can't even measure
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  Speaker 2: than playing video games or something. I assume.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, mostly, probably, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like there was more interaction going on with
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  Speaker 2: them talking to each other and whatever as they played
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  Speaker 2: cards than normally happens.
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  Speaker 3: It's a physical game, too. I mean, you're actually having
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  Speaker 3: to touch the cards and whatnot. You're not just staring
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  Speaker 3: at screens.
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  Speaker 1: Well, in video game, you're manipulating it. I'm not knee-jerk
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  Speaker 1: anti-video game. It has some intellectual advantages, but cards is
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  Speaker 1: a different thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm actually with my kids. This is not what
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  Speaker 2: I meant to talk about, but I actually, it bothers
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  Speaker 2: me less. Neither one of them are big video games people,
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  Speaker 2: so I've never had to worry about the wasting your
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  Speaker 2: life playing video games. But it bothers me less playing
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  Speaker 2: video games than just sitting there watching TV, because that's
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  Speaker 2: completely passive. I mean, you're just nothing. Anyway, what I
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  Speaker 2: meant to talk about was board games, card games, something
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  Speaker 2: like that. I'm at that stage where I see my
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  Speaker 2: parenting years slipping away from me. I got a soon-to-be
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  Speaker 2: 17-year-old and a soon-to-be 15-year-old, and there ain't that much
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  Speaker 2: more time left of us hanging out together unless they
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  Speaker 2: end up being 30 years old and don't have jobs
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  Speaker 2: and live with me. But assuming they go out into
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  Speaker 2: the world at some point. And so I'm trying to
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  Speaker 2: come up with stuff for us all to do together.
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  Speaker 2: We eat together as often as possible, but more stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I was thinking board games. I mentioned on the radio
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  Speaker 2: show I ordered Jenga, so we're going to play Jenga tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Even if it's just like 15, 20 minutes every night
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  Speaker 2: after dinner, just something we hang out doing. Where you
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  Speaker 2: end up, you know how it is, you end up talking, laughing, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Two words, gold panning. Go up into the foothills. You
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  Speaker 1: got your sluice. I'm told that's a thing. You got
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  Speaker 1: your pan. You got your sluice. I think I mentioned that,
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  Speaker 1: whatever that is. And your pan for the gold.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they love that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I was going to ask you all. I never
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  Speaker 2: have liked cards my whole life. I don't know why.
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  Speaker 2: I just never enjoyed playing cards. My brain doesn't work
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  Speaker 2: for it. I can't think fast enough. My dad loves cards.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he grew up in a world where they
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  Speaker 2: played cards all the time, him and his brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: and any time the family would get together, everybody's playing cards,
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  Speaker 2: and they'd try to get me in, and everybody'd say, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: all you got to do is you hit once, twice,
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  Speaker 2: and then you ask that, and then you put down
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  Speaker 2: three cards, and then you turn over, and I just
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  Speaker 2: never have any idea what's going on, and I just
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  Speaker 2: can't think fast enough for cards. But what card games
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  Speaker 2: might be good for teenagers or board games that you've
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  Speaker 2: played that you enjoyed as a kid? Or Joe as
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  Speaker 2: a parent or whatever. Oh, my God. Chutes and Ladders
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  Speaker 2: is too young for them.
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  Speaker 1: I always loved Clue.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh, we've never played Clue.
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  Speaker 1: Clue was fun. Clue was a good one.
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  Speaker 2: Get to beat somebody down with a lead pipe in
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  Speaker 2: the library.
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  Speaker 1: You don't actually do it. No, no, no. You don't
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  Speaker 1: actually do it. You're trying to figure out who's already
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  Speaker 1: done it. I always did.
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  Speaker 2: You don't get to hang somebody in the kitchen?
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  Speaker 1: You can if you want. Wow, wow, wow. There are
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  Speaker 1: all sorts of card games that are fun. Monopoly? Monopoly.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, gosh. Everybody, I was about to say, people always
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  Speaker 2: mention Monopoly. Who has ever enjoyed a game of Monopoly?
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  Speaker 2: Has anybody ever actually enjoyed playing Monopoly? Briefly. Briefly.
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  Speaker 3: If I get to be the schnauzer, maybe three turns. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: like until the game starts, I'm stoked. Because I got
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  Speaker 3: the schnauzer.
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  Speaker 1: I forgot how dull this is. It says everybody two
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  Speaker 1: turns in.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, gosh. I haven't played board games in forever.
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  Speaker 2: I landed on Marvin's Garden.
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  Speaker 1: Woo-hoo!
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  Speaker 3: Life isn't a bad one.
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  Speaker 1: Life is good, but you know what? Although you'd hate these,
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  Speaker 1: I suspect you ought to ask my son, who as
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  Speaker 1: a teenager was crazy into board game culture. Geeks who
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  Speaker 1: meet at the hobby store and play whatever the hell
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday nights. All these fairly complex role-playing games and
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  Speaker 1: battles of yore and witchcraft and God knows.
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  Speaker 2: I tried to, because my one son luckily was only
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  Speaker 2: briefly into Dungeons and Dragons, and it was a phase
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  Speaker 2: that didn't last long. God, I tried to get into
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  Speaker 2: that playing with him. Oh, I found that painful. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm willing to not enjoy it myself. It's about the
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  Speaker 2: time spent together. I don't need to enjoy it. I
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  Speaker 2: actually can't play most card games. I just can't think
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  Speaker 2: like that, and I have no idea why.
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  Speaker 3: I know this involves technology, but Netflix just rolled out
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  Speaker 3: this new games feature, and they have family trivia and
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  Speaker 3: all sorts of stuff, and it's actually a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: You can play in the same room kind of a thing.
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  Speaker 2: I'll look into that. I will look into life. I
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  Speaker 2: liked life like when I was a teenager, I think.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they'll get bored.
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  Speaker 2: Too simple.
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  Speaker 3: You think?
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  Speaker 1: Too simple? I think so. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: If you're pregnant and she's drinking. Your wife's pregnant and
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  Speaker 2: she's drinking. How do you handle it? Is that the
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  Speaker 2: game of life?
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  Speaker 1: Right. I should have listened to my mother. Yeah, that's life. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that might work. I think I referenced cribbage. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a good game. It's a fun game. There's plenty
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  Speaker 1: of time and opportunity. It's fairly simple. You can play
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  Speaker 1: it with two people or three people or four people,
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  Speaker 1: and you can, you know, the winner gets to choose
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  Speaker 1: where we go for dinner. It doesn't take forever.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it just occurred to me why I've always
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  Speaker 2: been turned off by cribbage. This is weird, the way
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  Speaker 2: my brain works. It's like the reason I won't eat
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  Speaker 2: polenta is because it sounds like placenta. Cribbage sounds like cabbage,
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  Speaker 2: and I hate cabbage.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's not at all crazy.
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  Speaker 2: That's 100% why I've always just like... Emotionally thought, I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to do cribbage because it sounds like cabbage.
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  Speaker 2: Totally makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: I get it.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Angus looks too much like anus to me, so
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  Speaker 1: I just prefer a different cut of beef.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Why? The idea of a game of cribbage and some
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  Speaker 1: Angus beef is just repelled.
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  Speaker 2: The G does a lot of work in that. There's
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  Speaker 2: no way.
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  Speaker 1: Tie in between cribbage and cabbage.
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  Speaker 2: Whatsoever no there's not no or polenta and a placenta.
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  Speaker 1: That kind of rhymes though and so that's a little.
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  Speaker 2: Off okay so serious answers though so i will get
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  Speaker 2: clue i think that you think life's too young i
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  Speaker 2: think clue all ages clue right Uh, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: My youngest will play any of these games and at
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  Speaker 2: least try. My oldest is going to be disdainful of
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  Speaker 2: any of these, but I can try.
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  Speaker 1: And with clue, he might say, this is simply an
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  Speaker 1: elimination of, uh, you know, it's a process of elimination.
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  Speaker 1: It's silly, but it's, it's, it's more than that. Cause
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  Speaker 1: you got to study what the other people are doing.
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  Speaker 1: You open, um, But, yeah, the other thing about cribbage
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  Speaker 1: that I like so much, and my brother played this
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  Speaker 1: in the Navy tons and tons. It's a great way
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  Speaker 1: to pass the time and shoot the bull with everybody.
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  Speaker 1: But we actually, Judy and I, have a collection of
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  Speaker 1: cribbage boards now because you keep score with pegs. And
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  Speaker 1: so as we travel around the world occasionally, we'll find
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  Speaker 1: a really, really cool, like, handcrafted cribbage board. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: How old is cribbage? Is it, like, very old game?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, God, I guess it's probably 1,000 years old.
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I'll try to learn that. I don't know why
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  Speaker 2: I can't learn complex card games. I just can't make
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  Speaker 2: myself pay attention to the rules.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, somebody's got to teach you. But you know what
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  Speaker 1: I found? Because I recently learned to play Mahjong, which
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  Speaker 1: now I like. First 15 minutes, I wanted to cry.
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  Speaker 1: But then, because I was like, I will never grasp this.
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  Speaker 1: It's too complicated. But then once you hit That mark,
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  Speaker 1: and then you play a couple of games. And that's
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  Speaker 1: the key. You've got to get through that feeling of
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  Speaker 1: I will never grasp this and play a couple of games.
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  Speaker 1: And then it's like, oh, now I get it. Yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Battleship? No.
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  Speaker 1: Again, it's a process of elimination. They have board version
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  Speaker 1: games of Wheel of Fortune and Family Feud.
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  Speaker 2: You could do those. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: You know, what I would suggest humbly is you consult
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  Speaker 1: your local chatbot I guarantee your top ten choices will
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  Speaker 1: be games you've never heard of.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 1: The classics are fine, but I was talking about... I
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  Speaker 1: guess it was Friday. I was talking about Frankenstein, the
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  Speaker 1: original novel by Mary Shelley written in 1818. It was
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  Speaker 1: written when people had no other options.
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  Speaker 2: There was no TV.
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  Speaker 1: There was no Netflix. There was no sports on TV.
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  Speaker 1: There was, like, nothing. And so some, like... 1,500 words
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  Speaker 1: to describe how dark and dank a dark, dank lane was.
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  Speaker 1: People were like gobbling it up. Now, just tell me
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  Speaker 1: the effort is dark and dank. And can we move on, please?
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  Speaker 2: So you're saying like the Ingalls family played Monopoly out
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  Speaker 2: there in the prairie because they had nothing else to do.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. It was more amusing than looking at the leaves fall,
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  Speaker 1: which was the only other option. So, yeah, I'll bet
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  Speaker 1: there are all sorts of creative fun. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: Cards Against Humanity.
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  Speaker 2: I've never even heard of that. What? Oh, it's the best.
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  Speaker 1: Cards Against Humanity. And there are a bunch of different cards.
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  Speaker 1: Cards Against Humanity. Yes. Yes, indeed. And several other games
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  Speaker 1: of that sort. There are various offshoots.
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  Speaker 3: Real inappropriate, real fast with Cards Against Humanity.
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  Speaker 1: Although there is a family version of it.
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  Speaker 2: With a couple of teenage boys? Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be trying to keep up with them. Actually, I
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  Speaker 1: know you. I'm sure you'll do fine.
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  Speaker 2: I like that suggestion. I'll write that down.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, endless hours of amusement.
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  Speaker 2: Jenga tonight. We'll see how it goes. I've never lost
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  Speaker 2: a Jenga. Although I'm getting older and my hands start
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  Speaker 2: to shake.
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  Speaker 1: That and a ball on a stick night after night.
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  Speaker 1: Or what is it, a ring on a stick? What
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  Speaker 1: was that old time? Every school kid in the 20th
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  Speaker 1: century had the same reaction. Because we all saw that
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  Speaker 1: picture of old-timey games.
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  Speaker 2: And they had a hoop in there pushing with a
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  Speaker 2: stick down a dirt road.
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  Speaker 1: Like, wait, what are you doing with that?
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  Speaker 2: And in what sense is that amusing? I'd ask my
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  Speaker 2: dad if he ever did that. Do you ever have
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  Speaker 2: the hoop and the stick? I wonder if.
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  Speaker 1: That's just a prank by textbook makers in the 20th century.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody actually ever did this.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a snipe hunt.
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  Speaker 1: Right, exactly. Exactly, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Got to play the kids for money, Jack. See what
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  Speaker 2: you can win. There you go. Yeah. Well, I guess
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  Speaker 2: that's it.