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Day 23 𖦹 GROWING UP · Creatures of the Wind

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  SPEAKER_03: Okay, day twenty-three.
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  SPEAKER_04: Free tea!
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  SPEAKER_05: Thirty days of free tea in Mary Hernandez Park.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh hello.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay, day twenty-three.
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  SPEAKER_05: Day twenty-three, Michael Jordan.
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  SPEAKER_03: LeBron, rather.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh.
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  SPEAKER_03: So tell me, what were you like as a little kid, Miles?
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  SPEAKER_05: Super like sensitive and shy.
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  SPEAKER_04: Cool, huh?
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  SPEAKER_04: Uh-huh.
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  SPEAKER_05: I was very scared of the world.
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  SPEAKER_05: I think it was just a lot to take in.
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  SPEAKER_03: What's your name?
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  SPEAKER_04: My name is Phoenix.
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  SPEAKER_04: Phoenix?
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  SPEAKER_03: How old are you?
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  SPEAKER_04: Um four.
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  SPEAKER_03: Are you excited to grow up?
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  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Why?
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  SPEAKER_04: Because um I get to have a car.
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  SPEAKER_03: Because you get to have a car?
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  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna get my driver's license.
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  SPEAKER_04: When we come to the park, my dad plays basketball, and me and my brother went to school at any time.
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  SPEAKER_05: My dad's mom, who I never met.
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  SPEAKER_05: Do you like being her like singular advice to my dad when he was growing up was don't wish your life away.
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  SPEAKER_03: How do you like to spend your time, Phoenix?
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  SPEAKER_04: I like to spend my time where my dad and my brother playing in a park.
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  unknown: Do you want me to?
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  SPEAKER_05: And it's another way of saying, like, oh, I wish it was summer.
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  SPEAKER_05: And anytime my dad would say anything along those lines, she would like curtly respond with, don't wish your life away.
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  SPEAKER_05: Like, this is it right now.
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  SPEAKER_03: The sound of a swish.
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  SPEAKER_05: A very prevalent fear amongst I think our generation, just like this stage of life, is are you sowing seeds where you want to?
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  SPEAKER_03: Are you good at basketball?
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  SPEAKER_03: And I'm good at riding my scooter.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_05: And like the decisions that you make now are going to inform your life for the rest of it.
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  SPEAKER_03: What's been your favorite year?
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  SPEAKER_03: One, two, three, or four?
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  SPEAKER_03: Four.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Are you satisfied with how you spend your time?
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh honestly, I feel like I'm never satisfied.
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  SPEAKER_04: It's just when it's when it's summer, I get to go to the beach.
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  SPEAKER_04: My daddy bought me the swimsuit.
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  SPEAKER_04: He bought you a swimsuit?
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  SPEAKER_04: Mm-hmm.
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  SPEAKER_03: What color is it?
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  SPEAKER_04: Uh, he didn't tell me what's the color yet.
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  SPEAKER_04: I think it's gonna be pink and purple.
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  SPEAKER_04: And when the and then when comes the the the beech wiggles.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm just starting to barely touch on who I really am and like what I want to do and where I want to be.
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  SPEAKER_02: I nitpick on everything.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm a perfectionist, and then I fear having something imperfect, and then I'll be like, I'm just gonna change this, and I'm just gonna change this, and I'm just gonna and then I never stop until I hate it, or I outgrow it, whatever comes first.
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  SPEAKER_04: The best part of being siblings is that we always get our s our children's stuff.
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  SPEAKER_04: Like I got my sister ice cream yesterday.
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  SPEAKER_03: What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?
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  SPEAKER_04: Uh sh uh sh um chocolate.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh, I like chocolate too.
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  SPEAKER_04: Oh, that's the same.
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  SPEAKER_04: What do you think?
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  SPEAKER_04: Same.
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  SPEAKER_01: I always just thought that I would start my life at some point out in the future.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I kept saying that all the way through and I never started.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then life just was always something else.
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  SPEAKER_03: How do you like to spend your time, Jeremiah?
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  SPEAKER_04: Uh play with my friends, chew bumblegum, do push-ups every every morning.
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  SPEAKER_03: Are you scared of getting older or are you excited for it?
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  SPEAKER_04: Both?
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  SPEAKER_03: How come?
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  SPEAKER_04: Because I'm scared because then I have to have kids, but the most thing is that I get to do whatever I want.
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  SPEAKER_05: I remember like looking in the mirror a lot and just trying really hard to imagine what I was gonna look like as an adult.
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  SPEAKER_05: And like all of the images in my head were like not good.
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  SPEAKER_03: You're nervous about having kids.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_04: Okay, I want to say something.
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  SPEAKER_05: You're looking good and you're doing good.
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  SPEAKER_04: From all the people from New York.
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  SPEAKER_04: If you're nervous, this come to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I struggled with like manic depression.
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  SPEAKER_00: I believed that I wasn't in control of the.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here's where the story goes.
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  SPEAKER_00: My thoughts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like my thoughts were my thoughts, and they were just there and I had to experience them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I, you know, like five or six years ago realized that I didn't have to dwell.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I need to show you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I like I had a business, I had all these employees, I had a house.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, oh, I'm gonna my business is gonna go bankrupt, my house is gonna collapse, or I'm gonna, you know, whatever, go broke or whatever.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I had this, you know, very wise friend that said, let's pretend all of those things happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now what are you gonna do?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, oh, I'm I guess I'm gonna go live my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna go do all the things I wanted to do anyway.
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  SPEAKER_04: Okay, I know how to get up.
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  SPEAKER_04: No, no, we're gonna be.
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  SPEAKER_04: What does it feel like up there?
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  SPEAKER_04: It feels like sticks that that's hard.
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  SPEAKER_04: It feels like sticks that are hard?
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  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am, or anyone is, completely free.
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  SPEAKER_00: As long as they're not completely attached to the thick, whatever the thing is that they're afraid of losing or afraid of pigeons, but not of climbing trees.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you can relate to that at all.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm afraid of that's really the thing.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's like I'm afraid of losing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, but you will lose of them all.
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  SPEAKER_04: Shiny, try you, shot.
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  SPEAKER_04: You wanna hold us?
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  SPEAKER_04: I guess so.
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  SPEAKER_04: I already got a flower.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then now what are you gonna do?
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  SPEAKER_04: Okay, now we're gonna get that.
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  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna show you that in the car.
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  SPEAKER_04: Let's go.
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  SPEAKER_05: Oh my god.
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  SPEAKER_03: Miles.
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  SPEAKER_03: Six oh one.
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  SPEAKER_05: Six oh one.
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  SPEAKER_03: And uh, how are you feeling about tomorrow?
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  SPEAKER_05: Uh noah's taking over, so expect havoc.