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The Story Of The Magnificent Honky · Nick and Kristen in the Podcast

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  Hello and welcome to episode 9 of the Nick and Kristen in the
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  podcast podcast. Oh, you told me not to do that
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  anymore. If you're like, you don't need
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  the answer. Well, hi, welcome to the
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  podcast. Yes, we're Nick and Kristen, and
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  thank you for listening and hopefully you are enjoying what
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  we've been doing so far today. We've got to respond to a
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  comment from one of our listeners.
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  Yeah, Brittany, who's been following us.
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  I believe it's in Sacramento. I think that's where Brittany
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  is. She wanted to hear the story of
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  the magnificent honky. Oh my gosh.
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  A. Couple episodes back we
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  mentioned how I could do whatever I want to do now and I
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  can make up whatever features that I want to make and I don't
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  have to run them by anybody. And because one of the things
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  that we ran by our boss when we started here in Portland was
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  this, this bit called the Magnificent Honky.
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  And we ended up using the bit but not the name.
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  So the story behind it, I don't know if you want to take it or
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  not. Sure.
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  Yeah. So we needed to come up with
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  like a game to play. And we we heard about this bit
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  from an old friend of ours in radio where people would call
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  and they would honk their horn. And I'd have to guess what their
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  car was. And it was really, really
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  stupid. Like for our older listeners or
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  people that have an old soul like me, like think Johnny
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  Carson's like CarMax, like, like it was, it was this like
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  mystical sound. And Nick would be like, I'm
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  thinking, hold on, honk the horn.
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  And he'd be like, it's a Ford Taurus.
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  And it was like this very like overly produced thing.
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  And the whole point was that he was going to get it wrong and
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  that like, if he got it wrong, you would get tickets to
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  whatever it was. So it was just a way of us
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  giving away tickets to something.
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  Pretty much. And so we tried to come up with
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  a name for it and and my first immediate jump to was the
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  magnificent Honky. We thought it worked perfect
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  because it's like, it was very like, you know, because it's,
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  it's supposed to be like psychic, like the magnificent,
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  like a magician. You know.
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  Honking a horn and you're honking a horn, and so you were
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  the one guessing. So it would be the magnificent.
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  Honky the Magnificent. And we also knew there was kind
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  of like a double play on that and we thought it would be super
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  funny and we thought people would kind of be in on the joke.
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  We said it to our boss who laughed hysterically for like 7
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  minutes and then he was like no, there's no way that you can do
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  that. Yeah, and we had to come up with
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  another. Name.
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  We had to come up with a different name.
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  And if you have been listening to our show at all in the very
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  beginning of our our our like tenure here in Portland, you
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  would know that that bit became the magnificent tutor.
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  Yes, Tutu, which which is still not I mean, it's the magnificent
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  honky is such a. Way better name.
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  So funny. It's so, so funny.
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  And I, and I still to this day, believe that people would have
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  left. I think so.
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  I think we were new and we didn't know and we didn't.
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  We didn't have that relationship with the audience right to where
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  they understood where we were coming from, but I think now we
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  could totally get away with it. Yeah, I think we could have, and
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  I think that people would have absolutely forgiven us for it.
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  But yes, I think our boss was nervous.
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  So yeah, it went. It was the magnificent tutor.
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  It lasted only a couple months. I don't know if people ever
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  really got like the ridiculousness of it.
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  I've heard people say that they liked it.
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  I loved it. I thought it was so funny.
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  I think you could have sold it a lot more.
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  And that was the problem is like a lot of the bits that we do on
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  the air have to be really bought into.
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  And if they're not bought into, then they kind of fall flat.
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  And like, I needed you to put on like the mysterious mystical
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  psychic, like, yes, yes, I'm getting it now.
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  And you were kind of uncomfortable with that.
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  And so you're like, I don't know, Is it a Toyota Corolla?
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  And like, so it wasn't super funny.
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  It was funny in the beginning, and then it kind of lost this
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  flavor. So that's all.
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  It is. If I was the magnificent hunky,
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  it would have been funnier. Tudor got old, but it just got.
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  Yeah, it got. It got old just like Beat the
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  Bear did. So that was another bit that we
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  did. Our boss really, really, really
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  wanted us to do it. And we were kind of like, I
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  don't know, it doesn't feel like us.
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  And he's like, too bad you're doing it.
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  And the whole and the whole, oh, beat the beat the wolf.
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  That's right. And the whole point was that a
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  wolf was chasing you. You had like 6 or 30 seconds to
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  answer these questions. And in the background you could
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  hear the bear like getting closer.
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  And we were supposed to be like freaking out, like, Oh my gosh,
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  he's almost here. But again, we didn't buy into it
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  as much as we probably should have because it wasn't our bit.
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  It wasn't like the thing that we thought was hilarious.
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  We thought the I thought the magnificent honky was, but like,
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  so it was hard to be like everyday like, oh, he's getting
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  closer. Oh my gosh.
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  And that's the funny part of it. And if you don't do that, it
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  kind of falls flat. And for the for the radio, the
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  delay is a killer. It just.
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  It 'cause when you talk, it takes 3 seconds for you to hear
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  it and then respond. And so we'd be like, oh, it's
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  coming that. That wolf damn near got you all
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  right. Like before you even answered a
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  question. Oh, no, it's like it's just.
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  And then to edit all that, it was just, it was just a pain,
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  yeah. It was a big deal.
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  Yeah, so there's the SO. Brittany, there you go.
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  The magnificent honking, in case anyone's ever wondering.
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  Yeah. So Kristen has recently lost
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  some weight. Yeah.
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  And I'm still chubby. We I talked to somebody today.
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  He's like, you guys talk about you being fat a lot.
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  I was like, I didn't realize that was a main topic, but
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  here's another one. So are we at risk of getting
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  divorced? So yes and no.
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  According to new research, people who undergo like rapid
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  weight loss are twice as likely to divorce.
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  So the study focus on people who have been fitted with like
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  gastric bands. But the idea is that it could
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  stand extend basically into the GLP one era.
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  Sure, I can imagine. Right.
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  So do you think that we are at risk based on your weight loss
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  of us getting divorced? No, my weight loss is a side
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  effect of the medication I have to take to curb my diabetes.
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  So, like, is it a plus? Hell to the yes.
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  OK, Like, I'm thrilled. The story was that I found out I
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  was diabetic and I changed some stuff in my life and I lost some
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  weight. But then I kind of plateaued.
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  And at that point my doctor was like, well, you're still kind of
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  boot. So like you need to, you need to
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  lose, you need to lose some more weight.
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  And I'm not going to go out running every day.
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  So they, they put me on like a, a diabetic GLP one, not like
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  Ozempic or anything like that, but a different medication is
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  very similar to that. And then I lost the rest of the
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  weight, but slowly. I have lost about 80 lbs in
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  about 3 years. So it has, it's been about three
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  years because it took me about two years to lose the £40 on my
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  own because I wasn't really trying.
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  And then like with the medication, it did help, but it
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  took a while to get to that point.
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  And then now I can't lose any weight even if I nothing the
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  whole day, I always stay the same weight.
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  So it's like I'm done. But none of this was for weight
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  loss. It was just so I didn't have the
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  effects of diabetes. Yeah, but The thing is like now
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  you're confident or you're am I? Well, I don't know, not you, but
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  that's what they're saying about the weight loss thing is like,
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  it's like when people lose the weight, they get like they're
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  confident and they, they want to go out and do stuff and they
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  become more active. And so like, and the partner
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  who's the fat partner doesn't want to do any of that stuff.
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  Like I didn't lose any weight. I didn't go on a diet.
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  The. Weight wasn't stopping me from
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  doing things. You don't think?
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  The motivation and the personality was stopping me
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  from. Don't you want to get out and do
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  stuff well now because your knee was bothering you for a lot too,
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  So yeah. Yeah, like, so one of the side
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  effects of losing that weight is I don't have the chronic pain in
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  my knee anymore. That's a whole nother story.
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  I had a big knee accident and my knee was like shattered.
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  And so I got that fixed and yeah, I don't have the pain
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  anymore. So like, yeah, I do want to go
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  on walks and stuff like that, but I'm not, I'm not being like
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  all of a sudden I want to, I want to do an Iron Man
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  competition. Like that's not who I've ever
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  been. That's not who I ever will be.
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  I don't feel any more confident now than I ever did.
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  I think when it when I take pictures.
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  I noticed it when we did our photo shoot with our friend
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  Kenzie, who's a great photographer.
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  Look her up. I was like, oh, I didn't hate
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  myself after every photo that she showed me that said like,
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  oh, look how cute I was. Like that is cute, but I also
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  thought you looked cute in it. I'm still, I'm not at that.
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  I'm not that at phase where I I see that and I go, Oh yeah.
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  So like, but now you're skinny and hot.
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  Like are you going to leave fat fatty behind?
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  No, that was never. Like am I disgusting now that?
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  You're I've never and I've never thought of myself as skinny and
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  hot ever in my entire life. Like, it's not like all of a
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  sudden I have this newfound confidence where I'm like, well,
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  I can do a lot better than this guy.
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  It's like, no, like I'm always I've been who I've been, who
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  I've been, I've been this person since I've been 12 years old.
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  I haven't been pressing some active person that can't wait to
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  go to the clubs like this is who I am.
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  You get to live the life that you've been suppressing.
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  Which is what? Like I don't know what have I
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  been suppressing? It seems that we were, we got
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  together and then we both got huge.
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  And then, yeah, now we're, you're back to being normal and
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  I'm still huge. And so I was like, well, maybe
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  you want to relive get those years back because like, this is
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  the time that all the the questioning starts to come in
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  where the midlife crisis is hitting.
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  No, I definitely have a midlife crisis, but it's not in the way
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  that you think. It's more like, Oh my God, I
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  need to work on my 401K. It's more it's.
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  Not prepared for the end. And like in when I was 21, I was
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  the person that stayed behind at the the club at the table to
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  watch everybody's purses. Like that's I've never been the
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  like woo girl, like that's never been me.
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  It never will be me. I never want it to be me.
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  So it's the. Corner in Judge.
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  Please. And that's why we get so
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  pleased. That's why we're so as long as
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  we don't, as long as we don't get all like happy, we should be
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  happy, right? Like if you're not just like,
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  I'm going to take this day on in a positive way.
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  You shouldn't say negative things about people because it
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  inspires negativity. Like, as long as we don't come
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  to those people. I can't ever see that happening.
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  There's no light at the end of my tunnel.
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  I'm. Too broken.
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  We got to talk about space. So Artemis 2, the quest around
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  the moon. This is an interesting angle
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  that I found on TikTok that I want to play for you real quick.
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  I'm not saying that the Artemis 2 mission is being faked, but
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  what I am saying, and emphatically is I'm underwhelmed
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  right now. I was really excited for some
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  cool stuff and I've seen about 10 still photographs, just
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  static images that look slightly better than the ones taken in
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  1969, apparently from the exact same spot.
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  They have a spot they like. They like to take a picture with
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  the Earth about that big and and then they don't take any other
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  pictures. And what an opportunity to
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  really stick it to the flat earthers.
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  Except for every still image makes the Earth kind of look
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  like a flat disk. So I don't know why you're doing
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  that. I don't need an interview with
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  the crew telling me how they eat soup out of a pouch.
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  Take the camera to the window and shut up and just let me see
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  it. I don't know why isn't there
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  something mounted on the outside that just constantly gives me
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  video of the earth? Show me something with movement.
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  Show me weather patterns moving on the earth.
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  Show me rotation of the earth zoomed out so you can see the
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  entire sphere rotate. You really want to blow my mind?
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  Show me some upside down flying planes.
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  That's what that's what daddy wants to see.
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  A skyline of a major city upside down with planes flying like
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  that, that's. Too far.
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  Away all I want and I'm getting none of that.
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  And I suspect I will get none of that either.
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  And we don't know what's real or what's fake, so I don't know why
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  anyone's excited about anything they're seeing.
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  This is so disappointing 100. Percent agree.
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  Like I didn't even think about it until he said something like,
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  why don't we have a live stream video right on the outside of
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  the damn spaceship? Right?
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  We have the technology now what? Yeah, video.
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  Like show me some 4K right? You got nothing.
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  It's true. It's the same picture of Earth
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  I've seen. Yeah, it's.
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  From them with a little bit of the moon and the earth in the
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  background. Like it's cool.
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  It's cooler when you see it like in live I'm assuming, but like
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  it would be really cool if I could see it move.
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  I, I think this is an interesting take, but I am also
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  completely underwhelmed at Artemis.
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  And like, I understand this is a very big scientific achievement,
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  seeing the backside of the moon that we're, that this is
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  necessary for Artemis 4 because Artemis 4 is going to do a more
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  and it's going to land, right? I think so.
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  And, and that they're going to land on that the other side of
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  the moon. And it's something that we've
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  never done before and all this kind of stuff.
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  But I'm just like, man, I'm underwhelmed.
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  Well, because we've been to the moon and we've been.
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  There, it's it's fine. It's not groundbreaking it.
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  I see all these people crying like how patriotic they all feel
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  right now. And it's just like I feel
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  nothing inside. I did see something that did
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  make it cool though. I think I sent it to you on
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  TikTok. It's a video of showing how it's
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  done. Like they had the Artemis to fly
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  around and you don't even think about it.
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  There's been that there's a video a while ago that somebody
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  shared that like blew my ever loving mind hole of the way that
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  the earth and the and the solar system is moving through space.
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  And it's like, it's not like we think the ball in the middle and
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  we're going around like this. Like that's just what we think.
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  And then they showed us how it really is.
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  It's like a ball that's travelling like a like a like
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  you threw a baseball. And then there's these planets
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  that are like rotating as it's travelling forward, which I
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  never thought of. And so you think of this shot
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  and you you never think that, you know, there's Earth moving,
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  then the moons moving around it. Well, we've got to throw a ball
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  that like Tom Bradys, it's perfectly around the moon, like
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  it loops the moon in that little space that comes back.
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  If you have a chance to look it up.
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  I don't I like. Yes, the, the scientific
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  achievement on this is amazing. The, the mathematics, the
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  mathematics, yeah, the mathematics to get us to like
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  not collide with something is fabulous, great, wonderful.
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  You know, like, I mean, it's true.
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  Why aren't we looking at pictures that are moving and,
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  and it just sort of feels like in this economy we're sending,
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  we're sending a rocket. Up like there's.
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  So much going on in the world right now that celebrating 4
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  people that are like, man, you guys look great.
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  It's like, yeah, all right. Yeah, we didn't know a year ago.
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  OK. Like when they started planning
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  this mission, we didn't know. Yeah, I know this is where we're
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  going. But yeah, I feel bad for the
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  astronauts because like, hey, we're like.
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  We're like, man, this is not the time.
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  This is the if we could join you off planet Earth that would be
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  better. Like I don't need to check in
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  right now. Sorry.
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  They're doing amazing work. No, they're doing great.
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  And like, yeah, and we've seen all the stuff at ISS, so it's
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  not like they're doing anything that's like blowing out.
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  Like look at how I wash my hair. It's like seen it.
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  We've been done seen. It sorry guys, but in your it's
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  the greatest life accomplishment and I wish I was part of that, I
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  guess, but but. OK, now we're running out of
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  time, but I do just want to throw this out here.
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  This is, you know, Kristen's rant for the day.
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  OK. So like, when people go up to
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  space, like these astronauts are are reporting back, like, oh, my
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  gosh, the world is so fragile. It's so beautiful.
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  It's a wonderful. Like, it's remarkable.
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  Like people have all these epiphanies.
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  Yeah. How amazing this is.
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  This is so wonderful. And it's like, yeah, but you
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  guys have spent your entire life in the scientific community.
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  Can we shoot the people up that are destroying things so that
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  they can look back and be like, oh, because no, no other, no
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  person that needs the epiphany is having it like.
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  No, no, yeah. Everybody said, like, Shatner
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  being shot up into lower orbit is like, Oh my God, we gotta
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  take care of it. It's like, well, what's Shatner
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  gonna do about it? Nothing.
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  Yeah. On the Blue Origin.
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  Like what are these? Vessels go up.
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  I don't did. He he's done his racket look
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  like a. Yes, I know he but I did he
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  actually go up, I'm assuming. But like, but it's just one of
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  those things where it's like, yeah, you're going Oh my gosh,
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  you guys need to recycle more. And it's like, you know what
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  man? Like I don't need that right
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  now. OK, Talk to the people over
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  there that are causing all the problems.
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  Like I'm not doing ARN. I put my recycling out once a
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  week. That's my responsibility.
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  Like I've been, I've been conserving, like I'm reducing
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  and reusing, like tell it to somebody.
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  Send it up some of the I don't know if they would, they would
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  get the epiphany. I know, I don't know.
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  They'd be like, look at all this land I could buy.
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  We don't need that much ocean, let's just drain it.
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  Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, Like, oh, I didn't see it
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  from this angle. All right, well, thank you for
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