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Moving your kid into college · Scott & Ally on Demand

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  SPEAKER_00: I need to hit a couple of texts really quick here.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do want to start out because this ties in before we get too far away from it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I was telling you how I had dinner last night with my friend Scott, who I went to high school with, his wife Renee, and they're in town because there's the big gaming thing going on at Watson Homestead.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh and all those games are far beyond my my realm of It's almost too fantasy world, it sounds like.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's like it's it's I don't even want to try, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And Doug says he goes, solitaire is over Scott's head.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm gonna admit something to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Love solitaire.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know how to play.
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  SPEAKER_01: What?
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  SPEAKER_00: I've never been taught solitaire.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh my gosh!
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  SPEAKER_00: I have never been taught.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you never played on a computer when once you won, all the cards would start falling, and oh, we used to be obsessed with it because and me and my brother would try to see who would win first, like the fastest, because then once the cards start falling, it's just so satisfying.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna open this up to the to the audience, to you guys, the world's most dangerous audience.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is something so basic, such as solitaire?
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  SPEAKER_00: You've never learned it, you don't know how to do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And don't feel bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, I mean, if you're like I've never played Uno.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have, but I'm saying if someone says that, I I just am curious to know because you're you're like, your passion is showing me I like I should know this.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's the greatest card game ever because you can play by yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think the greatest card game ever is Blackjack where I can win money.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: But can you play solitaire in Vegas and then like win money?
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Isn't the point it's solitary?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, yes, but I'm thinking like Well, that dealer's got a tough job.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was just no, I was thinking like, do they have the machine set up where you could play on the machines and then like if you can beat a clock or something?
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would not sit at that uh machine if that was set up like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I have to mention this text because I come back to this again.
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  SPEAKER_00: This person is listed as guest.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have a great text, and I'm gonna read it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's either Wink106, Twin Tears Magic, or My Radio Jams, the home of the Scott and Alley show, those three places.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, or if you are a guest that hasn't registered, please do, because I'd love to credit you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I'd love to be able to say, in this case, either your username or your or your digits because they said, good everyone.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: Good, everyone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Spent yesterday moving my daughter into her first year at Kurtztown University in PA.
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  SPEAKER_00: Talk about being uh thrown into the fire.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I remember when my mom dropped me off.
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  SPEAKER_01: We both cried.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, I did you guys cry yesterday?
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  SPEAKER_00: I oh, I'm sure that there were tears.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will say this uh you're you're not alone when it comes to kids going off to college.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen to this, mom.
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  SPEAKER_02: What's your favorite part of being a mother?
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  SPEAKER_02: When they left for college.
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  SPEAKER_02: Life became easier.
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  SPEAKER_02: Your favorite part of motherhood is when all of us left your house.
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  SPEAKER_02: We love our children, but not randomly.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, we say, Oh, my children are home.
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  SPEAKER_02: None of that, boy.
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  SPEAKER_02: When we were home, was there a favorite moment?
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  SPEAKER_02: And you all were sleeping.
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  SPEAKER_02: When we were home and awake.
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't think it ever occurred to me.
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  SPEAKER_02: You have not liked one part of being mothers?
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  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, happy mother's day.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wait, wait, she didn't like one part of being a mother?
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  SPEAKER_00: I think she was joking.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's like, not at all.
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  SPEAKER_01: The days so the day that my mom moved me into college, we were fighting so bad prior to because I kept on breaking curfew and I was hanging out with my friends incessantly, and she just I think she was losing control.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh and that's really what was killing my mom.
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  SPEAKER_01: So then the day we left, I I will never forget there.
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  SPEAKER_01: I even have a picture because I'm sitting on her lap on the couch, and I like love and hate this day at the same time because it is that first, it's really that first time that they're really an adult.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know they have like adult things that happen in in high school, yeah, but it's the first time that they're really launching out of the nest.
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  SPEAKER_00: I and I and you were probably thinking like, I'm free before you were really free, which is why your mom was like, enough of that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was living free the summer before and my mom just couldn't take it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I also had a little different of a situation because I went to community college my first year.
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  SPEAKER_01: So when I was leaving for college, it wasn't until my sophomore year.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I thought, well, I'm in college now.
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  SPEAKER_00: I get all this freedom.
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  SPEAKER_01: I yeah, I don't have any rules under Mark and Gail's roof.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, you go ahead and tell Gail that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.