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Thrupples & Pine · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: A quick trio of things to talk about. It's one
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  Speaker 1: more thing. I'm oh, I do enjoy a trio. It's
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  Speaker 1: a throuple. It's a throuple of things to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: I saw somebody making the argument on your Twitter the
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  Speaker 2: other day about why clearly polygamy.
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  Speaker 1: Should be legal, and what was their main argument.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing to stop consenting adults from having a three
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  Speaker 2: way legal.
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  Speaker 1: Partnership. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Legally speaking, no, I don't
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  Speaker 1: have any problem with that. Legally, I don't care. Why
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  Speaker 1: would I call?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, really, what's next?
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  Speaker 1: Merryon doggs? But in terms of like, in terms of like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, is that the natural state of manner whatever?
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  Speaker 1: I think the worst feelings you've ever had in the
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  Speaker 1: world whenever you find out your boyfriend or girlfriend or
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  Speaker 1: husband or wife has been with somebody else. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that that's an accident that you have those horrible,
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  Speaker 1: tortured feelings that they're somebody else. I mean, I think
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  Speaker 1: that's the way we're designed's to have, right, them be
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  Speaker 1: with you and you be with them, and when it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't go that way, it's very painful.
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  Speaker 2: I got sucked into a New York Times review of
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  Speaker 2: this book some gal put out sucked into a thrupple
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  Speaker 2: one No No, this this gal and her husband decided
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  Speaker 2: on an open marriage and it was and she's writing
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  Speaker 2: about it and sexually extremely explicit this book apparently, But
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  Speaker 2: it also details lots and lots of misery and jealousy
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  Speaker 2: and resentment and her begging her husband can we just
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  Speaker 2: have a regular marriage again, him saying no way, and
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  Speaker 2: so she going off and having another affair and whatever,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just I read this account, which was the
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  Speaker 2: tone of it in the New York Times fashion is
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  Speaker 2: you know, anything that's not like the traditional hide bound
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  Speaker 2: religious marriage thing is a good thing. But it sounded
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  Speaker 2: to me like a prescription for how to be miserable.
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  Speaker 1: Right and and to get into venereal disease. Unless you're
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  Speaker 1: built a different way than most of us. It would
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  Speaker 1: be horrible anyway, But you'd have to both be into
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  Speaker 1: it at the same level and to have both had
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  Speaker 1: the same level of success. I would think if like, yes,
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  Speaker 1: if you both agree, let's do this, but you're just
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  Speaker 1: not doing that well and the other one's doing really well,
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  Speaker 1: I would think that'd be really rough.
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  Speaker 3: Katie. You guys are taking me.
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  Speaker 4: I ended up in a very bizarre situation with When
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  Speaker 4: I was single, I went to a bar and the
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  Speaker 4: bartender and was very cute, very handsome young man.
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  Speaker 3: We ended up exchanging numbers.
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  Speaker 4: And he text messaged me and asked me if I
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  Speaker 4: would like to go to lunch with him and his girlfriend.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, wait what? And that was how
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  Speaker 3: I found out what being polyamorous is. I believe.
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  Speaker 4: So he and his girlfriend wanted to proposition me to
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  Speaker 4: be part of their throuble.
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  Speaker 3: And to that I said no, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: But it was It was very weird and it was
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  Speaker 4: hard to not feel judgmental to turn that down. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I didn't want to go, oh, hell no, what's wrong
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  Speaker 4: with you guys? But then you know, I'm low very
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  Speaker 4: strange right and there.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like the galler wrote the book, or the
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  Speaker 2: reviewer I'm talking about would probably say, well, that's because
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  Speaker 2: you've been socialized to believe that there's only one way
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  Speaker 2: to structure blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Those strong emotions that you get when you find
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  Speaker 1: out you're the person you're with has been with somebody else,
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  Speaker 1: those aren't social constructs. I don't think, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: I was at a party one time Fourth of July party,
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  Speaker 1: many many years ago. Gladys, do you play them? Thicky Gladys?
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  Speaker 1: Gladys to try to thrupple nineteen twenty eight.
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  Speaker 2: Very yeah, Charles Lindberg and Herbert Hooverbody kind of struck
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  Speaker 2: me as a horn dog.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, No, I was. I was married at the time,
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  Speaker 1: and wife came to me and said, the guy who
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  Speaker 1: through this party wanted to know if we want to
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  Speaker 1: join him and his wife for a swapping situation, which
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  Speaker 1: she was not interested in, and I wasn't interested, and
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  Speaker 1: we were just shocked that he had proposed that idea.
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  Speaker 2: Hmmm.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder how often people say.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, It is so hard for me to wrap my
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  Speaker 4: mind around doing something like that.
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  Speaker 1: I know, you're either built that way or you're not.
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  Speaker 1: I guess.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, in the whole it seemed like.
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  Speaker 1: A good idea at first.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it seems that phrase seems written for this situation.
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  Speaker 4: And how often do these ideas come up when people
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  Speaker 4: are wasted?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, everybody was wasted in this particular scenario. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: not wasted enough to think that sounds like a good
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  Speaker 1: idea That actually wasn't Any of the three stories that
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  Speaker 1: we were going to talk about. So this ends up
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  Speaker 1: being a four way. First, this clip about it phones,
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  Speaker 1: phones and schools, which I haven't heard this go ahead, Michael.
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  Speaker 5: Not as many visits to the bathroom, not staying as long,
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  Speaker 5: and students are held accountable. And then when there's accountability,
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  Speaker 5: you see a great difference. We're trying to educate students,
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  Speaker 5: like we all have cell phones. Now we have to
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  Speaker 5: learn to use them. We have to learn when to
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  Speaker 5: put them down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a tough thing. We still haven't worked out
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  Speaker 1: in schools. I guess we're feeling our way along. For
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  Speaker 1: a while, they just kind of let every kid have
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  Speaker 1: phones and watches. Then they cracked down on it. But
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  Speaker 1: there's a backlash among some parents, like I don't doesn't
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  Speaker 1: bother me if my kid can't get a hold of
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  Speaker 1: me or I can't get a hold of them while
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  Speaker 1: they're at school. I survive, They'll survive, But a lot
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  Speaker 1: of parents really hate the idea of being out of
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  Speaker 1: contact with their kid and vice versa while they're at school.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Michael, this story actually is about them removing mirrors
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  Speaker 6: out of restrooms at the middle schools, and the reason
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  Speaker 6: is because the kids were using them for TikTok and
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  Speaker 6: so they had to take Yeah, so that's how it's.
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  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, which fits in with the phones thing. Because
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  Speaker 1: we didn't have your dang phone at school, you wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be making TikTok videos in the mirror. All this stuff
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  Speaker 1: has got to go. We need to prioritize math and reading,
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  Speaker 1: and anything that gets in the way of that has
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  Speaker 1: got to go. There you go, a good simple test, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So that's that story. One other story, I mentioned this
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  Speaker 1: on the radio show. I got a phone call from
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  Speaker 1: Hurts that they're charging me thirteen and fifty dollars for
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  Speaker 1: a damage to the windshield that I don't think I
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  Speaker 1: did or I don't think even existed, but I got
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  Speaker 1: to figure out a way to prove that it didn't
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  Speaker 1: I guess or something. And I'd heard this tip, and
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  Speaker 1: I was aware of this tip, but I just didn't
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  Speaker 1: take the time when I was in a hurry to
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  Speaker 1: walk around the car. Although you'd have to, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I would have been I don't think I would
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  Speaker 1: have been careful enough to get a video of the
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  Speaker 1: car anyway that would have picked this up as some
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  Speaker 1: sort of chip in the windshield and nless, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: spend like fifteen minutes going over, maybe even longer, over
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  Speaker 1: every part of the car for any scratch or dent, top, bottom, front, back,
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  Speaker 1: every window, every part of it, like square inch by
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  Speaker 1: square inch. I don't know how I'm going to document
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  Speaker 1: it anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Right, almost only the windshield would be too much. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: if you had a super high res that you could
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  Speaker 2: zoom in on from just the right, it tough to
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  Speaker 2: prove a negative, yeah, from a photograph.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, What I was going to bring up, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: not saying this because I don't want to get sued,
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  Speaker 1: but if you search name your rental car company and scam,
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  Speaker 1: there are certain car companies that come up a lot
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  Speaker 1: that they are very aggressive in charging people for damage
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  Speaker 1: because cars get damaged from being driven around. As we
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  Speaker 1: all know, all of our cars do. They got to
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  Speaker 1: stick or they want to stick. They don't have to,
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  Speaker 1: but they want to stick somebody with a bill for
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  Speaker 1: all of it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, who doesn't enjoy a nice phishing expedition. That's my
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  Speaker 2: only comment.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the more I think about it, since if
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  Speaker 1: you drive a car, you know this, it gets a
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  Speaker 1: little dinged up just through life, even if you're very careful,
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  Speaker 1: kick up a rock here, door ding there in the
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  Speaker 1: parking lot or whatever, it just happens. So the rental
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  Speaker 1: car companies, some of them more aggressively than others, have
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  Speaker 1: decided somebody's got to pay for that every single time.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Yes, that is a charitable description of what
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  Speaker 1: might be happening. And it could be somewhere between that
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  Speaker 1: and this.
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  Speaker 2: You hit virtually everybody up with a smallish hey, there's
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  Speaker 2: a chip out of the door. We're sorry, but that's
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  Speaker 2: a two hundred and fifty dollars charge. You hit everybody
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  Speaker 2: with that, you're gonna get at least a third of
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  Speaker 2: people say oh my god, that's too bad, whatever, and
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  Speaker 2: don't dispute it, and they pay right.
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  Speaker 1: It's a nice revenue stream.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, gosh, that's slimy.
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  Speaker 1: I'll look into it and get back to you. See
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  Speaker 1: if I can avoid thirteen hundred and fifty bucks, that's
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  Speaker 1: a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, modern windshields with their sensors, et cetera. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And the final thing is, this is something I've known
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  Speaker 1: about you for a long time, Joe. You're allergic to
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  Speaker 1: some sort of fruit, but I don't remember it what
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  Speaker 1: fruit are you allergic to? And what's the deal?
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  Speaker 2: Well, raw fruit like pitted fruits like peaches and plums
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  Speaker 2: and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And apples, but not strawberry.
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  Speaker 2: It's not an allergy specifically, it's called oral inflammation syndrome
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  Speaker 2: or something like that. It's one of the sugars in
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  Speaker 2: it sets off like your mouth and your throat lining.
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  Speaker 1: Huh. Because my son has become and he wasn't before.
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  Speaker 1: He's allergic to strawberries and I couldn't remember what you
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  Speaker 1: were allergic to strawberries. I can eat strawberries like I
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  Speaker 1: used to just buy those containers of strawberries at the
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  Speaker 1: grocery story. Loved him and he'd hammer him down or
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  Speaker 1: make fruit smoothies with him. He won't eat strawberries anymore.
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  Speaker 1: They make his throat feel constricted and super itchy. There
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  Speaker 1: it is, and that's what yours does.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, it's an immune system reaction from what I read, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and from what and I under stand how to avoid it.
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  Speaker 2: So I haven't dug into it that much. I just
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  Speaker 2: know anything I can do about it. But yeah, don't
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  Speaker 2: eat it. And but cooked it's okay because it breaks
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  Speaker 2: down the sugar that tends to set off your body exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see. But you haven't lived a sad, difficult life
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  Speaker 1: because of this.
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  Speaker 2: It's occasionally slightly disappointing. Oh there's raw apple on that salad. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I better skip it. That's about it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Allergic things kind of a drag though. My dad had
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  Speaker 2: that toody.
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  Speaker 3: I'm allergic to pine pine fake Christmas trees.
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  Speaker 1: You're allergic to pine trees, pine wood, pinewood derby, you're
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  Speaker 1: allergic to.
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  Speaker 3: I'm allergic to the pollen from a pine tree.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's a very that's got to have very little
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  Speaker 1: negative impact on your life.
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  Speaker 4: My first Christmas being placed next to the Christmas tree
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  Speaker 4: for a photo a real fun time.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, that'd be rough.
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  Speaker 4: An when I worked at Trader Joe's and people would
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  Speaker 4: buy wreaths and then I grabbed them and it was
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  Speaker 4: a whole hive breakout, a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Oh nasty, nasty, unique allergy. My wife wheezes and sneezes
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  Speaker 2: at pine trees, but doesn't have the like hives and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I need to apologize for my misinformation and or disinformation.
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  Speaker 2: I guess the American allergy American Academy of Allergy, Asthma,
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  Speaker 2: and Immunology says it's oral allergy syndrome. Your mouth and
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  Speaker 2: throat may become itchy after eating an apple or celery.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't happen to me. Celery birch tree pollen.
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  Speaker 1: If I had to live the rest of my life
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  Speaker 1: without celery, I don't know what I would do.
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  Speaker 2: The most frequent symptoms of oas include itchiness or swelling
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  Speaker 2: in the mouth, face, lips, tongue, and throat.
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  Speaker 1: Immediately fun to say fundy. The kumquat.
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  Speaker 2: Generally a mild form of allergy. Rarely, it can cause
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  Speaker 2: severe throat swelling, leading to difficulty breathing, but.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't usually to be avoided. It doesn't usually kill
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  Speaker 1: people like a beasting or something.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, it's not an anaphylactic thing. It's just a
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  Speaker 2: swelling of the throat lining.
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  Speaker 1: My dad got to the.
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  Speaker 2: Point once after eating a plum, I think because he
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  Speaker 2: decided to give it a try because it had been
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  Speaker 2: a while since he'd eaten edny. And he got to
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  Speaker 2: the point where he was wheezing audibly as he breathed,
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  Speaker 2: and they're about to take him to the emergency room
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  Speaker 2: when it seemed to ease off.
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  Speaker 1: But that's scary. Yeah. I contacted both the doctors to
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  Speaker 1: Seema to look into it. Yeah, I was, I was,
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  Speaker 1: or thought I was. No, I was allergic to waspstings
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  Speaker 1: there for a while because I got stung so many times.
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  Speaker 1: This is a long time ago. Longtime listeners know when
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  Speaker 1: I had a wass in Is infestation at my home
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  Speaker 1: that drove me to replace the roof at a cost
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  Speaker 1: of seventy five dollars because there was no other way
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  Speaker 1: to get written rid of the wasps. Wow, this is crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Katie called the county. I mean I went through all
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  Speaker 1: these different like exterminators or whatever, couldn't do anything about it.
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  Speaker 1: Called the county. The county wouldn't walk up to my house.
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  Speaker 1: You couldn't go outside the house afternoon in the summertime.
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  Speaker 1: You had to stay in the house afternoon in the summertime.
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  Speaker 1: It was like it was like a black cloud of wasps.
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  Speaker 1: It was like something from a horror movie. It was insane.
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  Speaker 1: And if you end ever end up with this problem,
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  Speaker 1: it's really really hard to take care of. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I got stung so many times by wasp that I
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  Speaker 1: became allergic to it like I got stung on the
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  Speaker 1: top of the foot and it swoll way up, and
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  Speaker 1: I got stung on the nose and it swoll a
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  Speaker 1: way up. My eyes closed, And so there was concern
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  Speaker 1: that if I ever got stung again. And I had
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  Speaker 1: a friend whose friend died in San Diego. His brother
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  Speaker 1: rather died. He got stung once by a wasp and
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  Speaker 1: he died right there on the spot. His throat closed up.
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  Speaker 1: They couldn't get anybody there in time to help him,
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  Speaker 1: and he died. So it scared the crap out of me.
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  Speaker 1: So I got an EpiPen because the doctor said, you're
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  Speaker 1: allergic to wasp venom. So then the next time I
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  Speaker 1: got stung, I went and stabbed myself with an EpiPen.
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  Speaker 1: And if you've never done that, that is something that
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  Speaker 1: is not a non that is not a non event
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  Speaker 1: to take that thing and jab it into your leg
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  Speaker 1: because it gives you this incredible and adrenaline thing. That
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  Speaker 1: was just I thought I was gonna die. I went
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  Speaker 1: to the er because of the EpiPen. Yeah, wow, you
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  Speaker 1: don't want that. But since then I've been stung by
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  Speaker 1: wasps and nothing happens, So I guess it went away
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  Speaker 1: if if you were like for real, like my buddy's
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  Speaker 1: brother who died uh with a wife and kids in
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  Speaker 1: middle like he's like thirty years old. Oh my god, tragedy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just doing like lawn work, got stung by wasp died
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  Speaker 1: right there. But anyway, if you're one of those people,
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  Speaker 1: you have to carry an EpiPen everywhere you go all
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  Speaker 1: the time. It's like the nuclear football. I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: cannot be out of your sight.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I wish we had time.
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  Speaker 2: Michael was going to tell the story when he got
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  Speaker 2: stung by bees on his hind end during a swingers party,
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  Speaker 2: an outdoor garden swingers party, but we just don't have time.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that would have been a good time to bring
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  Speaker 6: up that golf joke too, Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Not really, No, it's never a good time to bring.
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  Speaker 1: Up that joke. The punchline being your stance is too wide, right,
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  Speaker 1: That's how we'll end today.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I never got asked to be part of
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  Speaker 6: a threesome, so I guess I got jim work to do. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 6: I guess that's it.