Bead store

Childhood psych

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Place and so it's I'll send you a picture of it here in a second but it just doesn't stay in play so I just have the microphone light up and I have nothing in front of it so I don't know if that affects the sound

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mature

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I don't know sounds like you have a sound good to me. Yeah. Okay

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I only know how to attach this anymore just came off so I gave up with

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biting duct tape and popsicle sticks. I don't have any of those.

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Well,

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but that's okay. That's okay. I don't that's not super necessary. Just don't make super hard consonant. Let me try that sentence again.

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Don't make too many super hard consonant noises. Right next to the microphone any behind siblings, siblings siblings.

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No promises. That's fair. That's okay. Yeah, I almost I've been saying the word continent all day. So I almost said that again.

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But that doesn't make sense. not make any super continent no it Wait a minute.

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Did you hear that? Did you see the news report that they found a continent content underneath

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your Yeah, it was

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Yeah, yeah, it was it was under the GNC, a GNC. Yes.

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It's exciting. It's a, it's an ancient and Frank

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from Pangea, most of it has been abducted underneath the European plate, but they found remnants of it in Italy. And a little bit over. Mostly Italy, I think is what I read in the article, but I was like, Oh, yeah, this is awesome. He has the greater atria or something like that. Yeah, I think what they what they named it. Oh, that's Yeah.

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That's pretty cool. That was pretty awesome. Sounds like what?

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I told my kids and they're like, okay, whatever.

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Like, no, but it's awesome.

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Dad, like, Yeah, sure. We get all this dirt. Look at the soil.

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Beautiful ancient soil. Wonderful.

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Good.

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Yeah, it's really not. It's really not cool. So anyway into it, some of them are like really into it so good. Okay.

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When I was taught I had to briefly go over like, the different, like rock layers and like sedentary rocks and all that stuff and that's all my kids are like, do we? Do we really need to know about rocks? Like me kind of, I mean sort of me Look at this rock. Yes, it's great. Okay, no, and then they're like, cool. I know it's working slightly because I just had a kid come back from vacation at the Grand Canyon and they definitely just brought me a big rock to put on my

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desert so yeah, look at these strike Asians and she was like, yeah,

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This

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is it's known everybody knows this. It's fine. I definitely remember I took a geology class at any Oh, and the final. The teacher just had no just a typical lab classroom. And she had all of these, you know, all the rocks, all the samples, sorry, like all over the place and your ability to go around to different stations. And like have a number on them and like what is number two and you look at it and decide for what it is write it down, you turn it in, and this kid next to me are here he was in front of me.

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There's there's two different rock samples and I can't remember which ones they were but one of them smelled like sulfur.

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And maybe it was silver, probably. And the other one, like, was not baseball. But you can lick it

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and

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doesn't contain it doesn't contain any germs

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you know I'm talking about

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air it does it doesn't have any bacteria on it. Does it like kills bacteria immediately.

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I'm unfamiliar with this and all look it up and so he before he picked up every single rock, sniffed it, and then like, barely, like, licked each rock.

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And about halfway through, I'm like, Dude, what are you doing? He's like, one of these you can lick and I'm like, I don't think you can. Whatever. I know. I know that you did. That is an official test. For mineral. I didn't get any mineral composition, because some of them are, like salty. Yeah. So one of the check because basically it's a yes no checklist they go through, right. So this

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is like, does it have this Yes or no? Does it have this Yes or no? Does it have this Yes or no? No.

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Eventually once you do all that you can classify it tell what it is for minerals one of them is definitely does it taste salty? Yes. Because I told me at the beginning we're talking about like the scientific method and like using your senses to observe as like you don't usually use taste and then wait wait usually what

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well on the on the beginner's guide to licking rocks from from the bubble.org.uk there is there is there

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is that my Missouri Department of Conservation GLG book turns out know

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they do have stages in in identifying rocks and one of those stages is the first link

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and then the other state another stage is lick to swallow. So

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are you sure these are the stages of a Tootsie Pop?

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Don't you know I think

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Let me see here. Oh, there's an apple on this one. Ah, there it is. does it stop at step number three?

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Oh no, it just says it. Just says give me another one.

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Oh, this is bad. This is Oh, this is not a good website. Yeah. So these are the steps that you have to hunt. You have to prepare the sample. You have to do the first lick. Wait, there's nothing. There's no directions about hunting. Well, I'm getting vague. Well, the first step is to find a suitable rock to lick. You can't pick up any old rock and expect to get the same satisfaction out of it. A good place to begin with the hunt is pre Ben's bridge on the track leading up to the white gate. I don't know where any of this is, but Well, I mean, yeah, but if

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you do, you have to hunt for the rock, prepare the sample, first leg optical analysis, lick to swallow. Then you have an oral analysis swallow part is worrying and then it ends in christening. This is just for listening.

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Yeah, this is soda your big splash with holy water. Yes. Oh, I think you can you give it a godfather? I don't. This is weird. Okay, this is the author in a little thing. Does it say that they actually have pica? Oh,

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no, he's from ZDC. Daniel Craven. Well, no, he's only written one article so I think it tells you it

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also suffers from pica

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enjoys soap and sawdust as well.

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Okay, anyway, backing

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out of that website over KE. Where were we? That's one of those ones that you know that you open an incognito window just because you don't want the ads and stuff to follow you and recommend you more of them. Right? Right. That's what

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that's really what that window is for. That's for. Okay, I want to read this one article, or I want to watch this one thing on YouTube.

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But then I don't want the algorithm to give me 87,000 more. Yeah, one. Yeah, that's it. That's what I

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do that. Sometimes I'm looking at like, the video looks too enticing.

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It looks so weird. I need to know what it is. It's usually like a BuzzFeed video or something weird like that.

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Or the worst one are those like the reaction videos, you know? You're just like, Okay, well, I like this song. And I want to know what they say. Or watch any more of this person stuff. Right? I want to see this one thing, because I want to know what they say about the thing that I like.

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incognito and

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that's it recommend you because if you do that once on YouTube, you're done.

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You just be so bad about that. All of you recommended videos for the rest of your life are that that

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the ads are the worst to because I I bought something before like I bought it.

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And then it just keeps showing me the same ads for the thing like no no, I I bought it I didn't mean I didn't even see any ads

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for Okay, so I bought this new ring, right? Like the like a silicone one. Oh my gosh I was just about to bring this exact topic of I am looking into silicone rings so well

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well come back to that in a minute I won't tell you the brand name yet but I bought one like I was looking around and I bought one and

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I didn't see there I never saw an ad for a silicon ring before

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I was just like oh yeah, one I had like I bought some before we went on vacation to Australia last summer. Not December you know last time and because I was like listen, I play with my ring too much.

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If I lose my actual wedding ring in Australia

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will kill me. Yes, it does will happen or no be killed.

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And so I bought some of those like cheap ones from Amazon or whatever. Yeah. And I definitely broke them about like a bag of four and I broke all of them. Oh my gosh. So don't do that. Okay, that one. Yeah. But anyway, back to this before before we go on to the topic, is it? I never saw one ad. And now every video that I watch

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the ad plays in front of it and

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just like Yo, you want this like, Yeah, I know I want it. I already bought it. I already have. Amazon is so bad about that too is like other people who bought deck lights also bought deck lights. You're like

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it's almost like they wanted deck lights. It's just like, oh, so frustrating. Yes.

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Oh man. So

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Yeah, yeah, no, I'm looking into those as well, because

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the ad tells me that CrossFit athletes are them. So

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turns out having a solid metal band around your finger really hurts when you're trying to do pull ups and lift weights. So I imagine

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you'll have to send me what you ended up. You have to say right now, but you can do whatever, or unless you wanna do the silicone ring review segment. I mean, I've only had it for like a week, so I don't know. We'll compare it to the bag of other ones seems to be true. That's true. They're all broken.

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Do you take it off and play with it? Or you just like take your finger and like, rub it both?

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Yeah, I tend to do both. And so like,

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metal one is, you know, enormous, enormous. rings eyes, apparently. Yes. And so, like it is, you know,

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Do that with that one too, but it definitely falls and it always it always just falls right between like the seat in the console in the car, like the magnet.

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And I was like, I'm gonna buy one of these, but I'm going to spend more than the $5 that I bought off Amazon because I don't want to break them. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I was looking at ones in the, like the 20 to $30 range. This one was 3030. Okay, something 30 something.

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But it was uh, yeah, it's pretty nice.

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Okay, so far. It's, it's funny. I bought it because

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Well, one reason I bought it was because it's not black. And so I was like, ooh,

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weird. It's supposed to be what's it it's like a mimics like wood grain or something it's supposed to be. I don't know how effectively it does that but it looks neat.

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And it's not just a black one because a lot of people that work have them. It's just like a big huge fat black thing like that.

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Looks

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well and just the rubber ones. The black does look really is this is this is this group life. Did you get the group lightform Okay, okay, cool. That's, that's on my list.

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They will send you at emails after you buy it. Oh, okay. You prepared for that. I literally got five. I don't know where my phone go Hold on. I'll tell you.

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Right It is going for his phone right now.

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It's already charging over there. So I don't sure.

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But yeah, they decided they wanted to tell me.

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Sure.

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So I got the traditional order confirmation, right. And then I got the your order is ready to ship.

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Traditional right and then I got another one that just tells me

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about

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Like a thank you a follow up, I guess a thank you email, I guess is what this is. Ok. And then I got

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on that wants me to introduce the people of groove to me.

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Time creepy, like all that No, it's just like a Hey, this is what we're all about. Kind of Hey, cool

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guest because I mean I didn't necessarily need that one but it's fine. And then I got

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the delivered one. Okay. So like yeah, this is just soon you're going to get like a Christmas card and they're going to want to come over my day. Probably next week. They're gonna send me one Hey, how's it going?

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I have to leave you let me know that moment. It's good. I like it. It's nice, but

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I don't need that much customer service in my life. I

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understand like Internet. oppressive Yeah, yeah.

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That business like Customer service is like a thing, right? Because you don't see anybody. Customer service is like a big deal. Right? So

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something's gonna come at it. Once you're like, What? You exist I forgot you existed. So I understand what you're doing. But yeah, send me emails, man Come on, and I know, especially over the course of such a short period of time, you know, yeah, like I knew the other reason I like it because everything. It's not like super, like back in

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like sickness, right. Okay. Yeah, like the wall the wall thickness is not moving.

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And it's got that cool groove insights of fields you can roam around your finger.

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It's supposed to be so water doesn't settle under it. But you can also play with it just another fidget it's another tactile experience for me what I still congratulations you hyper activity.

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Fine

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when you actually drop it on the floor does it make a horrendously loud clanging metal

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Yeah, I was playing with with mine at my desk the other day and I stood up while I was trying to put it on and it fell so it fell from my standing height down to my desk and made this just terrible clattering

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my coworker came in and was like, everything okay, and they're like, Yeah, I just got my ring. It's fine.

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Yeah, I understand what a pound ring. It feels like that. So yeah, it does feel also would you put it on you'd be like, Wow, my hand is so light.

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Because my ring size is 13 so my other my metal It is like, it literally feels like a million pounds. Not a million but it's very heavy. Yeah, yeah, that's a mine is like eight

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Yeah, gosh.

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Bring your your your ring fingers the size of my thumb. Hey, welcome

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wow

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for those of you listening out there The reason I'm not talking because I don't have a load

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you could get one to you could just wear it around Oh cuz then I'll fiddle with it. It's like that's why I don't wear watches anymore because I just sit there and play with it. Well I don't want to watch it anymore because you literally don't need to wear watch. Yeah, yeah. But now me me used to get mad at me because the only reason I wore watches because me me bought me watches so I will get it to wear them. But yeah, so there I play with the classical. Exactly. You'll sit and fiddle with it. That is 100% what I am doing this exact second.

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I don't see the problem. What else you supposed to do with the watch tell time? I don't think so.

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Yeah, you live that's one of those pieces of technology that are it's very

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just not

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necessary like it's been phased out of existence you don't need one you don't need it not

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you don't need just watch. Yeah I don't like accessories on to wear one that's perfectly acceptable and fine it's not necessary

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thing when I when I went through a necklace phase in high school I was like I can wear like those athletic baseball necklaces but I'd sit there and play with that class or chew on it the whole time.

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Yeah.

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Why don't we do a similar necklace phase in high school? Hmm

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Yeah, everybody has a phases in high school.

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I was that one that was real. I know. I know. I saw there was a Why do you think no one's talking about it because he

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Collin

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disco girl God, I

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just want you to know

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starting a poker shell company.

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From necklaces, or do the whole thing.

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rings doing? circle? polka show rings? Yes. What was it called?

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was it was it hemp rope or we have like the like that kid and we would have to like I guess not spin I believe everything was rope. twine twine. Yeah. wine. And you basically Yeah, basically him twine but yes, that was thing that's very big fed.

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Cuz I had one with a dolphin on it and I thought it was a bad day because everybody had one and it was bad. It was until it stopped becoming bad. Ain't nobody had any more.

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Go ahead. Oh, no, it's gonna remember we. I totally remember making those on plane rides on family vacations. Yeah, you put that on the little key ring loop. You could go there and put like put on your toe and you could sit there and

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put a little tray table table. Yeah.

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And just move on.

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Man we were we were so cool.

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Obviously. I mean who. But interestingly, the same braiding technique is what they use when they make the bracelet thing like the pair cord bracelet. Oh yeah, yeah, it's still marginally a fad. That that's the same braid, man. It's that same macro a break from the 70s but uh

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huh.

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No, it's still there. It's just the material has changed. It's fine. You can still do it Aaron, you can still bust out your necklace.

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But if if booty shows are coming back, it's only a matter of literally minutes before the

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Eureka Springs Arkansas. See what they got for us. That's true. No, I remember going to that little shop in Springfield can buy St. John's. Yeah, it's sold only beads. Yeah, it's

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legitimately. I don't remember if you remember this, Aaron, but it was over there. I vaguely right.

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Going somewhere and then just like I can't remember it was like you guys are mom but there'd be like a whole like those big clear containers. Yeah, like full of them. Yeah, it was

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tables of that

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damn

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brown bags right to payment I forget. I don't remember. It was very Yeah. But they predominantly I'm sure they sold other things I don't know but I remember they were yeah there was a bead store

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talking about something you cannot find easily in 2019 a store a brick and mortar store that almost exclusively sales beads. Yes, that's the way

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it was a niche market then your mind man don't miss

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there's probably an online thriving online community of beads stores. I don't know what they would be but right

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Probably has moved in the online space like everything else. But yeah, I remember going in there and buying physical beads from those Yeah, Aaron's right, those little plastic tubs but they were not, they will ignore because it covered the whole table and there was multiple tables. Wow. Mm hmm. And it wasn't granted it wasn't a large store. No, I remember being a little tiny. It's still there. I don't know what it is now. Right. But that building still exists. I could probably find it. But yeah, it's all beads.

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And like, little bubble things because in the middle US had the bubble, right. Or some larger bead, maybe more than dolphin or the dolphin? Yeah, I had one that had like,

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I remember like

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I live it on the ram like I don't know go to maybe I don't know what it was. Yeah. I don't remember was online either. But

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dolphin you can buy a 750

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You peace lava beads kid lava stone rock beads, Shaka beads spacer beads and two rolls for $17 on Amazon. They go

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the beauty of this was though that you could buy like one blood Yeah. Just walk in and say I need I need and bead.

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Well right when you were doing your near pattern

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right you needed to do you only needed

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to really because that was kind of the style you had the middle thing young. Okay had a bead space, it's some

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space number one to each side. And that was kind of the that was the fashion. Now, there was something had a few more, but not like a lot. So you really only needed like two or three, two to four. Right to make to make your thing so

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You didn't need any wanted variety, right? Because you were making them and wearing them. You didn't want them to have the same bs on them. be silly. So you need a

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whole bunch of you need a whole different variety of like, two beads.

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So it made sense, I guess in a weird way that's store had that but but thinking back now that's just a really weird So yeah, I mean, I'd be thinking I mean like we sell beads in yeah then you think okay, well I'm going to need 300 or whatever, you know you're just rattle off there but it's like, you know they made they made their income, what 10 cents at a time with each bead they sold or if they were metal, you know, maybe dollar. It's like I didn't buy the metal because of the wooden ones or the ceramic ones or cooler looking so yeah, obviously. But yeah, the little

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I don't know what that technical term is. I'm gonna stick I'm gonna stick with bubble.

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Those are a little more but still

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Yeah, you bought the rope bird. Oh I mean twine sorry for like, your huge thing of it for like, no money and then a couple be in there you're in business you need

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which is a really weird thing now I'm thinking about it out loud. It just it doesn't it

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is so weird I don't even know.

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Take pic the entire concept Imagine you're sitting down in front of a bank trying to get a business loan. No no track.

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I'm again I'm 100% sure that the store sold other things

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you would have to shut I don't remember what any of those were.

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I was only going to be

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listening. Right? Yeah. I hadn't read a book. Remember the book? I don't know. I guess we bought it there. Maybe like the brain pattern. Oh, oh my gosh. Yeah. It would have had to

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I mean, I don't know where I don't know what else you want. Yeah.

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But I don't know.

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The internet, not 1996 you didn't know that. No.

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And yeah, I guess probably Barnes it probably Barnes and Noble or maybe.

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I bet it was a store. It probably was. I was near to you. It was in there.

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I wonder if surely we still have that somewhere.

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I don't wonder why. I wonder if it still exists. That'd be really fine to find. But yeah, we bought that in there. There was a whole bunch of like, braid, I guess. I guess. It's a braid. led to patterns. I don't remember. Yeah. I don't know. Which I only made three ever because the other ones were like, like, master level looms men, like I don't know. I don't know who was making those like, what? Yeah, macro may not wizardry that was but I

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did three of them.

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Yeah, I probably only did one. Because, yeah. Well, there was like the standard, kind of just the

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ones that you know, you could use for friendship bracelets. I know I would do that one a lot. No, no, I didn't mean to say that I executed those three. Well, sure.

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Well,

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just make sure that's clear. No, but I do remember there was the one the one I really liked. Was this, the spiral, getting making it do the

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you could do the knots in such a way that you'd offset them. Every other one has to spiral around. Yes. very tricky, because mine always looked good her. And then like there would be a section of like,

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continuing in straight line. Straight was much easier. Because it was easier to like, keep, I mean, in line was tricky, because it would go and then like, I always had a section somewhere that was like, oh, what has happened?

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You

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know, I that was the the consistency was always really hard.

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Yes. Mostly because my attention span was zero. So, I mean, we talked about was

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my attention span

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funny, it's totally, it's really bad. I'm right there with you. It's wonderful to find. I'm not judging.

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Yeah, that's just, yeah, just those weird things, you know, be thinking back and you like, how did Where did that start? You know, where did that get start getting incorporated in, in our day to day activities.

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You know, just kind of like, was one of the it's just like everything else, right? Your friends do it. And you're like, Oh, I must do that.

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Well because my friends are doing it and so I also have to do that because that's definitely that's your well anyway when this was happening was definitely like new

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and so that is that is 100% the middle school mentality of Oh my friends are doing this I must also do

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that yeah that's

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I think back to middle school I try not to ever think back to middle school

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when the demon when I can't keep the demon dogs at bay for much longer that's what I just like a middle school and

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it's fine

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well that's like the the kids that I have right there in sixth grade now so they're right at that kind of the start of where our middle school was right and so sometimes like why would you? Oh, nevermind

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you forget you know like why are you doing that? Why are you and now the trends are all like bizarre because I from very strange

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Internet places that I don't know about.

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I my favorite thing to do is every now and then I'll pull up on Twitter and I'll go to their new section of like things you missed on Twitter. And I don't recognize most of the names or words or concepts on that show at all these days. And I'm like, yeah, I'm an old man and then I close out it's like it's just fun. Oh, just That's true.

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Yeah, the kids I'm on Twitter anyway, so it doesn't matter. I well I know that but it just on Snapchat or whatever it's true or Tick tock tick tock is the thing Megan Megan downloaded.

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I haven't felt this old in a very long time.

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Making downloaded Tick Tock the other day. Oh my god, but why?

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Well, so she, so I'm trying to be well, yeah, she was listening to this like kind of like business e podcast. I was like, Oh, the next big thing is Tick Tock. So that's true, man. The kids are all about it. Do you need to be

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even beyond their note know how to do it so I so felt like just two old people laying in bed at night. It was like nine o'clock as she's downloading Tick tock, and we're like, hey, what? Where do you sleep? It won't go away. Why is it doing the sweater I have

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just like, popping up and we could not make heads or tails of it at all. It needs a strange need no sense to us. I don't understand it either. I don't but again, I don't social media at all. So like, Well, yeah, tick tock. What get out I don't even know. The kids are doing it. They are talking about it. They do.

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It's kind of like your vine. Yeah, I was I was about to say it's almost identical to vine. It's got a very vine as quality but it has apparently more features so people can put like different kind of filters, and so on that because my my students felt like they needed to sit down and teach me about

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Like new things because I wasn't quote, unquote, hip enough.

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And like the they're trying to tell me about all these new like online challenges and I'm just couldn't express how much I didn't care. But from my understanding from from my, from my thesis paper that I wrote on this

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it's basically like vine, but their words cooler, and it has more features on it

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not not a dead media and longer to believe. Yeah, I just, I just we were trying to find out like we're trying to follow topics or, you know, figure out it just it doesn't it doesn't work like that. And so like no I don't know doesn't work that way. It's basically like,

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I just like shows you stuff and then there's just like, videos and I don't know people dancing and I don't really know

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much beyond that Aaron is apparently been more school than I have. But it was not like a just by barely. Well listen, I have like zero. I have a kid show at one time. And I was like, that doesn't look like school work. And then they went away. So

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but yeah, it doesn't seem to be that type of thing. Yeah, I mean, we were like, Well, how do I not see something because I, you see everything yeah.

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We couldn't suck up a barrage of stimulus. It was so terrible. Very strange.

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Once it's not a very quick fast paced again, bread 11 year old brain. It constantly is craving stimulus. It's exactly what you need. Again. Yeah, I didn't tell my kids the other day being we had to go to the nurse or something. We had to go the hallway and do some other stuff in like, it was head check day. That's what it was.

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I was like, yeah, we're just gonna go down. Yeah, for lice, you know, randomly screen that lets you just like, making sure you still got something on your shoulders. Okay?

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But anyway, anyway, we're doing that and I was like, Okay, well, we're just gonna go down there. We have to sit in the hallway and

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used to sit. I was like, it'll be fine being boards Good for you. And they're like, watch

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how I understand what you mean. I was like, yeah, it's good for you. Your brain needs some rest. Yeah, you gotta you gotta filter through all that stuff and process and things you doing is good for you. And they're like, Why don't believe you are a liar. It's but it is it that's, you know, when the brain does. Its most creative when it's bored. Yeah, and in because your brain is like, because your brain is I must be doing something right now. When you're not getting external stuff. It's

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on stuff.

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My things to think about,

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you know, looking at Tick Tock for what other people are doing. That's my goal. I do the same thing, as we discussed. So again, just too harshly because I definitely did that. Totally smell in my four year old will walk up to me and go, I'm bored dad, and I'm like, What? Not? Good, good. You be bored. you contemplate the universe.

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Yeah, it's, I think it's weird, though.

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That,

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like, it just is. It's very strangely broadened, like the trends that kids try to emulate. Because like before, you know, again, because I'm old, that

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you only ever saw like what your friends are doing.

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You know? And so it's like,

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Oh, I'll do that thing that my, like two friends are doing. Not a big thing. So you didn't really have like,

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the options like, you could, like you. There was only like so many things that you could ways you could try to fit in. Right? All right, in a way it was like easier, because there were like, four categories of person in middle school and you're like, Okay, well, I'm not that one or that one. Here we go. I'll take this one.

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No, he was he was like now, it's like he meant because there's so much external stimuli coming from like, tick tock or Snapchat or wherever, and follow all these Brandon stuff. The type of person that there is, is exceedingly broad, but also, that means that there's these people that are bouncing around so much. They don't know where to go. They don't really know what to do. They don't really like any of these but their friends are doing them. And so they're like, well, well

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They're trying to fit it and it's a very it's a very strange thing to just look at sometimes look at recess especially just to sit down and stare at like watch them.

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This is weird sociologically and stuff. It's very it's a very bizarre Yeah, cuz you got it when we were in school and I mean, that really wasn't that long ago but it's kind of long ago. No, no, no, the first one was

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in for as long as we've been alive, it was busy I added myself like 96 so I'm toast A long time ago, a long time ago.

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But like there was what their categories of kids there were the jocks. There were the nerds. There were you know, the

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anymore and I remember you may have had the kind of the punk the, you know, Nick kind of crowd.

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Really, and then you had the homecoming king and queen, popular

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Group just like I said, well, prep prep anything particular big thing.

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But now now you're right, you can be following trends from across the globe. And I want to emulate that person that is on Tick Tock for 13 seconds. Yeah. And you become land person. And it's like, Where? What? Yeah, you know, I just yeah.

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Kids kids will still have their, their groups or their cliques that they'll be in. And I saw that on the playground a lot that even though kids were still kind of doing the same thing, they are still had that status of Oh, he's not doing it as good as I am. Well, yeah, there's been as that to pull it. The kids even at fifth graders start to develop. And so hopefully, that they'll kind of break out of it.

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But well, you can help. But, I mean, most people do. They kind of

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into their own thing later, but there's just so many really bizarre things in like, like,

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I can't remember what's called the but you know, they watch a video, the more just like, the strange like Japanese fashion, right like the

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like the the animated style. Yeah, but there's a name for it to Google this second

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thinking, thinking the Korean

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k pop hip hop, well k pop too. So that's one. So like a pop fashion. I definitely have kids that are into that because I see the BTS and the Black Pink shirts. You know.

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I commented on the other day, I was like, Oh, yeah, color and geography. And I was like, Oh, yeah, Houma black, pink, and like, three of the girls are like,

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like, some of the other girls are like,

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the rest of the class was going, but the target

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was like yeah

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You know by pink Come on talk.

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Yeah, really go

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get my in there. But

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putting it in there are times where I'm like is that

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you know, where those how how to lead? Well obviously I mean this is going to be this will be lower but that that progression of technology so and the broadening of those, those trends

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globally that you can be exposed to but then there's the the speed at which they change. Yes, you know fast the speed at which you get feedback from those while you know, when you didn't have that exposure. It took a long time to figure out you know, what was or wasn't going to work for you as a kid. Oh, yes, I think back to my middle school in my mo mock turtleneck bowl cut wearing days, you know, that lasted probably a bit too long, but it's fine.

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It was cool. Cool in the 90s

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the word the word I was looking for in the Japanese fashion literally.

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That's what I was looking for a little, little Lolita fashion, not not the book by Vladimir Nabokov. Not that one.

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Yeah.

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Oh, yes. Oh, yeah. Just just very interesting. But

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there's that and there's all the like, some of them have seen that. And that's something that you would not be able to see. Long time ago. You couldn't even if it didn't exist, you couldn't find it? Because it wasn't there. Yeah. How was it? How would you

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write a letter to your Japanese pin belt?

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picture

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what are the new thing is like the disco girl thing. Very strange. I don't understand this, but

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thing

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i i think that came from college sorority girl culture and it kind of has like a trickle down effect it's trickle down through picture sharing like social media like Instagram stuff and because like college girls started that no big t shirt wearing shorts yeah like the high. Yeah and sandals and stuff like that and carrying out a backpack and a water bottle and having you know 50,000

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currencies and cheese on the arm and then high school kids saw that

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went down from there. I think that's fair assessment. I couldn't believe that because I I noticed that before you know when I was still at Oklahoma State, and that was a very popular style with by every single sorority that was there

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and then it just made my

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know the status for several for green

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Life that more unbearable. And they always traveled in packs and they always kind of sounded like oh my gosh. And so what do you do in college? You don't travel you

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don't travel alone. what point would you do that I was me all the time. Every time we went anywhere we were we were always like, there was at least seven of us going someplace when I was in college.

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Minimum. That was great. I last two years kind of sad because everyone had graduated and moved out. It was just nice job problem, though. Just like hanging out with my friends. Oh, wait, they're all working or not here. Yeah. But no, yeah, I was able to

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the Was it my

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childhood psychology class,

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which I was the only male. And by the way, I'm interesting. Almost 90% of the girls that were in that class. were part of a sorority. So I always showed up.

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Either early or on time, then everyone would come in as their sorority group. All them had their Starbucks. It was an eight o'clock class in the morning, just so everyone would be late including now who still had to go So guys, I'm so sorry I'm late. I had to quit my Starbucks. Of course I'm sitting there miserable because I'm early. I was like, I just got to get down to class and that's one of those. That's one of those things where I was still punk rock enough to be like, yo, the company of my house is way cheaper

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care

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i'm not about that life.

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I still have that edge to be sometimes like why I can spend my money on so many other things like that. I like I didn't I did bring up the point and ask the girl How much are Starbucks coffee was and I think she said somewhere about like $12 and I was like, you know you get like, for breakfast is like that at McDonald's or something. Oh, yeah, but

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That same price that's yeah all the food for that so yeah that's that's where yeah my little saltiness come down like no I'm not Oh, I was I was all the salty sir. I mean I don't express la tell it to my friends now and like yeah this the my mentality during this class we had a

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What is it called as a doula

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or like if someone wants had like a home birth yes or a child I was going with this meeting so

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and so

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all the girls were asking that like her like all of these questions like all these moderately sensibly but yet annoying questions was this like a like all the time thing or is this just a one specific example? So it was like this is one example Okay, okay. She didn't come in randomly, okay.

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Like she came in all the time and it's like, what? Class Dude, that's why you were

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so creeped out.

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Part of education says we're going to take this class. And on the first day, the girl after girl came in, and I was like, Oh, I don't know about this. But all these girls were asking questions like so. And she was just talking about like water burning.

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Yes.

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I know. And so she was talking about water birth again, they like all these girls were asking these questions and me just being frustrated. And I made the comment. I was like, Well, do you have to keep the water at room temperature like a fish? And I just felt all of the eyes on me. And I just went back to taking notes.

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That was my mentality in the class. I was like, so does the baby have to be like what it you know, what does the water half the room temperature like a fish when you put in a new tank or what's what are we doing here?

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She was not happy with it. I thought it was a question. Well, I don't think it was probably the question. I'm imagining it might have had something to do with the tone of voice, which you asking her? Let's be real here. Right?

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Fish

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Excuse me.

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I roll probably didn't help either. Also a little hair flip that I did after

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the premiere caramel macchiato. I was great, great in that class, but I hated it. It was just always that. So when you're talking to a child in class, and I'll just bang my head on the table like Why? But I was like, I have to do this for an education. I'm learning to shake visibly an anger.

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It was a fun class. I learned so much, but it sounds like you had a ball. Really, really soak snap. Loved it. Oh, all the soaking. I

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don't think I ever took that. I don't recall yours.

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Child

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adolescent psychology I took normal psychology.

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I took that he

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took sociology, I seem to remember,

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I took an adolescent psychology, which I actually started to, like, do like a process to do for a masters. And then they're like, No, we cut the program like, Well,

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I was so sorry that class was early childhood development. Oh, from from birth all the way up to like,

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I will go into like middle school yet sorry.

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But I took an adolescent psychology class exam we talked about, like, I'd be a bit long usually early childhood is birth to four, four or five, something like that. Yeah.

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And then there's another one that goes up to the usually have them split down. Yeah, that's that that must have been like adolescence, maybe? Yeah, probably mine because I took an adolescent psychology class. And we've talked about like, the online culture that kids are being involved with.

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Now, and that is that does that promote? And like we talked about, like, video games and child development in that class? I went a lot. And I actually use that class to do what I do now. Oh, true. Yeah, that makes sense. And so

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in the so dealing with a lot of stuff like that, but yeah, that early childhood class that's like, Oh, I don't know what I'm doing here. But it's easy. No, yeah, early childhood wasn't for me, and I'll still get the credit.

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Now, if you asked me, two semesters before that, why I took a speech class at 730 in the morning.

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That's a whole different story.

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why did you take a speech class at 730 in the morning?

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Yeah.

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can just leave it to hang in there. I have to know

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Hello, hello. Hello. Okay sorry what

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alright

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sounds sound kicked off for a second I was kind of freaking out Okay, okay

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thought I was my internet again

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just cut this part. I

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will either either cut this part or we

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just make wild about why

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don't tell the story anyway. Yeah make up our story so

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perfect

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Well okay

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it's happened to you may just

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be do

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who he left.

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Okay, he ended the call in his side coming back to the question I don't know if it like shut off weird on that he might be trying to restart it

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to the interview with that lady was crazy. Oh yeah, yeah yeah I was definitely

53:01

Definitely underprepared.

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Well, cuz she's like, she's, I mean, if you looked at her website, she wrote a book. That's true. So she's done lots of interviews and things like that before. And I have officially done.

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Two. Yeah.

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This was my second one today. Yeah. interviewing somebody. And so I was trying to, it's, it's a lot of, it's a lot more work than just, you know, sitting down having a conversation, especially if I'm trying to get to particular talking points, you know, yeah, you know, and so it's like, really having to pay attention, because the last thing I want you want to do is like them telling a story that answers Question number four, and that's true. And you're like, Oh, no, yeah. Yeah. And then we ask that question anymore, right? I don't want to do that and throw them off. So, but you know, taking notes and following and trying to follow along and

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She was, she was really good and very nice. And I think I'm going to try and do at least two more with her on a couple different topics. Okay, so she didn't like you guys doing?

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Well, I mean, it's, you know, she didn't say that out loud. I'm sure she may have thought about

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or whatever. But

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you know, it's part of it. I know is she's got a book she wants to talk and, and get out there. So and, and I and Megan, the my podcast is literally right in the vein of where she wants to be, and in her market as well. So there's a lot of cross over here. And if she can sell more more books by, you know, being on some, yeah, some piddly little podcast, I'm sure she'll do it. So but she's I mean, when she's a

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She's the truly International House sitter. So she goes wild. Yeah. So she, she ran for office in California, like, and she was in Canada campaigns and stuff for like 30 years. And then was like, that's enough. And then just left it all. Now for the past 10 years. She's just traveled the globe, going places.

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Teaching, do that. How sitting being like, Oh, sure, I'll go over to Saigon or I'll go over to France.

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Yeah, she's or she's going to be over where she's going to be this this Christmas. Now, she told me and I completely forgot. But yeah, somewhere over like in Korea, she's just going to be there for Christmas. Because what she's finding in South Korea, I'm scaring her market yet. Well, yeah.

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A lot of International House is going to North Korea. No, but right at the end she did say that because I can I asked her so I said after 10 years of doing this

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One of the questions I asked her was, how has the market changed over time? And my follow up question to that was, so what's your long term plan, given the changes that you've seen, and where do you want to be in another 10 years?

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And good follow up question. I know I'm getting that MBC. Why?

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And so

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what she said was, what happened was, is that she she's noticed that there's been an immense growth in the industry overall, but especially in

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we're underdeveloped countries. When are developing countries that's the market that's growing because it has room for growth. Well, economics work so well, so So there are two there are two Well, there are two aspects of this is one when she started most of her clients were coming from Europe, North America, and

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China yet, but because those are just big and have more affluent people. Yes. But but still China has been there's been a growth in in those markets because there are other you know, as one person uses a house that are their friends will also want to use a house as you become aware and more comfortable with that concept. But she's also knowing is this huge, burgeoning middle class of in the developing countries and developing areas.

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They want to go on vacations do we and and they want to do this stuff. And so what she's actually fighting is she'll go into areas and

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groups of teachers who want to go on holiday together, will pull their resources to hire house sitter or two to watch all their houses at the same time. Why is going to bounce around all day? Yeah, yeah. And so she's like, her biggest efforts right now are trying to get into these school systems effectively.

58:00

is to get one person that likes her, and then that person tells her and recommend. Yeah, yeah. And so that's where she's seeing a ton of growth is in these areas where this middle middle class is really exploding yet, because you have to put together

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you don't have enough money to do it by yourself. Right? Well, you know, and she doesn't care because she gets over these crazy places. Yeah.

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I can't even pronounce this. I came again. I don't remember this place, but it was some weird Island in Europe that she was on an island in Iceland. Maybe

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it was a smaller, some weird small island play the Mediterranean. Yeah. And yeah, and Spain, baby. Yeah.

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Anyway, they called

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she the house. The client brought her on.

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And was gone for six weeks and and connected her to connect Kelly with their entire group of friends. And so she will plop down and basically had a really nice house a pre made social life and tour guides. And so she for six weeks she just said house and went on all sorts of crazy adventures and like whale diving and all these lovely stuff. Whale diving, and that's probably not in, in in in the Mediterranean Amy. Now she said it was a French French Island. I like in the South Pacific or was it like

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no, it was like

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Corsica

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like, Oh, no, no, I

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was the guy right there.

1:00:00

I'm pretty sure it was, um, you

1:00:04

know, French Guiana. It was definitely just a country in South America.

1:00:11

You know, it's an island.

1:00:14

Now Now you if you're thinking the movie escape from Devil's Island, yes, yes. HBR always know she was on. It was like St. Martin and St. Barth, or somewhere over in that area. North northern coast of France. I think it was like St. Pierre and Mickey. Mickey long. Yeah. So pmet know, was she was on okay. And so she was I don't know if it was whale diving or whatever, but she was tiny thingy. Yeah, but she was how sitting on that for six weeks. Now. That is very.

1:00:49

What?

1:00:51

What? So? Yeah, I thought I was like, That's insane.

1:00:56

That's pretty insane. So she was

1:01:00

Letting Go house it internationally. Hey, right. And so great. And so what she does is she I didn't ask her this because I didn't. Yeah, I should have but like, she

1:01:12

writes a lot. She writes some blogs on the side. So I think she gets, you know, she gets income from that. And like you do, she does charge for these things. But like, yeah, it's just crazy. And so I just

1:01:27

that's all she does. Just travels does that. So I mean, what else could you do if you're traveling? If you're going to be in like Auckland one week, and then like her? Two weeks later? You're no, like, no joke. Switzerland. Like what?

1:01:43

Let me see if I can pull up her.

1:01:46

Her schedule. This week alone. It's like, it's like, yeah, she's like in LA right now. Yeah, which is why we're able to talk and then she's going to go to Mexico and then she's flying back over to Europe. The week after that.

1:02:00

Unlike

1:02:01

music because LA to Mexico is like feet away, yes.

1:02:11

All the

1:02:13

Angeles sicko like

1:02:15

Yep, 90 miles.

1:02:19

Oh, I think I can figure out because yeah, she was like Yeah, she's a crazy schedule because she's over in France. She's over in London right Oh, she was in London last week. And then she's in LA this week and then for two weeks and then she's over and down in Mexico after that. That's not the biggest. The part that's giving me the most anxiety about all of this

1:02:46

is the fact that I cannot successfully sleep on an airplane.

1:02:52

Yeah.

1:02:54

All that flying is like

1:02:58

Oh yeah.

1:03:00

I can't do it. I mean, she probably doesn't fly in the back like I have to, but I don't know. She might. I'm not sure. But

1:03:13

to fly that much, and if you're I can't sleep on a plane in that flight to Australia, I thought I was going to die. Just because I was sitting in the seat for like 16 hours. And I couldn't get sleep. Yeah, I mean, I too much night wasn't much it was dark. It was really weird because we were flying the way the direction that you're flying like the whole 16 hours. It was nighttime, basically. Uh huh. It was it was a really strange like a just like because you're flying into the sun just going that way. And she's like, still dark. Nope, still dark some more. The way that the shadows because that always keeps you just keep turning away from the Sun more. Right? So yeah.

1:04:00

You're still night. You're just flying through the dark darkness. Yeah, yeah.

1:04:05

And so just flying forever. And it's like

1:04:11

yeah, change is awful. It's nice. It's fine. It's like I've gotten way whereas airline chairs, then quantities but but still it was a little tiny chair for 16 hours Oh no, it's worth it once we landed but all my book short flight was no I can't imagine I can't imagine this because I can't I can't I can't even sleep in a car. Like airplanes us right out me

1:04:44

so mad