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Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Anonymous.
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I m Dax, this is Monica, and today we have crazy concert stories.
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Let me glance at the list of ones we record to see if you re allowed to hear these.
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Yeah, all day.
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Yeah, you can, well, the last one.
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Yeah, you can listen to that one.
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Okay, great.
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So these, you can listen, proceed.
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So these are crazy concert stories, but additionally, we want to announce the prompts for February and they re barn burners.
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So first tell us about something crazy you ve seen at an AA meeting.
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I ve got many, I ve been involved in one of the more crazy things that s happened at a meeting.
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Maybe you ll share it.
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I doubt anyone will be able to stop me.
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So Crazy AA Stories, disastrous Valentine s Day, accidentally ended up naked.
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Tell us about a time you were accidentally naked.
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And then last, tell us about a time that your greatest fear came true.
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Oh, sky s the limit on that one.
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It is, it is.
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Could go a lot of ways.
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Very tasty.
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But today is Crazy Concert Stories.
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Please enjoy.
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Crazy concert stories.
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We can do it.
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Fun.
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Ready for Jess?
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Jess, I m ready for Jess.
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Hello.
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Hi.
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Oh, hi.
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Is this Jess?
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Yes.
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How are you guys?
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Good.
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Are you double checking that you re recording?
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I can tell you have a look of consernation on your face.
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Yes.
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I was just making sure I m recording.
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I missed a button, so my video wasn t starting.
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So I was like, please don t leave.
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So slight panic, but we re good.
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Rest assured all these start with a slight panic when you say like 75% technical difficulty, something very par for the course.
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Perfect.
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Did you have a happy new year?
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I had the best new year.
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The best literally just got back into town from London 12 hours ago.
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Wow.
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Timing couldn t be more perfect.
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What is New Year s Eve in London like?
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Well, we actually got tickets to go down to the Thames.
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So like we did the whole fireworks down on the river, 100,000 people.
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Oh my gosh.
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It was insane, but so worth it.
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Oh, enchanted.
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So it s their version of Times Square?
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Yeah.
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And were you imbibing?
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Were you pounding Guinnesses or anything?
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No, not at all.
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Not really my vibe.
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No Mandy?
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No.
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Me and two of my best friends went, and it was magical to see the Christmas lights and do New Year s.
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It was everything.
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Oh, wonderful.
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Yay, I m so happy to hear that.
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That s a resounding vote for going, and it s an encouragement.
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I ll go.
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I m there.
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Very busy, but very much worth it.
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Okay, so you have a crazy concert story that I presume did not take place in London.
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Although, who knows, because you re a world traveler, yeah.
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No, it actually took place in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Oh, wonderful.
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This was in August of 2014.
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Okay, great, 10 years ago, come August.
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Okay, so something you should know about me is I collect set lists from concerts.
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And so I ve got like five binders full of set lists from concerts dating back to like 2007 probably.
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Wow.
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I don t get one at every show.
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Yeah, I was gonna say, this is what they tape to the ground.
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Is that how you re getting it?
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What?
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That s so cool.
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So you ve got to bamboozle and charm people.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So I ve got a cool one to show you, Dax, actually.
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So this is an Avent Brothers set list.
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What?
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Look how creative, of course.
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For the listener, it has a drawing on it.
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There s a monster face in the middle of it.
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Yeah.
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The Avent Brothers sound engineer does a special one for each show.
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And if you time it right, you can get one from him.
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And so that was a very special one to me.
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I love this.
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This isn t about the Avett brothers, but I thought I had to show you that one.
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I love that.
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And just really quick, obviously your life is concerts.
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You love concerts and music.
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Oh my gosh.
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I counted my set list before the show and I ve got 175.
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That s just ones that I get at shows.
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I don t get one at every show.
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What do you think your batting average is?
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Probably about half.
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Wow.
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Okay.
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So you ve been to like 400 concerts.
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At least.
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In an average ticket price, we ll just, we re going to say $50.
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Okay.
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So that s 404,000.
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Then times five, it s $20,000 on concerts.
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That s a great way to spend your money.
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I love it.
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It is experiential, but also maybe this is part of the story.
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So if it is, you can not answer, but how do you do this?
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Well, she probably don t want to tell anyone cause she doesn t want competition.
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But I want to know.
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Yeah, don t get any ideas, people.
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So it s kind of part of the story.
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I ll just get into the story.
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There we go.
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So I also kind of went through a phase of winning radio contest.
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Oh, my God.
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My whole motto was you can t win if you don t enter.
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So I just
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putting my email on everything.
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And I ve won a lot of cool experiences.
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And so this concert, I actually had won tickets to.
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It was outside in August in Des Moines, so very hot, very sweaty, kind of a covered canopy concert series situation.
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But outdoor?
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Outdoors, yep.
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At this time, I had never seen this band before, so I was very excited, but I wasn t wanting to get all up in the middle of it.
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I was just kind of on the outskirts with my friend, just keeping it casual, enjoying the music.
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So concert gets over and me and my friend, we just know at this point, we re not bouncing.
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We ve got to let the crowd disperse a little bit and make our way towards front.
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So we make our way down and
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Some are easier than others to get the set list.
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Some you really have to work for.
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My friends say it s all in my eyelashes.
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And I do this whole like, please, may I have some?
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Yeah, you look like a puppy from a cartoon.
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Yeah, you gotta, you know.
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You gotta be a Dicksonian orphan.
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And so I lock eyes with a roadie.
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Sometimes you can tell that it s the one.
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Sometimes you got to move on.
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They re not giving you the time of day.
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Well, I lock eyes with him and I say, may I please have a set list?
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Loud enough for him to hear, but he doesn t hear me.
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And so like he walks back again.
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I m like,
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And he acknowledges me, gives me like the thumbs up one second.
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And I was like, yes, got this locked.
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We re good.
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I just stand there before they start kicking people out.
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Hopefully he comes through before they re like, we got to go.
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We got to go.
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So I m standing there, my friend s maybe 5, 10 feet behind.
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She s just on her phone, minding her own business.
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And to my left, this very belligerent girl comes up and is standing, you know, within like a foot or two of my personal bubble.
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And I m like, OK, what s going to happen?
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She s clearly intoxicated.
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And so the roadie comes over because there s like a barricade and like kind of a wide gap between me and him on the stage.
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And as he s leaning over to hand it to me,
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She comes out of nowhere, grabs onto it.
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No!
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At the same time that I m grabbing it.
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Uh oh.
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So mind you, this is computer paper.
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Like, this is what they print them on.
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We both have one side of the set list.
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And in my mind, I m like, I asked politely for this.
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This is mine.
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Yeah, he was giving it to you.
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Yeah.
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What is happening?
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And so we like bring it over the barrier and we re standing there kind of swearing off.
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And I m just like, he gave that to me.
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Please let go.
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And she is just maniacally laughing.
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Oh.
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I don t know what to do here.
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I could let go.
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It s a piece of paper, big deal.
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I have the memories.
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I have my 2014 camera phone pictures.
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Everything s fine.
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Before this even crosses my mind, she takes her other hand and starts to crumple the paper.
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She lets go with one hand, winds up
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And punches me in the vagina.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Wait.
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Wow, wow, wow.
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Wait.
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Wow.
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Okay, so so many things are happening.
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She wanted it, but then she didn t.
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Then she s trying to destroy it, then she lets go.
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She didn t even want it.
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And then I m gonna fucking punch her, but I m gonna punch her in the vagina.
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Yes.
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That s a very... Yeah, dead locks eyes with me, winds up.
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punches me in the vagina.
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Okay, Jess, is it possible, because she was hammered, she thought she was being playful.
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Like maybe she and her buddies punch each other in the vagina, like dudes on Jackass or something.
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Maybe she s a cheerleader.
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Grab him by the pussy.
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She thought it was part of that thing.
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Catch him by the pussy.
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Yeah.
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You can t say grab him by the pussy because that s different.
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Oh, that was Trump.
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I m gonna go with no, based on her crazy laughter.
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Ew.
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What was the band?
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Group Love?
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Hey, that s my first time hearing it.
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They re probably spectacular.
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And I don t know enough about music.
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Rob, is that a band you know?
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Yeah, I know Group Love.
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Of course he does.
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Would you do this?
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Would you punch a woman in the vagina if she had a setlet you weren t even sure you wanted?
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No.
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I ve done it for much less than a set list.
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It was wild.
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And of course I let go.
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Oh, you did.
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It like took the air out of me.
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It hurt.
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Yeah.
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Can I ask some more specific questions?
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And if they re inappropriate, you just flag them and we won t continue.
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But did she punch your mom s pubis or did she get you in the clitoris?
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Cause I feel like if you got punched in the clitoris, that would be extremely painful.
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Whereas the mom s pubis might be tolerable.
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It was like bone.
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It was bone.
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Okay.
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So great.
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She went like straight or up.
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Uppercut or cross?
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Because she was shorter than me, I think that maybe played into... What if that was as high as she could punch?
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What Jess hadn t told us is that she was two foot four.
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She wanted to punch your face, but that was as high as she could go.
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And Jess didn t tell us she s six foot 11.
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Right.
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Wow.
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Wait, and so you let it go though.
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Well, no.
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Oh yeah.
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Okay.
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We re hearing the response, right?
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What s the response?
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So I let go of the setlist, because it takes the breath out of me.
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Almost doubled over.
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Maybe not so much pain as like, what the hell just happened.
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Shocks.
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Yeah.
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You ve been struck.
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You ve been assaulted.
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Exactly.
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And she takes off with the setlist.
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She won.
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And I turn around to my friend and she saw this whole thing go down and we just bust out laughing because what else can you do?
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Like it was so ridiculous that you had to laugh.
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See, now boys would have had this whole round of guilt that they didn t then punch the person who punched you in the vagina.
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She didn t feel any like, Oh, I let you down here.
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I didn t cold cock her from the side.
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No, like it happened so fast, and we knew that she was drunk.
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I was mad in the moment, but like looking back, it s a funny story, and I m talking to you guys, so.
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But you didn t get your list, and that feels unjust, and it feels like violence won that day.
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Well, here was gonna be my question, Jess.
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Or did I?
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Okay, great.
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Okay, there s more, I love more.
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Really quick, I was just gonna ask is, generally when I ve been on a stage, the set list is in front of all the musicians.
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It s not like there s just one for the singer.
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How many are there normally?
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Probably for each musician and then maybe some for the techs.
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Absolutely.
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So I had just kind of come to terms.
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I wasn t getting a set list.
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That s fine.
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I have this story.
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My friend witnessed it.
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It s funny.
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So as we were leaving and laughing at the experience, the way that this venue, it s not really a music venue.
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It s a skating Plaza that they turn into a music venue in the summer.
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And so there s no real load in load out area.
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The tour bus parks on the street.
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And so to walk back to our car, we had to pass the tour bus.
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And as I was getting closer to the tour bus, I realized that one of the singers was standing outside either signing something or taking a photo with somebody.
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And I was like, I ve got to tell them.
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This is too good not to share.
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Yeah, they d want to know this happened at their show.
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Yeah, exactly.
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I like wait my turn and I m like just chatting with him.
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And I was like, I ve got to tell you the craziest thing just happened.
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Tell him the whole story.
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And he goes, you know what?
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Wait right here.
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I ll be right back.
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And so he goes on to the tour bus and gets me this little guy.
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Ah, set list.
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Okay, I m with Stu.
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So we got me a set list.
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Number one song.
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Three of the band members came out and signed.
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Oh.
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That s sweet.
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You really earned that though.
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But then when I was writing this story in, I thought that the girl had run away with the whole set list.
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Well, come to find out, we had actually torn it in half.
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And so I still have that half too.
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Oh my gosh.
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Oh, look at this, you have one and a half sat lists signed by three of the members.
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Oh, that s great.
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I think I won the situation.
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Yeah.
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I ve got the story, I get to chat with you guys.
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Yeah, if you don t get blasted in the V, you re not getting those signatures or the second one.
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It s true, it was worth it.
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I mean, not that people should be trading for that.
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No one should be punching anyone anywhere, but if you do find yourself getting punched, you probably earned something big in life.
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That s right.
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Karma s coming your way.
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What s the best setlist?
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Like what s the one you re the most proud of?
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I pulled it out for you guys.
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I was hoping you d ask.
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I cried when I got this one.
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I ve got some big ones, like the Eagles.
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Have you thought about like doing a coffee table book with all these?
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That s a good idea.
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That would be cool.
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It would be Rob.
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Do you want to publish that?
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Rob loves music.
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Yep.
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He s in.
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This is Adele.
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Oh, wow.
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Hello.
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I m going to go through all of them.
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Oh my God, that s amazing.
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This was in July of 2016.
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Hers is very simple.
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I appreciate the simplicity.
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Very English.
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If I get a physical concert ticket, I put that in there too.
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I love this.
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This is so Monica, Jess, this is something she would have as well.
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I just posted today for seeing my collection of got milk ads.
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There you go.
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Yeah.
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And it s very simple.
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Yeah.
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It just makes me happy and it s fun to look back on and remember those times and who I was there with.
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Have you tried to get a job related to music and live performances?
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Yes, I worked for a venue in Des Moines for a couple of years and it just kind of took the joy out of it.
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Yeah, you don t mix work with pleasure.
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That s what ruined this.
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I was just too close and knew too much.
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It took the magic out of it.
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Yeah.
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I ll go as a spectator, enjoy it.
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Finagle a set list, get punched in the crotch and hit the road.
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Are you a fan of Taylor?
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No, you re not.
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Yeah, that face.
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No, I am.
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Oh, you are.
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I m the biggest fan.
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I don t know if you can tell.
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Oh, my God, you re wearing a Travis Kelsey shirt.
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SPEAKER_02
Oh, my God.
1
SPEAKER_02
Whoa.
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SPEAKER_02
Okay.
1
SPEAKER_02
So then you went to the Eras tour?
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SPEAKER_02
I did.
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SPEAKER_03
Did you get one?
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SPEAKER_03
Yeah, I got tickets super last minute.
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SPEAKER_03
I did it.
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SPEAKER_03
And I m going to be honest, I didn t even try.
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah, don t try.
1
SPEAKER_03
It was such a consuming experience.
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SPEAKER_03
Leaving there was crazy.
1
SPEAKER_03
We didn t leave our row of seats for like five minutes.
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SPEAKER_03
The lines just weren t moving.
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SPEAKER_03
So I didn t even try, which I regret now.
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SPEAKER_02
If you had that in your possession,
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SPEAKER_01
You d punch her in the vagina for it.
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SPEAKER_01
I d send you a picture of it.
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SPEAKER_02
Yes, I would need that.
1
SPEAKER_02
Wow, so cool.
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SPEAKER_01
Well, now I want to get one for Jess.
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SPEAKER_01
I feel like I should use all my superpower.
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SPEAKER_01
What about for me?
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SPEAKER_01
Jess has dedicated her whole life to this.
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SPEAKER_01
I can t give it to you.
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SPEAKER_02
Oh my God.
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01
Come on, Monica.
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SPEAKER_01
You know that s the right decision.
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SPEAKER_02
She didn t even cry.
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SPEAKER_01
This woman s gone through hell and back to get these.
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SPEAKER_02
Okay, if you go to the next, because there s more, if you go again, try to get one and also try to get one for me.
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SPEAKER_02
Of course.
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SPEAKER_01
And if I get one for you, I don t want to punch you in the vagina for it, but I would appreciate it if you could kick me in the mom s pubis as a form of payment.
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SPEAKER_01
Absolutely.
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SPEAKER_03
Pay it forward.
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SPEAKER_01
Say no more.
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SPEAKER_01
Jess, so nice meeting you.
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SPEAKER_01
That was great.
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SPEAKER_01
And what an interesting and lovely, I feel like we just were on an episode of This American Life.
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SPEAKER_01
Like it s such a specific.
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SPEAKER_01
I like the way it went.
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SPEAKER_02
I m really glad you won out in the end.
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02
Happy ending.
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SPEAKER_02
I feel good about it.
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SPEAKER_01
Thanks for chatting.
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01
Great meeting with you.
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SPEAKER_03
You too.
1
SPEAKER_03
Have a happy new year and happy birthday.
1
SPEAKER_01
Oh, thank you.
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SPEAKER_01
Thank you.
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SPEAKER_01
Thank you.
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SPEAKER_01
Thank you.
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SPEAKER_01
All right.
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SPEAKER_01
All right.
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SPEAKER_01
Take care.
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah, I love her, I love her.
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SPEAKER_02
Okay, I really need to.
1
SPEAKER_01
You need a set list now?
1
SPEAKER_01
You didn t even know that this was a thing five minutes ago and now you have to have it.
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SPEAKER_02
I like, I have to.
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SPEAKER_01
I know, we gotta ask May.
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SPEAKER_02
If you honestly, Dax, if you get one and you give it to her, I ll be so pissed.
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SPEAKER_01
You would have to give it to her.
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SPEAKER_02
Stop!
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SPEAKER_02
If you don t give me that, I m quitting.
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SPEAKER_02
You re gonna walk away.
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SPEAKER_01
You can.
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SPEAKER_01
Well then you ll be pathetic and I ll have to give it to you.
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SPEAKER_02
Okay, I deserve it.
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SPEAKER_02
Okay.
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SPEAKER_01
You didn t even know it existed a second ago.
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SPEAKER_01
And now you re like irritated that you don t have it.
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SPEAKER_02
If anyone is listening who can get me this.
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SPEAKER_01
Get Jess the set list.
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SPEAKER_01
And then if you get a second one, give it to Monica.
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SPEAKER_02
She doesn t even, she likes Travis.
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SPEAKER_01
I think because of Taylor.
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SPEAKER_01
I can t imagine she owned that shirt eight months ago.
1
SPEAKER_02
Okay, just please somebody get me that.
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SPEAKER_01
You re not even wearing a Travis shirt.
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SPEAKER_02
I m never wearing a Travis shirt.
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SPEAKER_02
I m only wearing Taylor s shirt.
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SPEAKER_01
We both heard that look the same, though.
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SPEAKER_01
We thought she was going, oh, I m gonna disappoint mom and dad.
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SPEAKER_02
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01
But she was like, no, I like her so much I might throw up right now.
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SPEAKER_01
It was actually like deep.
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SPEAKER_02
If I knew about this six months ago.
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SPEAKER_01
That set list?
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SPEAKER_02
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01
You would have tried to get it.
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100%.
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SPEAKER_01
Yes, of course.
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SPEAKER_01
Were you on the ground level though?
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SPEAKER_01
No.
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SPEAKER_01
You would have had to been by the stage.
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SPEAKER_02
No, I would have jumped.
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SPEAKER_01
You would have been tackled by security trying to get to me.
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SPEAKER_02
And then I would ask them, do you have access to the set list?
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SPEAKER_01
As they re handcuffing you?
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SPEAKER_02
Yeah.
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That s what I would do.
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That s what I did.
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SPEAKER_01
Ready for Joe?
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SPEAKER_01
I don t know.
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SPEAKER_02
I gotta also mention when I was doing the truck boyfriend, maybe he can get me one.
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SPEAKER_01
Let s ask him.
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SPEAKER_01
Do you know what Joe looks like?
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SPEAKER_01
Is he totally honest?
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SPEAKER_02
I know what he looks like.
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SPEAKER_01
Do you want to date him?
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Kind of?
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SPEAKER_02
I wouldn t date it.
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SPEAKER_02
If it made Taylor mad at me though, I wouldn t.
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SPEAKER_01
It s inevitable.
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SPEAKER_01
You become attracted to whoever you look up to.
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SPEAKER_01
That s why in high school, if the popular girl picks you, then all the girls like you, it s over.
1
SPEAKER_01
Joe, is this Taylor s ex-boyfriend?
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SPEAKER_02
No.
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SPEAKER_01
Okay, because Monica got excited that maybe you were Taylor Swift s ex-boyfriend on account of being named Joe, which is so rare.
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SPEAKER_01
Not that ex-boyfriend.
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SPEAKER_02
But it s okay.
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SPEAKER_02
We re so happy to have you.
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SPEAKER_02
I m happier to have you than- No, you re not.
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SPEAKER_01
You d love to have the ex-boyfriend on.
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SPEAKER_00
No, because Taylor- I was going to say, am I better?
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SPEAKER_00
We ll find out, I guess.
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SPEAKER_01
It s a little early.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah, exactly.
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SPEAKER_00
Give me 15 minutes.
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SPEAKER_00
We ll feel it at the end of it.
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SPEAKER_00
Okay, we ll evaluate.
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SPEAKER_01
We ll reserve all judgments to the end.
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SPEAKER_01
Joe, where are you other than in a makeshift tent, which is adorable?
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My wife wonderfully helped me kind of concoct this little tent thing here for
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SPEAKER_00
I m in Gloucester, Massachusetts, which is about 40 minutes north of Boston.
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SPEAKER_02
We ve talked to some Gloucestrians.
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SPEAKER_02
That crazy story we heard about buying the motorcycle was in Gloucester, I think.
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SPEAKER_02
Oh, oh, oh.
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SPEAKER_00
That sounds right up the alley of Gloucester, I m not gonna lie.
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SPEAKER_02
Yeah, and the dude invited him in, and it was weirdly sexual.
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SPEAKER_02
Do you remember that?
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SPEAKER_01
Vaguely, yeah.
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SPEAKER_02
He went in, he s like, I ll be back in five minutes.
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SPEAKER_02
He came out naked or something insane.
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SPEAKER_01
He went to go get a motorcycle.
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SPEAKER_01
This was a Craigslist thing, and then he ended up, the guy got confused with the ad he put out.
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SPEAKER_01
He thought it was a blow job.
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SPEAKER_02
Because he also had a men-searching men ad.
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SPEAKER_02
Confused over what Craigslist.
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SPEAKER_00
That s wild.
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SPEAKER_00
I ve had some weird experiences with a bike guy here, so I was worried it was going to be the same thing, but it was nothing sexual.
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SPEAKER_00
When it took that turn, I was like, I ll have a different guy.
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SPEAKER_00
Hopefully, at least.
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SPEAKER_02
Okay, so you have a crazy concert story, and did it take place in the Boston area?
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SPEAKER_00
So it did not north in Guilford, New Hampshire.
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SPEAKER_00
I grew up in the Lakes region.
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And at the time I was about 17 years old.
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SPEAKER_02
Really quick.
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SPEAKER_02
So beautiful there.
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Is Lake Winnipesaukee, that s one of them?
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SPEAKER_00
Exactly.
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SPEAKER_00
So I grew up in a little town called Barnstead, New Hampshire.
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SPEAKER_00
It s about 10 minutes from the entrance of the Alton Bay.
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SPEAKER_02
Well, we know where we re at.
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SPEAKER_01
Monica hates when I do this.
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah, but I have a question for 2024.
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SPEAKER_01
Why do men love knowing where things are in like geography?
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SPEAKER_02
Well, A, we have been in charge of the navigation for about 300,000 years.
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SPEAKER_02
That s one biological reason.
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SPEAKER_02
But now we have GPS.
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SPEAKER_02
Two, in an act of being not other, I want him to know I ve stood where you re at, I know the smell s there, I know where you re from, I see you.
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SPEAKER_02
This is like an act of generosity.
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SPEAKER_01
Why do men do that?
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SPEAKER_01
Women don t connect over geography.
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SPEAKER_02
Because you have breasts, so everything s handled.
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SPEAKER_01
Oh, that s what we connect with.
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SPEAKER_02
Well, no, just there s very little work for you to have to do.
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SPEAKER_02
Whereas me, I got nothing to offer Joe other than that I ve been to his hometown.
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SPEAKER_02
Okay.
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SPEAKER_02
Okay.
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SPEAKER_02
Did that clear that up?
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah, now I get it.
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SPEAKER_00
Now Dax and I are connected.
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SPEAKER_00
Monica, we got to connect somehow.
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SPEAKER_00
I know, for you weren t Joe Alwyn, and you re talking about geography.
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SPEAKER_00
I guess you did.
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SPEAKER_00
You tried to, but I was not the ex-boyfriend.
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SPEAKER_02
Yeah, why do all women want to know if there s any relationship to Taylor Swift?
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SPEAKER_00
I think that was just me.
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SPEAKER_00
Bingo, exactly.
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SPEAKER_02
Okay, so sorry, we re up in New Hampshire.
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So I should probably preface this with I m a heavy concert goer.
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SPEAKER_00
I lost count at 700 concerts.
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SPEAKER_02
Oh my God.
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SPEAKER_00
I ve got hearing loss, you know, all the fun stuff.
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SPEAKER_00
I ve been to too many concerts.
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SPEAKER_00
Throughout college, I would book concerts.
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SPEAKER_00
So I ve always been kind of in that local scene, especially in Southern New Hampshire.
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SPEAKER_02
In like the punk genre?
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SPEAKER_02
What genre?
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SPEAKER_00
Yes.
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SPEAKER_00
So I grew up in the hardcore scene.
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SPEAKER_00
Absolutely loved it.
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So fun.
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So there was like a bar we would always go to.
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SPEAKER_00
I pretty much grew up at a bar in Manchester, New Hampshire called Rocco s.
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SPEAKER_00
Shout out Rocco s.
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SPEAKER_00
It s no longer there, but it was seedy, sketchy.
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SPEAKER_00
We ve seen some stuff.
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SPEAKER_00
One time my parents were driving me there when I was 15.
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SPEAKER_00
It s in the bad part of town is what the cops would tell us.
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SPEAKER_00
We found that out the hard way because my parents got their window shot out picking me up.
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SPEAKER_00
Sure.
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Oh, my God.
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SPEAKER_00
My parents are just so nice, so sweet.
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SPEAKER_00
And they are coming through to pick their son up and they get shot up.
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SPEAKER_00
So it s just like, I ve seen some stuff.
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SPEAKER_00
We re back in Guilford, New Hampshire, and it s around 2010.
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SPEAKER_00
So I had a few friends who ended up wanting to go to this festival that s happening in Guilford at Gunstock Mountain.
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SPEAKER_00
And the kind of funny caveat here is it s a very popular Christian religious festival.
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SPEAKER_00
Oh, I won t call it out by name.
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SPEAKER_00
I didn t want to go.
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But my friends, you know, were like, look, this is the first year they re letting punk bands come.
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SPEAKER_00
I knew a few of the bands and I was like, you know what?
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I d rather go with them than be solo at a different show.
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SPEAKER_00
So like every good story starts, you get talked into it by your friends.
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We end up going to this venue outside and I don t really fit the scene.
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SPEAKER_00
Let s put it that way.
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SPEAKER_00
So I m definitely sticking out like a sore thumb here.
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A lot of not punks, I d say.
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SPEAKER_00
We go and we re kind of just hanging around waiting for the bands.
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SPEAKER_00
It starts at like 11 a.m.
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SPEAKER_00
This story probably takes place around 2 p.m.
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SPEAKER_00
It goes until like 9 or 10.
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SPEAKER_00
So we re still pretty early in the day.
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SPEAKER_00
I the Breather is the band that was playing at the time.
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SPEAKER_00
I didn t really know any of their songs.
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SPEAKER_00
I ve heard of them.
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SPEAKER_00
I was like, okay, just kind of like run of the mill metal core.
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SPEAKER_00
The band is starting to play.
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SPEAKER_00
Everyone s kind of chill.
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SPEAKER_00
There are a good amount of people there.
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SPEAKER_00
There s some security, but all of the security guards there are just kind of very lackadaisical youth group type of crew.
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SPEAKER_02
They re used to dealing with Christian rock.
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SPEAKER_00
Exactly.
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SPEAKER_00
People who are just going to kind of sit there and vibe out to the music, not really move a lot.
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SPEAKER_00
And now you ve got a bunch of punk kids who are moshing and having a really good time and a little bit more rowdy.
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SPEAKER_00
So iTheBreather starts playing.
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SPEAKER_00
They start seeing that the crowd s kind of feeling it and they start calling for what s called a wall of death.
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SPEAKER_00
It is when they part the crowd into two distinct portions facing each other and now there s an empty area in between them and essentially both sides run full speed at each other, crash into each other, throw some fists, and start a chaotic mosh pit.
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SPEAKER_02
Very reminiscent of Braveheart.
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SPEAKER_00
Great visual.
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SPEAKER_00
I always hated these.
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SPEAKER_00
I always thought they were dumb.
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SPEAKER_00
Even at 17, I was like, I m gonna get hurt.
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SPEAKER_00
But I was feeling it and I was like, you know what?
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SPEAKER_00
This is a Christian festival.
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SPEAKER_00
We re not looking at like the Detroit scene or the Manchester scene, right?
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SPEAKER_00
How bad could it be?
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SPEAKER_00
Let s do it.
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SPEAKER_00
So I m getting all excited and I m front and center in this wall of death all of a sudden.
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SPEAKER_00
And I m getting hyped up and the band s kind of hyping everyone up.
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SPEAKER_00
So they re like, all right guys, when this kicks in,
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SPEAKER_00
We need you guys to go absolutely crazy.
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SPEAKER_00
We want you guys to go nuts.
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SPEAKER_00
And at this point, you re looking around and the poor security guards are ashen, just absolutely white-faced, being like, we weren t trained for this.
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SPEAKER_00
The song kicks in.
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SPEAKER_00
I start running full speed at the other side.
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SPEAKER_00
I get about three steps in and I just feel an absolute bear hug from behind on me.
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and cannot move and I m just trying to run, trying to process what s happening at the same time, all of a sudden I am airborne, probably a solid three to four feet off the ground if I had to guess, it felt very high, very crazy at the time, and I come down onto a knee and I am immediately blacked out.
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SPEAKER_02
So someone, the guy who bear hugged you from behind, and I hate to gender profile, but I m assuming it was a dude, he grabs you, bear hug, and then kind of lifts you up into the air?
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SPEAKER_00
That s exactly what happens.
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SPEAKER_00
But the kicker to this is it wasn t just someone who s part of this wall of death.
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SPEAKER_00
It was a security guard.
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SPEAKER_00
It was a youth group leader?
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SPEAKER_00
I don t know, but it was someone who worked for this festival.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah, he got infected.
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SPEAKER_01
He got incited.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah, he was feeling the band.
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SPEAKER_00
I don t know if he singled me out for some reason.
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SPEAKER_00
At this point, I ve pieced together from my friends, because I ve got about five or six friends that I came here with, and they ve helped fill in all of this time where I m unconscious.
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SPEAKER_00
It was a security guard who, for some reason, felt like targeting me and just grabbed me, picked me up, and in his head must have been like, this kid s done.
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SPEAKER_00
So I get a temple to the knee.
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SPEAKER_00
I m absolutely blacked out.
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SPEAKER_00
And at this point, obviously, it s pretty chaotic.
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SPEAKER_00
Not everyone can see what s going on, so there s a big mosh pit around me.
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SPEAKER_00
My friends kind of clock it a couple seconds in, and they re like, Joe is on the ground.
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SPEAKER_00
He s not really moving.
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SPEAKER_00
This isn t great.
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SPEAKER_00
So they kind of come over, and the band at this point has seen it from the stage, and they re like, oh, okay.
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SPEAKER_00
And everyone s kind of flagging them down, being like, yo, stop the set.
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SPEAKER_00
Now they re like, oh, okay.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah, everyone s shocked.
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SPEAKER_02
Oh my god, someone got hurt?
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SPEAKER_01
I can t, this is outrageous.
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SPEAKER_02
I know how you re feeling.
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SPEAKER_02
I m thinking about you a lot during this story.
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SPEAKER_01
You are good.
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SPEAKER_02
And here s what I m thinking your internal monologue is like.
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Why do you guys have to do this?
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SPEAKER_02
What is it you re trying to prove?
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SPEAKER_01
Remember when I was upset about geography?
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Now this story is just like... I know.
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SPEAKER_02
And so I m hearing your inner monologue right now, which is like, what do they have to prove?
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SPEAKER_02
What are they trying to prove?
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SPEAKER_01
Exactly.
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And then I m getting defensive in my head, because I also did it.
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SPEAKER_02
And then I was thinking, yeah, it s rite of passages.
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SPEAKER_02
They re like, age old, this is what we re kind of hardwired to do.
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SPEAKER_02
And it s weirdly a safe version of this rite of passage.
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SPEAKER_02
It s like these acts of braveries all young adolescent boys have to do in tribes.
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SPEAKER_02
I think it s hearkening back to that.
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SPEAKER_01
Well, when I, when you re telling this story, I was thinking this is so ridiculous.
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SPEAKER_01
I want to say it, but if I say it, Dax will probably have to defend it and he ll be upset because he was in the punk scene.
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SPEAKER_01
He ll feel like I m attacking.
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SPEAKER_02
No, I will acknowledge it s complete lunacy and you didn t say, cause I knew exactly what you were thinking.
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And I thought it through myself.
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SPEAKER_01
How can the band be like, oh no, someone s hurt when they just five seconds ago was like, yeah, go kill each other.
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SPEAKER_02
And I ll tell you from my point of view, what s happening is.
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These are our presidents.
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SPEAKER_02
From my point of view, what s happening when you re in it is on the surface, it s violent, but it is this really sweet spot of violence, which is like, you actually don t have ill will for anybody.
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SPEAKER_02
All you re doing is confronting your own fear.
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SPEAKER_02
So it s like, you re entering this thing because it scares you and you want to prove you re brave enough to do it.
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SPEAKER_02
And your friends want to prove it and you re proving it to each other.
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SPEAKER_02
And yet you re also not hurting each other.
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Like when you are.
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SPEAKER_02
But you re not, there s such a fine line, but if dude starts swinging and punching that s over the line, like we all somehow know what the line is and it s evolved.
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SPEAKER_02
When I was a kid and went and saw the exploited at 11 years old, people did have screws in the bottom of their Doc Martens.
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SPEAKER_02
They d step on your ankle and push you down and try to break it.
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SPEAKER_02
Like it was evil, but it evolved through Fugazi and all these bands that were kind of still spiritual.
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SPEAKER_02
It s a weird.
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play pageantry exercise of this weird carnal thing.
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SPEAKER_02
And there s really no malice or ill intention towards anyone.
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SPEAKER_02
Do you feel like I ve summed that up?
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SPEAKER_02
That s perfect.
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SPEAKER_00
It s kind of one of those things where you re signing up for some bruises walking out.
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SPEAKER_02
It s stupid, but we are the boys that didn t play football.
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SPEAKER_02
Normally we d be out getting banged up on the football field, which is fine.
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SPEAKER_02
You re over there fucking cheering in your cheerleading outfit.
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SPEAKER_02
That s okay that they re doing that, but because we re over here not doing the version you like of violence, we re pieces of shit.
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SPEAKER_01
I don t like football.
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SPEAKER_01
I was a competition.
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SPEAKER_01
There were no football players.
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SPEAKER_01
But you agree, football, there s no difference between what we re doing and football.
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SPEAKER_00
I don t like football.
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CTE.
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Alright.
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It s just one of those things too where kids get knocked down, you run over, you pick them up.
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You re not trying to hurt people, exactly what Dax was saying.
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You try to prove to yourself you re not afraid.
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You don t need to keep convincing me because I get it.
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I definitely get it.
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And let me acknowledge, it s stupid as fuck.
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I get it.
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Yeah, there s a bunch of boys swinging into each other.
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Yeah, of course, man.
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And especially at this time.
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While at death, I was like, this is dumb as hell, but I m gonna do it.
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That teenage mindset.
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Well, and you get high afterwards.
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You re like, I was afraid, I lived, and this was fun.
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It was a great story, great memory, right?
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It s a roller coaster.
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It is a roller coaster.
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And we re not done with the story either, which is kind of the funniest part.
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I m blacked out, obviously, right now, unconscious.
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Pretty sure I have a concussion.
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I did rehash this with my best friend, Jeff Wheeler.
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I gave him a call before I did this just to make sure I don t miss any parts here.
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But he was like, the one thing you have to include is that when you were unconscious, your arms just went up to the sky.
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Oh, scary.
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Reaching for the sky.
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And obviously they all made the jokes of like, God was talking to you because you re at this Christian festival.
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Very funny.
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Oh.
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So I m not doing great.
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Band essentially stops all the set and everyone s like, is this kid OK?
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From what they said, it s about a minute of me being unconscious.
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Everyone s circled around me.
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Oh, my gosh, what s going on?
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The band is like, is that kid okay?
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And my friends are trying to get me up again at this point.
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Should you be getting me up?
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Could I have broken my neck?
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Who knows?
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I m still out cold, but apparently on my feet and I m kind of responsive, breathing, but I don t remember anything.
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And the band sees that I m up and they re like, this kid s awesome.
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Get him up here.
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Get him up here.
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Get him up here.
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And they are getting excited that I m alive, I think.
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This is a really good point in the story to remind you guys that I don t know the words to this band whatsoever.
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Right, this is your first time seeing them, yeah.
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they are calling for me to get up.
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And everyone s just pushing my body without realizing.
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I m on my feet, but I m unconscious, and they re getting me up there.
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So I m getting pushed over the barrier, and I come to kind of falling over the barrier, looking up, seeing that I am now on the other side of the crowd, and the band s singer is extending his hand to bring me up on stage.
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So I m like, what do I do?
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This is crazy.
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They re like, this kid s the man, let s go.
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Start the song over, and they start playing the song over.
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And at this point, Sink or Swim, I was just like, I guess I ll just jump up and down and do some awkward movements to make it look like I know what I m doing.
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But I m up there.
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I can t make up that I know the words.
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I m up there for a full song.
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Oh, boy.
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They re all coming over to me and giving me like pats on the back, like the lead singer s arms.
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And I m like, dude, at this point, I m like, where am I?
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But I do vividly remember looking out in the crowd, seeing my friends, and they re all like losing their mind, being like, this isn t happening.
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This is so insane.
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I do have a photo of that.
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It s very embarrassing.
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SPEAKER_01
Oh, I want to see it.
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Can you show it to us?
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SPEAKER_00
I was going to say, so I think I can send it to you guys in the chat.
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SPEAKER_00
This is like one of the first times I ve ever worn a tank top in my life.
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Oh, wow.
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So a lot of firsts on this thing.
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Yeah.
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What am I doing wearing a tank top?
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And as you can see, this is me kind of jumping up and down, not really knowing what to do up there when I don t know the words.
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Oh, yeah.
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I think you look cute in your tank top.
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Could have definitely dated Taylor Swift with this look.
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Yeah, see?
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Look at that.
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You could have been one of her Joes.
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Yeah.
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One of her Joes.
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Bummer.
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All in all, though, Jo, this story is a win for you, no?
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It is kind of a win.
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So after this all happened, the band was like, come by our merch table.
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We just want to chat with you and say hey.
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So I came back and they were like, dude, fuck that security guard.
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That was insane.
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I couldn t believe he did that.
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All this.
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And they gave me a free T-shirt.
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I really wish I still had the T-shirt.
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I ve got the picture.
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The rest of that day, I sat in the back kind of watching.
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At that point, I definitely had a concussion for sure.
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Looking back at it 13 years later, I can t believe that everyone was like, get this kid up on stage and not get him in an ambulance.
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Yeah.
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It probably didn t help that after you had your head trauma, that you were jumping around and stuff.
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Not ideal.
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That couldn t have helped.
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No, you don t want to bounce that brain around much.
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It was already loose.
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Swollen.
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We re not doing great.
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So kind of all losses there, but Hey, look at me now.
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I m okay.
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I m doing great.
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Still going to shows, but now I m kind of like the washed up punk who sits up in the, uh, the rafters watching from afar.
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Oh, that s wonderful.
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That really brings me back.
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I m going to say one more thing, Monica.
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Okay.
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Well, do you have the tolerance for one more thing?
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I think so.
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Okay.
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Most of the boys in this scene were very scared at high school.
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And the thing that they were threatened by was violence.
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And that s what the jocks had over all these kids.
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So we have all these misfits, they come together.
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They re so afraid of violence and being hurt and they figure out a way to be brave.
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within a group of people that they can trust.
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I think it s really cathartic because you re at high school and you re just living in this veil of fear that you re going to get your ass kicked by all these mancho assholes and you go there and it s a place you can confront that safely.
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I think it s really cathartic.
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I know it looks really, really stupid, but I think there s something really fucking sweet about the whole thing that at least the scene I lived through was like.
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Absolutely.
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Very similar experience for me.
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It s a great place to grow up and I feel like it gave me a lot of compassion.
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As crazy as that sounds, I know Monica s probably like, wait, what?
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All the friends that I used to go to those shows with, I m still very much friends with now.
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I started bands with some of them.
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I m not in a band now.
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I m a dad now.
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So, again, washed up.
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But my life s great.
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It s just different.
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So, I do have to say I m a new arm cherry.
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Oh, welcome.
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Probably within the last year or so, my wife got me hooked on to you guys.
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She has been a day one-er.
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So I was hoping if you guys don t mind if I could kind of call her in here.
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We d love to meet her.
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Yes, bring her in.
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Awesome.
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This is Keely.
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I didn t know if this would be coming, but this is our baby.
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I guess technically she is a day one-er.
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Look at her.
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She s so cute.
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Her cheeks!
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This is not real.
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SPEAKER_00
This is not real.
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SPEAKER_00
Hi!
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You guys!
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SPEAKER_02
Oh my goodness, welcome to our blanket fort.
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SPEAKER_01
Oh, we love it in here.
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SPEAKER_02
You built a beautiful fort.
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SPEAKER_02
Thank you.
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This is my lunch break.
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This is our Fitzy.
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Oh my gosh, she s cutie.
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SPEAKER_01
She s so cute.
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SPEAKER_01
Thank you very much.
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SPEAKER_03
Now, no one s gonna like what I have to say.
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Okay, here we go.
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But it s my turn.
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Okay.
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I mean, you look at this most beautiful, cutest thing in the whole world.
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Yeah.
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Do you want her in a wall of humans running towards a wall of other humans?
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And I mean that sincerely.
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Yeah, and I can say sincerely, if it gives her a sense of belonging and community, yeah, it s so worth it.
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SPEAKER_03
Exactly it.
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What about mom?
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SPEAKER_03
What does mom say about that?
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SPEAKER_02
You know, I got my first concussion at seven riding horses and rode horses my whole life.
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It s just going to happen.
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Whatever you love is going to hurt you.
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That s how it works.
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Monica fucking was flying high in the air.
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She could have the worst concussion of all of us.
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SPEAKER_03
It s true.
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High flyers.
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Strangers catching you by the pussy.
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SPEAKER_03
I m not letting that baby run.
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SPEAKER_01
You want this little baby to be caught by the pussy?
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SPEAKER_03
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01
No.
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That s what you should be afraid of.
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We made that joke when the first couple days holding her, I was like... Well, it s so nice to meet all three of you.
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SPEAKER_01
Yes.
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Thank you.
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SPEAKER_01
Thank you guys so much.
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SPEAKER_02
It s amazing to meet you.
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SPEAKER_02
You guys mean so much to me.
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SPEAKER_02
I lost my dad in 2017.
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SPEAKER_01
Oh, I m sorry, love.
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SPEAKER_02
Thank you.
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SPEAKER_02
There was a big communication gap in my drive home and just wanting to talk to him.
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SPEAKER_02
And you guys really filled that.
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SPEAKER_02
Oh, that s so special.
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SPEAKER_02
Thank you.
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SPEAKER_02
Thank you.
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SPEAKER_02
So nice to meet you.
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SPEAKER_02
And can you believe someone would bonk this beautiful, sweet boy in the head?
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah, if I was a Christian youth counselor, I would drop him like a bad habit, for sure.
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SPEAKER_01
I mean, he s the opposition.
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SPEAKER_03
It s true that the most violent person there was the Christian whatever.
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SPEAKER_01
He didn t understand the rules.
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SPEAKER_01
It s very hard to understand.
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SPEAKER_01
He wanted to.
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SPEAKER_01
Very subtle rules there.
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SPEAKER_01
Well, great meeting you guys, truly.
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Thanks for telling us that story, Joe, and good luck in everything in the new year.
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SPEAKER_00
Awesome.
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SPEAKER_00
Thank you.
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Bye.
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SPEAKER_00
Thank you so much.
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SPEAKER_01
Bye, guys.
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SPEAKER_01
Oh, I want that baby.
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SPEAKER_03
Me too.
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SPEAKER_01
I want that baby.
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SPEAKER_01
Bring that baby over.
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SPEAKER_03
You would not let that little baby run into a bunch of others.
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SPEAKER_01
Not a little baby.
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah.
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But when she s 17.
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Your little baby s always your little baby.
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SPEAKER_01
Right, but if Lincoln has a Mohawk and runs into a Walden at 17, you know I ll be fucking cheering.
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SPEAKER_01
Absolutely.
3
SPEAKER_03
What if she gets concussions?
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SPEAKER_03
That s not good.
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SPEAKER_01
Hold on.
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SPEAKER_01
Why is the thing that you did that gives concussions?
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SPEAKER_01
Okay.
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SPEAKER_03
Okay.
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Because I only did it for a couple of years.
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SPEAKER_03
This is what we re learning about CTE.
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SPEAKER_03
For real.
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It s the amount of time and not the severity of the one.
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I m only saying, if we did a comparison study between punk show goers and high flyers, the rate of concussions would be much higher in the high flyers.
3
SPEAKER_01
Well, you re mosh pitting them for like two years, three years.
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SPEAKER_01
You earned your stripes and then you hang on the outside.
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah, it s all for young kids.
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SPEAKER_03
Okay, if you can max out at two years, I still don t, no.
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SPEAKER_01
But you do see that they re both activities that could give you a concussion.
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You just, you cared about one and we cared about another.
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SPEAKER_03
No, but one, the purpose is injury.
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SPEAKER_01
No.
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SPEAKER_02
What do you mean?
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Running into somebody else?
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SPEAKER_01
What is a trust fall?
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SPEAKER_02
I know what a trust fall is.
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah, think of a trust fall.
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Is that to almost let someone die?
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SPEAKER_01
No, it s to trust another person.
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You put your safety in another person s hands.
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You fall back knowing they re going to catch you.
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah.
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And the mosh pit is very much that.
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It s we re going to get wild and bump into each other, but we re not going to try to hurt each other and we re not malicious.
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SPEAKER_02
But the wall of death, which by the way is called the wall of death.
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Yeah, it s a bad idea.
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SPEAKER_01
The wall of death is not a good idea.
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That s what the story is.
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SPEAKER_01
I know, I know.
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SPEAKER_02
I m not talking about moshing.
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SPEAKER_01
Oh, okay.
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Even though I don t like that either.
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SPEAKER_01
I know you don t like that.
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SPEAKER_02
But not as much, that s fine, I guess.
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SPEAKER_02
But the wall of death, which the purpose is to collide.
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SPEAKER_02
It s the start of the mosh pit.
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02
The only purpose is to have some injury by the end.
4
SPEAKER_01
Well, I think the bigger point is no one s there that doesn t want to be there and everyone that does it enjoys it and is happy they did it.
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SPEAKER_01
So there s no victims.
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SPEAKER_02
Okay, but if there s like a group of... I think it just scares you.
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SPEAKER_01
The whole notion of like all these boys in this pit slamming into each other is just scary.
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SPEAKER_02
No, it s not scary.
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SPEAKER_02
I think it s...
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SPEAKER_02
community derailed.
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SPEAKER_02
It s a group of people in search of something central, which I love, but not when the thing at the base of it is pain and injury.
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SPEAKER_01
Well, I think it s rare though.
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SPEAKER_01
The base of it s the music too.
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SPEAKER_01
You re doing it along to the music.
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SPEAKER_01
It s like expressing how the music makes you feel collectively.
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SPEAKER_01
At first glance, it s one thing, but I think if you were an anthropologist and you really looked at it, you d go, oh, it s kind of a beautiful thing.
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SPEAKER_01
No one s hurting each other.
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SPEAKER_01
They all get to express this fear and wade through it together.
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And they re all friends at the end.
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SPEAKER_02
The part that we disagree with is that no one is hurting each other.
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And that s the part that I have a problem with.
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SPEAKER_01
As is the person that would throw you in the air and then you fell on the ground.
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SPEAKER_02
No, not everyone falls on the ground.
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SPEAKER_02
In fact, I fell on the ground once.
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah, and this boy only got a concussion one time and he went to over 700 shows.
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SPEAKER_02
Purpose wasn t to do that.
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SPEAKER_02
It was to do a trick Bang your body into someone else s body, which isn t bad.
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SPEAKER_01
It s like tackling it can go wrong.
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SPEAKER_02
I think tackling is not good I don t think any of this is well not I don t think I mean it s proven to be bad for brains Everyone should listen to the daily on CTE.
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SPEAKER_02
It s from a couple.
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SPEAKER_01
Do you think there shouldn t be cheerleading anymore?
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SPEAKER_02
I think there shouldn t be a certain level of stunt until you re a certain age.
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SPEAKER_02
I do think that.
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SPEAKER_02
And I think there shouldn t be tackle football until a certain age.
4
SPEAKER_01
All right, let s talk to Corbrett.
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SPEAKER_01
Cobrett?
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SPEAKER_01
We re going to find out.
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SPEAKER_01
Hi.
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SPEAKER_01
Hi.
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SPEAKER_01
Hello.
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SPEAKER_01
Thanks for your patience.
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SPEAKER_01
Sorry, we re running behind.
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah, no worries at all.
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SPEAKER_01
How do we pronounce your name?
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SPEAKER_01
Also nice 68 fastback.
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SPEAKER_01
What year is that?
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah, 68.
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SPEAKER_01
You nailed it.
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SPEAKER_01
Fuck.
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SPEAKER_01
Are you impressed, Monica?
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SPEAKER_01
I know we re fighting, but was that good?
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01
Because I have very tiny sliver of that car right now.
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SPEAKER_01
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01
So my name is pronounced Cobretti.
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Cobretti.
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SPEAKER_00
And you work with cars?
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SPEAKER_00
So I work with cars just as a hobby.
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SPEAKER_00
My uncle was a restoration mechanic, so I just kind of got into that.
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SPEAKER_00
What I actually do is I m a full-time touring musician.
4
SPEAKER_00
Oh, okay.
4
SPEAKER_00
Well, this will be perfect since you re telling a crazy concert story.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah, exactly.
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SPEAKER_00
Where are you?
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SPEAKER_00
So I m located in Pennsylvania, right outside Harrisburg.
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SPEAKER_00
Don t know Harrisburg.
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SPEAKER_00
Is it close to Pittsburgh or Philadelphia?
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SPEAKER_01
It s perfectly in the middle between the two.
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SPEAKER_01
Okay.
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SPEAKER_01
Off the 80?
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SPEAKER_01
Off 81.
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SPEAKER_01
Yep.
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SPEAKER_01
Wonderful.
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SPEAKER_01
Sorry.
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SPEAKER_01
I do that with male guests.
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SPEAKER_01
I find out where they re from.
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SPEAKER_02
Not just male guests.
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SPEAKER_01
All guests.
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SPEAKER_02
All guests.
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SPEAKER_01
Okay.
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SPEAKER_01
Kobretti hit us with your crazy story.
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SPEAKER_01
Where did it happen?
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SPEAKER_01
What year?
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SPEAKER_01
Walk us through it.
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SPEAKER_00
Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00
So this was right before the pandemic happened.
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SPEAKER_00
So maybe 2019, I was out on tour with my band and we had been out for three weeks at the time opening for a much larger artist.
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SPEAKER_00
You can say Taylor Swift.
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SPEAKER_02
She wants to man.
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SPEAKER_00
No, so the band I m in is Sync In, and then we were out with someone I won t name.
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SPEAKER_00
Wait, your band is Sync d In?
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SPEAKER_00
Yep.
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SPEAKER_00
Sync d?
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SPEAKER_02
Oh, yeah.
4
SPEAKER_02
Do you remember?
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SPEAKER_01
You have a show called Sync d?
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SPEAKER_02
Yeah, I just thought it seemed like maybe you knew the band.
4
SPEAKER_00
No, no, I was just excited that you guys both had Sync d in your title.
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SPEAKER_00
Yes, that s right.
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We re playing this show in Florida.
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And we already did all the sound checks.
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We had everything all lined up.
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And it comes showtime.
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So we go up and we try to keep a very like punk attitude.
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So we re throwing guitars around.
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We have smoke cannons going off.
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People stage diving.
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The whole thing.
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And we get to the last hit of the very last song.
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And I throw my guitar and I immediately feel like something s not right.
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Oh.
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So I kind of catch it and the lights go out and I m kind of looking and my wireless pack is missing.
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Which is just kind of like a little thing you keep on your strap.
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It s probably just around the stage somewhere.
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I ll find it.
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We got to get our stuff off so the headliners can go on.
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We kind of start to exit the stage and the headliner and all of the venue staff and the venue owner are side stage.
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And they all look horrified.
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Pure panic.
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So we kind of come off like, hey, you know, what s going on here?
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And the venue odor is very abrasive with us.
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He goes, we don t have insurance.
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You guys are covering this.
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So immediately we re like, okay, this is some kind of like end of tour prank.
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They re just messing with us.
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It s a thing.
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But he did not look very comical.
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He just kind of stormed off.
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So the other guys proceeded to tell me that when I threw my guitar, this wireless pack broke the clip, broke another piece, and went into the audience.
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And actually smacked a girl in the face.
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So I m like, oh no.
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Like where s this girl at?
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We need to go make sure she s okay.
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I have medical supplies in my tour bag.
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Like we can help her out.
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So we go back to the green room.
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I love that your thought is, I have medical supplies in my tour bag, let me at her.
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As if what she needs is a front man working on her injuries.
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But anyways, that s great.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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We re very worried about her.
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Wireless packs are not very heavy.
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I m like, oh, it couldn t have done much damage.
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I don t spin very fast, but I go back and she s sitting in the green room on a stool and they have one person holding an ice pack to her face.
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Somebody else has like this bloody towel and she s kind of got her hand holding onto something.
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I kind of walk up and I m starting to apologize.
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Hey, are you okay?
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And then I kind of noticed down in her hand, she has four teeth.
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Oh no.
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God.
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This pack had hit her in the upper lip and knocked her front teeth out.
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Oh boy.
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Oh boy.
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Your medical bag isn t going to be able to do shit.
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I m already in kind of panic mode myself and I m trying to make sure she s OK.
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And there s a lot of people around her trying to ease the pain and make sure she s fine.
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But she was the absolute sweetest person in the world.
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And it was just like brushing it off.
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Maybe a little in shock.
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Oh God, maybe.
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Trying to keep it moving.
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She thought this was like the most punk rock thing that could ever happen to her.
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She was stoked on it.
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She thought like, I should lose teeth at every show.
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This is like the best thing ever.
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And she s telling it off to all her friends.
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I don t think I would be the same way.
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The timing of this is so fucking impossibly funny.
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Monica and I were just having a 20 minute argument about punk shows and why they re fun.
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And even though you re getting a little hurt, they re still worth it.
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And then now you take it to this level.
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Got all her teeth knocked out and stoked.
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I can t, I can t.
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I just feel horrible because it s from my guitar.
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I m like the lowest of the low and thankfully like she had insurance and her insurance covered it and she got brand new teeth and now she actually hits us up online.
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She s like, hey, do you guys remember me?
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I m the girl that lost his teeth at your show.
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We re like, yeah, absolutely.
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Yes, I shan t ever forget you.
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Oh my gosh.
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I got a lot of follow-up questions.
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One is how did the venue not have insurance?
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That seems crazy to me.
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The first thing they said is like, we don t have insurance.
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What do you mean you don t?
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You host live concerts.
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Don t you have to?
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I think the guy was maybe just trying to not file a claim and put it onto us, but we were more than willing to help this girl out in any way we could.
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Like we gave her all of our contact info and a bunch of free merch and like, yeah, let us know.
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Like we re a bunch of poor musicians living out of a $3,000 van traveling the country.
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So we don t have much, but we ll do whatever we can to help you.
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Now, have you made alterations to your mic pack?
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Have you done some things to make sure this will never happen again?
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Absolutely.
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It s such a freak accident anyway.
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Yeah, for sure.
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Two things would break simultaneously, but we re double and triple taping stuff.
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We re making sure everything s as solid as can be.
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Right.
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Rock solid.
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You know, we can only be so judgmental because we had a live show and I lost control of the t-shirt cannon.
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You can only be so judgmental.
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I m careful.
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I jumped over a couch and did like a cop role and then fired the t-shirt cannon or maybe it went off accidentally and I nailed someone in the third row.
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They couldn t have been closer to the t-shirt cannon.
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Luckily there was no real injury but that could have gone.
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Again doing something so boyish like I gotta like jump around and be crazy.
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Well people love it until then they loved it.
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Well until someone dies I mean that s yeah.
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then no one loves it.
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I m glad you came around when you did, because for me, I feel like this was a good- You feel vindicated.
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I do, actually.
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And you feel vindicated somehow.
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Yeah, the girl was really excited and happy.
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I know, but that s upsetting to me.
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You re upset by that.
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Well, look, you know, we all get to choose our paths.
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Oh, man.
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Well, I m glad that you didn t lose everything because of that.
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It s just crazy because I ve been touring now for eight years.
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We have lots of stories, but that s the only time anybody s ever gotten hurt.
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Even the headliner that we were on tour with, when they took the stage after us, because they still had to put a show on after this, they were like, yeah, we ve been touring for 20 years and we ve never seen anything like this.
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Oh, wow.
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That s good.
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They were like, go buy merch so they can afford to pay
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for her teeth.
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Right?
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Oh my God.
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This is incredible.
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What a story.
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What a story.
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Thanks for sharing.
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So it s actually my wife that got me into you guys.
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Anytime we re on a road trip or anything, she s loading you guys up between anonymous, the expert and flightless bird.
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She really likes to.
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Oh, that s great.
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We ll pass that on to David.
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Yeah, we will.
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Is it okay if I introduce her to you guys?
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Yeah, of course.
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Make sure you give her your, oh, she s got her own headphones.
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Hi!
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I love you both, but I wanted to come on… Because Dax, you talk about Zathura not doing so hot.
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But it came out when I was like eight or nine.
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And I was watching it all the time.
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And you were one of my first celebrity crushes.
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Oh!
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How lovely!
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Yeah.
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Carried on for almost 20 years.
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Oh my God.
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Going strong.
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That s such great news, but this is a good opportunity for me to clarify.
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Often I ll say movies didn t do well.
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It s not that I don t think they were great.
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In fact, I think the best movies I was in aren t the ones that did the best.
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Idiocracy made a hundred thousand dollars at the movie theater.
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So I m always just saying like what it financially did, but there is fucking great.
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I can t believe I m in that movie.
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All the money it made probably came from my household.
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Thank you so much.
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It s so nice to meet both of you.
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Likewise.
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You guys too.
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All right.
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Take care.
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Happy new year.
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Oh, well, it s okay.
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Sometimes they re going to be three times a pretty, you know, I feel like it s been getting better.
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It s just the break.
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Yeah.
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I hope it s on another punk stories are punk and I wonder why.
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Hi.
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Hello, Dexamonica.
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Nice to meet you guys.
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I m Janelle.
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Nice to meet you Janelle.
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And Janelle, where are you?
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I m in Salem, Oregon in my kid s closet.
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Oh, wonderful.
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We are very close with many Oregonians and my whole family lives up there.
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We love Oregon.
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We re originally from Iowa, but we ve been out here since late 2006.
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Yeah.
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Salem s beautiful.
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Where did this concert take place?
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Cause I got to tell you something.
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We ve only heard three other concert stories and one of them took place in Iowa.
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Oh, really?
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Is this where yours takes place?
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No, it takes place in Oregon.
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Please say it s a Taylor Swift show.
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Please, please.
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Oh man.
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No, it s not.
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It s a music festival.
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That s just outside of Portland.
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at Horning s Hideout.
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Ooh, Horning s Hideout.
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That s so cool.
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That sounds Harry Potter-y.
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It s a bluegrass-centric music festival.
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Probably about 3,000 people there.
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Lots and lots of hippies.
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We have been attending... Well, they don t have it anymore.
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They actually stopped doing it, like, a year ago.
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Having anything to do with the story you re about to tell us?
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No, it doesn t.
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Okay.
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This story actually happened in 2013.
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So it s been 10 years.
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Okay.
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Well, my husband and I went to this festival every year that it s been here, except for one, my sister got married.
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So it was something that we do in our family.
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Lots and lots of close friends.
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It s camping Thursday through Monday, typically.
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And in the early years, there wasn t ever any showers.
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So nobody was showering.
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It s just.
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Board of potties and camping and just a whole bunch of dirty hippies out there.
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Sounds good.
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Yeah, we were there in 2013.
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We had a VW bus and we had a two year old and I was nine months pregnant.
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Oh wow.
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My younger son went there when he was four months and that was the first time he slept through the night.
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So this is really where we feel at home.
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Yeah.
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It was late night on the Saturday.
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Yonder Mountain String Band was the band that was actually playing.
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It s their festival.
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They were closing out their set for that night and then they have a late night show after that.
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We re just dancing on the hill.
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The music finishes up and I m there with my husband, my young son, and then one of our good friends who s single and likes to party.
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So he s always there with us.
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He s like our third son.
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So I m like, hey guys, I m going to run to the bathroom real quick and I ll be back down before the next van comes up.
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So I run up and visit the main port-a-potty section up on the hill.
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So you kind of walk up a couple tiers and then go to the bathroom.
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So the port-a-potties are in a U-shaped form.
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And so I take a port-a-potty back on the left side.
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I go in the port-a-potty, I start doing my thing and I can kind of see like a shadow walk in front of me and I just get nervous.
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I mean, mind you, I m nine months pregnant and I am sober.
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So I have a good idea what s happening.
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And then all of a sudden I feel my port-a-potty kind of shake.
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I hurry up and just stand up, pull my skirt up and my port-a-potty tips over.
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No!
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Somebody from behind.
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pushed over my port-a-potty.
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So I m just kind of put my arms out and hold myself up.
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These are festival port-a-potties that are full to the brim on a late Saturday night.
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So it s a very, very full port-a-potty.
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I mean, I get emptied out every night, but they re full.
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It s fallen forward.
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So the door is on the ground, right?
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You can t get out.
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It s fallen forward.
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Oh my God.
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Thankfully it got up pretty quickly.
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I just kind of put my hands out.
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Definitely covered.
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Somebody pulls up the porta potty and I get out.
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I don t even remember really looking down at myself, but I was covered.
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Man.
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There was two kind ladies, started out very kind, who walked me down to the first aid tent because I m like, well, I need help getting back down to my husband so he knows, so he can like help me.
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And so I go down to the first aid tent and these ladies are helping me out and kind of talking to one guy and they re like, yeah, I think it just must have fell over because she s pregnant.
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What?
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No.
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Oh my god.
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Absolutely not.
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There s just somebody has zero understanding of physics who s never even thought about gravity.
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Or that s the person who did it.
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Well, good.
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Yeah.
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That s good.
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Yeah.
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I was like, ladies, I m sober.
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Can you guys please leave?
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Cause that s not what happened.
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A little bit better the first day.
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She s pregnant.
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So outrageous.
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It s like the, Oh my God.
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Yeah.
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Those are the dumbest theories I ve ever heard.
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Probably just tipped over because you re such a whale.
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Exactly.
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And I m not, I mean, I m a tall five, nine, but I probably got to one 60 when I was pregnant.
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That thing wasn t going over just by leaning and they don t do that anyway.
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So at the first aid tent, this festival is like very family friendly, very kid friendly.
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Everybody s so kind.
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And the first person that I come to was like, I m sorry, we can t help you.
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What?
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I m nine months pregnant.
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I just need help talking to my husband, I need help getting cleaned up.
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I know this isn t the way this goes here, so I need help.
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He was like, I m sorry, you re at a music festival and you take your chances.
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So I find another first aid person.
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He s a nurse and he lovingly helped me wholeheartedly like what he was supposed to do.
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That guy that didn t help me supposedly is not on that first aid team anymore.
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It s like a group of people who do it.
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And after that, they were like, you can t do this.
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If you can t help a nine month pregnant woman deal with having a port-a-potty, you re in the wrong business.
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Another guy helped me.
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So I m still just like in all my stuff.
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This was the first year that there were showers there.
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You had to buy tokens and some people used them, but we never really did.
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We just didn t shower for that many days.
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So I knew that there was some sort of shower.
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So when I went to the first date, I was like, well, you guys can like help.
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help me get to the shower, just help me clean up.
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So then this guy helped me walk down to my husband and, you know, we tapped him on his shoulder.
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The first day guy was actually telling my husband, cause I was shook up.
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He s like, uh, your wife just got tipped over in a porta potty.
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This could have been so bad.
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I mean, you re drowning in that.
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Sorry, Monica.
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That s gross.
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My husband has to give my two year old son to our friend.
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He s got to take care of my son for a while.
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He s on a half ounce of mushrooms.
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So he s really struggling.
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Potentially, yes.
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It s a long walk back to the tent.
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They took my husband on the golf court.
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They got me a bunch of clothes and they drove me to the shower.
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They gave me endless coins.
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They re like, take as long as you want.
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You know, everybody else, like even the owners of the property, the owners of the festival, like everybody else ended up coming around and just making sure I was okay.
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And so I showered, I got all cleaned up.
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And then when I came out, I had to give a statement to the police and they were like, what else can we do for you?
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Do you want VIP?
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I mean, that s not really where I m looking to head right now.
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Oh God.
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I d always take VIP.
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I should have actually just took like tickets for every year.
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Yeah, exactly.
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I d love to come back next year with VIP.
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That would be the goal.
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I actually did get a ticket for the next year.
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Oh, good.
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I actually went back to camp.
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I was all cleaned up and then I just continued hanging out with everybody.
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And was there any.
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There, here s your, your, your options.
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One is malicious boys tipped over a port-a-potty.
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And even if we re generous, maybe they thought their friend went into that one to someone shoved somebody and they fell into the port-a-potty and it tipped over and then they ran or see, could a car have been backing up and bumped into it?
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Like was there vehicles present?
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No, this was full on malicious.
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I don t think that in any way I was targeted.
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That s healthy.
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But I think it was somebody was had a little bit too much fun and they thought
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tipping over a porta potty would be interesting, I guess.
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You know what s funny is we ve been having a hour long argument over punk rock music scene.
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And what s funny is here they are at a bluegrass festival.
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Everyone s honky dory hippies.
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And that s where- I know exactly what happened.
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A punk rock guy went to this festival with his friends and was like, ah, this place isn t rowdy enough for me.
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I hate it here.
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I m going to tip over some porta potties.
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I saw a pregnant lady go in there.
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I understand you like poop stories, so I thought you would have enjoyed those.
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Yeah, that is dynamite.
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And you re so chill about it.
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I got to say you re really chill about the whole thing.
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It s somewhat my personality, but there wasn t much else I could do.
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This is a sincere question though.
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Ever since then, when you re in a porta potty, are you fucking like on high alert?
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I feel like it would permanently scare me about porta potties.
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Absolutely.
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I have PTSD and when a porta potty is just a little uneven or they re like leaning backwards, I really get some anxiety.
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I got to get out of there quick.
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Yeah.
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That is so scary that it fell with the door down.
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I don t like that.
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If you re going to, listen, if you re going to be an asshole and tip someone over, have the courtesy to tip it over backwards.
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It d be really hard to open.
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That might be worse.
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It d be hard.
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If it tipped over on its back, then the door would be a hatch above you and you would just open it and crawl out.
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It s still like it s heavy.
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Well, it s not that heavy.
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Some people are small.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Tip it on its side if you must.
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Oh, I can settle for that.
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That s a good compromise.
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Also, please don t do that to people.
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That s so awful.
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It is.
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It is.
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I can t even believe it happened, especially at this peaceful festival.
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Oh my God.
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These stupid punk rockers.
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This is the kind of thing you d expect, yeah, at a different show.
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I mean, it tends to get a little wild sometimes.
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Well, I m glad you went back.
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I mean, you got back on that horse.
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Yeah.
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I rode that horse.
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I did.
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And I kept going back until it was over.
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And you must tell your youngest son all the time that at one point in his life, he was tipped over in a porta potty.
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Like that s an experience you guys shared.
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Yeah.
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I had my son the week after I was three weeks early.
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Wow.
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Oh, wow.
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He was like, get me out of here.
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It s unsafe in here.
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She takes me into poop traps.
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Well, thanks for sharing that.
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Yeah, thank you.
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That came out of nowhere.
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I m glad I needed that.
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The whole set up, everything else, I did not know where that was going.
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And that was a real left turn.
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I m glad I got you.
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It s very nice to meet you.
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Great to meet you guys.
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Thanks so much.
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All right.
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Take care.
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She was so chill.
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Are they for you?
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I know they used to be, but you don t go to many.
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I liked punk shows cause you re there and you re standing around and you can move about and you do different things and you dance for a while in the mosh pit and then you hang out with your buddies.
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But going and sitting in a seat for two and a half hours, I do start getting distracted and preoccupied with like how long it s going to be.
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I start wondering like, how long are they going to play?
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I don t even know why that bothers me.
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I might be loving it, but I just start getting preoccupied with how much longer.
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Because it s like traffic?
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Yeah, it s like traffic.
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I ll have to leave.
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And then I personally can t stand Encores.
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That drives me insane.
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I object to Encores.
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I love Encores.
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No, it s all pageantry because we all know they re coming back.
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I know, it s lots of fun.
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I love pageantry.
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I love going through the motions.
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Everyone knows what s going to happen, but we re acting surprised.
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So you love the encore and you like multiple because now, because what happened was first it was just an encore.
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Yeah.
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And that was satisfying.
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Then everyone knew there was an encore.
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So then there s fucking two.
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Yes.
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Then I start really spiraling like, oh my God, is there going to be fucking three?
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Are they going to leave and everyone claps and how long and no one knows when to leave.
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Is there another one coming?
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You can understand how this is anxiety inducing.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, I like to leave everywhere early though.
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I know that a bad quality or I don t think it s a bad quality I do think it s an anxious thing
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Like, I ll be honest with you, we just went to the football game with Matt, and Matt invited us.
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It s like his trip, and it was his birthday trip.
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Wobby Wob was there, coincidentally.
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Yeah, I saw in a picture you were behind them.
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It was so funny.
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I knew we had to get there before the game started and stay till after it was over, and I was like, ah.
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I was the same.
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You were the same, yeah.
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It s harder if you don t care about the teams so much, either.
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I m fine with staying if it s like a Chicago team.
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Of course.
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But like, I m only barely into football, so I like to go have the experience, and then if I can shave an entire hour and a half off the experience by leaving five minutes early, to me that math is so easy.
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Well, those were wild.
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We learned a lot.
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A lot of fodder for you and I. Yeah.
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A lot to think about tonight.
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A lot of stuff I m not gonna let my children do, or yours, sorry.
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Right.
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I m not letting them.
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Well, I love you despite our differences.
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Right back at ya.
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Yeah.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Do you wanna sing a tune or something?
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Or a theme song?
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Oh.
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Okay, great.
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We don t have a theme song for this new show, so here I go, go, go.
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We re gonna ask some random questions, and with the help of farm cherries, we ll get some suggestions.
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On the fly, rind-ish.