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Speaker 2: the Live Nation five. I mean, this is kind of

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Speaker 2: an obscure one, but I'm just curious because I saw

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Speaker 2: this this morning. Have any of you or has anyone

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Speaker 2: do you have a friend that you've never met, like

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Speaker 2: a friend, like someone that you either like In this case,

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Speaker 2: this is the thing I saw this morning. It's on Reddit.

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Speaker 2: It was a picture of a man and a woman

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Speaker 2: together and it said met my internet friend today for

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Speaker 2: the first time. We started chatting online in two thousand

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Speaker 2: and one when we were both sixteen, so that's what

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Speaker 2: twenty four years ago. Four years ago. They started chatting online.

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Speaker 2: They never met. They kept in touch for twenty four

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Speaker 2: years wow, and they went to an Iron Maiden concert together.

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Speaker 2: I guess they're Iron Maiden fans. Cut Well, like, I

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Speaker 2: don't know, is it? Is it? Maybe? So when you

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Speaker 2: talk to like another branch of your office, you've talked

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Speaker 2: to you for a long time, never seen, which I

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Speaker 2: guess in this day and age is hard to do.

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Speaker 2: People can FaceTime or you know whatever, but video chat

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Speaker 2: all all the different zoom meetings and whatever else. But like,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, have you ever chatted with someone played

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Speaker 2: video games? You ever had a pen pal?

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Speaker 3: I'd made friends on Instagram, but then I've ended up

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Speaker 3: meeting them like a year or so later.

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Speaker 1: But I how did you meet them? That DM you?

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Speaker 1: They listened to the show they DMed you? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think so.

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Speaker 3: And just over time, like realized we had similar interests

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Speaker 3: and I don't know, I felt like I could trust

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Speaker 3: her and then we met up in person and ended

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Speaker 3: up being a great friend.

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Speaker 1: She was an ex murderer. Yeah it's a shame.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but you still visit her in prison right now?

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Speaker 1: That your friends, Well, she was.

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Speaker 3: An ex murderer. Wouldn't I not be alive to tell

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Speaker 1: Well, I think Unfortunately she wasn't able to get.

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Speaker 3: To you, she spared me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, because you were friends. Well that's why you

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Speaker 1: meet in public always. I agree, But like, is it

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Speaker 1: one of those things.

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Speaker 2: Is it like between glass when you go to see her,

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Speaker 2: or is it like across the table. Are you able

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Speaker 2: to like, you know, sit physically, or is it is

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Speaker 2: like a video chat on the phone.

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Speaker 1: I's like when you go to.

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Speaker 3: See her in you know, I usually bake a cake,

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Speaker 3: put some treats in there for her.

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Speaker 1: Oh you know, it's always her birthday, speaks stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but none of you thought because I mean,

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Speaker 2: this is crazy like to keep it, I mean, especially now.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know if these people live in you know,

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Speaker 2: wildly different parts of the world or something like, you know,

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Speaker 2: really crazy extreme distance. But I mean, I just think

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Speaker 2: it's it's amazing to think that people have been able

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Speaker 2: to keep in touch for this period of time and

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Speaker 2: never meet. Now. Granted, when you're sixteen, you meet someone

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Speaker 2: you're not probably not thinking like, oh, I'm going to

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Speaker 2: be talking to this person in twenty five years. But

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Speaker 2: I just I wonder if this has ever happened to

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Speaker 2: anybody that's a really long time.

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Speaker 1: It has definitely happened.

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Speaker 4: I feel like now like we did the tour and

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Speaker 4: that's when I met a lot of the thirteen that

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Speaker 4: we've been friends from over the last two years that

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Speaker 4: I've been here, and then you finally get to put

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Speaker 4: a face to the name. But it's a few that

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Speaker 4: I haven't. Like there's this one friend online named ce Style.

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Speaker 4: All I know is her Instagram handle. I don't know

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Speaker 4: My friend my friends, so it's like, yeah, like, and

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Speaker 4: I know those people ride for me on social mediay,

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Speaker 4: ride for all of us on social media. But it's

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Speaker 4: like I've never met them in real life, but I

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Speaker 2: H Yeah, I mean radio people that I've chatted with

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Speaker 2: that's true, But I mean I don't know if they're friends.

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Speaker 2: Some of them are. There are people that I see

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Speaker 2: very very rarely, but I know when I see them,

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Speaker 2: I know what's going on in their lives because of Facebook.

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Speaker 2: That's the only reason I still have Facebook's I can

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Speaker 2: quickly scroll through and I can get the birthdays. I

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Speaker 2: can hit the birthdays quickly, that's right, And then because

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Speaker 2: that's important, I can. I rarely will message them on Facebook.

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Speaker 2: I'll cheat and I'll go to Facebook to see if

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Speaker 2: it's the birthday, and then I'll text them.

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Speaker 1: And then people are like, how did you remember?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 1: I'm on top of it, you know.

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Speaker 2: But then there's other people that like, I'll catch up

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Speaker 2: with them after years, and I already know all the

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Speaker 2: things are telling me because I saw it on Facebook,

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Speaker 2: but I know them, like, I can't think of anyone

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Speaker 2: who I've been quote unquote friends with for you know,

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Speaker 2: years and never actually like met Hey, Alyssa, you have

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Speaker 2: an internet friend?

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Speaker 1: Really?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Multiple? Okay? Are you a gamer?

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Speaker 6: Like?

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Speaker 1: How does this come about you?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 5: In like twenty seventeen, I was at a friend's house

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Speaker 5: and I met people who I really liked, and we

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Speaker 5: They live in an entirely different state.

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Speaker 2: Now, what prevents you from just I was going to

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Speaker 2: say bags fly free on Southwest, but they don't anymore. So,

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Speaker 2: I mean, what events you have it on a Spirit

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Speaker 2: and you know, ducking from you know, ducking for cover

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Speaker 2: it's it's you know, modern air travel is amazing.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, never genuinely have never thought about it. I think

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Speaker 5: I'm just okay with them being my phone ferns. And

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Speaker 5: I think it's really common for like people in gen

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I mean it's it's kind of crazy. I

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Speaker 2: think eventually that my curiosity would get the best of me.

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Speaker 2: I'd want to meet the people like I'd want to

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Speaker 2: see that they're real. But I don't know, maybe it's

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Speaker 5: If I just believe them. I choose to believe and

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Speaker 5: hope to not get catfished.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, thank you Lizen to have a good day. Problem.

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Speaker 2: This is is a random story, but I I growing up,

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Speaker 2: I had a family member who and I don't think

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Speaker 1: I don't know what they do anymore.

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Speaker 2: But like this person had like a receptionist for their office,

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Speaker 2: but the receptionist worked in like another office. And you

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Speaker 2: hired this company to answer the phone for you, but

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Speaker 2: so like this so one day and so I would

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Speaker 2: They were in the same city, but like they worked

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Speaker 2: call or whatever every day for years.

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Speaker 1: This woman, I can't remember her name.

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Speaker 2: And one day I'm in a doctor's office and my

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Speaker 2: And like I was a kid, so it was always

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Speaker 2: oh hi, Christopher, this whole thing and my sister. I

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Speaker 2: She had no idea. We were just disrupting her like work,

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Speaker 2: I guess. And I wanted to be like, hey, Karen,

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Speaker 2: it's me. You know, I'm the kid who's been calling

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Speaker 2: But for some reason, I think about that story all

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Speaker 2: before you would have any way of knowing what these

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Speaker 2: It was just you call every day and you talked

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Speaker 2: Every single day you make that call and it's like

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Speaker 2: it really hurt my feelings and upset me. But it's funny.

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Speaker 2: It's like a few hours later I called talk to

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Speaker 1: Okay, so good to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: And I'm like, it wasn't two hours screaming at me,

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Speaker 2: And I know if I'd said something to her like hey,

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Speaker 2: I think I know you. I'm so and so, and

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Speaker 2: I would have changed everything. But whatever. Holly, Hi, Hollyhi,

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Speaker 2: Hey Hi, it's Holly.

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Speaker 2: Shit, guys, it's Holly.

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Speaker 1: This is exciting. I'm waiting for you.

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Speaker 2: You have an internet friend through gaming and you've never

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Speaker 2: met this person.

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Speaker 1: What's the story?

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Speaker 8: Correct? So I've been playing this game it's called the

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Speaker 8: Old School Rooms game. I probably played it on and

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Speaker 8: off for about fifteen years. And I hate so many

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Speaker 8: like internet friends that you mentioned. I have a friend

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Speaker 8: in Arizona in the UK, and it's just like a

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Speaker 8: great like bond that we have with the game. But

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Speaker 8: you know, we all live in a different like state

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Speaker 2: Interesting, and so these these friendships, like they you're appeased

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Speaker 2: by them only going so far, like they don't need

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Speaker 2: to go much further, Like you don't need to run

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Speaker 2: and meet these folks, Like it's it's good enough the

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Speaker 2: way it is. They could be they could be anyone

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Speaker 2: doing anything, and it doesn't matter because it's just it's boundary.

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Speaker 8: I mean, honestly, if I was like, let's say, for example,

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Speaker 8: those friend I have in Arizona that played through the game,

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Speaker 8: if I were ever to visit I wouldn't mind saying, hey,

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Speaker 8: let's you know, meet up, because it's like a bunch

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Speaker 8: of us that are like, law, I'm in my mid

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Speaker 8: thirties playing this game, and you know, it's like everyone

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Speaker 2: I think sometimes like the idea of compartmentalizing a friendship

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Holly Lily.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you don't have to talk about stress and like

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Speaker 2: All right, Well thank you, Holly, thank you. I have

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Speaker 2: a good day. Hey trich Fred, Hi Tris. So you

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Speaker 2: That's exciting. How did you make.

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Speaker 6: We met on an online auction website for what what.

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Speaker 1: Were you bidding on?

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Speaker 6: I was bidding on I don't know, craft supplies.

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Speaker 6: There's a chat feature, and you know, I kind of

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Speaker 2: You craft is a nasty Is it all women?

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Speaker 1: Is it all women? Meeting? Trisha? It's all women. It's

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Speaker 6: Ones in Kansas, ones in Ohio. I'm in North s Siniana,

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Speaker 2: And where are you meeting? And what's the agenda? And yeah,

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Speaker 2: what what sort of activities are we going to take?

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Speaker 2: What's sort of shenanigans?

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Speaker 6: Well, I don't know. That's all we left it all

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Speaker 2: Hell yeah, you got it before the deadline. That's right. Now,

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Speaker 2: hold on, Church, I have to ask what everybody's wondering.

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Speaker 6: Well that's to be determined. We left it open.

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Speaker 2: Now hold on, I have to ask that again.

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Speaker 1: And you can tell me. You can tell me this

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Speaker 2: I don't have limits. I have no filter. Are you

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Speaker 1: Are you? This is your interest and it's not.

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Speaker 6: I am married and I have three children, who I

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Speaker 1: So done?

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Speaker 2: Does your husband know that you might go? And you know,

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Speaker 6: We're all staying at one of their houses.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, So there's all four of you, none of

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Speaker 1: Also, like, so this is wow.

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Speaker 6: Way way outside of my comfort zone. I'm doing it anyway,

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Speaker 6: and it's happening on Friday, Saturday morning, and when.

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Speaker 2: Do you get back? When are you supposed to be?

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Speaker 2: Can someone check it? Can one of us have can

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Speaker 1: Please?

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Speaker 6: My coworkers are convinced I'm getting killed.

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Speaker 2: How strong are your organs? I think there might be

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Speaker 6: Wow, I'm the tough one in the groups, so I

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Speaker 2: I'm going to put you on holding. Get your phone

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Speaker 2: because I want to hear how this. You have to

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Speaker 2: I want to know if you're If you're straight, where

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Speaker 2: just sort of getting it on together. No, we have not.

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Speaker 6: I'm not still be any of that. I mean she

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Speaker 6: So I don't know it'll be gone.

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Speaker 2: But you didn't set it down like when I said, hey,

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Speaker 2: say absolutely not. You said to be determined. So what

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Speaker 7: Know what can happen?

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Speaker 6: Right? I mean you don't know what can happen.

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Speaker 1: Just make sure there's a safe word, okay, and also.

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Speaker 6: Drinking and shopping most likely you don't know when involved

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Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, well we're gonna put you a whole trip.

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Speaker 2: Can put on the calendar to call her on Tuesday

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Speaker 2: or Wednesday, either way. I got to know what happens here.

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Speaker 2: You know, we're praying for you. Okay, thank you? Okay,

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Speaker 1: In a minute, I want to know why.

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Speaker 2: She's a straight, married woman with a bunch of others

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Speaker 1: And she's like, I don't know. Oh, I love it.

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Speaker 1: Why don't we know?

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Speaker 1: We're just not saying more. She's just open. Whatever happens,

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Speaker 4: The other three casters, man, it turned out this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Do you look at this?

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Speaker 2: I thought this was an obscure topic, and you guys

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Speaker 7: Morning, good morning.

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Speaker 1: Hi.

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Speaker 2: So you have an internet friend and now you're engaged.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, so we met in twenty nineteen. I actually had

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Speaker 5: Is actually in Australia.

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Speaker 7: He's Australian, and we started talking because he was helping

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Speaker 7: And here we are six years later.

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Speaker 7: I lived in Australia for a year because of him,

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Speaker 2: This was my real life with Bethany right here. So

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Speaker 2: I'm going to Australia to meet you?

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Speaker 7: Well, he came to us. He came to America.

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yeah, good for you. You make his ass

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I won't be flying there again by myself steps

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Speaker 2: Okay, Wow, so you talk for three years and then

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Speaker 1: Was it everything you hoped it would be.

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Speaker 5: Yes, it was a.

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Speaker 7: Little awkward at first because I think it was just

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Speaker 2: But yeah, a lot of pressure, a lot of pressure

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Speaker 2: and hope that it matches. Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Luckily it did because otherwise he I don't know

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Speaker 1: So, oh my gosh.

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Speaker 2: Well, congratulations and thank you for calling.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, have a good day. Okay, Well, a lot

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Speaker 1: of people do this. I guess. I can't wait for Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I got more friend show next.