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Speaker 1: neighborhood where everyone sucks? Okop, this is Okayop. I'm samuel

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Speaker 1: daughter and I'm not from and we tell the funniest

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Speaker 1: stories on the internet. And John, if you were to

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Speaker 2: What would you find? Oh? Man, we have some interesting houses.

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Speaker 3: We have one that has a mosaic museum inside of

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Speaker 3: it really not even jokes. Yeah, it's like legally a museum,

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Speaker 1: Right right or right around the is it like around

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's walking distance in my little back neighborhood area.

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Speaker 3: We have a house with like we thought for sure

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Speaker 1: So we're like like, I guess someone lives there and

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Speaker 3: And then there's there's someone who literally has like the

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Speaker 1: Sounds super super interesting. This story is a story about

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Speaker 1: a neighborhood that is maybe not as inviting as you

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Speaker 2: It's not as interesting. Okay, am I.

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Speaker 2: Hmmm.

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Speaker 1: I'm a high school student in a Spanish class and

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Speaker 1: we had an assignment to make a video tour of

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Speaker 1: you know John is very uh I Spanish speak, he's

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Speaker 1: I decided to just walk around my street and make

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Speaker 1: So this is what I filmed. A neighbor's house when

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Speaker 1: So she texted me like, ha ha, Should I say something?

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Speaker 1: And I said sure? So she posted in Spanish in

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Speaker 1: I said that this assignment was literally to walk around

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Speaker 1: It's just life, and there's no point of pretending that

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Speaker 3: Like OPI is literally dropping these like philosophical gems, just yeah, nonchalantly.

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Speaker 1: Who police is the police? I have a meeting with

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Speaker 2: First off? Man, can we have a little humor? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Honestly, watching that video, I would have cracked up. I

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Speaker 1: That she did. She understood the assignment, Yes she did.

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Speaker 1: But there's an update. John, Oh, I had a meeting

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Speaker 2: Bro shout out to Opie.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Sam, I wish all conversions with this easy,

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Speaker 3: wow wow wow. But you know what else is incredible?

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Speaker 2: Ooh? Subscribing to okop.

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