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Speaker 1: So they got you got gongs like that. Every gong

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Speaker 1: They were like between two and five thousand dollars, these

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: It's not a deal breaker, but it's a waving red flag.

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I can hear it really low gong. I

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Speaker 2: You Jack the gong guy. I'm gonna make it stop.

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Speaker 1: Am I gonna have to start wearing robes like change

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Speaker 2: Yes, snake, snake, and like a headband and wear the

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Speaker 1: Grow my hair out and get the bony tail.

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Speaker 2: Yes, perfect, Yes, keeps getting better and better. Burn incense

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Speaker 2: in your home. Oh, get you a couple of quartz crystals, exactly,

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Speaker 2: different kinds of bracelets, like leather tied bracelets.

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Speaker 1: Around my wrists, alas and shoelas. I never wear socks again.

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Speaker 1: I'm sandals. You see my feet, guy, Get barking stocks exactly.

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Speaker 2: That's semi tattoo hen Ti and Hennah Hannah tattoo. Get

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Speaker 3: No, right, you have to be Sandals, gong and essential

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Speaker 3: oils guy, now essential loyalist.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, none of your like superfluous oils, just the essential ones. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The gong is going to be the center of your identity,

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Speaker 1: Can I rub you in some tertiary oils? No?

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Speaker 2: No, come on, I'm the gong guy.

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Speaker 1: Only essential oils.

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Speaker 2: Right. You ever bought a vacation guitar?

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Speaker 1: I did. I did one time in Mexico, and I'm

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Speaker 2: Nice shortly after I swear I would never buy another guitar.

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Speaker 2: I bought a vacation guitar. It's a really cool guitar,

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Speaker 2: but I don't I don't need like more than three

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Speaker 2: like to admit trade them for a gong. I'm weird

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Speaker 2: that way. I've only sold or gotten rid of like

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Speaker 2: have enough guitars. I've spent enough time or money rather

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Speaker 2: I get attached to them, like their people. I have

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Speaker 2: a very I get stressed even thinking about selling one

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Speaker 2: of my guitars, like one I haven't played in three years.

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Speaker 1: That's interesting.

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Speaker 2: I know it's weird. I was gonna ask a harder, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: go ahead, smash. Sorry if you guys have ever smashed

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Speaker 2: a guitar. No, I couldn't do that, really, not intentionally. No.

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Speaker 1: When Garth Brooks used to do that, I hated that

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Speaker 1: part of his concert. He'd smash a perfectly good guitar

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Speaker 1: really bothered me.

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Speaker 2: I didn't. John Hyatt has a song that I know,

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Speaker 2: John Jack knows perfectly good guitar. It's all about how

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Speaker 2: terrible it is to see somebody smashing it perfectly good guitar.

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Speaker 1: You smashed a guitar, Katie.

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Speaker 3: It was a piece of crap. And it the the

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Speaker 3: not the neck. I'm losing my terminology of it. But

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Speaker 3: if I played it anymore, it was gonna break my hand.

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Speaker 3: So we we had a good time.

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Speaker 2: Run grab it, should I say so?

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Speaker 1: The only thing that will keep me from buying a gong,

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Speaker 1: I think, is how it would affect possible future relationships.

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Speaker 1: Do I hide it in the closet like I'm in

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Speaker 2: I think as a purely practical matter, you embrace it

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Speaker 2: completely in the way we were just discussing, and just

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Speaker 2: get with hippie.

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Speaker 1: Chicks with their with their armpit hair and their dirty feet.

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Speaker 1: I can't do that.

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Speaker 2: Maybe maybe you don't have what it.

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Speaker 1: Takes Bernie Sanders bumper stickers.

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Speaker 3: Or you're too uptight man open with it, like, hey, check,

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Speaker 3: I have a gong.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to get this out of the way,

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Speaker 1: like you're selling you got an STD. I need to

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Speaker 1: tell you up front before we go any further. I

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Speaker 2: Why do I care it? Well, it's like five feet

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Speaker 2: wide and it was fifteen thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: But I don't. But nothing else comes with it. I

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Speaker 1: hate the smell of whatever that smell is that everybody

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Speaker 1: has in their home. I don't smell pot. No, It's

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Speaker 1: just it's my only thing in that world. But I

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Speaker 1: really like my gong.

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Speaker 2: Just flashing me on Serial Killer Cereal.

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Speaker 3: You can have a conversation with her and just say, Okay,

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Speaker 3: when I speak, I will hit the gong and then

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Speaker 3: you can speak.

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Speaker 1: Let's see how that goes.

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, what why?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: Well, I guess that's it.