WEBVTT - Look, There' a Squirrel! 

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<v Speaker 1>Look, there's a squirrel. Look, there's a squirrel. Look, there's

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<v Speaker 1>another squirrel. A squirrel. It's one more thing. Armstrong and Getty.

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<v Speaker 1>One more thing.

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<v Speaker 2>An intriguing tease.

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<v Speaker 1>Booyah.

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<v Speaker 2>We got this text. I just wanted to follow up.

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<v Speaker 2>We were having a conversation at the end of the

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<v Speaker 2>radio show, Armstrong and Getty. It's a radio show, if

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<v Speaker 2>you didn't know that. And you can find all the, well,

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<v Speaker 2>you probably know that. You found this, Armstrong and Getty

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<v Speaker 2>On Demand. But we're talking about books and reading them.

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<v Speaker 2>And Joe said he's into paper books.

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<v Speaker 1>And I.

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<v Speaker 2>Exclusively read on my phone or on a Kindle.

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<v Speaker 1>And then we decided we can't be friends anymore because

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<v Speaker 1>everything's got to be bipolar in the modern world.

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<v Speaker 2>And then somebody texted about audio books saying they tried

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<v Speaker 2>audio books, but they get zero retention. With an actual book,

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<v Speaker 2>their retention is much, much greater. I don't have that problem.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't have that problem.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I've read studies to that effect, too. It's not universal,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sure, everybody.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Learning styles and that sort of thing.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't, I don't think it is because I, I

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<v Speaker 2>always liken it to college. One of the reasons I

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<v Speaker 2>always went to class, if I go to the lecture

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<v Speaker 2>and listen to it, it's in my brain and I'm good.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm good to go for the test. If I have

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<v Speaker 2>to read it, I might be tired or distracted or might,

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<v Speaker 2>might sink in. It might not, but whatever reason. So

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<v Speaker 2>audio books work great for me, but that sucks if

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<v Speaker 2>you can't do it.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I would. I remember thinking as a teenager, I

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<v Speaker 1>literally could not understand how somebody who could forget. Something

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<v Speaker 1>that the teacher explained to us quite clearly in class.

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<v Speaker 1>And there it is on the board. I don't understand

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<v Speaker 1>how you'd forget that. And it's not character. It's nothing

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<v Speaker 1>I earned. It's a genetic... It's like being tall. Tall

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<v Speaker 1>people shouldn't get any credit for that either. But yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>the more you learn about learning styles, the more interesting

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<v Speaker 1>a topic it is to me. But I've forgotten everything

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<v Speaker 1>I've learned about learning styles.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh my God. Helping my kids with the various schoolwork.

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<v Speaker 2>Like my son's taking... um, some biology and some math

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<v Speaker 2>freshmen in high school. And I got to go back

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<v Speaker 2>to the beginning of the chapter and read like the

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<v Speaker 2>most basic stuff. I have zero recall on some of

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<v Speaker 2>the most basic stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I know. That's why in the military you train

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<v Speaker 1>and you retrain and you retrain and you retrain, keep

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<v Speaker 1>it all fresh. Uh, my brother, the submarine guy who's

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<v Speaker 1>talked about that a fair amount.

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<v Speaker 2>Um, Look, a squirrel.

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<v Speaker 1>Fire drills, that sort of thing. Oh, yeah, the squirrel thing.

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<v Speaker 1>Oddly enough, I was distracted. So I love and hate

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<v Speaker 1>Jonah Goldberg as a writer. Very smart, interesting perspective. Some

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<v Speaker 1>of his books, The Death of the West, that was Jonah, right?

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<v Speaker 1>And Liberal Fascism, I think, was. I need to go

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<v Speaker 1>back to some of them. Absolutely wonderful writer, but oh,

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<v Speaker 1>my God, is he wordy. His columns are practically unreadable.

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<v Speaker 1>He will have a reasonably simple premise, and he'll write

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<v Speaker 1>beautifully about it for like, you know, I don't know,

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<v Speaker 1>1,500 words. But there will be 4,500 other words about this, that,

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<v Speaker 1>the other, tangents, reflections, unnecessary repetitions. Oh, my God, he

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<v Speaker 1>needs an editor. But he's a brilliant man. He also

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<v Speaker 1>tweets about his dogs way too much.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, it's getting personal.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Nobody cares, Jonah. You love your dog.

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<v Speaker 2>I tweeted out a picture.

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<v Speaker 1>You should love your dogs. Well, you're wrong, Kitty.

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<v Speaker 2>I tweeted out a picture of an ice cream cone

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<v Speaker 2>last night. I mean, come on.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Internet slop. Now, you tweet me a picture of

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<v Speaker 1>a dog eating that ice cream cone, then you've got something.

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<v Speaker 1>I swear, I look at that ice cream cone. I

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<v Speaker 1>can feel like a sugar crash coming on, like psychosomatically.

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<v Speaker 1>How weird is that? Anyway.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't feel great afterwards, I'll admit.

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<v Speaker 1>So Jonas writing an unnecessarily long and complicated column about

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<v Speaker 1>being tired, and he points out it's not from his job.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not like he chops wood or clears boulders from fields.

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<v Speaker 1>He sits and writes and types and reads and stuff

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<v Speaker 1>like that. But he says it's that he has a

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<v Speaker 1>hard time turning off his brain. And he writes, I

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<v Speaker 1>think that maybe that's the one reason people are so tired.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, people don't sleep enough, too. We take in

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<v Speaker 1>too much entertainment. But he says, we increasingly live in

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<v Speaker 1>an attention economy, and paying attention to things can be exhausting.

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<v Speaker 1>So can having your attention to one thing constantly be

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<v Speaker 1>disturbed by other things demanding your attention. Big chunks of

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<v Speaker 1>our days are like playing that old game Operation, trying

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<v Speaker 1>to use tweezers to remove a liver or spleen without

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<v Speaker 1>lighting up the patient's nose, while people are saying, did

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<v Speaker 1>you hear what Trump said? Look at this video of

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<v Speaker 1>a puppy sleeping with a monkey. Here's how you can

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<v Speaker 1>use Claude to organize your closet. Ha ha ha ha.

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<v Speaker 1>The news and media outfits, pretending to be in the

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<v Speaker 1>news business, is full of stuff demanding not only to

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<v Speaker 1>pay attention to it, but worry about it. Once Claude

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<v Speaker 1>organizes your closet, it will destroy humanity. Tics are not

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<v Speaker 1>only coming, they'll make you allergic to cheeseburgers, etc., etc.

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<v Speaker 1>I think he's absolutely right. Human beings were not built

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<v Speaker 1>to process this.

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<v Speaker 2>No. Tying it back into reading, for some reason I don't,

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<v Speaker 2>have the same feeling in my brain when I'm reading

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<v Speaker 2>a long form book. If I do that for 20

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<v Speaker 2>minutes that I have from scrolling crap for 20 minutes.

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<v Speaker 2>So there's something different going on neurologically.

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<v Speaker 1>You read long form stuff more often than I do.

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<v Speaker 1>So your answer may be different, but how long does

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<v Speaker 1>it take you? to get into, I'm reading a book mode.

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<v Speaker 2>Not right now. Nothing immediately. Cause I've been doing it

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<v Speaker 2>long enough, but when I first picked up literature again

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<v Speaker 2>or long form books, a couple of years ago, it

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<v Speaker 2>was hard. So hard. But luckily I'm back in the groove,

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<v Speaker 2>like going to the gym and I don't want to

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<v Speaker 2>let it go again because right now I can pick

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<v Speaker 2>up a big thick book and sit down and start

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<v Speaker 2>reading immediately. And it's not hard.

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<v Speaker 1>It's funny. You should use the gym metaphor. Cause I

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<v Speaker 1>was just going to say, I feel like I, I

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<v Speaker 1>have to get loose for golf. Um, I have to

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<v Speaker 1>like get warmed up to read books because I spend

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<v Speaker 1>five minutes, maybe even 10 minutes thinking I want to

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<v Speaker 1>distract myself. I want to distract myself.

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<v Speaker 3>Right.

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<v Speaker 2>And my problem my kids have is I don't know

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<v Speaker 2>that they've ever had the feeling that I've gotten back

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<v Speaker 2>of being able to sit there and read like, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>a 50 page chapter of a book. I don't know

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<v Speaker 2>if they've ever had that feeling. So they don't even

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<v Speaker 2>know what they would be getting back to.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah. Then one other thing Jonah brings up is

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<v Speaker 1>the concept of if you wanted a distraction. And he says,

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<v Speaker 1>I'd pick up a magazine and thumb through it. And

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<v Speaker 1>it occurred to me as I read that, that's right.

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<v Speaker 1>Sometimes you would have to look, often you would have

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<v Speaker 1>to look for a distraction.

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<v Speaker 2>Sitting around a doctor's office killing time. I guess I'll

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<v Speaker 2>read this Reader's Digest. I don't have any interest in. Right, right.

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<v Speaker 2>That is not a problem anymore.

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<v Speaker 1>Try to do the maze for kids. Too easy. You

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<v Speaker 1>just go around to the right right there. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>what are you, blind? Stupid kids.

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<v Speaker 2>The maze for kids.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, I need a distraction.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, that's funny. Like you'd trace it around the circle.

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<v Speaker 1>Ah, dead end. Ah, I suck at this. Damn it.

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<v Speaker 1>It seems so promising.

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<v Speaker 2>Fooled again. Yes.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a metaphor for life, son. Trust me. Yeah, yeah. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>now then Jonah gets back to being a really good writer,

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<v Speaker 1>which he definitely is. But he says, now if I

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<v Speaker 1>want to do the digital equivalent, there's a good chance

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<v Speaker 1>I'll have to re-sign into the website, but I won't

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<v Speaker 1>remember my password, so I'll have to create a new one.

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<v Speaker 1>and have a temporary password emailed to me, at which

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<v Speaker 1>point I would have to answer the Sphinx's three questions.

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<v Speaker 1>Or if I'm lucky enough to avoid that, I'll get

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<v Speaker 1>hit with a video I don't want to watch and

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<v Speaker 1>have to figure out how to turn it off. Or

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<v Speaker 1>if I get halfway through an article, I might need

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<v Speaker 1>to click on the click here to read more button,

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<v Speaker 1>which I only realized I scrolled past when I started

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<v Speaker 1>reading an advertorial about managing, of all things, my cortisol levels.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh my God, I did that the other day. And

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<v Speaker 2>then you go to the email to reset your password,

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<v Speaker 2>and you say, oh, God, I got a bunch of

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<v Speaker 2>emails here from work or teachers or whatever. I better

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<v Speaker 2>look at those.

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, does anybody know, and tech guys, I'm sure, know

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<v Speaker 1>they're like, of course I know, but what the hell's

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<v Speaker 1>the deal with the read more button?

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<v Speaker 2>You get an extra click.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's an extra click, and usually it'll open up

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<v Speaker 3>a separate tab so you have two of them going

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<v Speaker 3>at once, and then you leave that one in the

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<v Speaker 3>background running for an extended.

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<v Speaker 1>Period of time.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes not, but I assume either way you get an

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<v Speaker 2>extra click out of the deal.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah. Clickonomics is so, so fraudulent. That's why she'd

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<v Speaker 1>only buy podcast advertising.

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<v Speaker 2>Actually, I came across a good story about that, how

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<v Speaker 2>local newspapers fell for Clickonomics, and it didn't make any sense,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's too bad they destroyed themselves. Maybe I'll get

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<v Speaker 2>to that on the radio show, because it's really interesting.

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<v Speaker 2>They were really, really misled. Clickonomics works for major publications,

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<v Speaker 2>but for small newspapers, it didn't work at all. But

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<v Speaker 2>I'll explain that on the radio show on Thursday, right? Thursday, yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>On Friday.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>My thing with the distraction, and I have to remind

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<v Speaker 2>myself of this every day. I've talked about this several times.

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<v Speaker 2>Speaking of being in the doctor's office and like, geez,

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<v Speaker 2>there's a magazine. I don't even read people, but I'll

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<v Speaker 2>flip through it.

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<v Speaker 1>That's why their marriage didn't work.

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<v Speaker 2>Bruce Springsteen had a song.

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<v Speaker 1>He was selfish.

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<v Speaker 2>Bruce Springsteen had a song in the early 90s, 57

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<v Speaker 2>Channels and Nothing On, and we all had that experience of,

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<v Speaker 2>how do I have 80 channels and I'm flipping through nothing, nothing,

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<v Speaker 2>nothing I'm interested in? And it's the opposite now, and

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<v Speaker 2>I have to remind myself of that on a regular basis.

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<v Speaker 2>that the algorithms know what I'm interested in. Every option

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<v Speaker 2>on this Instagram feed right now, or YouTube feed, is

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<v Speaker 2>interesting to me. Either, like, legitimately interesting from a learning standpoint,

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<v Speaker 2>or entertaining. It's music I like, it's a comedian I like,

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<v Speaker 2>it's a TV clip I like, whatever. And it could

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<v Speaker 2>feed me stuff that is grade A quality entertainment.

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<v Speaker 3>Mm-hmm.

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<v Speaker 2>Perpetually. That's what I got to remind myself all the time. You,

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<v Speaker 2>I have to be the gatekeeper on that. I'm not

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<v Speaker 2>going to run out because I remember the day of

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<v Speaker 2>flipping through the channels, nothing worth seeing. Now everything is

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<v Speaker 2>worth seeing. It knows what I like and it gives

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<v Speaker 2>me an endless supply of it, which is weird, but yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>it's just like food.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it is.

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<v Speaker 2>Exactly. It's like food.

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<v Speaker 1>We're built to not pass up food because we have

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<v Speaker 1>no idea when we're going to be able to bring

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<v Speaker 1>down the next elk or whatever. Um, and obviously that's

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<v Speaker 1>no longer the case. So it is with entertainment and,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, I'm a big advocate, as you know, for

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<v Speaker 1>spacing out, for just watching nature, unplugging your brain to

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<v Speaker 1>keep from going completely insane. I'm going to start my

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<v Speaker 1>colony in the woods. We may or may not be naked.

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<v Speaker 1>This is all in the planning stages. Um, but yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>such a big believer.

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<v Speaker 2>That was a left turn.

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<v Speaker 1>It's, um, it's nature. It's natural.

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<v Speaker 2>Now this is big. It's his big plan.

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<v Speaker 1>Right.

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<v Speaker 2>And I pledged not.

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<v Speaker 1>To sex up the young women. Right.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a good pledge. Well, we're going to find out

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<v Speaker 2>what this does to our brain. It's all so new.

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<v Speaker 2>We don't have the research yet. We don't have the data.

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<v Speaker 2>We don't have the data on people like my kids

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<v Speaker 2>who started their lives with this pace of dopamine hits.

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<v Speaker 2>And it's going to take quite a few decades and

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<v Speaker 2>generations to get to where we can do studies on this.

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<v Speaker 2>But like my kids... walk around with at least one

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<v Speaker 2>ear pod in, listening to music while they're having conversations.

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<v Speaker 2>And so do all their friends. They never don't have,

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<v Speaker 2>there's a triple negative, I think, stimulus going into their brain,

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<v Speaker 2>including while they're getting stimulus. Yeah, right. And I can't

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<v Speaker 2>imagine what that's doing to the wiring of their brains.

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<v Speaker 2>The person that checks you out, if they're under the

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<v Speaker 2>age of 25, checks you out at the store. If

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<v Speaker 2>you see them turn their head, they got an earpiece in.

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<v Speaker 2>They're listening to something while they're talking to you and

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<v Speaker 2>doing their job.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I guess we'll all find out together how good

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<v Speaker 1>an idea that is.

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<v Speaker 2>There'll all be stark raving lunatics roaming across the plains,

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<v Speaker 2>stabbing each other or something.

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<v Speaker 1>I suspect so.

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<v Speaker 2>They go crazy.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>So just to backtrack a little bit, because I think

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<v Speaker 3>these went away mostly during after COVID, but don't touch

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<v Speaker 3>the magazines in the waiting room.

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<v Speaker 2>What are you doing?

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<v Speaker 1>Really?

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<v Speaker 2>You're in the waiting room to see a doctor. Everybody's sick.

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<v Speaker 2>Everybody's sick. Yeah. And you touch their germ mags. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>surprised they still have magazines because everybody's got a phone.

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<v Speaker 1>Right. They do. They do. I never worry about stuff

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<v Speaker 1>like that for some reason.

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<v Speaker 3>I didn't worry about it until it was brought to

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<v Speaker 3>my attention, and I went, oh, my God, you're right.

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<v Speaker 2>Which is how you got gonorrhea that second time.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, that's my story, and I'm sticking with it.

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<v Speaker 3>Waiting room magazine sickness.

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<v Speaker 1>Speaking of gonorrhea and not sexing up young women and

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<v Speaker 1>that sort of thing, I can't remember. Have I had

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<v Speaker 1>this conversation on the air or just off the air?

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<v Speaker 2>About your clout. I think we've taken this running joke

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<v Speaker 2>too far.

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<v Speaker 1>Stings so much.

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<v Speaker 2>Stings so much.

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<v Speaker 1>I actually said to my wife yesterday, and I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>happy about this exactly because it includes admitting that I

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<v Speaker 1>am an older fellow at this point. But one of

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<v Speaker 1>the few really good aspects of it is I can

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<v Speaker 1>interact with business, personal, whatever, attractive young women, and they

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<v Speaker 1>don't assume I'm hitting on them.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, I agree. We can just relate to each other

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<v Speaker 1>as human beings.

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<v Speaker 3>I agree.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's great.

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<v Speaker 2>I like that, too.

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<v Speaker 1>There's none of that defensiveness or weird, you know, frankly,

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<v Speaker 1>if she thought if she wanted to, I would do it.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, just that, that dynamics gone and it's liberating

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<v Speaker 1>and it's fun.

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<v Speaker 2>I agree. I like it too. And I remember observing

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<v Speaker 2>that when I was younger, you know, attractive young women

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<v Speaker 2>talking to old men, they don't feel threatened. And they,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, in the way they're talking to those of

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<v Speaker 2>us who were younger guys who were, you know, possible mates. Uh, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I like that too. It was nice. It is liberating. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Does it work the other way, Katie, or no? I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know if it works the other way. Yeah, I

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<v Speaker 2>would think so. You talk to old men and they

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<v Speaker 2>don't have to worry about their head? I don't know

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<v Speaker 2>if it works that way. I don't know. I always, well,

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<v Speaker 2>this is a different question. I got it backwards. I

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<v Speaker 2>did the same thing. So it would be, well, you're

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<v Speaker 2>not old enough to know. Older women talking to younger men. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>it doesn't work because I can't ask you because you're

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<v Speaker 2>not old enough.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, the younger men are thinking she's a cougar. She

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<v Speaker 1>wants to jump my bones.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like the opposite. Gotcha. It's almost as if men

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<v Speaker 1>and women are different.

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<v Speaker 2>Although I do have the, I have said before that

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<v Speaker 2>I've reached the age where, uh, I can tell him

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<v Speaker 2>being humored a lot and I don't like that. Oh,

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<v Speaker 2>you gotta be nice to him. He's old. That's just Jack.

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<v Speaker 2>He's an old guy.

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<v Speaker 3>Good old Jack.

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<v Speaker 2>We'll listen to his story or laugh at his joke.

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<v Speaker 2>Cause he's old. Or they'd talk louder. Cause I think

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<v Speaker 2>I can't hear.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Yeah. Thank you for patronizing me.

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<v Speaker 2>I had one more instance of that the other day

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<v Speaker 2>where somebody gave me and I gave you the senior discount.

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<v Speaker 2>So that saved you a dollar. Screw you. You think

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<v Speaker 2>you did me a favor just telling me that you

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<v Speaker 2>think that made my day better. How do you think

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<v Speaker 2>that made my day better? You telling me you're so

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<v Speaker 2>obviously over this age, whatever it is. Here's your dollar.

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<v Speaker 2>I'd rather you keep the dollar and let me keep

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<v Speaker 2>my illusion that I'm not obviously to everyone the age

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<v Speaker 2>you're describing.

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<v Speaker 1>So, A, I'm old, and B, I'm desperate for a dollar.

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<v Speaker 1>A dollar. Which back when I was a young man

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<v Speaker 1>could have took me and my sweetheart forever. to the

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<v Speaker 1>Cinebubbleplex and bought us a popcorn as well.

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<v Speaker 2>Who says I'm happy to be insulted for a dollar?

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<v Speaker 2>An insult that I'll think about all day. For one dollar,

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<v Speaker 2>that's a fair trade. That's a steal.

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, do you have an ugly discount? How about a

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<v Speaker 1>stupid dollar off? Will you give me a buck off

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<v Speaker 1>because I'm so damn stupid, too?

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<v Speaker 2>You don't like the way I dress? Here's 50 cents. Bastards.

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<v Speaker 2>This will be the year I get a metal detector

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<v Speaker 2>for Christmas.

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<v Speaker 1>I just know it.

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<v Speaker 3>Well.

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<v Speaker 2>I guess that's it. Seriously, though, thanks for the dollar

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<v Speaker 2>for something that now I will think about for the

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<v Speaker 2>next hour.

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<v Speaker 1>So that saved you a dollar.