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Speaker 1: The Secrets of the Sleeping Porch.

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Speaker 2: Hi.

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Speaker 3: This is my sophomore year at University of Michigan. I'm

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Speaker 3: living in at Alpha FI and there's this tiny screen

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Speaker 3: den sleeping porch. Usually at a lot of schools, I

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Speaker 3: feel like don't have sleeping porches, but we do. And

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Speaker 3: it was basically five little beds like crammed together, and

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Speaker 3: the rule of thumb, like rule number absolutely one was

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Speaker 3: absolutely no boys allowed.

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Speaker 4: It's strictly for girls.

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Speaker 3: Want for gossip, cheap wine of course, and while whatever

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Speaker 3: we get up to when everyone's not home and we

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Speaker 3: come home from a night out and we're sort of drunk.

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Speaker 3: One Friday night, me and my friends Emmalilah and Sophie

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Speaker 3: are hanging out sipping wine. We'd just gotten back from

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Speaker 3: going out, and we decided to play a game called

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Speaker 3: our Past Hookups.

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Speaker 4: One of the.

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Speaker 3: Things that we all love, love to talk about because

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Speaker 3: a lot of us are Eskimo sisters, so it's just

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Speaker 3: great to reminisce and maybe talk about the things that

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Speaker 3: we all got up to. The rules are simple. We

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Speaker 3: all wrote our name on a little piece of paper

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Speaker 3: of our best hookup, folded up, folded it up, and

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Speaker 3: put it.

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Speaker 4: In a little bowl.

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Speaker 3: Then we all took turns pulling a name and giving

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Speaker 3: like a flirty confession and ridiculous story about that person

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Speaker 3: without saying who wrote it at the end. It kind

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Speaker 3: of sounds innocent, but after a few glasses of wine,

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Speaker 3: it definitely gets chaotic and super juicy. We're laughing, whispering.

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Speaker 3: An Emma start sharing this wild story about a guy

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Speaker 3: she met at a party that she ended up having

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Speaker 3: a one night stand with, and Sophie chimes in with

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Speaker 3: a story about a frat boy who said into her

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Speaker 3: dams in the middle of class. That was a guy

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Speaker 3: everyone's obsessed with and honestly our favorite frat Everyone's laughing

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Speaker 3: so hard, but we are so scared that we were

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Speaker 3: going to wake up the house mom, which happens a lot,

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Speaker 3: and we tended to get into a lot of trouble

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Speaker 3: when we hear it. A little bit later, we hear

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Speaker 3: this like soft rustling noise near the corner of the porch.

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Speaker 3: We all freeze and whisper, like, do you guys hear that?

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Speaker 3: At first, we all pretended like we didn't because it

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Speaker 3: was like three am at this point, and then we

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Speaker 3: started hearing someone talk so Emma gets down slowly creeps

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Speaker 3: towards the corner, and there's this guy that we literally

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Speaker 3: were just talking about. Emma had just pulled this card

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Speaker 3: and it was the exact guy that we were just

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Speaker 3: talking about, which I feel like we always speak people up,

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Speaker 3: Like anytime I'm talking to anyone and I bring up

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Speaker 3: their name, I feel like I speak them into existence. Anyway,

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Speaker 3: he is crouched behind this chair, looking totally panic. We

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Speaker 3: all scream and we jump onto the beds. We all

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Speaker 3: like knock the wine over because we were like, holy shit,

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Speaker 3: like I can't believe that they're here, that he's here,

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Speaker 3: and we're trying to like block him with a blanket

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Speaker 3: uh I thought this was empty, like pretending like he

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Speaker 3: didn't know. And so Emma, being the investigator she is,

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Speaker 3: says now like, well, now that you're here, you have

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Speaker 3: to play the game with us. So he sits there

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Speaker 3: awkwardly like all of us in this tiny, tiny little room,

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Speaker 3: and we continue to drink and playing our game. And

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Speaker 3: now it's honestly way more intense that he's here. Every

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Speaker 3: story we read or confession we share gets him blushing

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Speaker 3: like crazy, and we're teasing him NonStop. Meanwhile, the porch chaos,

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Speaker 3: Emma's like lying half asleep, Everyone's like whispering, bright red,

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Speaker 3: and at one point he tries to like grab the

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Speaker 3: he sneaks out and we all like go to sleep

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Speaker 3: trying to catch our breath, and the porch literally reeks

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Speaker 3: of wine and just complete embarrassment the moment we woke

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Speaker 3: and we always talk about it the Hidden Boy with

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Speaker 3: the thirty Confessions, and it honestly became legendary and a

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Speaker 3: just so funny and honestly unforgettable. And I do miss

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Speaker 3: those moments of being in the porch.

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Speaker 5: So basically, when we lived in our already house apparently

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Speaker 5: rumor house, it it was built on top of, like

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Speaker 5: I don't know, like an old nursing facility, I don't know.

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Speaker 5: But anytime that we would sleep in the sleeping porch,

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Speaker 5: the room. And it was a sleeping porch, so it

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Speaker 5: one of my girlfriends slept directly across from me. I

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Speaker 5: don't remember how we chose our beds. I think there

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Speaker 5: frat and anyways, we would both wake up and like

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Speaker 5: we never really spoke about it until our junior year

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Speaker 5: because we lived in a sophomore year and we would

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Speaker 5: like we would leave and we would go sleep on

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Speaker 5: the day beds in our bedroom. It was really really

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Speaker 5: nerve wracking, and luckily, like I said, our boyfriends lived

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Speaker 5: one night, I think our junior year, we finally like

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Speaker 5: talked about it. Somehow came up our scary experiences and

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Speaker 5: we both identically identified this figure of this tall man

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Speaker 5: his right arm and looking down, and he was standing

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Speaker 5: So for her he was right next to her, and

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Speaker 5: then for me he was looking directly at me. And

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Speaker 5: it was so scary and so terrifying, and we never

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Speaker 5: took spoke about it until we had moved out. And yeah,

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Speaker 5: so there were a couple other instances, but it was

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Speaker 4: I loved living in Porch. It was so much fun.

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Speaker 4: As you know, it's like a big part of like

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Speaker 4: had like eight girls in it. I think a lot

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Speaker 4: of times, like sleeping porches can be kind of like

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Speaker 4: scary because it's like, oh my god, it's a bunch

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Speaker 4: wanted to be that like that room that everyone came

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Speaker 4: and like hung out in and everything. Just some funny

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Speaker 4: which was really fun, and there was like a lot

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Speaker 4: of times where like the people below us, who like

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Speaker 4: someone else's door. And I was so grateful that she

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Speaker 4: Sweet Maya had like no idea that we like I

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Speaker 4: like we had like a mega bed, Like the last

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Speaker 4: Like we had things called pinnings, and basically it's like

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Speaker 4: quote unquote marry or pinned to your boyfriend, and then

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Speaker 4: so fun to see like all the history and if

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Speaker 4: circle or sorry, put a heart around it. So it's

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Speaker 4: Whenever some one of us, like you know, didn't clean

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Speaker 4: And we always have like an open door. That was

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Speaker 2: Okay, as a sorority girl, I was really shocked to

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Speaker 2: hear the title theme of this episode because I have

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Speaker 2: never heard of a sleeping porch in my entire life

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Speaker 2: until now. I for reference, went to a school where

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Speaker 2: the sorority housing was attached to on campus housing and

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Speaker 2: and they were all together, but they were built uniform

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Speaker 2: like the dorms, and they did have quite a few

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Speaker 2: way that ours was different was ai that we didn't

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Speaker 2: have a sleeping porch. I can't believe I've never heard

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Speaker 2: of that still. But we also didn't have a chef

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Speaker 2: or anything like that. So downstairs we had a big

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Speaker 2: hang out and all that. We had a kitchen, but

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Speaker 2: it was for girls to use, so anyone who lived

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Speaker 2: in could use the fridge and use all the amenities,

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Speaker 2: but we didn't have a chef. And then we had

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Speaker 2: a smaller boardroom downstairs that's where EZEC would do their

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Speaker 2: during rush would be on their computers or whatever. And

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Speaker 2: then the second floor was a bunch of It was

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Speaker 2: kind of a mix.

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Speaker 1: There were bigger.

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Speaker 2: Rooms that all the rooms on the second floor were better.

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Speaker 2: A lot of them were singles that only had communal

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Speaker 2: highly sought after, and the way that you would get

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Speaker 2: if you were topping grades, and that meant you got

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Speaker 2: the first choice of your room. A lot of girls

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Speaker 2: And the other interesting thing is we had about ninety

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Speaker 2: two one hundred girls in a pledge class, and only

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Speaker 2: were on EXEC, and then if you were on EXEC

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Speaker 2: And I don't think I realized in college how different

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Speaker 2: if I feel like we missed out on this being

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Speaker 2: But who knows, it could have been really fun. I'm

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Speaker 6: In my experience being in a sorority, the sleeping porch

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Speaker 6: is actually something that my sorority really really enjoys, and

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Speaker 6: the girls all honestly like kind of fight to get

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Speaker 6: usual living arrangement for most girls. I know, it's quite

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Speaker 6: common to want a single or double with a friend,

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Speaker 6: they added an entirely new bunk bed in there, and honestly,

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Speaker 6: couple of funny stories that I've come from it, one

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Speaker 6: popular instagrams. I'm pretty sure it ended up on bar

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Speaker 6: house is very casual, doors are kind of left open

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Speaker 6: There's a really close relationship between all the live ins,

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Speaker 6: you know, the girls come home from class and one

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Speaker 6: I think that maybe enticed girls more to live in

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Speaker 6: But I have nothing but good things to say about

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Speaker 6: the idea of a porch. I think it's a really

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Speaker 1: So one night, my girlfriends and I from my sorority

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Speaker 1: and goes look at this specific bed and there was

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Speaker 1: Because we were just dying laughing, we didn't want to

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