#148: Drink Clouds

In which Lauren & Mattias deep dive into Google's word of the day and talk about sneezing. They review their recent movie night films and discuss various topics such as things that annoy us and lozenges.
Content:

• Opening
• Weekly check in
• Movie on!
  •  The Man Without A Face
  • RV
• Intermission
• Googly Oogly
  • Lauren's recent Google search history
  • Google news headlines
  • Google word of the day: Gesundheit
• Submarine depps: Sneezing
  • Why do people say bless you after someone sneezes?
  • Can a sneeze kill you?
  • If you sneeze with your eyes open, will your eyeballs pop out?
  • medical and plague-related origins of bless you
  • How to properly sneeze & alternative responses
• Wrap up
  • What's ruining our lives 
  • Live Mad Libs! Octobe  11, 2025 8pm CET/2pm EST on Twitch @roastytoastyghostypodcast

Chapters

• 0:00 Episode Introduction and Morning Recording
• 8:02 Recapping Our Week Together
• 17:33 Movie Reviews: The Man Without a Face and RV
• 30:24 Googly Oogly: Recent Google Searches
• 35:04 The History Behind Saying "Bless You"
• 49:22 Can Sneezing Kill You? Debunking Myths
• 56:47 What's Ruining Our Lives This Week

Transcript

SPEAKER_01: 0:05

In a world where everything is unscripted, there's it's roasting up.

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Would you like to open this up?

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Yeah, it's time.

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It's time. I don't mean to interrupt you, but it's time. Let's open this up. Okay. Yeah.

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A little bit weird.

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I feel it.

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But I think it will be better.

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Okay.

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Hello and welcome. Hello and welcome to Roasty Toasty Ghosty.

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Are you bored?

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Yeah. My name is Matthias. No. My name is Matthias.

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And I'm Lauren.

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Quickly, you rose up.

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I'm really excited to tell you that I am Lauren.

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Yeah. It's like you're a mile away and has to run to the bike. Oh yeah. I'm I'm I'm Roland. I'm Roland. I'm Roland. Hey, that's me.

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You know what? If I was a guy, I'm gonna change my name to Roland. Aww. Oh.

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That's an honor.

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Oh. And I will be King.

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King Roland.

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King Roland. That's a person. Uh in a movie?

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Yeah.

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Or a real guy, I don't know.

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Maybe both.

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What movie was that?

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Right now, I don't know.

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I know. I know it was Google.

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Where are you?

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Google, where'd you go? Hey Google. What movie is King Roland in? Spaceballs. Shush. No one cares.

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Well, we cared. Yeah.

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My name is Lauren.

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Oh yeah, you are. And we're gonna be your besties for an hour or so.

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Yeah.

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How are you?

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I'm good. How are you?

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I'm good.

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Good. Awesome.

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Awesome.

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You know what? This episode is different and it's special in its own way, as they all usually are.

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Yeah.

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It's early. It's early. For us, it's not even midnight.

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True.

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You know, we usually record late at night and it's noon right now.

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It is.

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So that's different.

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Yeah.

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Um we're like awake.

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Yeah, we are.

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Crazy.

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We just woke up.

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No.

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Well, even more.

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I just yeah, yeah. We are more awake than usual.

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Yeah. And this is because we both work evening shifts.

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Right. We're both gonna be working really late.

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Yeah.

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So this was the only time we had today to record.

SPEAKER_01: 2:41

Mm-hmm. But speaking of that, uh, should we talk about the week?

SPEAKER_05: 2:45

We really should. If we have anything exciting to say about the week.

SPEAKER_01: 2:50

Yeah, it's been a different week. I guess it's been a different week. At least for me.

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Yeah. For you.

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Yeah.

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What happened last weekend? I know that I taught gymnastics on Saturday.

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Okay. And I went to your workplace, didn't I?

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Oh yeah. I went straight to work after gymnastics.

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Yeah.

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And yeah, I worked and you met me at work.

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Yes.

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And we had milkshakes and we went home.

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Yeah.

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You went there just to go home with you.

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Yeah, we had an hour to kill over there.

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Oh yeah. We missed we missed the first bus.

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Yeah. So we could walk around and talk a little. Yeah. I think that's what we did.

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Yeah. We walked through the beauty store. Oh yeah. And we were looking at all this stuff.

SPEAKER_01: 3:37

Yeah. And I was so excited.

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You got mad at me because I tried putting makeup on you.

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Yeah, I didn't like that.

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No, you didn't. I I wanted to see what it would look like on you so I would know if it would look good on me.

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Okay.

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And yeah, it looked good on you. Okay.

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Uh I'm I'm thinking now, is this gonna be like the the second half of the episode?

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Yeah, it's gonna be me putting makeup on you.

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Yeah.

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That's why I said just roll with it.

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You're not allowed to fight me. Yeah, the second part of this episode is gonna be a surprise for me. I don't know what we're gonna do.

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I mean, it it's gonna be fun. Okay. Okay, just trust me.

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Okay, I trust you.

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So yeah, we we both went home.

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Yeah.

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That was it.

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That's it.

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But it was nice.

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Yeah.

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And then on Sunday.

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Sunday. The day of editing.

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Yeah. I did see you on Sunday. We went for a walk.

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Yes, we did.

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Yeah. It was a little wet, but we did walk.

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Yeah.

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And then I went home.

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Yeah, I remember.

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And that's all that happened on Sunday.

SPEAKER_01: 4:43

Yeah. It was uh a fairly um rainy day, so I worked that night, I'm pretty sure. Oh yeah, you did. I remember that too.

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I did, didn't I?

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You did. I know.

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My weeks are like so scrambled.

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Yeah.

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That like I have no idea what my week looked like. Okay, so I know that I went to classes this week.

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You missed a bus home and then you got like told off. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 5:10

Yeah, no, you're right. You're right. Yeah. One of my colleagues was telling me that I really should have taken the earlier bus home, even though, first of all, it was before everyone was done. We usually leave when things are done or when we're told to leave.

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Yeah.

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And we weren't done. So, and I wasn't really keeping track of time.

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No.

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I was cleaning in the bathrooms.

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Yeah.

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And I don't wear my watch at work. I'm not allowed to. No. And there's no clocks in the bathroom.

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No.

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And I'm usually pretty wet at work. So I don't want to take my phone out all the time.

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No.

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So yeah, he was telling me that I really should have taken the other bus home. And I was like, you know what? It's not the first time. So and there's no point in leaving now. I'm still just gonna have to stand around and wait. I'd rather be here inside, not in the rain. True. Uh, and actually being useful. But yeah, I I did get home eventually. And uh yeah, I went to classes. I've been working out this week. Oh my gosh, I have been so good this week with exercise, at least. Yes. Food is another story, but it's one thing at a time right now. Yeah. So I went to water gymnastics on Monday, and I did the gym mix, which is like aerobics on Tuesday. Wednesday I took a break and watched Wednesday with my son.

SPEAKER_00: 6:38

Wednesday on Wednesday?

SPEAKER_05: 6:39

That was the point. Yeah. We saved Wednesday for Wednesday. Also.

SPEAKER_00: 6:45

Have you done that every week?

SPEAKER_05: 6:46

No, but I'm thinking it should be a thing.

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But makes sense.

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Yeah. Also, I was thinking Wednesday is gonna be like my chill evening, so I can watch Wednesday with my son. Yeah? And then yesterday was Thursday, and I taught gymnastics and I went to spinning. Yeah. And we've gone for a walk every single day this week.

SPEAKER_01: 7:06

Every day. Because I work evenings this week. Yeah. And we'll do so every other week. Yep. Until Christmas. Yeah. And uh um on Monday, you when we met, you brought me cookies.

SPEAKER_05: 7:22

I did. You bought cookies of my daughter who was selling cookies.

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Mm-hmm.

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So you got cookies. I did. I also got cookies. So I've been meeting you on your way to work and we went for a walk. Yeah. Like every day this week.

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We did. It's been good.

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Oh yeah. And on Monday and Wednesday I went to the gym in the morning.

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Oh, okay.

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Kind of.

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Yeah. Yeah. And we had a dog a couple days with us.

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Uh Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. I was dog sitting.

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We didn't have the dog on Monday though.

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Because the dog was having nap time with my life partner.

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Yeah. But Tuesday and Wednesday.

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He went for with us.

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Yeah. And he didn't like when we sat down on a bench.

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He wanted to go for a walk. He didn't want to sit.

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He's like, we're not out for a sit.

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We're out for a walk.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That was basically the week.

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I think so.

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Right? Yeah. I've been trying to work out again because my body after work has been so sore. My hands can hardly handle my work right now. And it's a problem.

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Yeah.

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So I'm buffed now.

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Yeah. Yes, you are.

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But, sir, today is Friday.

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Yes.

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We watched movies.

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We did. Early.

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Early movies. I picked you up. I left here at 6:30 this morning. Yeah. I brought you here and we watched movies. Yes. Would you like to movion?

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Let's move on.

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Okay, so tonight we watched the first movie and then RV.

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Yeah. The first movie is called The Man Without the Face.

SPEAKER_05: 8:56

Right. And then we watched RV. Um, I'm gonna tell you about the man without a face. I'm gonna tell you one thing. Okay. The man had half of a face. Yeah. That is a spoiler. I'm really sorry. Uh it's a movie with Mel Gibson.

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Yes.

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Speaking of space balls.

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That's Mel Brooks.

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Mel Brooks. This is a movie with Mel Gibson.

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Yeah. I don't think he has that past in his name, though.

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I keep catching myself.

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I'm gonna say Mel Gibson.

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Everyone makes the same mistake. Everyone wants to call him Mel Brooks, but his name is Mel Gibson.

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Yes.

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And there's a little boy. How old is the boy supposed to be? Like twelve?

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Yeah, around there.

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Something. I don't know. His friends are not cool.

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No.

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Um, and he lives in a chaotic family with uh a stuck-up sister who uh talks a lot and a s another sister who uh snoops around. Oh, they're half-sisters because everyone has a different dad. And his little half-sister is Snoopy and nosy.

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Yeah.

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So um, and his mom just likes to get married to a lot of different guys.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Anyway, so this little boy, he wants to prepare to go to a boarding school.

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Yeah.

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But he has to study for an exam. And then he finds Mel Gibson, who uh half of his face is damaged, so the entire town is like scared of him.

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Yeah.

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This is what kind of annoys me, okay? Okay, is that the entire town literally has nothing else to talk about. Every time you go out into public, there's people talking about him.

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Yeah.

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Like there's nothing else going on.

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Yeah.

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Absolutely nothing. At parties, that's all people are talking about, is Mel Gibson.

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Yeah.

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It's like, well, what's the big deal? Really? He is a guy who really just wants to be left alone because he apparently looks like a freak. Yeah. I don't know. I I don't think I would judge him that harshly. Like if I was working at a grocery store and he walked through my line, I wouldn't judge him that much.

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But he also avoided people. He came in late to, you know, to stores like the old. Yeah.

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Well, to avoid the judgy people of the town.

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Yeah.

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Because they're all just spreading rumors about him.

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Yeah.

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And it's just they literally have nothing else to talk about. So Mel Gibson teaches the boy and helps him study for the exam. Yeah. That's what happens. Yeah. What'd you think about the movie?

SPEAKER_01: 12:01

Uh um, I don't know. It's uh it's pretty good, I think. It's uh I mean it maybe it's not my type of movie. It's not, you know, it's more of uh this is a drama. I'm not like a drama uh movie person, but there wasn't much action. No, and not much comedy either.

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No.

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Yeah, it's mostly but I mean Have you seen it before? I have.

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Okay.

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But it was a long time ago. Just once.

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Okay.

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Um yeah, I guess uh it's a a fairly decent movie for what it is.

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Okay.

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I um uh I don't know. What what did you think about it?

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I mean, I liked it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Um, other than the townspeople having nothing else to say. That was the only part that really, really annoyed me.

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Yeah.

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But I mean the rest of it was pretty good.

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Yeah.

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I liked it. Good. Yeah. It was interesting. Yeah. I kinda like dramas sometimes. Yeah.

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Yeah. Um, yeah, and this was the uh first movie Mel Gibson directed.

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Okay.

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Like full-length movie, I think. So that's pretty cool.

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Yeah.

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93.

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Oh yeah. Yeah. That's my year.

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That's your year. Yeah.

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So yeah.

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Uh I don't know what uh to say. Oh yeah, Nick Stahl, the boy. He he was in Terminator 3.

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Oh yeah.

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He played John Connor in that one. Fun fact. And he has not worked with Bruce Willis, what I know.

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No, which is too bad.

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Yeah.

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Because I I thought that Mel Gibson was Bruce Willis at first.

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Yeah.

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But wasn't.

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No.

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I don't know. I liked Bruce Willis.

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Yeah.

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I liked his movies. Okay. Anything else?

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No.

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Oh right.

SPEAKER_01: 13:51

And then we watched RV. Very easy title to remember. Just two letters. And this movie stars Robin Williams. And it's about him taking his family on a road trip. They were planning to go to Hawaii, but he had to cancel that trip because of his work. On this road trip, he had to get to a meeting in secret. Yeah. So his family didn't find out. That's about what the movie is about. And of course, there's troubles and mishaps along the way.

SPEAKER_05: 14:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 14:29

Yeah. So what did you think about this movie?

SPEAKER_05: 14:32

I thought the movie was funny. Yeah. I enjoyed the movie, but something that annoyed me.

SPEAKER_00: 14:37

Okay.

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It's a theme with these movies tonight.

SPEAKER_00: 14:40

Yeah.

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Was there were a lot of characters that I recognized or I thought I recognized, but I didn't really recognize them.

SPEAKER_01: 14:47

Okay, so it's not really the movie.

SPEAKER_05: 14:50

No, it's the people. It's the actors that I thought I had seen before, but I don't remember seeing them in whatever movies they had been in before.

SPEAKER_01: 15:03

So it's also a little bit about your brain, I guess.

SPEAKER_05: 15:05

Right. It's the people's fault.

SPEAKER_01: 15:07

Yeah, okay, yeah. It's not your fault.

SPEAKER_05: 15:10

No, no.

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Never.

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But I did enjoy the movie. Yeah. It's Robin Williams.

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Yeah. Of course. I think it's funny too.

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Yeah.

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Um, yeah. It's like a fun, uh, happy movie, you know. It's adventurous, colorful, and it's just fun.

SPEAKER_05: 15:28

It is.

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Yeah. That's what I was trying to say. Yeah. It's a fun movie.

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It is a fun movie.

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Yeah. Jeff Daniels is in it too.

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And he's not Greg Daniels.

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No, he's not.

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No. But he was in a movie I saw a long time ago after I read the book, Because of Wendixie. I know you don't know, but I know.

SPEAKER_01: 15:51

Okay.

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And you just have to say okay.

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Okay. Okay. What was that what it was called?

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Yeah.

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Okay. What was it called?

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Because of Win Dixie.

SPEAKER_01: 16:00

Okay. Okay. What? No, just saw because of Wendixie. And I'm like, okay, what's the title? Because of Win Dixie. Yeah. I didn't get that that was the title.

SPEAKER_05: 16:10

Okay. Alright. That's the title.

SPEAKER_01: 16:13

Yeah, that's what confused me.

SPEAKER_05: 16:15

Okay. Sorry. Um, I recognize the guy because he was in a movie that I saw after I read the book, and it was called Because of Win Dixie.

SPEAKER_01: 16:28

Ah, now I get it.

SPEAKER_05: 16:29

You get it. Okay, okay. Okay. We're on the same page of the book.

SPEAKER_01: 16:33

Yeah.

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Yeah, cool.

SPEAKER_01: 16:34

Last page?

SPEAKER_05: 16:35

Uh yeah. Yeah, because at the end.

SPEAKER_01: 16:36

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 16:37

Because I already read it.

SPEAKER_01: 16:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 16:39

I don't need to read it again. No. We can just watch the movie now.

SPEAKER_01: 16:42

I'm at the first first page. Okay. Because I haven't.

SPEAKER_05: 16:45

Right. I have the soundtrack. I'm way ahead of you.

SPEAKER_01: 16:49

I mean, we can watch the movie.

SPEAKER_05: 16:52

I mean, I was in like fifth grade. Yeah. But I mean I like that. That's the one where I um I read the word lozenges. Oh, really? And I didn't really know what lozenges were. Okay. But I think I kind of figured out what they were talking about while I was reading the book. But I was still a little confused. This was fifth grade. I didn't know what lozenges were.

SPEAKER_01: 17:14

No. I um found out or yeah.

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You found out recently.

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About that word a few years ago from the Craig Ferguson show.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 17:27

That's random. Yeah. Random fact.

SPEAKER_05: 17:30

The day we figured out what lozenges were. Yeah, so I guess it's an older word for cough drops or something. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. I never heard it before that though.

SPEAKER_01: 17:42

No.

SPEAKER_05: 17:43

Alright, well, now that we figured that out, would you like to take a break?

SPEAKER_01: 17:47

Uh we should take a break, yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 17:49

Alright, we're gonna do that then.

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We'll be right back.

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Right back.

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And we're back.

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Hello. We are back. We are. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 18:08

Hello.

SPEAKER_05: 18:08

Hello. Uh are you still super awake? Yeah. You fallen asleep yet? No, not yet. Good because it is in the middle of the day. How are you doing?

SPEAKER_01: 18:18

I felt like I was peeing yourself?

SPEAKER_05: 18:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 18:22

Okay. So I had to adjust. Yeah. So I don't sit in it.

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Okay, okay, okay.

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I'm not gonna do anything about it.

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No.

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Um, so today. You don't know what we're gonna do today.

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I have no idea.

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I don't really know what we're gonna do today. Cool. Well, I kind of have an idea.

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Okay.

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Okay. So I have a new segment. Cool. Okay.

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I love this. I just like that uh you plan everything and I do basically nothing.

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Yeah, no, no, no. Okay, so this is a segment I'm gonna call uh googly oogly. Because that's a fun word to say. Yeah, Google. Uh I'm gonna we're gonna get some information from Google.

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Oh uh is it Googly Eyes?

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Googly eyes.

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Yeah.

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Okay, so let's look at my recent Google history.

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Okay.

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Fun, right? We always like this segment.

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We done that before.

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Yeah, so I'm just gonna name off a few uh random uh Google searches I've done. Okay. Okay. So the first one is Breece. Brees? Bries?

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Brees.

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Yeah. Next orchid.

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Oh, okay.

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Okay, which is toys. Yeah. And can you tell me what Brees is in s the Swedish Bries.

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Breeze. Yeah. Well that could be two uh two different things.

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That is three. You uh you had three fingers up.

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I did.

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Yep, okay. But you meant two.

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I meant two. Either it's uh you know, slight wind. Oh a breeze.

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Oh okay, okay. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And then what's the other thing?

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Um that's uh Bornensretisamhelet.

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Okay.

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And that means the children's right in society.

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Okay. So basically, if you're a child and you're being abused, you could call this hotline.

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Yeah.

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Right? Okay, so this was brought up in a conversation I was having with my oldest and my life partner, and they were talking about Bries.

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Yeah.

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And I was like, isn't that a brand of toys? They were like, no, no, it's not. And I was like, I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure they make like trains and stuff, right? Like wooden trains. That is brio. Yeah. Yeah. So I was wrong. So that was kind of funny.

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Yeah, but I I was uh thinking the same. Or uh I knew what you were talking about, at least.

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Okay. The next thing I searched was uh Steven Tyler.

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Okay.

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Uh the singer from Arosmith. Okay, so there's this AI thing going around saying that Steven Tyler cut his hair and everyone's making a big deal about it, and he looks way older than he used to.

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Oh.

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Which never happened, apparently. Yeah. I had to look it up. Did you see this one?

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No, I didn't.

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Okay. So that that was not true. He never cut his hair. Okay. My reflex scrunchie. Oh. I searched for a reflex scrunchie because it was just something that I thought of on my way home in the middle of the night. And I was like, you know what? I like my scrunchies. I I have a whole bunch of them in different colors. Yeah. And I was thinking, how cool would it be to have reflex ones?

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Yeah. Now I'm thinking, couldn't you get more reflex stuff? Yeah. Like wouldn't it be kind of cool with the like uh glasses?

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Uh oh, you want the frames to be reflex? How visible do you think they'd actually be that?

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I don't know, but it would be sunglasses. Yeah, because you need them when it's dark out.

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Yes. You you need them to be visible at night.

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Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I guess if you meet cars and stuff, maybe uh and uh I mean I do have a er jacket like that.

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You do. I also got sick child a jacket like that, but he refuses to wear it. You know why? Because it makes sense? Because it makes sense? No. No, okay. Because he thinks it's too big for him.

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Oh, that's not a problem.

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I don't like it. How old is the Rocky Horror Picture show?

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That's 50.

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Yeah, it's 50 years of Rocky Horror.

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Yeah.

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And that's what was on my Google News here.

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Okay. Did you have to ask that?

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Yes. I did. You didn't know? Math? Not me.

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Oh. That's cool. That's your favorite movie.

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It is. And it's 50.

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It is.

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That's cool. Alright.

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Do you know other movies from 75?

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Not off the top of my head.

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Jaws.

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Okay.

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I know that one.

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Alright. Jaws is as old as Rocky Horror. We need to watch that movie at some point.

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We do. I I do really like that one.

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Jaws or Rocky Horror? Both. I was talking about Rocky Horror.

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Okay.

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I guess we can watch Jaws at some point. I've seen No, I haven't. I haven't seen it.

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Okay.

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No.

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I I like both, so I'm up for both.

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I was on the ride though.

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Yeah. Are we gonna be on the ride?

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Oh yeah. Definitely.

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Did we rehearse that?

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Yes we did. Hey Google, tell me five top s news stories like I'm a ten year old. Okay. Here are five cool news stories for you. Let's see. Okay. So scientists are trying to talk to dolphins using computer smarts called artificial intelligence to learn what their whistles and clicks mean.

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Hmm. Artificial intelligence.

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I've never heard of it. No. What is this?

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Yeah. That's news to me.

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It is news. It would be cool to talk to dolphins. I'd like to pet a dolphin someday.

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Yeah. And I'd like to know what it has to say.

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I think they have lots of stories they could tell us.

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Yeah.

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That one time I ate a fish and it was good. And I could also say there was also one time I ate a fish and it was really good. Alright. An amazing 102-year-old man just climbed all the way to the top of Japan's biggest mountain, Mount Fuji.

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Mount Fuji. I n yeah, I I heard about that mountain. I'd never heard about the man.

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No.

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Until now.

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Yeah. He doesn't have a name except for 102-year-old man.

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Yeah, that's uh I I think they take away your name after 100.

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Probably. You don't have a right to a name. No. You're just known as 102-year-old man. Yeah. Alright. Everyone knows who you are.

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Yeah, because there's not many of them.

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No, they get narrowed down. Okay. A super smart hawk figured out how to use a pedestrian crosswalk light in a city to help it catch birds. What and why?

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How?

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What? Also why?

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Yeah.

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And how is also an appropriate response.

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Yeah.

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Okay, so in a recent paper, a researcher noted a bird's surprising urban adaptation. A young Cooper's hawk used a pedestrian crossing signal to help it hunt more successfully in a busy neighborhood. Interesting.

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I mean, I I don't see how any birds would care about street signs or anything.

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Anyway, whatever.

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Yeah, okay.

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I'm just gonna say whatever to that one.

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Yeah.

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Cool, I guess. Yeah. Alright, NASA. Weird. Yeah. NASA needs your ideas. They are asking kids to help them design the next wheels for their special vehicles that drive on the moon. I'm not sure how kids are gonna help you with them, but okay.

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It feels like adults should be doing that. Yeah, they should be able to You know what?

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We don't trust adults anymore.

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We are I mean, when you think about it, adults are just the big kids.

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Adults were kids at one point in life.

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Yeah, and they grew up so they're big now, but they're still kind of kids. I don't see me as an adult. I don't think I ever will.

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You are a big kid.

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I am.

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Alright. Engineers found a new way to get clean drinking water right out of the air to help people who don't have good water access.

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Okay.

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We are drinking clouds.

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We are.

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Yeah.

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Few people notice it.

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That if you just stick a straw into the sky, you can drink clouds.

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Yep.

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That's water.

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That's how you get the clouds to disappear.

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Yeah. And make it a nice sunny day again. If you're thirsty, drink clouds.

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That's a life hack.

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Life hack. Hey Google, what is the word of the day?

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Gesundheit. Ah. Bruce it, as we say in Sweden.

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Yeah. So what does it mean? Gesundheit is an interjection used to wish good health to one who has just sneezed. Alright. So did you know when English speakers hear a chew, they usually respond with either gesundheid or God bless you.

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Or just bless you.

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I guess so.

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You don't have to include God as unless you really want to.

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So this gives me a question. Okay. Hey Google. Why do people say bless you after someone sneezes? Uh so it originated from ancient superstitions and customs. Mainly the belief that a sneeze could expel the soul or invite evil spirits, or later, a prayer for protection during the plague. Today it is mostly a polite convention.

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I didn't really have a comment to that. I just whatever. Okay.

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Uh let's deep dive this subject. Alright. So I have some things to read for you. Okay? Okay. It gives us a uh uh a segment here. Okay? Uh uh uh a segment here. Um so the custom of saying bless you after a sneeze has a rich and complex history, okay? This is very fun, uh entertaining content. Okay. Several fascinating theories about its origins. So this is this is cool. Okay, okay, okay. Um Here are the main historical theories behind why people say bless you or God bless you after a sneeze. God bless you.

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God bless you.

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Very forceful.

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Yeah, every time I hear someone sneeze, I I will say, God bless you.

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Very angry. Why did you sneeze? Okay.

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Which you can think of in terms of spiritual or superstitious beliefs and medical or plague related origins. Alright, alright, alright. Number one, spiritual and superstitious origins. These theories predate modern medicine and center on the ancient belief that a sneeze had a powerful non-physical effect on the body. Okay? Like expelling the soul. This imagine if your soul left your body every time you sneeze.

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Yeah.

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This is one of the most common and oldest beliefs. Ancient cultures believe that the soul or spirit resided in the head. A violent sneeze? That sounds painful. Might accidentally expel the soul from the body. I believe it. You know, have you ever had a really big sneeze and it feels like your entire soul just left your body?

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Yeah, I think so.

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Yeah. Saying God bless you was a quick prayer to protect the sneezer from losing their soul. Or to ensure the soul returned safely.

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Uh I just see someone panic, like, God bless you.

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Help! I sneezed.

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Save me. Save my soul.

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And your worst enemy is standing there in front of you after you sneeze, and they refuse to bless you. I hope your soul leaves and never comes back. By soul. By soul.

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Okay. Preventing evil spirits from entering your body. Okay. In a related belief, a sneeze was thought to create a momentary vulnerability or an opening in the body.

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Oh. The mouth?

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Yeah. The blessing was a protective charm to prevent the devil or evil spirits from entering the body while the soul was briefly exposed or jarred.

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Charming.

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Okay, so um what if you were giving a presentation in front of class and you sneezed and then the devil accidentally snuck into your body and that is uh an unfortunate situation.

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Oh yeah.

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Like, excuse me, I'm very sorry about that. I'm gonna keep going now.

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If you're like a teacher, it's gonna t uh teach you wrong from that.

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But teacher, you said you listen to me now.

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Yeah, Satan is good.

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Satan is good.

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Okay. Um expelling evil spirits. So it could be either way. You're either uh entering evil spirits or expelling them. Conversely, some cultures believe the sneeze was the body's attempt to forcefully expel an invading evil spirit or influence. If you think about this, it might be kind of true because if you are sick, you're like releasing, right, the virus.

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Oh yeah. That's true.

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And giving it to someone else. So I don't want this. A choo, here you go. Yeah. That's for you.

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Yeah.

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This is your virus now.

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Yeah. You can get uh you can be a part of this.

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You can be a part of this. So the blessing was said to prevent the spirit from re-entering or harming bystanders once it was loose. Okay.

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It should be bless everyone else.

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Bless you all.

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Yeah.

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What about me? Oh yeah, bless you too, but everyone else too. Stopping the heart.

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Yeah.

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A later, though persistent, folk belief was that the heart momentarily stops beating during a sneeze. The blessing was a prayer or well wish to ensure the heart started again. Has a sneeze ever actually killed someone? Like, stopped the heart permanently and they just like died?

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I don't know. Alright. Was that a question for me or was I think I have to ask.

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Can a sneeze kill you? Here's for all the hypochondriacs out there. A typical sneeze will not kill a healthy person, but it can cause minor injuries. Oh. However, attempting to forcefully hold in the sneeze can lead to rare but serious complications that could be life-threatening, especially in people with pre-existing conditions. Have you ever heard that like if you sneezed with your eyes open, your eyeballs could pop out?

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No.

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Okay.

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Never heard about that. Alright. But I heard that if you close every like face orifices and sneeze really hard, you can die. It makes your brain, you know, blow up. Blow up. Yeah, kind of.

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Okay. No, here's a here's a point that it's bringing up that you are talking about. Um, when you block a sneeze by pinching your nose and closing your mouth, the air pressure, which can travel over a hundred miles per hour, holy moly, okay, is redirected internally. So this redirection can multiply the pressure in your upper airways by 20 times, leading to more significant risks, like a ruptured pharynx or a tear in the throat tissue, a rupture of a pre-existing brain aneurysm. So uh don't do that just in case you have an aneurysm. Because you never I don't know. Maybe you already know. Maybe there's probably symptoms of aneurysms, but I've I've heard of them sneaking around. Uh ruptured eardrums.

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I think I heard one just now.

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I yeah, I think I just no, no, no. Um air being forced into the chest between the lungs, which is also known as a big word that I'm not even gonna bother.

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Okay.

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Uh also ruptured super superficial blood vessels in your eyes and nose. I don't like that. Which can cause red spots.

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Black.

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Broken capillaries in the eyes or nose bleed. Yeah.

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Yeah. So don't block your sneezes.

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If you sneeze with your eyes open, will your eyeballs pop out? Okay. No, your eyeballs will not pop out if you sneeze with your eyes open. Your eyes are firmly anchored. You don't have to worry about this. Okay. If you ever considered sneezing with your eyeballs open. Yeah.

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Eyeballs open. If I my eyeballs open.

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Blah!

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I never considered popping my eyeballs out, so no.

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I um and and closing your eyeballs. Oh my god.

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Yeah. If they're open, you should close them.

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I'm not supposed to say eyeballs, eyelids.

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Yeah.

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Closing your eyelids is an involuntary reflex, so it's gonna happen anywhere. And anywhere. Anyway. Um minor injury is possible, although the eyeballs won't pop out, but the sudden spike in blood pressure can rarely sm cause small blood vessels on the surface of your eyeballs to burst. I don't like any of this. I don't like this conversation. Let's stop.

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Stop with the eyes.

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So I don't think a sneeze is gonna kill you. Yeah. Okay.

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So but just in case, don't sneeze with uh open eyes.

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Don't sneeze on open eyes either. Ew. Ew. Don't sneeze in other people's eyes.

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Also.

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Um all right, we're gonna talk about the medical and plague-related origins of bless you.

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Okay.

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This set of theories ties the custom to specific historical health crises, like the bubonic plague or the black death. This is perhaps the most widely cited theory. During the European plagues, especially the one in the 6th century and the Black Death in the 14th century, a sneeze was often one of the first and most recognizable symptoms of the fatal illness. So if you sneezed in that time, people are panicking.

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Yeah.

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So Pope Gregory I did something about this guy. It is widely claimed, though potentially apocryphal.

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A pocketful?

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Yeah. A pocketful. This is a word.

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He had a pocketful.

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We don't need to add this word because it's not it's in parentheses, so.

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A pocket full of sneeze.

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A pocketful of sneezes. Are you that Pope Gregory the Great in 590 AD. A D. A D. Not A D. A D. Yes. After death.

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Probably.

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I can't answer that truthfully. Uh decreed that a blessing, like God bless you, be said after a sneeze as a short, hopeful prayer for recovery, since the person was likely doomed to die. Not from the sneeze, but from the plague.

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Yeah.

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Because it's not that likely that you'll die from a sneeze. No. Like we recently discovered.

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True. But I'm I'm also thinking about the die from uh sneeze. It also depends on the situation.

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Yeah, if you have an aneurysm, yeah, and then that'll kill you. Yeah, or But it's not the sneeze that kills you, it's the aneurysm.

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Yeah, that's true. But it it could also be like um, I don't know, uh you're on a roof and sneezes and step weirdly and fall off the roof or something.

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But that wasn't the sneeze that killed you, it was your step. Yeah. Also, why are you on the roof?

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I don't know. Uh oh yeah, uh you need to get better phone service.

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You can easily lay down. You'll get the same service if you lay down. You don't have to stand on the roof.

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No, but uh yeah.

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Some people just do that anyway.

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Yeah, but still, the the that would lead you to death per if if the fall itself kills you. Yeah.

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Yeah. In a time when death was frequent and priests were scarce, saying God bless you was a quick benediction similar to a simplified form of last rites for someone who might not live long. That's all. Okay. Uh modern meaning. Today, the religious or superstitious origins have faded for most people. The custom of saying bless you persists primarily as a matter of social etiquette and courtesy. It is a way to acknowledge the sound without making the sneezer feel awkward. So, if someone sneezes, are you really required to acknowledge the fact that they sneezed?

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I don't know. I think it depends, actually. I it depends on what I'm doing.

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I guess.

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If uh if I feel like I'm busy, I'm not gonna do I mean if I d don't have any.

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If someone sneezes across the room at work, yeah, are you gonna scream, bless you?

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Yeah, th no, I don't think so. Not like across the room.

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Everyone has to acknowledge that they sneeze.

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If it's close enough, I might do it. Okay. And uh I mean if I don't feel like it, I pretend like I didn't hear it.

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You just ignore it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I I this is a really awkward thing because I don't feel comfortable saying bless you.

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Yeah, I never say bless you though. No.

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And pros it, I I feel like I pronounce it weird, which is the Swedish way of acknowledging a sneeze. So I just look at you and I don't know really what to say.

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You usually say gross.

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It is gross, it's disgusting. I don't like that you sneezed. Yeah, I wish you didn't do that. But it's even worse when people sneeze straight out into the air and don't try to cover it in any way. And then it's like that was disgusting. Yeah. Why did you just do that?

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Yeah.

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And people do that. And I've seen it so many times.

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I don't like when people sneeze in their hands.

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Ew.

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Why?

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That's awful.

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They touch things with their hands.

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How do you sneeze?

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I sneeze in my uh arm.

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Yeah, okay.

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There.

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Yeah, I s I try to sneeze in my shirt.

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That uh sometimes I do that too.

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My sneezing ritual is to turn away from whatever I'm doing, because I'm probably working with food. I might be in a conversation with someone, or I don't know. But I try to turn away from whatever I'm doing, my entire body, and I'll sneeze into my shirt.

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Okay, yeah.

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And then I'll hold it, I'll hold my shirt there for a couple seconds and get myself back together. Yeah. All the pieces put them back together.

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And I mean, if I have my hands full for some reason, you'll sneeze on the things that you're working with.

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Of course.

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No. I I usually turn around and try to sneeze on the next person. Uh no, down on the floor or ground, so it doesn't go straight out, you know.

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Sorry.

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I just imagine you sneezing on someone. It's funny.

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Yeah.

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My arms are full. Can I use yours?

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Yeah. I often dive into other people's arms at some stuff. Catch me. I'm about to sneeze. Catch me.

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And you're not a small person either, so it's just funnier. Okay.

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So um you know, I I tend to uh try I try to find the smallest person I can to dive.

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Land on. Okay, okay, okay. So saying bless you is also a way to offer a polite or culturally ingrained well-wish for the person's health. Cool. Global alternatives. Okay. The English bless you isn't the only response. Many other cultures have their own traditional post-sneeze phrases, most of which focus on health or fortune.

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I like the post-sneeze phrase. Okay.

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That's uh post-sneeze phrase.

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Yeah.

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Okay, so our word of the day is German gesundheit.

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Yes.

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Which English transit translation health.

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Wow.

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You're just screaming health at people.

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Okay, so that's what the m word means.

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That's what it says.

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That's a long way to do it. English translate health.

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Gesundheit. Health. Okay. Um in Spanish, do you know the Spanish word? No. Salud.

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Hey, that's cheers, isn't it?

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Health.

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I think that's cheers too.

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It might be. But you also say it to sneezes and it also means health.

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Okay. You're screaming health at people. So maybe you can say it uh you you should sneeze and then take a shot.

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Yeah. Um that'll make you feel better, right? Yeah. Like uh Oh yeah. French. I don't know. I'm not very good at French anymore, but whatever that means.

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A tae so hates.

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A tais su hate. Um to your wishes is what that means. Okay. Italian.

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As you wish.

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As you wish.

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Maybe they maybe they thought you said something.

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Maybe.

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Kinda sounds like French.

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Italian.

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Sneeze. Okay.

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Sneezing in French?

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I mean, uh a sneeze maybe means something in French. Because they have a weird language. That's what I'm saying. Sorry to all the French people.

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And your sneezes.

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Yeah. Achoo. I say at you to the Achu to you. To the French people. Okay.

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Uh Italian. They also say salute.

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Okay.

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Which also means health.

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Cheers.

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Yeah. Alternative ways to respond to sneezes in English. Okay. Is what I'm gonna ask now. Alright. So some people say Gesundheit in German.

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Yes. Yeah, and uh response to that.

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Sneeze.

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Wait, you sneeze, then they say gesundheit, and then you sneeze again.

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Yes. No, a person sneezes and the other person says gesundheit in German.

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Whatever.

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And another thing you can say is to your health and take a shot, I guess. I don't know. Okay. Um another response is health, I guess. That's just what it says. I don't know. Okay, but um how about some simple acknowledgments instead? Like, are you okay or are you alright? Take care.

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Yeah.

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Goodbye.

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I'm just gonna leave. Yeah, take care. Oh. You're gonna be like that.

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Here's one. Feel better or get well. Like, get well, goodbye.

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I'm not Yeah, no. Yeah, I don't want to talk anymore.

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Here's a passive aggressive one. Need a tissue? It says it's practical and helpful, but I feel like in a real life situation, that's passive aggressive.

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Yeah, I feel like your gross would fit in here.

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Disgusting. Gross. Ew. Uh you could also ignore the sneeze, but just say nothing. Many people now choose to say nothing at all, viewing the sneeze as a normal bodily function, like a cough, that doesn't require a public comment.

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Okay. Um so you can say nothing at all.

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Nothing. A chew. Nothing.

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Nothing at all.

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Here's an etiquette notice, though. If you choose this route, the sneezer should still say excuse me or pardon me.

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Okay.

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Oh, so this is not my uh responsibility anymore.

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No.

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They should excuse themselves for sneezing.

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Yeah. You could say excuse you.

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Excuse you. Um here's here's a humorous option.

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Okay.

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Used with caution, uh, these following responses. Good one.

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Yeah, that's a good one.

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Often used for a particularly loud or unusual sneeze.

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I heard a one before.

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Interesting. You're so good looking, which apparently is a reference to a classic episode of Seinfeld.

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Oh.

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Alright. That sounds like something we should watch. Yeah. Or uh this is a good one. Okay. Shut up. Or stop it. Often said in a deadpan or dramatic, exaggerated tone after multiple sneezes. That is me.

SPEAKER_01: 51:03

Oh.

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That's enough.

SPEAKER_01: 51:04

Yeah, I I said that. Okay, that's enough. That's too much. We get the point.

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Yeah, my mom used to sneeze like a million times in a row.

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Yeah.

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Okay. And after the third one, I I stopped.

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Yeah.

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I'd be like, alright, alright, that's enough. You can stop now.

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Tell me when you're done.

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Yeah, let me know when you're done, and then I'll respond. The next one, may your wishes be granted, which is a translation of the French phrase, whatever I said earlier.

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Ah yeah.

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Um, yeah. And the last one might be my favorite, actually. Unclean, unclean. Which is hardly highly sarcastic, pretending the sneezer has a contagious illness. Unclean, ew. Um, but uh as a conclusion, if you are looking for the safest, most widely accepted secular alternative in an English speaking environment, Gesundheit is usually the best choice, even though it's German. But English is a German language, right? Or is it the other way around? German is an English language. Uh I don't know. Oh, whatever. That's that's all I have for today.

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I'm gonna stick with Bruce It.

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You can do that. I'm gonna say unclean, unclean.

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Yeah. Or just gross. Gross.

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Blah. But I don't I don't want you to like be offended by me saying gross.

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I'm not offended.

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You're not offended? Okay, good. Because it feels rude. Obviously, it's rude. You don't just say gross. Ew, you're human.

SPEAKER_01: 52:56

Yeah, I mean, I can take a joke.

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Yeah. Okay, well, as long as I know how to respond to you. Yeah. That's good.

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I mean, when you say gross to other people, you do it so they don't hear it.

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So that's true. If I hear a sneeze from across the room, I I'll say gross. Yeah. To you. Yeah. So I hear it. So you can hear it. Yeah. So at least someone hears that I'm being funny.

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Yeah.

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And I laugh. Oh. You laugh.

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Out loud.

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Like a lot. Yeah. And then people look at you. Yeah. Like, what?

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I mean, if someone says uh gesundheit or uh bless you, what are you supposed to to answer back? The sneezer?

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I have to find out. What is the best response to bless you or gesundheid? Thank you.

SPEAKER_01: 53:52

Oh. Okay, so I guess that's uh the same in like all languages? Because that's what we say it's working into.

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I guess so. Yeah, it's universally polite to say thank you. Um alternatives, if you want to try. Uh thanks.

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Okay.

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Uh uh That's a stretch. No. Uh you're welcome.

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You're welcome.

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Yeah, you're welcome for the illness that I just spread to you.

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That's a funny one.

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That is a funny one.

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Yeah.

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Um Or just say nothing. In a very crowded, loud, or professional setting. It can be acceptable to simply nod or smile.

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Yeah.

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Especially if the person you who blessed you is far away.

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Okay. Good.

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Alright, Matias.

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Alright.

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How are you feeling about this?

SPEAKER_01: 54:47

I feel like um we're about done with this episode.

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We are reaching the end of uh uh uh uh segment here. Would you like to tell me what is ruining your life?

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I feel like I've been a little bit dizzy this week.

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Are you dizzy? What's wrong?

SPEAKER_01: 55:06

I don't know. I I don't know if it's the evening shift because maybe I got too much sleep now. So I get dizzy from all the sleep I get.

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So too much sleep is ruining your life. Yeah.

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Oh my gosh.

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You have things to complain about, don't you?

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Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 55:25

Oh my gosh.

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What's ruining your life?

SPEAKER_05: 55:28

I have a couple things. Okay. Okay. The first thing is that I'm really sweaty right now. It's not feeling good.

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Me too.

SPEAKER_05: 55:34

Yeah. The other thing is that you know those little uh tiny tongue blisters?

SPEAKER_01: 55:40

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 55:41

Okay. I have one right in the middle of my tongue, like even towards the back. So it kind of feels like I'm choking on a tiny bit of s like a string of skin. And I don't like it. And I'm just annoying.

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Yeah, and I guess you feel like everything when you eat, consume anything, you feel it, right? Yeah.

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Yeah. Like yesterday I thought I was gonna choke on skin in the back of my throat, but it's just a tiny little tongue blister.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. So that's that's it.

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Okay.

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Alright. Well, we're out of zips.

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We're all out of episode.

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Alright. I feel like I'm doing this a little out of order.

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Maybe.

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You can fix it however you'd like.

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Yeah.

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Okay. Would you like to wrap this up?

SPEAKER_01: 56:29

Let's do that.

SPEAKER_05: 56:30

Awesome. Thank you for listening to this episode. It was random. It is abnormal, and we all learned something.

SPEAKER_00: 56:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 56:41

Um, nothing here was planned. No. So that's cool.

SPEAKER_00: 56:45

Yeah.

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Other than what I was going to do, I didn't know what we were gonna talk about.

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No.

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But I knew there was gonna be something.

SPEAKER_01: 56:51

Yeah. We always find something to talk about.

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We always find something. Uh we like to talk.

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Oh yeah.

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Our next live Mad Libs is gonna be October 11th.

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Okay. Yes. Cool.

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And that's on Twitch. Always very fun. Be there. Put it in your calendar and join us. We'll be back with another episode. A good one, I'm pretty sure. Next Tuesday, as usual.

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As usual.

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And thank you again. And have a good week.

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Have a good one.

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Have a good one. Bye.

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Bye-bye.

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Goodbye, Matthias.

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Goodbye, Lauren.