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Welcome to control and compete. Today we're joined by Bubba Gaddar.
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Hello, so glad to be here.
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In the word I pronounced incorrectly, the most of Scotland's capital, Edinburgh.
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That's all right, do it right?
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Yeah?
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Okay Edinburgh Edinburgh?
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Yeah, I do. I do that. My students laughing me
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quite often because I don't pronounce.
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Here's one for you.
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Do you think you should pronounce it the way the
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vocals pronounce it, or do you think you should pronounce
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it the.
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Way the locals?
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So if I have to say Utah or Utah, oh.
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You know, I don't. I don't travel there enough to
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know that one. That's a new one to me.
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And in films they say Utah, like I remember, I
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always have a point break, Remember a point break, we
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cannot leave and Patrick sweezy, They say joining Utah and
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my wife always she's okay.
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So that that's a little different from like the state
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name the vernacular there compared to like a name of person.
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I feel like an evil caneval or evil cone whatever.
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But we had an Oklahoma girl, we had what was
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spelled Durant, but you would say do rant yeah, or
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there's a Miami Oklahoma, but it's called Miama, so I
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agree with local, but I don't travel to Utah enough. Yeah, yeah,
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it's named after Well, I have Native American blood, and
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so there's plenty of Native American tribes that that those
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all those tribes are named those states and cities are
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named after.
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So I far back then. Family tree, then.
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Oh, that's a that's a fun question because my dad
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is an uber generation tree what's the ancestry dot com? Like,
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he's he's got this, he's got like a high level
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certification in drone flying and too much genealogy because he's
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gone back to when my parents, sorry.
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My great great great greg whatever grandparents.
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Were here in Asia and Europe and when it was Prussia.
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Like he's gone back to sixteen hundred.
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Wow.
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So it's fun for us because we've actually seen the
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history of Mennonites traveling to Kansas and then us becoming
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ingrained in the culture there with Native America and Cherokee
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and Choctaws.
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So yeah, a lot of it.
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Actually, it's very interesting.
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My wife's the redhead, so she's definitely got.
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Yeah, because you always get that.
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Yeah, I think as Irish sang the red because I
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think even to my My mom said it goes.
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Back to Ireland as well. I think that's where the
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red comes from.
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I surely that's got to be the reason. Like, but
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it can't be it's a recessive or or it's a
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word of the gena dominant gene.
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Right, So what I would.
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Say is, though, right, here's one for you.
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So my little boy got cripped when he was like
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two years old, and it took him to the hospital
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and it was quite a tough time and they had
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to sed him and the lady who so he's got
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ready as well. But the lady said that I takes
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more to date somebody with and I think that's geneta evolution.
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My wife, it takes them ten times just to draw blood.
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She hates she I'm like, I'll watch the needle. She
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hates it because they have to do. It's very the.
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Your transparent skin, yeah, very much.
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So the slight.
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My wife's so white, she's transparent, she's casper most of
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the time. And then when she gets in the sun,
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basically her freckles connect.
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Yeah, well you can, yeah, so tell me then, So
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whinterabouts did you say exactly?
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Fabite? Was it from the states? You are from?
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Then well, I grew up yeh in Oklahoma, which is
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just north of Texas, and for thirty some odd years
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lived there, and then these last thirteen years we moved
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to Kansas City and became cheese fans and watched Taylor
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and Travis Kelsey fall in love and yeah, you've gotta
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you've gotta love the swiftye Kelsey and like that's lially.
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The only thing we good thing we track now in
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America is what's happening with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey.
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We don't even know what's going on with the Chief
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Football team anymore.
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Do you find they're quite interest in how the media
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portrays America from here? Or do you think it's quite
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on point or do you think it's quite sCOD or.
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I do coming here, I've been here for a year now,
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a year and a month, and we moved here in
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August twenty twenty four. And hearing my students and hearing
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people that I work with the expectations of Hollywood and
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New York, and that's a very very common perception of
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the I think. But I've also I've done a couple
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of summers in China and Hong Kong, I've done some
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time in Germany where else I've been other places I
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can't rememal top my head, but different places around the
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globe to hear that same kind of Hollywood type perception.
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That's kind of breaking away the one I think is it.
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I would say so globalization with technology social media in
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the past twenty years. Of course, yeah, there's now it's
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you would know a movie star, but you would probably
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know an influencer on TikTok better yep, and you would
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know an Instagram influencer and how they review things for you.
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Soon before influencers start getting casted ahead of movie stars.
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For films, we're already there, bro, were already probably wait wait,
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there's the logan, Pol's the.
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There you go?
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Yeah right, yeah, yeah.
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Like that kind of that group of that team that
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does that. Funny, so many of the influencers that were
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on U what's the sixth second clip app?
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What's the tik talk?
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No, it was Vine.
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The Vine stars that have been in movies and now
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have TV shows and other things like that.
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We've been there for a few years.
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But being the actual tom cruise of a film or whatever,
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you know.
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And do you think they'll even have that again, because
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when you think about it, I mean it's sometimes you
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look at even Bonds and you think, will any of
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these bands.
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Become their own stores?
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These bands become the Beatles, right, and you think will
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they ever get to that scale or size? And then
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Sat Bobo, when's your next Tom Cruise? I mean, you
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should get Madam Mine. So I've always had the movie stars.
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But it's the evolution of change, right, So we perfectly
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in line with we're talking about digital things with the
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evolution of change with the calculator and the typewriter and
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the phone to AI. Now to the evolution of change
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with what you just mentioned of music and influencers. I
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think it's there's there's only one constant. It's changed and
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that's part of it. And so we're totally in this
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constant world, especially after the Industrial Revolution, of adapting and
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change with technology and moving away from the stone to
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the wheel everything else.
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I think the best thing I've seen the AI in
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music was they done the Beatle was doing a cover
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of Don't Love Back and Ander by Oasis, and he
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managed to capture the Beatles voice and it sounds like
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Lennon singing but singing an Oasis song I wonderful when
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you go through a whole revolution of going back through
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all the ages of getting all the tunes back out and.
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Then helps the Oasis looks a bit like him.
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Yeah, I mean, I think when you hear No Gallicer talk,
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I think of the Beatles are big inspiration, even though
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the Osborne I've seen a really lovely clipp a while ago.
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Obviously Ozzie passed.
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There was a clip of him being in a room
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coming in to speak to Paul McCartney and he came
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into a room looking like just a lot of fan.
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I think Paul and I realized that a little bit
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and then kind of took causey and but Ozzie was
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blown away by Paul. So obviously Beatles are massive and
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all these guys, what can the music?
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Do you like yourself?
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You know, I'm a nineties hip hop kind of guy,
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A gem out to nineties hip hop. I grew up
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like the one white kid in many A mini schools
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growing up, and I.
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Just like strict dog and all that.
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Then, yeah, that's that's that's my jam, basically just enjoying
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nineties hip hop.
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I like eighties stuff.
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What do you like in the eighties?
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I like the I like the stuff that's on the
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movie Ready Player one because I listened to soundtracks over
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and over, so it's van Halen and it's or whatever.
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I played a guitar hero for many many years.
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Yeah, basically like guitar he bet it was like a deck.
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Okay, yeah, I talking about yeah, yeah, I was going
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to do that.
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I need to bring that back out because I was
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really one.
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I'm kind of a desk drummer.
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Okay, so finger drummonds back as well and Germany.
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Yeah, so it went also topic.
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But I remember I was told me some guys sort
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of this podcast, right, yeah, okay, we'll bring it back
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a lot.
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Tell you a bit, my bet, your your your career,
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tell me how you became to like, so.
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Want about I want to talk about a finger drumming.
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I'm just kidding them, Kandy, Yeah, my career. Yeah.
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Well, the short, short, short version is I grew up
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working with my dad in radio shack yep. And that was, honestly,
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when I look back at it now, probably child labor
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but whatever, and or just to give my dad hand,
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but it was, you know, doing inventory and.
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So like you know.
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Curries here in the UK, it's like a smaller version
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with a bunch of equipment to build computers and videos
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and everything else, and I would liken it now to
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the tech store on Amazon.
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But like concords and.
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Everything, oh everything, yes, yes, I we. I got to
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play emotrol cars every day and build computers, play with
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ibms and Tandy one thousands, nice, just have tons of fun.
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So that that part of our tech life growing up.
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My dad then retired as an IT network engineer, and
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my mom is a Adobe A Certified instructor, so she's
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an artist in all mediums. So I just got these
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kind of nerdy artistic parents that yeah, it's really fun,
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and that that for me. It didn't lead into what
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I probably should be doing with the nerdiness of being
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a computer person. But it was kind of a wasted
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talent because I think I got so many hey.
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Can you come fix my computer? It's like, I don't
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really want to do this. I will people like.
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That with My dad was begging these cars and mechanics
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and asked, you wanted me to go into the trade,
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And I started my career being like a lordy mechanic,
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like your big trucks, like you know, semi trucks, and
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I just hated it because everything was just huge and
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cold and ugly and just like, yeah, I didn't like.
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I like working on cars, yeah, but that that was
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all I just want to do. Yeah, you're talking about
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like a big diesel, right, that's that's crazy, But like
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working working on We had like a nineteen seventy two
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Cutless Supreme my brother bought, we worked on, rebuilt the engine,
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and I had a truck worked on, took everything apart,
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rebuilt it. But I haven't touched a tool for a
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car in fifteen years.
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I don't think you're loaded, and I think we may.
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I think they make them so much that you just
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unless you've got a lot top.
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Most of them. Well, this is funny, this is kind
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of weird. But the cars we drove in the States,
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ones I drove were like Toyota's or Nissans, and they're
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very small and tiny to work on compared to you know,
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America and big trucks and big cars. But I just
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didn't want to get onto the car anymore and change
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the oil. So when you I guess, when you get
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older and you have you know, thirty quid to your name,
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you can get an old change rather than doing it
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for ten on your own. So yeah, that's I mean,
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it wasn't a lost talent or anything. My brother was
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a mechanic for a while. But I think we've my
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brother and I and most people my age. I'm forty
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three in this older millennial generation, he's old. Okay, well
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he's you're you're an ex linear or your gen x X. Yeah,
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my brother's forty five, forty six and lots of jobs
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before you're thirty. That's just that's just the route apparent
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to like our parents, like one job for forty years.
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cause driven lives. You know, maybe it's not careers, but
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that kind of genetic drive.
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was working into sports for twenty five years with YMCA,
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with parks and res and chambers of commerce for twenty
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five years in the States, and I think you saw
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it more for me working in nonprofit world and charity
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world for many many years, was that cause driven mentality,
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which is what charities really kind of us as our
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kind of sexy word like be cause driven donate. And
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you would see that with gen Z for sure. Their
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their allegiance to things is what's do. So I'm a
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millennial or gen X make a run of five k
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every year for the same charity because they love that
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charity for fighting cancer of some sort. But a gen
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Z or Alpha they may do every charity every weekend,
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a new one each weekend to run a five k
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because they want to their cause driven.
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They're they're supportive, they're opening.
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Oh but do you know what I mean?
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Like, I mean, it's good that people care, and do
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you think I actually people maybe take advantage of that
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generation because of that. But you hear some horror stories
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with some charities and not everything's the best.
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Right, But let's go to let's go with access to
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family and digital on that that that's where I think
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it's stim from access to family compared to our parents
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maybe both working jobs and you know, nine to five, grind,
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come home, the read the newspaper, sit down, put your
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feet and I think the more engage each family. For
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some of for our kids age gen Z gen Alpha,
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In our parents where and their parents were.
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and the speed of technology, you also have the digital
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babysitter of tech and so the fast moving, fast learning
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what's the next thing on YouTube? What is the literally
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literally brain rot right now is actually been talked about
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in science on TikTok as a way for kids to learn.
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So, I don't know if you're much about brain rap but.
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I make them up. I did my kid. I just
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the up. I make up the names for them. But yeah, that.
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Stuff like that, that's a good impression. But yeah, I
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do those better. But yeah, brain rots like and the
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evolution of like vot blocks is wild, and how these
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can start to spawn in the new games development. People
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must be watched that all the time, trying to catch
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on to change talks.
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Yeah, I love.
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Yeah, I love that their science behind both of those.
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I mean, we're doing tons of studies in the gaming
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space and the social media and digital space. And if
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you go to the game sign and roadblocks, I personally
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don't allow my kids to play roadblocks which is which
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is funny because I'm not like a Sam Altman or whoever,
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of like the Silicon Valley who create these tools and.
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They don't let their kids use them.
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But you've heard these interviews of the Mark Zuckerberg's of
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the world who like won't let their kids use the
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technology they build because they know it's addictive. If you
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watch things like Social Dilemma on Netflix or you walk
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I had my family we watched Childhood two point zero,
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which is by Bark Industries, and it's about child safety on.
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Internet and.
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Roadblocks is a tool I would definitely suggest for adults,
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and there is so much work they're trying to accomplish
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with safety for children. It's just it's just as much
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as a problem. The discord has just as much as
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a problem as any video game has that you can name.
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With Internet safety, it's just a part of a part
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of the challenge we have of growing so quickly trying
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to catch up, and.
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The only one.
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So I would say, then, I suppose we've been like
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I was gaming. I suppose since I was five, right,
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I go back to the spectrum, and I've spoken about
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annoying times I've never you know, I've always loved my game, right,
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I think for me with my son as something we
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both play together, would we enjoy the one that I've
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had the biggest scare of and making sure I don't
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as a VR the reason being, once that's on the head,
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you know, sometimes some of my daughter's friends are playing
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VR chat, so we had to like contact the parents
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and being like, that's just like, that's scary, because.
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Don't know that to be that.
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I don't know if okay, maybe one is not as
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bad as the other by a thing for me that
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the has been one have been really scared of because
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then they're a different world.
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And well, you get the nail on the head, James,
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it's it's engaging with your kids.
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You just mentioned.
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You just said playing games with your kids. That's something
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we have to get better at. We have to get
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better at, just as much as throwing a ball in
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the front yard or kicking a football.
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We have to do that.
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the screen. If you're they're playing League Legends, if they're
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playing Roadblocks, if they're playing Rocket League, and you don't
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know what's happening on the screen, but you may not
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know the rules of football, but you'll go out and
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kick the ball. Yeah, maybe overwhelmed by off sides and
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handball and whatever, but you still.
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Everybody nobody as a referee.
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For twenty years, I fight everyone on those rules and
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what off sides is and all the twenty I've taught
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it as well. So but that's exactly what we struggle
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with as this.
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The thing is, either buy myself an Optimus Prime skin
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to get any kind of value back in rodbox, right,
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because I can't.
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I can't play. I don't get any enjoyment from the roadbox.
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I'll try and vier us onto like the teenage beant
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Ninja tunnels will play that to play.
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The Fortnite skins is what we're talking about.
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Yeah, we've got skins.
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I've got pred of our skins.
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Okay, those are the ones I did I think that
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I I try not to spend money on games. I'm
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very weird gamer that has then kids who I restrict
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from gaming. Not restrict because that's not right because that
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will just make literally the sciences that will make them
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want it more, because that's the maladapting.
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One way you can't get kind of thing.
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Yeah and yeah, so the I don't spend a lot
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of money on games because there's plenty of people have,
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you know, walls and walls of cartridges that you see.
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But I was like only I think I only spent
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spent a few pounds on like a Goku skin, even
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though I don't really watched Dragon ball Z but it
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was cool.
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And Teenage Meeting and Turtles.
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Yeah, those those it's just like it just hits because
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I hadn't Ninja Turtle and Ninja Turtles when I was
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like eight or something.
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Yeah, that just was who was your favorite Turtles bros?
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And But yeah, I'll go back to play those games
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with all of it. Turtles for me, it was a
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jam going back up. I think when I watched the
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first Turtles film, one like a doggy VHS and it
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looked really bad quality, but that was like, that was brilliant, right, And.
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Then they went quite then they went quite weird.
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And the cartoon is not too bad, but I think
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it's going to get Raphael one called the Last roun in.
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I heard that that would be quite cool.
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Yeah, I love the I love the art, the arc
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of different artistic style. Two, even the way the turtles
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are seeing if they're a little more anime, a little
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more rounded.
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I like that because we used to get cold in
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the UK teenage Mutant Hero.
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Hero Turtles I researched. I didn't know that like a
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a month or two ago.
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That shows you how to watch.
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Things have changed. But back in the eighties you can't
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say the word ninja. And nowadays look at the caps
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off now.
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Yeah, it kind of blew me away because I thought
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we were the prudes in the States. We're the ones
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who left. We were the worst of the worst who
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left and went over to the States, and we're the weird.
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You couldn't say that. Don't see a ninja.
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It's only got nun chocks in the Samurai sat jaw.
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Then the cartoons are quite cool, the Turtles cartoons back then,
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here's one for you. Often put on Transformers the movie
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and my kid right, sure, and we watched that back
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and some of it's quite scary actually, and quite dark
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when you look back to those eighties cartoons. And even
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when I showed him crying and the Turtles, they didn't
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like it. So I think there's quite a lot of
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quite a scary the cartoons.
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You're exactly right, the brain inside the body Yeah, that
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that there. It's I think this is maybe it's just
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us in our forties when we're rewatching movies.
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Or shows that I've never.
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Yeah, when we were watching with our kids are yeah, yeah,
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we're hold up my wife, like let's watch.
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A Little Women.
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Yeah that's different from let's watch Indiana Jones. Like, Okay,
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Raider's lost Dark probably not the last scene there's a
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fut freak out, uh and then Temple Doom and he
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pulls his.
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Heart out of the guy.
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Okay, we got we might need to skip that. Yeah,
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but I want them to also watch George Lucas. I
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want them to have that kind of film nerdery as
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I do just to pass that along.
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But yeah, music's the best one for me. Okay, that's
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so I used to give.
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Like my boy was born, I put on a little
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playlist to get him to sleep with Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan,
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and I pulled those on it. And now in the
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car bring my little girl back. I make sure I
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get control of it. You are tunes, So I love
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trying to give our good tunes and I hear them.
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See what she thinks of it, because yeah, because some
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of the songs that keep up demon hunt Ours Arts exploded.
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Don't if you've heard of that at the moment.
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That is exploded. We we haven't got into it yet.
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My kids are sixteen, fourteen, ten. How are your kids?
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So? Twelve, eleven and four.
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Yeah, So to my daughter and our three friends home
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the other night and they all sat in the back
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of the car and they said, put K pop Demon
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Hunters on.
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So I put it on. And they knew.
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Every word like better for better and either there's three
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girls in the film and they all which one are
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you going to be?
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And they all song different parts?
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But but what what did you know? All the words
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to what TV shows?
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For me?
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I knew like thunder thundercasts, you know, all the something
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like Ani Maniacs was a thing.
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Ship and Rescue Rangers.
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Record on the TV and all the tape deck as
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I used to have.
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We are so old, but it's good. Why Why is
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my beard wider? And I'm younger than you? American stress
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is what this is.
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Okay, let's talk about sports. Yeah that's fine, but we're
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going for me, we can talk about it.
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So so tell me, then, when did you first get
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involved in like the sports when they become a parent,
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something tell me that journey.
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Well, that that history of playing video games.
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Were playing World Warcraft since December four when it first
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came out, And then I would say, I'm a serial restarter.
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I'm writing a research paper right now for Rachel Cowart
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and her book, her culture pop culture book on one
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more alt so like every six months, I'll play for
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a while, which I'm doing right now, but I'm doing
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it for research and game right it is extremely it's
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extremely but I would stop for like six months a
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year here and do other things in my life and
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be healthy, and then I'd say, I just really want
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to play again and I want to start.
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It's completionism.
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So it's the completion, it's the I think.
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There's also the what you know, I'm not a rate.
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I don't write, I don't I like, okay, like level
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up and I'm like, okay, that's fun. Let me try
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a new person, let me try a new version. It's
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very much my personality. If you look at like Myers
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Briggs E. N f J being a chameleon and five
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voices or strength finders, I'm a wooer.
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Okay, there's what's the one here? The Belbin test. Have
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you done the Belban test. Okay, there's a.
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Lot of personality traits of me as this this seven
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on the enneagram or whatever.
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I just threw out a lot of stuff you can
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have you looked into that the way too much.
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My wife is like a trainer in some of these
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things as well, because she works in ministry.
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Who do you Okay, here's one quickly sorting.
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Please, how do you find how do you think of
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yourself now that you've defined yourself?
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Does that make sense?
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Like I suppose you could like is oprah?
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No?
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No, I just wonder because I know I think nowadays
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people can do more into like my best and my dad.
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Do you think it's helped you understand yourself better?
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Don't think I've ever been asked that. Really, that's a
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really good question.
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So oh my gosh, we're going to bring back No
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I'm over book. It's totally good. I just I think
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it really helps.
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I think taking these personality tests understanding who you are.
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It's funny like the horoscope, like, oh, I'm that person
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because this is my birthdate and this is right, and
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like I'm not. But literally you could be anyone. Yeah,
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but personality tests are similar. You could read through and
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see all the different letters of whatever test or what
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number you are, and it could say you're a three
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or seven or a letter or whatever, and you can
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you can agree. But but if you get further into it, it does.
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It does really pinpoint. This is me and I think
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for me being also diagnosed with ADHD four years ago,
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understanding I wasn't just a lazy kid, and and being
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real my mom saying well, you're you can't be you
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can't be depressed because Jesus loves you.
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So.
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Right, thanks, Okay, we said Oprah and childhood trauma's happening
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right now, this podcast is okay. So I think, yes,
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knowing yourself, having the awareness I.
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Used to didn't.
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I used to not think that ADHD was a real thing.
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It was caused by whatever, you know, pharmaceutical companies. But
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I really think like knowing yourself and then educating people
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about something. For me, there's no neurotypical. I think we're all, Yeah,
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we all have little dials on a mixing board. Yeah,
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maybe touch because this feels funny or this feels funny,
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or this feels funny, or the noises or clicks or something.
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We all have our.
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Own thing and that's traits that our personalities are definitely
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something where you're outgoing, you love interviewing.
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I mean I'd love doing the same. I think this
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is why we're probably.
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I think question.
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I think genuinely because I and asked these questions for people.
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I think I've genuinely wanted to know. I think I
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think that, Yeah, I like to Yeah.
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So have you done personality test the interview right now?
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I think they So, I think the ADHD So my
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son's got it as I'm non variable, right, so he's deaf.
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He's on the spectrum, right, I think, which James, So
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he's twelve, so's he's not veriable? Yeah, I felt like
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a guilt trip to do too. So my dad was James.
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His dad was James, and I just had this gilter,
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So I think to go with James.
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So James generational, James had kids.
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You can call his kid billy. I don't care about.
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I felt like that was a way off mind on,
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But I think, but I think we're all definitely on
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a spectrum.
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And I know he's not asked.
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Is because I suppose when you do know yourself and
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you do your traits and you can help yourself a
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bit better of like things that you may have struggled with,
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and you know why, Like how do you organize yourself?
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Do you have to do a list? Do you have
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one note?
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Yeah, early on in my marriage it was, hey, can
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you make me a sheet on the paper on the
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on the washing machine? Because I don't remember if I
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should use cold or I should use warm or whatever
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I should do.
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I forget every time I put on the wrong thing.
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So I, you know, asking my wife to do it
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was then I had to take ownership. I had to
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take ownership of knowing myself.
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And so yeah, every.
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Day is a keys are always in the same place,
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she was in the same place.
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It's but that's good the fact you can do that.
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Yeah, but I had I had to create tools. And
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it's forty three so it took it took some time.
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It took ten years ago only did I start really
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understanding more about myself. So, yeah, you have to know
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about and I think touching on esports when these kids
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who are the ones who don't really get engaged. As
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you'll hear Frobbery from Alex this week when he talks
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about mental health and he talks about belonging for these
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kids The study that some of our friends have done
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is the survey of students saying so many percent of
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kids eighty two percent usually had never been engaged in
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any other extra crick activity or after school clubs. So
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having that ability to find something like games which they
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all play anyways, in a safe environment with an after
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school program or whatever is while we're talking about this, Yes,
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today esports and education is super super important because it's the.
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Next thing and it's not the next moral panic. No
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it's not.
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It's video games are not a pol panic. They are
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AI is a moral panic, yes, but it's it's the
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change we just talked about this last twenty minutes.
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Love, good bye, thank you very much, pleasure, thank you,
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Welcome to control and compete. Today we're joined by Bubba Gaddar.
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Hello, so glad to be here.
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In the word I pronounced incorrectly, the most of Scotland's capital, Edinburgh.
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That's all right, do it right?
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Yeah?
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Okay Edinburgh Edinburgh?
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Yeah, I do. I do that. My students laughing me
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quite often because I don't pronounce.
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Here's one for you.
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Do you think you should pronounce it the way the
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vocals pronounce it, or do you think you should pronounce
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it the.
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Way the locals?
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So if I have to say Utah or Utah, oh.
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You know, I don't. I don't travel there enough to
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know that one. That's a new one to me.
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And in films they say Utah, like I remember, I
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always have a point break, Remember a point break, we
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cannot leave and Patrick sweezy, They say joining Utah and
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my wife always she's okay.
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So that that's a little different from like the state
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name the vernacular there compared to like a name of person.
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I feel like an evil caneval or evil cone whatever.
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But we had an Oklahoma girl, we had what was
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spelled Durant, but you would say do rant yeah, or
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there's a Miami Oklahoma, but it's called Miama, so I
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agree with local, but I don't travel to Utah enough. Yeah, yeah,
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it's named after Well, I have Native American blood, and
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so there's plenty of Native American tribes that that those
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all those tribes are named those states and cities are
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named after.
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So I far back then. Family tree, then.
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Oh, that's a that's a fun question because my dad
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is an uber generation tree what's the ancestry dot com? Like,
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he's he's got this, he's got like a high level
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certification in drone flying and too much genealogy because he's
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gone back to when my parents, sorry.
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My great great great greg whatever grandparents.
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Were here in Asia and Europe and when it was Prussia.
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Like he's gone back to sixteen hundred.
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Wow.
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So it's fun for us because we've actually seen the
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history of Mennonites traveling to Kansas and then us becoming
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ingrained in the culture there with Native America and Cherokee
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and Choctaws.
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So yeah, a lot of it.
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Actually, it's very interesting.
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My wife's the redhead, so she's definitely got.
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Yeah, because you always get that.
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Yeah, I think as Irish sang the red because I
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think even to my My mom said it goes.
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Back to Ireland as well. I think that's where the
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red comes from.
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I surely that's got to be the reason. Like, but
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it can't be it's a recessive or or it's a
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word of the gena dominant gene.
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Right, So what I would.
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Say is, though, right, here's one for you.
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So my little boy got cripped when he was like
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two years old, and it took him to the hospital
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and it was quite a tough time and they had
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to sed him and the lady who so he's got
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ready as well. But the lady said that I takes
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more to date somebody with and I think that's geneta evolution.
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My wife, it takes them ten times just to draw blood.
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She hates she I'm like, I'll watch the needle. She
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hates it because they have to do. It's very the.
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Your transparent skin, yeah, very much.
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So the slight.
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My wife's so white, she's transparent, she's casper most of
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the time. And then when she gets in the sun,
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basically her freckles connect.
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Yeah, well you can, yeah, so tell me then, So
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whinterabouts did you say exactly?
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Fabite? Was it from the states? You are from?
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Then well, I grew up yeh in Oklahoma, which is
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just north of Texas, and for thirty some odd years
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lived there, and then these last thirteen years we moved
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to Kansas City and became cheese fans and watched Taylor
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and Travis Kelsey fall in love and yeah, you've gotta
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you've gotta love the swiftye Kelsey and like that's lially.
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The only thing we good thing we track now in
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America is what's happening with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey.
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We don't even know what's going on with the Chief
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Football team anymore.
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Do you find they're quite interest in how the media
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portrays America from here? Or do you think it's quite
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on point or do you think it's quite sCOD or.
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I do coming here, I've been here for a year now,
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a year and a month, and we moved here in
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August twenty twenty four. And hearing my students and hearing
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people that I work with the expectations of Hollywood and
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New York, and that's a very very common perception of
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the I think. But I've also I've done a couple
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of summers in China and Hong Kong, I've done some
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time in Germany where else I've been other places I
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can't rememal top my head, but different places around the
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globe to hear that same kind of Hollywood type perception.
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That's kind of breaking away the one I think is it.
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I would say so globalization with technology social media in
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the past twenty years. Of course, yeah, there's now it's
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you would know a movie star, but you would probably
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know an influencer on TikTok better yep, and you would
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know an Instagram influencer and how they review things for you.
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Soon before influencers start getting casted ahead of movie stars.
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For films, we're already there, bro, were already probably wait wait,
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there's the logan, Pol's the.
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There you go?
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Yeah right, yeah, yeah.
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Like that kind of that group of that team that
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does that. Funny, so many of the influencers that were
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on U what's the sixth second clip app?
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What's the tik talk?
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No, it was Vine.
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The Vine stars that have been in movies and now
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have TV shows and other things like that.
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We've been there for a few years.
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But being the actual tom cruise of a film or whatever,
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you know.
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And do you think they'll even have that again, because
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when you think about it, I mean it's sometimes you
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look at even Bonds and you think, will any of
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these bands.
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Become their own stores?
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These bands become the Beatles, right, and you think will
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they ever get to that scale or size? And then
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evolution of change with the calculator and the typewriter and
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of Don't Love Back and Ander by Oasis, and he
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managed to capture the Beatles voice and it sounds like
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Lennon singing but singing an Oasis song I wonderful when
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you go through a whole revolution of going back through
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all the ages of getting all the tunes back out and.
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Then helps the Oasis looks a bit like him.
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movie Ready Player one because I listened to soundtracks over
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I'm just kidding them, Kandy, Yeah, my career. Yeah.
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working with my dad in radio shack yep. And that was, honestly,
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when I look back at it now, probably child labor
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but whatever, and or just to give my dad hand,
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an artist in all mediums. So I just got these
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kind of nerdy artistic parents that yeah, it's really fun,
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all I just want to do. Yeah, you're talking about
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like a big diesel, right, that's that's crazy, But like
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working working on We had like a nineteen seventy two
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rebuilt it. But I haven't touched a tool for a
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car in fifteen years.
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the oil. So when you I guess, when you get
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it wasn't a lost talent or anything. My brother was
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a mechanic for a while. But I think we've my
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brother and I and most people my age. I'm forty
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three in this older millennial generation, he's old. Okay, well
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he's you're you're an ex linear or your gen x X. Yeah,
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my brother's forty five, forty six and lots of jobs
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before you're thirty. That's just that's just the route apparent
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to like our parents, like one job for forty years.
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cause driven lives. You know, maybe it's not careers, but
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that kind of genetic drive.
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five years in the States, and I think you saw
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it more for me working in nonprofit world and charity
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world for many many years, was that cause driven mentality,
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which is what charities really kind of us as our
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kind of sexy word like be cause driven donate. And
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their allegiance to things is what's do. So I'm a
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every year for the same charity because they love that
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charity for fighting cancer of some sort. But a gen
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Z or Alpha they may do every charity every weekend,
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generation because of that. But you hear some horror stories
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with some charities and not everything's the best.
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family and digital on that that that's where I think
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babysitter of tech and so the fast moving, fast learning
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what's the next thing on YouTube? What is the literally
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literally brain rot right now is actually been talked about
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in science on TikTok as a way for kids to learn.
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I make them up. I did my kid. I just
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the up. I make up the names for them. But yeah, that.
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do those better. But yeah, brain rots like and the
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evolution of like vot blocks is wild, and how these
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can start to spawn in the new games development. People
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must be watched that all the time, trying to catch
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space and the social media and digital space. And if
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you go to the game sign and roadblocks, I personally
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don't allow my kids to play roadblocks which is which
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is funny because I'm not like a Sam Altman or whoever,
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of like the Silicon Valley who create these tools and.
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They don't let their kids use them.
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the world who like won't let their kids use the
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technology they build because they know it's addictive. If you
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watch things like Social Dilemma on Netflix or you walk
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which is by Bark Industries, and it's about child safety on.
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with safety for children. It's just it's just as much
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as a problem. The discord has just as much as
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a problem as any video game has that you can name.
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of the challenge we have of growing so quickly trying
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to catch up, and.
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I was gaming. I suppose since I was five, right,
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annoying times I've never you know, I've always loved my game, right,
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both play together, would we enjoy the one that I've
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had the biggest scare of and making sure I don't
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as a VR the reason being, once that's on the head,
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you know, sometimes some of my daughter's friends are playing
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VR chat, so we had to like contact the parents
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I don't know if okay, maybe one is not as
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bad as the other by a thing for me that
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the has been one have been really scared of because
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then they're a different world.
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it's it's engaging with your kids.
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we have to get better at. We have to get
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better at, just as much as throwing a ball in
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the front yard or kicking a football.
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the screen. If you're they're playing League Legends, if they're
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playing Roadblocks, if they're playing Rocket League, and you don't
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know what's happening on the screen, but you may not
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know the rules of football, but you'll go out and
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kick the ball. Yeah, maybe overwhelmed by off sides and
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handball and whatever, but you still.
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Everybody nobody as a referee.
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what off sides is and all the twenty I've taught
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it as well. So but that's exactly what we struggle
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with as this.
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to get any kind of value back in rodbox, right,
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because I can't.
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I can't play. I don't get any enjoyment from the roadbox.
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I'll try and vier us onto like the teenage beant
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Ninja tunnels will play that to play.
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I've got pred of our skins.
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Okay, those are the ones I did I think that
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I I try not to spend money on games. I'm
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very weird gamer that has then kids who I restrict
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from gaming. Not restrict because that's not right because that
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will just make literally the sciences that will make them
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want it more, because that's the maladapting.
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One way you can't get kind of thing.
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Yeah and yeah, so the I don't spend a lot
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of money on games because there's plenty of people have,
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you know, walls and walls of cartridges that you see.
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But I was like only I think I only spent
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spent a few pounds on like a Goku skin, even
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though I don't really watched Dragon ball Z but it
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was cool.
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And Teenage Meeting and Turtles.
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Yeah, those those it's just like it just hits because
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I hadn't Ninja Turtle and Ninja Turtles when I was
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like eight or something.
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Yeah, that just was who was your favorite Turtles bros?
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And But yeah, I'll go back to play those games
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with all of it. Turtles for me, it was a
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jam going back up. I think when I watched the
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first Turtles film, one like a doggy VHS and it
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looked really bad quality, but that was like, that was brilliant, right, And.
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Then they went quite then they went quite weird.
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And the cartoon is not too bad, but I think
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it's going to get Raphael one called the Last roun in.
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I heard that that would be quite cool.
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Yeah, I love the I love the art, the arc
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of different artistic style. Two, even the way the turtles
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are seeing if they're a little more anime, a little
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more rounded.
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I like that because we used to get cold in
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the UK teenage Mutant Hero.
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Hero Turtles I researched. I didn't know that like a
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a month or two ago.
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That shows you how to watch.
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Things have changed. But back in the eighties you can't
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say the word ninja. And nowadays look at the caps
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off now.
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Yeah, it kind of blew me away because I thought
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we were the prudes in the States. We're the ones
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who left. We were the worst of the worst who
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left and went over to the States, and we're the weird.
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You couldn't say that. Don't see a ninja.
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It's only got nun chocks in the Samurai sat jaw.
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Then the cartoons are quite cool, the Turtles cartoons back then,
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here's one for you. Often put on Transformers the movie
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and my kid right, sure, and we watched that back
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and some of it's quite scary actually, and quite dark
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when you look back to those eighties cartoons. And even
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when I showed him crying and the Turtles, they didn't
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like it. So I think there's quite a lot of
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quite a scary the cartoons.
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You're exactly right, the brain inside the body Yeah, that
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that there. It's I think this is maybe it's just
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us in our forties when we're rewatching movies.
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Or shows that I've never.
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Yeah, when we were watching with our kids are yeah, yeah,
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we're hold up my wife, like let's watch.
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A Little Women.
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Yeah that's different from let's watch Indiana Jones. Like, Okay,
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Raider's lost Dark probably not the last scene there's a
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fut freak out, uh and then Temple Doom and he
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pulls his.
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Heart out of the guy.
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Okay, we got we might need to skip that. Yeah,
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but I want them to also watch George Lucas. I
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want them to have that kind of film nerdery as
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I do just to pass that along.
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But yeah, music's the best one for me. Okay, that's
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so I used to give.
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Like my boy was born, I put on a little
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playlist to get him to sleep with Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan,
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and I pulled those on it. And now in the
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car bring my little girl back. I make sure I
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get control of it. You are tunes, So I love
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trying to give our good tunes and I hear them.
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See what she thinks of it, because yeah, because some
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of the songs that keep up demon hunt Ours Arts exploded.
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Don't if you've heard of that at the moment.
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That is exploded. We we haven't got into it yet.
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My kids are sixteen, fourteen, ten. How are your kids?
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So? Twelve, eleven and four.
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Yeah, So to my daughter and our three friends home
457
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the other night and they all sat in the back
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of the car and they said, put K pop Demon
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Hunters on.
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So I put it on. And they knew.
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Every word like better for better and either there's three
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girls in the film and they all which one are
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you going to be?
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And they all song different parts?
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But but what what did you know? All the words
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to what TV shows?
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For me?
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I knew like thunder thundercasts, you know, all the something
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like Ani Maniacs was a thing.
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Ship and Rescue Rangers.
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Record on the TV and all the tape deck as
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I used to have.
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We are so old, but it's good. Why Why is
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my beard wider? And I'm younger than you? American stress
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is what this is.
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Okay, let's talk about sports. Yeah that's fine, but we're
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going for me, we can talk about it.
478
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So so tell me, then, when did you first get
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involved in like the sports when they become a parent,
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something tell me that journey.
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Well, that that history of playing video games.
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Were playing World Warcraft since December four when it first
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came out, And then I would say, I'm a serial restarter.
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I'm writing a research paper right now for Rachel Cowart
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and her book, her culture pop culture book on one
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more alt so like every six months, I'll play for
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a while, which I'm doing right now, but I'm doing
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it for research and game right it is extremely it's
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extremely but I would stop for like six months a
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year here and do other things in my life and
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be healthy, and then I'd say, I just really want
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to play again and I want to start.
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It's completionism.
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So it's the completion, it's the I think.
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There's also the what you know, I'm not a rate.
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I don't write, I don't I like, okay, like level
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up and I'm like, okay, that's fun. Let me try
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a new person, let me try a new version. It's
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very much my personality. If you look at like Myers
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Briggs E. N f J being a chameleon and five
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voices or strength finders, I'm a wooer.
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Okay, there's what's the one here? The Belbin test. Have
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you done the Belban test. Okay, there's a.
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Lot of personality traits of me as this this seven
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on the enneagram or whatever.
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I just threw out a lot of stuff you can
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have you looked into that the way too much.
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My wife is like a trainer in some of these
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things as well, because she works in ministry.
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Who do you Okay, here's one quickly sorting.
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Please, how do you find how do you think of
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yourself now that you've defined yourself?
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Does that make sense?
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Like I suppose you could like is oprah?
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No?
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No, I just wonder because I know I think nowadays
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people can do more into like my best and my dad.
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Do you think it's helped you understand yourself better?
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Don't think I've ever been asked that. Really, that's a
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really good question.
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So oh my gosh, we're going to bring back No
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I'm over book. It's totally good. I just I think
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it really helps.
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I think taking these personality tests understanding who you are.
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It's funny like the horoscope, like, oh, I'm that person
526
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because this is my birthdate and this is right, and
527
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like I'm not. But literally you could be anyone. Yeah,
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but personality tests are similar. You could read through and
529
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see all the different letters of whatever test or what
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number you are, and it could say you're a three
531
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or seven or a letter or whatever, and you can
532
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you can agree. But but if you get further into it, it does.
533
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It does really pinpoint. This is me and I think
534
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for me being also diagnosed with ADHD four years ago,
535
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understanding I wasn't just a lazy kid, and and being
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real my mom saying well, you're you can't be you
537
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can't be depressed because Jesus loves you.
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So.
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Right, thanks, Okay, we said Oprah and childhood trauma's happening
540
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right now, this podcast is okay. So I think, yes,
541
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knowing yourself, having the awareness I.
542
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Used to didn't.
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I used to not think that ADHD was a real thing.
544
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It was caused by whatever, you know, pharmaceutical companies. But
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I really think like knowing yourself and then educating people
546
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about something. For me, there's no neurotypical. I think we're all, Yeah,
547
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we all have little dials on a mixing board. Yeah,
548
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maybe touch because this feels funny or this feels funny,
549
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or this feels funny, or the noises or clicks or something.
550
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We all have our.
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Own thing and that's traits that our personalities are definitely
552
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something where you're outgoing, you love interviewing.
553
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I mean I'd love doing the same. I think this
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is why we're probably.
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I think question.
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I think genuinely because I and asked these questions for people.
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I think I've genuinely wanted to know. I think I
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think that, Yeah, I like to Yeah.
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So have you done personality test the interview right now?
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I think they So, I think the ADHD So my
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son's got it as I'm non variable, right, so he's deaf.
562
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He's on the spectrum, right, I think, which James, So
563
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he's twelve, so's he's not veriable? Yeah, I felt like
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a guilt trip to do too. So my dad was James.
565
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His dad was James, and I just had this gilter,
566
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So I think to go with James.
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So James generational, James had kids.
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You can call his kid billy. I don't care about.
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I felt like that was a way off mind on,
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But I think, but I think we're all definitely on
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a spectrum.
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And I know he's not asked.
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Is because I suppose when you do know yourself and
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you do your traits and you can help yourself a
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bit better of like things that you may have struggled with,
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and you know why, Like how do you organize yourself?
577
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Do you have to do a list? Do you have
578
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one note?
579
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Yeah, early on in my marriage it was, hey, can
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you make me a sheet on the paper on the
581
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on the washing machine? Because I don't remember if I
582
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should use cold or I should use warm or whatever
583
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I should do.
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I forget every time I put on the wrong thing.
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So I, you know, asking my wife to do it
586
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was then I had to take ownership. I had to
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take ownership of knowing myself.
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And so yeah, every.
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Day is a keys are always in the same place,
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she was in the same place.
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It's but that's good the fact you can do that.
592
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Yeah, but I had I had to create tools. And
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it's forty three so it took it took some time.
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It took ten years ago only did I start really
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understanding more about myself. So, yeah, you have to know
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about and I think touching on esports when these kids
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who are the ones who don't really get engaged. As
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you'll hear Frobbery from Alex this week when he talks
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about mental health and he talks about belonging for these
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kids The study that some of our friends have done
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is the survey of students saying so many percent of
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kids eighty two percent usually had never been engaged in
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any other extra crick activity or after school clubs. So
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having that ability to find something like games which they
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all play anyways, in a safe environment with an after
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school program or whatever is while we're talking about this, Yes,
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today esports and education is super super important because it's the.
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Next thing and it's not the next moral panic. No
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it's not.
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It's video games are not a pol panic. They are
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AI is a moral panic, yes, but it's it's the
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change we just talked about this last twenty minutes.
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Love, good bye, thank you very much, pleasure, thank you,
