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Speaker 1
Welcome to the Pros between Pros podcast, where two pros each write one page of pros inspired by a randomly generated prompt. This episode's prompt. There were a lot of paintings of monkeys waving bamboo sticks in the gallery.
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Speaker 2
So you get that robot lawnmower.
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Speaker 1
No, I optimized my workflow. Oh yeah. I went from taking three and a half hours to mow and trim and edge half acre to one and a half. I was quite proud of myself. Wow. Yeah, I know. I just changed how.
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Speaker 2
You optimized a half the time.
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Speaker 1
Yes. I mean, I'm an optimization king. My numbers show it, but I would say yes. Yes. King took off turning on lights because my previous home, I had a bunch of smart bulbs hooked up. So everything was voice command. And in this new house, everything is from the nineties. So it's like the lower outlet is connected to switch.
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Speaker 1
But I was tired of figuring out what switch did Y and I was tired of walking over to lamps to turn them on. And we also added a security system to this house. So now everything's based on motion sensors. So when I walk in a room, my lights turn on and I'm a lot happier, far less. I have to do the better.
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Speaker 1
So that's probably.
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Speaker 2
When do they turn off.
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Speaker 1
When there's no motion detected for half an hour.
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Speaker 2
So you don't need a steam map anymore.
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Speaker 1
Now I have robots doing.
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Speaker 3
All the work.
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Speaker 1
I all I've got.
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Speaker 2
A robot steam.
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Speaker 1
Or not. Yeah, we don't have Alvey anymore. We have real hardwood. So, you know, all this podcast money really letting us.
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Speaker 3
Live the life of yeah.
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Speaker 1
All three sense of my home and that's not real. I'm not hiding anything from three sensors. An exaggeration from zero.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. Yes. It's actually like -12.
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Speaker 1
Yes. Yes, it is exactly what it is. Now, I got robots vacuuming we're actually going to buy another robot because one of the robots is slack and they can't do carpet really well, so it's going to go in the basement.
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Speaker 2
Here I am just like a chump sweep.
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Speaker 1
I know, right? Like, what are you doing manual labor for? We live in a world of machines.
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Speaker 2
It felt so good the other day. I, like, swept and vacuumed and did dishes. And because I've been busy with other things and it was just like it was nice to, like, feel a sense of accomplishment. Like I did something today.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. Fill your days with menial tasks is how cults usually brainwash you.
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Speaker 2
Like, if, like, they want to control people, it just be like, do the dishes.
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Speaker 1
Keep them busy, and then they can't think about their own personal desires. Hmm.
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Speaker 2
That's why people in solitary confinement are so good about being in tune with their needs.
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Speaker 1
Yes.
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Speaker 2
Because they have a lot of time to think because they don't have any menial tasks.
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Speaker 1
Yes, exactly. If you want to keep someone complacent, keep them busy.
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Speaker 2
I'll remember that for my wife.
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Speaker 1
I got mine.
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Speaker 2
You can keep your wife complacent if you just keep her busy.
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Speaker 1
You know they had her right. And the posture.
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Speaker 2
Around, she'll stay with you forever.
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Speaker 1
Exactly right. That's how they accomplish so much in the 40 jigger.
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Speaker 2
The Prozac. Oh.
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Speaker 1
The Prozac. The the.
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Speaker 2
On screen.
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Speaker 1
And so on screen. All right. We just have our usual emails and a promotion from Pandora, so nothing worthwhile. All dozens of you have severely disappointed us. Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 2
Do you do you like to see us grovel?
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Speaker 1
Because that's what it is.
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Speaker 2
Because we're grown men. All right? We shouldn't be groveling.
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Speaker 3
But B.
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Speaker 1
I would have too much on my hands if any of these giant media companies because at the end of the day, I think it's all Disney anyway.
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Speaker 2
A lot of it is Disney.
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Speaker 1
A lot of it is Disney. It's almost as if they have money to do these things and want to be the only source of entertainment. The Starbucks of entertainment, if you asked me.
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Speaker 2
I didn't.
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Speaker 1
Like it. Well, then forget it.
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Speaker 2
What's what's the Taco Bell of entertainment like?
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Speaker 1
What what's that analogy? What is. Because I enjoy Taco Bell. I will eat it. And it is, you know, sometimes you just need a cheesy gordita crunch, right? Or honestly, my favorite food for a road trip is the. Oh, no, I forgot the name of it. The flat thing supreme. That's it's. Oh, no.
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Speaker 2
He no, the.
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Speaker 1
Arctic air heater. It's an Arctic. Oh, and it's got a crunchy shell in the middle. How can I not crunch wrap supreme? That is by far my favorite road trip food. It's it's nice and wrapped up. And so you can eat it without juices squirting everywhere. Because my biggest pet peeve is, like, I'm on a road trip. Maybe I'm going someplace nice.
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Speaker 1
It's like an hour and a half way. So I got some chinos on and we're hungry, right? So I get food in, like, everyone's like, get a hamburger. They're great on the road. So I take a hamburger and mayo squirts everywhere onto my pants. And this is an awkward situation for everyone because I'm driving, I'm rubbing my crotch and mailing coming out, and I'm walking in with white stain on my pants.
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Speaker 1
Like, you know, no one wants that.
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Speaker 2
So you're rubbing your crotch and the mayo is not coming out.
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Speaker 1
What are we talking about? We're talking about hamburgers. Yeah. Oh, so.
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Speaker 2
Right, right, right.
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Speaker 1
I forgot I know you're just so distracted by that image. So the current trap supreme is by some.
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Speaker 2
Mayo splattered chinos.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. Mm. No, everyone's mind just went right there. It's the best. Mm hmm. Mm. Yeah. So, yes, that is why the current crop supreme reigned supreme over all fast foods when traveling. Because they're self-contained. It chews nicely you know, it's soft, it's crunchy, it's cheesy, it's grilled. It's got your veggies, you know, you got tomato, you got lettuce, you dairy, sour, cream, right?
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Speaker 1
Like it's.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, that corn iceberg lettuce.
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Speaker 1
Over healthy is something more. Yes. Yeah. So it is the best travel food. So that's why I love Taco Bell.
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Speaker 2
And so the media conglomerate that is to Taco Bell as Disney is to Starbucks.
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Speaker 1
Certainly the CW, right? Like low quality, but just good enough to get you through your day all right.
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Speaker 2
I asked and answered.
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Speaker 1
So tell me tell me a little about I saw about about this story here that you have, you know, it's a lot of monkeys. Bamboo way. Oh, bamboo, I think of bamboo and bamboo and boon bamboozled. Anyways, what's your process you know, did you see monkeys and think, I'm going to be literal? Did you see, you know, I'm going to do an episode of Planet of the Apes.
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Speaker 2
I started to write a story about somebody who works in art gallery.
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Speaker 3
And then.
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Speaker 2
Halfway through, I was like, I this is and I don't know what's happening. And then I just zagged. So, you know, I was like, I need an inciting incident.
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Speaker 3
Okay?
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Speaker 2
And so that's what happened. I would just, you know, started going somewhere and I was like, what? This isn't this isn't the story.
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Speaker 1
You let the characters tell you our story. Is that what you're saying?
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Speaker 2
Exactly. Yes.
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Speaker 3
Yes.
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Speaker 1
You know, you only did so much, you just formed them and then they started speaking to you.
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Speaker 2
Exactly. Yeah. You get it?
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Speaker 1
Yeah. I'm I'm a I'm author. I'm published. I know. I have not self-published.
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Speaker 3
Anything so.
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Speaker 2
I mean, does this this podcast is sort of self publishing, right?
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Speaker 1
Uh, audio.
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Speaker 3
Books.
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Speaker 1
Story, I guess so. Um, sure.
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Speaker 2
We should we also write these out? We could. We do. They're they're written.
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Speaker 1
No, I have the intern. Well, the English intern. I'm like, you'll never have a job writing because you'll just end up like, as a manager or somewhere yeah.
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Speaker 2
Management.
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Speaker 3
Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2
Management is the lifeblood of any corporation.
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Speaker 3
Yes.
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Speaker 1
You need middle management to make things work out. Without middle management, who will micromanage the lowly workers who will tell them what to do and how to do it and treat them like they don't know what they're doing, even though they've been doing it for 30 years and you sure shit aren't going to do it because you got to tell everyone else how to do it and schedule a meeting to feel worthwhile.
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Speaker 3
Yes.
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Speaker 2
I feel like you're trying to be wishy facetious, but I just feel like you're just nailing the truth.
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Speaker 1
I know. I mean, I've been a manager. I know what it's like. It's. Yeah, taking a bunch of meetings and then when someone schedules and meeting with you, it's all about saying no to the meeting and being like, What's the agenda? Why are you inviting me? Is it something you can just send me an email, you know, it's all about having those double standards.
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Speaker 1
Your meetings are more important because they're always urgent and everyone else can suck.
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Speaker 2
It suck it.
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Speaker 1
Suck it, real good. No.
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Speaker 3
Oh, we.
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Speaker 2
Don't want to call suck.
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Speaker 1
So monkeys monkeys tend to do that as part of their ritual of greeting each other. I don't think that's actually true.
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Speaker 2
But if they're bonobos, I think they both are very sexual. But those are apes, not monkeys.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. One of those people trying. My rectangle. Square is square rectangle.
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Speaker 3
Monkey, ape.
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Speaker 1
Primate, whatever. They're all. We're all just, you know, two keys and sacks of me anyways at the end of the day.
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Speaker 3
So if.
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Speaker 1
It's true. Yeah, why do we have this incessant need to categorize things uh.
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Speaker 2
So we can discriminate.
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Speaker 3
Okay.
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Speaker 1
There you go. All right. I think we agree here. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Perfect. Let's let's hear about how monkeys have been treated.
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Speaker 3
All right?
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Speaker 2
Joanne worked at the gallery. Despite being ambivalent toward art. Truth be told, she took the gig because there was a it wasn't a hell of a upgrade from being a barista. The pay was much better. The clientele were at least insanely wealthy, and most of the job was just moving velvet rope about and dusting bright white walls in the dog.
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Speaker 2
Eat dog land of NYC. Having a high society job where you can get some of that economy to trickle down on you is nothing to sneeze at. There was always a new exhibit of some artists or other. Every few weeks that Joanne would have to help set up. Crates would come in, filled in with whatever nonsense some Yahoo had created that allegedly was worthy of people's time and attention.
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Speaker 2
She would unpack the sculpture of Jesus made with elephant dung or the canvas on skillfully painted with the solid color or an old shoe nailed to a two by four titled something like Civilization Hello.
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Speaker 3
Hi.
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Speaker 1
I'm sorry to destroy that flow.
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Speaker 3
My.
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Speaker 1
Alarm system is arming itself because it's on its schedule, and I'm in a room without motion sensors, but the moment I walk out, like my alarm is going to go off and I don't want to wake my feet.
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Speaker 3
So I.
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Speaker 1
Need to sign in and disarmament.
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Speaker 3
Because I left my watch somewhere where it's going to a lower. Oh, no. Oh, shit. Oh, no.
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Speaker 1
Is that on my watch? Has the app on.
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Speaker 3
My watch elf help.
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Speaker 2
Me. And this is tense.
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Speaker 3
I would like if I move oh, god. Okay.
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Speaker 1
What what's my what's my password? Why is my password not saved?
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Speaker 1
Do you do a brief interruption?
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Speaker 3
Bump, bump. Pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum. Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum. Yeah.
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Speaker 2
I remember going. My dad worked at a junior high school and had keys to the school, and we would go there when I was a kid because he would have to grade papers or something, and I would, like, play on the overhead projector, whatever. But he had to, like, go into the office and turn off the alarm every time and I was always like, as a kid, I was like, it was like some sort of, like, espionage unit or something like that.
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Speaker 3
It above paper, but it admitted that it had a bum bum.
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Speaker 2
You going to get it in time.
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Speaker 3
But in the code.
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Speaker 2
Please are going to come.
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Speaker 1
And I think I have like a minute, but I think I changed it to ten. Oh, so I that's kind of nice. Um, well, perhaps all my Z-wave devices are an error. That's super annoying. Okay. All right. Um, all right. Just be.
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Speaker 2
Aggressive. Be aggressive, all right?
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Speaker 3
Okay. All right.
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Speaker 1
We're safe.
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Speaker 3
No, no harm.
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Speaker 1
What's your character's name? Jan.
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Speaker 2
Joe and.
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Speaker 1
Joanne.
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Speaker 3
Uh.
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Speaker 1
Okay. Sounds like a miserable life, like just kind of taking a job because they're hot watch soap and a rich person come by and give her a bunch of money.
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Speaker 3
You know.
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Speaker 1
I think being a barista is awesome. Starbucks has some great benefits for an hourly job.
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Speaker 2
I would have their the Disney of coffee establishment.
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Speaker 1
They are. But honestly, that means they can pay bonkers and give you health care, which. And you know, for those of you who are in America, you know, privatized health, that's the way to go. You know, that's because. Yeah, because then you cannot just, you know, get a group of people together, have them pool all their money together for the off chance at one of us, gets hit by a bus and then then that group pays like two tens of thousands of dollars more for a service that, while good, doesn't cost that much but you know, I'm not I'm not a government official or a lobbyist.
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Speaker 1
Like, clearly, I'm missing something here. Like, obviously, we got to make these people rich. Right? Like, people need wealth. So let's just stick it to the people who can't afford health. All right. All right. That's my rant.
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Speaker 2
All right.
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Speaker 1
Let's talk about.
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Speaker 3
Joanne.
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Speaker 2
All right. So Joanne works at a gallery. Uh, so uh, so there was a new exhibit of some artists are out there every few weeks that Joanne would have to help set up. Crates would come in filled with whatever content some Yahoo had created. That allegedly was worthy of people's time and attention. She would unpack the sculpture of Jesus made with elephant dung or the canvas on skillfully painted a solid color or an old shoe and nailed to a two by four titled something like Civilization.
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Speaker 2
Worse yet was when the whatnot created by whomever wasn't even given a name. Come on, dude, you can do better than Untitled Number seven. Every once in a while there would be some actual legit talent on display. Maybe even Manet or two would be paraded through the dark confines of the gallery to earn 20 seconds of feigned interest of a guy trying to impress a gal on their second date.
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Speaker 2
Girl, he's not cultured. Don't sleep with them. Again. The current exhibit was somewhere in between the two aforementioned quality extremes just a lot of paintings of monkeys waving bamboo sticks in the gallery. Joanne quite enjoyed the renderings. They were fun and unpretentious. Her favorite was of the two baby monkeys engaged in what appeared to be a fencing match.
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Speaker 2
Although the lemur wielding a large stalk like Darth Maul and a capuchin doing what appeared to be a pole dancing routine were close runners up Joanne was admiring the slutty capuchin while adjusting a stanchion that had gotten kicked slightly out of place when suddenly a masked armored figure crashed through the massive glass dome, which crown the main hall, the cape dark flame landed, stealthily executing a ninja roll into a dash towards the permanent jewelry exhibit along the back wall, the muscled individual snapped his wrist back, releasing a dark net.
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Speaker 2
The webbing covered the case, and within milliseconds of making contact glowed red hot shattering the safety glasses with the jewels. Uncaged. They were sitting ducks for the intruders pouch. Joanne marveled at how the super Sif deftly bagged the loot turned and with a flick of this other wrist shot, a grappling hook to the edge of the shattered ceiling.
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Speaker 2
An instant the black visage was winched up the cable and gone. The few artsy fartsy lucky loos in attendance all stared dumbfounded at what was the the first truly all inspiring vision to ever graced the gallery. Joanne on the other hand, had jumped into action. It was clear that this heist must be the work of professor video. Surely this was more than the local authorities could handle.
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Speaker 2
This was up to her Joanne dashed behind the nearby catering curtain. She opened her grandmother's locket she wore around her neck and gently, gently rubbed the deep purple gem encased within in a burst of blinding lavender light, Joanne was transformed into the vigilante known only as ultra violet. She photon into a beam of light and shown herself to the room.
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Speaker 2
Her pursuit had begun That's it.
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Speaker 3
Was it oh.
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Speaker 2
I told you I zagged hard.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, that was that was a huge turn. And now I know Ultra Violet is going to do. And who is Professor Vile? Why the only event? Professor Vial and also Professor Vial was it armor? You said an armored individual. Yeah. Isaacs. I was like envisioning a night. So I guess the professor would dress as a medieval knight.
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Speaker 2
I mean, I guess I. I pictured more like a shredder, you know? Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Okay. Like a samurai or something like.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, he's got some armor, he's got a cape, he's got, like, some gadgets.
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Speaker 3
Batman v kind of thing going on. I don't know.
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Speaker 1
I'm being called.
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Speaker 3
From off have.
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Speaker 1
Beefy hello.
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Speaker 2
You're living in the future answering phones on your wrist and.
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Speaker 1
Oh, boy, I'm going to go grab my actual phone. One sec. Yeah, that was quite the zigzag, by the way. I was just absolutely shocked that all of a sudden I'm listening to Super Hero like episode. I think you could have just done another page and had a full episode of, like, TMNT or Batman or something, and it would have been the satisfying story.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, sorry. Always. I was already out like 600 words though. So I was like, maybe, you know, a different prompt.
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Speaker 3
To.
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Speaker 2
Continue this. But yeah, I just started writing about like an art gallery and some of my opinions about art. And then I was like, This isn't going anywhere. I was like, We need something to happen. And I was like, Somebody crashes through the ceiling. Okay, let's go see.
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Speaker 1
Your thinly veiled opinions about art seem to think it's, it's not a worthwhile and.
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Speaker 2
I mean, most of it's pretty stupid.
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Speaker 1
Yes, I do agree that it is all based on someone's opinion about what is good and what is not. However, I would say that there is definitely what I was that called like a realist, like back in the day when they were painting paintings. That looks like photographs like that. Yeah, that's talent, right? Like it's very difficult to capture reality and reimagine it into a different medium that isn't its physical form, right?
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Speaker 2
Yeah. You lose me at, like, modern art and, like, surrealism and minimalism and, like, stuff like if you painted or sculpted something that looks like a fucking thing, I go like, wow, look good on you. But if you, you know, nailed issue to a two-by-four, I go, like, that's not, that's not a thing.
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Speaker 1
But it made you feel something. So.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, but like, rage, I don't know. I don't sign up for that. Yeah. I don't want to watch scary movies. I don't want to be anxious. I don't want to like I don't want to be upset by thing.
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Speaker 1
Halloween is just around the corner and that reminds me, we have a special announcement. You don't know about it because I made it up now this week. Okay, we are going to do a Halloween special where it will be two if you think you can do it. Two original Halloween stories, plus a compilation of all of our scary stories.
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Speaker 1
To me, an excellent lesson for Halloween. All right. Yes.
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Speaker 2
I'm game.
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Speaker 1
You're game. All right. Who's editing yeah, I will do. I think I'm going to have a blast, which means that's going to be happening this summer release and see this week and Monday is what I did. And so this will be the 3rd of October you'll be hearing this or after the 3rd of October, which means, oh, oh, my God. Our last episode of the month and our Halloween special will release on October 30.
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Speaker 1
First it's. Oh, oh, it's almost as if the person who decided to change our schedule to Mondays knew that and really wanted All right.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, we can, uh, we can start working on some holiday specials. That does take a bit of pre-planning on our part.
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Speaker 1
Yes. Especially since we never know how many episodes ahead we are.
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Speaker 2
Exactly I'm trying to think of all of our scary episodes so far. There's been a few.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, even you did one, which was shocking to me. It was a little bit of a thriller.
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Speaker 2
That's we just a couple of weeks ago, right?
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Speaker 1
Yes, just a couple weeks ago.
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Speaker 2
And you had that one high school slasher.
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Speaker 1
Uh, that one monster I really enjoyed doing was.
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Speaker 2
The very.
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Speaker 1
Long one. Yes. With Nightmare, Gary.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. There's a lot of characters, as I remember.
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Speaker 1
It was a lot to keep track of. Um, yeah. So we have a few. Yeah, it was just kind of a preview of what? Yeah, you'll have. Weren't there? Very recent one. And, uh, it's not called nightmare. Gary will also ever funny to me for specific reasons, but we'll also have the Jeff Bezos body horror episode.
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Speaker 2
Oh, my God. Yeah, that was weird.
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Speaker 1
That was. Yes, it was an excellent episode. Um, and there was also, uh, the sugar notch. Yeah, sugar cookies. I had a ghost in it.
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Speaker 2
And it goes. Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1
So. And one of our most popular episodes.
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Speaker 2
They go.
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Speaker 1
I don't remember why, but it is so. Yeah, well, look forward to it. It's going to be a lot of spooky content and maybe even a special guest star.
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Speaker 3
That.
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Speaker 2
We did record live from Transylvania that.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, that will do it for this episode. Join the brothers again next time. On their prompt will be the fence was confused about whether it was supposed to keep things in or keep things out.
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Speaker 2
Until next time. Viewer. Listener. Hmm. Listener.
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Speaker 1
Keep your eyes out in the skies for ultraviolet and doctor violence teaches you to.
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Speaker 3
To.
Speaker 1
Welcome to the Pros between Pros podcast, where two pros each write one page of pros inspired by a randomly generated prompt. This episode's prompt. There were a lot of paintings of monkeys waving bamboo sticks in the gallery.
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Speaker 2
So you get that robot lawnmower.
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Speaker 1
No, I optimized my workflow. Oh yeah. I went from taking three and a half hours to mow and trim and edge half acre to one and a half. I was quite proud of myself. Wow. Yeah, I know. I just changed how.
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Speaker 2
You optimized a half the time.
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Speaker 1
Yes. I mean, I'm an optimization king. My numbers show it, but I would say yes. Yes. King took off turning on lights because my previous home, I had a bunch of smart bulbs hooked up. So everything was voice command. And in this new house, everything is from the nineties. So it's like the lower outlet is connected to switch.
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Speaker 1
But I was tired of figuring out what switch did Y and I was tired of walking over to lamps to turn them on. And we also added a security system to this house. So now everything's based on motion sensors. So when I walk in a room, my lights turn on and I'm a lot happier, far less. I have to do the better.
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Speaker 1
So that's probably.
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Speaker 2
When do they turn off.
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Speaker 1
When there's no motion detected for half an hour.
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Speaker 2
So you don't need a steam map anymore.
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Speaker 1
Now I have robots doing.
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Speaker 3
All the work.
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Speaker 1
I all I've got.
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Speaker 2
A robot steam.
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Speaker 1
Or not. Yeah, we don't have Alvey anymore. We have real hardwood. So, you know, all this podcast money really letting us.
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Speaker 3
Live the life of yeah.
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Speaker 1
All three sense of my home and that's not real. I'm not hiding anything from three sensors. An exaggeration from zero.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. Yes. It's actually like -12.
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Speaker 1
Yes. Yes, it is exactly what it is. Now, I got robots vacuuming we're actually going to buy another robot because one of the robots is slack and they can't do carpet really well, so it's going to go in the basement.
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Speaker 2
Here I am just like a chump sweep.
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Speaker 1
I know, right? Like, what are you doing manual labor for? We live in a world of machines.
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Speaker 2
It felt so good the other day. I, like, swept and vacuumed and did dishes. And because I've been busy with other things and it was just like it was nice to, like, feel a sense of accomplishment. Like I did something today.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. Fill your days with menial tasks is how cults usually brainwash you.
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Speaker 2
Like, if, like, they want to control people, it just be like, do the dishes.
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Speaker 1
Keep them busy, and then they can't think about their own personal desires. Hmm.
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Speaker 2
That's why people in solitary confinement are so good about being in tune with their needs.
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Speaker 1
Yes.
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Speaker 2
Because they have a lot of time to think because they don't have any menial tasks.
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Speaker 1
Yes, exactly. If you want to keep someone complacent, keep them busy.
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Speaker 2
I'll remember that for my wife.
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Speaker 1
I got mine.
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Speaker 2
You can keep your wife complacent if you just keep her busy.
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Speaker 1
You know they had her right. And the posture.
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Speaker 2
Around, she'll stay with you forever.
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Speaker 1
Exactly right. That's how they accomplish so much in the 40 jigger.
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Speaker 2
The Prozac. Oh.
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Speaker 1
The Prozac. The the.
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Speaker 2
On screen.
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Speaker 1
And so on screen. All right. We just have our usual emails and a promotion from Pandora, so nothing worthwhile. All dozens of you have severely disappointed us. Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 2
Do you do you like to see us grovel?
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Speaker 1
Because that's what it is.
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Speaker 2
Because we're grown men. All right? We shouldn't be groveling.
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Speaker 3
But B.
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Speaker 1
I would have too much on my hands if any of these giant media companies because at the end of the day, I think it's all Disney anyway.
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Speaker 2
A lot of it is Disney.
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Speaker 1
A lot of it is Disney. It's almost as if they have money to do these things and want to be the only source of entertainment. The Starbucks of entertainment, if you asked me.
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Speaker 2
I didn't.
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Speaker 1
Like it. Well, then forget it.
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Speaker 2
What's what's the Taco Bell of entertainment like?
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Speaker 1
What what's that analogy? What is. Because I enjoy Taco Bell. I will eat it. And it is, you know, sometimes you just need a cheesy gordita crunch, right? Or honestly, my favorite food for a road trip is the. Oh, no, I forgot the name of it. The flat thing supreme. That's it's. Oh, no.
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Speaker 2
He no, the.
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Speaker 1
Arctic air heater. It's an Arctic. Oh, and it's got a crunchy shell in the middle. How can I not crunch wrap supreme? That is by far my favorite road trip food. It's it's nice and wrapped up. And so you can eat it without juices squirting everywhere. Because my biggest pet peeve is, like, I'm on a road trip. Maybe I'm going someplace nice.
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Speaker 1
It's like an hour and a half way. So I got some chinos on and we're hungry, right? So I get food in, like, everyone's like, get a hamburger. They're great on the road. So I take a hamburger and mayo squirts everywhere onto my pants. And this is an awkward situation for everyone because I'm driving, I'm rubbing my crotch and mailing coming out, and I'm walking in with white stain on my pants.
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Speaker 1
Like, you know, no one wants that.
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Speaker 2
So you're rubbing your crotch and the mayo is not coming out.
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Speaker 1
What are we talking about? We're talking about hamburgers. Yeah. Oh, so.
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Speaker 2
Right, right, right.
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Speaker 1
I forgot I know you're just so distracted by that image. So the current trap supreme is by some.
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Speaker 2
Mayo splattered chinos.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. Mm. No, everyone's mind just went right there. It's the best. Mm hmm. Mm. Yeah. So, yes, that is why the current crop supreme reigned supreme over all fast foods when traveling. Because they're self-contained. It chews nicely you know, it's soft, it's crunchy, it's cheesy, it's grilled. It's got your veggies, you know, you got tomato, you got lettuce, you dairy, sour, cream, right?
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Speaker 1
Like it's.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, that corn iceberg lettuce.
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Speaker 1
Over healthy is something more. Yes. Yeah. So it is the best travel food. So that's why I love Taco Bell.
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Speaker 2
And so the media conglomerate that is to Taco Bell as Disney is to Starbucks.
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Speaker 1
Certainly the CW, right? Like low quality, but just good enough to get you through your day all right.
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Speaker 2
I asked and answered.
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Speaker 1
So tell me tell me a little about I saw about about this story here that you have, you know, it's a lot of monkeys. Bamboo way. Oh, bamboo, I think of bamboo and bamboo and boon bamboozled. Anyways, what's your process you know, did you see monkeys and think, I'm going to be literal? Did you see, you know, I'm going to do an episode of Planet of the Apes.
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Speaker 2
I started to write a story about somebody who works in art gallery.
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Speaker 3
And then.
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Speaker 2
Halfway through, I was like, I this is and I don't know what's happening. And then I just zagged. So, you know, I was like, I need an inciting incident.
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Speaker 3
Okay?
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Speaker 2
And so that's what happened. I would just, you know, started going somewhere and I was like, what? This isn't this isn't the story.
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Speaker 1
You let the characters tell you our story. Is that what you're saying?
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Speaker 2
Exactly. Yes.
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Speaker 3
Yes.
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Speaker 1
You know, you only did so much, you just formed them and then they started speaking to you.
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Speaker 2
Exactly. Yeah. You get it?
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Speaker 1
Yeah. I'm I'm a I'm author. I'm published. I know. I have not self-published.
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Speaker 3
Anything so.
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Speaker 2
I mean, does this this podcast is sort of self publishing, right?
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Speaker 1
Uh, audio.
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Speaker 3
Books.
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Speaker 1
Story, I guess so. Um, sure.
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Speaker 2
We should we also write these out? We could. We do. They're they're written.
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Speaker 1
No, I have the intern. Well, the English intern. I'm like, you'll never have a job writing because you'll just end up like, as a manager or somewhere yeah.
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Speaker 2
Management.
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Speaker 3
Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2
Management is the lifeblood of any corporation.
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Speaker 3
Yes.
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Speaker 1
You need middle management to make things work out. Without middle management, who will micromanage the lowly workers who will tell them what to do and how to do it and treat them like they don't know what they're doing, even though they've been doing it for 30 years and you sure shit aren't going to do it because you got to tell everyone else how to do it and schedule a meeting to feel worthwhile.
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Speaker 3
Yes.
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Speaker 2
I feel like you're trying to be wishy facetious, but I just feel like you're just nailing the truth.
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Speaker 1
I know. I mean, I've been a manager. I know what it's like. It's. Yeah, taking a bunch of meetings and then when someone schedules and meeting with you, it's all about saying no to the meeting and being like, What's the agenda? Why are you inviting me? Is it something you can just send me an email, you know, it's all about having those double standards.
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Speaker 1
Your meetings are more important because they're always urgent and everyone else can suck.
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Speaker 2
It suck it.
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Speaker 1
Suck it, real good. No.
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Speaker 3
Oh, we.
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Speaker 2
Don't want to call suck.
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Speaker 1
So monkeys monkeys tend to do that as part of their ritual of greeting each other. I don't think that's actually true.
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Speaker 2
But if they're bonobos, I think they both are very sexual. But those are apes, not monkeys.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. One of those people trying. My rectangle. Square is square rectangle.
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Speaker 3
Monkey, ape.
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Speaker 1
Primate, whatever. They're all. We're all just, you know, two keys and sacks of me anyways at the end of the day.
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Speaker 3
So if.
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Speaker 1
It's true. Yeah, why do we have this incessant need to categorize things uh.
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Speaker 2
So we can discriminate.
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Speaker 3
Okay.
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Speaker 1
There you go. All right. I think we agree here. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Perfect. Let's let's hear about how monkeys have been treated.
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Speaker 3
All right?
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Speaker 2
Joanne worked at the gallery. Despite being ambivalent toward art. Truth be told, she took the gig because there was a it wasn't a hell of a upgrade from being a barista. The pay was much better. The clientele were at least insanely wealthy, and most of the job was just moving velvet rope about and dusting bright white walls in the dog.
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Speaker 2
Eat dog land of NYC. Having a high society job where you can get some of that economy to trickle down on you is nothing to sneeze at. There was always a new exhibit of some artists or other. Every few weeks that Joanne would have to help set up. Crates would come in, filled in with whatever nonsense some Yahoo had created that allegedly was worthy of people's time and attention.
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Speaker 2
She would unpack the sculpture of Jesus made with elephant dung or the canvas on skillfully painted with the solid color or an old shoe nailed to a two by four titled something like Civilization Hello.
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Speaker 3
Hi.
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Speaker 1
I'm sorry to destroy that flow.
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Speaker 3
My.
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Speaker 1
Alarm system is arming itself because it's on its schedule, and I'm in a room without motion sensors, but the moment I walk out, like my alarm is going to go off and I don't want to wake my feet.
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Speaker 3
So I.
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Speaker 1
Need to sign in and disarmament.
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Speaker 3
Because I left my watch somewhere where it's going to a lower. Oh, no. Oh, shit. Oh, no.
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Speaker 1
Is that on my watch? Has the app on.
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Speaker 3
My watch elf help.
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Speaker 2
Me. And this is tense.
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Speaker 3
I would like if I move oh, god. Okay.
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Speaker 1
What what's my what's my password? Why is my password not saved?
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Speaker 1
Do you do a brief interruption?
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Speaker 3
Bump, bump. Pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum pum. Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum. Yeah.
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Speaker 2
I remember going. My dad worked at a junior high school and had keys to the school, and we would go there when I was a kid because he would have to grade papers or something, and I would, like, play on the overhead projector, whatever. But he had to, like, go into the office and turn off the alarm every time and I was always like, as a kid, I was like, it was like some sort of, like, espionage unit or something like that.
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Speaker 3
It above paper, but it admitted that it had a bum bum.
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Speaker 2
You going to get it in time.
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Speaker 3
But in the code.
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Speaker 2
Please are going to come.
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Speaker 1
And I think I have like a minute, but I think I changed it to ten. Oh, so I that's kind of nice. Um, well, perhaps all my Z-wave devices are an error. That's super annoying. Okay. All right. Um, all right. Just be.
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Speaker 2
Aggressive. Be aggressive, all right?
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Speaker 3
Okay. All right.
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Speaker 1
We're safe.
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Speaker 3
No, no harm.
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Speaker 1
What's your character's name? Jan.
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Speaker 2
Joe and.
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Speaker 1
Joanne.
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Speaker 3
Uh.
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Speaker 1
Okay. Sounds like a miserable life, like just kind of taking a job because they're hot watch soap and a rich person come by and give her a bunch of money.
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Speaker 3
You know.
00;15;26;24 - 00;15;31;01
Speaker 1
I think being a barista is awesome. Starbucks has some great benefits for an hourly job.
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Speaker 2
I would have their the Disney of coffee establishment.
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Speaker 1
They are. But honestly, that means they can pay bonkers and give you health care, which. And you know, for those of you who are in America, you know, privatized health, that's the way to go. You know, that's because. Yeah, because then you cannot just, you know, get a group of people together, have them pool all their money together for the off chance at one of us, gets hit by a bus and then then that group pays like two tens of thousands of dollars more for a service that, while good, doesn't cost that much but you know, I'm not I'm not a government official or a lobbyist.
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Speaker 1
Like, clearly, I'm missing something here. Like, obviously, we got to make these people rich. Right? Like, people need wealth. So let's just stick it to the people who can't afford health. All right. All right. That's my rant.
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Speaker 2
All right.
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Speaker 1
Let's talk about.
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Speaker 3
Joanne.
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Speaker 2
All right. So Joanne works at a gallery. Uh, so uh, so there was a new exhibit of some artists are out there every few weeks that Joanne would have to help set up. Crates would come in filled with whatever content some Yahoo had created. That allegedly was worthy of people's time and attention. She would unpack the sculpture of Jesus made with elephant dung or the canvas on skillfully painted a solid color or an old shoe and nailed to a two by four titled something like Civilization.
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Speaker 2
Worse yet was when the whatnot created by whomever wasn't even given a name. Come on, dude, you can do better than Untitled Number seven. Every once in a while there would be some actual legit talent on display. Maybe even Manet or two would be paraded through the dark confines of the gallery to earn 20 seconds of feigned interest of a guy trying to impress a gal on their second date.
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Speaker 2
Girl, he's not cultured. Don't sleep with them. Again. The current exhibit was somewhere in between the two aforementioned quality extremes just a lot of paintings of monkeys waving bamboo sticks in the gallery. Joanne quite enjoyed the renderings. They were fun and unpretentious. Her favorite was of the two baby monkeys engaged in what appeared to be a fencing match.
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Speaker 2
Although the lemur wielding a large stalk like Darth Maul and a capuchin doing what appeared to be a pole dancing routine were close runners up Joanne was admiring the slutty capuchin while adjusting a stanchion that had gotten kicked slightly out of place when suddenly a masked armored figure crashed through the massive glass dome, which crown the main hall, the cape dark flame landed, stealthily executing a ninja roll into a dash towards the permanent jewelry exhibit along the back wall, the muscled individual snapped his wrist back, releasing a dark net.
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Speaker 2
The webbing covered the case, and within milliseconds of making contact glowed red hot shattering the safety glasses with the jewels. Uncaged. They were sitting ducks for the intruders pouch. Joanne marveled at how the super Sif deftly bagged the loot turned and with a flick of this other wrist shot, a grappling hook to the edge of the shattered ceiling.
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Speaker 2
An instant the black visage was winched up the cable and gone. The few artsy fartsy lucky loos in attendance all stared dumbfounded at what was the the first truly all inspiring vision to ever graced the gallery. Joanne on the other hand, had jumped into action. It was clear that this heist must be the work of professor video. Surely this was more than the local authorities could handle.
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Speaker 2
This was up to her Joanne dashed behind the nearby catering curtain. She opened her grandmother's locket she wore around her neck and gently, gently rubbed the deep purple gem encased within in a burst of blinding lavender light, Joanne was transformed into the vigilante known only as ultra violet. She photon into a beam of light and shown herself to the room.
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Speaker 2
Her pursuit had begun That's it.
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Speaker 3
Was it oh.
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Speaker 2
I told you I zagged hard.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, that was that was a huge turn. And now I know Ultra Violet is going to do. And who is Professor Vile? Why the only event? Professor Vial and also Professor Vial was it armor? You said an armored individual. Yeah. Isaacs. I was like envisioning a night. So I guess the professor would dress as a medieval knight.
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Speaker 2
I mean, I guess I. I pictured more like a shredder, you know? Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Okay. Like a samurai or something like.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, he's got some armor, he's got a cape, he's got, like, some gadgets.
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Speaker 3
Batman v kind of thing going on. I don't know.
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Speaker 1
I'm being called.
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Speaker 3
From off have.
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Speaker 1
Beefy hello.
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Speaker 2
You're living in the future answering phones on your wrist and.
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Speaker 1
Oh, boy, I'm going to go grab my actual phone. One sec. Yeah, that was quite the zigzag, by the way. I was just absolutely shocked that all of a sudden I'm listening to Super Hero like episode. I think you could have just done another page and had a full episode of, like, TMNT or Batman or something, and it would have been the satisfying story.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, sorry. Always. I was already out like 600 words though. So I was like, maybe, you know, a different prompt.
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Speaker 3
To.
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Speaker 2
Continue this. But yeah, I just started writing about like an art gallery and some of my opinions about art. And then I was like, This isn't going anywhere. I was like, We need something to happen. And I was like, Somebody crashes through the ceiling. Okay, let's go see.
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Speaker 1
Your thinly veiled opinions about art seem to think it's, it's not a worthwhile and.
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Speaker 2
I mean, most of it's pretty stupid.
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Speaker 1
Yes, I do agree that it is all based on someone's opinion about what is good and what is not. However, I would say that there is definitely what I was that called like a realist, like back in the day when they were painting paintings. That looks like photographs like that. Yeah, that's talent, right? Like it's very difficult to capture reality and reimagine it into a different medium that isn't its physical form, right?
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Speaker 2
Yeah. You lose me at, like, modern art and, like, surrealism and minimalism and, like, stuff like if you painted or sculpted something that looks like a fucking thing, I go like, wow, look good on you. But if you, you know, nailed issue to a two-by-four, I go, like, that's not, that's not a thing.
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Speaker 1
But it made you feel something. So.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, but like, rage, I don't know. I don't sign up for that. Yeah. I don't want to watch scary movies. I don't want to be anxious. I don't want to like I don't want to be upset by thing.
00;22;42;18 - 00;23;07;19
Speaker 1
Halloween is just around the corner and that reminds me, we have a special announcement. You don't know about it because I made it up now this week. Okay, we are going to do a Halloween special where it will be two if you think you can do it. Two original Halloween stories, plus a compilation of all of our scary stories.
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Speaker 1
To me, an excellent lesson for Halloween. All right. Yes.
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Speaker 2
I'm game.
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Speaker 1
You're game. All right. Who's editing yeah, I will do. I think I'm going to have a blast, which means that's going to be happening this summer release and see this week and Monday is what I did. And so this will be the 3rd of October you'll be hearing this or after the 3rd of October, which means, oh, oh, my God. Our last episode of the month and our Halloween special will release on October 30.
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Speaker 1
First it's. Oh, oh, it's almost as if the person who decided to change our schedule to Mondays knew that and really wanted All right.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, we can, uh, we can start working on some holiday specials. That does take a bit of pre-planning on our part.
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Speaker 1
Yes. Especially since we never know how many episodes ahead we are.
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Speaker 2
Exactly I'm trying to think of all of our scary episodes so far. There's been a few.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, even you did one, which was shocking to me. It was a little bit of a thriller.
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Speaker 2
That's we just a couple of weeks ago, right?
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Speaker 1
Yes, just a couple weeks ago.
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Speaker 2
And you had that one high school slasher.
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Speaker 1
Uh, that one monster I really enjoyed doing was.
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Speaker 2
The very.
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Speaker 1
Long one. Yes. With Nightmare, Gary.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. There's a lot of characters, as I remember.
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Speaker 1
It was a lot to keep track of. Um, yeah. So we have a few. Yeah, it was just kind of a preview of what? Yeah, you'll have. Weren't there? Very recent one. And, uh, it's not called nightmare. Gary will also ever funny to me for specific reasons, but we'll also have the Jeff Bezos body horror episode.
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Speaker 2
Oh, my God. Yeah, that was weird.
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Speaker 1
That was. Yes, it was an excellent episode. Um, and there was also, uh, the sugar notch. Yeah, sugar cookies. I had a ghost in it.
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Speaker 2
And it goes. Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1
So. And one of our most popular episodes.
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Speaker 2
They go.
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Speaker 1
I don't remember why, but it is so. Yeah, well, look forward to it. It's going to be a lot of spooky content and maybe even a special guest star.
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Speaker 3
That.
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Speaker 2
We did record live from Transylvania that.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, that will do it for this episode. Join the brothers again next time. On their prompt will be the fence was confused about whether it was supposed to keep things in or keep things out.
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Speaker 2
Until next time. Viewer. Listener. Hmm. Listener.
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Speaker 1
Keep your eyes out in the skies for ultraviolet and doctor violence teaches you to.
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Speaker 3
To.
