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Seeing as how we're in lockdown number
two. Lauren and I, the neuro
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nerds, think that we should all
wash our hands, and we came up
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with a song to help us remember, and it goes a little something like
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this. Your Hands Do, do, do, do, Don this is
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this is why things Lauren. This
is a metaphor for California. BASHTAG,
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truth, intro, done, boom. Worked out great. I like that
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right. Hi, I'm Joe and
I'm Lauren and we are the neurow nerds.
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Yes, I feel pretty good,
pretty good about that. Welcome to
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the neural nerds. Hello, Lauren
Al Manzano, this sounds very familiar.
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Oh, Joe, gorgeous. I
think I already talked to you today.
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It's almost like we recorded an entire
episode that we weren't able to use because
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there was a sound issue. Guys, we literally recorded for forty five minutes
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and it was amazing and beautiful and
it was like something that caught like what's
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that sign? Like something sparked or
something caught fire, and it was amazing
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and we can't use any of it. It was, in a word,
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perfection. Right. I'M NOT gonna
I'm not gonna downplay anything. It was
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it was the citizen Kane of neural
nerves podcasts. I would have said Rachaman.
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I don't know what that is.
Do I know that club? Oh
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my God, what, what Nerdum
are you gonna surprise me with? Now,
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Film and Cinema. Oh wait,
sweet lip, is it a foreign
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film, assuming it's a foreign film. Yes, it's a foreign fielm Roshamon
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is a very famous film from the
forties, I believe. Is it as
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good as biodome? So the neural
nerds have not been together in a while.
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We have not recorded in a while
because the world's a little bit chaotic.
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Lauren is the James Brown of anything
and everything you can possibly think of,
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the busiest woman in the world.
Um, so we haven't been able
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to do this. I've missed this
tiny ass kicker so much. I have,
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and now she's on the other end
like there's a remote episode. If
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you don't know, how would you
know? You can't tell. They can
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hear the sound quality between your microphone
and my air pods. Bro Good Call.
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So that I'm looking at Lauren on
the computer and her hair is again
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chlowe magnificent, like Medusa, not
Medusa the snake head, Medusa, the
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red head from the inhumans, with
like not the Shitty C G I medusab
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like in the comics. Okay,
I'll take it. And you're rocking the
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rogue streak. So you've got like
this flowy rogue hair. It's amazing.
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Very Jealous and again, coming from
a bald dude, I appreciate all hair,
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yours in particular, rock in the
house. Thank you. I really
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appreciate that, especially because I feel
like I look like a tree, a
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cave troll today. How? How? How? How? Tired? Okay,
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you're tired. Yes, you're tired. Is Flawless. You still amazing,
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guys. I don't pay him for
this. If anything, it's annoying.
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So have you been, Lauren?
It's been a minute, it's been
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forty, five minutes. Deja boo
all over again. No, I'm doing
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good. I was telling Joe that
I'm just drained. I don't know.
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You know, we're in what we're
literally a month? Seven right, twenty,
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twenty. So when people are like
how have you been, I'm like
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it's been a year. Like has
been a year, guys, and it
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has been a rough year. Somehow
has been like five years. You did
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you did you see the meme where
people are saying, like you know how
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everyone says hindsight, Blah, Blah
Blah. They're like, what if that
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was the time traveler that started that? And it's that's that's really weird,
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you know. I know for a
fact, though, that, like any
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time traveler is avoiding here. The
other theory is that that time traveler is
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trying to solve something, and that
is what is that's why we had murder
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Hornets for like two weeks and then
they disappeared completely. So it's like someone
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in the spacetime continuum tried to like
fix one part and it's fawned murder Hornets
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and then they're like oh no,
no, oops, oopsoops, and they
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tried something else, and so the
murder Hornets went away. And so then
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we got something else. You know, you're all right, yeah, and
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and then, so we got rid
of the murder
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Hornets. What do we
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have? Lockdown number two. What's
going on? Come on, time travelers,
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do your job right. So we
are now in lockdown number two.
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So we're gonna have to do kind
of what we did in lockdown number one.
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Well, first off, wash your
hands. Wash your hands, guys,
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yeah, being adults. We're adults
here, even you kids out there.
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For the most part, kids are
more adults than the adults. It's
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it's really weird. But we all
were also going to have to entertain ourselves,
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right, we're gonna have to pass
the time, we're gonna have to
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figure some some stuff out. So
in my my pastime has been video games.
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I'm a Gamer, you know that, not balds gate, like real
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games. I will say I was
pleasantly surprised a friend of mine, who
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doesn't know that I played balder's gate, was talking about how her like boyfriend
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was telling her to play these video
games. So she started playing a video
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game from the late nineties, early
two thousand's online, and she was playing
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as a multiplayer and I was like
this is a d and D game.
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She goes, yeah, it is. I was like is a Balter's gate?
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She's like yeah, and I'm like
is Balther's gate? Oh, there
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are more of you, how I
really thought it was probably like eight of
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you total. You know what I
mean. Walter's gate, excuse you,
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was one of the most famous and
influential computer RPG Games that have spawned such
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beloved titles that people play now,
like pillars of eternity and divinity. Yeah,
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the same eight people played those games. Wow, guys, we didn't
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touch this topic in the last version
of this episode, and now talk about
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your video game playing. I dare
you. I'm playing right now. Like
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okay, so I was trying to
figure out you're playing right now with me
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and I don't know how any more
lives you got left. I I'm surprised
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I'm still on this one. So, like I was like, okay,
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like I need a pastime because like
my insomnia kicks in and like I like
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to process at night to three in
the morning, and I like the game.
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I open world game so I can
like wander around and just kind of
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like forget the kind of chaos that
we deal with on a day to day
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and just kind of like one around. So, like fallout has always been
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my jam, clost apocalyptic, and
I know people are like, dude,
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it's really like dark. There's like
monsters and of Ghoules and mutants and like
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a lot of blood and stuff and
like doesn't that like amp you up?
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I was like, actually, it's
very relaxing. It honestly down it oddly
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enough, one of my first actational
therapist was like no, don't play these
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horror games because it's gonna raise your
blood pressure, and I was like actually
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relaxed me and she like yelled at
me and I think do my own test
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check my blood pressure. Boom,
played twenty minutes of fall out. My
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blood pressure drop eight points. So
right now, comfortably it's about one two
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over, like eight. The bottom
number is still a little high, but
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before it was like one five over. So, you know, still work
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in progress. I'm a little bit
more stressed out than normal. So like
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I'm trying to like bring that down. So I was like all right,
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fall out. So I'm gonna play
old fallout, like fall out New Vegas.
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Problem with with that is the graphics
are terrible and the game plays like
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really sluggish. I was like,
I wish I had this, but like
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updated. I already played. And
Lauren, don't judge me, you can't
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because you play Balder's gate and D
and D you, nerd. I have
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comfortably for you. It would be
uncomfortably. I have for you, uncomfortably
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pumped in probably about sixteen hundred hours
and to fall out four over the past
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several years. Wait several four years. About Sixteen hundred hours. It's a
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problem, but I play. I
play a bunch of different games too.
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That's one. So I did that. And so I was like, I'm
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not gonna play fall out for again
because I've already like ran through it a
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few times. I was playing assassin's
creed Odyssey and then remember that point in
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time where I was just banging dudes
and video game for some reason. So
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I and then I was done with
Odyssey. So I was like, Oh,
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I'm playing outer world right now and
it's the people who did fall out
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New Vegas. So it's basically fallout
in outer space. It's amazing. I'm
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having so much fun and it's keeping
me sane great significantly better than Walter's skate.
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Sorry, I don't mean to shoot
on Balter's gate, but I mean
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to shoot on Walter's gate. Well, you know what? Balters Gate three
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is going to be coming out,
hopefully this year soon, and the trailer,
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the trailer is fired. The trailer
is so good. You showed me
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the trailer and I was so in
and then I saw the game plan and
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I was like, Oh, this
is hot trash. Well, okay,
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on that subject. Yes, Um, I am not a fan of the
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gameplay that they're implementing for Balds Kate
three, because I love Balter Skate one
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and two, which did have that
real time fighting and it was the overview
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of the party. I like that. I find it more enjoyable. However,
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there you have gone towards more of
the divinity model or like final fantasy
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kind of model, where it's turn
based action. and Um, I mean
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like I guess it is, technically, I'm more authentic to D and D,
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but it also it's like D and
D Five E, which I don't
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like. Five years and I don't
even know what that means. Fifth Edition.
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Oh Dungeons and dragons have different editions
and different rules and they have updates
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and they take monsters and away and
they put monsters in new campaigns. I
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didn't know that. I didn't know
they did that. That sucks. Yeah,
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so like my balds gate, like
when I or like my d and
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d knowledge when I played and stuff
was like Balter's gate second edition, slash
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a D A, which is a
Oh God, no, I can't think
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of the word advanced dungeon. No, something. I can't think of the
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word. If you were, if
you were D and D Fan. You
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know what I'm talking about, my
era, the other the other seven of
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you out there, don't be rude. Um. So, yes. So
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then now there's fifth edition. UH, my friend is D M Ng and
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she's trying to get me to come
play
and I'm like okay, but you're
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gonna treat me like a new because
I don't know anything about fifth edition beyond
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what I have seen as the means
and Tiktok and critical role, because I've
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been watching critical role. That's good, though, that you're going in fresh,
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because you know you like, you
know you don't like. You Love
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Dungeons and dragons, right. So
if you're but you've already done that,
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this is like this is the same
feeling you had when you first fell in
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love with D N d. This
is what it's going to be, because
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you're like, I don't know any
of this stuff, so I am a
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Nube. But then you're gonna be
like a dungeon master soon. No,
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I'm going to be more annoyed and
be like hey, these are stupid rules,
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like that's not how it's supposed to
be. I might be a rules
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lawyer, which is the person that's
like like that's not what we're supposed to
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do. Oh, so you're going
to be the most fun person in the
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game. I might be. You
can turn into Old Lady Lauren. Get
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off my lawn. Back in my
day, I want to be like Yo,
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you're a cobald. Hey, you
have an alignment, so you need
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to follow your enlignment. None of
this nonsense where you are. Oh,
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I'm technically chaotic. Good, that
means I can go steal from people.
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No, asshole, you have to
follow your alignment and you're a cobald.
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You can't be chaotic. Something like
something. No, Lauren, I have
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missed you so much, like just
so much. This is like the most
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magical like. There is, like
nerds sparkles coming off of your body right
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now. It was so deep.
Right now you've got so serious and intense
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about Dn D. you're you're,
you're like the DN D lawyer. Actually,
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what you can't do, no about
what about rock does is actually,
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it's so funny. You're like the
the hall monitor of D and D oh.
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But this is where like, I
won't I won't actually say like I'm
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I'm the rules lawyer, because there
are some far more intense like D and
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d people like I think like I'm
intense, but I'm like not intense by
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comparison.
Okay, like you think
I'm intense because you're a bubble in that
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sense. So you're like, oh, Lauren's crazy. I look at some
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of them and I'm like, okay, that blows my mind, because listening
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to you talk about this really blows
my mind. So if there's somebody that
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you're looking at like I'm looking at
you, that I don't even know how.
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I can't even process that well.
And it's and this kind of leads
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You even said people ask if I'm really
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this nerdy or I know what I'm
talking about. I'll tell I'll tell you
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what your problem? I'll tell you. Look, Lauren, I'll tell you
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what your problem is. Okay,
tell me what my problem is. Dr
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Joe, let me get my stethoscope
and my pointer. All right, so
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the problem is, have you ever
seen you dance? Yes, I watched
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my. I watch my dancing.
Very well, nerds don't move that way.
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I mean they don't. Yes,
they do. Hello, now even
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you think of like, think of
it. Okay, name three nerd Queens.
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Rihanna, Oh, you no,
true, true, but she does
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not move like you at all.
Okay, well, like like celebrity nerd
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Queens. Okay, I mean technically
mime. Oh God, Mine, Alec.
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Yes, thank you, I cannot
think. Sarah Geller, yes,
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and Lucy lawless. Cool, three
of them. Beautiful Women, very intelligent,
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very nerdy, top tier when it
comes to like nerd Queens. Right,
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can you picture any of them dancing
the way you do? You see
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what I'm saying here? You see
what I'm saying here. Lucy lawless,
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beautiful woman, very sexy woman,
mind be Alec, she's okay in a
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nerd way. Sarah Michelle Geller,
Super Hot. Right. Do you remember
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the cover of rolling stone when she
was like buffy and she had like that
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super sexy right pales in comparison to
twerking, Pulse Spinning Lauren Al Manzano,
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you know what I mean, like
there's just something. So people are actually
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like no, no, seriously,
like is it like is it like a
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stick she's doing? Is it like
is she putting on? I'm like no,
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what you see is Lauren's like natural
talent in dance and on pole.
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When you have like your your Tork
Thursdays, is it Thursdays? Mark that.
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That's just her being awesome and doing, you know, her job,
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that she's really, really good at. What Lauren is at her core,
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fucking nerd. I'm sorry, it's
the best way to describe you. You
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are, when I said, okay, named Queen nerds. The celebrity,
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the Queen of all NERDS, is
Lauren Al Manzano. Not only is she
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the mother of concussions, she is
the queen of all nerdum. And I
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say this because her nerd Um knows
no bounds. You know how my idiocy
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knows no bounds, like it just
doesn't. Your nerdum knows no bounds.
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You have gone on and on and
on about D and D and Balter's gate.
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You have gone deep into the learning
languages that don't exist. You're you
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know, I think I'm gonna I
think I'm gonna learn ORC. Who?
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WHO LEARNS ORC? Oh, Jesus, see what I'm saying? Just saying
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that? Oh, I was just
gonna say there is nobody, maybe Stephen
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Colbert, that knows more about Lord
of the rings than Lauren L no,
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no, no, no, no, there's people who know far more about
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Lord of the rings than I do. I do, I step back,
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I am alsome. I might be
people who have these. Well. So
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the reason this is kind of funny
is because, if you guys follow me
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on social media, Um, I
have recently discovered the Pandora's box of my
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junior high and high school career and
it is full of Um evidence, I'll
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say, of how deep the Lauren
Fandom, anime like rabbit hole, goes.
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Um. So it really inspired me, like this is what we're talking
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about, like we gotta, we
gotta push through this like second quarantine,
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right, guys. So I am
trying to find creative ways to reignite my
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creativity because I'm drained. Guys,
like I worked like seventaiys a week right
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now. I'm tired. Everything changes
every month, every week, so I
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have to like pivot and I am
not a go with the flow kind of
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person. I am a control freak. I think I mentioned before I had
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to go to arap guys to admit
that I was a control freak. That
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was a thing. Yeah, that's
that, like that was a moment's life.
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Dude. I thought I was like
this super chill, go at the
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flow chick, like I was like
totally chill, and my therapist is like
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freaking gidding me and like I have
to like confess to my parents that I
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was a control freak, and my
mother was like, I gave birth to
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you. You've been like this since
day one. Is this a surprise?
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Right? I actually told the doctor, actually, this is how you're going
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to cut the umbilical cord. Dude. Seriously, at the point, probably,
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but so, um. One of
the ways I'm trying to reignite my
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creativity is I'm kind of like delving
back into like my original like fandoms.
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So on social media I had posted
Um one me badly singing a song in
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Japanese, again reasons why I don't
sing, and I enjoyed it by the
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way, and it is a song
from Inuyasha. So if anyone knows the
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Um but also I posted me dancing
too. I think it's a very famous
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song to a very popular and famous
anime because not only was it popular,
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like in Japan, but it was
also on adult swim, on cartoon network.
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So, like Norman's like, we
watched it. I didn't like dubbed.
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I always watched sub animes. I
hate dubbed and so, like,
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I know the acting isn't as good, but I find if I'm reading I'm
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not actually watching the show, I'm
just I feel like I'm just reading a
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book. You know. Well.
Also, I figure with brain injuries it's
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hard also sometimes to have to pay
attention. So I posted on something like
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Hey, who knows this anime,
and Joe's like not my fandom, and
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then we started talking about he's like, oh, it's probably not a popular
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anime. Guys. It is Gundam
Wing, the most popular Gundam Mecca anime,
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and it is from Gundam wing endless
waltz, which is the full length
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feature film, and it was the
main song that plays by two mix called
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last impression, when heatle gets to
wing zero and unleash's wing zero for the
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big final battle. Like hello.
So for anybody out there, and I
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know a few of you who have
actually asked me directly, is Lauren really
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that? Did you just hear the
passion and care and love behind every single
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one of those words? That?
Like, unless she's the Meryl Streep of
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acting, Lauren is Queen Nerd.
It's crazy. It's crazy, it really
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is. I love it that people
think of a fake nerd girl, like
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I think that's kind of really cool. I'm like, Oh really, because
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trust me, if you knew me
growing up, you would have not thought
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it was. They're like, oh
no, she's the NERD. Well,
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yeah, well, I haven't seen
a lot of pictures of you. I
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just assume they're embarrassing. I assume
they're very embarrassing. I cannot wait to
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see them. So you guys don't
get to see these videos or see when
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we record guys. So you guys
don't get to see the faces. I
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may so just joe gets too.
So, Joe, you see these faces
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on yard went on. Hey,
they bring me so much joy and I'm
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laughing with you because if I feel
you felt I was laughing at you,
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I would be murdered through this microphone
somehow. Fireball. No, I I
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love. I love the nerdum like
it really. It blows me away.
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It does, because Lauren, when
I say Queen Nerd I'm not just saying
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well, she's my co host.
She's amazing. She's quite. No,
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no, no, Fan fiction.
Not only does she read constantly, how
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do you have time? It's crazy. She writes. She doesn't just right,
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she writes epic, Amazing Fan Fiction. Guys, I am actually so.
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I'm going through my tabs right now
and I'm seeing how many fan fix
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I currently have opened. That I'm
good. I Have Tab okay, Oh
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my God, that gives me anxiety. How many tabs you have open?
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Clothes them? It's too much,
because I keep them on so I can
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refresh and see if there's new chapters. Oh my see it. Do you
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understand? End The nerdum in that
line alone. I keep them open to
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refresh, to say, come on, man. Okay, so that's one
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way. Guys. I'm also so
again. I'm delving into my old animals
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and rewatching them. I am because
I actually strayed a very far away from
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anime and she started to become a
normal human being. Well, no,
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then I went into marvel and star
wars and like I developed, like I
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was telling a friend, like I
was like yeah, I thought I was
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like past the anime stage and I
was like into marvel and yes, I
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had my my my ships and my
crushes, you know, Kylo wren and
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stucky and and thor and Loki.
Like I was there, and then I
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kind of like stumbled into this box
again, guys, and I'm like Fusi
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Yu Vice Yaha, oh my God, I have to rewatch everything. Oh
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Lord, Waldemort, it's you get
so happy. This is what I love.
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I love that it brings so much
joy, which, in turn,
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it brings me so much joy.
I love seeing you happy. It makes
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me happy, it really does.
I don't understand any of it, but
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it makes me happy. Makes you
happy makes me happy. And we're talking
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about like enemy. It's attack on
Titan, attack on Titan or nothing.
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You should watch evangelion if you like
attack on Titan, neon genesis. EVANGELION
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was before, I think, like
ten years before attack on Titan, not
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in the same universe, but it
has that same vibe. So what we're
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going to do, guys, is
Um Joe and I are going to make
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a list of recommendations of like what
we recommend, like anime wise, or
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TV show wise, Marvel wise,
Netflix wise, Um, and these are
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gonna be like Lauren and Joe's like
top ten or whatever, and then we're
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gonna ask you guys to give us
your recommendations. That like if, because
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I swear I'm scraping the barrel right
now on Netflix and maybe I'm just like
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looking in the
wrong barrel right like
maybe my passive perception roles have been that
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ones at this point. Got Laurence, speaking of scraping the bottom of the
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barrel. Okay, I do need
recommendations. Do you want to know why?
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What was I watching on Netflix?
What did I finish? An entire
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season of the floor is lava.
No, you did not. Yes,
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I did nothing better to do.
Oh my okay. So, so here,
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here, here's another fun fact about
Joe. Joe Smokes Weed. Okay,
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so late and I was like,
you know, let's see what the
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floor's lava is all about, because, like everybody's like watching and talking about
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it, and I watched it and
I was like, Oh wow, for
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some reason I kept going in.
I went in for ten episodes. So
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every episode it's not very good,
but that's where I'm at. I need
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new recommendations. Actually, I'm in
the middle of Doom patrol, which I
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you know, it's like it's it
gives me hope that DC is going to
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do something right. DC wins with
this one television show. That's about it
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right now. No, no,
actually, I'm watching, or I finished
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watching and I'm rewatching it constantly because
it's really changed the way I think.
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And it sounds funny. It's an
animated show called Midnight Gospel on Netflix and
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it's basically one of Joe Rogan's Dudes, like he's a bunch of podcast with
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him. He has his own podcast
and he takes the podcast and he animated
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and he talks about all kinds of
stuff. The way the mind works,
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energies. It's so crazy, but
it's so good and it's actually changed the
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way that I think. That's why
I'm really focused in on being around people
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who have the same energy that I
do, because that's how I think I'm
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going to grow as a person and
I'm going to be able to continue on
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this path of recovery. You know, definitely, and I think because we
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were talking about this as well,
how important it is to be cognizant of
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your energy levels. Um, I
mean we as, if you think about
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it, we as people, as
the brain injured, as the neuro as
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neuro nerds. Um, right,
we already start kind of in a deficit,
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right. So like, if you
think about like your HP on a
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video game, right, we don't
even start with full hp once we start
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the day, right, or full
manna. We don't start there. We
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already start with like a deficit.
We have a minus one to something and,
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Um and then you, if you
are spending time on your social media,
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Um and and guys, there's no
shame in the game, because I
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know all of us are increasing our
time on our screens because it is lockdown
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right. It is the nature of
what's going on right now. Um Or,
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we're spending time with maybe family members
or people that are within our little
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groups that we're actually seeing that maybe
we don't really like vibe with, instead
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of saying like with. You know, I'm trying to be good about it.
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I guess a lot, but I
was telling Joe it's my new thing
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called mute it and boot it.
Right, it's gonna be a t shirt
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no, but what it is it's
like, I know sometimes with my anxiety,
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like I don't want to unfriend people
or block people because I'm like right,
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but like there's sometimes you just can't
keep seeing their post, no matter
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what it is. It's not necessarily
about covid or about what's going on in
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the world. It could just be
I really don't want to see that.
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Well, fildle of your damn cat, right, like cat's not even cute,
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like I want cute cats, right, but it's like, I mean
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whatever, be a dog or be
nothing, you know, but or it's
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like your kid. I'm like,
I don't care about your damn kid.
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You think your kid's cute. Sorry, spoiler alert, he's not. So
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what you but like that's where you've
got to take care of your own mental
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health, guys, and just mute
the stories, mute the post. And
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what that does is it doesn't block
the person, it doesn't unfriend or unfollow
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them, but it just prevents you
from seeing their their their stories or their
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posts Um right up front and center. You can still go look for them
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people do, whether it's friends or family,
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whatever, is not whatever is gonna
screw with your energy. You don't
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necessarily need to see that. So
just put it on you put it in
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the back burner. Hopefully that person
will grow as a human being, you
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know what I mean, and get
on your level. I mentioned a lot
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like the Trans edition of us,
brain injured, like we've evolved into like
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beautiful butterflies from caterpillars, those caterpillars. We're not messing with caterpillars right now.
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We're just not. We have to
mess with our own right. We're
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all beautiful butterflies and we're flying high
in this guy. So what do we
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talk about? We talk about butterfly
stuff. It's so beautiful up here,
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it's so nice. We're not talking
about wow, it's so cold and filthy
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down here crawling in the dirt because
I'm a caterpillar. I'm sorry, I'm
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past that. I can't get sucked
down into that. I do hope that
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in the time that I mute these
people that they do evolve, that they
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do grow so they can fly high
with us up here
in the beautiful sky
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and enjoy things like we're enjoying things. Apparently I'm not a butterfly, according
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to no no, no, no, Lauren is absolutely not. Now,
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I'm not saying that to be a
Dick. Remember Hashtag. Don't be a
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lauren is beyond. She's evolved past
butterfly. She is Mo thraw. She
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is a giant ass kicking Kaiju that
can take down God Zilla. Yeah,
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00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:07.200
L Manzano, that was like that
was like the most least aggressive and seriativitating.
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Like, yeah, it rocked,
it rocked so softly. That was
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like the Jack Johnson of rocking right
there. But Yeah, you you definitely
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have to keep your energy right,
because everything that's going on in the world
426
00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:26.400
is draining. It's a lot,
and try to stay aligned with good people.
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00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:30.519
So, like, really I am
in a place where I don't have
428
00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:33.279
a lot of mental band I never
really have. Post stroke, had a
429
00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:36.920
lot of mental bandwidth, but now
it's so minimal that I can only give
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00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:41.400
my energy to people who actually kind
of have the same energy. Now,
431
00:30:41.440 --> 00:30:45.319
if you're struggling and you're like,
well, I don't really know what to
432
00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:48.119
do, I want to help you, I desperately want to help you,
433
00:30:48.599 --> 00:30:52.240
but you also kind of want to
have to help yourself. You know what
434
00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:56.880
I mean? Anybody who's like willing
to like move forward and try something different,
435
00:30:56.920 --> 00:31:00.359
to get out of the dirt right
and not be a caterpillar crawling around.
436
00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:03.480
I'm there, like I want to
help you, fly with us,
437
00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:07.640
let's do this. But it's those
people who are those people who are like,
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00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:11.039
no, I'm a caterpillar and this
dirt is amazing and I know you're
439
00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:12.839
flying high up there and doing those
things, but you need to be down
440
00:31:12.920 --> 00:31:15.400
here in the dirt with me.
It's those people I can't really mess with.
441
00:31:15.480 --> 00:31:18.960
I just I just can't. You
know, I don't have the mental
442
00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:23.319
bandwidth. I'm too busy making fun
of things like Balder's gate month is gonna
443
00:31:23.319 --> 00:31:29.200
come eat you. No, no, it's very true. And then one
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00:31:29.240 --> 00:31:32.400
of the things is like, especially
with like being on lockdown and, like
445
00:31:32.440 --> 00:31:34.559
we're saying, there's places other parts
in the world right now they're going through
446
00:31:34.680 --> 00:31:37.599
their second wave. Here in the
US, I swear we're still in wave
447
00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:42.519
one. So you know we're in
remedial. It's where it's like remedial covid
448
00:31:42.680 --> 00:31:45.039
right, um, but like for
the rest of the world, like in
449
00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:48.799
Spain, parts of Spain that I
know that are going back on lockdown.
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00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:52.960
You might be home or spending a
lot of time with nothing meant with people
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00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:59.480
who don't necessarily feed your recovery or
feed your health and well being. One
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00:31:59.519 --> 00:32:02.039
of the things I would do if
I needed to. I don't necessarily have
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to do with my family. Thank
of that, like sometimes with people I
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00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:09.039
work with or people, Um,
I like teach, you just have to
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00:32:09.400 --> 00:32:14.640
limit you have to create the boundary
right and and just kind of be straight
456
00:32:14.720 --> 00:32:17.039
up with people. I do have
like one of my friends who literally,
457
00:32:17.079 --> 00:32:21.400
she is a lot of person and
she has a lot of energy. She's
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00:32:21.400 --> 00:32:24.240
also a Gemini, so she's a
lot of voices, right, I love
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00:32:24.279 --> 00:32:28.359
her. She's a lot but,
like herd I've had a frank discussion and
460
00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:30.079
I'm like look, Dude, like
you are a lot of person, and
461
00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:35.119
so when I when I'm I have
to prepare to talk to you, I
462
00:32:35.160 --> 00:32:38.119
have to like mentally get myself ready
to text you back or to call you.
463
00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:43.400
So because I know one text is
not one text, right. So
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00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:46.880
if you can have that very frank, direct discussion with people, that can
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00:32:47.079 --> 00:32:51.319
make it very clear and everyone's aware. So once everyone's aware, it's like
466
00:32:51.599 --> 00:32:54.079
cool. But if you can't have
that discussion, like if it's with your
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00:32:54.119 --> 00:32:59.200
parents or something like that. Like
mentally, you've got to like build those
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00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:01.839
like those mental muscles, you know, be like, okay, I'm going
469
00:33:01.880 --> 00:33:06.599
to limit how much time, like
I'm gonna put on my phone ten minutes
470
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:08.440
and then be like, Oh,
I have to go answer an email or
471
00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:12.079
oh, I got a text from
work, I gotta go answer and like
472
00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:15.400
yeah, just just do that.
Look, when you put up boundaries,
473
00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:17.880
it's one of the most adult things
that you can do. You know.
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00:33:19.279 --> 00:33:23.240
And here here's the thing. People
who don't like those boundaries, those probably
475
00:33:23.279 --> 00:33:25.720
aren't the people who are going to
grow with you. Those are
the people
476
00:33:25.759 --> 00:33:28.920
who are caterpillars or who are like, well, why are you trying to
477
00:33:28.960 --> 00:33:30.400
fly high? Why not just hang
out in the dirt here with us?
478
00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:35.559
Now, caterpillars are kind of cool, I like they're like I like slugs
479
00:33:35.559 --> 00:33:37.519
too. I was like maybe there's
snails. No, I like snails.
480
00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:43.839
Okay, let's just call them angry
caterpillars. Angry angry caterpillars. Yeah,
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00:33:43.839 --> 00:33:49.200
those angry caterpillars, the ones who
don't want to see other caterpillars succeed,
482
00:33:49.400 --> 00:33:51.480
you know what I mean? Like
that, that that sucks. Now,
483
00:33:51.480 --> 00:33:52.880
if you're putting up a boundary.
It's not because you're being a jerk.
484
00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:57.200
You're just putting up something. Hey, you do a certain thing or you
485
00:33:57.200 --> 00:34:00.039
say a certain thing or your actions
make me feel a certain way and I
486
00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:04.319
can't have that for my own mental
well being. Right. If the other
487
00:34:04.440 --> 00:34:06.839
side is like, well, I
don't like your boundaries, it's like,
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00:34:06.839 --> 00:34:10.880
oh, so you like making me
feel okay or a comfortable like making me
489
00:34:10.920 --> 00:34:15.840
feel uncomfortable and sad and miserable?
Like you want to do that, you
490
00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:17.920
want to make me feel that way. No, you don't. Okay,
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00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:21.679
cool, so you're gonna have to
respect my boundaries. Right. If they
492
00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:23.920
don't respect your boundaries, you know
exactly where you stand and you might need
493
00:34:23.960 --> 00:34:28.800
to distance yourself even further. You
might need to mute it and boot it.
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00:34:29.239 --> 00:34:36.880
Yes, boom muted and Stiletto booted. Yes, I'm okay with that.
495
00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:42.440
Oh and speaking of nerdum and Stiletto
boots, Lauren's nerdum is even deeper
496
00:34:42.440 --> 00:34:51.440
because she's going to create a routine
based around nerd so I it's currently in
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00:34:51.480 --> 00:34:52.960
the works that, since we're now
down, I'll lockdown again, like.
498
00:34:53.079 --> 00:34:57.639
Well, I mean I don't necessarily
have more time, but I am going
499
00:34:57.679 --> 00:35:00.360
to make it happen. You will
never have more time exactly. Um,
500
00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:05.159
and so one of the things I'm
doing I have two projects. One is
501
00:35:05.199 --> 00:35:08.440
called train your class. Now also
I want to make a neural nerd get
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00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:13.159
together work out kind of deal where
we'll post some info on it. It's
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00:35:13.159 --> 00:35:16.360
going to be like a free zoom
join in and you guys can come and
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00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:21.679
do some work out with me from
home, depending on WHO's signed up.
505
00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:25.000
I will tailor the exercise depending on
deficits as well. So like, if
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00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:29.880
you are chair bound, we have
exercises for you. I have exercise for
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00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:31.800
you that are for chair bound if
you can. If you have limited movement,
508
00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:35.519
I can make lotifications. But it's
just kind of like a get together.
509
00:35:35.639 --> 00:35:38.119
Get some get our hearts racing and
stuff like that, and not just
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00:35:38.119 --> 00:35:43.360
because I'm looking at you. Get
your hearts facing how amazing is that?
511
00:35:43.400 --> 00:35:45.679
And any guy that's going to be
part of that on the zoom, her
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00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:49.719
eyes are up there, Fella.
No, just keep your pants on,
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00:35:49.760 --> 00:35:52.239
guys, because remember I had that
zoom troll that was so weird. Keep
514
00:35:52.280 --> 00:36:02.840
your sad penis inside your pants,
guys, Jesus. But the other projects
515
00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:07.000
I have, which are probably going
to be released on twitch guys and they're
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00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:12.400
gonna be through my dance studio.
One is called train your class and it
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00:36:12.639 --> 00:36:15.360
is a D and d based workout, like short workout videos. It's like
518
00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:20.199
five to ten minutes and it's going
to be like, what is your class?
519
00:36:20.239 --> 00:36:22.880
If you are like if you want
to be a rogue, then we're
520
00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:27.800
gonna work on like rolls in somersaults
and dexterity for the day and get your
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00:36:27.840 --> 00:36:30.599
heart rate right up that way.
If you're a bard, I'm totally leaning
522
00:36:30.639 --> 00:36:35.239
into a little bit of Five v
that I know and the snapchat. Wait,
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00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:37.440
now that's the TIKTOK. Man,
I feel like an old person,
524
00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:42.400
the snapchat and the tiktok the videos
where the bards are tworking those things on
525
00:36:42.440 --> 00:36:45.920
the internets. By the way,
this is brilliant. This is a brilliant
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00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:49.280
idea. I joke and I make
fun, but this is such a good
527
00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:52.559
idea I'm like, don't steal guys, I'm gonna and I'll do this on
528
00:36:52.719 --> 00:36:55.840
a green screen and I'm gonna slightly
dress up in theme. Yet wait,
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00:36:55.920 --> 00:36:59.760
wait, when you say dress up, you're gonna have clothes on. Right.
530
00:37:00.159 --> 00:37:02.280
Okay, good, good, good. Just wanted to make sure the
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00:37:02.320 --> 00:37:09.280
next project has less close I have. It's called dirty nerdy. Okay,
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00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:15.280
I love it. That is literally
my my brand, according to my studio
533
00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:19.320
owner, because I'm literally like she's
like you're like this really sentual hot dancer
534
00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:22.800
and then
you're a sucking Dork,
and I'm like yes, so I'm describes
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00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:28.199
you perfectly. So what I'm gonna
do is I'm going to take some classic
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00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:32.239
nerd songs that I love so like
I'm gonna Dress up as Sarah from the
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00:37:32.320 --> 00:37:36.800
labyrinth and dance, and I'm gonna
borrow my friend's husband, who dresses up
538
00:37:36.840 --> 00:37:40.719
as Jarreff, and I'm going to
basically like a lab dance or pole dance
539
00:37:40.800 --> 00:37:45.960
for Jerefic, Goblin King, or
I'm gonna dress a Bi Jennifer from the
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00:37:45.960 --> 00:37:50.880
witcher and also dance to toss a
coin to your witcher, to the old
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00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:54.199
witch. That's good. This is
such a good idea. I cannot wait
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00:37:54.239 --> 00:38:00.239
for the masses to see this.
It's brilliant. Lauren l Manzano, nerd
543
00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:06.719
Queen. Oh for all, for
all who questioned the legitimacy of Lauren's nerd
544
00:38:06.760 --> 00:38:13.039
Um, are you serious? Are
you serious. Somehow you out nerd me.
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00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:16.840
Now again, my cool nerd.
Right, you're like, Oh wow,
546
00:38:16.880 --> 00:38:20.480
that guys like super amazing. How
could he be a nerd? You
547
00:38:20.519 --> 00:38:29.800
sound like Amy Poehler from mean girls. Uh Hi, George, Your Regina,
548
00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:34.639
George's mom. I do fancy myself
Amy Poehler in all aspects of life.
549
00:38:35.360 --> 00:38:37.760
Okay, like, I do feel
like my ex husband should be will
550
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:42.079
arnette. You know what I mean. Okay, I'll give you that.
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00:38:43.599 --> 00:38:45.519
You know I am. Oh my
God, if I'm someone from parks and
552
00:38:45.559 --> 00:38:53.840
Rex, I'm done. Whyatt with
the cones of done? Oh Are you?
553
00:38:54.280 --> 00:38:58.519
How do you get more and more
amazing every single time I talk to
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00:38:58.519 --> 00:39:02.000
you? Lauren, I have missed
you terribly, like I have, like
555
00:39:02.039 --> 00:39:06.559
you're just like a huge part of
not just my like recovery. You're just
556
00:39:06.639 --> 00:39:08.679
a huge part of my life and
I love you, your family. I
557
00:39:08.719 --> 00:39:12.400
miss you all the time and I'm
so happy that I'm able to do this
558
00:39:12.519 --> 00:39:15.159
and that it sucks that. Are
you doing? Is that Slytherin Dancey?
559
00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:22.000
Look, I'm I'm I'm being a
Raven Claw Er. Is My Raven?
560
00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:32.840
Is that what Raven said? So
I'm so thrilled that the neuro nerds are
561
00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:36.119
back in effect. You know,
this was kind of like a like a
562
00:39:36.199 --> 00:39:40.039
reintroduction, reintroduction, just like a
reuniting episode, because we've been kind of
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00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:45.679
like apart for a while and it
makes me sad. I need to be
564
00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:49.199
I've been a Damsel in distress all
by myself, like I need my my
565
00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:52.639
superhero. He needs the queen to
come rescue him. Damn right, I
566
00:39:52.679 --> 00:39:58.840
do. So, Lauren, I
can't wait for your nerd series. I
567
00:39:58.880 --> 00:40:01.679
can't. I'm so excited about it. And you know who I think would
568
00:40:01.760 --> 00:40:05.559
jump on board? I know Mimi
has been wanting to do like a workout
569
00:40:05.599 --> 00:40:09.840
thing and I think that would be
amazing for Mimi to move her tiny little
570
00:40:09.880 --> 00:40:15.880
adorable but the nerds works somehow.
I don't even know how that works.
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00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:19.239
There's gonna be like some nerds works
in there, of course, guys,
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00:40:19.519 --> 00:40:22.159
so keep on lookout, guys.
WE'RE gonna post our recommendations on what y'all
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00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:27.719
should be watching. We're gonna be
asking for your recommendations and will be yes,
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00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:30.320
because we do, and then we'll
be posting um once we figure out
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00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:34.000
a day and time. It's going
to be a zoom, zoom call open
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00:40:34.039 --> 00:40:37.199
to anyone who wants to come joints
and we're just gonna come get our sweat
577
00:40:37.239 --> 00:40:39.480
on for like twenty minutes. I'M
gonna make Joe Joint as well, and
578
00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:43.559
then we'll have like a POW wow
talk afterwards as well. Yeah, you
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00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:46.199
got to connect with the neural nerves
and I'm gonna get my sweat on because
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00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:51.840
I'm a very sweaty peer. I'm
sweating right now. I sweat in the
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00:40:51.880 --> 00:40:54.440
shower. Thanks. We can do
you know what I mean. You can't
582
00:40:54.480 --> 00:40:59.360
help it. I don't sweat that, you know what? That is very
583
00:40:59.360 --> 00:41:05.800
true. I don't glisten, I
sweat. So I am so happy to
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00:41:06.119 --> 00:41:08.000
be talking to Lauren as always,
like I am, you know, like
585
00:41:08.079 --> 00:41:12.280
it just it makes my day.
It warms my cold dead heart and,
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00:41:12.440 --> 00:41:15.079
as always, the neuro nerds,
we are here to help. You can
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00:41:15.119 --> 00:41:19.360
follow Lauren at Lauren El Manzano on
instagram. You could follow me at Jose
588
00:41:19.599 --> 00:41:22.400
rocks, everywhere. You could follow
us, the neural nerds, at agree
589
00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:29.400
where, where, and on this
second time around, because the first time
590
00:41:29.559 --> 00:41:38.239
didn't work because of audio issues.
There's no more this neuro nerd queen and
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00:41:38.320 --> 00:41:45.480
this neuro nerd nerd or out.
Maybe you're like a neuro nerd Jedi Knight,
592
00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:50.360
or like this Neuro Nerd Knight.
Oh Neuro Nerd Knight, I love
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00:41:50.400 --> 00:41:53.599
that. I love that, but
I'm kind of more the neuro nerd jester
594
00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:08.760
with the neuro nerds