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Guys, welcome or welcome back to
the podcast where your friends Maddie and Lauren

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and we're back for another episode.
We are doing a fun game today.

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This is one I've seen on other
podcasts. How did you come up with

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this idea? Actually, Lauren,
because this was your call for today.

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Okay, there are two reasons I
wanted to do this as our topic this

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week. The first is I'm taking
a philosophy class. I don't know if

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I talked about it last week on
the podcast. I was like thinking about

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dropping it, but I think I'm
gonna stay in it anyway. In our

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discussion section last week, our only
like activity was to answer would you rather

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question? And it was would you
rather be able to teleport or fly?

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M So that was the first thing
that inspired me. Well, I said

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teleport. And then it was interesting
because they said, what if you were

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making the decision for the whole world, like you were deciding what everyone else

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was going to have the power to
do too? And then I think we

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all landed on flying because teleporting would
be a bit chaotic, and that seems

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pretty straightforward. Yeah, there were
some rules too. It was like then

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you couldn't have jail because people would
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what it is reporting teleporting. Yeah, what is it like traveling through time?

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No, it's like when you think
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and then you vanish from where you
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Oh I see, m M.
I could seem too bad. I just

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don't really care about either of those
things. I think teleportation would make your

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life a lot easier. Yeah,
that would be nice. I could teleport

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them or not have to fly exact. You could travel for free, you

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could skip traffic. There are a
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I think. Right, Oh,
well that's interesting. So your philosophy class

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inspired this episode? Yes, and
then I also saw that Emma Chamberlain did

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a philosophical would you rather? So
I haven't actually listened to that episode,

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but I think it was just like
deeper would you rather questions? And I

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honestly found my questions for today on
the internet, and some of them are

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deep. So I'm interested to see
what you have to say. Yeah,

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she has really great episodes, like
episode titles slash ideas. I wonder if

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she comes up with all of them
herself. I feel like at this point

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she has to have a team.
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ideas for a podcast if you're talking, especially by yourself, every single week.

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She doesn't have guess, so you're
always having to come up with some

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good concept that's interesting to your audience. She probably does have help, but

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great, great concepts whoever is coming
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when you have a solo podcast,
I think you have to think of topics

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that you could talk about alone for
like thirty to forty minutes instead of just

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for like half of that Because I
don't know, I feel like it's easier

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for us because we just bounce ideas
off of each other and then you think

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of other things, right for sure. Yeah. Well, let's get into

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our life updates so that we don't
drag this on too long. What have

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you been up to the last week
or so? Lauren? Last week or

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so, mostly just school. Things
are starting to get busy. I forgot

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how much work school was. Today. I have class from well, I'm

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going for lunch with one of my
friends, like just catching up haven't seen

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them yet, And after that I
have three classes and then I have to

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stay at school for two meetings like
club meetings, club info sessions and that

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goes until nine pm, so it's
gonna be a long day, I think.

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But other than that, just like
school work, I forgot how much

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homework there is, and especially at
the beginning of the year when it's like

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busy work, right, Yeah,
I remember always thinking that there was so

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much to do, Like you can
never have a free moment where you don't

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have anything to do because it's just
piles on. Yep, there's always something

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you should be doing, right,
yeah, exactly. Yeah, So mainly

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that last weekend was fun. There
was a football game, I think on

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the podcast last week I said I
would be going to the game, and

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we did go, though I found
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I don't know if that's the same
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excitement around football season is around tailgates, which are just like darties, basically

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like day parties. Everyone's running their
like USC merch, which is cute.

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And then after that, some people
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I went. We stayed until halftime. Then we realized we're not actually

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that invested in football and it wasn't
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that everyone thought USC would win and
they did. Mm. I see,

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well, I've never been to a
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would be cool mostly like you're saying, for like the team spirit. You

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could say everyone's excited, But I
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so I wouldn't be so invested in
the action. Yeah, I can't say

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I was that invested in the action, though. I think by the end

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of football season I should know the
rules. Yeah, they are very confusing.

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I feel like they're just different to
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I don't know what the objective is
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I don't know. I feel like
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get the tackle each other other.
I don't know the details of that.

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And then there's like the big you
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to put it through that or no, I think if you if you put

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it through that, it's another way
of getting a point. I don't know.

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I've honestly no clue, like,
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works. You can come to a
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also found out that there's a parent's
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the tailgates and go to the game
so mom and dad might come. I

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heard, well, mom's trying to
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Oh oh, I'm not sure if
that's how that works, but okay,

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yeah, well that's what she said. Yeah, I don't know, but

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it sounds pretty fun. Sounds like
a very college girl thing to do.

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And I feel like you're in your
college girl era, so that all checks

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out. So true. Well,
my life has been pretty great. I

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went to this resort this past weekend
called Sense, and we actually went to

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the one in Hawaii, which is
how we got the idea to go to

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the one in California. It's in
Palm Springs. It was great, really

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really nice because Palm Springs is it's
in California. It's like for us not

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I don't know how to explain what
it's like. It's another city in California,

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kind of similar to where we live, but it's in the desert.

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It's extremely extremely hot, so that
was one downside. But the resort itself

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was amazing and it really felt like
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That is nice because yeah, it's
not too far. I feel like

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most people listening probably know what Coachella
is. That is that is in Palm

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Springs, right, I don't know. It's a very like mid century modern

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town. Not a lot of big
hotels. They're all like boutique hotels set

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like with fifties architecture and stuff.
So it's a very like the rest of

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the hotels are all kind of similar. But then this place was very unique,

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and it was more so like something
you would expect in Hawaii or the

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Caribbean or something more like they're trying
to be like a resort. Was it

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like the one we went to in
Hawaii that was all about wellness and like

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relaxation exactly. Yeah. So you
get a spa treatment every day, and

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then there's like fitness classes and it's
just very small. There's only twenty two

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rooms. So it was extremely This
staff was extremely attentive, they knew your

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name, like it was just like
a very unique experience. So I really

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enjoyed that and it was a great
weekend. And that's really my only update.

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Otherwise I've kind of just been at
home working, you know, doing

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the normal things. I'm happy to
be back in La and into my routine

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this week, and then I don't
know if we're traveling anytime soon. I

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think that we wanted to go back
to Canada for Thanksgiving, but that parents

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weekend that you're talking about actually is
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so not truly will happen with that. Yeah. I told Momos like,

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you guys really don't have to come, like a lot of my friends parents

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aren't even going, And she was
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but I don't even have Canadian Thanksgiving
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think I would be able to go
back. Well, she'd really like to

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go to the football game, so
that's probably why priorities. All right,

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let's get into these would you rather
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really interesting. M Okay, I
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I feel like you've probably heard this
before. Are you ready? Yes?

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Okay. The first one is would
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or the cause of your death if
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say cause I think the date would
just be like it would ruin your life

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to note the date of your death. You'd just be counting down. I

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feel like the cause wouldn't be all
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I just wouldn't want to the date. Okay, so you would choose maybe

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neither ignorance. Well, I had
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cause because I don't want to know
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well, I don't know, could
either ruin your life or it could make

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you live your life a certain way. But I'm gonna stick with Cause.

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M I don't know, I get
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would still want to know the date
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could make my last few moments count, you know, but not if it

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was like a year from now and
it was just like impending doom. You

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know. Yeah, that's a tricky
one. I'm sticking with Cause, but

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I understand both perspectives. You know, you could really take advantage of your

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life if you knew when you were
going to die, could spend all your

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money if you wanted by saved for
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your death. Good point. Okay, what's yours? So my first one

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we've also kind of discussed, and
it is basically, would you rather have

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a job that pays extremely well but
you don't really feel happy or fulfilled in

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or like it takes up most of
your personal time. Or would you have

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a job that is fulfilling and makes
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well, like maybe you're struggling for
money. Like it has to be extreme

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enough, right, like a job
where you make one hundred million or I

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don't know whatever the average in the
US is. Let's say, oh,

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this is hard, because I feel
like I would need more info, like

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how much do I hate the job
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And how badly am I struggling?
Is it like all I think about,

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Like it's very limiting. I'm you
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details of this. I think it
has to be extreme. So think of

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the extreme of both of those situations. Okay, what would you say,

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Well, I would want to make
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choosing happiness and fulfillment is a choice
that you can make even if your job

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sucks, you know, even if
it's taking your personal time. It's kind

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of like something you could work on. I guess, yeah, yeah,

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that would be my choice. I
feel like either way, you might not

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be that happy. Like if the
other side of this is you are struggling

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to make ends meet, and you're
struggling to provide for your family. You

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probably spent a lot of time thinking
about money and thinking about like that is

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kind of unfulfilling as well. So
I don't know if in either scenario you

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would be that happy. So I
guess I would agree with you. Then

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I'd rather be making a lot of
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happiness didn't come from or my unhappiness, or I didn't come from like worrying

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about myself and my family. Right, Yeah, I agree, because you'd

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be worried for other people other than
yourself rather than in the first example,

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it's kind of like a selfish perspective
because you don't feel personally fulfilled. M

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the question that inspired this whole episode
because it is also about superpowers, and

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it is would you rather be able
to read someone's mind or control their mind?

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I would say read someone's mind,
just because I don't really care about

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controlling people's minds, Like, what
does that have to do with anything related

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to me? I disagree. I
think I don't want to read people's mind,

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like people don't tell you everything that
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I would rather protect my peace by
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take what they say at face value. But I think controlling someone's mind,

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though it could be, you know, used for bad purposes, I think

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if you used it in an ethical
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You could convince someone to pay you
a million dollars medicine, and you

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can go on all the vacations you
want. That's true, that's true.

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I don't know if i'd want that
power, though, I guess mmm,

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okay. Or you could use it
for good. You could convince them to

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donate money to charity or to you
know, just like that the world.

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You are the one that's making those
decisions, so people are only acting in

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the way that you want them to
act or exactly. I think that's too

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much power for one person. M
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keep it on the DL, like
it would be nice if you could make

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them think it was their idea,
like you were just very persuasive. All

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that if it was more like they didn't

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know that you were doing it.
I just think that, oh, control,

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okaying and knowing that's just weird to
me. It would definitely make the

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dynamic a little weird. I think
it would me work if they didn't know

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you were doing it, right,
I agree with that. My next one,

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I think this is especially great for
Lauren Okay, oh no, and

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you're friend scared. Would you rather
be street smart or book smart? Okay?

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You know a lot about the world, a lot about how things work,

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a lot about like you know how
to fix things, how to do

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things. You know, I'm trying
to think of an example, like you're

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just an aware of person, but
also you know how to do things for

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yourself like cook and you know,
fix, change, attire, that sort

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of thing. Or would you rather
be extremely intelligent in school? Okay?

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Maddie says that this one is especially
for me because I have been told many

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times in my life that I'm book
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I've come to realize that's definitely true. I think, well, I don't

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know, I think they're perks to
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better to be very street smart,
especially if that included being like socially intelligent.

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I was going to include that,
but then I think it's too easy,

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agree that would get you so much
further in your life if you're socially intelligent

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rather than book smart. Yeah,
because I think, even in like a

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professional sense, to be very successful, you don't necessarily have to be the

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smartest person in the room. Right. In fact, I think a lot

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of the times people who are very
successful aren't the smartest person in the room,

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but they're good at talking to other
people, working with other people,

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and they employ people who are very
smart. Yeah, it's so true.

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You definitely don't need to know all
the answers or be the smartest person.

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you're able to have conversations, and in

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intelligence about information, I mean because
then you're able to participate in conversations because

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you are aware of things that are
happening in the world, or like you're

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able to have a concise opinion about
things, which I think is also important.

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So what's your choice? But to
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okay, probably street smart, because
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able to function better on a day
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it could be better professionally if it
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main point of street smarts is that
you are able to do things on your

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own. You're able to have conversations
with people, you know a lot about

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your world. So maybe you don't
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to be street smart you do have
to be intelligent. Yeah, but when

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I say street smart, I mean
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map, you know how to change
a tire, you know how to cook.

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But like, maybe you're not the
smartest person in the room. You

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don't come across as intelligent. That's
what I mean. And that's hard.

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M that's actually so hard. I
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I would choose book smart because I
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Yeah, I agree, they don't
all apply to you. Like I

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don't need to know how to use
a map personally, because that's not something

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that I would spend my time learning. I think it would serve me better

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to be book smart and then learn
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in the world, maybe not a
few all the things I need to live

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right. Yeah, it's just I
looked up the definition the experience and knowledge

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necessary to deal with potential difficulties of
life in an urban environment. M to

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me, it's like knowing how public
transportation works, knowing like your way around

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the city, like you understand the
way things work. But I feel like

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that could be easily learned just by
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So Book Sparted is agreed. Okay. My next one is, would

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you rather be able to change the
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Future? Why? Because I don't
care about the past within the past

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is in the past. I have
no major regrets. I think that everything

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that you've done up to this point
has had an impact on your life in

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some way, and it brings you
to where you are. And I'm way

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more interested in the future and being
able to control the future or to make

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things happen, I think is way
more interesting to me than talking or fixating

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on the past. I see pros
to both. I would probably not want

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to change the past because is it
called the butterfly effect? You change one

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thing and then it changes everything else
Exactly. There's so many movies about that,

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about how it's impossible to live today
if you change the past. Basically,

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yeah, I would be scared to
mess things up for people. I

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feel like that's a big, a
lot of power to put one in one

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person, because maybe there are a
lot of people who are content with where

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they are today and it's really not
I think, so up to me to

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go about changing everyone's lives. I
think changing the future would be a good

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power to have because, especially with
the way things are headed, you could

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like stop climate change from progressing exactly, you could stop whatever you wanted that

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was bad. Like, I think
controlling the future is so much more interesting

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then changing the past. What's past
has already happened and we're fine, like

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we're okay now, but what's going
to happen in the future, like the

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unknown is so much more powerful in
my opinion. But then again, you

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kind of are creating the future right
now, that's true, But you can't

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control everyone's action. So if you
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the future, I think that that's
way more interesting. But on a personal

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level, I'd rather change the future
on a personal level. Would that be

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your answer as well? Like in
your life, change the future? Right?

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Would you if in your life you
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future but doesn't affect anyone else.
You can't control climate change, but you

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can control like where you went to
school, where you went to university,

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like decisions that you've made. What
would you choose? I would change the

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future because then I wouldn't have to
worry so much about how things will end

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up, because I could just make
them happen for myself. Though that might

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be that might actually turn out to
be a very good thing. That feels

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like it's a risk, but I
think that it would be ultimately better than

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changing the past more powerful. I
just feel like there isn't much in my

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past that I care to change.
On a personal level, I agree with

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you that everything in my past has
brought me to where I am today,

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and I don't regret any of it. I don't care enough about anything in

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my own past. Yeah, I
agree, totally. Okay, my next

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one. I think this is also
interesting for you because, yeah, you'll

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see would you rather live a life
full of meaningful relationships with people or memorable

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experiences mostly which are like by yourself
or with like one or two people that

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don't really have much meaning to you, Like, what's more important to you?

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Basically is the question relationships or experiences. I think I would say experiences

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if in that scenario, I didn't
care that the people around me weren't adding

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anything to the experience, Like if
I was genuinely just really content with the

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moment and glad to be experiencing it, then I don't think I would feel

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like I was missing out by not
having people to share that with. I

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guess it's so hard. I actually
don't know how to answer this question,

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because say you have all these amazing
experiences, but then you come home when

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you're alone, you have no friends
and no family, Like, are the

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experiences worth it? Or would you
rather live a life? Or you don't

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really do anything, like you don't
travel, you don't see things that are

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amazing, but you have these amazing
and meaningful relationships. I think I would

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need to compare my happiness in both
well and hypothetical question, So you just

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have to choose, like would I
be happy living the same day every day

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but doing it with great people?
Yes? Mm for a while, yeah,

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and then eventually I think I would
be like what am I doing?

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I need to try new things and
like give my own life meaning, I

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guess. But so you're saying that
you draw meaning from experiences rather than relationships.

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If that's your answer, I think
I draw meaning from both. Well,

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in this hypothetical, you need to
choose one. It's very hard.

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I don't think that anyone could really
choose one or the other. But yeah,

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it's a tricky one. I thought
you were going to see relationships because

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you don't really care about experiences like
travel. Like traveling is the only example

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I can think of. Really for
me, I think that is true that

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I get more enjoyment fulfillment from like
the people in my life then I do

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from what we're doing together. But
in this scenario, I feel like they

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are framing this question in a way
that implies you get a lot of enjoyment

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out of the experiences. So if
I was this person who felt like drawn

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to both, then I think I
would choose experiences. But for me personally,

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I would choose friends. All right, fine, that's fair. Are

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you going to choose one? Oh? I would probably have to choose relationships

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because I think in the grand scheme
of your life, that's what matters more.

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Although you know I love experiences,
and I love traveling. I just

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don't think that it would be meaningful
to me if I did them alone,

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did or had them alone, or
did trips alone, took trips alone?

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Interesting? Yeah? Fair? Okay. My next one is would you either

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be four years old your entire life
or be ninety years old your entire life?

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Probably four, because when you're ninety, you know you can't do much.

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You feel like your life has passed
you by. I don't know.

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I'd rather be young than old,
I think, But when you're four you

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can't do anything for yourself, I
think. True, when you're ninety really

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good health yea nine year old and
great health who is very wise? True?

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Yeah, it would depend on their
emotional, mental, and physical fitness.

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Like I don't know any four year
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like they're not really living either,
you know. Yeah, true, I

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don't know. I guess ninety then, but at least when you're four you

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can do everything, you can experience
everything, and you're experiencing everything for the

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first time. Though I'm not sure
if you are four for your entire life,

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if it would still be as exciting
as when you're four and you're really

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experiencing things for the first time,
right, Uh, maybe ninety then I

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don't know, Lauren, this is
too hard for me. I'm gonna say

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ninety. I think I would choose
ninety two. Would you rather have a

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photographic memory, so basically you can
remember anything that you want? Also for

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you, because if you didn't know, Laura, Laurn has some memory issues

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I diagnosed, or you could say
self diagnosed. So would you rather have

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a photographic memory, be able to
remember any moment, any conversation, whatever,

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or would you be able Would you
rather be able to forget whatever you

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wanted? Bad things, embarrassing things, Oh remember everything? There's nothing I

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care to forget. Well, maybe
I've forgotten all of it, but like

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there's nothing that keeps me up in
night. All right, Well that's a

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good day, it's sir. That's
a nice way to live with. I

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think I would say remember too,
because I think when you're older you want

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to remember memories from your childhood and
whatever. But I can see why people

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would want to forget things that are
embarrassing that they're like, oh, you

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know, when you like do something
that you wish you didn't, You're like,

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I wish I could just like erase
that and doesn't like haunt me.

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But I think remembering is more important. Yeah, I would say remembering because

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I don't feel like there's anything haunting
me. And I also don't feel like

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I have really had very many traumatic
things happen to me that I that like

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would be difficult for me to remember. You know, Yeah, that's true.

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I think that if you had a
big trauma that like haunts you,

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you might you might vote for or
forgetting, But luckily we don't. Well,

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I don't personally have something that like
has affected my life. The memory

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of it hasn't affected my life.
So I'm gonna go with you with remembering

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on this one. Agreed. Okay. My last one is would you rather

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have a pause button in your life
or a rewind button? Hmm? Maybe

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rewind. I would say rewind because
I don't think in the moment you appreciate

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or you would think that you want
to pause, like for example, when

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I was in high school, I'm
like, oh, I just want to

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get through this. Like I wouldn't
have wanted to pause high school when I

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was in it, But now I
would love to like rewind to certain periods

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of my life that I didn't appreciate
it at the time. M. Yeah,

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I agree it for sure. I
also think I would need to know

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a bit more about the logistics of
how the pause button works, Like,

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am I actually freezing time? But
does the moment just feel really long?

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Like can no one move? Because
then I don't think there's really any reason

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to freeze it unless you're like overwhelmed
in your I need a moment, but

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no, probably like you just get
to live in this era of life for

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as long as you want. You
could be living at a USC hotel for

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however long you'd desire. Mmm.
No, I think I'm with you on

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this one. Every moment is better
when it's past. I agree in the

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present you don't really appreciate moments the
same. So true, you kind of

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just wish that things would speed up, usually at least I think until you're

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older. Especially that well, but
a fun game. I hope you guys

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enjoyed this episode. I think that
this was a fun activity. Maybe we

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can do more games on the podcast
like this. M. I hope everyone

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played along with us. It's kind
of fun. The thing that people are

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at home study what they would do
for themselves. Yeah. Please, there's

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like nowhere to comment. I wish
there was, but I'd love to hear

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people's responses. Maybe send us a
DM on at Call your Friends podcast and

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let us know what your choice is
for the cult? What is this called?

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Would you at there? Would you
rather? Yeah, let us know

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what your choices for our would you
rather? Questions? Would be all right?

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Well, thank you guys so much
for listening. We will talk to

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you next Friday. Bye,