Cool Girl Glo sits down with her family to chat about Chuck Norris' five-epsiode syndicated cartoon: Chuck Norris Karate Commandos

mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115:

Hello and welcome to Cool Girls.

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Don't look at Explosions.

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Today I have two very

special guests with me.

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038:

I am Ben.

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115:

I am Henry.

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Yes.

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Today I am joined by our very cool

family for an episode of, what are

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We Calling This Henry Curly Fun Hour.

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Curly Fun Hour or what I like to

call Cool Family Watches cartoons.

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So you might notice that Beth

and Laura are not here this week.

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They are both.

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Awesome academic women doing

their midterms and doctoral

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thesis projects and whatnot.

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So the Curly family decided we were

going to watch a very special show today,

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Yeah.

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So, Henry.

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First off, how old are you?

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A Henry.

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You just had a birthday.

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I'm seven years old and

very new 7-year-old.

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That's right.

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And what grade are you in?

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Second.

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That's right.

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Oh, what did we watch?

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Henry?

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Today we watched Chuck Norris, her,

um, Chuck Norris Karate Commandos.

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That's right.

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We watched one of five syndicated

cartoons starring Chuck Norris.

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This is the first episode.

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Chuck Norris, karate

Commando's Deadly Dolphins.

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038: Yes.

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So 10 years before he became known

to us as Walker Texas Ranger, he was

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the leader of the Karate Commandos.

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115:

Now this leads me to ask Babe,

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maybe you know more of this.

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Um, was Chuck Norris, uh, like

a name before Walker, or was

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this literally his first thing?

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038:

Oh, he absolutely was.

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Walker was actually kind of a

second phase for Chuck Norris.

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115:

Oh, okay.

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038: Yeah.

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So he was a martial arts

movie star for the eighties.

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Um, he was in there, uh, so he wasn't at

the , arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester

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Stallone level, but he was absolutely in

there at the Jean Claude Van Dam, second

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tier of, eighties action movie stars.

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115: Okay.

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, the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038: I

was looking this up, this movie, if

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you know Chuck Norris's filmography.

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The cartoon was after he had

already made the first two

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mission missing in action films.

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Uh, he was making Delta Force this year.

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He was, in the seventies, also doing

martial arts movies and stuff most, but he

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started taking off as a leading man in the

eighties doing, you know, B tier stuff.

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But, uh.

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You know, the guy leading,

leading his own, Hey, this

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is the second rung of movies.

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And then after that had kind of

faded out, that was when he was like,

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okay, I guess I'll go back to tv.

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115: Okay

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, the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038:

how familiar are you with these,

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uh, eighties branded, uh, cartoons?

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Like, do you have any that stick

in your memory as a nineties kid?

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115:

Well, I mean, this definitely gave

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me Captain Planet vibes, especially

with his crew of people around him.

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And then I know, like, I wanna say

like, you know, the Thundercats and

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you know, the Johnny, what is it?

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Uh.

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Johnny Adventure.

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What was it,

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038: Quest.

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115:

Johnny Quest?

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Sorry.

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Yeah.

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Off brand is Johnny Adventure.

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Right.

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Um, it felt like that kind of a cartoon.

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038:

So that it was, the other fun

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thing is this is the eighties.

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This, this show was cheap.

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115:

Oh, absolutely.

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038:

Uh, I've got a comment about that

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a little bit later, but, like Mr.

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T had a cartoon.

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The Harlem Globe Trotters had a cartoon.

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, So this was very much a anybody at a

certain level of name recognition who's

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willing to spend a weekend filming

vignettes in a gym, wearing your karate.

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Gee, you can have a cartoon.

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115:

That's awesome.

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Hey, let's get, let's get

Henry on here a little bit.

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038: Yeah.

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115:

So, Henry, um.

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I'm gonna say who the, who,

Chuck Norris and his squad are.

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And then you're gonna name the bad guys.

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Okay, so wait for a second.

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So he, Chuck Norris has a squad.

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Okay.

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He has, um, a, uh, female tech guru

named Pepper, a teenage protege

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named Reed, a male samurai, I

don't know, sidekick named chemo a.

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Wonder kin, um, too much

and Tave the sumo wrestler,

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but I think the coolest

ones are the bad guys.

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Do you remember the names of the bad guys?

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Henry?

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Um, they are super ninja,

the Glo and Angel Fish.

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038:

That's right.

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115:

That's right.

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And do we start off the episode

with a cartoon or how does

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the episode actually start?

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It's.

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It starts off, um, remember there's

a karate man at the beginning.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Do you know his name?

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No, that's Chuck Norris.

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Chuck Norris.

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Yep.

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And he's wearing his karate, gee.

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And he tells us the moral of the story

that we're going to watch and how

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it made him remember the time that.

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He helped Dr.

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Sanford against the, uh, evil Dr.

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Claw.

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Well, not Dr.

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Claw, Dr.

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Claws from, uh, inspector Gadget.

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It is Claw but isn't Dr.

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Claw from, uh, inspector Gadget?

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038:

Inspector

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115:

The claw?

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Yeah, the claw.

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The claw.

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Super Ninja and Angel Fish.

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Angel Fish.

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That's right.

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We start off in the dojo and then we

go off and we start on a dock with Dr.

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Sanford.

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And Chuck Norris is hanging

out with his squad, right?

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Henry?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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On a boat.

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Yeah.

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And a little bit in the water.

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And what kind of animals

are they hanging out with?

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Fish and dolphins.

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They're hanging out with dolphins and I

think they attempt for like two seconds

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to make this educational by showing us a

little bit Yeah, like talking about how

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dolphins breathe or something like that.

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But who comes to steal Dr.

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Sanford?

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Um, some, the, um, the, the bad

guys send some ninjas to, to.

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Kidnapped the doctor.

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That's right, Henry.

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The commandos come and try to steal Dr.

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Sanford and we get this really cool

scene where Chuck Norris and the Karate

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Commandos, uh, take a speedboat and

they take it up onto the beach and

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start doing like donuts in the sand

with it as they're fighting off karate

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commandos, which is pretty cool.

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038:

And this scene culminates with,

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uh, Chuck Norris on a being raised

into the sky fighting two ninjas.

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Uh, and then he uses one of their, uh.

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Nunchuck hybrid things.

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It's a, it's nunchucks, but

with a ninja star stuck on an

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end, which, uh, is interesting.

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And then he uses that to slide down

the cable and take out the other ninja

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that is, uh, crane operator certified.

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Uh.

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115:

Right.

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Um, and then we learn about, uh,

angel Fish, who is the lady villain.

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Um, and she is, uh, she has kidnapped Dr.

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Sanford and put him in a brain scanner

to find out where the underwater,

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what, what did they call it?

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The C lab is, what kind of experiments

do you think they do at C Lab, Henry?

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Sea, they, they do sea experiments.

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That's right.

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038: C

experiment you'd like to do, Henry?

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115:

Um, um, go in the depths of the, of

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the bottom of the sea and, and try

and see if there's any dinosaurs in

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there because there was a Prius story,

reptiles that were in the water.

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038: That's

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115:

right.

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Will, will you name a few of the

prehistoric creatures that swam?

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Um, um,

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I don't remember any of them.

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What about Moza?

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Mosasaurus, that's a good one.

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And how about icky Asosa?

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I the Asosa?

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That's right.

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And those are both of

the ones that I know.

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Okay.

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038:

And then there's like

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and mega.

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And of

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115: Um,

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038: Raddon.

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115:

oh yeah.

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A magical Leo Raddon.

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Um, so of course to catch, um, the

bad guys, they, chuck and his crew

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swim, and I think it's actually

just Chuck and Tve at this point.

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They swim to a tanker.

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And of course Chuck Norris is shirtless

but wearing his leather boots to swim.

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Yep.

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And they climb up the tanker with

some magnet mittens and booties

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that they happen to have with

them, and they get onto the tanker

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and Chuck is taking out bad guys.

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But Tve, do you remember where Tve goes?

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The Sumo wrestler.

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Well, he goes in the ship,

but he goes into the kitchen.

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Kitchen, yep.

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And, and he realizes there

is some yummy food in there.

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Yep.

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So he comes out with a plate of fried

chicken and sees Chuck the boss.

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Yep.

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038: Yep.

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115:

There's lots of karate moves.

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Can you describe some of the karate moves?

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Henry?

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Um, I saw a kick.

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And, and one of them was, was him

use, the clothes list person just.

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Using two plates to smash,

uh, the, the cooker's head.

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Yeah.

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That was Tave, the sumo wrestler.

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Yeah.

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He took two plates, right?

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Yeah.

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He took two plates and then smashed them.

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That was a pretty good move.

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Yeah.

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038:

they rescued Dr.

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Sanford, but because they were able to

use a CAT scan to read his mind, they

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already are on their way to C Lab.

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115: Yes.

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And they, at Seed Lab, they turn

one of the devices into a weapon.

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Do you remember what

they turn into a weapon?

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Henry?

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Um, some something to, to create

waves that, that can destroy cities.

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Yeah, they call it the Wave Reactor.

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038: Mm-hmm.

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115:

do you remember who shows up?

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Um, super Ninja.

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Yeah, super Ninja shows up

and then we have Claw in, I

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don't know, on the computer?

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Yeah, like

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038: On

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115:

a fake on tv.

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A fake, like a fake UN

or something like that.

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Like, like Angel Fish calls

him on the TV or something.

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And what does he demand from them?

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To destroy the city with their new weapon.

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Right.

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But in order to not destroy the land,

they ha they have to destroy it.

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They have to give them $1 billion.

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If I had $1 million, I'd buy you.

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That's, that's a song that I knew.

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That's a song that I knew.

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Don't sue us bare naked ladies.

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038: so now

they need to get their Karate Commandos

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in C Lab, which is now impenetrable.

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115: Yep.

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But how do they get in?

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Do you remember?

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They, they used a pipe.

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Well, but they, what do

they use to help swim there?

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They, they used dolphins.

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That's right.

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Because we learned about dolphins.

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038:

Chuck Norris Karate Commando's, deadly

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Dolphins, and you thought the Dolphins

were on the bad guy team, you were wrong.

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They're on the Good Guy team.

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115: Yep.

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Good guy.

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Dolphins, right?

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Yeah, they, yeah.

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The peop the people on

the bad guy team just

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038: I.

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115:

thought they were just fishes swimming

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around and then, and then pow, they,

they just knocked, they just helped.

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They just helped.

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Um, Chuck.

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Yep.

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038: right.

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115:

and we find out that the big

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wave is now heading to Japan.

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038:

They're gonna destroy Tokyo.

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115:

But who comes and saves the day,

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Chuck and the, and the dolphins.

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Yep.

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And they help save the day.

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Chuck, uh, gets some sort of power

wire and shorts out the system and.

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Uh, everybody celebrates and then

I knew that they saved the day.

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038:

There was also one bit here where the

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rest of Chuck team, Chuck's team, so

Chuck is on his own with uh, TABE and

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Pepper Reed Chemo and too much get

captured and, in a bri prison cell.

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And they do the, the old trope of annoy

the guard and then disappear out of,

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uh, the view of the little window.

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And then, oh no, we're

secretly up on the ceiling.

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But the animation was so cheap that when

chemo appeared behind, uh, in the window

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of the door, he had his sword on his back.

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And so it was, it was like uh, it was

really cheap in animation or vulture

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was just like, yeah, we're gonna arrest

you and keep you in this prison cell

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and probably kill you later, but gonna

take your sword like we're not animals.

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115:

I didn't even notice that.

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Did you notice that Henry?

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Um, I noticed the bit that they

were on the roof though, but not the

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038: Yeah.

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115:

sword bit.

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Mm-hmm.

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I think I noticed it, but

I don't know for sure.

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Okay.

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And at the very end, after they celebrate,

what funny thing happens to angel fish?

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That, um, that the dolphins just

flinger up into the air at each other

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and they go, th long, th long, long.

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038:

Yeah, they treat her like a

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beach ball at a sea world.

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115: Yeah.

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And um, what did you

think about this episode?

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I think it was very great.

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We thought about this guys and we

were thinking, okay, Ben and I could

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make fun of this episode, but this

kind of stuff wasn't made for us.

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Right.

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Yeah, no, it was made for seven

year olds like Henry, right?

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Yeah.

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It was made for me.

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So Henry, there's four more episodes.

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Do you wanna watch more episodes?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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And why?

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Why was it great?

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I think it, it was great because,

well, there was action and stuff.

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I loved the action.

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Mm-hmm.

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And what do you think of Chuck Norris?

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I think it's pretty good.

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Okay.

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Is his karate skills pretty good?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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And I don't know, should we have

a, um, a, a curly, a curly crew

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rating system, like five out of

five stars, but something different?

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Yeah.

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Like what?

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How about, how about golden rings?

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Like Sonic?

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Yeah, like, like sonic's, golden rings.

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Like these,

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038:

give this Henry?

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115:

1, 2, 3.

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He golden rings out of three.

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Three outta three golden rings.

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You heard it right here, folks.

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038: right.

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115:

Alright.

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Do you wanna say goodbye to everybody?

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How many rings do, do,

do you give it, dad?

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You know what?

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I'm not gonna give it any rings 'cause I

think only Henry's opinion counts here.

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038: I am

also not going to give it any rings.

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mommy-and-henry_1_10-08-2025_182115: Okay.

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All right.

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This has been cool.

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Family watches, cartoons.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And we're gonna see you next time.

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Bye.

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the-dadatron_1_10-08-2025_182038: Bye.