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I found myself exploring the meditative world, by going to a Meet-up. With chairs outnumbering attendees. the scene was set for a session that would be anything but typical; Portuguese in this case. I counted chairs, and waited for the meditation to begin. I was amazed by the tranquility of the setting. Even the dog attending took to meditation, curling up for a cozy nap. Awesome experience that wasn't just about silence or the meditation practice itself. Rather about the unexpected joys and communal quirks. Making it memorable, and so worthwhile you want to do it again.
Diving deeper, we expand into cultural insights. Like the contrast between European land ownership norms. Also, with Native American communal land practices. Being blown away by the culture differences. We spice things up with some tea aboutReese Witherspoon's business savvy. And our personal movie favorites of course. Mixing meditation, and blending in pop culture with a cherry on top. This blend of meditation misadventures and cultural mind fucks offers a unique twist. On finding peace in modern bullshit... I mean media. Showcasing comedy woven through our attempts to connect, reflect and relax. Namastay, shalom, and may peace be with you.
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Transcripts
00:00.01
lostinthegroove
I was kind of like I was telling her, she's from a month and a half out here, her name's Tess. And I was telling her that, you know, why don't we do like meditation?
00:11.69
lostinthegroove
But that's free. And we just like when I meet up. So that's basically like where we found this.
00:15.07
yes
Yeah.
00:16.55
lostinthegroove
But isn't that random? Like the whole week they speak Portuguese.
00:19.40
yes
Yeah.
00:20.15
lostinthegroove
And then on tonight, like on Tuesdays, they speak English.
00:20.44
yes
You told me that you counted the chairs.
00:24.28
lostinthegroove
There. It's like,
00:26.68
yes
yeah i you you told me that you counted the chairs
00:32.16
lostinthegroove
Yeah, I like it was so quiet in there and so awkward because we're like waiting for them to like, you know, like set up the mics in the music that I just like took out my calculator and I started literally counting how many chairs was in the room and there's 84 chairs and out of the 84 chairs, there's four people.
00:53.19
lostinthegroove
There's five.
00:53.32
yes
Whoa. Okay, so were you the sixth or were you the fifth person?
00:54.85
lostinthegroove
Yeah.
00:59.67
lostinthegroove
I was the sixth person.
01:01.61
yes
Yeah.
01:03.33
lostinthegroove
Technically, were there were seven, if you would include the fluffy dog.
01:07.08
yes
How long was your meditation session?
01:09.87
lostinthegroove
54 minutes.
01:11.67
yes
There was a fluffy dog.
01:13.32
lostinthegroove
There was a fluffy dog. Dog was very cute. Dog was very fluffy.
01:18.14
yes
So did the dog meditate?
01:20.19
lostinthegroove
Yeah, surprisingly, yes. It took a nap. It took a long nap.
01:27.13
yes
Was the dog like, did it belong to like the meditation instructor?
01:32.01
lostinthegroove
it belonged to somebody that was coming there and like everybody that was in the room like spoke Portuguese and this couple they have this like wild SUV that like has all of this like writing on there and then it has a picture of the dog on the rear door on the passenger side this is a picture of the dog like just vinyl and I was just like okay we really like this dog like really really like this dog
01:34.51
yes
yeah
02:00.69
lostinthegroove
yeah Like they literally brought it to a meditation session, you know Coming up.
02:04.03
yes
Yeah, that dog is like a big part of their lives.
02:08.33
lostinthegroove
Uh-huh.
02:08.51
yes
That's awesome.
02:08.86
lostinthegroove
It seems so like they probably have to like Bring more dogs next time I could play with that
02:10.58
yes
use
02:16.27
yes
we
02:19.08
yes
No, that sounds really cute. I mean, their dog is like super loved. That's really good. um You said you found the meditation on Meetup.
02:28.96
lostinthegroove
Well, my will test found that on meetup and ah ah it's kind of OK. So I remember when meetup was like cool. OK, there was like a time where like you use meetup to actually like find really awesome events these days.
02:44.11
yes
When was that?
02:46.46
lostinthegroove
Like:02:59.79
lostinthegroove
I mean, like, real shady. All right? Like, it's to the point where...
03:07.28
lostinthegroove
You arrive at these places and you're like, damn. So it's just me and you? Yeah. In your mom's basement? Yeah.
03:17.68
yes
Oh
03:18.71
lostinthegroove
Yeah, like, this there are moments like that, you know?
03:20.96
yes
yeah you have to kind of like weed through them like you can't just go to like anything on meetup i I went on Meetup when I moved back to Des Moines to like find some stuff, and I found a meditation.
03:34.19
yes
um And what I do is like kind of look at like the past like times that the Meetup met and like see like what the turnout was like for that and you know like what that was like.
03:47.69
yes
And the one that I went to, there's a like a little lake here called Gray's Lake. And Gray's Lake.
03:56.28
lostinthegroove
So original. So original.
03:58.66
yes
I don't know. Is it? It's just like so cliche.
04:03.82
lostinthegroove
I mean, it's Grey's Lake.
04:04.10
yes
um
04:07.20
yes
Grey's Lake.
04:07.99
lostinthegroove
Grey's Lake.
04:08.09
yes
I have no idea. Grey's Lake. And so Grey's Lake, they do like a meditation.
04:11.98
lostinthegroove
Is there a hill?
04:14.50
yes
No, not really. um There's like a meditation that anybody can go to for free and they probably do it like every like I would think that's like June.
04:16.00
lostinthegroove
Just flat.
04:25.55
yes
um and they do meditation every month but they do meditation um only in Des Moines in June otherwise they're like way off in some like outside town that's like over an hour's drive from here so I was just like oh hell no so I go to their meditation in June um and it was really really good and she actually like leads a meditation like I went to a meditation.
04:57.05
lostinthegroove
It's guided. That's what we did tonight.
04:58.53
yes
Yeah, hers is guided.
04:58.77
lostinthegroove
it's it's a good
05:00.70
yes
The one that they do is guided. But yeah, I mean, I could go on forever.
05:04.84
lostinthegroove
It didn't really work. It didn't really work for me. um They're like, it's weird because like when they try to like unlock things, my brain is like, nope, nope, not going.
05:18.38
yes
Yeah, it's going to take a while. You have to let it happen.
05:20.07
lostinthegroove
Yeah, not going there.
05:22.84
yes
You have to let it happen. Yeah.
05:25.44
lostinthegroove
Yeah, you tell that to my brain.
05:28.52
yes
Do you remember in Fight Club?
05:32.16
lostinthegroove
Uh, I watched exactly like two minutes of fight club.
05:37.39
yes
Well, it's really good.
05:38.78
lostinthegroove
Yeah.
05:40.50
yes
It's a good book. Um.
05:42.02
lostinthegroove
It is a good book. I read partial parts of the book.
05:44.22
yes
and
05:44.51
lostinthegroove
I kind of know what the story is, but I know it has nothing to do about a fight club. It's just called fight club.
05:50.27
yes
No, there is a fight club.
05:51.48
lostinthegroove
Oh, there is an actual fight club.
05:53.47
yes
Yeah.
05:54.51
lostinthegroove
Oh shit.
05:55.93
yes
Yeah, I think there's another book that's kind of like got a name like that, but this one, there's an actual fight club, but.
05:56.33
lostinthegroove
But is it called?
06:03.47
yes
um
06:04.62
lostinthegroove
Oh, Footloose. I think we're thinking of Footloose. Because that's kind of...
06:08.06
yes
No, I don't know, but I.
06:09.53
lostinthegroove
Now maybe it's not. I think we're too tired and too stoned.
06:13.54
yes
No, I'm good, I just think like. Um, I don't know. You don't remember what I was talking about at all.
06:21.54
lostinthegroove
No, I remember you're talking about fight club. You were trying to bring up a point.
06:23.61
yes
I know, but you don't remember what you were talking about before Fight Club.
06:25.82
lostinthegroove
Um,
06:27.75
yes
Cause it's quite easy for me to lose my train of thought.
06:32.28
lostinthegroove
we were talking about, uh, hold on, give me a second. I need, I need, okay.
06:44.60
lostinthegroove
We're talking about meditation and then we were talking,
06:46.14
yes
Yeah, so in Fight Club, he does meditation. Thank you. And um his meditation is guided.
06:51.83
lostinthegroove
I told you you need to give me a minute.
06:55.84
yes
And I mean, if I had just thought what the fucking episode is about, it's about meditation. So I could have remembered what I was talking about with Fight Club, too. I'm ridiculous. um And so they have him do meditation and he's like,
07:12.51
yes
they guide the meditation and he sees like a penguin so like they tell him to go like into like his happy place and his happy place is like an ice cave and he like goes into his happy place and he's supposed to like unlock like all this shit and like deal with all of his problems and like He's basically at like a meditation for people who are like dying.
07:35.14
yes
um And so they guide these meditations.
07:35.46
lostinthegroove
Right.
07:38.80
yes
When he goes in there, he sees this like penguin. And like each time that he goes into this like deep realm of his meditation, he sees this penguin. And then like eventually, one time, the penguin says, like slide.
07:55.34
yes
And it's just like so weird and random. And then he like wakes up out of it like, what the fuck? But like, it's funny to see like, because I think for some people, meditation is like a very like peaceful thing. But when you're dealing with a lot of like inner junk, meditation is quite frustrating. um And it's almost like you have to kind of like ease into it.
08:21.72
yes
like piece by piece, I remember like not wanting to spend any time alone with myself in my thoughts, which now is just like a disgusting idea.
08:30.64
lostinthegroove
It's like it's like trying to put on a pair of skinny jeans when you have big ass, you know, it's it's hard.
08:33.17
yes
Like I i hate that that's true.
08:44.54
lostinthegroove
It's good. Takes work.
08:45.86
yes
But I think the harder it is for you, that's more of an indication that that you should be doing it, right?
08:52.32
lostinthegroove
Yeah, you should definitely be wearing skinny jeans to show off that beautiful fat ass.
08:59.65
yes
I just think like if meditation, like if you start to meditate and it's really fucking hard, that probably is an indication that you need to do it. Like, I don't know.
09:11.00
lostinthegroove
Yeah.
09:12.73
yes
I, there's certain times in mentally deprived.
09:14.70
lostinthegroove
I'm so so mentally deprived. Yeah.
09:19.18
yes
Yeah. I don't, but I, I don't have much time to just like think, um, I think that's another good thing about meditation is that it's like a scheduled moment. And it's like, it can be kind of hard to like take a moment. So sometimes it's good to like schedule that moment.
09:38.69
lostinthegroove
Yeah, definitely find that like middle ground. You're like, OK, I'm going to focus on my breathing. I'm going to kind of like clean them. The thing like for me was I constantly went to hills and forest.
09:52.62
yes
Hmm.
09:52.84
lostinthegroove
You know, the cypress trees in late August.
09:59.16
lostinthegroove
And, you know, you can hear like the water kind of trickling down from the creeks, you know, as you kind of like walk and you can hear like the cracking of the dried up leaves and the branches and the twigs and the dirt and the rubble.
10:16.22
lostinthegroove
She kind of got into this like thing of like diving into the water, you know, and getting now doesn't work for me.
10:21.41
yes
No, you don't like that. I like water.
10:28.13
lostinthegroove
The water analogy thing just doesn't, I don't know. It's like, I'm not really, I mean, i I guess I am scared of water. I've never been inside of the ocean like like properly before.
10:39.00
yes
You are afraid of water?
10:40.86
lostinthegroove
Kind of.
10:44.23
lostinthegroove
A little.
10:47.63
lostinthegroove
What about, so you're not terrified of water at all. Like, if you were in a big ocean and you have like a pair of like, okay, but like if you,
10:52.81
yes
No, I don't want to do that. I mean, that's just, I don't belong there.
11:00.47
lostinthegroove
But would you like go into the ocean like if you had the equipment and stuff like would you like dive in?
11:04.50
yes
Yeah. Yeah.
11:06.53
lostinthegroove
Okay, but you wouldn't be like scared
11:07.25
yes
I don't know about, I mean, like the deep sea diving, I know a lot of dangers that are involved there. Like you get this thing where like, if you descend too quickly, you get like bubbles in your veins.
11:21.68
yes
Um, and my friend Cynthia, or used to be friend, she got this like, like air pocket in her sinuses from like coming up too fast. Um, and that kind of dug in, you know, but like, I feel like those fears are like kind of like more like logical fears than like, I'm afraid of water, which isn't, I'm not saying that's a logical, I'm just saying like, I know that.
11:47.71
yes
I act that way with certain things. And with the with water, it's more of a like, some things just aren't that safe. But I like water. like And I and think I'm a water sign, um my Scorpio.
12:04.40
lostinthegroove
Yeah, because you're you're November.
12:04.52
yes
And so I need water. Yeah.
12:08.41
lostinthegroove
Hold on, let me see what you're Scorpio.
12:10.31
yes
But I, I like water and I'm a lot like water. Like I, I, for the most part will follow the path, um, like given.
12:22.39
yes
And I will kind of like fill in the cracks yeah the Scorpio so I like water, I don't mom put me and my sisters in swimming classes right away because my mom, she almost drown when we were when she was a kid.
12:41.54
yes
um
12:42.60
lostinthegroove
And she didn't know how to swim.
12:42.61
yes
ah she just Not very well. Yeah. So when she had kids, she went to like the town, like public pool and she signed us up for swim classes.
12:54.21
lostinthegroove
But before, before public polls would give you E.
12:54.21
yes
So like public
12:57.42
lostinthegroove
coli. Yeah, go on.
13:00.15
yes
pools won't give you E. coli. What's going on?
13:01.99
lostinthegroove
I know, I know, I know. I'm just being, I'm just, I know, dude, but they don't got no money for chlorine.
13:04.37
yes
That's what chlorine is for.
13:10.38
yes
Yeah, they do. They have to put chlorine in there.
13:11.35
lostinthegroove
yeah they got plenty of money
13:12.94
yes
They wouldn't be open.
13:13.18
lostinthegroove
yeah um
13:14.48
yes
But I feel like it's is funny. But yeah, I would highly suggest like if you have children to like go to the public like pool and sign your kids up for swim lessons over the summer.
13:29.35
yes
That's what mom did with us and we had to go to swim lessons every summer. for like a couple a couple of weeks it wasn't the whole summer but it was definitely a few weeks and each summer they would teach us like a new skill like at first they just taught us like when you're like 80 bitty they taught you just to put your face down in the water and i remember being absolutely terrified like i i did not want to do it so if i hadn't been put in that swim class i would
14:02.95
yes
be totally terrified of water because that's how I naturally was like when I was born.
14:07.59
lostinthegroove
It's weird. It's weird because like my my grandmother taught me how to swim when I was five. It was kind of weird because like my sister lived in the in Brooklyn in the city and we would drive in and then like my mom kind of made it like ah like a ritual that like pretty much every single time we came into Brooklyn, see my sister, like I went straight to my grandma to get swimming lessons like practically every single time.
14:29.94
yes
Oh yeah, because your grandma would swim.
14:32.41
lostinthegroove
Yeah, and my grandma was like the amazing swim instructor. She would like, I remember like she'd put me on like on the side and she's like, I want you to let go. Like I'm terrified because like, I don't know, it's like, you're okay. And I'm five and I got floaties on. So I'm not going anywhere. here yeah um But I don't know what I don't know. I think maybe it's just like,
15:01.90
lostinthegroove
A mixture of just watching too many like Titanic and Poseidon's, um I think Poseidon's Adventure. um yeah I don't know, it's just like that fear of the unknown.
15:13.70
yes
I don't know. Yeah, I get it. I think the ocean is creepy when you can't see to the bottom of it. I just i grew up swimming in a lot of like swimming pools, like ah hotel swimming pools, um different swimming pools.
15:31.03
lostinthegroove
The ocean is not your hotel swimming pool, like...
15:34.08
yes
Yeah, so I would say like i I grew up swimming in like public pools, friends pools, ah different places like that school. And so I feel like I i swam sometimes in lakes. We don't have any alligators. We don't have any sharks. like
15:56.08
lostinthegroove
oh people still go into the water even though they're gators.
15:56.36
yes
ah really
15:59.60
yes
Yeah, I know. I'm just saying like ah that might be why I'm not as afraid, but like I know that, yeah, I was afraid to put my face in the water when I was little, but then once they taught me like the basics of swimming, like I took off my own floaties and just started like swimming on my own without it.
16:23.28
yes
like ah ah Once I got over like the initial like kind of like spookiness of having my face in the water, I was an absolutely incredible swimmer.
16:34.19
yes
like a It's a skill of mine that I i can swim. I'm kind of coordinated with like all all parts of my body at once.
16:44.36
lostinthegroove
Yeah, being able to do like a butterfly lap.
16:44.59
yes
I really enjoy I could, uh, not anymore. I'd probably kill me. I probably pulled muscle or something, but I've, it's a lot of work.
16:52.02
lostinthegroove
I've done it. It's ooh, it's hard.
16:55.33
yes
Um, the butterfly thing, it's crazy. But what I was going to say is that I think I genuinely like the way that the water feels on my body. Like when swimming in it.
17:09.46
yes
and like splashing like I and like going under the water with my head and like feeling myself like underneath like the the layer like I when I was a kid I used to love to wear my goggles and like swim on my back right underneath the water and like watch like the outside through like the water, the layer of the water.
17:36.96
yes
Like I think I really liked like the way that the light would come through the water and like different stuff like that. Like as a kid, I did find it and still do find it really therapeutic to like move around in it and like, you know, like run your hand through it and like create like the, like, I like it.
17:55.72
lostinthegroove
do you you is do you know it' like It's kind of wild because it's kind of like almost learning the perspective of the fish you know in the ocean when they're like when they're seeing us. you know And they're like, what's that? Why is it coming closer?
18:15.35
lostinthegroove
And it's just dead, you know? Because you was just came with like a fucking spike thing and just killed it and then i had it for dinner. And then it was delicious. But anyway, like the other point I wanted to get to was like the fact that isn't it so wild that we as humans have lived around bodies of water for thousands of years and was completely free?
18:37.89
lostinthegroove
And then now people charge like 50 fucking thousand dollars for a bloody pool. When that was like a natural thing. Like people just had lakes and pools for thousands of years and it was like free. But now it's like 50,000.
18:52.87
yes
Yeah, I mean the lakes now are like owned by like the state.
18:54.42
lostinthegroove
e
18:58.45
lostinthegroove
Monsanto and BlackRock and Proctor and Gamble.
19:01.04
yes
I feel you. Yeah, none of the lakes belong to anyone anymore.
19:06.14
lostinthegroove
No. They have to own them because we're also going to dump all our garbage and waste biomas and and human sex trafficking.
19:07.79
yes
um
19:18.85
lostinthegroove
Yeah.
19:19.95
yes
I always think of the Pocahontas movie. um The Earth is not a thing that you can claim. I also go back to my history course where they spoke about how when the first Native American saw the first fence that was put down in America and they just like scoffed at it.
19:47.98
yes
like They were like, what the fuck is this? like
19:51.05
lostinthegroove
Why do you need offense?
19:52.56
yes
Yeah, they they like saw like the white man building a fence and they were like, what the fuck? And they just like walked right through it. They were like, what is that? like it's a And like they like did it to like block off like cattle and stuff. And like the light the Native Americans were like, so a that's our sheep too, because the fence is not a thing. like Just because you put some fence there doesn't mean that I acknowledge it.
20:22.65
yes
I just think there's a lot of like weird brainwashing that happens in like the European like culture that was brought over where it's like,
20:31.75
lostinthegroove
it
20:34.55
yes
They just did they start like doing this like gaslighting where it's like I can put fences up and clean things and it's like no you can't and they just do it and it's like they expect everyone else to acknowledge it like it's so weird.
20:42.96
lostinthegroove
it
20:48.12
lostinthegroove
It's really wild because when you take um like, particularly like the, um not Cherokee, the ah Comanche, the Comanche that are out in Texas, like believe it or not, the only reason why that Texas kind of exists today is because of the Texas Rangers.
21:05.35
lostinthegroove
But it's because the Comanches, they realized that bow and arrows were no longer practical. So they started stealing guns and they learned how to shoot with guns. And then they learned how to shoot with guns on horses.
21:21.56
yes
Yeah, it's pretty dangerous.
21:23.26
lostinthegroove
Yeah, they were ruthless. And like, I hate to say this, kudos to the Comanches.
21:30.22
yes
Oh yeah, they put up a good fight, yeah.
21:30.25
lostinthegroove
Like, they were. Oh, they were motherfuckers. Like the shit like the stories that people read, like the command shoes were the type like they were just coming skin and scalp an entire village in one night.
21:42.94
yes
Yeah, that scalping shit's pretty serious.
21:46.18
lostinthegroove
Oh, yeah.
21:48.63
yes
Yeah, I don't know. It makes me wonder if there was like a specific like spirituality like behind like, you know, like people's like hair, or if it's just it really shows like domination, like how you're like kind of like grabbing somebody
21:50.62
lostinthegroove
But then.
22:05.17
lostinthegroove
Well, the the wild thing is like the Comanches were like known to be in like a wild tribe. Like they had human sacrifices. They were known to get into cannibal rituals like they were.
22:18.33
yes
Good lord.
22:19.36
lostinthegroove
Yeah, they were wild people. you Wild like the there's.
22:23.68
yes
I don't know. Yeah, it's pretty wild. um But i I mean, like, ah go on. Yeah, you got something to say.
22:30.22
lostinthegroove
no no no no but you no no no you yeah ah
22:36.29
yes
I don't know.
22:36.33
lostinthegroove
well um
22:37.05
yes
I feel like.
22:41.51
yes
the Native Americans maybe wouldn't have had as much use or necessity or drawn to something like meditation because they're not as removed from their natural state.
22:58.83
lostinthegroove
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you, you. I think it depends on the tribe though, because there are definitely tribes that are more spiritual than others.
23:00.17
yes
They.
23:04.48
yes
Yeah.
23:06.53
lostinthegroove
um
23:06.55
yes
Well, no, what I'm saying is that like I feel like I feel like meditation is more important the more removed we are from nature. um And so I feel like it would be good to meditate because we're very removed from nature and we're over simulated. But I mean, like with Native Americans, I have absolutely no idea what what type of challenges there might have been like a different type of meditation. I mean, I'm sure like there were lots of different coping mechanisms that were carried down through different ah types of people, you know.
23:46.84
lostinthegroove
Yeah, for sure. I mean, like, take things like even Native American instruments or even like a powwow, you know, it's kind of of like that kind of example where you're able to get yourself in almost a meditative state, you know, being able to connect to nature, connecting to the spirits, to the ancestors, you know,
24:07.45
yes
I think that there is a lot there if you take time to kind of like listen to your inner self, just like be alone with yourself. i so I read a book and it's now been made into like a really cheesy movie, but before it was a cheesy movie, it was a very heartfelt book and it was called Eat Pray Love and it's a cheesy ass movie, but the book itself, very good.
24:30.11
lostinthegroove
Oh, that moon.
24:36.29
yes
um And so this woman, before it was a cheesy movie, this woman wrote a book. um and she went to india and she stayed in an ashram which is just like a i don't know like a monk place where you go and you stay monastery yeah so she went she stayed there um and she meditated like a lot and she was meditating a lot before she went there and that's it kind of like led to her going there um but yeah she lived there for a while and she studied and stuff and she meditated like crazy but
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lostinthegroove
Monastery.
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lostinthegroove
monastery
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yes
They left all that cool meditation crap kind of out of the movie, like they showed it like a little bit, but not really as much as like, I don't know, but it was fascinating when I read the book and um she talks a lot about like her journey with meditation. And when I think about meditation, I always think about reading that book because it was kind of like my first introduction to it and listening to somebody's like inner thoughts um that came up during meditation and like were some it's cool like with a book you can kind of like find out like the inner details of how somebody feels about something without like having to like really talk directly to them so
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lostinthegroove
Yeah.
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lostinthegroove
You get into the inner crocs, basically.
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yes
she talked about her journey with meditation. She talked about like when she, you know, reached what I would say was like a peak. Um, and she said that she had like a, like a, like she meditated so hard that she had like a, a blue electric light, like shoot up her spine.
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yes
Um, and there's no blue electric light.
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lostinthegroove
but Specifically blue.
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yes
Yeah, blue.
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lostinthegroove
to But there is no blue electric light.
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yes
You don't think there is. It's like a white blue, you know, like, like the color of a flame, you know, when flame is like blue flame, like it's like blue, white.
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lostinthegroove
Like almost like a lightsaber. Okay.
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yes
It's like that, like an electric. I've seen the electricity before myself and we are truly electric.
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yes
like you and I, there's an electric charge in your heart. There's an electric charge in every part of you because there's ions in you.
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lostinthegroove
Technically we are organic machines if you think about it Yeah, like very much like just how a car has like a computer we have a brain just like a car has a Well, I'm trying to like think of what a heart would be Charging system.
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yes
Nay. Well, you're, yeah, you're organic, but there is an electrical charge in you.
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yes
and They got their ah engine.
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lostinthegroove
Yeah the charging system
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yes
I mean, they're a little like, I don't know, but I would, you know, oil is my blood. And so people always said about the cars.
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lostinthegroove
Yeah.
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yes
But I feel like with with meditation, it sounds like she basically kind of had like some type of meditation orgasm.
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lostinthegroove
Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, the engine is the heart of the so ah fucking idiot.
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yes
I think I said that, yeah.
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lostinthegroove
Yeah, the engine is the heart of the...
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yes
And you were like, yeah.
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lostinthegroove
I mean, it's cool.
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yes
And I was like, oil is my blood.
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lostinthegroove
I should know if this shit. Yeah. Ah, but it's true, though. It really like takes you to that. I don't know. Like we we've kind of like gone through that heebie geebee, you know, bullshit thing of like maybe there is some truth to this. It kind of has to be.
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yes
I mean, with my meditation, I feel like nowadays I pray. um And I pray for answers.
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lostinthegroove
Eat, pray, love.
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yes
um And I pray for like direction and stuff like that. I feel like I I should probably meditate. I went to that one meditation. I really liked it. I feel like it's hard to get myself into a place where I feel safe enough.
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yes
to journey away, to meditate, if you know what I mean.
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lostinthegroove
Mm hmm.
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yes
What do you what do you think holds you back?
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lostinthegroove
Stress, anxiety, depression.
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yes
Yeah.
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lostinthegroove
Yeah, all the things that Monsanto wants you to get in your SSRIs.
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lostinthegroove
So. Not going to do pills, even though that the colors are really cool and they come in really cool bottles.
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yes
Yeah.
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lostinthegroove
Right, they do. Bottles are really cool, right? It's kind of awesome that pills have like their own like bottles, you know, and like different pharmacies have different colors. There's some orange, you know, go to Publix in it.
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yes
You want to collect the bottles? Fuck.
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lostinthegroove
Uh-huh. You know, Publix is green.
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lostinthegroove
I think Publix is her.
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yes
They used to be Kmart. You get these really cool ones.
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lostinthegroove
Red ones.
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yes
Yeah. Do you remember those red ones?
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lostinthegroove
The red one. Yeah, I remember the red ones.
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yes
Yeah. They were like upside down.
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lostinthegroove
Uh-huh.
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yes
They're like, yeah, cool.
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lostinthegroove
They were really cool. Oh my god.
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yes
Yeah.
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lostinthegroove
e e They don't do that stuff anymore.
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yes
Kmart used to do this thing where they would like give you a gift card if you transferred your prescription to the Kmart pharmacy. And it was like a $20 gift card.
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lostinthegroove
Yeah, they used to do that thing because it was like a really big.
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yes
So like we would purposely get our prescriptions sent to not Kmart so that we could get them transferred to the Kmart and get the gift card.
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lostinthegroove
And they never kept track, so the thing is, you could just keep on doing this as many times as you'd like.
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yes
No.
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lostinthegroove
So you just go to a different doctor and you'd be like, give them the wrong pharmacy on purpose.
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yes
Yeah.
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lostinthegroove
he a
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yes
And then transfer. It was kind of a hassle, but 20 bucks was a lot of money back then.
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lostinthegroove
Yeah, 20 bucks would buy you like four did like a week's worth of dinners.
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yes
I don't know.
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yes
Did they close all the K-Marts?
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lostinthegroove
I think there there was one that I believe was in Miami, but I think that one went out of business.
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yes
Yeah.
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lostinthegroove
And now there's just one left in New York. There's just one Kmart.
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yes
That's it. There used to be a Kmart in L.A.
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lostinthegroove
A Kmart or the Kmart?
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yes
What, like the Kmart, like the the first one, it says it says that there's a Kmart on on Hickman Road in Iowa here.
31:15.08
lostinthegroove
a yeah The first.
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yes
It says that we have a Kmart.
31:30.20
lostinthegroove
It must not be open though.
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yes
It can't be, that thing's been long closed.
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lostinthegroove
A long time ago.
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yes
Oh yeah, I feel like that K-Mart closed like 20 years ago. I'm looking at a picture of it right now and I'm so confused. Yeah, that is not a K-Mart.
31:49.10
lostinthegroove
What is it?
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yes
No, I feel like it's just funny that they still like pointed out as the K-Mart, but it's it's a storage place now.
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lostinthegroove
but it's still labeled.
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yes
But like it's, yeah, when I Google it, it says like the Kmart on Hickman road. And it's like, that hasn't been a Kmart in like 20 years, but yeah.
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lostinthegroove
No, but it's storage. Bro, it's Kmart storage now.
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yes
Walmart really took over. You know, who else has got it going on? Burlington coat factory.
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lostinthegroove
They suck.
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yes
You think why, why are they suck?
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lostinthegroove
They suck. I don't know, it's kind of like, like Ross for less too. It's just they just have crappy, just crappy, crappy stuff.
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yes
ah ah Ross, yeah, Ross is a tough one.
32:30.59
lostinthegroove
You know, but like, when you go to TJ Maxx, it's like, you usually will spot a really good deal. Like, I'm not gonna lie, I've probably got better deals in TJ Maxx.
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yes
I was at Nordstrom Rack and shit was so expensive. I was like, what the fuck?
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lostinthegroove
I, I've done really,
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yes
I'm looking at a $100 t-shirt.
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lostinthegroove
I've done really well in Nordstrom Rack. So it turns out there's a secret rack within Nordstrom Rack. It's kind of like in the middle of the store, throwing this out to people where like 90% of this stuff is like 70% off.
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yes
Yeah, I saw it.
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lostinthegroove
But you got to go there the right days. When do you think is the right day to go?
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yes
Sunday or Monday.
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lostinthegroove
Mm hmm. particularly like if you so this is wild. I did not know this is a thing. So it turns out if you go there on a Sunday, when people are in church, it's kind of the best. It's nobody's there.
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yes
I can't believe that people go to church that much, that like it actually makes a difference.
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lostinthegroove
It does, because they get usually a shipments on Fridays and Saturdays, usually at the end of the week.
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yes
it's
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lostinthegroove
And you depending on like what they can get in, they can get stuff that are like originally $300, and you can buy it for $45.
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lostinthegroove
Yeah.
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yes
money
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lostinthegroove
Money, money, money. So, where's your honey?
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yes
Well, that's why free meditation is a good idea because it's free.
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lostinthegroove
in human world. Oh my god. Yeah, definitely. Or you could be a person who just goes to the restaurant rack and just looks and doesn't buy a thing.
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yes
I like to just look and be like, you know what? I'm going to not buy that.
34:24.05
lostinthegroove
What was that movie? I think it was with Sandra Bullock where she like goes into a store and then like grabs a bunch of items and says I want to return it. There's never like she claims she doesn't ever see and she puts
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yes
Heartbreakers.
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lostinthegroove
That was wild. Like there's no way anybody could pull that off.
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yes
Right? Isn't that without what the movie is?
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lostinthegroove
Yeah.
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yes
It's ah her and some other chick.
34:53.27
lostinthegroove
Some other sick.
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yes
But man, I don't know.
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lostinthegroove
What's it?
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yes
I don't know if that's that movie or not.
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lostinthegroove
What's it called?
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yes
I thought it was Heartbreakers, but it's not.
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lostinthegroove
You sure?
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yes
If you looked up Sandra Bullock movies.
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lostinthegroove
There's so many Sombra Bullock movies. I feel like she's been in everything except sex.
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lostinthegroove
um
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yes
Sandra Bullock movies.
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lostinthegroove
Um...
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yes
Holy shit.
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lostinthegroove
I know, it's a long list.
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yes
Hey, I really like, uh, I like Practical Magic. It's a good movie.
35:34.01
lostinthegroove
Um... It's not the proposal.
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yes
I can't remember which one it is, but it's not the one I was thinking of.
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lostinthegroove
Is it Ocean's 8 maybe?
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yes
Nah.
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lostinthegroove
I think it might have been Ocean's 8.
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yes
Really?
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lostinthegroove
I think so.
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yes
Huh, I guess yeah.
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lostinthegroove
I think, yeah, I think so.
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yes
Yeah.
35:55.17
lostinthegroove
Yeah, okay. Yeah, because like the Ocean's 8 was kind of like Ocean's 11 and like, they're all criminals, you know, and they like all got superpowers. I'm assuming like her superpowers, like she's really good at like stealing things.
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yes
Mm, that's really cool. It wasn't the heat, was it?
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lostinthegroove
I don't think so.
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yes
That looks good, though.
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lostinthegroove
I mean, she she was in the heat.
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yes
Well, now I'm just looking at like movies that Sandra Bullock was in.
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lostinthegroove
Really?
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yes
um Not heat, the heat.
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lostinthegroove
Are you sure that she was in heat because I'm checking.
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lostinthegroove
The heat.
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yes
It's like some buddy cop movie where she's holding a gun.
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lostinthegroove
Somebody.
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yes
Meemob.
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lostinthegroove
Somebody.
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yes
Yeah, she's in a lot of movies.
36:43.34
lostinthegroove
She is in a lot of mood. Oh my God. And she's with Melissa McCarthy.
36:46.84
yes
Uh... Yeah... Forces of Nature was a really popular movie when I was young.
36:49.24
lostinthegroove
Oh, gee.
36:52.56
lostinthegroove
Oh, we'll wrap this up.
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yes
I liked Gravity.
36:59.50
lostinthegroove
Gravitate towards meditation and mind and soul and find your chakra. Wow, this movie is wild.
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yes
Oh, fuck.
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lostinthegroove
Does does Melissa McCarthy have a gun?
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yes
Looks like it.
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lostinthegroove
I want to watch this movie now. I want to relax and watch this movie. I think I'm going to do that.
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yes
Heat, you're gonna watch:37:19.83
lostinthegroove
yeah yeah with me This looks funny as hell.
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yes
An uptight FBI special agent is paired with a foul-mouthed Boston cop to take down a ruthless drug lord.
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lostinthegroove
This looks so funny.
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yes
What did it get on Rotten Tomatoes? It got 65%.
37:38.42
lostinthegroove
if Okay, so that means it's amazing.
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yes
It well means it's decent.
37:44.66
lostinthegroove
No, it's amazing. See, the thing about Rotten Tomatoes, the lower the rating, that tells you how good the movie is.
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yes
Sometimes.
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lostinthegroove
Most of the time.
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yes
But yeah, bird box is terrifying.
37:56.43
lostinthegroove
90. Yeah. Well, they came out a recent um movie about a serial killer, the one on the dating show in the 70s.
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lostinthegroove
It's called like The One Hour or something, where like they recreated it. But in like movie TV show way.
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yes
What is it?
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lostinthegroove
And a woman of the hour or something.
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yes
I remember when Sandra Bullock like announced that she had had plastic surgery and everybody like made like a huge deal out of it. And then nowadays, nobody gives a fuck if anybody's had any plastic surgery.
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lostinthegroove
Has she had plastic surgery?
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yes
Absolutely. She said she's had all the plastic surgery you can get.
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lostinthegroove
She looks great.
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yes
Yeah, she also kind of looks like Celine Dion in this one photo.
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lostinthegroove
Let me see.
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lostinthegroove
Oh, her name just kind of is like.
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yes
A weird name.
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lostinthegroove
Yeah, it's like I'm Sandra Bullock.
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yes
Black, what is that block?
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lostinthegroove
I block.
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lostinthegroove
I mean, we can ask her, but I don't think she ever is going to get on our podcast.
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yes
Oh, you know, I really liked that one movie that she did with What's His Face. um Let me find it. It was recent. It was like a safari movie.
39:29.99
lostinthegroove
Oh yeah, she's def... Oh yeah, she's definitely had plastic surgery done. She's had rhinoplasty.
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yes
Yeah, The Lost City.
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lostinthegroove
Like her nose...
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yes
I love The Lost City. I thought it was pretty funny.
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lostinthegroove
Her nose looks very fake.
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yes
Mostly because I like Tater Channing's.
39:46.16
lostinthegroove
What is with all these celebrities and getting terrible nose jobs?
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yes
What? You think her nose job looks bad?
39:52.58
lostinthegroove
It's okay. It's all right.
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yes
Did you look at the picture?
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lostinthegroove
Like...
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lostinthegroove
Um... Oh, okay.
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yes
Yeah, her nose could look better.
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lostinthegroove
Let me see. Yeah, like she had a pretty, she had a very pretty nose.
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lostinthegroove
Oh, wow. Oh, oh, oh, wow. She's very, she's very pretty. Like she, there's something like
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yes
Yeah. There is something special about her. Like she's unlike anybody else, but there's a lot of women that I've met that have like that, that type of quality where it's like, whoa, but it's interesting.
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lostinthegroove
Yeah, she had a bigger nose. She had it like narrow. She had her nose narrowed.
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yes
Like you can tell she has always kind of like carried a little bit of like an insecurity, like for being like a beautiful woman, she's always been kind of like, not as attractive as she should be.
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yes
Like in her own opinion, you know, I thought she's 57, but she could be over 60.
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lostinthegroove
Is she 60? Is she really 60? Hold on, let me see. No way, she looks great for her age though.
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lostinthegroove
See, when you have that kind of, when you have that kind of money, money, honey, you can like keep yourself looking young forever.
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yes
Yeah. She had all that work done.
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yes
She is 60. Yeah.
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lostinthegroove
Wow.
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lostinthegroove
I would now, wow.
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yes
d's highest paid actress from:41:25.38
lostinthegroove
Until Reese Witherspoon took her place.
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yes
Reese Witherspoon was like fucking like hot shit.
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lostinthegroove
She is currently worth an estimated I think like 584 million dollars.
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yes
Who's the hottest actress now?
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lostinthegroove
Like the hottest?
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yes
No, I mean just like the top paid actress.
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lostinthegroove
Still Reese Witherspoon.
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yes
Still?
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lostinthegroove
Still Reese Witherspoon.
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yes
Damn, she hasn't been in anything either.
41:56.49
lostinthegroove
I think just because she like owns companies and things and like production. Um, that's kind of how also Jerry Sarnfield made a lot of his money, was writing and producing.
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yes
Yeah.
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lostinthegroove
Um, Ben Steeler was the same thing as well. Like he predominantly did the same thing.
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yes
Mm, Margot Robbie. Margot Robbie takes the the cake for highest paid actress.
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lostinthegroove
712 million, I believe, somewhere around there.
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yes
And then 12.5.
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lostinthegroove
Million?
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yes
She was paid 12.5 million for her role as Barbie.
42:37.73
lostinthegroove
But she's, is she worth over $700 million? dollars
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yes
Doesn't say how much she's worse. It says that Sandra Bullock comes in second. Then Zendaya, then Millie Brown,
42:52.27
lostinthegroove
That doesn't make any sense because Reese Witherspoon, if I'm not mistaken, was worth like almost close to $500 million. dollars
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yes
Angelina Jolie, then Scarlett Johansson, but I don't think she's broke.
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lostinthegroove
Angela Gillies pretty much broke at this point. Like I don't even know how she's making any money.
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yes
I think she's doing quite fine.
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lostinthegroove
When we ah okay, honey, when we say broke, we're talking about rich broke. Rich broke means like you're in the 10s, you're not in the hundreds anymore.
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yes
Dude, this says that she's worth, she's worth $48 million. dollars
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lostinthegroove
Who?
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yes
Uh, what am I looking at here? Startup Insider. I don't know what that is, but that's my, my reference point here.
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lostinthegroove
ah Reese Witherspoon is ah worth $440 million. dollars Oh, okay.
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yes
Well, that's different than like highest paid actors. We're talking about two different things because yeah, she does. She owns a bunch of like production companies. She owns, I think it's called like Marigold.
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yes
Um, and that's like a big, she's got her own channel going.
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lostinthegroove
I got it. Hold on.
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yes
I know people who worked for her.
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lostinthegroove
I'm getting a completely different answer. This is the highest paid actress is Ada Heckerberg.
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yes
Sounds cool.
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lostinthegroove
I don't even know who this person is.
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yes
Yeah, I know, it's not weird.
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lostinthegroove
And it's like a professional football. Oh my God.
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lostinthegroove
Actress.
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lostinthegroove
Why is it giving me like sports people? Like this is just wild.
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lostinthegroove
Uh, Christian Sinclair. These are just soccer players. I don't know how like they consider these actresses. You know what I mean?
44:58.03
lostinthegroove
Okay, this is just an absolutely wild work list.
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yes
Maybe it wasn't Marigold. It was like the name of like some flower, like like Chrysanthemum or like some random ass like flower was the name of her production company or channel.
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lostinthegroove
or something. and I know what you're getting at.
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yes
But I got so close to meeting Reese Witherspoon.
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lostinthegroove
the
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yes
Like I got like, I was like inches away. Like there were like people that were like, I did make up for her ex-husband ex Yeah.
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lostinthegroove
X.
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yes
You're right.
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lostinthegroove
Sonder Bullock.
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yes
Looks like she got divorced again.
45:42.64
lostinthegroove
Sonder Bullock is worth like an estimate 250 million.
45:47.41
yes
Oh shit. Reese Witherspoon is born on March 22nd.
45:51.63
lostinthegroove
Is that bad?
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yes
That's my ex's birthday. I just think it's a psycho birthday. I've met a couple other people born on that birthday. I guess it could be okay sometimes, but it's like, it's kind of crazy that it, yeah.
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lostinthegroove
I guess.
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lostinthegroove
Yeah, yeah.
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yes
It's kind of crazy that it happens to be her birthday.
46:10.54
lostinthegroove
yeah ah So let's.
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yes
She's short. She's 5'1". Tiny little, tiny little Reese with a spoon.
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lostinthegroove
get the last spoonful of the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup flavored vanilla ice cream with the peanut butter swirls.
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yes
Her production company is just called Hello Sunshine, which yeah, that sounds about right. I kind of remember that.
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lostinthegroove
It sounds boring as hell, but it you don't want kudos to her having coming up with a really original name for her company.
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yes
Hello Sunshine aims to broaden perspectives and empower women by giving them
46:48.47
lostinthegroove
Hello, such a
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lostinthegroove
periods.
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yes
authorship, inspiring agency, and creating a platform to help them shape culture.
46:58.57
lostinthegroove
Oh, shit.
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yes
All right. Should I let David go to sleep?
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lostinthegroove
I'm gonna want to watch part of this movie too, because I'm kind of like, and then Yeah, yeah.
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yes
You ready for the heat? You ready for some heat? Yeah.
47:13.85
lostinthegroove
um but Yeah, if you want to, uh,
47:20.30
lostinthegroove
If you want to check out Carissa, you can find her on Instagram and American Groove, American Groove Pod. And if you want to find the podcast Lost in the Groove, you can find us on Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube at Lost in the Groove Pod. So with that, let me tell these people.
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yes
Thank you.
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lostinthegroove
All right, motherfuckers, we'll catch you on the next one.
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yes
Peace.
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lostinthegroove
Peace out.
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yes
Oh my God.
