Pod Meets 50 Million Downloads PART 1

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Speaker 1: This is the closest to Christmas we have ever.

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Speaker 2: Exchanged sitting to each other podcasting, which is also true.

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Speaker 3: We are kind of an odd distance. We're like, you know, it's in my contract.

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Speaker 2: I need be three and a half feet away from Danielle at all to straight in order to speed away from you on a triangle.

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Speaker 3: It's a very specific contract if we meet in person.

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Speaker 1: But we are still in our same standing configuration we always do.

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Speaker 3: We like to have an equilateral podcast. I'm always in the middle.

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Speaker 1: Will is always on my left, Right's on my right.

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Speaker 3: It's the result of child abuse. Guys, let's be off.

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Speaker 1: So you're programmed to our abuse is being thrown away.

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Speaker 3: It's like the cookie rattle. It's true. But we are nineties robots. People sent us pictures of us at twelve thirteen fourteen where we're standing exactly the same. We did this even like each other. Just at this point we're conditioned to be with each other. It's not liking love. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, well, I we didn't get Will's Christmas gift becau. Apparently nobody gave him the memo that we would be exchanging Christmas.

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Speaker 3: No one told me you ever. Year one of us has to has to flub it. It was rider last year, I think, yeah, and I didn't.

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Speaker 1: Forget indies even though I told him what it was, I forget it. So I also screwed something up. But you did tell us one of our gifts you sent us.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure I want to talk about this on air because then people don't agree.

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Speaker 1: We're not going to share, but say it's going to the world best like the guy is apparently.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what my friend I thought it was a.

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Speaker 1: Different god writer got us extremely touching fancy friendship bracelets. Will's is green. They're like fancy rope, Mine is ivory, and yours is black, which is.

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Speaker 3: Your soul kind of guy.

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Speaker 4: There's when I started searching for fancy friendship bracelets.

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Speaker 3: There's a whole world. Oh my god.

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Speaker 4: Well it gets very expensive fair because people do like like when you get into stones, you know, and that's where I was like, okay, there's.

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Speaker 3: A cap here, but.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like either fifty cents and then it's like fifteen dollars like rhyme.

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Speaker 3: I was like, wow, they've got to go somewhere in between. I like it. I like a good fancy friendship bracelet I thing I didn't know I needed. It's on my wrist.

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Speaker 1: Same and it fits perfectly into my into my already existing bracelet stack. So I'm very excited about.

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Speaker 3: That until we get tattoos, yes, which stress.

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Speaker 1: Probably right, probably twenty twenty six, the year of the tattoo.

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Speaker 3: So excited. Every time I get a tattoo, I think to myself, finally I can feel something. Who has you know? It's just like I need this pain to feel live Pretty excited.

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Speaker 1: Wow, cutter, for now, I got you, gentlemen, I got writer a frog and toad.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure so happy with this frog and toad shirt.

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Speaker 1: The minute I thought, I was like, oh my god. And it was right next to a Blockbuster T.

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Speaker 3: Shirt, which is, you know how important Blockbusters to me?

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Speaker 1: You're married because of Blockbuster, and so I got you guys those, and then I got you each your own Lego set. I actually it was basically a really selfish gift because I have become obsessed with building legos. Started with my boys and them saying like I want to build this. They build it for about ten minutes and then it becomes my responsibility and I love it.

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Speaker 3: You might as well take up skiing or horseback riding. With how expensive legos are nowadays, it's like the most expensive hobby. Like, do you do legos like you like hundreds of dollars a set?

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Speaker 1: Yes they are, yes, yes, yes, I guess they're like super expensive. But there.

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Speaker 3: I haven't done legos in thirty years, so I can't wait to build. I got a batmobile?

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Speaker 1: You got a batmobile from the original series?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the sixties the Jaws movie set, the Jaws.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I actually knew about this set because I remember when it was like being promoed, like a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 3: It was like a big release.

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Speaker 2: Does the does the lego Shark only work half the time? There you go, there's a good inside movie joke.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, as twenty twenty five comes to a close, so does the lengthy weight for season seven weeks apps. But before we dive into what is sure to be a mixed bag of emotions, we wanted to celebrate a major milestone for our podcast, which was fifty million downloads. And from what I understand, this means that fifty million people listen to every single episode.

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Speaker 3: We going to go with that.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that may one hundred correct, that may be incorrect, but don't correct me and deliver fifty every single episode.

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Speaker 3: Ye, crazy, unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what a milestone.

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Speaker 3: Incredible?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, well, either way, we are very excited about this accomplishment. And although we really only have you, our dear listeners, to thank for such undying support and persistence, we wanted to think ourselves.

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Speaker 3: I wasn't of that.

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Speaker 1: Well, so we have traveled takes a beautiful job of all resort and casino as their special guests alongside our significant others for a little relaxation, some delicious food, a Janet Jackson concert, and also gambling. Yes, as you can probably predict, I got to choose where we were going.

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Speaker 3: Well, you actually went to bed early last night. I'm surprised.

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Speaker 1: I was so tired. The Christmas come down has.

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Speaker 3: Hit me hard. Yeah. The holidays are exhausting.

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Speaker 1: They are exhausting.

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Speaker 3: You also had some stuff going on this year, what so five was a little crazy for you? So yeah, yeah, but it's what a place to celebrate a couple days though, right right, Yeahcolic.

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Speaker 1: I know we're recording from the Y Lounge here on the seventeenth floor. We have a gorgeous view and we are just days away from what will be Yamava's fortieth anniversary.

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Speaker 3: Really, yes, geez, I.

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Speaker 1: Mean we were just talking with Kenji the GM who was saying how often they have to replace the carpet because of how much traffic they get. You would not know this place was a day over.

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Speaker 4: Well, that's what I'm wondered. How old is the actual building that we're in though, Well.

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Speaker 3: He said the place where we saw Janet Jackson last night was built, that's twenty twenty one. I wonder what the actual because it used to be a bingo hall.

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Speaker 1: That's what I have heard, Yeah, that there was a bingo hall.

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Speaker 4: No, that it was originally just a bingo hall, like that's what was here on this property. And so I'm wondering if that if we're going back forty years, does that mean that or are we talking about this building itself is forty years.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but it doesn't feel a day over.

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Speaker 3: No too brand new, brand new. It's absolutely yeah, it's amazing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's incredible. You did not get a spat treatment because, as everyone knows, being touched is one of writers.

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Speaker 3: I want to be touched by the right people are not like anti touch my god. I was so there could have been ten strangers in the room. I wouldn't have even known. I don't like being pampered, and yeah, that's true. But then I also don't like massages.

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Speaker 1: But you do like be shirt, You like being dropped off in the middle of the woods with very little provisions and figuring it out and three days.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's living, living, living will And I did, yes, yes, is what we did yesterday when they asked you, do you want to start with sandal wood and you're like, yes, please, that's living, my friend.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh man, So you had a massage.

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Speaker 3: I did. I did ninety First of all, if you ever want ninety minutes to feel like five minutes, get it a massage. I know, because it's like I sort of got it. I looked at her, I was like, that's it. She's like, yeah, it was ninety minutes. Like I don't believe you. You are lying.

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Speaker 1: I think you must have fallen asleep.

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Speaker 3: I did, actually, she said at one point I was snoring. Oh, And then I was like I'm sorry. She's like, it is the ultimate compliment for us when we know you're s.

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Speaker 1: Then I just sit down. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: She stopped for eighty seven minutes. No, it was I mean it was great. Did you ring the bells to bring okay?

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Speaker 1: So here's the ringing of the bells, just the ringing of the bells. So when you get a spa treatment, there's always this slightly awkward part where they leave you alone, obviously to get undressed, to take off your robe and then get under the covers on the table and then they have to like doorstock to hear when they think you are no longer moving in there, and then they have to knock and you would be like, yes, you can come in here. They give you two beautiful chime bells and you just get into your and then ring the bells and they come in. It was spectacular.

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Speaker 3: Do you strange question? Do you go fully the full monty when you're getting a massage? I? Do you do? I can't. I can't. I got to keep my Batman underwear on. It's just it's weird if I don't just need to feel protected I do massage or nose? Do you ever that batter ring?

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Speaker 2: I don't think I realized I had them on until I then put on my robe and I was like this is good because then I have a choice, do I go fully naked, which is embarrassing enough, or keep the Batman under her on.

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Speaker 3: I stayed full. I stayed full Batman? Did you keep staying Batman voice? Then I'm carrying Here's I was a voice of Batman. That's why I we That's why you just got to throw it to the you know, assume that they understand you're awesome? Is just what is what it comes down to.

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Speaker 1: Did you then pull your your pants down a little bit so that they can get to your low bag?

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Speaker 3: They she did? She like, does the talk wait, she talked the utility belt. No, she didn't touch the utility belt, but she talked a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 5: I also noticed a little thing, you know, how like they'll do like a soft on your on your lower back, on your tosh a little bit. But they do that to distract you from the fact that she's digging her elbow into my shoulder where it was like because she's like, oh, you're a little tense here, and I was like, oh, that's nice kind of on the lower She's like, is this hurt?

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Speaker 3: I'm like yes, but in a good way. It was awesome. Will tell you I bruised like a peach. So I look like I just took baseballs to my body most of the time. Is great.

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Speaker 4: Wow, when I torture myself by going out in the wilderness, you're like literally coming back with bruises.

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Speaker 3: No, I needed the heart firm pressure.

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Speaker 1: I had a facial. I mean I like firm pressure and massages.

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Speaker 3: Wait wait, whoa, whoa, whoa.

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Speaker 6: I know we can't do You had a facial and you were naked.

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Speaker 3: I think you're missin. You're misunderstanding the assignment.

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Speaker 1: I was talking about when I get a massage.

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Speaker 2: Okay, God, it's like, why did you take your facial?

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Speaker 1: Man? They actually give you math.

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Speaker 7: This is what's going on, you know. Okay, so you're not talking about yesterday. You're talking about when I had a massage.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yesterday. They gave you. They give you because they are part of the facial. Part of a facial is also your neck and decollete, what your cleavage, so.

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Speaker 3: Which is different than daco page. Correct.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So they give you a thing to put on that's like a towel basically it goes and so I was wearing that. Uh so I actually had like a towel dress on.

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, that makes sense.

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Speaker 4: We talked about massages more than we're gonna talk about Janet Jackson.

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Speaker 3: It's just we're talking about what we've done here twenty four amazing.

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Speaker 1: We started with a spot treatment. We arrived here yesterday morning. We all started with his spot treatment, and Writer went into his room and probably typed away on his computer.

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Speaker 3: He wrote, what did I do yesterday? I slept?

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Speaker 1: I think too great? And then we got to meet up in the casino. We signed up for the Amavo card, which I'm excited to be earning points for, and we got to gamble. Yeah, Writer and I then had a blast taking our hundred dollars chips and going to the roulette tables.

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Speaker 3: Because I figured it was that's when I went and.

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Speaker 1: Took Yeah, I'm the only one who were like, let's just let's just.

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Speaker 4: Go out a safe like, you know, almost fifty to fifty chance yep of making our money.

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Speaker 3: And did you half the first?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? We bet first on black and lost. Then we bet on black again and one. Then we bet on black again and lost.

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Speaker 3: Why wouldn't one of you bet on red and one of you bet on black? And because that was funny, I thought so? But oh, yeah. Danielle was like, we don't want to be against each other. I was like, I don't want.

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Speaker 1: I wanted. Yeah, that feels rude.

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Speaker 3: Is that I'm really going to split all the money at the end. Oh well, that was guarantee we didn't have.

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Speaker 1: We didn't form an alliance.

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Speaker 4: I was going to say, if it would make it better, because even if I lost, I'd feel good about her winning.

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Speaker 3: Right, So, like, why we're not oppositional? We can be, but again, if you're on the same team.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about vibes, man, Like, I don't want to be sending it out vibes while you're over there going black black and now we've got competing vibes.

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Speaker 3: Wow. Like and you're fully dressed at this point under which is great.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, we had a really great time. The casino's unbelievable. They have over seventy four hundred slots.

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Speaker 3: That so here's the thing when we when I first heard that, I was like, is that a lot or is that a little? And then hearing what other casinos have when they're talking about massive casinos in Vegas that have like two hundred is insane to think how many slot machines and I had to ask the question, what would it take to get a Boy meets World themed slot machine? Which I think would be really cool, But apparently there's a licensing thing.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Disney, we have to get that approved by.

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Speaker 3: But it seems like it would be a really cool thing to have. Maybe Pod meets World. Maybe a Pod meets World slot machine, Yeah, where you only lose. There are no there's no payoffs at all.

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Speaker 6: You just put your money in except for one person, and there's an ad every eye. It's so clean, I know, and there's no smoking, so it's like it smells.

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Speaker 3: It's just it's a really great casino floor.

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Speaker 1: And then we had dinner at the Pine Steakhouse.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Uh we had Chilean sea bass.

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Speaker 6: You had a ribbi okay, and I had at bisk.

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Speaker 1: I had a harvest salad. You had a wedge No.

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Speaker 3: No, gens had had a wedge. You had a blue cheese bimoni.

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Speaker 1: I think that's what it was called. It's like whipped blue cheese. Yeah, and it's not for you guys. I love the salad. They had candied walnuts in it, and.

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Speaker 3: God, walnuts and blue cheese. You're rigging my bells. No wallets are awful, Okay, not candied. Not everything should be candies, yes, huh.

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Speaker 1: All right, now, the big event that riders chomping at the bit to talk about. Who would have thought that rider would be the one so excited to talk about it.

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Speaker 4: I just feel like that was the main event was It's literally the biggest thing that we did.

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Speaker 3: You know, in the last twenty four hours.

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Speaker 1: We saw Janet Jackson in the Yamava Theater, which is twenty five to twenty nine hundred maybe twenty eight hundred.

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Speaker 3: Set, relatively small considering how big the show was.

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Speaker 1: Right considering how big the dames are you are, this is like it's like being in a private room.

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Speaker 3: That's what's so cool about it. Is all like these headlining acts, but you're seeing like an intimately big stage show. Space was awesome. This is the second show I've seen in this theater. I also saw Nate Bargatzi, And that's the thing that's so cool about the theater itself is that for concerts amazing and then for comedy amazing. It's like the perfect size. I found myself actually watching her in person.

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Speaker 4: Way more on the screen, which usually it's the other way I worked fifty.

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Speaker 3: To fifty or no.

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Speaker 4: But I was like actually wanting to see her because you see her face, and yeah, it was great.

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Speaker 1: She really still sounds amazing. I made a poor assumption her mic was going to be off for most of the show.

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Speaker 3: Just because you're dancing and doing.

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Speaker 1: Every other dancing and it's common now to not really live sing that much. She sang the whole time dance and she barely took any breaks. And I thought the show started in a place where it was really well paced. It was like it started. By the time it ended, I was like, oh my gosh, this woman is on fire, like dancing can hit after hit after hit after hit. I knew four songs, which is a lot for you, Oh it is, that's a ton for me, Like I actually knew four songs. That was amazed, because you know, it's not my style of music. But obviously I knew who she was. But I was like, oh, I know I know these songs, these songs, yeah.

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Speaker 3: But they didn't. So I asked you because obviously you're the dancing expert of the experts, but you're the dancer. Where her backup dancers danced for like two hours straight and weren't out of breath. It was the weirdest thing in the world, Like, how are they doing this? There's no breaks in between the songs, like you just one banger after the next, and it's like they're dancing the whole time.

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Speaker 1: I know they're you know, conditioning on dancers is unlike anything.

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Speaker 3: Are we going to talk about the dancer? I think we should a favorite dancer. I fell in love with this guy. It was positive for you, totally positive.

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Speaker 4: Okay, not for you, No, for me it was too I don't even really notice him that much. Sex was so upset and it's all she watched was She's like, what is he doing there? And brought it up again this morning. We had a whole conversation about her.

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Speaker 3: She was like that guy and that hat fully clothed. What the heck? I love it because he was me. He was.

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Speaker 1: And there is one portion of the show where the dancers there were five dancers, five male dancers, and four of them came out with their shirts off and one by one walked out and showed off.

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Speaker 4: There they're all in various stages of undress, like you know, they're all matching outfits. No, they're all in different outfits and they're all energy. So there was like denim overalls that are down, jeans that are or denim pants that are big like, but that one guy was fully clothed.

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Speaker 1: He had a hat, turtleneck of denim. He had like a yeah, he had a long sleeve denim shirt and that.

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Speaker 4: Was very just she could not get over.

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Speaker 3: I was like, that's me.

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Speaker 1: Because he was in that outfit at the beginning they were because they weren't all shirtless through the whole show. It was just for this one song. But it was just funny because he still came out in the same outfit and walked the catwalk as if he had removed his shirt. And I thought, that's totally I am fully on board with something like I will not do that. And look, he was like, I like that guy, that's me.

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Speaker 3: That would be me. I would have gone backstage, put on another jean shirt and then come out again. Massah, yeah, he's my favorite. I was like, that's me. I'm the guy in.

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Speaker 1: The But I did wonder why not just set that one guy out for this?

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Speaker 3: Probably the symmetry of because the five of them, they were always kind of lined up the right way to always look esthetically pleasing. But it started with him on the top, and they had different levels of the theater and yet was awesome.

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Speaker 1: On the stage. There was that second riser.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought maybe he was like the dance captain. He's like in charge in.

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Speaker 1: Some ways, and as the person in charge, I don't have to take off exactly exactly.

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Speaker 3: I've been doing this for thirty years, kid, I've been naked long of it, like that kind of thing. Yeah, no, I I think you're right. I think he was the probably maybe the choreographer or one of the choreographers, and somebody's danced with her for years and years. He started on the top. Yeah, So my guess is he was like it is like a team, I imagine, and they probably do have a captain or somebody who's kind of in charge that and my wife hited it. I couldn't stop watching him the whole time. I was focused on distracting why he just couldn't have to get over like why is this guy wearing all the clothes.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't get over the fact that I couldn't figure out how she was able to sing like that with also the fans, because I was like, oh, so smart that they had fans blowing on the stage for her. Because the fans cheering us in the audi how did she sing like that? No, the fans blowing on her, which I.

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Speaker 3: Know constant fan work was great.

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Speaker 1: And she was serving so much hair, so much hair. What serving face she was? What serving face?

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Speaker 3: You realized, just wiping stuff across your face doesn't answer the question what does that mean? Her looks like look like you're you're you're emoting with your face.

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Speaker 1: Her face was so emotive, and it was like there were picture moments everywhere, you know, like at any point in time you could take a picture of her and it was like a she just looked spectacular.

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Speaker 3: Did you see the thing? By the way, this I love when she's interacting with her fans, where the guy came up and tried to give her a lay and security stopped him and she walked out. She's like, no, it's fine. She leaned down, he put the lay around her neck, and I love you so much. I mean it was really cool.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can tell she's super appreciative of her fans.

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Speaker 3: Her fans, you can tell. And I guess this was the end of her tour, the.

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Speaker 1: End of her tour. Yeah, I mean they did say it was the last the last date of twenty twenty five, so I don't know what her plans are for moving on.

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Speaker 3: But that's say something about Yamava though, where you know these huge talents, like I want to end my tour there. I mean, yeah, it's really incredible. Yeah, and we've already talked about concerts. We're coming back for absolutely that.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, yet, Will's going to be here for Violent Fems. I'm coming back from Busta Rhymes in March.

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Speaker 3: We're all pretty excited.

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Speaker 4: Have you guys ever been to a concert where somebody like literally says I love you to their audience?

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Speaker 3: Look like they all don't they all do that? Do they? Maybe not the ones I don't see any day. I feel like, we thank you, appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: Count Sabrina at the Greeks said I love you. Sabrina says I love you also much.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so interesting.

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Speaker 4: I was like, I don't know if I've heard this, And then I was like, I think I've seen clips of Michael Jackson doing that, Like I think.

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Speaker 3: It's probably it's more normalized with pop stars and it is like a singer songwriter to be like a band like that makes more sense for a pop star. But yeah, she was great though. I mean whether you knew her music, didn't know her music. When you see somebody who was born to entertain doing what they were born to do, it's inexperience. I mean, it really is.

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Speaker 1: We also got to see evet Nicole Brown, who was sitting in front of She was on Community. She's a spectacular actorible. It was really great to see her. She was having fun. She was here with her husband. We all took a picture together outside. Seeing Janet Jackson's name on the marquee is one of those things where you're like, shoot, this is like this is a this is massive, like this is a big name. Yep to see in such an intimate theater. So anyway, we had a fantastic time. As per USU. We couldn't shut up, so we had to turn this into a two parter. Hi, if you've enjoyed part one of our fifty million download celebration at the Yama of Our Resort and Casino, then you will want to check out Part two.

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Speaker 3: Sells way worse. It's all downhill. We'll see you over there.

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Speaker 1: Pod meets World is an iHeart Podcast produced and hosted by Danielle Fischel, Wilfredell and Ryder Strong executive producers, Jensen Karp and Amy Sugarman, Executive in charge of production, Danielle Romo, producer and editor, Tara sudbachsch producer, Maddy Moore, engineer and Boy Meets World super fan Easton Allen. Our theme song is by Kyle Morton of Typhoon. Follow us on Instagram at Pod Meets World Show or email us at Podmeets Worldshow at gmail dot com