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On with Mario a little bit. Mario

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Lopez joining me now on zoom. Olympic

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gold medalist Lindsay Vaughan, Welcome

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to the show, Lindsay, you look fantastic. Were

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you? Where are we speaking from? Oh? Thank

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you. I'm actually in New Jersey. UM,

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My fiance PK is getting ready for his

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season or hopefully we don't know what he's going to start,

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so we're here in Jersey. Nice. Nice? And

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is that a King Charles

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uh Spaniel or

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cavalier Cavalier King Charles. I knew

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it was along those same life So cute. He's

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a star. I'm just the I'm just sidekick.

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What's his name? This is Lucy

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lou her name Lucy.

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Excuse me, Lucy, forgive me for that.

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So, Lindsay, you've got this new unscripted

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series of The Pack about well

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dogs in their humans. Uh, tell

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us about it. We're big dog lovers over here, so this sounds

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cool? Thanks? Yeah, I mean it's

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a it was a really great opportunity. It's

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basically a global competition show,

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um where dogs and human partner

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up and compete in different challenges

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and the winner actually gets five thousand

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dollars And I think me. For me,

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the best part about it was a charity component.

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Um. We gave away two thousand

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dollars to each country that we visited, or thousand

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dollars total um, but we donate to different

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charities. We donated medical, surprise

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food and also the

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winner gets UM two

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dollars extra to give away to the charity

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of their choice. So I think we helped the

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dogs in the process of making an amazing

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of making amazing TV show. That's awesome.

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And what are some of the challenges for

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example, Um, there's a

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scent work, there's um fetching,

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there's tugging, um, there's

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I mean it was crazy, there's digging. Lucy

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would have not done well in any

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of these challenges, I can confirm

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that. But these dogs

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were incredible. You know, none of them had come

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into show with any sort of formal

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training, UM, but they had orientation

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in l A for three months UM,

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and so they were they were ready for these

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challenges and they did exceptionally well.

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I mean, it was really impressive to see. I

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I definitely was surprised, and I definitely

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think there are a lot more capable um

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than I give them credit for. Yeah, I like

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that their Novice. These dogs they had

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like those dogs that compete, you got the every

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dog. Yeah, they're like everyday

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dogs. And uh you think maybe

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surprisingly that that's fantastic. What congrats

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on that. Look forward to uh checking it out.

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And I've been noticing you've been putting yourself out there

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on social media, taken on body shamers

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and which, by the way, ridiculous

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anyone that has anything to say regarding

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you. Do you feel, um, like like

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you're making any sort of progress with this virtual

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judgment from people, because I feel like there's keyboard gangsters

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are gonna talk no matter what. Well, you

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know, I'm not, um,

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I'm a delusional of the fact that there will

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never be body shamers or you know,

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rolls on social media. But

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you know, my my my goal was to just

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give girls and women the confidence to just

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be themselves. You know, no one's perfect. Um,

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no one's going to be perfect. You know, we don't need a

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photoshop all the time. You know, we we just

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need to be more accepting of who we are, especially

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right now. You know, I think with COVID, it really gave

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me a new perspective of

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you know, we need to lift each other up. We needed

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more positive. You know, we've got so much

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negativity in the world that we don't need to be negative

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towards each other. Absolutely absolutely

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agree with you and man, good for you. By the way, UM,

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Winter Olympics a little over a year. Way,

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how's the pandemic affecting the athletes

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that are trying to prepare right now? I imagine you're

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outside and essentially

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alone a lot of times, so it shouldn't conflict

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or am I wrong? Um, it's actually

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really affected all of the skiers,

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UM, Who've I've talked to. You know, a lot of the

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mountains were closed down. Yeah, that's right, the mountain.

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You gotta have the mountain open, that's right. Summary.

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You know, Um, always the athletes travel

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to New Zealand or to Chile for

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training, and obviously travel was not

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possible. UM. A lot of the American

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athletes really struggled because you

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know, we don't really have skiing in the

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summer. We have one one mountain mount

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hood in Oregon, UM, but Europeans

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have all of the glaciers UM, and

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you know, definitely had a huge disadvantage. So

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I think, you know, geographically,

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you can either be in a very good position for

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Olympics or a very bad one. Wow,

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that's an interesting point. Let me ask you a

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personal question. I've never uh

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skied in my life. Is it too

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late for me now? Because I feel

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like now I'm too I'm too aggressive

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anyway, I'll probably wipe out and hurt myself

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at my age. Should I just like not eat, like

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just go kick it. I'm all about like hanging out and

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drinking in the I.

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But is it too late? The opera

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STI is definitely where it's at. But I don't

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think it's too late, you know. I think, Um,

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it's all about, you know, just being cautious.

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I mean, you can get hurt doing anything. You get

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her walking across the street or rolling your ankle,

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walk, you know, whatever, always get hurt.

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So I feel like, if you want to do it, if

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your family wants to do it, like you just go

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for it. And if you get hurt. I mean I've

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gotten hurt many times. I can tell you I'm walking

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and I still went back and did more. That's

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true. And and by the way, I get hurt all the time

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doing other stuff. He's averaging about

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one big injury a year. What's

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about that. I'm not that I'm not that age now everything

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just starts breaking down, So yeah, why not, I gotta

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do it. I get a bucket. I got at LEASTKI once. Come

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on, Um, now, I know you had

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to postpone your wedding because of the pandemic. Any

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thoughts when you might be rescheduling?

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Oh yeah, I mean we're just not sure what's

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going to happen. Um. We obviously are

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really excited to get married at some point, but you

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know, his family lives in Canada, and my

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family is kind of scattered across the US, and

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my one sister is married and lives in Italy,

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so you know, there's a lot of different issues

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that we face put this together safely.

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Um, So we're just we're not stressed about it. We're

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gonna wait and give it some time and and

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hopefully do it you know when it makes ends. And

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I don't know, I always lived by the model that everything

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happens for a reason, so I don't mind

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the extra time. You know, during the pandemic,

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she can you know we took that much

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better. Um, so I'm thankful for that.

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Yeah. No, exactly, no, rush, Rush's

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go anywhere ahead of us. Exactly.

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You are you doing anything for Thanksgiving. Um,

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I'm actually gonna go visit my family. Um.

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The nice thing that the nice thing about Pek

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not playing right now is that he can actually

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come with me to Thanksgiving. So, um,

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we're gonna go to Utah see my family and

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should be should be pretty fun. That's where were from? Originally

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in Utah. No, I'm actually

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from Minnesota, Minnesota, that's what I thought.

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Yeah, we're in Minnesota and

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know, um trying, I'm

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from just south of Minneapolis. Um.

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I grew up on a little hill called Buck Hill, so

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yeah that's me. Yeah,

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my sister lived there for like five years. Eden

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Prairie at the name of the neighborhood. It's

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cold. It is cold. Hey, it's

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cold that the water bottle next day came out there

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was frozen solid. Con't believe it. No,

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it's nice right there. Okay, before I let you go, I'm gonna

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put you on the spot. Quick questions, quick answers. Okay,

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favorite show you've binge during quarantine?

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Uh? What's

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it called? Um? What's

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the Home? Oh? The

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Bodyguard? Okay, it's

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great, but there's only one one season, so it

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was really disappointed. I couldn't really binge on it and

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it's always like six episodes, right, Yeah, you know

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I saw that was good too. Yeah, I wanted to keep

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going for a long time. That's a sign of a good

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show. Favorite TV or

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movie dog? Uh,

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favorite TV or movie doc? I

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don't know. Just recently watched that documentary

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called like American Murder

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about the woman from Colorado who's murdered,

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and that was really depressing, and so

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I do not recommend watching it. But that

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was the most recent one I watched. And I don't know

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why I even brought u up. First of all, I've seen that one and it's

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fantastic. But you think I said doc.

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I believe I actually said dog. I

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thought you were going to say the dog that was in the house.

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That would sup. I

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was trying to get that dog in that documentary right there.

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But yeah, I'm that d O G

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favorite dog. Yeah, like that's come

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out in a movie or TV

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show, I don't know. I

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mean Lucy like she's coming out hot.

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Hey, keep it in the family. She's

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like the new star in town. So I

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know her Instagram's blown up is the blown

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up as it should. She's beautiful, Lucy

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von Everyone loves it. I

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love it. Celebrity crush growing up.

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Oh uh, Bradpitt.

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I think everyone has had a crush

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on Brad pit right still

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does, probably favor

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forever. That's your forever crush. Have

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you ever met him? Um?

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I was like kind of right by him at

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this and I was

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like, oh, that's him, don't say hi. I

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was like trying to really play it cool, but

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in that playing at cool moment and miss

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the opportunity to say hello. So he's super

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cool. You get a chance to me him again, just go

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up to him. He's real nice. Okay, Well,

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next time we're together, you're going to introduce

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I'll totally introduce you, totally introduce you.

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Favorite Thanksgiving side dish, Um,

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the sweet potatoes with the marshmallows on top

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down the best. But I have burnt the marshmallows

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and I like him a little burn. Actually no,

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but I literally lived them on they were on flight. They're

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like, okay, that's might be a little much. Okay.

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And all time favorite athlete, uh

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besides peak Roger fere Okay,

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interesting? Yeah, great? Great? Um watch

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the pack out on Amazon

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Prime. Lindsay, congratulations

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on everything and hopefully we'll see in person soon. Thank

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you. Sounds good, look forward to it. Take care right

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on with Mario little pet