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Welcome to the Cat and Moose podcast.
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I'm Cat and I'm Moose.
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This is a true life podcast where we explore the quirks of being human.
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Excuse me, I was going to say how's this?
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And then I choked on my own spit.
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Excuse me, I was going to say how's this, and then I choked on my own spit.
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That's what sounds like is happening up in heaven right now.
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It sounds like some angels are choking on their own spit, and the way the thunder is just rumbling in the background.
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You guys, it's kind of nice.
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Yeah, I kind of like it.
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That rolling, rolling thunder Me too.
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We're also under severe thunderstorm and tornado watch.
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Yes, as we record, here it comes.
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Here comes the rain Again.
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Falling on my head like a memory, falling on my head like a new emotion.
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Hey, hey, hey, talk to me.
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Shoo-wop, shoo-wop, like lovers do Shoo-wop, shoo-wop, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha.
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I like your dancing.
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That went along with that.
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Yes, I'm feeling really, really Joyful, joyful, I like that.
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Not really, but that felt nice.
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I woke up and I was like I am so damn tired today.
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What is going on on this crazy rainy, stormy day in Nashville?
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I can tell you what it is is.
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We socialized last night, but we were home by 8 o'clock.
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Oh, I know.
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It took a lot out of us.
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We socialized, Mercury, went into retrograde and now we've got weather moving through town that is going to make it feel like it's winter again for two days.
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So, like.
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All of our systems are just a little bit like.
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Yeah, I'm upset Cause I have to go out.
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Do you have to go out this week?
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Do you have to?
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go into the world.
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This week I do.
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I do every day this week.
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I leave on.
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Wednesday, again for tour and I'm going to other States and I'm going to other states.
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That's how tour works.
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Sarah, have you only been in Tennessee this whole time?
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Well, I've been off for like two and a half weeks, so now my brain has to reset.
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It's going to be good, though it is going to be good.
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Are you enjoying your job on the road, sarah?
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Yeah, I really am.
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I'm loving it.
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That's awesome, and was it nice to have a couple of weeks off, and what did you do?
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Yeah, stayed home total staycation.
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We worked on lots of podcast things, which has been fun, as you guys know.
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And I've done some outdoor projects.
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She has built a new walkway in the backyard.
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It's in progress.
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Most things are Now.
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Is this being?
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Is she utilizing the same like stepping stones, as what I saw in your yard when I was over there last week?
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They look like a sliver from a tree trunk.
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Yeah.
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You know, yeah, those are so cool.
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Thank you, trunk.
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Yeah, you know.
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Yeah, those are so cool.
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Thank you.
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Will you tell our patrons and our listeners the story of when I came over the other day and you had just cut the grass around your ride on lawnmower?
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Well, I didn't cut it because my ride on lawnmower is stalled.
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Because my ride on lawnmower is stalled.
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It's dead right now.
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But the grass had been cut all around it and it just looked so ironic because there was all this like really tall grass growing up around the lawnmower.
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Yeah, well, the other day we tried to get it started and I was like I have an idea we need to do like a running, a starting jump, and so we pulled it out on the sidewalk where we had a little bit of an elevation and we popped the clutch and she got on it and I just started pushing it.
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I'm like, turn it, turn it, turn it.
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And two people went by laughing driving past us and it didn't work.
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Here's what I want.
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Here's what I want to know is why, in the name of all that is good and right, did you not record that?
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I know.
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I thought about it as we were doing it because, well it, it was really funny.
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We're in the middle of suburbia, just you know, pushing each other.
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We're like trying it now, you try, you ride it.
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And then Sarah's yelling at me like steer it, steer it and I'm like, oh, I didn't think about that.
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I ended up, I know yeah, and it it didn't go any faster than like three miles an hour, so you think it sounds really fast, but it was like three miles an hour, so you think it sounds really fast.
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but it was like, and we couldn't go down a real hill because we would never have stopped.
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Yeah, that's correct.
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Yeah, so it's entirely pointless.
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Do you know how in in some like movies and TV shows they'll have like the characters like on a boat, like kind of driving the boat.
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But their hair's not moving.
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Yes, so it's like.
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You know there's no wind.
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You know it's like it's just it doesn't look right.
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It's like I'm envisioning you guys on this, like really like, crazy like downhill like burning, like the pits of hell lawnmower.
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And it's in, like your hair is just like completely yeah.
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Yeah, it's pretty much what was happening, and it probably wasn't even as exciting as it felt, but at 45 years old, I get my thrills where I can.
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Yeah yeah, I mean as you, I think you should, and I celebrate that have you ridden a lawnmower lately?
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Cat no, I have not ridden a lawnmower.
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Lately have you not been on a motorized vehicle since you flipped yourself on the forerunner?
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pretty much.
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Yeah, I've, I mean other than my actual car, right, right, you know, and someone I was reading through my journal the other day, old journal and um this is gonna be juicy from like 2019, like early 2020 kind of around, when we started the podcast, and one of the quotes that I found in my journal was that in order to enjoy life, there has to be at least some level of complete denial I mean, I would agree with that.
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I used to get so mad at the uh, the idea of, um, ignorance is bliss.
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It used to make me so mad and I'm like, why would you want to be ignorant?
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And yet, in the case of life, there are times where where you can choose ignorance if you don't really know, I'd just rather not know Totally, I'd just rather not know.
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So wait, you wrote this in your journal.
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Well, it was a quote from my therapist, actually.
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Oh, your therapist, I see.
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Well, that's encouraging.
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And then it made me think about how you know.
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One of her points was like if you, if you are going to get in a car and drive across town, you have to to engage in some sort of denial, going down the road, trusting tens of hundreds of other humans to follow the rules and do exactly what they're supposed to do so that we all stay safe.
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Right, you know, like there's a chance that that's not going to happen, and it's like you've got to kind of just go like la, la, la, la, la, hope it doesn't, hope, it doesn't, hope, it doesn't, hope it doesn't.
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And it reminds me of this news article that I saw this week from out in San Francisco.
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This family had just bought a Tesla Model X brand new, four days old car, yeah, and the car was parked in the driveway.
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An 18-month-old somehow got in the driver's seat of the car, turned the car on and drove the car.
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An 18-month-old drove the car down the driveway and into the garage and hit its mother, who was eight months pregnant.
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Oh my gosh, this happened on your street, on my street.
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That's what I heard you say earlier.
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No, it's a news article.
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No, this is on your street, on my street.
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That's what I heard you say earlier.
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No, it's a news article.
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No, this is a news article, but keep going.
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Wait a minute.
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I have multiple questions Down the street.
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Can I pause for questions?
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Yes, yes, okay.
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So you first of all called the child an 18-month-year-old and I need clarification on that.
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Secondly, she got pregnant fast.
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Can we pay?
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attention to that.
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Right, okay, she spent less than nine months recovering.
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Right, exactly.
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And doing it again.
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There she went again.
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Okay, is she okay?
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Yes, oh, thank God.
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She broke her pelvis and had to deliver the baby early.
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I mean that could have crushed the baby, the baby's okay too.
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Yeah, and Tesla's not okay because they're getting sued?
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I bet, because I guess, like the lady said, that the salesman said this is the safest SUV on the market and yet somehow her 18 month year old child still got in there and drove that puppy into the garage and pinned mama up against the wall.
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So oh my gosh.
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Okay, can I share the news that I saw this week that I need discussion about?
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Yes, did you guys see about this?
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I was just going to share that, no way.
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Yes, I, we need to talk about this.
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I have something.
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You guys have probably heard of these twins.
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They're conjoined twins.
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Abby Hensel is one of the twins and the other twin who is conjoined to Abby is Brittany Hensel, and they were on the Oprah Winfrey show in 1996.
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And then they had a TLC reality series called Abby and Brittany, and Abby got married to this guy who was a nurse and army veteran.
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Looks like a super nice guy and his name is Josh Bowling and they live in Minnesota.
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But it brought up a lot of questions that I thought we might be able to cover here on the Cat and Moose podcast.
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Yeah, I mean we are an expert podcast, so I think this is the place where people would want to come to get a better understanding of how this would work.
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So I I know I have questions.
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What are your questions?
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I.
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I would like to share my screen while we're talking about this.
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Oh, let me unshare mine, because I had the same thing I didn't know it was on your list as well I know it's perfect.
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Yeah, it's like you guys share a brain we are conjoined at the brain share away, sarah.
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Oh, they're dancing at the wedding yeah and there's some interesting comments here.
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Okay so.
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Abby and Brittany.
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They're not both married to him Right.
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Okay, here's what it says.
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Abby, the left side conjoined twin, married Josh Bowling, a nurse and United States Army veteran, in 2021.
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Abby and Josh kept their marriage under wraps from the public eye until 23.
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This clip is from their wedding reception.
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The Hansel twins share a bloodstream and all organs below the waist.
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Abby controls their right arm and leg and Brittany controls the left side.
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So glad the twins are still living their life.
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Congratulations.
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Lots of questions so they share organs from the chest down.
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I'm guessing Brittany had to agree to this marriage and that's my first question.
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Would you like to answer that?
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Kat does not look like she wants to answer that.
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I just like I am.
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Did I get you, Did I?
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get you, I know.
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You have got me, you have got me.
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I mean, I feel the same way.
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There's a lot.
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There is a lot and I just like I really want, I want to under, I just want to understand, I want to.
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It's like I want to sit down with them and go like, what is this, what is this experience like for you, like for each of you, as well as for the husband, I mean, like that is, is it just a thing where it's like their family has normalized this because, like they love each other and this is like what they know?
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Well, yeah, I think so.
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Um, you know, and listen, let me say, like, this is something I you know.
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I've never known anyone who was a conjoined twin.
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I remember them being in the news because it was so rare that they could survive, and so I guess my questions are like I'm just a little worried about Brittany, and I'm sure she's fine, and I understand why they didn't bring this to light until much later because there are so many questions.
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But some of the comments are great.
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What happens when they get into a fight with their husband?
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I noticed when they were dancing at the wedding that both arms were around him, so I suppose, you know Brittany is coming along for the ride, so anyway scroll back scroll
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back anyway, scroll back, scroll back the other way.
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This yeah this comment thread assured me that hell is gonna be lit like what does that?
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even mean, probably just because people are stupid.
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Let's see, um, this guy says I have a lot of questions and none are appropriate.
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Um, but yeah, I just made me think.
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And then I thought well, what if Brittany wants to get married?
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That was my next thought, yeah.
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Right, what do we do Do?
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we all just live together.
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And then you know I have to think about the sex, not just to make sure everyone's on board.
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But then what if Brittany gets married?
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Do they also get to have sex with their her husband?
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I think so.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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I mean because, like, the organs below the waist are shared.
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Yeah, so what about having a baby?
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I mean, that's anyway, it's fascinating.
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I want to say that it is fascinating.
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Yes, it is fascinating.
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I have more questions, but I will save them.
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I'm glad we both had that, thank you.
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Thank you, thanks for covering it, guys.
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Yeah, I mean absolutely.
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I just feel completely stunned, mace.
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Well, I'm so glad oh, okay, I mean, I was too for what it's, for what it's worth.
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Yeah, um, how are you guys doing?
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I should have started with that.
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Oh, hey, moose, oh hey kat hey producer sarah.
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hello guys, kat and Miz Hi.
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How are we doing?
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That is the question that has been posed, and are you posing that to me and Sarah as conjoined twins?
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Yes, as my favorite conjoined twins.
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Okay, how?
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are you?
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How are they?
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How are they?
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Yeah, sarah, would you like to answer for our right side or our left side?
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The right side because you're left handed.
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Okay, how are we doing?
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We have had a slightly stressful day, maybe more annoying than other, but otherwise I feel a little warm.
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I'm happy to see you.
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Yes, I'm happy to see you too, and I'm thankful that things haven't been too crazy for our right side today.
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Our left side today is feeling a little bit like, maybe a little bit of frustration, because it just today has felt weird.
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I think it's like, you know, mercury went into retrograde.
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You know we've already talked about socializing and and all of that.
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And then, like today, like my schedule has been strange and yet really good and and I have felt like it's 10, 30 in the morning, when it's like four o'clock in the afternoon but four o'clock in the afternoon hasn't gotten here yet.
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But I feel like I've already lived it like it just feels very strange in the left side of our body today I agree on the strangeness.
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I woke up feeling tired and I have so many people lately that I feel like are going through the hard stuff right now and um, I was reminded this morning of this quote by Rainer Maria Roche Let everything happen to you.
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Beauty and terror, just keep going.
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No feeling is final.
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And.
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I was sharing that with a friend this morning who is just dealing with a bunch of grief around something, and I was just like you know, I, I we talk about this a lot, kind of our therapy journeys and what each of us are going through.
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But you know, I I feel like I went through a lot in my twenties and thirties but, like things just feel a lot heavier since COVID, you know and I don't know if that's just the marker that I've put on it, but something about like 2020 forward has just felt heavy and, um, I just want to encourage people that, uh, sometimes that emotion feels like it's not going to go away and that it's not going to get better or it's not going to loosen and it does.
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And so if you're in a place right now where you're like struggling around something, just know it can get better.
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Yeah, yeah and one of the things that um that that reminds me of moose is that my understanding is that emotions come in waves.
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Yeah, and so they're constantly changing and that doesn't mean that I'm sad now and happy one second later.
