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Hey, so I recently learned about
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Badooies and Laboos, and now I've
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learned about Dubai chocolate and laboo
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together.
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The way you said Dubai even sounded like
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a Baoobie.
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Baooie Dubai.
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Yeah, it's like very like Bill Cosby.
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Um, yeah. So what? This is Dubai
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chocolate laboos, which is so many
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internet buzzwords cup.
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So is there a real laboo inside that
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chocolate shell?
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No, it's in the shape of a
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My laboo's ears broke. My lab boooo has
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a boo boo.
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So this is this is Dubai chocolate
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though, right?
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I was going to say I didn't think so
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until I saw the broken ears and it is.
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Okay. And this is like the [ __ ] Those
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of us who aren't up to date on our
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losers before we call them and skip and
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all that, what is all the words that
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you're saying?
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Batman was born at the wrong time.
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Yeah. What are all the words?
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Dubai chocolate is chocolate from Dubai.
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It has pistachios in it and Tik Tok got
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a hold of it and went ballistic. Right.
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I think that's the origin.
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It's like the shredded
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coconut pistachio mix.
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There's a word for it. Would you say,
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isn't it,
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P? I I don't know how to say the word,
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but it's pho dough, which is the same.
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Oh, yeah. Flo shredded.
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Baklava from But it's like little shards
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of it.
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Yeah. And it's shredded. And they fill
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the chocolate. Like if I break break his
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head.
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Yeah. Give a cross-section.
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See, but they're like you can buy I
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don't know how much these were. We'll
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have to ask. But you can buy a bar like
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this for like 20 bucks. It's so [ __ ]
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expensive.
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Holy [ __ ]
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Really expensive. I think both of those
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are $50.
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50. Those were 15 each. And
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then we got like a bunch. We got some
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more for the crew to try.
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$8 each for just
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This is $8.
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Is anyone in this room into the whole
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laboo thing?
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No. I think Laboos are stupid.
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I collect troll dolls and burpies. Like
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I should.
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All right. So, I'm going to start by
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trying the labu.
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Yeah, I'll try him as well.
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Well,
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I don't love that.
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You don't love it?
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I do not.
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I think it's I don't love it. It's just
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chocolate.
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It is.
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No, it's Dubai chocolate.
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You know what this tastes like?
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Do you remember on Halloween when you
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would get the um what were like the
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crunchy chocolate? I
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was going to say the blue crunch part.
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Crunch. Was going to say this tastes
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exactly like a crunch bar.
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It is exactly like it. It's not even It
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doesn't taste any different at all.
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You don't taste the pistachio?
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Uh-uh.
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Try maybe the actual
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drizzle.
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I Another soap box for me to hop on real
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quick. I hate um what's what's it called
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when you're just getting excess like I
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hate the whole excess thing that's been
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happening now. Like this. You can't even
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[ __ ] eat it. You're going to spill
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it.
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Like the like the milkshakes that have
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like a whole slice of cake on top and
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all.
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That [ __ ] makes me so mad. I don't know
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what that's for.
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It's just for That's the dessert alarm.
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It's going off.
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Oh my god. Yeah, it's excess for the
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sake of excess. When you're like, why?
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Just charge me half and give me half and
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I'll be happier. So, I'm going to take
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out the strawberries.
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I'm going to eat it as is.
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Oh, it's all strawberries.
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I'll try one for science.
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I thought it was like a milkshake.
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Damn it. What's that? Like, it's all
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Oops. All berries.
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Yeah. So, this is chocolatecovered
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strawberries with the Dubai pistachio
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stuff on it.
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I mean, I like it better than the
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strawberry.
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I don't like strawberries.
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Really?
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I don't. No.
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The texture thing.
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I actually vehemently hate.
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I thought you also were I thought you
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both shared that opinion.
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No, I hate cherries. M
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um
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I mean I like it more just cuz I like
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strawberries, but it really does just
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taste like those Halloween crunch bars.
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One to one.
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So I've had take a bite that
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a Dubai chocolate.
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Take
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What did I have? I had Dubai chocolate
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something and the pistachio was much
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stronger.
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Um
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I'm getting a little of the pistachio
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but it's not. It's It's like very very
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little. Especially for how like reptar
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green this looks. I thought it'd be like
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overwhelming.
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No. I Huh. I wonder if this is a bad
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showing of the
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I'm surprised it's all strawberries. I
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thought it was going to be like a
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milkshaky kind of
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Maybe we should fly to Dubai.
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Try it there.
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Do you think they actually have
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I was going to say Dubai chocolate an
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actual Dubai thing or is that just
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This feels like a suburbia like America
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thing that's like oh Dubai chocolate.
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Chinese food.
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Yeah, they don't eat.
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Not actually anything like Chinese food.
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But I saw there's there's a new one
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coming out that
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new Dubai chocolate
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kind of. It's they're selling.
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Yeah. Dubai just dropped more chocolate.
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It's like pink and purple inside. It
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It's looking like It looks like cotton
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candy almost on the inside. I think
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people are just stuffing [ __ ] in
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chocolate and I don't like it. I think
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it's this is the next iteration of
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something that is visually interesting
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for social media that the thought behind
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what it
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rolled ice cream and that kind of thing.
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Like nothing.
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No, I went somewhere and had this. The
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pistachio was stronger there. It was
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fine then. Um it was just meh.
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It's like okay.
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Yeah. I mean if you like chocolate
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strawberries, you'll like it.
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But for the price you pay, it's I think
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way too much. I completely agree.
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Is it like across the board like super
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expensive or was just this?
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I was in the grocery store the other day
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and this is how I saw the pink and
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purple one and they have they were like
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this big next to the register and it was
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$18 for a crazy.
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I actually asked the cashier. I was
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like, "Have you tried the $18
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chocolate?" And he was like, "I don't
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like chocolate at all, but my girlfriend
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had it and said it's fine." And I was
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like, "Okay,
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I'm just fishing the strawberries out of
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the chocolate. I like them a lot more."
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I'm going to move back onto the labu.
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I'm going to get a little more pistachio
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crema.
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Put it on my labu.
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Good idea.
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Are you guys going to start collecting
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labus now?
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I don't think you can get them anymore.
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Yeah. Not only are they hard to get, but
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I also just don't even like the joke of
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it. I
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So, is it a joke? Is it like a sort of
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ironic kind of thing?
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People like love flip
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cuz they're main hot take. They're not
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like cute. They're kind of weird.
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That's the point though.
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Yeah. Okay.
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So, this this whole wave of like
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collectible plush toys is kind of
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popping.
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Do you guys know um farticles? Not
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farticles.
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We all farticles.
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Oh my god. What are they called? I just
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learned about them. They're supposed to
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be ugly. Hold on. Oh, look at ugly the
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boo boo. Maybe
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they have the lafu.
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No, no, no, no. I think I bought a lafu.
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What is a lafufu?
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Yeah, they're fake lofu.
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Oh, I see.
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And they're supposed to be uglier or
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something.
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Oh, I
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I'm going to get the second 24 karat
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gold one this time.
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24 karat gold. Laboom.
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Amazing post. People were like giving
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their labels.
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That's so good.
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I don't like them. the boobles.
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With like more stuffing really funny,
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this little boo boo has a fat ass.
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This is making me so mad cuz there's a
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lot of these. Like I when I went through
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the rabbit hole on stream, there's so
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many of these like plush toy
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collectibles. One of them is just like
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naked kids. It's really [ __ ]
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Oh, yeah. Yeah. Do you know it's [ __ ]
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weird.
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Yeah. This is a huge market now.
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Those have been around for a bit longer.
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Fugler. They're called fuglers.
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Wait, bugler? Yeah, they called
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Oh, that's the fugler. I barely know
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her.
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Oh, Spongebob collab.
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Yeah, here they did a Spongebob fugler
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collab. Hold on.
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Look at that.
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How do I How do I zoom it in?
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Let me try.
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Oh, wow. That is something.
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And then they got a Patrick Fuggle.
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It looks like the uh the rabbit face.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. Those have also been around for a
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long I back in my day you you'd collect
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some cards. Okay, stop collecting lab.
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Do they
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do they come with cards?
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Fuglers.
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I'm I'm into fuglers now.
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I don't think they got
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You said my magic word. I don't know if
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they've got me.
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Oh [ __ ]
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Throw the labu out. He just the card.
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Can you imagine the Magic the Gathering
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laboo secret layer? Oh, [ __ ] me. That'd
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go nuts. The universe beyond troubles.
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God, it's crazy. Um
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Yeah, I I took a few more bites while
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we've been talking as I tend to do. I
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taste no pistachio.
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I don't either. The chocolate is it's
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fine. Like I don't hate it. I don't love
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it. I would not pay $8 for it.
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15
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or $15, right?
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There are way better things you can do
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with $15 than this probably.
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Yeah. Even just looking up Dubai
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chocolate, it literally just talks about
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how in 2024 it kind of just spawned from
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Tik Tok. I don't even know if this was
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even popular in Dubai. dog. I I went
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into Barnes & Noble the other day and I
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was like, "All right, I'm going to find
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a book." And every book I picked up when
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I looked online because now I have to
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see whether it's a a book talk book or
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not.
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And all of it is. And every single thing
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is like this one only has two spicy
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scenes in it. I'm like, I just want to
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read a [ __ ] book.
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It is. It is crazy how in sync we are. I
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actually just went to Barnes & Noble
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invite me to buy to buy uh romance
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novels cuz I'm trying to find like
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He's looking for the book top. looking
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for them.
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I think we have him. His name is He's an
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international bestselling author named
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Quan Mills.
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Oh, you're on the Quan Mills train.
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Oh, boy.
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She has books.
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I bought one from a Tik Tok ad. It was
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this
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hes got roaches in the fridge.
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It was like it was him and it was like
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if you buy it now cuz like when Tik Tok
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was going away, he's like I'm sending
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signed copies to everybody so I get this
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like signed copy of this book and it's
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just ridiculous. The cover is crazy. And
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then I look him up and he's got like 200
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titles.
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Quan Mills is This generation's Chuck
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Tingle. If you know Chuck Tingle.
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Um I think Andrew's got a good book you
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should try. It's called There is Seaman
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on My Poop Deck.
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Yeah, Sean.
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Is that not Chuck Tingle? It sounds
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No, no, that was a random guy in costume
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at the Renaissance Fair.
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It's a gay romance novel. Very steamy.
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book talk with
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five five red peppers out of five red
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peppers.
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That's a good readads original.
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Yeah, back back to the original point.
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Yeah, back to Labou.
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Also, the book the book I got was a The
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Haunting of Adelaide. If any of you have
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heard of it, I'm four chapters deep.
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It's [ __ ] weird.
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So, why are you reading book talk
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romance novels?
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I want to see what all the hype's about.
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Have you read the big ones?
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Yeah, I'll read the big ones with you if
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you I've read the first of the big ones
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because my significant other is into the
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book talk thing.
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Let's call it what it is. Your
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significant other is fairies and elves.
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She's in a fairy.
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Um,
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vampires.
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She's a good girl.
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I want to go home.
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This shouldn't go in the video. Anyway,
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it's uh it's fine. It's not really
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They're not as steamy as you think.
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Yeah, they're not as steamy as you think
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they are. And also it's just have you
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read like Aragon?
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Mhm. Long long.
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It's basically the cover for your ears.
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The bad version of that. Like it's not
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that is my thing is all of these books
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that are getting big.
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I'm not saying the authors are
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unskilled. It's just a level of writing.
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Exactly.
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They know what they're doing for sure.
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It's just [ __ ] writing. Like it's just
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pandering.
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It's pretty good though. Honestly,
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you should try Avatar cuz I the fifth
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book. I'm happy.
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We should do a book a month club
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where you two both read a a romance book
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and then we'll sit here and we'll talk
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about it where the audience can read
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along with me.
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The song of Achilles. Was that a book
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talk book? Because that one slash great
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writer. It took her 10 minutes.
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I think that's an that's like a
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bestseller.
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The song of Achilles.
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There's a there's a spicy scene. Hunting
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of Adelaide was like
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it is a book that seems like it is
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written solely for people that can't
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read and want erotica.
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All right. So, you said you're a few
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chapters in.
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I'm four chapters. It's
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Do you want to start with that? I will
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go pick up the book tonight.
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It's 604 pages.
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Why? Why? Wait, the other ones are
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smaller.
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So, what drew you to that specific?
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I was in this section and someone
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actually like asked if I was looking for
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something. And I was like, "Yeah, I'm
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kind of just looking for like a really
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odd romance."
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Okay.
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And they're like, "Well, someone
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recommended this to me and pulled out
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The Haunting of Adelaide Saga Chapter 1
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or something."
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Oh, so there's more.
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Yeah. Interesting. She was like, "Uh, a
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friend of mine loved this. I started it.
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I hated it. I couldn't finish it, but I
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mean, it's weird. So maybe it's what
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you're looking for." I was like,
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we could start with that.
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We should start with the big one.
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I'm not on Tik Tok, so therefore I'm not
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on book talk. I imagine it's mainly
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targeted toward women.
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It is.
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We should start the male rating system
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for
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for women.
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14 mentions.
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It's three three boners out of five or
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something like that.
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I think that's
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that goes hard. Yo,
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all the spicy scenes in the Song of
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Achilles, gay spicy scenes.
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Four bars out of five if that's what
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you're into.
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So far, the spicy scenes in this one are
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like uh they they don't they haven't
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happened yet. So, like in the opening
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scene, she's like, "I was standing there
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and I saw a weird man outside and my
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nipples were poking out my shirt."
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Oh, no.
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And I couldn't help
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pedantic writing.
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I couldn't help but feel the danger and
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the thrill as my rock hard [ __ ] nips
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in my in their cotton in his shirt. Now
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I'm a pirate.
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They're seaming on me, poop.
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All right. Wait. I love this idea. We
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should We should do book club. I'm happy
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to do that one.
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We'll do it over dessert.
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We'll do a cute little setup where we
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It's like the show Wine About It. We'll
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we'll like sit on the couch and talk
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about our spicy romance novels. I've
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been going through like circling my
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favorite parts of the book. And uh the
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in chapter 3, it took a crazy turn.
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We're following a
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You're only in chapter three and it
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turned crazy.
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Yeah. We we switched perspectives from
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her. She was trying to get like a dick
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call, but the guy got mad, so he punched
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a hole in her wall. And then it switches
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perspective to this guy who was
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torturing a man. He's like, "So I took I
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took me knife.
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I took me knife and I dangled it in
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front of his eyeball and then I got the
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information about the ritual and I
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jabbed it into his eye."
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We see the reverse point of view of the
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girl from before. He's like, "Man, her
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nipples are really,
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you know, chapter five is that guy. I
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stood in her lawn. Her nipples poked
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through her shirts.
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It's It's
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She looked uncomfortable.
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I I've been I've been giggling. It's
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been actually helping me sleep. That's
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the whole reason I did it as I books to
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try and get sleepy.
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All right. Well, I'm happy to do that
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one. But we should do What is the one?
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What's
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Yeah, we should do that one cuz that
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I'll pick up two copies tonight. I'll
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bring one over.
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Sure. Um
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I cannot wait to hear y'all's opinion on
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this because holy [ __ ] it's bad.
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Actually, I'm excited.
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It's very
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young adult. Yeah.
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And then there's like sex.
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That's what it feels like is it's all
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like spicy young adult now.
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Yeah, it kind of is.
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And I like reading fantasy and you go to
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the fantasy section and it's like would
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you like sex? And you're like, "No, I'd
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like like King with a sword." And it's
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like sex.
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Oh, he's got a sword.
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All
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of it. Except there's like misborn which
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book talk has latched on to misborn now
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too which is interesting because it's
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not like those but I don't know it's
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sorry I I'll pick you up actar.
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Yeah. So anyway not worth
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don't buy Dubai chocolate.
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Yeah. Not not worth the not worth the
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price.
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Especially not in labu form.
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Yeah. See you.
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Bye.
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All right.
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