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In this episode of Mustache Crafting Collective, the hosts share their latest crafting projects, discuss the joys and challenges of fiber arts, and answer listener questions about techniques and patte...
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I'm Dreia.
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I'm Meg.
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I'm Tina.
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And Dom Jess.
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And this is Part of My Stash.
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Welcome to Part of My Stash, a podcast about crafting within the fiber arts and how awesome
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it is.
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Yeah.
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Before we get into today's topics, let's check out what we're working on this week guys.
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Jess.
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I'm still doing the cat sweater.
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Are you?
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No cat, cat knit pullover sweater.
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Yes.
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Um, I'm almost to the final increase row though.
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And then I've got like nine more rows and then I'm done with the color work and I don't
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know if that's good or bad, honestly, because then it's just the same color going and going.
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But I am getting there.
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Oh.
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Yeah.
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I mean, it is coming along.
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It is and they're super cute and I'm sad that I'm just like you have almost full cats
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on this on this project.
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I don't know why I'm having such issues with it, but I am.
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But I did also find another color work project that I'm like, that looks cool.
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So maybe that'll have me finish this one legitimately.
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So I can certain another one that I'm going to have the same problem with probably, but
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persevere.
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Get a persevere.
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It's getting there.
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Um, oh, I'm using a critical hit die sorcerer in the colors, embers and displacer.
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Beautiful.
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Tina.
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I am working on the Hi-Vis-Beanie because this is I think the only beanie I have left in
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my whips because I finished working through them.
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Yeah.
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I don't know why.
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I think I just am trying to avoid everything else in my life.
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So the teeth are fair.
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The colors are neon yellow, neon orange and like a DK weight.
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So I did finish the Northward beanie, which is what I was, I think it was what I was working
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on last time.
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It was.
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By Tin Candidates.
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It's beautiful.
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Colorway Sugar Maple by Sugar Makeupel fibers in single ply bulky.
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And it's very cute.
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It is very cute.
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You may touch it.
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It's a little damp.
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It's very, it's very fall.
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It's, it feels like it's going to be really cozy though.
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Yes, it is.
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Like it's a little damp still, but it feels like it's going to be cozy.
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Oh, that is nice.
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Look at you blocking.
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OK, but I had to for both of these because they were very small when I finished them.
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And did that fix it?
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It's loomed very nice.
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Yeah, the Northward was like not even going over like part of my head.
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And then when I blocked it, now it's like nice and fitted.
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It's got nice pump cables too.
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And you like that.
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Your cables are beautiful.
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Meg.
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So I am still working on Winterlight by Meg Gadsby.
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I just did since last last episode.
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Just did take a look at my Sairee sweater.
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I did.
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After I nagged.
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And she helped me figure out what I had to do.
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And I was torn on which project I was going to work on tonight.
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But I was inspired by shout out to Jen on Instagram who said that quote,
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the project monogamy is and then did the clap emoji.
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So I'm going to stick with the project monogamy of these.
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I'm the project that I've been working on.
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So good.
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That is good peer pressure.
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It was real good.
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Thank you, Jen.
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Because I really, I really was ready to go jump back to the sweater.
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But I'm like, you know what?
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I am.
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You are so close.
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I'm so close to be honest.
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It looks so good with this shawl.
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Like that face.
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It is beautiful.
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I'm working on it in fiber optics, gradient in Texas blue bonnets.
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I don't have a lot of yarn left.
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So we're getting there.
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Nice.
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So I don't know if I will completely stick with it until it is done,
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but I am trying really hard to stick with it until it is done.
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I really want to finish the project.
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Meg, I believe in you.
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I believe in me too.
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You can do those.
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Yeah.
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Let me tell you finishing one.
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Once I finish the cocoa, I was like, I'm finishing this northward.
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Right.
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And for the first time in a very long time,
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I pulled out my knitting while I was sitting in the watching TV,
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which for me is a big deal.
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Because I've really been only knitting with you guys.
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So it's a high.
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And then you want to taste it.
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That finishes.
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I know.
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I will feel that that's kind.
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I really want to.
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And again, I know we talk about a lot.
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Like it's not about the quantity that you finish or anything like that.
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I get it.
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But for my own personal edification, only because you're so close.
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Right.
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I want to finish something.
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I will be very happy when I finish something.
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Drea, I finished the happy turtle pattern.
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He's very cute.
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He is super cute.
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I like how big his eyes are and how floppy.
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I like his little flippers.
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I like his floppy little flippers.
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Yeah.
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He's cute.
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Yeah.
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It's definitely an upgrade from the turtle pattern that I was doing from that.
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Which is also cute.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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The floppy flippers.
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The kit was a good start.
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But now they're getting a little bit more involved.
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And I like that for me.
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Yeah.
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He's very, very cute.
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He is very cute.
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I have started another happy turtle pattern.
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I'm telling you, when you feel like it, look up crafty intentions because she has a ton
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of little creatures and there are lots of fun.
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Let me tell you what released today.
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What released today?
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I am going to be making this.
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Okay.
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I am very excited.
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Oh my god.
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Oh, you...
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It is a BLT Rex.
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Oh, a BLT Rex.
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That's amazing.
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And that was Taco at first.
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She has a taco source too.
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That's great.
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Also good.
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Yes.
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Fantastic.
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And that's a pattern by Crouton's crochet.
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And if you have not checked out her and her patterns, man.
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That's cute.
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She's got a lot of like food animals.
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How do you choose one to be cute?
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I mean, once you start with a banana source, it's only an evident that you eat.
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You end up with a BLT source.
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Truth.
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It's true.
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Lepere slow.
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She's also got a pie serratops.
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Oh my god.
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Oh.
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And he ended that one just with a name.
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I know.
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And it's...
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It is super cute.
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They're all super cute.
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I bet.
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So I'm going to be working through probably her entire series of food animals.
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As you do.
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As I do.
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With turtles on the side because I am really enjoying this happy turtle pattern.
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It's a great pattern.
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As always, big twist baby bear.
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Happy turtle pattern by Happy Turtle crochet.
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By the way, because everyone keeps reminding me on yarn saver, big twist,
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IP got picked up by Michaels.
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Yes.
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Certain IPs.
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So I don't know which one Michaels is going to have and which one herchners is going
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to have.
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Like, I don't know how the splits going.
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But that means I don't think herchners was going to pick up baby bear.
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So I'm hoping Michaels is going to pick up baby bear because they're original one that
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they tried to do with loops and threads that was like a...
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It's a competitor to this wrap.
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It's not good.
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It's crap.
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I have purchased it.
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It is not my favorite.
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So I think they're trying to basically take the IP for the formula and then rebrand it
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as that.
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Man, I hope so.
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Because I don't think they're necessary.
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I think they got the intellectual property to take the fiber content and make the blend,
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but I don't think they're going to put it out as big twist baby bear.
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So we'll have to see what happens.
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Michaels is advertising a lot about when we went there a couple, was it two weeks ago?
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Two weeks ago.
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And they had signs up saying, I don't think they said big twist, but mentioning the
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Joe, like buying out some of the Joanne's yarn.
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So yeah, they definitely didn't buy all of them, but I want to say that they bought the
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remainder because they had pre-sold a couple to like, personers and like, other places.
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But it, I mean, it makes sense.
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This is not going away.
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Hey, yeah.
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That's a great thing.
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Yeah.
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And so if you were looking for it, hopefully it comes out in a very similar fashion, especially
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if they have the recipe for it.
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So that's good.
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We're going to try something a little bit new moving forward.
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We're going to introduce a new segment, just a little, ask us some stuff.
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Maybe we'll answer.
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Our first question that has run across our desks, how does one block a dragon slash alligator
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scale stitch bag pitched by Winters Eve 86?
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Jess, since you're, I think I'm the only one that's made a dragon stitch.
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I'm just kidding.
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So full disclosure, I did not block mine.
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Any of mine at all.
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I find that once you fill them with enough stuff, they stretch the way you want them to.
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And if they don't, it needs more stuff.
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I can see where that's an issue.
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So what you can do, depending on what you used, honestly, a steam block is kind of your
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best bet just to loosen up the yarn a bit and let it rest.
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I have seen people put like a balloon in the bag and then like blow up a balloon inside
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the bag to get it to a shape.
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So it will keep that shape while it sets and then you pop the balloon and that's ingenious.
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Let it do it.
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But yeah, mine, I was like, now I like the way these look and they were good.
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But yeah, that would be, that would probably be best bet on to do it.
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You probably could full like soak and block it.
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It'd be kind of flat.
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You'd want to do one side, pull them a little bit, flip it over and do the other side.
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You can't really pin it.
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It's okay.
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Sometimes blocking is overrated.
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Don't forget them.
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All right, and we have time for one more.
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This one has come from chicken nuggets.
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If you could only knit one pattern for the rest of your life, what would it be?
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That's a big oof.
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It is, but you know what?
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I think my answer is going to depend on entirely when you're asking me because if this
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was like 10 years ago, Driel, it would be Sunday swing.
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Yes, it would be Sunday swing.
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But if you're asking today, Driel, it's happy.
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It's a happy turtle.
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Oh, God.
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Oh, so it has to be a specific pattern, huh?
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That's a tough one.
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I would think pattern.
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I would think yeah.
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I probably would make, I really enjoyed the French can can.
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That was so interesting.
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The only reason I'm going to say the French can can is because I could do it now.
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It has simple parts that I could do in front of a TV show and then it has a complicated
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enough part that would keep me interested.
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And if I got to a point older in my life where I deal with pain in my hands and stuff
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and I feel like I could still do that pattern in a disabled capacity.
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Like I might be able to still knit that.
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So I'll say the French can can.
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It's a good one though.
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I have also made the French can can and it's a really good project.
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Do you know yours?
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No, I'd die.
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I would be so angry with the decision that I would just never knit again.
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That's true.
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That's fair.
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Absolutely.
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I feel like that's what would happen.
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I would stare at the pattern and be like, no, I don't want to do this again.
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I'm trying to think of anything I've done more than one.
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The dragon stitch bag.
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That's I think the only thing that I've ever seen you do multiple times.
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Everything else, like you've done incarnations of a similar nature but not exactly the same.
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Yeah.
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Because I was I'm going through it.
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I'm like, did I do?
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I'm like, no.
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Even when I do the multiple dragons, they've all been different.
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Yeah.
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That is true.
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They've all been different.
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Some of them have used the same arms and legs with different but like I've changed everything.
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Because I'm all I'd die.
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Okay, maybe phrase it this way.
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You could use the same pattern but you can customize it at free will, right?
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Like I would still shirtals.
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Yeah.
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Because you're not you're not you're not you're not you're not pulling from it.
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Like your cocoa bean.
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Yeah.
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It's the same pattern.
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Yeah.
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And I added a pearl row for no reason.
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And that wasn't from another.
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So if you could embellish it.
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Yeah.
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So if you could customize it.
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Dragon tapestry.
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Oh, that's a good point.
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Yeah.
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You could change up the color work.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That's a good one.
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Just just throwing a bone to jazz.
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I'm like, I think you're like, why is this one's a knife?
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I'm like, I'm like, I don't think I've ever done.
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I was just feeling the misery of the same pattern ever.
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Yeah.
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Even the dragon stitch bag.
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I've done it.
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It's the dragon stitch.
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I've done it in different ways.
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Yeah.
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Different sizes, different amounts of scales.
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Meg.
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I honestly thought about this one a lot.
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And mine would be from summer to fall by Lee and Michelle designs.
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And the reasoning being that it is, it's got a couple of different stitch techniques in
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it.
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So you know, you're switching it up.
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And it requires three scans of yarn and the color combinations would be endless.
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I love finding scans that match or that complement each other.
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And I would have a whole wardrobe of these extremely versatile shawls.
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That's fair.
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Maybe it's fair.
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So I would literally just make different color combinations until the end of time.
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That'd be mine.
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I respect that.
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I've been dying to make another one.
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So I gotta do that.
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Turtles, tapestries and shawls.
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Love it.
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Yes it be.
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I love that for us.
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Yes, one do.
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All right.
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Into our main topic.
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And I have put a lot of thought into this this week.
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I'm very excited to present to you.
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Yarn jobs that should exist in the world.
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They don't have to be practical.
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But man, they should be fun.
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Wait, fun for the person doing them or fun for me benefiting from the person doing them.
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Yes.
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Okay.
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All of that.
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Because yeah.
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Like I think it would be a lot of fun.
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Also, just so you know, all of these jobs that we are going to pitch today in our fantasy
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world, these are all high paying like top tier.
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You can pay your mortgage.
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You can pay that daycare.
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You can pay your healthcare bills.
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Yes.
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It's all paid guys.
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Highly desired well paying jobs.
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Extensive training required.
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Fully paid.
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Yes.
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Free.
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Extensive training.
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Benefits.
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Oh Lord, I hope so.
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Treat yourself.
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May I present to you the yarn Somalia.
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Oh.
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Hang on.
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I close my notes.
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Well, honestly, that should be a thing.
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It should be a thing.
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It's very realistic.
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Think about it.
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You can pair your mood.
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Your beverages.
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Like your...
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The situation that you find yourself in life, your existential crises.
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You can pair everything with the perfect yarn.
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That's fair.
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That's fair.
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That is fair.
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And sometimes it's really hard to tell what you need for all of those things.
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You may think it's better to do a more complicated project or even an easier project, but that's maybe not the case.
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Yeah.
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I just have this visual of this really well-dressed, fancy person holding...
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Holding a tablet and as you answer things, they're entering in things so it helps their formula.
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And then they kind of look through the list and they're like, I got it.
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And then they just go through all the racks and pull out this one skate and the person's like,
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Are you feeling some existential overwhelm?
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My tie suggests a nice alpaca silk blend.
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Is that how you fix existential overwhelm?
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I mean, it's not how we do it, but it's probably how she does it.
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It's ethereal.
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It's soft.
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You can disappear into delicate stitches and a soothing drape.
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I'm sorry.
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Like...
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I was supposed to be watching Reno.
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It's versatile and it will get you through anything, you know?
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Yes.
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Truth be told.
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Yes.
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Do you need to channel some rage into some knitting or crafting?
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My tie suggests.
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Some chunky wool.
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Some super bulky.
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Yeah.
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Because you can just...
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No.
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No, you don't want to...
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It's fast, it's tactile.
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Oh.
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It's...
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Oh, you're feeling really, really murderous.
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Might I suggest some felting?
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Oh, yes.
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Stab.
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I have a nice felting kit for you.
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Oh, right.
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Madame, miss you are...
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Stab away.
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Stab away.
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All of your problems.
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Oh, God.
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That's funny.
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Are you looking for some comfort?
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My tie suggests.
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A cotton bamboo blend.
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Worsted way.
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It's breathable.
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It's soft on the skin.
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It's gentle on your hands.
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And it's a thicker weight so you won't make as much of a stake
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while you're crying through your project.
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Exactly.
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Absorbent.
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Absorbent.
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Oh, God.
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I mean, that's a good point.
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Like alternatively, a yarn sommelier is in theory so well trained
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that they can either help you or they can also hinder you.
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Wait, so like evil sommoliers?
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There could be an evil sommelier.
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Like I thought about this because I was like, man,
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like if I'm having existential overwhelm,
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can you imagine if the suggestion to me was like lace weight?
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Here, do this lace weight shawl with 5,000 stitch repeats?
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No.
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I found some really nice Peruvian highland wool.
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Pure.
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No.
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See, if I were an evil sommelier, I would pair that for somebody who was channeling
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some intense rage because...
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Or someone looking for comfort?
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Well, for the rage victim.
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Sorry, for the rage person.
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Oh, okay.
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Okay, so is this...
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It's also hurting you.
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So it's just like helping you channel your rage even more.
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Like I'm just saying...
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Are these jobs are super villains?
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Yes.
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Okay.
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I thought about this way too long this way.
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Okay, I see that.
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I looked for an upside-down side.
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Okay.
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Well, yeah, I mean practically speaking,
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not super villain, murderous-wise.
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I like...
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I could see like a yarn sommelier might put me off particularly because I hate being told what I need.
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Not what to do, just what I need.
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Like, you don't know me.
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Even if you are correct.
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You don't know me.
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I feel like that's the kind of job where you wait for someone to approach you and ask your service.
spk_0
You're not going around like a...
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Like you're trying to be psychic.
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Like, oh, I can see that you're channeling some intense feelings.
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And I'm going to push this yarn on you.
spk_0
Yeah, so I sense the Pisces under your chart.
spk_0
Like, no, please don't.
spk_0
Yeah, I feel like that's not the kind of pushy salesperson job you want to have.
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No, I can do.
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That's no.
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Definitely not.
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I mean, if you're going to a high-paid sommelier,
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you should be a service that you want.
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Yeah, if you are going to the event and that's what you're expecting,
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and you seek them out.
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Yes.
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The yarn sommelier has its own office.
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Okay.
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This will not be at the common yarn shop.
spk_0
I see.
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You will not find the yarn sommelier at your local yarn store.
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There's like a yarn lounge.
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Yes.
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You have to go to the high-end.
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I really wish there was a yarn.
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Anyway.
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Oh, God.
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They have it in place daycare.
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They can take the kids and wash them for you.
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Well, you get an hour of uninterrupted knitting, yarns, crochet, or whatever product you want.
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Why not?
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I would pay like 50 bucks for that.
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Heck yeah.
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100 bucks.
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Hell, I'd pay 200 bucks.
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Take a look.
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Just give me the freaking hour.
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Oh, God.
spk_0
Thank you.
spk_0
You have told me several times now that you have a yarn job that you wanted to share.
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It's not fun.
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It's not fun.
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This would have to be quite high-paying, and I don't know how it would be possible.
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The job would be inspecting all hanks for knots before they're wound, so that when I put them on a swift,
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I do not get yarn barbed.
spk_0
Okay, but to be fair, we need that.
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That would make my whole crafting existence, if that were a thing, if there was something,
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and this is not a possible job, I realize this is pie in the sky in sanity.
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Yeah, but I want it.
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A pie that I want.
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Same.
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Like, the amount of cursing I do when I'm doing the swift and all of a sudden, you get that tangled mess.
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We're somehow, it went underneath a yarn and now it just won't.
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Yeah, it wrapped the wrong way, or it just won't.
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I mean, I would love a curator to check the skeins and make sure that doesn't happen.
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Again, I want that.
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I know.
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I would do that job.
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I would hate that job.
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I would love that job.
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If it was an opposite of me.
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What it should pay?
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I don't know.
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I feel like it's one giant puzzle.
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So, yes.
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Find the thing.
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Yes.
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But what you need to understand is that my capacity for patience for puzzles is about a one.
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It's awful.
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Like, a lot of these jobs are going to be like not a fit for everybody, but some people with the patience.
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Yes.
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Some people will like it.
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It's not for me.
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Right.
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I could not do it.
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Like, I am words, like word puzzles any day.
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Figuring out how something works.
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I'm going to spend about three seconds.
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I'm going to toss it to Jess and be like, here you go.
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Let me know when you figure that out, because she likes it.
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I don't.
spk_0
In that same vein, though, how's about a director of not affairs?
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Yeah.
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Basically, that's a well paid detangler.
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Yeah.
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So, it's basically what Jess does only at her pair.
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Sorry, do you see what the hell?
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Sorry.
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You pay her in love.
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I buy her Legos.
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Yes.
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So, you pay her in like, if you think about it, that's a pretty high salary.
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I buy her Legos sets.
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You know, Legos sets encompass a lot of things.
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It's true.
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But yeah.
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No.
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Somebody to untangle the yarn.
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I'm not going to lie.
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You know, if you spend some time dealing with the yarn barf and like dealing with all of the
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tangled mess, it is so satisfying to come to the end of the mess.
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Yes.
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And I love that feeling.
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It's not enough of a payoff for me to do it.
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Oh, I would do it.
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It's not.
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I would do that too.
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I guess so.
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I had patients for that.
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I don't have patients for stupidity, and that's where I find my problems.
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Anyways.
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Yeah.
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spk_0
Like a cobbler, but for needles.
spk_0
Like a needle repair, right?
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Like someone to kind of fix a lot.
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We'll fix it like if you get the bamboo, they'll sand it down and make sure that it, or if it gets sticky or something, they'll like repolish it.
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Or you know when Thai hunts are circular, they'll fix the cable that he chewed little holes in.
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Yeah.
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I love that.
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A crotch cobbler.
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I love that.
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Right.
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So you don't have to just toss out your stuff.
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Because sometimes you can repurpose it.
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Yeah, okay.
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It's a whatever.
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But sometimes it's a nice needle set.
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I don't want to toss it.
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I just want it gussied back up to where it was.
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There's such a huge market for that right now.
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Just in society.
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I think everyone's disillusioned about just by it brand new and not fix it.
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I think everyone's changing their mindset and more wanting to mend to fix to maintain what they have.
spk_0
Yeah, it makes sense just to toss it.
spk_0
But there were other, there were other, it's like I like the feel of these needles.
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They got my hand, they're perfect in my hands.
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I don't want to like, yeah.
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Or the needles are fine.
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But as you said, like the cord is garbage.
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And I can't use them anymore because they're not interchangeables.
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Yeah.
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No, that's a good point.
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I like that.
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It's a good one.
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That is a good one here.
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And then they yarn, small a, which give you yarn to go with your fixed ones.
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Yeah.
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And the director of not affairs would be in the other room in case you have those problems as well.
spk_0
What you're saying is we're creating an agency of people.
spk_0
Oh, man.
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Craft agency.
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What about kind of to go with the small a, a pattern librarian?
spk_0
Oh.
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That you could go to and say, I'm looking for this.
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I'm looking for it like, or I'm in this kind of mood.
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And they help you find the perfect pattern.
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Oh, it's like someone or you're like, I like these types of books.
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Is there a new one that you can get?
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Right.
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When you go to the librarian and you're like, I really loved this book.
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Can you recommend me something like this?
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Yeah.
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So like a fiber archivist?
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Yeah.
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Something like that.
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I love that.
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Yeah.
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Because sometimes you don't have that.
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To maintain a library of all yarns and books and patterns.
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Oh, yeah.
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All of the world's crafting knowledge in one place, like the library of Alexandria, but
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for craft.
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But it is because it's cool because it could be all like, look, I really like this shawl,
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but I can't find something similar.
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Like, do you have a suggestion?
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Or, or, yes, I do.
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I love her shawl, but it's crochet.
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Can you give me something similar in a knit pattern?
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Yes.
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Come this way.
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Right?
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Something like that.
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I love that.
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Where is this place located?
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I know.
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It's in my brain.
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Right now, what this agency has, we have the first floor for repairs because you don't want
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to go to your workshop.
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We're not going to make you climb multiple stairs to go fix your things that you're sad about.
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The librarians would probably be on the second floor with their whole floor of like stuff.
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And then you would have like a services floor, you know, for not affairs in Somalia.
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What else do we do?
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The rooftop lounge.
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The rooftop lounge.
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Yeah.
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After you've gone through it all, you can go relax on the rooftop.
spk_0
If you're on the rooftop lounge, do they have the disco brunch?
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I think they should have the disco brunch.
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They should have the disco brunch.
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We got guys.
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And they probably had money.
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We got money.
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Like, we need the bar with all the craft themes, but it also comes in like the non, like,
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you know, you've got your virgin in there.
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Are you saying that we need to have a craft service list table?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Exactly.
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What?
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A craft services table.
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Sometimes she is on.
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Sometimes we'll have some craft beers.
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Oh, my God.
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Actually, there is, what is her?
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Oh, God, this is going to kill me.
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There is someone who just with her husband did.
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It's a half a library.
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No, no, half a yard store, half library with a bar in it.
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Can I move in?
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No, I don't want to.
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I don't remember her name.
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That sounds great.
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But yeah, it was like a, it's like she had like all these fun.
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Basically made it like a destination.
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Like you can go there and like enjoy and like get books, you get yarn, you get knit, you
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can lounge, you can like.
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So delightful.
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They don't have any of those places anymore.
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And I can understand why a lot of those lounge type of areas have shut down just because
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they just get destroyed.
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It doesn't matter.
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Like people abuse the crap out of them.
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But like, man, I would pay a membership fee to have access to a lounge area.
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Yeah, the crafting country club.
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Yes.
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Oh, man.
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Oh, God.
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It's so funny.
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Yes.
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Yeah, and I want us to have a club trophy.
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For what though?
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That's what would it be?
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Well, we'd have to, yeah, well, if it's a country club, they have to win things, right?
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Right.
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At some point, so maybe we just give support relatives out at some point, you know, to our
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members.
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Or you know, you're the thing in the challenge.
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Here's what you can do to like, if you want, you can like, we'll have like a wall of
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honor.
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And there's like, you can donate like a ribbon of something you've entered somewhere.
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And we'd like display it with the pictures and everything.
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And it links to the pattern and like in our larger community.
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Such peace.
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That's so good.
spk_0
Too bad we don't have millions of dollars.
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Yeah, we don't.
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spk_0
So, as we fantasize, what else you got?
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What about a, a chief cozy officer to do?
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A CCO.
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A CCO.
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They curate blanket designs that meet maximum snuggle standards.
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I like that.
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They also field test all blankets.
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Oh, I'm going to do that.
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Designated nap times.
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I like that.
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Yes, I like that for me too.
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You know, and they could have like a swatch library almost.
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Yeah.
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So you could like squeeze and test the, like it wouldn't be in like all sizes.
spk_0
It wouldn't be for like, measuring the swadding.
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But it would be for a petting's out.
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It would be like for squeezing or touching to be like, do I really like this fabric?
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Do I like this combination of yarns before I make it in?
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Into a sweater?
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Right.
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Oh, and testing it for how is it going to react when it blocks?
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Yeah.
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I like that.
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I like that too.
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Yes.
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Would not excuse you from swatching.
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No.
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But, but, but.
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The C O would let you know what the fabric is like.
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Yes.
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C O O would still say you need to swatch still.
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Yes.
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Well, because you don't know your own tension.
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You don't know your own tension and you may not use these same needles.
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Yep.
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So.
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Yep.
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You scrap strategist.
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Oh, what to do with your scraps?
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Creates patterns and projects with leftover yarn scraps.
spk_0
Oh, you can donate your leftovers if you're worried about like stuff.
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You donate your leftovers into a jar.
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Instead of waste.
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Yeah.
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Yarnsaber is, I take that for stuffing.
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There's places that will make like animals for kids.
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Like, they have little craft groups that will make animals for kids.
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And if I get stuff that's pretty much just going to be scrap or it's like unusable.
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Little bag.
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They like basically like shave it all up and then stuffing.
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I love that though.
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Yeah.
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A color work connoisseur.
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Mm.
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So, this is something that like like, like, so my mom, I brought this up before she loves
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to quilt.
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My mom really struggles with do these patterns do these colors really go together.
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Do they actually complement each other or are they fighting each other?
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Somebody like that.
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Or if you could go and say like, I have this really special skein that I want to use.
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But in a project that pairs, what would look good with this?
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He has like a color chip room with them like the paint plays that.
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Right.
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Like the pantone.
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Yeah.
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And so you could kind of see like what your options are if you're going for something
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warm or cool and what colors complement something like that.
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Yeah.
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Sometimes that can be really hard figuring out what to do.
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And not everybody has like a firm grasp on like color theory.
spk_0
That too.
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Or also like these two colors could go really well together for like, say, this project.
spk_0
But for this project, now we're struggling.
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They're fighting each other.
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So something like that, if you are lost.
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Yeah, because sometimes colors are surprising by the way they go together.
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But if you have someone who knows that that'd be awesome.
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Like, I know this sounds weird, but trust me.
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Yeah.
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That would be cool.
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I would love that job.
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I mean, I have like ones that would be for like illegal enterprises, but not like legit
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jobs, like a yarn smuggler.
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And which actually is so necessary because let me tell you.
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Okay.
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Getting all this yarn.
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Yarnpires.
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This one.
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This one.
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This one.
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This one is so nice.
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So like, but like, it's illegal.
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So like you wouldn't really get money like a salary.
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It would be more like, you know, laundered through a laundry mat at your local town.
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Like, I can advise criminals.
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I can't advise for right, like legal jobs.
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Please don't.
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Please don't invest.
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Okay.
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No, but here's the thing.
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Like, there's like the Canadian dude that takes something from Trader Joe.
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Yes.
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I love that guy.
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He's still.
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Canada didn't have a Trader Joe's.
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So he goes.
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I have nothing about this.
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Yeah.
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So he's from Vancouver and he comes down to the United States and he buys like a ton of
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stuff from Trader Joe's and then he brings it back up to Canada where he has his own shop
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called Not Trader Joe's.
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It's something like that.
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Stop it.
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Yeah.
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Oh my god.
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And they tried to sue him and they lost like they did.
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Yeah.
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So who are the people?
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People are like maybe the smugglers need that.
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Yeah.
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But they also banned him from many of the Trader Joe's.
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So now he employs other people.
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He wants to do it for him.
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Or wears disguises.
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This is crazy.
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Wow.
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But yeah.
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So apparently there are legal ways to do this.
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So I just need to get this guy's lawyers.
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Yes.
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And then start bringing in suitcase.
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See how to do it legally.
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Yeah.
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I just now I just have this visual of like I put like a shipping container like full
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of illegally yarn and then this guy like opens it up from like customs.
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And he's like we're taking him down.
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I got three tons of piramirino.
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What is this?
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Is this caught?
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Is this caught?
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Ma'am.
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Like no.
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No.
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It's a wool blend.
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I'm sorry.
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Yeah.
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That's.
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It's just nice thinking about all of these like fun hypothetical jobs that would really get
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you out of bed every day.
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Yeah.
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I mean, I would not be signing up to be a not untangler.
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But again, like you said, there's job for everybody.
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They're paying high.
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And there's benefits.
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Heck yeah.
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Can you imagine if this agency ever got off the ground?
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What a life we could live.
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Have another one.
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A pattern translator.
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Oh.
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Like that would be a department.
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It would be a whole department.
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And I know that there's lots of people that like help translate several different patterns.
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But to say that all patterns are translated is would be facetious.
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Right.
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So but it would be great if like someone could come in and be like, I have the what
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was one of them that you got was in German or Russian Russian Russian and the Hain
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Apple jazz could come in and be like, hello, I have this Russian pattern and I'm struggle
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busing.
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Can you please translate this for me?
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And they would just be like, absolutely no problem.
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You know, Sylvia come over here and look.
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We have somebody for every language.
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Yes.
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Yep.
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Yes.
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It polygots would love that job.
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The chart translators too.
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It's like, hey, can you translate this graph into text or text into grain.
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Yeah.
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Could you translate a chart from that?
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No, now I have a visual, sorry, my brain.
spk_0
Now I have a visual of something coming up with the crochet chart.
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And can you translate this?
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And there's just this sassy front and lady who's just like, what the heck is that?
spk_0
We're not doing that.
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We're going to have to outsource this one.
spk_0
Yeah, that's going to be cost extra.
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I cannot.
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I cannot.
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I cannot.
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Like, I don't know how she does it.
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Listen, some people look at the first stage charts.
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I'm like, I probably, it's just spite.
spk_0
She bought the pattern for the blanket that she was crocheting came in like a book and
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I'm flipping through it.
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And I'm like, I have no idea what any of this is.
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Like, oh my goodness.
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Some of it is very clear.
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And there's other parts where I'm like, what?
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Yeah, no, that's a whole other.
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Where's the rest of it?
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And I keep in mind, like, if you are a, you know, the first time you go to read a knitting
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pattern, you've never read one before.
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Like, you're going to feel similarly, but wow.
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Like, yeah.
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Oof.
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It would be nice to, if in this fictional agency building that we have currently, that's
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probably at nine stories at this point, would be if there was a spot to where you can bring
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knitted items that need new homes, not yarn, but like actual products, projects, like
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if they don't fit anymore, or they don't serve you anymore.
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You don't like how they look on you.
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I know there's that app that does like swaps, but it would be nice.
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You could just be like, hi, I have the sweater.
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I lost 100 pounds.
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This doesn't fit me anymore.
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What do I do with it?
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And they'd be like, oh, okay, we will find a good home.
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And they do cute little videos.
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And they're like, they're great with other sweater.
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I do like the swap.
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The adoption.
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Adoption.
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Adoption agency.
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Adoption agency.
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Yeah.
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Adoption agency.
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Yeah.
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Adoption agency.
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Adoption agency.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That would be nice.
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Yeah.
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Adoption.
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Adoption.
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Adoption.
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Finished object.
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Pho just sounds like you're going to fight something.
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So you got to go with the OB.
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What does the beast in?
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Ab.
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Jacked.
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Stop.
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That took.
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That took.
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It's too long.
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It took.
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It took.
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It took.
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Oh my god.
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Nobody said we were scholars at the zoo.
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Look, we have big ideas.
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We just can't, you know, the manifestation is a little bit harder.
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It is.
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Our job is not to spell.
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Our job is to dream big.
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Our job is to be dreamers.
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We're dreaming.
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So basically all we need at this point is a giant budget from some benedict.
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That's a bazillion dollars.
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Billionaire who actually isn't a terrible person and wants to support the fibers.
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And then we need a team of people who are really good at doing stuff and getting stuff
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together.
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Oh, that's not us.
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Yeah.
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And then the board source and then the board of dreamers would be people like us who
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are just like, oh, you know, it would be a good take.
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Oh my god.
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Look, we're the think tank.
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Okay.
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Yeah, the think tank.
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That's a big sprain.
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Oh my god.
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We're just thinking we're not spelling.
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Okay.
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We're not doers and we definitely don't have money.
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Oh my god.
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Yeah, definitely.
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Yeah.
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So yeah.
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Mm-hmm.
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Hey, you know what though?
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I mean, it is.
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It's nice to dream about like in a perfect world.
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Look, some people dream about what they're going to do when they win the lottery.
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Some of us like to dream about what a perfect crafting world would look like.
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In a singular building.
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If I wanted a...
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I mean, I mean, it would be a big story.
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A jackpot and it was multi millions of dollars.
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There would...
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I wouldn't say anything, but there would be signs because this agency would be upright.
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There would be signs.
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Yeah, there would be signs.
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It would just be in some of...
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She popped on part of my sash.
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Just so's y'all know.
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Here's the address.
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Here's the address.
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Here's the address.
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You can get discounts on your membership fee if you test it for people.
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Oh, I'm getting a discount.
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I'm also just picturing like a giant and building, like a enormous building.
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Do you know how many of those empty corporate buildings are around here?
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By many.
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But, you know, instead of like a name on the building, you know, buildings generally have the name of the business or whatever on there.
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We just have a giant mustache.
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God.
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No explanation.
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But you will know.
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And if you know, you know.
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If you know, you know.
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And the test knit or idea, Jess, is also A plus.
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Because there was always complaints that they don't get compensated enough.
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But now you can go to the mustache building.
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Wow, that's sad.
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You can go to the mustache building and make all your yard dreams come true.
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Yep, yep.
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And we will support all crafts.
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Guys, what a dream.
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I am dying at the mustache building.
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No, I believe there is definitely a whole bunch of commercial buildings that are not in use right now.
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And I know they are clamoring for some action.
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I'd be like, sir, like, you know, this is the four of us pitching.
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And Dre would be like, but sir, we could put a giant mustache on the outside of your building.
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It will be a landmark.
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You know,
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somebody out there is looking for some mustache acts and we're ready to get it.
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Action, did you see mustache action?
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I did.
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I said what I said.
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Well, that's all we have for tonight, but it's just saying on that note.
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That is it for this week's episode for additional content, opportunities to connect with the cast, our blog, Discord, our Discord, more stuff involving us.
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Go to our website at part of my stash, Neckah.
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