Family Board Games (Guess the Plot)

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Okay, quick four-word plot to start us off. Which board game is this? Tiny houses earn money.

Lovella: 00:00:09

Oh, that's gotta be Monopoly.

Steve: 00:00:11

Correct. Collect $200.

Lovella: 00:00:17

Welcome to Kids vs. Parents. This is the trivia podcast where there are four questions for the kids and four tougher ones for the parents.

Lovella: 00:00:24

I'm Lovella.

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And I'm Steve.

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Today, we are playing Four Word Plot, and our theme is board games.

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This episode was requested by Lovella.

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Your sister, Bonnie, requested this, along with Laurel from New York, New York.

Lovella: 00:00:40

Oh, thank you, Bonnie and Laurel.

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That's right.

Lovella: 00:00:42

This is very exciting.

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So we play a lot of board games.

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We do.

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Family board games, so this will be a fun one.

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We got a bunch.

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Four Word Plot.

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We're going to give you four cryptic clues that describe the gameplay or the plot of a board game,

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and you have to guess which one it is.

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All right.

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What does the winner get today, Lovella?

Lovella: 00:00:58

Today, the prize for the winner,

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they get to pick the next family board game.

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Of course they do.

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So they get family board game choice.

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What will you pick if you win this?

Lovella: 00:01:10

There's a lot of great options.

Lovella: 00:01:12

I do like my Disney trivia board games

Lovella: 00:01:16

or even like the What Do You Meme game or Monopoly.

Steve: 00:01:20

Yeah.

Lovella: 00:01:20

Some of the classic ones.

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I am picking Monopoly, but we have a Muppets-themed Monopoly

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that none of my kids ever want to play.

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No, please.

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So if I win this, we are playing Muppets Monopoly.

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Yes.

Lovella: 00:01:34

I better win this.

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Before we get into the game, a little teaser for the end of the episode.

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We've got an announcement to make about the rest of the month.

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So stick around for that.

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Stick around.

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We've got something exciting to share.

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It's pretty big.

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That's right.

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All right, who's going to go first then, Lovella?

Lovella: 00:01:46

Today, it's going to be the parents.

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Parents up first.

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I love it.

Lovella: 00:01:50

All right.

Lovella: 00:01:51

Plot number one.

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Railroads unite distant empires.

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Okay.

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This is, um, what's the game?

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It's the train game.

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We have it.

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What's it called?

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Ah!

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No, Ticket to Ride.

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You are correct.

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Ticket to Ride.

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That is a fun, flamely game.

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I like that one.

Lovella: 00:02:27

I'm not a big fan of that one.

Lovella: 00:02:28

You don't like that one?

Lovella: 00:02:29

No, it's kind of boring.

Steve: 00:02:31

Too much strategy for you?

Lovella: 00:02:32

I like fun, you know.

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It's just boring.

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Trains are boring?

Lovella: 00:02:37

Yeah.

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And railroads?

Lovella: 00:02:38

Whatever, whatever.

Steve: 00:02:39

Okay, not a favorite.

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I like that one.

Lovella: 00:02:41

All right, plot number two.

Lovella: 00:02:45

Naval secrecy meets probability.

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Naval secrecy meets probability.

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Oh, okay.

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Naval, that's battleships.

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That is.

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Correct.

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Correct.

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Yes.

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Come on, you got to give me some harder ones.

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I'm good with board games.

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Keep them coming.

Lovella: 00:03:18

Okay.

Lovella: 00:03:19

All right.

Lovella: 00:03:20

Plot number three.

Lovella: 00:03:22

Negotiation determines global domination.

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Negotiation determines global domination.

Lovella: 00:03:47

Yeah.

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Big words.

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Is this Risk?

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Is this Risk, the board game Risk?

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I haven't played Risk before.

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What was it again?

Lovella: 00:03:58

Negotiation determines global domination.

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Negotiation determines global domination.

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I don't know.

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I'm going to say Risk is my guess because I don't really know any other board games that are like this.

Lovella: 00:04:11

That is correct.

Steve: 00:04:13

Oh, yes.

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Nice.

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What?

Lovella: 00:04:15

This is actually annoying.

Lovella: 00:04:18

Okay.

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I'm going for a clean sweeper.

Lovella: 00:04:20

All right, here we go.

Lovella: 00:04:21

Plot number four.

Lovella: 00:04:24

Vocabulary becomes competitive warfares.

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this is pretty simple yeah this is um scrabble correct yes nice one okay four out of four four

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out of four. Clean sweep. Here we go. I would want to hope I know my board games. All right,

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kids. It's your turn next. Get your dice. Here we go. All right, kids. Plot number one.

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Last card causes panic.

Lovella: 00:05:20

Last card causes panic.

Lovella: 00:05:22

Oh, that's Uno.

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Correct.

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Yes.

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Nice.

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Well done.

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All right.

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You got this?

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Feeling good now?

Lovella: 00:05:29

A little bit.

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All right.

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You're one on the board.

Lovella: 00:05:31

All right.

Lovella: 00:05:31

Here we go.

Lovella: 00:05:31

Just give me the next question.

Steve: 00:05:33

Just give me the next one?

Lovella: 00:05:34

Just give me the next one.

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All right.

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Here we go.

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Plot number two.

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Fast chomping wins marbles.

Lovella: 00:05:53

Fast Chomping Wins Marbles

Lovella: 00:05:55

Oh, that's the hippo game

Lovella: 00:05:57

It's called Hungry Hungry Hippos

Lovella: 00:05:59

Correct

Lovella: 00:06:00

Yes

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I loved playing that game

Lovella: 00:06:02

I know

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That was so fun

Lovella: 00:06:02

Wasn't that a fun game?

Lovella: 00:06:03

You just got to smash like the thing

Lovella: 00:06:05

And you're just trying to get all those like balls, marbles

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You just take your hanger out on a hippo's tail

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I love it

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Just chomp chomp chomp chomp

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I'm so angry at this hippo.

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Eat more marbles.

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Okay, moving on.

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Moving on, yeah.

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Okay, plot number three.

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Guests solve mansion murder.

Lovella: 00:06:38

I know this one.

Lovella: 00:06:40

It's Clue.

Lovella: 00:06:41

I love this game.

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Yeah.

Lovella: 00:06:42

It's so fun.

Steve: 00:06:43

Did you know in Australia, I think it's called Cluedo?

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Cluedo?

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Cluedo.

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Clue.

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Cluedo.

Lovella: 00:06:50

Cluedo.

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I grew up calling it Cluedo.

Lovella: 00:06:52

I love playing Cluedo.

Lovella: 00:06:54

It's just so fun.

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You're trying to figure out something before everyone else.

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Yeah.

Lovella: 00:06:59

Yeah.

Lovella: 00:06:59

That's a great game.

Lovella: 00:07:00

I love that one.

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Mr. Green did it in the lounge room with the dagger.

Lovella: 00:07:05

Yeah.

Lovella: 00:07:05

Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Who's your favorite character?

Lovella: 00:07:09

Probably Miss Scarlet.

Steve: 00:07:10

Oh, yeah.

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Miss Scarlet.

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Yeah.

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She's a good one.

Lovella: 00:07:13

Miss Scarlet.

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I always like Mr. Green.

Lovella: 00:07:15

In the dining room with the wrench.

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Oh, goodness.

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Dun, dun, dun.

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Dun, dun, dun.

Lovella: 00:07:22

No, I usually win most of the clue games.

Steve: 00:07:24

Do you?

Steve: 00:07:25

I do.

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That's why you like the game.

Lovella: 00:07:26

Yeah, I like to win.

Steve: 00:07:27

All right, plot number four.

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Here we go.

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Last one, Lovella.

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You've got everything right so far, just like me.

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I've got to try and stump you.

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Okay.

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Players guess hidden faces.

Lovella: 00:07:49

oh that's an easy one guess who ah yes yes ah well done you get four as well so that's a clean

Steve: 00:07:56

sweep which means tiebreaker time okay or it could be a bonus question in your car if you just need

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to get a couple extra points we usually make the bonus question worth two points first team to buzz

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in with the correct answer wins the points. Here we go. Lovella, do you want to read this one out?

Steve: 00:08:13

Sure. Okay. Read out our bonus tiebreaker plot. Okay. Bonus tiebreaker plot.

Lovella: 00:08:21

Steady hands. Avoid buzzing.

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Buzz. Oh, yeah. That's, um. Yep. I know it. What is it, Lovella? I got it. Operation.

Lovella: 00:08:33

Operation. Operation. I got that. You got it. Well done.

Steve: 00:08:37

For a second, I was thinking it was Jenga, steady hands.

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That's kind of where I went to immediately.

Lovella: 00:08:43

But then when you hear avoid buzzing, you're like, oh, what a patient.

Steve: 00:08:47

And then there's another game called Kaplunk, too, where you have to pull sticks out and marbles fall down.

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I thought that was the other one that jumped into my head.

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I played that game?

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That's fun.

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I like that one.

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Because you have to be really slow and steady hands.

Lovella: 00:08:57

Yeah, you have to be really careful.

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But there's no buzzing.

Lovella: 00:09:01

Well done.

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You won it.

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Good job.

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Congratulations.

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Oh, yeah.

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That means you avoid Muppets Monopoly.

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Ha ha.

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Man, I'll have to play that another time.

Lovella: 00:09:10

Or never.

Lovella: 00:09:10

We're never playing that.

Steve: 00:09:12

Oh, bummer.

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Before we wrap up, we have a very important announcement.

Lovella: 00:09:16

Next week, we start our Disney series.

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That's right.

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That means for the rest of the month, right?

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The rest of the month of June, we are going to be doing Disney themed episodes.

Lovella: 00:09:26

Yeah, we've got Disneyland trivia, Disney villains, Bluey, Disney TV shows, and maybe even Toy Story.

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Because Toy Story comes out this month too.

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I know.

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How exciting.

Lovella: 00:09:35

Yes.

Steve: 00:09:37

so if your family loves Disney theme parks maybe maybe you love Disney villains or talking dogs

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or talking toys either way there should be something for you in this next month I think

Lovella: 00:09:47

personally that the kids are gonna like smash these episodes right kids come on you're probably

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right except us parents we know probably more about Toy Story than you I feel like just because we

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yeah most of us parents have you know we've been training for this since 1995 we've been

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researching Toy Story since then.

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So I think we've got that one.

Lovella: 00:10:05

I don't think people have researched Toy Story.

Steve: 00:10:07

Oh, yeah, they have.

Lovella: 00:10:09

Okay.

Lovella: 00:10:10

So if you're not already, follow the show

Lovella: 00:10:12

so you can get ready for the happiest battle on Earth.

Lovella: 00:10:15

That's right.

Lovella: 00:10:16

We'll see you next week for Disney Month.

Lovella: 00:10:18

Woo!

Lovella: 00:10:20

Thanks for listening.

Lovella: 00:10:21

Bye.