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I have a problem with the over-the-ear head, the over-the-ear eye masks, which is I'm, what happens if your home is invaded?

Like, I need to know, like, I like to be, I'm very sensitive and I want to hear if somebody's in the house and I want to be able to get, get up and

do something about it, at least try and talk them out of it, right? Or stop them or... I would say that statistics probably prove that you're more likely to hear your partner

snoring than you are to experience a break-in. So that's what they're designing for.

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I was born with a special gift.

The ability to mentally transform any situation into the worst-case scenario.

In my own brain, my therapist calls my gift catastrophizing.

And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest disasters

and find out who's to blame.

They say history repeats itself.

Not on my watch.

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Hey, everyone.

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Today we're discussing Balloon Fest 86.

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