WEBVTT - We're Ready To Share Our Dickhead List

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<v Speaker 2>to talk about. Today is Friday, the fifteenth of November,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm Polly Waynwright, I'm.

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<v Speaker 3>Mea Friedman, and I'm Jesse Stevens and.

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<v Speaker 2>On the show today. Don't be a dickhead easy to

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<v Speaker 2>say to others, but what about ourselves? Welcome to the

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<v Speaker 2>dickhead list. Also, we've got recommendations for your weekend, including

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<v Speaker 2>a book, a TV show, and a podcast that we're

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<v Speaker 2>all consuming at pace and a new ral for reading.

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<v Speaker 2>MIA's Ladies, Grandma Angst and Jesse's Massive Fomo. They're our

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<v Speaker 2>best and worse of the week.

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<v Speaker 1>But first, would you pay six hundred dollars an hour

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<v Speaker 1>for an orgasm coach asking for a friend?

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<v Speaker 3>It depends on I die things got Yeah, I'm okay

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<v Speaker 3>for the moment, but I feel like if I was

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<v Speaker 3>in a particularly dry period, the.

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<v Speaker 2>Coaching my orgasm itself. Come on stronger, harder to find out.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, there's an LA based person who used to be

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<v Speaker 1>a personal trainer. He's now called O Man. He is bearded,

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<v Speaker 1>he's in his thirties. I don't know why the beard

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<v Speaker 1>is relevant, but it's in my notes, and he's into BDSM.

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<v Speaker 3>Can I please tell you Oman's origin story, what happened,

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<v Speaker 3>because I'm obsessed with this. So basically what happened is

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<v Speaker 3>that he was dating this woman who said that she

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<v Speaker 3>had like sore hips, and he's a personal trainer, and

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<v Speaker 3>they also dabbled in some recreational BDSM, which is relevant,

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<v Speaker 3>and he said to her, I was like, I think

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<v Speaker 3>if I tie you to my ceiling and put you

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<v Speaker 3>in a kneeling chair and then use a vibrator, I

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<v Speaker 3>can release your back. And then I did that and

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<v Speaker 3>her hips didn't hurt, her back didn't hurt, and she

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<v Speaker 3>came twenty times.

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<v Speaker 1>She's never left my bedroom just till there hanging from

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<v Speaker 1>my ceiling.

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<v Speaker 2>That the most from physiopointment I can imagine.

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<v Speaker 3>Apparently, his theory is that the reason women are struggling

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<v Speaker 3>to orgasm it has nothing to do with psychological blockages.

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<v Speaker 3>It's got nothing to do with how we feel about

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<v Speaker 3>our own bodies. It is that we all sit too

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<v Speaker 3>much and the muscles around our pelvic floor are not

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<v Speaker 3>firing properly, and so we can't orgasm. So what he does.

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<v Speaker 3>This person who spoke to him for the times, she

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<v Speaker 3>actually got on a call with him, and he says

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<v Speaker 3>things like, put your right leg around your neck and

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<v Speaker 3>put your left leg here, and then use your vibrator

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<v Speaker 3>to massage out. Well, he watches to massage out and

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<v Speaker 3>not in your inner thigh, and by releasing all of

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<v Speaker 3>these muscles, apparently you have a mad orgasm.

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<v Speaker 1>He's helped five hundred women.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a very rich.

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<v Speaker 1>Madness his hobby. At first, he just helped friends and

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<v Speaker 1>friends of friends. I was going to say family, but

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<v Speaker 1>that's definitely not rebound. He used to do it in person,

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<v Speaker 1>but at COVID times he had to pivot from in

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<v Speaker 1>person sessions to develop his O system virtual classes. So yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>he's helped five hundred women virtually, and price to start

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<v Speaker 1>at twelve hundred dollars Australian an hour. I'm sorry. The

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<v Speaker 1>six hundred dollars is US dollars.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, no, I think it's pounds. Okay, six pounds.

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<v Speaker 1>So ninety five percent of the women that he treats

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<v Speaker 1>achieved multiple orgasms. Satisfied clients include New Jersey housewives. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know if that's the reality stars or just women

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<v Speaker 1>who live in New Jersey, the ex wives of people

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<v Speaker 1>who've made the most influential People in the World list.

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<v Speaker 1>These sound experienced clients, unverifiable and even he says, somebody

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<v Speaker 1>on vacation here who was a British MP who pretended

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<v Speaker 1>she wasn't a British MP, let's trust to resume. She's retired.

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<v Speaker 1>Now part of the one hundred and twenty five billion

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<v Speaker 1>dollar org as an industry worldwide. The orgasm industry includes

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<v Speaker 1>we're in the wrong industry glass. This sounds like a

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<v Speaker 1>much more fun I want to go to those meetings

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<v Speaker 1>smart vibrators, libido gummies and mindful masturbation classes. There you go.

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<v Speaker 1>That sounds great. I'm into Oh man, I'm just saying,

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<v Speaker 1>why do you need to buy a vibrator and then

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<v Speaker 1>do a zoom call with a man? I mean, if

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<v Speaker 1>this turns you on, but to pay him to what

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<v Speaker 1>you use the vibrator. I'm sure that is a kink

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<v Speaker 1>that a lot of people would be into but I

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<v Speaker 1>don't understand.

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<v Speaker 2>So he specialized because trying it to the ceiling on

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<v Speaker 2>your chair.

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<v Speaker 3>He specializes in people who cannot orgasms. Oh so you're saying, hi, Oman.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, he corrects my technique in real time.

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<v Speaker 3>Exactly and then he says, put it here, put it there.

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<v Speaker 3>Move your body, he says, support your glutes.

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<v Speaker 1>Wait, you're using it on your shoulder. You're putting it

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<v Speaker 1>in the wrong place to have an orgasm.

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<v Speaker 3>And apparently women in particular, it's a lot to do

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<v Speaker 3>with our posture and there are a few changes we

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<v Speaker 3>need to make. But in defense of Oman, I feel

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<v Speaker 3>like for men when they can't climax, it's considered a

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<v Speaker 3>legitimate health condition where you might even go to.

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<v Speaker 2>The GP right medication.

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<v Speaker 3>For women, it's like a nice to have.

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<v Speaker 1>But if you an optional extra.

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<v Speaker 3>An optional extra, you haven't had an orgasm in ten years,

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<v Speaker 3>you deserve some help. And I like that there's someone,

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<v Speaker 3>although he's a little bit, should.

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<v Speaker 1>Be tax deductible or a community service. There's a policy

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<v Speaker 1>for Dutton an Elbow to consider in their upcoming campaign.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh Man sessions he's like a stroke coach for swimming.

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<v Speaker 2>Just don't be a dickhead a great words to live by.

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<v Speaker 2>And also it's the name of a memoir of a

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<v Speaker 2>woman I interviewed on mid Lately. You might have heard

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<v Speaker 2>of her. She's called Casey Chambers. Have we all heard

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<v Speaker 2>of Casey Chambers?

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<v Speaker 3>Yes? Anyway, her book Not Pretty It wasn't that actually

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<v Speaker 3>a remake?

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<v Speaker 2>No? She wrote that song? Ah, she wrote that song.

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<v Speaker 2>She says now she's like, not pretty enough. Don't give

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<v Speaker 2>a fuck. That's because she's older and she's got no

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<v Speaker 2>fucks to give. Anyway.

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<v Speaker 1>The books like all these little life lessons.

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<v Speaker 2>Right from different moments in her life, from divorce to

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<v Speaker 2>a eating disorder to ignoring bad career advice and all

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<v Speaker 2>that stuff. But at the back of this book she

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<v Speaker 2>shares her Dickhead list, And the idea is is that

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<v Speaker 2>for every year we live, we gather a little bit

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<v Speaker 2>more intel and wisdom right about the things we've been through.

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<v Speaker 2>It teaches us really when we're wrong, like when we're

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<v Speaker 2>not listening to our lessons, the things we know are

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<v Speaker 2>ignoring our gut. And she calls these like her dickhead

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<v Speaker 2>teals because she says they're the little warning signs that

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<v Speaker 2>we should learn to listen to. But often we don't

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<v Speaker 2>because we're too busy feeling insecure about staff, people pleasing

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<v Speaker 2>whatever we're busy doing. These are what she would consider

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<v Speaker 2>her dickhead signs. Casey included when she wrote her list down,

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<v Speaker 2>things like I'm being a dickhead? When is how you

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<v Speaker 2>start all these sentences? When I convince myself it's not

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<v Speaker 2>okay to look my age? That was one of hers.

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<v Speaker 2>Think that being strong means being an asshole is one

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<v Speaker 2>of hers. Get my eyebrow peer in a dodgy backyard

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<v Speaker 2>place in western New South Wales and leave it in

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<v Speaker 2>until it goes all red and posse. That was another

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<v Speaker 2>one of hers. So you see, they can be existential

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<v Speaker 2>or they could be very practical, right, So I wrote one,

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<v Speaker 2>I'll share a few of mine, so we've got some

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<v Speaker 2>insp around the group used.

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<v Speaker 1>I need you to interpret it.

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<v Speaker 3>It's basically like the way I was thinking of it is,

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<v Speaker 3>when are you with dickhead? So? What I love about

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<v Speaker 3>this premise, I know it's hard for you to specify.

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<v Speaker 1>Would be a shorter list what I win I wasn't.

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<v Speaker 3>What I love is that you know how we talk

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<v Speaker 3>about red flags like we're so good? Yeah, pointing out

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<v Speaker 3>when other people are being.

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<v Speaker 1>These are red flags. Okay, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>And the thing is is in order to do that,

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<v Speaker 2>so it's a little bit kinder to yourself than rather

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<v Speaker 2>than like you just fucked because women, generally we do

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<v Speaker 2>have a long list of things that we know we

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<v Speaker 2>shouldn't be doing. But it's more to kind of remind you, like,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, not to do that. Right last time you

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<v Speaker 2>did that, you ended up in bed with that person.

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<v Speaker 2>And you know what I mean, that kind of stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>So I wrote my dickhead list. Some of them are silly,

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<v Speaker 2>some of them are not. So things like I know

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<v Speaker 2>I'm being a dickhead when I don't listen, I just

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<v Speaker 2>wait to talk. I think that's all of us.

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<v Speaker 1>Really, Yeah, that is your idea. You are a dickhead

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<v Speaker 1>when you do.

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<v Speaker 2>I definitely am open the clean dishrusher, take out a fork,

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<v Speaker 2>close the clean dish washer, classic dickhead mood. Often that

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<v Speaker 2>is a passive aggressive move. I'm usually trying to send

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<v Speaker 2>a signal to someone in my house or my office

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<v Speaker 2>maybe of like I was empty the fucking dish washer,

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<v Speaker 2>you should do it by making a dickhead move.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't know there was another option.

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<v Speaker 2>Forget that my mood affects others. Forget to change my

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<v Speaker 2>HRT patch see above. Ye, forget my children aren't me.

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<v Speaker 2>That's an important one. I'm definitely always being a dickhead.

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<v Speaker 2>When I do that, you have to remember, like, oh,

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<v Speaker 2>that's right. They're their own people, They're not just me.

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<v Speaker 2>Refuse to look at my bank balance, start carrying salt

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<v Speaker 2>sashes in my purse, which I'd stopped doing. Yeah, now

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<v Speaker 2>I've started doing it.

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<v Speaker 3>No, Holly, that's just part of being Holly. Why have

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<v Speaker 3>you stopped carrying salt sashe because I was.

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<v Speaker 2>Being healthy in my body was a and I kept

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<v Speaker 2>it going for a whole year. And now, like an

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<v Speaker 2>addict who's fallen off the wagon, I find myself just

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<v Speaker 2>like involuntarily grabbing salt sachets when ever I'm at a

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<v Speaker 2>takeaway shop and just tucking them quietly in the back

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<v Speaker 2>pocket of my bag. Don't let the truth get in

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<v Speaker 2>the way of an easy opinion. That's the real dickheads,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, when you're like, I know what I think

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<v Speaker 2>about that, and then you do a bit of research

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<v Speaker 2>and you go, oh, I still.

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<v Speaker 1>Know what I think about that.

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<v Speaker 3>I will not use that fact that it is inconvenient.

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<v Speaker 3>Jesse Stevens, Okay, I found this task very easy, Yes,

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<v Speaker 3>very very easy.

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<v Speaker 2>Women in we're conditioned to do it.

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<v Speaker 1>We should have written them for each other. Honestly.

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<v Speaker 3>I know, Okay, I know I'm being a dickhead when

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<v Speaker 3>I find myself saying how much better I feel since

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<v Speaker 3>I started doing weight training, like right.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, I've been saying that a lot lately.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, I nearly said it in the last segment

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<v Speaker 3>when we're talking about posture and orgasms. I was, like,

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<v Speaker 3>I actually said out loud last week, you know, my

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<v Speaker 3>posture's improved, it has I've been doing my weight training.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm being a dickhead, being an absolute dickhead. I don't

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<v Speaker 3>hate it, but it's annoying.

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<v Speaker 2>We could argue that that's one of those things you

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<v Speaker 2>needed to learn, so you're like reminding yourself of something.

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<v Speaker 3>Exactly all right. I've got one that I catch myself

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<v Speaker 3>right before I do it, but I'm going to call

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<v Speaker 3>it a dickhead instinct, and then I've got to suppress it.

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<v Speaker 3>My dickhead instinct is rearing its head. I'm in this

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<v Speaker 3>specific stage right now where my baby is napping, right,

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<v Speaker 3>She's quite a good napper. Anyone else in my circle

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<v Speaker 3>who says, oh, I'm having issues with napping, I feel it.

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<v Speaker 3>I feel the desire to give them advice, and then

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<v Speaker 3>I go, that's your dickhead instinct. Suppress it. You're lucky.

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<v Speaker 3>They're just in a different stage, and I've got to

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<v Speaker 3>shut it down. I know I'm being a dickhead when

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<v Speaker 3>I get a parking fine and I physically hide it

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<v Speaker 3>from Luca, like somewhere in the house. You know when

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<v Speaker 3>you're hiding something in your home that you're doing something wrong.

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<v Speaker 3>I know I being a dickhead when I am scrolling

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<v Speaker 3>through Instagram or TikTok and I'm actually muttering the word idiot.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, that's such a good Oh my god, I do that,

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<v Speaker 1>I mutter. I don't know who you are. That's my tell.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know who you are. Who are you?

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<v Speaker 3>Who are you?

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<v Speaker 1>Who are you?

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<v Speaker 3>Why are you talking to me?

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know who you are. I'm sorry to put

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<v Speaker 1>the phone.

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<v Speaker 2>Down, but these people are just invading my life with

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<v Speaker 2>their opinions.

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<v Speaker 3>Exactly. I know I'm being a dickhead when I'm not

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<v Speaker 3>listening to someone because I'm currently on my phone. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>So sometimes I'll even be on the phone to look up.

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<v Speaker 3>I'll put him on speaker and I'll check my emails,

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<v Speaker 3>and I know that I'm being a dickhead, and then

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<v Speaker 3>he'll say something and that I go, but what do

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<v Speaker 3>you think?

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<v Speaker 1>Jessee?

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<v Speaker 2>Definitely, And he's like, really, but it costs seven hundred.

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<v Speaker 1>Dollars, I'm not sure. What do you think?

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<v Speaker 4>Mayo?

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<v Speaker 3>What are your tells?

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<v Speaker 1>So many? For me giving unsolicited advice, It's a feeling

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<v Speaker 1>that I get in my body where I think I'm

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<v Speaker 1>giving someone advice, but I'm just really trying to tell

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<v Speaker 1>them what to do what I think. I mean, that's

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<v Speaker 1>what advice is, right, is telling someone what to do.

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<v Speaker 1>But I know that I'm too heavily invested in them

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<v Speaker 1>following my advice, and I know that if they don't,

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<v Speaker 1>I'll be pissed off.

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<v Speaker 2>You like to fix things. It's one of your more

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<v Speaker 2>traditionally male traits. I would say, you.

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<v Speaker 1>Know how they say that that's when I'm being a dictatd.

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<v Speaker 2>Because you're you do like to fix things, which is.

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<v Speaker 1>Good, but I don't like it when people do it

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<v Speaker 1>to You do it to me, like I just need

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<v Speaker 1>to vent and then JAS will go in to fixing mode,

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<v Speaker 1>or someone will go and fixing mode it and don't

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<v Speaker 1>like it, but I do it to other people. It's

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<v Speaker 1>really annoying performative kindness when I do something that I

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<v Speaker 1>pretend is just kind, but actually I want other people

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<v Speaker 1>to see me being kind. Like I was in a

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<v Speaker 1>meeting with someone who was pregnant and there was water,

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<v Speaker 1>and I was I concerned about her, maybe, but I

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<v Speaker 1>was like, usually I would just honestly pour a glass

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<v Speaker 1>water of myself, but I was like, you should be

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<v Speaker 1>drinking more, which is advice. She wants some water, and

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<v Speaker 1>I stopped the meeting so everybody could watch me helping

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<v Speaker 1>to hydrate the pregnant person. I know I'm being a

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<v Speaker 1>dickhead when I have the instinct that I love something

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<v Speaker 1>so much, like a piece of clothing or a pair

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<v Speaker 1>of shoes, that I want to buy it twice.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh yes, I have never felt that.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I get so anxious the same thing twice, a

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<v Speaker 2>different color, the.

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<v Speaker 1>Exact same thing. Because I get so anxious. I love

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<v Speaker 1>it so much. I can't ever imagine not loving it,

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm thinking about what if I lose it, what

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<v Speaker 1>if it gets worn?

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<v Speaker 2>Out continue it days.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, like which they do with fashion. That's the whole

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<v Speaker 1>point that you keep buying it. And then of course

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<v Speaker 1>I've done this in the past and I never alone.

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<v Speaker 1>Then you just like, well, I've just got this other thing.

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<v Speaker 2>You've got to prove how much you love it by

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<v Speaker 2>just pressing.

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<v Speaker 1>I know, I just am like, no, don't just want

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<v Speaker 1>That's a dickhead thing to do. I know I'm being

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<v Speaker 1>a dickhead when I tell my kids' stories about myself

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<v Speaker 1>in the hope that it will help them understand something

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<v Speaker 1>they're going through, and I expect it to help, which

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<v Speaker 1>it never does.

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<v Speaker 2>Rerent does this all the time, just outing him as

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<v Speaker 2>a dickhead right now, but like all the time to

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<v Speaker 2>our teenagers who are being teenagers in twenty twenty four

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<v Speaker 2>and or say when I was at school, I'm like,

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<v Speaker 2>you were at school in the seventy kids, I.

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<v Speaker 1>Do not want to hear your stories. They don't. Young

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<v Speaker 1>people don't want to hear your stories. It's not relevant

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<v Speaker 1>to me.

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<v Speaker 3>No.

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<v Speaker 1>Similarly, when I know that I'm just waiting to interrupt

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<v Speaker 1>that snow globe thing where I'm just waiting for someone

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<v Speaker 1>to finish so that I can jump in and say,

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<v Speaker 1>look at my snow globe. Yeah, this similar thing happened

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<v Speaker 1>to me. Where again I kid myself that I'm trying

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<v Speaker 1>to make them feel seen, but actually I think I

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<v Speaker 1>just want to talk.

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<v Speaker 3>Sometimes I get in a mood where I'm very taken

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<v Speaker 3>by myself and like by my and experiences, and I

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<v Speaker 3>get so excited by myself and my experiences that I

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<v Speaker 3>think you've got carried away and you can get adrenaline.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm like, I am so interesting, And then it's just

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<v Speaker 3>it's such a dickhead move, and you can tell that

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<v Speaker 3>you've start you go. Actually, no one else's.

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<v Speaker 2>They have two glasses of wine, and I get on

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<v Speaker 2>my high horse and.

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<v Speaker 1>You make people cry if they're notes and me, you've

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<v Speaker 1>been out to dinner with girlfriends.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh my god, yes, and I've got confused about where

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<v Speaker 2>I am. And let me tell you what I think

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<v Speaker 2>about that thing in a very strident and detailed.

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<v Speaker 1>Fashion, Jesse, and I can handle it like what a dickhead.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh, I know I'm being a dickhead. When I don't

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<v Speaker 3>want to cry, I will resist crying, And in my

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<v Speaker 3>pursuit of resistant crying, I will yell like I will

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<v Speaker 3>get angry before I cry, and it's like, if you

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<v Speaker 3>just cried, you could have probably like saved yourself a

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<v Speaker 3>lot of drama.

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<v Speaker 1>See, I'll do it the other way around when I

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<v Speaker 1>should be angry, but I'll cry and it'll annoy me.

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<v Speaker 1>But I also know that I'm being a dickhead when

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<v Speaker 1>I get emotionally dysregulated, as you spoke about last week,

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<v Speaker 1>and I know a therapist. Numerous therapists have said when

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<v Speaker 1>you feel like that, when you feel like your reaction

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<v Speaker 1>to a certain thing is outsized and you have big feelings,

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<v Speaker 1>go for a walk, take a breath. And when I

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<v Speaker 1>think about that advice and I just go, no, this

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<v Speaker 1>time is different. I love that that.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey, I wanted to ask you because you weren't here

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<v Speaker 2>last Friday when we did emotional dysregulation. I wanted to

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<v Speaker 2>ask you if there's anything you think that you've learned

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<v Speaker 2>about how to emotionally regulate when you think the big

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<v Speaker 2>feelings are overwhelming. Because we talked on the show about

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<v Speaker 2>how it's a real thing, particularly for putting neurodiverse people,

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<v Speaker 2>like it's a real thing and it can be an actual,

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<v Speaker 2>real hindrance.

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<v Speaker 3>And strategies are really important.

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<v Speaker 2>I have seen you do that thing. When she just

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<v Speaker 2>talked about where, I'm like, are you sure you've you can?

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<v Speaker 3>You can set her eyes going yes, I've been told

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<v Speaker 3>that I need to take a walk. And then you

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<v Speaker 3>see her do a little like side to side and

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<v Speaker 3>she's like and then I'm like, nah, I'm not doing it.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a very legitimate feeling. This is not emotional dysregulation.

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<v Speaker 1>It's almost like when I used to get PMT and

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<v Speaker 1>I'd be shocked every time it would be like, no,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't have PMT. The world's just fucked and everyone's

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<v Speaker 1>incredibly irritating. It really always feels so genuine in that moment,

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<v Speaker 1>no matter how much there's a tiny voice that goes

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<v Speaker 1>these are big feelings. What's going on for you now?

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<v Speaker 1>Right now? Pet? And I should go for a walk.

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<v Speaker 1>And then I'm like no, And what I know that

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<v Speaker 1>I need in that moment, and what I look for

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<v Speaker 1>is for someone to match my feelings. That's the only

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<v Speaker 1>thing that can dissipate them other than time. And time

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<v Speaker 1>is really boring to just wait it out because I

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<v Speaker 1>know that they always do dissipate. But my dickhead move

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<v Speaker 1>and my destructive move is that I will go and

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<v Speaker 1>try to get someone to be as pissed off as me.

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<v Speaker 3>You need someone else to be equally as pissed off

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<v Speaker 3>about that thing.

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<v Speaker 1>To validate it. So I need to go, Jesse, can

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<v Speaker 1>you believe that blah blah blah happened? And you to go,

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<v Speaker 1>oh my god, that is just so bad. But no

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<v Speaker 1>one ever does that.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeh, because they're seeing your emotions here and they're going,

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<v Speaker 3>what's helpful is to bring her down.

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<v Speaker 1>And ironically what brings me down is someone meeting me there,

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<v Speaker 1>and then I just immediately fall down, someone going oh

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<v Speaker 1>my god, no, wonder you've pissed off about that, and I'll.

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<v Speaker 2>Just go, this is very good, very nice for anyone

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<v Speaker 2>dealing with the big feelings people.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you've got to match them, and otherwise you're like,

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<v Speaker 1>you become desperate because of course what people try to

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<v Speaker 1>do is talk you down and go it's not that bad.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's why. But it has the opposite effect because then

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<v Speaker 1>you feel like the word gaslit is of used, but

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<v Speaker 1>you feel like you're not being validated and you've got

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<v Speaker 1>to convince them. It's like you don't understand the sky's falling.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, this is what we're talking about last week in

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<v Speaker 3>terms of you feel like you're being told to calm down,

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<v Speaker 3>which is.

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<v Speaker 1>Has ever calmed down, so they don't need to like

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<v Speaker 1>be is agitated, but to just go, oh my god,

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<v Speaker 1>that's fucked.

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<v Speaker 2>Do we think it's useful to know what our dickhead tells?

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<v Speaker 1>Are? Yes?

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<v Speaker 3>Absolutely?

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<v Speaker 1>I found it self awareness, isn't it?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah? And also to go dickheads aren't They're not another

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<v Speaker 3>species all of us? Are you? Last Shuesday? They walk

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<v Speaker 3>among us in that they are sitting behind three microphones.

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<v Speaker 1>They walk in our shoes because they are us. No,

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<v Speaker 1>I think that that's really crucial. Not that you won't

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<v Speaker 1>find other dickhead tells, but I think that that self awareness.

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<v Speaker 1>I think women have a lot more because we're programmed

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<v Speaker 1>for approval and to have other people like us. But

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<v Speaker 1>I think that it is a really good quality. And

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<v Speaker 1>I think that the only thing you've got to know

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<v Speaker 1>is that when you're aware of your dickhead signs, you

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<v Speaker 1>then go into shame. That's so you know when you've

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<v Speaker 1>had it, Like when we've done a record and I've

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<v Speaker 1>been very excited by the sound of my own voice,

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<v Speaker 1>and then I've driven home and just gone, I just

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<v Speaker 1>feel that yucky, you know, I just can't bear myself.

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<v Speaker 2>I think the ideal situation in which to use a

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<v Speaker 2>dickhead list is like, as you say, we're all going

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<v Speaker 2>to do that, yeah, is to try not to get

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<v Speaker 2>to the shame stage, right, but just go like next time,

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<v Speaker 2>next time.

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<v Speaker 3>When I catch myself. One that I've been thinking about

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<v Speaker 3>a lot this year is that I'm being a dickhead

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<v Speaker 3>when I assert my boundary through bitching, when that's the

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<v Speaker 3>only way that I can say what I want or

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<v Speaker 3>what I think is by venting, And so I catch

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<v Speaker 3>myself in that and then to go, ah, okay, you're

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<v Speaker 3>having issues with boundaries right now, Like that that actually

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<v Speaker 3>really helps.

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<v Speaker 1>I think I agree with that. I think hold back

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<v Speaker 1>to your shame thing. I actually think that a small

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<v Speaker 1>amount of shame is very corrective. Yeah, because if you

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<v Speaker 1>don't feel shame, you'll just do it again.

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<v Speaker 2>It's just how long you let yourself live there for. Yes,

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<v Speaker 2>the barnet, Yeah, the drive home is okay. Yeah, The

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<v Speaker 2>narrative in your head of like I should have said

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<v Speaker 2>or shouldn't have said it? Why didn't I let them say?

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<v Speaker 1>What?

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<v Speaker 2>Very quickly you pull into the driveway and you're like, oh,

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<v Speaker 2>forgotten about that?

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<v Speaker 1>Okay anymore.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a really good interview with Casey Chambers, if I

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<v Speaker 2>say so myself. On mid we talk about all kinds

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<v Speaker 2>of stuff divorce and re partnering and step parenting and

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<v Speaker 2>all that stuff. Anyway, we'll put a link in the

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<v Speaker 2>show notes and you'll find it in the midfeed out

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<v Speaker 2>loud as.

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<v Speaker 1>In a moment, something for you to read, listen to

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<v Speaker 1>and watch. It's recos for the weekend and beyond.

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<v Speaker 3>weekend with our best recommendations.

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<v Speaker 1>Maya, you can go fir Okay, I'm watching a show.

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<v Speaker 1>This has been my bar through the last few weeks.

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<v Speaker 1>One of our favorite columnists is Marine Hyde, who's a

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<v Speaker 1>columnist for the UK Guardian, and she has been working

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<v Speaker 1>on a show called The Franchise. It's like a comedy

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<v Speaker 1>about behind the scenes on a superhero franchise, but not

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<v Speaker 1>one of the good ones, you know how there's like

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<v Speaker 1>the main one and then there's all.

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<v Speaker 3>These ant man yep.

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<v Speaker 1>I was about to say, right, okay, so the ant

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<v Speaker 1>Man and it's about this kind of beleaguered director who's

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<v Speaker 1>trying to make this piece of art. Marina is one

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<v Speaker 1>of the writers on the show and producers. It's by

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<v Speaker 1>the maker of Veep, Amando Ayinucci and a bunch of

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<v Speaker 1>other things, very very funny, So it's got that same

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<v Speaker 1>veep vibe, but it's more dry because it's British. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>first assistant director. There's my job to keep the actors

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<v Speaker 1>from killing themselves. I might be having a few side

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<v Speaker 1>effects from my human growth hormones. And I work with

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<v Speaker 1>the director assisting his vision.

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<v Speaker 4>I'd like to fare the sun.

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<v Speaker 3>How you can't do that?

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<v Speaker 1>This wearing the indoor scuff.

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<v Speaker 4>I thought only directors were the indoors scuff?

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<v Speaker 1>Is he mocking me? The way the show came about

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<v Speaker 1>is that Sam Mendez, who's a phenomenal director. I used

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<v Speaker 1>to be married to Kate Winslet, but he's like a

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<v Speaker 1>quite a fancy pants director.

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<v Speaker 2>MoMA Aret Loud. We identify men by who they've been

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<v Speaker 2>married to.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's just the other way around. And he was

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<v Speaker 1>pitching some TV ideas to Amando Ainucci and they just

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<v Speaker 1>got talking about Sam Mende's experience. I think he was

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<v Speaker 1>doing one of the James Bond movies. He was just

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<v Speaker 1>telling some stories about what that was like. His other

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<v Speaker 1>ideas were shit, but Anucci was like, Oh no, I

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<v Speaker 1>think there's a show there. It's laugh out loud, funny.

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<v Speaker 1>Ooh are you watching it? It is on Binge and

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<v Speaker 1>I never do this with a show. I'm watching it twice.

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<v Speaker 1>So I watched it by myself and then I've gone

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<v Speaker 1>back and watched it with my teenage son. And there's

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<v Speaker 1>no one that wouldn't like this Because I don't watch

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<v Speaker 1>Marvel movies. I don't really know the canon, but WI

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<v Speaker 1>is hilarious.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh okay, I'm gonna I've.

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<v Speaker 2>Been hearing so much about that. I'm dying to see

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<v Speaker 2>it too. Am I going?

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, your turn.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm reading a book. I'm written a book that I

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<v Speaker 2>would not expect myself to be reading. We talked about

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<v Speaker 2>this when we talking about It Ends with us in

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<v Speaker 2>Colleen Hoover and how there are some authors who are

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<v Speaker 2>really big, but sometimes people aren't proud to say that

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<v Speaker 2>they're reading them, right, because we all think that we're

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<v Speaker 2>reading one we like Jillie Cooper. Yeah, like we don't necessarily,

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<v Speaker 2>but people think you should always be reading the latest

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<v Speaker 2>like very literary tone, you know, so commercial fiction commercial fiction,

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<v Speaker 2>which is actually what I write anyway. This book is

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<v Speaker 2>by Ellen Hildebrand. Now, if that name is familiar to you,

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<v Speaker 2>you have either read all her books and she has

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<v Speaker 2>written like thirty she is an incredibly prolific novelist, or

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<v Speaker 2>you just watched The Perfect Couple on Netflix earlier this

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<v Speaker 2>year and became obsessed with that because she wrote that,

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<v Speaker 2>and obviously her back catalog's got a big boost from that.

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<v Speaker 2>I have learned because I was looking into her that

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<v Speaker 2>she has written so many books and they are nearly

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<v Speaker 2>all set in the same place, which is Nantucket, which

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<v Speaker 2>is where The Perfect Couple were set. So we all

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<v Speaker 2>have a visual picture for that now, right because we

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<v Speaker 2>watched it so posh island, you know, with fancy people

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<v Speaker 2>living on it, beautiful like gray shingle roof beach houses,

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<v Speaker 2>all that kind of thing. Money then the people who

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<v Speaker 2>live there to work for the rich people, so not money,

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<v Speaker 2>so lots of like gossip and intrigue and summer it's

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<v Speaker 2>really busy. In winter.

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<v Speaker 1>It's quite kind of like the Hampton's, Yes, very very.

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<v Speaker 2>Much on an island.

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<v Speaker 3>It's on an island, and it's quite near Martha's vineyard

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<v Speaker 3>where Lucra and I got engaged, and that's where the

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<v Speaker 3>Obamas have a beach house. And it's also Jaws World.

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<v Speaker 2>It is Jaws World. Jaws was set on a fictional

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<v Speaker 2>version of Nantucket. Anyway, Ellen Hildebrand lives there in a big,

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<v Speaker 2>fancy house, which tourists literally go and find because they're

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<v Speaker 2>so obsessed with her books. You can go and do

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<v Speaker 2>Ellen Hildebrand tours of Nantucket and stuff. Anyway, Well, I

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<v Speaker 2>think she is part of her brand, right. But I

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<v Speaker 2>have started reading her most recent book because everyone was

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<v Speaker 2>talking to me about her. And it's called Swan Song.

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<v Speaker 2>And in the same way that the franchise has maybe

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<v Speaker 2>been a barm for you in the last few weeks,

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<v Speaker 2>it has been just this glorious.

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<v Speaker 1>Like a little bit silly, but not looking for a

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<v Speaker 1>book like that.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Like I think it's actually the last in a series,

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<v Speaker 2>but it doesn't matter because she's built a world, but

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<v Speaker 2>the plot stone or you don't have to read them

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<v Speaker 2>in order. And this is the most recent one and

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<v Speaker 2>it basically is about that. It's the Swan Song because

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<v Speaker 2>it's the Chief of Police. There's last summer at work,

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<v Speaker 2>and of course there's a mysterious incident and it involves

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<v Speaker 2>all the people on the island and there's a new

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<v Speaker 2>family there and they're throwing these glamorous parties and everyone

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<v Speaker 2>skinny and fornever, and it basically is told from these

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<v Speaker 2>different perspectives on people on the island and it's just fun,

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<v Speaker 2>perfect sexy, not sex sexy, but you know, like fun, lazy, sexy,

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<v Speaker 2>like and pervy. And I'm just absolutely loving it. I

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<v Speaker 2>can't stop. I want to go to bed read.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, I'm going to read that. I have a question

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<v Speaker 1>for you about how much you loved have you read

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<v Speaker 1>Jilly Cooper and has it made you want to read

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<v Speaker 1>her other books?

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<v Speaker 2>So I read Jilly Cooper back in the time, which

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<v Speaker 2>was the eighties. Yes, the one I remember the most

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<v Speaker 2>is Riders. That was the first one, and they made

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<v Speaker 2>that into a thing and it was crapy, Yes I heard.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know if it's true, but maybe Marina Hyde

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<v Speaker 2>told me not in real life. I wish that they're

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<v Speaker 2>going to remake all of those books, those Rotsheer books,

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<v Speaker 2>if they've got the funds to do so. It hasn't

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<v Speaker 2>really made me want to go back and read them.

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<v Speaker 2>I just feel and I know that anyone who loves

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<v Speaker 2>books feels like this. There are so many books out there, like,

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<v Speaker 2>it's hard to prioritize, and I am trying to get

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<v Speaker 2>into some of the more current commercial fiction. Why I'm

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<v Speaker 2>reading this So I don't know. Maybe yeah, but you

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<v Speaker 2>know it's interesting because I love Love Love Riders. But

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<v Speaker 2>it slowed down too much in the last couple, didn't it.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't you think Rivals? Yeah, the TV show like it

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<v Speaker 2>slowed down a tiny.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think everything is like that. Did you watch Disclaimer?

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<v Speaker 3>But I'm enjoying it. Don't ruin it.

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<v Speaker 1>That final episode dropped on Friday, and that is such

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<v Speaker 1>an example of a show that should have been a movie.

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<v Speaker 1>I felt that way with Fleischman was in trouble, like

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<v Speaker 1>it's a taking too streamers, where of course it's more

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<v Speaker 1>financially viable to stretch it out over six hours than

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<v Speaker 1>to make a one and a half hour movie or

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<v Speaker 1>a two hour movie. So what it means is that, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>TV shows, some of them end up feeling really bloated.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, speaking of Flashman, my recommendation is a podcast episode

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<v Speaker 3>Sentimental Garbage, which is a podcast we love with Caroline

0:28:43.247 --> 0:28:45.647
<v Speaker 3>o'dono who, but it has been on a break for

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<v Speaker 3>a while, and she released an episode which remarkably came

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<v Speaker 3>out at the exact right moment with Taffy Brodessa Akner.

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<v Speaker 3>It's Taffy Brodessa Akner is a Swiftocrat.

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<v Speaker 2>And I think you recommended her lay this book a couple.

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<v Speaker 1>Of weeks ago.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I compromise.

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<v Speaker 1>Long Island Compromise, which I do.

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<v Speaker 3>So I love Flashman and I really want to read

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<v Speaker 3>Long Island Compromise. And the reason this is so fantastic

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<v Speaker 3>is that it's two women. Caroline is a millennial and

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<v Speaker 3>Taffy is a gen x at different life stages, and

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<v Speaker 3>they're talking about Taylor Swift. And what I love about

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<v Speaker 3>this show is the unashamed earnestness of it. Like that's

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<v Speaker 3>the whole point.

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<v Speaker 1>I think.

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<v Speaker 4>The thing I thought the other day was that if

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<v Speaker 4>you were a baby conceived on the first night of

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<v Speaker 4>the Aras Tour, you are now a person in the

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<v Speaker 4>world who can talk.

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<v Speaker 1>That's nuts.

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<v Speaker 4>You can walk and talk if you weren't even a thing.

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<v Speaker 1>And she's not done.

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<v Speaker 4>She's not done.

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<v Speaker 1>This is her job.

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<v Speaker 4>Her job is to be Her job is to be

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<v Speaker 4>on the Aeros Tour, a concert that has gone on

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<v Speaker 4>for so long that it now contains an additional segment

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<v Speaker 4>about an album that was written during the Aeros tour

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<v Speaker 4>and contains a song about how hard it is to

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<v Speaker 4>be on the ara.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, they're so earnest and analysis.

0:30:12.647 --> 0:30:16.207
<v Speaker 1>I mean they also have a laugh, but they don't like.

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<v Speaker 3>How much they genuinely love something.

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<v Speaker 1>Treating it like literature or the great works of art.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and I'm not a swifty I wouldn't call myself

0:30:25.007 --> 0:30:29.487
<v Speaker 3>a swifty, but I loved how clever this conversation was

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<v Speaker 3>and how they were able to dissect it to say

0:30:31.687 --> 0:30:36.447
<v Speaker 3>things about feminism and heterosexuality and all the different things.

0:30:36.527 --> 0:30:39.567
<v Speaker 3>It is just such a good listen to very very smart.

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<v Speaker 1>Women and how they was interesting. The name of it

0:30:42.087 --> 0:30:46.767
<v Speaker 1>being swifty versus a swiftercrat, Caroline explained it that she

0:30:46.927 --> 0:30:51.087
<v Speaker 1>and her best friend made that distinction. So swifty is

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<v Speaker 1>someone that knows everything about Taylor in her life, and

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<v Speaker 1>a swift decrat is someone that kind of uses Taylor's art,

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<v Speaker 1>her songs, and her lyrics to understand their own life

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<v Speaker 1>and to interpret and make sense of their own life

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<v Speaker 1>and process it.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm obsessed with the war.

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<v Speaker 1>So interesting.

0:31:11.007 --> 0:31:13.447
<v Speaker 2>There's some good bits of gossip dropping it too, actually,

0:31:13.487 --> 0:31:15.487
<v Speaker 2>because I also listened to this loved it sick, even

0:31:15.487 --> 0:31:17.927
<v Speaker 2>though I'm not a massive, massive Swifty myself. Like the

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<v Speaker 2>stuff about Tom Hidlson that Taffy drops about how she

0:31:20.967 --> 0:31:23.167
<v Speaker 2>interviewed him just after the Taylor's.

0:31:22.767 --> 0:31:25.327
<v Speaker 1>Situation, that was an iconic I know I knew it.

0:31:25.407 --> 0:31:27.447
<v Speaker 2>But like, well, I mean, what the good bit of

0:31:27.447 --> 0:31:29.927
<v Speaker 2>gossip was her just talking about how much she adored

0:31:29.967 --> 0:31:31.847
<v Speaker 2>him and what a wonderful guy was, and how he

0:31:31.887 --> 0:31:34.207
<v Speaker 2>called her kids and like all that kind of stuff,

0:31:34.247 --> 0:31:36.767
<v Speaker 2>Like it's just a great chat. I love.

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<v Speaker 3>I didn't get to tell you guys either that when

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<v Speaker 3>I went and saw Dolly Alderton the other week, she

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<v Speaker 3>had the best Taylor Swift theory I think I've ever heard,

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<v Speaker 3>which was the reason why everyone is so obsessed with

0:31:49.527 --> 0:31:53.327
<v Speaker 3>Taylor Swift, particularly teenage girls, is because fame, which really

0:31:53.327 --> 0:31:56.607
<v Speaker 3>she's only written about fame for the last five ten years.

0:31:56.647 --> 0:31:59.167
<v Speaker 3>Fame has been the thing is exactly like being a

0:31:59.207 --> 0:32:02.367
<v Speaker 3>teenage girl, and instead of it being like, you know,

0:32:02.487 --> 0:32:06.327
<v Speaker 3>Stacy's bitching about me, it's like you can over relate

0:32:06.487 --> 0:32:09.087
<v Speaker 3>as a teenage girl. You overrelate to being famous because

0:32:09.287 --> 0:32:10.767
<v Speaker 3>exactly how it feels.

0:32:10.447 --> 0:32:12.967
<v Speaker 1>You go from being kind of invisible to being very

0:32:13.007 --> 0:32:16.247
<v Speaker 1>visible as the world. Yeah, it was interesting.

0:32:16.847 --> 0:32:19.087
<v Speaker 2>It is a glorious hour and a bit of your

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<v Speaker 2>life that show.

0:32:20.247 --> 0:32:23.127
<v Speaker 3>After the break, Maya has a nuanced that she wants

0:32:23.167 --> 0:32:24.847
<v Speaker 3>to share with the group. Is she being a dickhead?

0:32:25.087 --> 0:32:26.487
<v Speaker 3>Only you can decide.

0:32:26.527 --> 0:32:32.487
<v Speaker 1>Probably. Every Tuesday and Thursday, we drop new segments of

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<v Speaker 1>Mom and Me are out Loud just for Mum and

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<v Speaker 1>to get your daily dose of out Loud and a

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<v Speaker 1>time for Best and Worst, which is the part of

0:32:57.687 --> 0:33:00.727
<v Speaker 1>the show that explains itself. We share a little bit

0:33:00.767 --> 0:33:02.847
<v Speaker 1>more from our personal lives. I'm going to go first

0:33:03.447 --> 0:33:08.207
<v Speaker 1>my worst of the week. I've made peace with being

0:33:08.327 --> 0:33:10.967
<v Speaker 1>called nanas so part of my big thing. When Jesse

0:33:11.007 --> 0:33:12.927
<v Speaker 1>announced her pregnancy, Everyone's like, what are you going to

0:33:12.967 --> 0:33:15.047
<v Speaker 1>be called? I was like, I don't know, and everyone

0:33:15.127 --> 0:33:16.487
<v Speaker 1>has to make up funny names. I was going to

0:33:16.527 --> 0:33:18.167
<v Speaker 1>be me Me and that didn't take. So then I

0:33:18.247 --> 0:33:21.967
<v Speaker 1>was like, it's awkward giving yourself a nickname. I was like, okay,

0:33:22.007 --> 0:33:24.247
<v Speaker 1>you know what, Nana, I'm fine with Nana. I loved

0:33:24.287 --> 0:33:26.967
<v Speaker 1>my Nana. My kids call my mum Nana. You know.

0:33:27.167 --> 0:33:29.647
<v Speaker 3>The other day I was in the park and this

0:33:29.767 --> 0:33:33.887
<v Speaker 3>quite hot woman who might have been early forties hot,

0:33:34.447 --> 0:33:36.727
<v Speaker 3>was in an active way walking towards us, and Luna

0:33:36.727 --> 0:33:39.527
<v Speaker 3>got her finger out. She said, Nana. She thought that

0:33:39.567 --> 0:33:41.607
<v Speaker 3>hot woman was Nana, and I said no, no, no, Nana's

0:33:41.687 --> 0:33:42.247
<v Speaker 3>much older.

0:33:42.527 --> 0:33:49.167
<v Speaker 1>Or did she? Because what I've recently learned is that

0:33:49.247 --> 0:33:55.047
<v Speaker 1>Anne Stevens, Jesse's mum out Louder extraordinary mascot in the

0:33:55.087 --> 0:33:55.967
<v Speaker 1>out Louder's.

0:33:55.607 --> 0:33:58.127
<v Speaker 3>Facebook group, so she needs to be muted.

0:33:58.327 --> 0:34:00.007
<v Speaker 1>Also called Nana.

0:34:00.167 --> 0:34:01.527
<v Speaker 3>She has nanas and this has.

0:34:01.487 --> 0:34:04.647
<v Speaker 1>Sent me into this existential despair because I was very

0:34:04.687 --> 0:34:08.567
<v Speaker 1>anxious at first about my position on the leaderboard and

0:34:08.807 --> 0:34:11.167
<v Speaker 1>where I would be, because I realized I would be

0:34:11.207 --> 0:34:15.287
<v Speaker 1>quite far down beneath Jesse Claire. Oh sorry, Jesse Luca.

0:34:15.327 --> 0:34:19.407
<v Speaker 1>I always said, Jesse Claire, that order, Jesse Luca Claire,

0:34:19.607 --> 0:34:24.407
<v Speaker 1>Jesse's twin Ann, and then I'd be next. I felt, do.

0:34:24.407 --> 0:34:27.367
<v Speaker 3>You still feel that there's a leader board does not

0:34:27.407 --> 0:34:27.927
<v Speaker 3>have family?

0:34:28.007 --> 0:34:30.767
<v Speaker 1>No, I don't know. I don't feel like there's a

0:34:30.847 --> 0:34:35.127
<v Speaker 1>leaderboard anymore. However, my piece has been thrown into disrate

0:34:35.327 --> 0:34:38.287
<v Speaker 1>nice sledge on Anne. Anne's amazing, But I'm going to

0:34:38.327 --> 0:34:42.807
<v Speaker 1>petition that maybe she could be called Nan because I

0:34:42.927 --> 0:34:45.687
<v Speaker 1>think it's confusing. Because I think it's confusing to have

0:34:45.767 --> 0:34:48.287
<v Speaker 1>two people with the same name. What if I was

0:34:48.367 --> 0:34:51.687
<v Speaker 1>called Mama.

0:34:51.967 --> 0:34:54.287
<v Speaker 2>I think somebody's already called Yes.

0:34:54.647 --> 0:34:56.447
<v Speaker 1>Funny that someone has already called that.

0:34:56.447 --> 0:34:57.607
<v Speaker 3>How many babies though I.

0:34:57.567 --> 0:34:58.807
<v Speaker 1>Don't want to share my name.

0:34:59.047 --> 0:35:01.127
<v Speaker 3>Babies have two mums, Babies have two dads that don't

0:35:01.127 --> 0:35:01.847
<v Speaker 3>get here, but they.

0:35:01.727 --> 0:35:04.647
<v Speaker 1>Always call babies. I know babies with two moms or

0:35:04.647 --> 0:35:07.647
<v Speaker 1>two dads, and they have different names. They're not both mama. Really,

0:35:07.767 --> 0:35:12.567
<v Speaker 1>no one will be like Memu and one will be Mama,

0:35:12.887 --> 0:35:14.767
<v Speaker 1>or one will be mummy and one will be Ma.

0:35:16.207 --> 0:35:18.967
<v Speaker 1>So I want to know, if I want to know

0:35:19.007 --> 0:35:19.727
<v Speaker 1>if this is a thing.

0:35:19.807 --> 0:35:22.247
<v Speaker 2>So I need you gonna do this. This child for

0:35:22.327 --> 0:35:25.167
<v Speaker 2>out louders who are intimately involved in our lives as

0:35:25.287 --> 0:35:28.967
<v Speaker 2>we are this personal question. Here is one right, sixteen

0:35:29.007 --> 0:35:33.367
<v Speaker 2>months old. Luna is one as the ship sailed, I think,

0:35:33.407 --> 0:35:36.487
<v Speaker 2>so she knows Nana and Nana as far as I

0:35:36.527 --> 0:35:38.887
<v Speaker 2>can see, loves them both, spends lots of time with them.

0:35:38.927 --> 0:35:41.927
<v Speaker 1>Both. I'm not worried about my place. Life will make

0:35:42.327 --> 0:35:44.807
<v Speaker 1>How are you going to make her child? I tell

0:35:44.847 --> 0:35:47.287
<v Speaker 1>you so. One of the things I did for Luna

0:35:47.847 --> 0:35:49.967
<v Speaker 1>when these guys were not way earlier in the years,

0:35:49.967 --> 0:35:52.087
<v Speaker 1>I made these little albums with everyone's photos because I

0:35:52.087 --> 0:35:53.847
<v Speaker 1>remember my kids loved them. And her favorite thing to

0:35:53.887 --> 0:35:57.207
<v Speaker 1>do is to flick through the photos and name everybody.

0:35:57.247 --> 0:35:59.887
<v Speaker 1>And now she's got quite a good strike rate. She

0:36:00.247 --> 0:36:02.287
<v Speaker 1>points at your mom. This is how I learned, right,

0:36:02.407 --> 0:36:05.247
<v Speaker 1>because I thought your mum was grandma. And she pointed

0:36:05.727 --> 0:36:09.207
<v Speaker 1>at Anne. Her face lit up, which makes me so happy,

0:36:09.327 --> 0:36:13.087
<v Speaker 1>and goes Nana, And I was like, so Nan, temperature

0:36:13.127 --> 0:36:16.247
<v Speaker 1>in the room, plut. So now Anne.

0:36:16.047 --> 0:36:19.327
<v Speaker 3>Stevens's face is got out of every photo in the photo.

0:36:19.607 --> 0:36:22.727
<v Speaker 1>So now we go through the album together and I go, Nan,

0:36:25.607 --> 0:36:29.727
<v Speaker 1>we yah Na, that's no. We love man. But she's

0:36:29.767 --> 0:36:35.047
<v Speaker 1>called Nan. It's not taking at all, but I'm still working.

0:36:35.247 --> 0:36:37.567
<v Speaker 1>It's what all we do when she comes to my house. Now,

0:36:37.767 --> 0:36:40.647
<v Speaker 1>it's all we do. We just look at the photos

0:36:40.887 --> 0:36:44.047
<v Speaker 1>and we learn that that lady it is called Nan.

0:36:44.607 --> 0:36:46.527
<v Speaker 2>Oh my god.

0:36:46.527 --> 0:36:47.207
<v Speaker 3>She's insane.

0:36:47.407 --> 0:36:50.647
<v Speaker 2>She is insane. How did you react when this information

0:36:50.767 --> 0:36:51.367
<v Speaker 2>came your way?

0:36:51.567 --> 0:36:55.327
<v Speaker 3>Well, it only just came my name, didn't She's.

0:36:55.167 --> 0:36:58.927
<v Speaker 1>Like locally your mum's Bankay, isn't it funny though? How

0:36:58.967 --> 0:37:03.287
<v Speaker 1>I have like I've always got to find something to

0:37:03.487 --> 0:37:06.687
<v Speaker 1>be insecure or anxious about it. We need to pick

0:37:06.687 --> 0:37:07.527
<v Speaker 1>that up with my therapy.

0:37:07.687 --> 0:37:11.767
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, okay, I'm the best. Today we have read oh

0:37:11.807 --> 0:37:12.167
<v Speaker 2>my best.

0:37:12.207 --> 0:37:15.087
<v Speaker 1>Sorry I forgot about that. My bears this week was

0:37:15.287 --> 0:37:19.327
<v Speaker 1>interviewing Jackie Oh who. I just bloody love her. She's

0:37:19.367 --> 0:37:22.127
<v Speaker 1>just a really good chick to interview. She's just no bullshit.

0:37:22.207 --> 0:37:24.847
<v Speaker 1>And she came in and I wanted to interview her

0:37:25.367 --> 0:37:27.967
<v Speaker 1>about her addiction, which she's written about in her memoir,

0:37:28.007 --> 0:37:30.207
<v Speaker 1>which is Another Wreck. I great read that book.

0:37:30.527 --> 0:37:32.447
<v Speaker 3>Everyone who's read it. It's really good.

0:37:33.207 --> 0:37:36.847
<v Speaker 1>It's really really good to she narrate the audio brilliant,

0:37:37.127 --> 0:37:39.127
<v Speaker 1>and I invited her in with Gemma, her best friend,

0:37:39.327 --> 0:37:42.367
<v Speaker 1>and they spoke about Jemma's experience of Jackie's addiction as well.

0:37:42.727 --> 0:37:45.567
<v Speaker 1>But what's so interesting about her is that because everyone

0:37:45.567 --> 0:37:47.887
<v Speaker 1>in here was pretty excited. You know, Jackie's a big

0:37:47.927 --> 0:37:52.767
<v Speaker 1>deal and an incredibly successful woman in media. So afterwards

0:37:52.807 --> 0:37:55.887
<v Speaker 1>we said, would you mind staying for another like half

0:37:55.887 --> 0:37:57.607
<v Speaker 1>an hour and just doing a Q and A with

0:37:57.687 --> 0:38:00.727
<v Speaker 1>the staff, and she was like, yeah, yeah, sure, no problem.

0:38:00.767 --> 0:38:03.007
<v Speaker 1>She's just so easy. She comes in just with Gemma.

0:38:03.087 --> 0:38:05.167
<v Speaker 1>And then afterwards it was a pretty heavy interview. There

0:38:05.207 --> 0:38:07.167
<v Speaker 1>were tears. It was like an hour and a half,

0:38:07.207 --> 0:38:10.247
<v Speaker 1>if not two hours probably, and she'd comes straight from

0:38:10.287 --> 0:38:12.047
<v Speaker 1>doing four hours that morning, and I'm like, do you

0:38:12.127 --> 0:38:14.327
<v Speaker 1>need like a drink? Most people come out of this studio,

0:38:14.407 --> 0:38:18.447
<v Speaker 1>including me, after a no filter, like unable to speak,

0:38:19.127 --> 0:38:22.447
<v Speaker 1>and she's like, oh no, I don't need to unwake.

0:38:22.487 --> 0:38:24.367
<v Speaker 1>You need a weed, you need a tea, We've got snacks.

0:38:24.407 --> 0:38:26.567
<v Speaker 1>She's like, no, no, let's just go. Let's go. It's fine,

0:38:26.607 --> 0:38:30.167
<v Speaker 1>no problem. And then she'd answered questions and was so

0:38:30.247 --> 0:38:32.887
<v Speaker 1>delightful for her another half an hour and then I

0:38:32.927 --> 0:38:34.287
<v Speaker 1>was like, oh, look, Jack probably has to go, and

0:38:34.287 --> 0:38:35.727
<v Speaker 1>she's like, no, no, there's more questions.

0:38:35.807 --> 0:38:37.887
<v Speaker 2>Can answer more questions. She did selfies, if everyone who

0:38:37.927 --> 0:38:41.847
<v Speaker 2>wanted selfies. Just a delightful person. Nicole her works and

0:38:42.127 --> 0:38:44.127
<v Speaker 2>people in Contububa nearly helped her.

0:38:45.807 --> 0:38:48.447
<v Speaker 1>When you're as famous as Jack, I've met a lot

0:38:48.487 --> 0:38:52.167
<v Speaker 1>of famous people and you don't always have to be

0:38:52.327 --> 0:38:55.207
<v Speaker 1>that generous, but she's one of those people that knows

0:38:56.087 --> 0:38:59.767
<v Speaker 1>she has the power to make or break someone's day, week, month,

0:38:59.887 --> 0:39:02.367
<v Speaker 1>year by just giving them a little bit of her.

0:39:02.967 --> 0:39:05.647
<v Speaker 1>And she was just so generous with her time. When

0:39:05.687 --> 0:39:08.407
<v Speaker 1>everyone wants a piece of you, that's a big ask anyway,

0:39:08.487 --> 0:39:09.887
<v Speaker 1>great book loved saying.

0:39:09.927 --> 0:39:12.487
<v Speaker 3>I'm excited about that, and I feelter My worst.

0:39:12.167 --> 0:39:12.887
<v Speaker 1>Of the week is.

0:39:13.047 --> 0:39:15.847
<v Speaker 2>The thing about having kids is that sometimes you don't

0:39:15.887 --> 0:39:18.527
<v Speaker 2>notice milestones exactly as they're happening, but a little bit

0:39:18.567 --> 0:39:20.087
<v Speaker 2>afterwards you go, oh, that's new.

0:39:20.287 --> 0:39:21.927
<v Speaker 3>That's new though that was the last time.

0:39:22.047 --> 0:39:22.887
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

0:39:22.927 --> 0:39:25.487
<v Speaker 2>And what I've noticed is new in my house with

0:39:25.607 --> 0:39:29.367
<v Speaker 2>my twelve and fourteen nearly fifteen year old is closed

0:39:29.407 --> 0:39:33.167
<v Speaker 2>bedroom doors for ages when your kids are little. Maybe

0:39:33.207 --> 0:39:35.967
<v Speaker 2>everyone's house isn't like this, but their bedroom doors are open.

0:39:36.167 --> 0:39:38.287
<v Speaker 2>You're walking in and out. Everybody's walking in and out,

0:39:38.487 --> 0:39:41.007
<v Speaker 2>and they don't actually spend that much time in there anyway.

0:39:41.047 --> 0:39:43.127
<v Speaker 2>They'd probably rather be around you a little bit, or

0:39:43.167 --> 0:39:45.927
<v Speaker 2>out in the world or whatever. And I've just got

0:39:45.967 --> 0:39:48.447
<v Speaker 2>to that point with the kids where Billy only just

0:39:48.487 --> 0:39:52.007
<v Speaker 2>a little bit more, but Matilda very much. Where they

0:39:52.607 --> 0:39:54.607
<v Speaker 2>want to be in their rooms and the door is closed,

0:39:55.207 --> 0:39:57.607
<v Speaker 2>and I don't think they're doing anything nefarious in their

0:39:57.647 --> 0:40:00.767
<v Speaker 2>Oh no, they probably are. But what I remember is

0:40:00.887 --> 0:40:04.167
<v Speaker 2>I remember very intently being about the age that Matilda was,

0:40:04.167 --> 0:40:08.407
<v Speaker 2>and my bedroom was my world, right, like the posters

0:40:08.447 --> 0:40:13.487
<v Speaker 2>on the wall, you know, my music. Oh, she's always

0:40:13.567 --> 0:40:16.247
<v Speaker 2>printing out new pictures and putting them up. Your room

0:40:16.367 --> 0:40:18.607
<v Speaker 2>is your sanctuary, right, and it's your thing. And when

0:40:18.607 --> 0:40:22.127
<v Speaker 2>they're little, it's not like that you control, yes, And

0:40:22.127 --> 0:40:23.687
<v Speaker 2>when they're little, their room is just the place where

0:40:23.687 --> 0:40:26.967
<v Speaker 2>their toys are, you know. But now the door is closed,

0:40:26.967 --> 0:40:29.447
<v Speaker 2>and I was not before I go in, But I'm like, oh,

0:40:29.887 --> 0:40:32.887
<v Speaker 2>this is the new era and it's very normal and

0:40:32.927 --> 0:40:36.647
<v Speaker 2>it's exactly how it should be. She is literally closing

0:40:36.687 --> 0:40:38.327
<v Speaker 2>a door between me and her.

0:40:38.767 --> 0:40:40.927
<v Speaker 1>Do you have your bedroom door closed?

0:40:41.127 --> 0:40:43.687
<v Speaker 2>Not very often, which we should do more, just for

0:40:43.767 --> 0:40:47.087
<v Speaker 2>sexy times, but we don't like I'm a bit funny

0:40:47.087 --> 0:40:50.287
<v Speaker 2>with closed doors. I think I'm a bit claustrophobic. I

0:40:50.367 --> 0:40:53.087
<v Speaker 2>don't really like doors being closed either door, and so

0:40:53.127 --> 0:40:56.087
<v Speaker 2>I'm much happier to have doors open. I agree, And

0:40:56.287 --> 0:41:01.127
<v Speaker 2>I always, yeah, I always feel like I'm breaching my

0:41:01.207 --> 0:41:02.807
<v Speaker 2>parental responsibilities.

0:41:03.207 --> 0:41:05.007
<v Speaker 1>But it's not even a should. It's that when my

0:41:05.127 --> 0:41:08.607
<v Speaker 1>kids are in the house. Yeah, part claustrophobia and also

0:41:08.687 --> 0:41:10.607
<v Speaker 1>part I want them to be able to have access.

0:41:10.727 --> 0:41:13.127
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and you can hear a little bit what's going on,

0:41:13.487 --> 0:41:15.367
<v Speaker 2>so it's very normal. But it made me. I was

0:41:15.407 --> 0:41:17.647
<v Speaker 2>thinking about it this week and just noticing how many

0:41:17.687 --> 0:41:19.927
<v Speaker 2>times I'm going up to the doors now, you know,

0:41:19.967 --> 0:41:23.407
<v Speaker 2>with like fricking washing or snacks or come and do this,

0:41:23.487 --> 0:41:26.287
<v Speaker 2>you lazy buggers or whatever it is, and the doors

0:41:26.287 --> 0:41:28.447
<v Speaker 2>are closed, and I'm like, oh, and it made me

0:41:28.527 --> 0:41:32.607
<v Speaker 2>realize this is one of those moments where they're just a.

0:41:32.527 --> 0:41:35.407
<v Speaker 1>Little bit further away. Yeah, so so interesting.

0:41:35.487 --> 0:41:37.087
<v Speaker 2>It's great, Like I mean, obviously there's a lot of

0:41:37.167 --> 0:41:38.647
<v Speaker 2>joy in watching them grow up, but it's also a

0:41:38.687 --> 0:41:41.847
<v Speaker 2>little bit My best is and I was talking before

0:41:41.847 --> 0:41:43.687
<v Speaker 2>about how I'm reading this very fun book and I've

0:41:43.687 --> 0:41:46.127
<v Speaker 2>been really really getting back into reading in a big

0:41:46.167 --> 0:41:47.847
<v Speaker 2>way lately, which is great because it's always been one

0:41:47.887 --> 0:41:49.447
<v Speaker 2>of the joys of my life. But when I'm really

0:41:49.447 --> 0:41:51.807
<v Speaker 2>stressed and busy, it's one of the things to go

0:41:52.007 --> 0:41:52.527
<v Speaker 2>and do.

0:41:52.527 --> 0:41:55.647
<v Speaker 1>You also stop reading when you're writing, Well I used.

0:41:55.447 --> 0:41:58.007
<v Speaker 2>To, but I'm actually trying not to do that. What

0:41:58.047 --> 0:42:00.167
<v Speaker 2>I've realized is ever since I was a kid. The

0:42:00.167 --> 0:42:01.567
<v Speaker 2>whole reason I want to be a writer and work

0:42:01.567 --> 0:42:04.487
<v Speaker 2>with words is because I've always loved books, right, But

0:42:04.607 --> 0:42:08.487
<v Speaker 2>then as you get older, books become a luxury, like, oh,

0:42:08.607 --> 0:42:11.527
<v Speaker 2>imagine having the time to sit around and read a book,

0:42:11.607 --> 0:42:14.887
<v Speaker 2>you know, and certainly in the very heavy busy years

0:42:14.887 --> 0:42:17.327
<v Speaker 2>of kids and working kids and work, like, the idea

0:42:17.367 --> 0:42:19.327
<v Speaker 2>that you might sit down for twenty minutes and read

0:42:19.327 --> 0:42:21.847
<v Speaker 2>a book just seems like you can't even imagine it.

0:42:22.607 --> 0:42:25.927
<v Speaker 2>But what I've realized lately and as I'm writing things too,

0:42:25.967 --> 0:42:29.167
<v Speaker 2>that it's the only thing that a makes you better

0:42:29.287 --> 0:42:33.007
<v Speaker 2>at writing is reading pushes you into new places with

0:42:33.047 --> 0:42:35.447
<v Speaker 2>what you're doing. And also it's a form of rest.

0:42:35.567 --> 0:42:35.767
<v Speaker 1>You know.

0:42:35.767 --> 0:42:38.687
<v Speaker 2>We've talked before about different forms of rest, Like people

0:42:38.727 --> 0:42:40.367
<v Speaker 2>say rest and you're like, well, I'm not a line

0:42:40.367 --> 0:42:43.407
<v Speaker 2>around doing nothing kind of person. But reading is rest

0:42:43.647 --> 0:42:44.567
<v Speaker 2>a certain kind of rest.

0:42:44.647 --> 0:42:46.887
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, and it can be creative rest.

0:42:46.967 --> 0:42:49.527
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's creative rest for sure. Anyway, the reason it's

0:42:49.567 --> 0:42:52.127
<v Speaker 2>my best is I've implemented a new routine. You like this,

0:42:52.287 --> 0:42:54.727
<v Speaker 2>just you like a routine. We'll see how long it lasts.

0:42:54.727 --> 0:42:56.567
<v Speaker 2>Probably a couple of days because it's been going for

0:42:56.567 --> 0:42:58.807
<v Speaker 2>a couple of weeks now when I'm working at home

0:42:58.967 --> 0:43:00.767
<v Speaker 2>or I've got days at home where I've got some

0:43:00.807 --> 0:43:02.607
<v Speaker 2>work to do. Some of the things I make lists.

0:43:02.647 --> 0:43:04.967
<v Speaker 2>That's what I do. I go right between ten and

0:43:04.967 --> 0:43:09.287
<v Speaker 2>eleven today we are answering emails. Between this time and

0:43:09.407 --> 0:43:12.047
<v Speaker 2>this time. We're writing a script for the mid intro.

0:43:12.487 --> 0:43:14.967
<v Speaker 2>Between this time, maybe we're doing some exercise.

0:43:15.407 --> 0:43:17.647
<v Speaker 1>Where do you write this on a piece of paper?

0:43:17.727 --> 0:43:20.687
<v Speaker 2>Usually literally so I can literally cross it off, but

0:43:20.847 --> 0:43:24.567
<v Speaker 2>the schedule helps me. Yeah, And what I've been doing

0:43:24.647 --> 0:43:27.807
<v Speaker 2>lately is I go and then between one and one

0:43:28.007 --> 0:43:29.407
<v Speaker 2>thirty we're reading a book.

0:43:29.567 --> 0:43:32.807
<v Speaker 1>Oh wow, So not just because I usually my reading

0:43:32.847 --> 0:43:34.607
<v Speaker 1>time is when I get into bed, but then I

0:43:34.647 --> 0:43:35.167
<v Speaker 1>just fall away.

0:43:35.207 --> 0:43:37.527
<v Speaker 2>The thing is I because that's always been my reading

0:43:37.567 --> 0:43:40.607
<v Speaker 2>time too, and sometimes it gets hijacked by our phone addictions, right,

0:43:40.607 --> 0:43:44.567
<v Speaker 2>which obviously we're trying whatever. And then also I often

0:43:44.647 --> 0:43:47.327
<v Speaker 2>just fall asleep. It's like either look to break up

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<v Speaker 2>or maybe five o'clock or half past five, or you know,

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<v Speaker 2>like some really random time of the day. And even

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<v Speaker 2>on weekends, if I'm like trying to get I'll go

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<v Speaker 2>this half hour here is reading a book time and

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<v Speaker 2>I sit on my chair and I read the book

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<v Speaker 2>and then I cross it off back.

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<v Speaker 3>And it's also like you've hacked it into feeling productive

0:44:03.487 --> 0:44:04.847
<v Speaker 3>because it's on the list what must be.

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<v Speaker 1>Done well I have.

0:44:05.407 --> 0:44:09.167
<v Speaker 2>But also actually reading is part of my job. I

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<v Speaker 2>mean not like now like sorry me, I we're not

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<v Speaker 2>recording a show, I'm going to go and read my

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<v Speaker 2>Allen Hilda.

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<v Speaker 1>Brown, I can expect it.

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<v Speaker 2>Not that, but like it is actually part of my

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<v Speaker 2>general job to be reading.

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<v Speaker 1>And so why have I liked the weird thing about.

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<v Speaker 2>Carving out time? And I know that obviously not everybody

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<v Speaker 2>can do it like that, but if it's like six

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<v Speaker 2>till six thirty or early in the morning or whatever,

0:44:30.127 --> 0:44:32.687
<v Speaker 2>you've got it, Like it's somehow writing it down and

0:44:32.687 --> 0:44:35.127
<v Speaker 2>putting it in your schedule gives you permission to do it.

0:44:35.167 --> 0:44:38.327
<v Speaker 2>And you shouldn't need permission to spend twenty minutes reading

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<v Speaker 2>a book, but somehow you do.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you know what I mean that instead of like

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<v Speaker 1>just cramming it in the spaces.

0:44:43.167 --> 0:44:46.327
<v Speaker 2>I'm like mindfully taking a moment to read a book.

0:44:46.567 --> 0:44:48.207
<v Speaker 2>And it's working for me and that has been my

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<v Speaker 2>best this week.

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<v Speaker 3>I love it. Jesse ste My worst is not going

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<v Speaker 3>to Coldplay.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm sick.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm not going Darling like every time I have them

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<v Speaker 3>With Taylor Swift too, everyone's like, I'm going to Coldplay,

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<v Speaker 3>and I'm like, excuse me. Firstly, when did we get tickets? Secondly,

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<v Speaker 3>when do we learn Coldplayer was here?

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<v Speaker 1>And I agree with you apart from Taylor or firstly,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't like going to concerts a part of Taylor,

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<v Speaker 1>but I don't understand how everyone knows that when people

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<v Speaker 1>are here, if.

0:45:11.767 --> 0:45:14.087
<v Speaker 3>People are just so on it. I've never gotten into

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<v Speaker 3>a que anywhere.

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<v Speaker 1>How are they on it? Like it was different with

0:45:16.927 --> 0:45:21.327
<v Speaker 1>Taylor because it was just everywhere across media. Sorry, I

0:45:21.407 --> 0:45:24.207
<v Speaker 1>just bang the camera. It was just everywhere. Everybody knew it.

0:45:24.207 --> 0:45:26.447
<v Speaker 1>It was like a cultural event, certainly in our workplace.

0:45:26.527 --> 0:45:29.047
<v Speaker 1>The world stopped. But how do people know?

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<v Speaker 3>I vaguely remember the Coldplay thing popping up and my

0:45:31.887 --> 0:45:32.807
<v Speaker 3>mum bought tickets.

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<v Speaker 1>How long ago?

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<v Speaker 3>I reckon it was like a year. Mum bought tickets,

0:45:36.487 --> 0:45:38.087
<v Speaker 3>and I'm always like, well, where am I going to

0:45:38.087 --> 0:45:40.207
<v Speaker 3>be in years? That's also true, you just don't know,

0:45:40.447 --> 0:45:42.087
<v Speaker 3>and so didn't get them. And then I see everyone

0:45:42.167 --> 0:45:44.847
<v Speaker 3>go wondering why or not at all exactly, and everyone

0:45:44.887 --> 0:45:46.887
<v Speaker 3>has this spiritual experience, and I'm like, well, I'd have

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<v Speaker 3>liked to go, but I am at home on my phone.

0:45:49.967 --> 0:45:52.207
<v Speaker 1>Did you ask your mom how she knew they were touring?

0:45:52.487 --> 0:45:54.447
<v Speaker 3>She had that thing where she got tickets and then

0:45:54.487 --> 0:45:56.727
<v Speaker 3>she like told a bunch of friends and her daughters

0:45:57.007 --> 0:45:59.007
<v Speaker 3>so that everyone would kind of fight for the tickets.

0:45:59.167 --> 0:46:00.647
<v Speaker 3>And I don't know who took but didn't take me.

0:46:00.687 --> 0:46:02.727
<v Speaker 3>I kind of assumed she would ask me last minute.

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<v Speaker 3>Let's just say she didn't. I don't know who she.

0:46:04.647 --> 0:46:07.327
<v Speaker 2>Just because you haven't given her own grandma now exactly.

0:46:07.647 --> 0:46:12.767
<v Speaker 1>Everybody did say that it was a transcendent experience, that concept.

0:46:12.847 --> 0:46:13.767
<v Speaker 1>I had great things.

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<v Speaker 3>My best is Book Babies. So there's this thing at

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<v Speaker 3>my local library. It's a nine thirty If I can,

0:46:21.447 --> 0:46:23.367
<v Speaker 3>I try and go twice a week, but at the

0:46:23.407 --> 0:46:27.527
<v Speaker 3>very least I go once. Yeah, just me and the babies.

0:46:27.567 --> 0:46:29.727
<v Speaker 3>It is maybe a four minute walk from my house

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<v Speaker 3>the library. We go up in our little pram and

0:46:33.087 --> 0:46:35.047
<v Speaker 3>we go to Book Babies where we do our songs,

0:46:35.127 --> 0:46:38.207
<v Speaker 3>a big story, like read the story. Someone like a

0:46:38.287 --> 0:46:41.167
<v Speaker 3>volunteer from the library, and there's maybe fifteen or twenty

0:46:41.207 --> 0:46:45.367
<v Speaker 3>other babies, and I just love it, like it is

0:46:45.527 --> 0:46:49.007
<v Speaker 3>such a vibe. It is like watching Luna watch other

0:46:49.047 --> 0:46:50.927
<v Speaker 3>things and just getting out of the house, because you know,

0:46:50.967 --> 0:46:53.007
<v Speaker 3>it's one thing to sit there and read stories on it,

0:46:53.087 --> 0:46:54.967
<v Speaker 3>but to have someone else do it. She's always in

0:46:55.007 --> 0:46:56.607
<v Speaker 3>such a good mood once we do it. Then we

0:46:56.687 --> 0:46:59.207
<v Speaker 3>go the toy library. It's part of our routine where

0:46:59.247 --> 0:47:03.407
<v Speaker 3>we borrow and return our toys. Sometimes Cousin Matilda joins

0:47:03.487 --> 0:47:07.087
<v Speaker 3>us and Auntie Claire. And it's just such a vibe.

0:47:07.127 --> 0:47:09.687
<v Speaker 3>And so I've been really leaning into it lately, and

0:47:10.127 --> 0:47:12.687
<v Speaker 3>I just love that there are free things like that. Yeah,

0:47:12.887 --> 0:47:14.607
<v Speaker 3>the mast that's a great thing about.

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<v Speaker 2>Library's absolutely nailed it.

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<v Speaker 1>I think that what I've found hardest about being home

0:47:20.047 --> 0:47:23.687
<v Speaker 1>with babies is being home with babies literally home. I

0:47:23.767 --> 0:47:25.847
<v Speaker 1>found it very hard to get out of the house

0:47:26.487 --> 0:47:28.887
<v Speaker 1>because it just seemed like too many steps, and I

0:47:29.007 --> 0:47:31.247
<v Speaker 1>found it really hard to have to be anywhere at

0:47:31.287 --> 0:47:33.607
<v Speaker 1>a certain time and all of those things. But the

0:47:33.687 --> 0:47:37.287
<v Speaker 1>days are long, the days are really long, and doing

0:47:37.327 --> 0:47:40.527
<v Speaker 1>something like that gives you short You just have to

0:47:40.567 --> 0:47:43.967
<v Speaker 1>walk there it every day. Because I always found it

0:47:43.967 --> 0:47:47.687
<v Speaker 1>hard to make arrangements with friends because I didn't know

0:47:47.767 --> 0:47:49.607
<v Speaker 1>how that night would have gone on or how that day.

0:47:49.647 --> 0:47:52.607
<v Speaker 1>So I never wanted the claustrophobia of anyone depending on me.

0:47:53.047 --> 0:47:55.127
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and this is literally twenty minutes and I turn

0:47:55.207 --> 0:47:57.927
<v Speaker 3>up with the breakfast, not turn up date of me

0:47:57.967 --> 0:47:59.607
<v Speaker 3>when I show up, and I'm like, who's going to

0:47:59.687 --> 0:48:00.007
<v Speaker 3>judge me?

0:48:00.167 --> 0:48:02.527
<v Speaker 1>Activity? You need activity in the morning and activity in

0:48:02.527 --> 0:48:03.087
<v Speaker 1>the afternoon.

0:48:03.167 --> 0:48:05.647
<v Speaker 2>It's funny how you rediscover libraries in a big way

0:48:05.647 --> 0:48:07.407
<v Speaker 2>at different times in your life, and that's one of

0:48:07.407 --> 0:48:09.007
<v Speaker 2>them when your kids are little and you remember, like,

0:48:09.327 --> 0:48:11.847
<v Speaker 2>this is amazing, it's free and it's in my neighborhood.

0:48:12.487 --> 0:48:15.367
<v Speaker 3>Does everyone know about libraries? Like libraries? You can get

0:48:15.367 --> 0:48:17.767
<v Speaker 3>books there, They're super cheap.

0:48:17.807 --> 0:48:18.927
<v Speaker 2>You can work there right there.

0:48:19.127 --> 0:48:20.727
<v Speaker 3>You do it your borrow and then you give them.

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<v Speaker 1>Back, then you get another one. Have you heard of that?

0:48:24.727 --> 0:48:27.407
<v Speaker 2>Okay, lad As, I think we've gone a little a

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<v Speaker 2>little cuckoo. That is all we have time for today.

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<v Speaker 2>Big thank you to all of you for being here

0:48:32.567 --> 0:48:34.007
<v Speaker 2>with us this week. Of course we're going to be

0:48:34.007 --> 0:48:36.047
<v Speaker 2>back into His next week. Maya read us.

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<v Speaker 1>Out A big thank you to our team. Executive producer

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0:48:45.007 --> 0:48:49.287
<v Speaker 1>to do it all now. Senior producer Emmeline Gazillas is

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0:48:51.647 --> 0:48:55.767
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0:48:56.167 --> 0:48:59.207
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0:48:59.367 --> 0:49:01.847
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0:49:01.927 --> 0:49:05.447
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