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Speaker 1: Hey, hey, ba fan, welcome back to the show.

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Speaker 2: It's been a long time coming.

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Speaker 1: I watched way too much K pop demon Hunters and

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Speaker 1: now all they want to do is thing. It's been

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Speaker 1: a long time coming, but we're back with another Brown Table.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, Chris and yon Nelly. It's been too long.

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Speaker 1: I missed y'all. I've got a busy busy You've been busy.

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Speaker 3: Yes, seriously, did y'all both well?

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Speaker 2: Tell me what's going on?

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, an Nellie, you are in like are

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Speaker 1: you just still in like the ecstasy of learning that

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Speaker 1: the man is going to be Super Bowl legendary performer

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Speaker 1: this year.

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Speaker 3: I have the mandatory concert merch on to you know,

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Speaker 3: pre celebrations. But yes, it's it's it is happening, and

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Speaker 3: I'm so excited. Now this is the third time I'm

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Speaker 3: going to get to experience how I saw him in person.

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Speaker 3: So I'm with the Amazon thing and now I get

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Speaker 3: to see him again at the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: I'm not really good game.

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Speaker 3: No, I'm not even gonna watch a game. I'm just

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Speaker 3: gonna watch a concert. Like I don't care about the sport.

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Speaker 3: I care about Benito. But no, I'm so excited, especially

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Speaker 3: because he just is Saturday Night Live over the weekend.

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Speaker 3: It was so good, so good. Did you see Mandy

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Speaker 3: the sketch on the K Pop Girls the Hunter.

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Speaker 1: K Yeah, that's the thing I saw so far.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, there's so many good ones. There were

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Speaker 3: a couple that were kind of corny and some that

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Speaker 3: were so niche that you won't get it unless you

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Speaker 3: grew up in a Latino household. But I thought that

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Speaker 3: they did a good job.

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Speaker 1: But isn't that I think Bad Bunny is like such

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Speaker 1: a good example of how just be exactly as niche

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Speaker 1: and like exclusionary as your personality is, like as specific

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Speaker 1: as you can be, and how I don't know what

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Speaker 1: is it about it that, like I don't know half

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Speaker 1: the stuff that he says in his music, maybe more

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Speaker 1: than half, but like I still love and adore him,

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Speaker 1: and I bet I watched that sketch and crack up.

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Speaker 1: But there's just something about someone who's being so authentic

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Speaker 1: that is so electrifying and just makes you like love them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's it's cross cultural because even though the

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Speaker 3: cultural references might be niche and specific, there's everybody's culture

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Speaker 3: has those things, So you could imagine like what it

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Speaker 3: is for your people, even if it's not exactly what

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Speaker 3: he's doing or saying, so it's it's relatable. Even if

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Speaker 3: you know. I think people really just love that. And

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Speaker 3: everybody wants that for him for themselves. Everybody wants to

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Speaker 3: be able to just be their full authentic self and

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Speaker 3: not have to turn on and off or tune it

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Speaker 3: up or down, like just be you. And so the

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Speaker 3: fact that he gets to do it and gets to

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Speaker 3: be celebrated and just success after success comes to him,

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Speaker 3: it's like, damn, it just feels so damn good. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I mean that's the thing, like you don't

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Speaker 4: have to experience someone an exact like life and how

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Speaker 4: they grew up to appreciate it or to find the

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Speaker 4: humor in it. I mean, that was the best part

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Speaker 4: about growing up for me. Like all my friends get

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Speaker 4: from different backgrounds, different homes, families, some families or immigrants,

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Speaker 4: some grew up here for generations, and you just learn

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Speaker 4: what they what they air, family does, how they party,

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Speaker 4: how they eat, the things they do, the jokes they have,

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Speaker 4: and that's just part of it. To me. That's part

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Speaker 4: about being an American is getting to meet all these different

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Speaker 4: what makes it great. He's getting to do those things,

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Speaker 4: and I don't know, I appreciate it. I mean, that's that's.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of giving lib tard energy, which recent reviewer

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Speaker 1: of the podcast just said, this is podcast run by

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Speaker 1: a bunch of libtards. Oh oh, Chris, you're not helping

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Speaker 1: me out.

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Speaker 4: I'm so sorry. I lost my saying it there.

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Speaker 3: For that person who wrote that comment, they might not

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Speaker 3: know that what Chris was referring to as being proud

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Speaker 3: to be Americans includes bad Bunny, he is American. Puerto

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Speaker 3: Ricans are American. Okay, if that makes me a libtard

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Speaker 3: to have to announce that for you, who probably doesn't

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Speaker 3: know it and left that stupid comment, it's just for you, Okay.

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Speaker 1: There's something so juicy and scrumptious about how pissed off

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Speaker 1: so much of America is by this man getting the gig.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no sense. Post of all the people who performed

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Speaker 4: and no one said anything, And it's like, now you

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Speaker 4: have someone who actually is and it's like, what do

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Speaker 4: you have to complain about? Just go too the music

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Speaker 4: and enjoy It'll be quiet.

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Speaker 3: Yep yep. Well, you know, we're in the middle of

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Speaker 3: trying to try our hardest to get rid of so

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Speaker 3: many people who look and sound just like him. So

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Speaker 3: I think that it just it brought to people the

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Speaker 3: their mind. It's like an oxymoron. How can we be

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Speaker 3: getting rid of them and then celebrating them on the

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Speaker 3: But that sounds like a personal problem to me. I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna be eating my pitos and dancing, drinking goquito and

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Speaker 3: singing lyric after lyric of bad Bunny songs every single

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Speaker 3: song in the performance. And I hope he doesn't speak

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Speaker 2: I don't think he will.

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Speaker 1: He had a little tiny part in the Shakira j

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Speaker 1: Lo performance on Themver forget he had that aluminum foil

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Speaker 2: Rag bad bunny.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that so the American story right now? Like the

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Speaker 1: polar sides of what's happening, Like we have bad Bunny

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Speaker 1: at the super Bowl, and then we have still ice raids,

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Speaker 1: Like have you all heard about what's.

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Speaker 3: It's terrible. I mean, I have two nieces and nephews

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Speaker 3: I wanted to just encourage them to start just to

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Speaker 3: like let's talk about it. But yeah, just I don't

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Speaker 2: I think you got to know your kids.

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Speaker 1: And like my five year old, I've realized I can

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Speaker 1: is like difficult concepts, Like I explained to him why

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Speaker 1: we don't shop a Target anymore, and why we do

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Speaker 1: And I was like explaining, why you know, Elon Musk

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Speaker 1: okay to like this thing, but to understand, like to

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Speaker 1: It just took me way too long to learn how

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Speaker 3: It's not like you can choose you're talking about it

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Speaker 1: Rio managed to post a TikTok on my account yesterday, y'all.

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Speaker 1: It's never been on TikTok before other than watching it.

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Speaker 1: It was just somehow He had a song behind it too.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for sharing that.

435
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Speaker 1: I'm running out of things to say, Like all the advice,

436
00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:16,800
Speaker 1: all the strategies, they just are meaningless when companies are

437
00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:19,359
Speaker 1: simply not hiring and the jobs are simply not there,

438
00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:21,960
Speaker 1: you know, even jobs that are there, they all feel

439
00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:24,840
Speaker 1: like ghost jobs. You know, people sending in dozens of

440
00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:28,360
Speaker 1: applications and all that and not not hearing anything back.

441
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Speaker 1: I think I've worked with two women now for twelve weeks,

442
00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:35,720
Speaker 1: one on one, incredibly like talented, currently employed, looking for

443
00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:39,840
Speaker 1: new work, and nothing has panned out. I think, you know,

444
00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:42,160
Speaker 1: over that twelve week so and that's for something. Those

445
00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:45,199
Speaker 1: were for people who are like currently working. It's just

446
00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,760
Speaker 1: I don't have any there's no like simple answers.

447
00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:51,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, And even situations where like I know one person

448
00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:54,640
Speaker 3: who got a job offer and it was a kind

449
00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:57,959
Speaker 3: of medical devices company or something like that, and then

450
00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:02,760
Speaker 3: was offered verbally and everything like that was like okay, cool.

451
00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:05,000
Speaker 3: The next week nothing happened, but like, oh, we're going

452
00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:06,520
Speaker 3: to reach back out to you to get all the paperwork.

453
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Speaker 3: Another week. So they go reaching back out to the

454
00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,560
Speaker 3: person the recruiter like, hey, like they told me, I

455
00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:13,359
Speaker 3: got it, they gave me a salary and everything they

456
00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,320
Speaker 3: told me, and then having heard from them, it's been seven, eight, nine, ten, twelve,

457
00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:20,480
Speaker 3: fourteen days and come to find out eventually they contact

458
00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:24,239
Speaker 3: back and say, oh, you know unfortunately the position is

459
00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:29,400
Speaker 3: just like on pause right now, Like what I imagine,

460
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Speaker 3: I just can't after being unemployed for nine ten months,

461
00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:33,959
Speaker 3: and then you finally get something and it's like a

462
00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:36,399
Speaker 3: huge sense of relief and then that like it's just

463
00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:38,520
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, kick the while they're down, like what

464
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Speaker 3: is going on right now?

465
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Speaker 4: And it's like in the mental toll right Like it

466
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Speaker 4: was one thing, like the financial stress you're under when

467
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Speaker 4: you have to, you know, go without income for that long,

468
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Speaker 4: but then mentally it's hard to even keep yourself motivated

469
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Speaker 4: and want to keep going. I have a friend similar

470
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Speaker 4: what you're saying, La, where it's like he's been out

471
00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,400
Speaker 4: since he got laid off last year and he's been

472
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Speaker 4: on the hunt and he basically it was like like

473
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Speaker 4: the worst possible time to get late because it was

474
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Speaker 4: like right at the start of all of this, so

475
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Speaker 4: he kind of like got in at the early stage

476
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Speaker 4: of all this. It has to see the job marre.

477
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Speaker 4: You get worse and worse and worse, but then still

478
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Speaker 4: be like I'm going to wake up today, I'm going

479
00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,359
Speaker 4: to keep applying for jobs, and it's just it's just

480
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Speaker 4: hard mentally to keep yourself in the game. I don't

481
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Speaker 4: blame anybody who's feeling like defeated, because it's like, what,

482
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Speaker 4: who wouldn't under these circumstances.

483
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Speaker 1: It's almost like, don't I almost wanted to start saying,

484
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Speaker 1: don't wait to find a part like a temporary part

485
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Speaker 1: time position anywhere, Like, don't wait to go out and

486
00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:35,240
Speaker 1: look for that that bridge opportunity, even if it's not

487
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Speaker 1: in you know, even if you're way overqualified and you

488
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Speaker 1: you know you you need to take some part time

489
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Speaker 1: work at a at a grocery store in retail, you know,

490
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Speaker 1: in the hospitality business and healthcare, like anything that can

491
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Speaker 1: provide some income to weather the storm. It's not the

492
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Speaker 1: it's not what you want to be saying to people.

493
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Speaker 1: It's not like doesn't make me feel good to say,

494
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Speaker 1: but I think that's just the reality that we're in.

495
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Speaker 1: It's like I don't want people to I don't want

496
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:05,719
Speaker 1: people to like rely on false hope of like or

497
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:09,640
Speaker 1: that sense of like, well, I'm doing everything right. I

498
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:12,720
Speaker 1: have these qualifications, I should qualify for these roles. I

499
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 1: should be able to find my next role. And then

500
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,639
Speaker 1: weeks and months go by and you're maybe you're living

501
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,679
Speaker 1: off of credit cards, you're blowing through your savings and

502
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,320
Speaker 1: you're not replenishing them, and you're going to end up

503
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:28,479
Speaker 1: in an even more dire financial situation. And yeah, and

504
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Speaker 1: to have like to Chris's point too, that can like

505
00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:32,640
Speaker 1: do a number on your mental health when you feel

506
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:36,960
Speaker 1: like you're not like you're undervalued, you're underemployed. But I

507
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,399
Speaker 1: think at the same time, it's like it's shifting the

508
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Speaker 1: perspective to like, this is a really unprecedented time in

509
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Speaker 1: the economy. Things are going to have to temporarily be

510
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Speaker 1: this way. It doesn't mean that you can't get back

511
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,719
Speaker 1: on the path that you were on. When you know

512
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 1: this the clouds start to part. But yeah, I get

513
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Speaker 1: really concerned when I when I hear about people who

514
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:01,680
Speaker 1: are relying on debt credit cards to float them by

515
00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 1: and blowing through their savings, because there's going to be

516
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Speaker 1: an end to that.

517
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Speaker 2: To your point on LA.

518
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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. I'll say one thing. Two of my friends

519
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 3: personal connections that I have, I recently said to them, Hey,

520
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:14,919
Speaker 3: I mean I see that it's been a while and

521
00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 3: things are getting more frustrating. Granted I have, like my

522
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:21,800
Speaker 3: background is in teaching and education, but even if your

523
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 3: background is not in education or teaching. If you can

524
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Speaker 3: stand children even a little bit, if you can stand them,

525
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,240
Speaker 3: if you can, if you can, if you enjoy children,

526
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,000
Speaker 3: or even just be the presence around kids, like, being

527
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Speaker 3: a substitute teacher is a really good bridge. I think

528
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Speaker 3: not enough people consider it, and I've recently told two

529
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Speaker 3: of my friends, bro, all you have to do is

530
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Speaker 3: put an applications, be able to pass the background check

531
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Speaker 3: if certain things that are like pretty much typical positions

532
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 3: that pay decent salary would require of you anyway. So

533
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,440
Speaker 3: if you can get through those hoops, you can start

534
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,320
Speaker 3: working fairly quickly. Because school districts right now are in

535
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:00,960
Speaker 3: desperate need a lot of teacher. They had a mass

536
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 3: exodus from COVID, and surely after COVID a lot of

537
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 3: teachers exiting, and there's a lot of understaffing in districts

538
00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:08,960
Speaker 3: in school So if you're if you're willing to be

539
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,359
Speaker 3: a sub is great because first of all, the hiring

540
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,479
Speaker 3: process is fairly quick if you can pass the back

541
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Speaker 3: on check. Second of all, pay for the kids. I mean,

542
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Speaker 3: I mean, if you're a good person. Okay, this is

543
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Speaker 3: only for the good people listening who like kids, like

544
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Speaker 3: I said, But the reason why I mentioned it.

545
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Speaker 1: Is because body to watch these little headlans.

546
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Speaker 3: That's not how I meant it, But you're right. But

547
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,159
Speaker 3: it's more so the flexibility, Like if you're a sub

548
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:38,480
Speaker 3: you can literally pick the shifts the morning of. So

549
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Speaker 3: let's say, for example, you have to you have to

550
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:42,960
Speaker 3: go and interview, you have a couple of interviews for

551
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 3: real jobs today and you can't. Great, just don't pick

552
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:47,920
Speaker 3: up the hours in the app like it's it's actually

553
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 3: very flexible so that you can continue to like put

554
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:53,240
Speaker 3: all of your energy into finding a new position while

555
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:55,879
Speaker 3: getting paid probably I don't know, maybe like one hundred

556
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 3: two hundred dollars a day every shift that you pick

557
00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,800
Speaker 3: up to teach. But it's again flexibility, pretty easy to start,

558
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 3: and it actually doesn't look bad on a resume, Like

559
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 3: imagine you're on a you're looking at someone's resume, there's

560
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 3: a period of time where they decided to give back

561
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 3: to the community and work with children at the local

562
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 3: school like that that makes you look good. That doesn't

563
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:15,119
Speaker 3: actually look bad. So I personally would vouch for substitute

564
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Speaker 3: teaching as a really great bridge. If you or someone

565
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 3: you know who's listening is in that self position. I've

566
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Speaker 3: given this advice to two people recently. One of them

567
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:23,960
Speaker 3: already took my advice on it, the other one, I'm

568
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:27,440
Speaker 3: not sure, but hey, it's a great bridge to Mandy's point.

569
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Speaker 1: Hey, ba fam, we're gonna take a quick break, pay

570
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:33,680
Speaker 1: some bills, and we'll be right back.

571
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Jed, hold on, I didn't know how Wait, so

572
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Speaker 4: how are these videos working?

573
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Speaker 1: You just you just make videos of music and then

574
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 1: you put them on YouTube, and then you know, people

575
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 1: search for music apparently to listen to on YouTube, and uh,

576
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,639
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, you become a jillionaire.

577
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Speaker 2: Obviously.

578
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Speaker 4: Why don't I know about this? I should have been

579
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Speaker 4: doing these years.

580
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Speaker 1: No, you shouldn't have because honestly, recently Youtubo just stop it.

581
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 1: You're doing your Sleepy Sounds podcast right like you your

582
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 1: your business and.

583
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 4: What it's called. But yeah, you in the ballpark.

584
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 1: But YouTube's cracking down on AI generated stuff.

585
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 2: There was this fast.

586
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Speaker 1: I didn't put it on the run of show because

587
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Speaker 1: I forgot, but I remember one of the recent episodes

588
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 1: of The Daily was about how tech has you know,

589
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,919
Speaker 1: tech single handedly like went through the education education system

590
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,640
Speaker 1: and the last like fifteen years and was like every

591
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:35,920
Speaker 1: all the kids would learn how to code and they'll

592
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 1: have these, you know, one hundred thousand dollars six figure

593
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,479
Speaker 1: jobs in tech. And how there's this gap now because

594
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 1: recent graduates who followed that advice and studied computer programming

595
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,920
Speaker 1: and software engineering entry level stuff are graduating into a

596
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Speaker 1: job market where the entry level work for them has

597
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 1: been replaced by AI, and there's they're not they're not

598
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Speaker 1: finding work after they sort of did the right thing.

599
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Speaker 1: And it's you know, I feel for that weird like

600
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 1: pocket of people because I think now, if you're in

601
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Speaker 1: college and you're paying.

602
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,360
Speaker 2: Attention, you're switching.

603
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: Your major, you're being more you know, you're you're studying AI,

604
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:13,919
Speaker 1: you're getting the train that you need to have to

605
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,919
Speaker 1: come into the job market at a higher level. But

606
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 1: for those people who, you know, did it the right way,

607
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:23,680
Speaker 1: did what did what the big tech bros said, They're

608
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 1: they're coming up short. They're having a real hard time

609
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 1: just getting entry level stuff, even internships.

610
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that sucks, that really sucks. It's just like the

611
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 3: word future ready, just the definition of being future ready

612
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 3: changes every two to five years. It's impossible to I

613
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 3: feel bad for young people. It's like, but I will

614
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:45,280
Speaker 3: say something that I did that I would always recommend

615
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 3: is focusing on soft skills and not just these hard

616
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 3: skills that you need these technical skills. Because soft skills

617
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 3: like presentation skills, communication skills, your ability to like you know,

618
00:28:55,840 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 3: be convincing, negotiation skills, adaptability and flexibility, team work, being

619
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 3: able to be the person that everybody wants to work with.

620
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 3: Those things will take you so much further than any

621
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 3: one hard skill that you have, like coding, because coding

622
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 3: will in five years be done by an AI. But

623
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Speaker 3: an AI cannot be the best team on a team,

624
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 3: the teammate on a team. The AI cannot be flexible

625
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 3: and adaptable when things happen that it's not been inputed

626
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 3: into that AI, like you as a human, have this advantage,

627
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 3: which is the soft skills that computer systems just cannot do.

628
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 3: So never completely stop focusing on soft skills, even when

629
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Speaker 3: you are putting your focus on like future ready tech

630
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 3: skills and hard skills, because that balance is so important

631
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 3: to have someone both.

632
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Speaker 4: That's so true. It's I think we discount those those

633
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 4: little things, but that make you a valuable person in

634
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,240
Speaker 4: the company or an organization because yeah, a lot of

635
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 4: people don't pick up those skills. I remember I got it, Like,

636
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 4: you don't tell that in school. I didn't learn that

637
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 4: in school. It came from like being in work, being

638
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 4: forced to like interact and talk with people and talking

639
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 4: meetings and present things. That's when you're like, you're forced

640
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 4: to learn those skills. You forced to learn it or

641
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 4: just to fail while you're trying to do it. It's

642
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 4: like those are the two options.

643
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 3: Exactly. You want to get paid, you better do this

644
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 3: team presentation.

645
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, doing a deck. I could not think

646
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: of something anything worse that I am like have the

647
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 1: soul little patience for. And again I'm not really talking

648
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 1: myself into being very qualified for many corporate roles today.

649
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 2: But I can't stand it.

650
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 3: Girl, this is hilarious. TikTok. I've decend it to you

651
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Speaker 3: as a guy who's like, why didn't they tell me

652
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Speaker 3: that my life was going to be about decks? Making

653
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Speaker 3: the deck, sharing the deck, discussing the deck. What version

654
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Speaker 3: of the deck are we on? Is like, I didn't

655
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Speaker 3: know this is what's going to be. Adulthood is all

656
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Speaker 3: about the damn decks. And I was like, he's not wrong.

657
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Speaker 1: He's not really so right though. Feeling future proof, I

658
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Speaker 1: don't know that I'm future proof.

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Speaker 2: Chris.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel future proof what you study? You know,

661
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Speaker 1: financial stuff though, I.

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Speaker 4: Study personal finance. But but you think about even the word

663
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Speaker 4: of person to find its how much.

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Speaker 2: Has changed finance? You could do that.

665
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Speaker 3: That was to say you could study personal finance.

666
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Speaker 4: Yeah. So my randomly I went to school as an

667
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Speaker 4: art major and I just lucked out and picked the school.

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Speaker 4: I went to cal State Fulach and they had like

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Speaker 4: one of the biggest business programs in California. It just

670
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Speaker 4: lucked out. And so when I switched my major to finance,

671
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 4: their business school had you can either go corporate finance

672
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Speaker 4: or you could go financial planning. And so my degrees

673
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Speaker 4: in finance, but I had a concentration in financial planning.

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Speaker 4: So that's where my that's where I got my degree in.

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Speaker 4: But I mean the world has changed. I mean I

676
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Speaker 4: graduated what sixteen years ago? The world has changed so

677
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Speaker 4: much from then until now?

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Speaker 1: Possible because I only graduated five years ago.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, exactly, you just graduated yesterday, right, Every twenty

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Speaker 4: third birthday, I.

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Speaker 3: Want to talk about that. I have my fifteen year

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Speaker 3: college reunion in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: So are you going?

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Speaker 3: I am going. I'm excited to go. I don't think I.

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Speaker 1: Arly organized class from my high school or college because

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Speaker 1: I don't get nowhere's nowhere.

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Speaker 3: I The only reason I know is because I follow

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Speaker 3: a group on social media like Instagram that's like the

689
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Speaker 3: graduating class. So every time they post like funny stories

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00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 3: or little things like I'll see it, And they recently

691
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Speaker 3: posted something saying like specifically class only eleven, like we're

692
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 3: gonna have the reunion. We're planning it now, like what

693
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Speaker 3: suggestions do y'all have? And so I've threw in some suggestions.

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Speaker 3: But I feel like my college friends, even though we're

695
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 3: spread out a lot, are really still very very tight.

696
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Speaker 3: Like our group chats are always popping every time we

697
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Speaker 3: get together. It's like I just saw you yesterday, even

698
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Speaker 3: though it's probably been like eighteen months since we last

699
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Speaker 3: hung out in person. But yeah, So I'm actually excited

700
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Speaker 3: to go to my fifteen year and I've kept up

701
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Speaker 3: with a lot of them on social media, even if

702
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Speaker 3: I don't see people in person as much. And I

703
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 3: don't know my experience in undergrad was very much like

704
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 3: I was one of the I always identified as after Latinas,

705
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 3: so I was very much in the black Latino community heavy.

706
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Speaker 3: So it's like, even though you know, there's gonna be

707
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Speaker 3: a lot of people that I'll be happy to see,

708
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Speaker 3: it's really this group of people that made my experience

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00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 3: very special that I cannot wait to reconnect with. So

710
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Speaker 3: it's just my.

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Speaker 5: Experience sounds beautiful. Yeah, my college pals, Yeah, y'all kind

712
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 5: of feel like college pals, but like financial Oh yeah,

713
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Speaker 5: speaking of that where I met y'all.

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Speaker 3: Fin Con just happens.

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Speaker 2: This was it, Jalla. You didn't go, Chris, and how

716
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 2: was it over there?

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Speaker 4: You know what, all you East coast people didn't let

718
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Speaker 4: me If you all don't know. Fincoun's this conference that

719
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Speaker 4: we all have gone to where people who do what

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Speaker 4: we do, like this finance media stuff, they come together

721
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:34,479
Speaker 4: and you know, it's a conference. It's a good time.

722
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 4: It's like really good people, all this stuff. But it's

723
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 4: always almost always either in the center of the country

724
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Speaker 4: or on the East coast for years and years and years.

725
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Speaker 4: For the first time in like seven years, it was

726
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 4: on the West coast over here, like it was a

727
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 4: beautiful West Coast our weather is so much better, especially

728
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 4: this time of year than what y'all got going on,

729
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 4: and you all could have came over here. But I

730
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Speaker 4: felt like every East Coast person was like, oh, the

731
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Speaker 4: fights too long. I can't sit on a plane five

732
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Speaker 4: six hours. And I'm like, I've been doing this for

733
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Speaker 4: years and the one time it's on my side of

734
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Speaker 4: the country, nobody wants to go. I don't understand it.

735
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Speaker 4: Say it's a little rude if you ask me, But

736
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Speaker 4: why are.

737
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Speaker 1: You going to take it personally? It's not all about you.

738
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Speaker 4: I did take it personally, Chris specific And here's the

739
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Speaker 4: thing I want you everyone listening to know. Neither Mandy

740
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Speaker 4: or yeah Ll they told me in advance that they

741
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Speaker 4: weren't going.

742
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Speaker 2: I actually genuinely sound surprise.

743
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Speaker 4: I was talking to Mandy on the phone and I

744
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Speaker 4: was like, Oh, I'm gonna see I'm getting ready for

745
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 4: fink you're gonna be there, and You're like, oh, I'm

746
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:37,919
Speaker 4: not going. I'm like, what do you mean you're not going?

747
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 4: You had all this time to tell me you're not going,

748
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 4: and all of a sudden, you.

749
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Speaker 1: Woman with children's going anywhere. I didn't children Brooklyn yesterday,

750
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Speaker 1: twin and then I paid a ticket for Okay, it

751
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: was two hours away.

752
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 4: It's so far you would have been halfway to Portland

753
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Speaker 4: if you would have came fake within two hours.

754
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Speaker 2: No, but it it wasn't. It wasn't on. It wasn't

755
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Speaker 2: that poorly attended.

756
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:03,879
Speaker 3: Was it?

757
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: Like?

758
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:05,919
Speaker 2: What was the vibe?

759
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 3: A good crowd?

760
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 4: It was a good turnout, but definitely felt smaller and

761
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 4: I definitely could see who wasn't there and it was

762
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 4: pretty much everybody. Only PEO wouldn't show it with the

763
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Speaker 4: ones on the East coast.

764
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Speaker 1: Maybe they should, like, I don't know, pay your girl

765
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Speaker 1: to talk. Sometimes I don't want to pay my way

766
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Speaker 1: to go out there. It's kind of how I feel, Ken,

767
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 1: did you learn anything good there?

768
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Speaker 4: Like?

769
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Speaker 2: What were there any goods?

770
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Speaker 4: Like?

771
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 2: What was the vibe?

772
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Speaker 1: How are how are the finn Con influencers, bloggers, podcasters doing?

773
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 2: Like how's business? Did you get a sense of that?

774
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 4: I did? And you know, I felt the theme was

775
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:45,399
Speaker 4: transition because everybody is getting hit, especially what you're saying,

776
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 4: a lot of the writers, so those people were bloggers

777
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Speaker 4: who were freelance.

778
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Speaker 2: Writers writers ton Yeah.

779
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:53,959
Speaker 4: Yeah, big got hit. They're getting hit really hard because

780
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,399
Speaker 4: obviously all the changes to Google and their little AI

781
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 4: block that they throw over at the top. It's cutting

782
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 4: trafficked to a lot of websites, and so that cuts

783
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 4: down AD revenue, and that trickles down to letting go

784
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 4: of writers. I mean they're letting go of like staff writers,

785
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 4: let alone, you know, the freelancers. Those are the first

786
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 4: ones to something to get bumped out of there. And

787
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:11,840
Speaker 4: so I met a lot of people who were writers

788
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Speaker 4: who are now transitioning, and I will say I was

789
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 4: pretty I was really impressed by the upbeat approach a

790
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 4: lot of these people had, because I mean, I think

791
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 4: it would be so easy to be defeated if I

792
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 4: was a writer and all of a sudden all my

793
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:26,399
Speaker 4: jobs are disappearing. I understand you could just fall into

794
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:29,400
Speaker 4: some dark spaces. But I was really impressed by so

795
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 4: many people I talked too are like, yeah, it sucks,

796
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 4: but I'm learning to be a video editor. I'm learning

797
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 4: how to make content in other forms. And a lot

798
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 4: of people were just on that pivot, that pivot grind,

799
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 4: trying new things, and that really was like, you know,

800
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 4: impressive to see it. And he gave me even like

801
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 4: a little more hope fight. Look, this is tough itself

802
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,760
Speaker 4: for all of us, because the space is really rapidly changing,

803
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 4: and the way you earn money through this space, like

804
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:55,240
Speaker 4: through ad revenue things like that ISPID has been changing

805
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:57,799
Speaker 4: for years now. But to see people who are being

806
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 4: hit the hardest right now finding ways to pivot and

807
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 4: make something out of nothing, I was really impressed, and

808
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 4: I was happy to see so many people taking it

809
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 4: being as positive as you possibly could be considering what

810
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 4: they did is not a show. I mean, hey, look,

811
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 4: you got to say it first, right, you gotta believe it.

812
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 3: First before it could be putting on a show. But also,

813
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 3: I feel like now is the best possible time ever

814
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 3: in history to be in that situation because you have

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00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 3: social media platforms like substack, so I guess technically not

816
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 3: social media, but just like an ability for our writer

817
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 3: to monetize their writing by having an audience that pays

818
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 3: them directly instead of being a famous New York Times

819
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 3: columnist who who's direct who's directly tied to payments coming

820
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 3: from the New York Times, and if they let you go,

821
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,279
Speaker 3: you're screwed, right versus. Subsack is kind of platform that

822
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Speaker 3: I think is allowing writers to feel empowered to write

823
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 3: every single day, every week, every month however often you

824
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 3: want to and be paid directly. I feel like that

825
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 3: just didn't exist and in the past. And also I

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Speaker 3: think fin Con is a great space for that kind

827
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Speaker 3: of energy. Like every I've been going to like twenty eighteen, right,

828
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 3: and every single year that I've gone, it feels like

829
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 3: people just be like, I didn't know what to do,

830
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 3: and then I met this person over here and they

831
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:09,400
Speaker 3: told me to do this, and I did it, and

832
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Speaker 3: then I started making ten thousand dollars a month, like

833
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 3: and it's just like WHOA. When you're in a space

834
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 3: like that where you hear from people showing you what's possible.

835
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 3: As long as you're willing to be gritty and put

836
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 3: in the work and be creative and stick with something,

837
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 3: I think that is a good space for people to be.

838
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 3: And even if they were a little bit faking the

839
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 3: funk while they were there, I think they leave with

840
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 3: value if they truly do build relationships while they're there.

841
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,319
Speaker 3: Like I've met people who I'm like, damn, like that

842
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 3: is so motivational and inspiring to me, and I would

843
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 3: never have known them if I didn't go to Fincoln.

844
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true. And I think it's one those things

845
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 4: too where it's especially you see now like the world

846
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 4: was crazy the end of this country. It's crazy and

847
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 4: it's easy. I think. I'm sorry I lost myself again,

848
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 4: you know, it's it's wild. And one of things I

849
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 4: always hear people say is like, you know, one of

850
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 4: things you can do to help yourself is fine community, right,

851
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 4: And sometimes I roll my eyes and like community. But

852
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,439
Speaker 4: then when you're in the space where you're around people

853
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 4: who like either you've you've met it before or you

854
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 4: know you meet now in this event and you're all

855
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 4: kind of like working through a similar thing together, You're

856
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 4: you're you're talking, you for conversations. Even if it's like

857
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 4: you didn't learn anything that made you make some more money,

858
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 4: you just have someone to talk to who knows what

859
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 4: you're going through. And I'm like, oh that it is

860
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,359
Speaker 4: so important. Like even just even if that moment, even

861
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:24,360
Speaker 4: if once I leave this space, I'm gonna open up

862
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 4: my news up again and get depressed again, you have

863
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 4: those moments where you can break yourself out of it,

864
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 4: and that's what you need to kind of help yourself

865
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 4: keep going. Because if you just if you're just sitting

866
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,320
Speaker 4: in it every day all day like I do. Sometimes

867
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:38,800
Speaker 4: you're just like, well, well, what's the point, and but

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Speaker 4: you need those community moments. Yes, who gave you a soundboard?

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Speaker 4: Who gave you a sound.

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Speaker 1: Boy, I'm just over here looking at these little buttons.

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00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 3: Cut it so quick. It's like they cheered and then

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Speaker 3: they didn't like what happened.

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Speaker 1: Oh my Godlogy, that's the sitcom guy.

874
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Speaker 3: No, that was a bad laugh track. That's like a

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Speaker 3: sitcom fake laugh track.

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Speaker 2: You know, you guys are both right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think looking for any place where you

878
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Speaker 1: can show up and be with other people who are

879
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Speaker 1: like who are choosing positivity, which is not I think

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Speaker 1: it's I think everyone can't be optimistic and positive all

881
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Speaker 1: the time, but enough of y'all can be optimistic while

882
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 1: others are being pessimistic to like lift each other up

883
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Speaker 1: and then hope, like reaching out and like being in community.

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Speaker 1: I think it's it's like to we talked about mental

885
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 1: health earlier. It's like the only cure. It just is

886
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:39,319
Speaker 1: so hard when you're in that deep, deep thunk to

887
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Speaker 1: reach out toward.

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Speaker 4: It is, you know, I will say that one of

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Speaker 4: things about moving up here to San Francisco has been

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Speaker 4: that having more of a community and that I didn't have,

891
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Speaker 4: or because people didn't want to drive. I knew people,

892
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Speaker 4: but people didn't want to drive. Like I don't blame

893
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Speaker 4: I don't want to sit in an hour traffic. But

894
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Speaker 4: being here in the city, we're so dense and people

895
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 4: walk around a lot and you just end up seeing

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Speaker 4: friends often you nip have a night. I was with

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Speaker 4: a friend yesterday at coffee shop and then we just

898
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Speaker 4: struck up a conversation with some people in the coffee

899
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Speaker 4: shop and we're just like, it was just so nice.

900
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Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, look at this. It's like, you know,

901
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,799
Speaker 4: it's a nice, pleasant moment that I wouldn't have thought

902
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Speaker 4: was possible if I was just inside and staying to myself.

903
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Speaker 2: Chat GPT couldn't do that. They can't take you inside

904
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Speaker 2: of some combo.

905
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Speaker 3: Sure can't. Maybe a side of convo, but not not

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Speaker 3: a lte.

907
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 1: Should we take a little break out and come back

908
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: and do a brown boost Brown break.

909
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 3: Let's do it.

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00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: Let's do it all right, We'll be right back b

911
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Speaker 1: a fam stick around. Well, listen to this before we

912
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Speaker 1: get into brown boost Brown break. I wanted to get

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Speaker 1: back to thinking the listeners who take the time to

914
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Speaker 1: leave reviews and comments and dms, and there was one

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Speaker 1: for you, jan Nellie. We did an episode. When did

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Speaker 1: you mention this? I forget it must have been our

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Speaker 1: last Brown Table, which was a while back, but one

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Speaker 1: of our listeners, one of our listeners said, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is from Nedda who commented on Spotify. By the way,

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Speaker 1: you guys can comment on Spotify, and a lot of

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Speaker 1: y'all do, and it's so great. On specific episodes, Nedda

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Speaker 1: Jones said, thank you yan Nelly. She's bout yan Nali.

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Speaker 2: I like that. But ya Nelly for the.

924
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Speaker 1: Book recommendation Defectors. I didn't know about the Parsley rule.

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Speaker 1: And also I will be googling it to learn more.

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Speaker 1: So they're listening defectors.

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Speaker 3: I love that. So yeah, first of all, Defectors are

928
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Speaker 3: so good. And speaking of Defectors, the author Bala Ramos

929
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Speaker 3: just started a new podcast with her father, Jorge Ramos,

930
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Speaker 3: who I'm sure y'all know if you've ever seen Latin News.

931
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Speaker 3: He's huge media guy. But together father and daughter duo

932
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Speaker 3: are doing a podcast and yeah, it's really good and

933
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Speaker 3: it's no it's e English they are. Their very first

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Speaker 3: guest was Zoron Mamdani, which I highly recommend. That interview

935
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Speaker 3: is so good, so.

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Speaker 1: Good, then I wish him very well because New York

937
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Speaker 1: deserves so much better.

938
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Speaker 3: Much tell me about it. Although on the podcast they

939
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Speaker 3: talked about this, but a lot of the districts in

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Speaker 3: a lot of the counties that voted for Trump, those

941
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 3: exact same counties voted for Mom Donnie. So you you

942
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Speaker 3: see a lot of flip flopping. And I think either

943
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:19,879
Speaker 3: people just didn't show up to vote, or those same

944
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:21,840
Speaker 3: people are now like what did I do? Hurry up,

945
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Speaker 3: take corrective action, and like go and vote from I'm

946
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Speaker 3: not really sure, but it was. It was explored a

947
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Speaker 3: little bit in the podcast. Was so interesting to hear

948
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Speaker 3: those stats around the exact same communities and pockets that

949
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Speaker 3: voted for Trump now when I voted Donnie. You think

950
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Speaker 3: it doesn't really make sense, but it's interesting to see

951
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Speaker 3: that shift.

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Speaker 1: I don't count as a New York City, uh constituent anymore.

953
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Speaker 1: I'm technically no.

954
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Speaker 3: You up. I don't think it's look for anybody in

955
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Speaker 3: the five boroughs. They know for a fact, Westchester is upstate.

956
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Speaker 4: I'm not. It's pretty Far North.

957
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Speaker 2: Valley doesn't count.

958
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Speaker 3: Okay, let me tell you something, baby girl. We got

959
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:03,240
Speaker 3: two airports in New York City, LaGuardia and JFK y'all.

960
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Speaker 1: Got it, and White Plan Airport, by the way, very

961
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Speaker 1: affordable flights to Florida. We go to the Bahamas. Now

962
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Speaker 1: we even go California.

963
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Speaker 4: Oh oh, so it's easy to get, easy to get

964
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Speaker 4: to the West Coaster.

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Speaker 2: Is it White White the Reporter or west Chester? No,

966
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Speaker 2: it is West Westchester.

967
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Speaker 3: The city girl.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how to bet on this topic?

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Speaker 1: Tanisha also on Spotify Back to our listeners, Tanisha, hey girl,

970
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Speaker 1: she said, Oh, she was responding to I did an

971
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Speaker 1: episode without y'all about housing, the housing economy right now.

972
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Speaker 1: I had the chief economists from Redfin on the show,

973
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Speaker 1: and I was bitching about my property taxes as I do,

974
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Speaker 1: and Tanisha commiserate. She said, property taxes are no joke.

975
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Speaker 1: Mine increase every year, and more houses being built in

976
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Speaker 1: an area does not help. I live in an area

977
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Speaker 1: that's been adding more houses and apartments for the last

978
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Speaker 1: twenty years, but my taxes go.

979
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Speaker 2: Up every year every year.

980
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, because they'll add houses and then they're going to

981
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Speaker 1: add a Trader Joe's and then you know, you know,

982
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 1: or Whole Foods. You know them taxes are coming up.

983
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Speaker 4: You don't want to see a Whole Foods pop up.

984
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:13,240
Speaker 4: You know it's about to get expensive.

985
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Speaker 3: Or it's the Starbucks one of them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're getting an old navy near me. Now, I

987
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Speaker 1: don't know what that says about the economy or my

988
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:24,440
Speaker 1: taxes are what. It's kind of giving like discount it is.

989
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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not mad at it. That's where I

990
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:28,479
Speaker 3: get my work. I'll close at I'm not even mad.

991
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 4: Was I was driving when I went back home. I

992
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:32,239
Speaker 4: was down in LA and I was driving. That's how

993
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:35,360
Speaker 4: a billboard like, oh new Arawan coming. I'm like, this

994
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,799
Speaker 4: is about to get real crazy Arawin. Have you heard

995
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 4: that grocery story?

996
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:42,400
Speaker 2: Oh that's the expensive smoothie place.

997
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 4: You read a forty dollars movie that that place.

998
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:47,359
Speaker 1: Yes, I only had learned about them when I went

999
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Speaker 1: to Beverly Hills like a couple.

1000
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Speaker 2: Of years ago.

1001
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Speaker 4: They're opening new ones apparently. I guess. Oh you know what,

1002
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 4: people got too much money in this area. That's make

1003
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:56,920
Speaker 4: them wasted.

1004
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 1: All these people I'm about to are baking my own

1005
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,240
Speaker 1: bread Okay, I'm about to be on a tight budget.

1006
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 2: I actually need my husband to like get his paycheck.

1007
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:10,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna have to. I'm gonna start homesteading. I'm

1008
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Speaker 1: gonna be a trad wife.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. Oh oh that's the route.

1010
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:17,320
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm just gonna start growing my own food.

1011
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:19,400
Speaker 3: I think you don't have to wait till Hobby's paycheck

1012
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 3: hits again then to take that route. Girl, not during

1013
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:25,760
Speaker 3: this government shutdown. You can't be no trad wife.

1014
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:26,319
Speaker 2: I know.

1015
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 1: Okay, that's right, because tradwives don't work.

1016
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:28,920
Speaker 2: That's the idea, right.

1017
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like the worst type of t I'm the worst.

1018
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 1: I'm like the stay at home mom entrepreneur.

1019
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:36,240
Speaker 3: And like I'm a working trad wife, like that moron.

1020
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 1: That's really what I feel like, because how am I

1021
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Speaker 1: like in the pta?

1022
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Speaker 2: I'm class mom.

1023
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 1: I have a garden, but like I'm still here writing

1024
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 1: a book, running a business. I texted one of my

1025
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 1: friends last night and I was like, why the hell

1026
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 1: did you? Why did why did you not stop me

1027
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:51,719
Speaker 1: from trying to do all this ship when I had

1028
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:53,840
Speaker 1: two kids under five? Like why did you let me?

1029
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 1: She's like, you wouldn't have listened. She said, legends never listen.

1030
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't feel like a legend. I

1031
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:03,840
Speaker 1: feel like a loser. It's so hard.

1032
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:07,279
Speaker 3: Uh, it's only while they're this little. Think about it.

1033
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 3: When they're older, they're gonna be like, well, my mom

1034
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:11,239
Speaker 3: was at everything. She was in the PTA, and she

1035
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:13,799
Speaker 3: was sad, like, you know, you can't really say that

1036
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 3: once they're older and you're not really having to do

1037
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:17,239
Speaker 3: all that stuff. So I kind of agree with her.

1038
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:18,799
Speaker 3: I feel like you should do all the things now

1039
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:21,399
Speaker 3: while you can, and while they will feel like it's

1040
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 3: a special thing that you're doing.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

1042
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:26,480
Speaker 1: That see now, I wish I could just focus on that,

1043
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:28,959
Speaker 1: But it's the it's the other half of the coin

1044
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 1: that can become laborious. But yeah, now Rio does no

1045
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 1: mommy has a podcast.

1046
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 4: He likes it. Ooh.

1047
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 1: Christina from IG says Mandy, I'm one of your Latina listeners.

1048
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:40,840
Speaker 1: I'm listening to today's episode, and I love that you

1049
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:44,840
Speaker 1: read an Audre Lord poem, one that I've turned to

1050
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:47,239
Speaker 1: in my own life. And I wanted to recommend a

1051
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:49,399
Speaker 1: book my girlfriend and I love reading to each other

1052
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,640
Speaker 1: called Black people who Read to each other. That's so cute.

1053
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 1: It's called Black Liturgies by Cole Arthur Riley as black

1054
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Speaker 1: and brown lesbians, respectively. She and I turned to this

1055
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Speaker 1: book together for comfort and reflection. If you haven't already

1056
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 1: read it, check it out and let me know what

1057
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:07,759
Speaker 1: you think. Okay, I've never read that. I'm a checking

1058
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Speaker 1: out either.

1059
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:11,319
Speaker 3: I'm just writing it down. Cool Arthur Riley.

1060
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:16,920
Speaker 4: You have, Chris, No, I haven't. I'm writing it down too, okay. Okay.

1061
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Speaker 3: And here's me thinking that the author was a man.

1062
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:19,839
Speaker 3: It's a beautiful black woman.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

1064
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:25,360
Speaker 3: Cool Arthur Riley. You're author of this here Flesh and

1065
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 3: Black Liturgies, which is the recommended book.

1066
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Speaker 1: Okay, saved, Thank you, Christina. Oh, you have the best listeners. Okay,

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00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 1: brown boost Brown brig time. So I'm gonna boost one

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Speaker 1: Ashley Allison, whose name I did not know before this weekend,

1069
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 1: but whose name we will now never forget.

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Speaker 2: It will live an infamy.

1071
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Speaker 1: She is taking ownership of The Root, which, if y'all

1072
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't realize The Root wasn't even that old.

1073
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:53,840
Speaker 1: It was founded in two thousand and nine by the

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Speaker 1: esteemed you know, Professor Henry Lewis Gates Junior Selivan Roundson

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Speaker 1: two thousand and nine. But it's like one of the biggest,

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00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 1: baddest sources of black news, and it has actually not

1077
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Speaker 1: been owned by a black owner for several years now.

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Speaker 1: It was acquired by I forget which company acquired them,

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Speaker 1: but then, like a lot of companies do, they spun

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Speaker 1: it off to private equity firm. But Ashley Allison has

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Speaker 1: now taken over ownership. She's acquired the route and I

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Speaker 1: was on the Win with Black Women. Remember Win with

1083
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:32,560
Speaker 1: Black Women. It's that grassroots organization that really started, I

1084
00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 1: think during the pandemic, but came to fame the summer

1085
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:38,760
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four in being one of the biggest

1086
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 1: like crowdfunding fundraising efforts from black women for Kamala Harris

1087
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:46,680
Speaker 1: to his campaign when like forty thousand black women got

1088
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 1: on a zoom call that was Win with Black Women.

1089
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:51,759
Speaker 1: It was founded by Jotaka Eddie and they still meet

1090
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:53,799
Speaker 1: almost every Sunday, and I always try to catch the

1091
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:57,560
Speaker 1: calls because they are so inspirational. And last time I

1092
00:49:57,600 --> 00:49:59,760
Speaker 1: was on the call, Kamala Harris was on it. Stacy

1093
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:04,320
Speaker 1: ab Rooms stop by was like insane. And yesterday Ashley

1094
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:08,800
Speaker 1: got on and she had a really inspiring story because

1095
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:10,840
Speaker 1: apparently in two thousand and nine she was trying to

1096
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:14,680
Speaker 1: start a blog like a media brand was the name

1097
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:17,200
Speaker 1: of her company. I'm gonna forget it now, but that

1098
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:20,719
Speaker 1: sort of had gone dormant. And since then she's you know,

1099
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 1: come up in in media as an executive and as

1100
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:27,799
Speaker 1: a an investor. And now she's able to purchase the

1101
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 1: Route and bring it back to black ownership. And I

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00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 1: just think that that's incredible.

1103
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:36,640
Speaker 3: Is amazing call. Her company is called Watering Hole Media.

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00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:40,880
Speaker 1: Oh thank you watering Hole Media now the owner of

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00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 1: the Route.

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00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 3: I love that amazing. I love that. Well, my boost

1107
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:48,840
Speaker 3: is going to be a little bit like sad slash,

1108
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 3: you know, not not great. But if you don't already

1109
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 3: know what happened in the Trey Read case, he was

1110
00:50:55,960 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 3: found dead on the on the campus of Delta State University,

1111
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:02,279
Speaker 3: I have been trying to figure out what happened with

1112
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:03,879
Speaker 3: this case, with the Trade Read case, like I feel

1113
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 3: like it was everywhere and then it was gone right.

1114
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:10,919
Speaker 3: And so yesterday, yesterday I read an article on black

1115
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:13,759
Speaker 3: girl nerds dot com. If you don't know Black Girl Nerds,

1116
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:18,880
Speaker 3: I love Jamie Brodnax. She's amazing. But she posted literally

1117
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:23,160
Speaker 3: just a couple of days ago that new information has

1118
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 3: been revealed from the second autopsy. And so my boost

1119
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:30,479
Speaker 3: is a huge shout out to Colin Kaepernick because through

1120
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:35,440
Speaker 3: his nonprofit organization, they fully funded a second independent autopsy.

1121
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 3: And this was bad.

1122
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:38,760
Speaker 2: He was found hanging from a tree.

1123
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 1: From a tree, they said it was a suicide.

1124
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:44,000
Speaker 3: Okay, so they immediately said it was a suicide, which

1125
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 3: a lot of people were like, shady, shady, shady, hell no,

1126
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 3: that can't be it. And so it was kind of

1127
00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:50,359
Speaker 3: like a case close situation. But the family and all

1128
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:52,319
Speaker 3: these people were like, there were murmurs if things weren't right,

1129
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:55,279
Speaker 3: like that didn't feel right. And so Colin Kaepernick's organization

1130
00:51:55,920 --> 00:52:00,759
Speaker 3: went and funded a second independent autopsy, and now his

1131
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 3: organization revealed that there was blunt force trauma to the

1132
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:07,919
Speaker 3: back of Trey Reid's head, which was not found when

1133
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 3: the initial ruling was determined to be a suicide. So

1134
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:15,360
Speaker 3: now there are all of these activists and advocates that

1135
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:19,799
Speaker 3: are essentially reviving the situation, Thank goodness, because if not,

1136
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 3: like nobody would be paying attention. And that was just

1137
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 3: way too sketchy and bizarre. For people to just ignore.

1138
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 3: So if it wasn't for Colin Kaepernick funding this, I

1139
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:30,759
Speaker 3: don't think it would have been possible. It's very expensive.

1140
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,759
Speaker 3: And not only that, but then I looked into the organization,

1141
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:35,719
Speaker 3: the nonprofit that he has that does this, and this

1142
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:37,840
Speaker 3: is a track record of what they do. Like his

1143
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:42,799
Speaker 3: organization was created specifically to help in cases where, you know,

1144
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:45,280
Speaker 3: things don't seem right, in these criminal quot or whatever

1145
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:47,839
Speaker 3: case situations where there's like, oh, it's you know, there's

1146
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:51,520
Speaker 3: something sketchy, but the find the official report says there

1147
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:54,759
Speaker 3: was no sketchy part in it. And so his organization

1148
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:59,799
Speaker 3: actually funds independent autopsies pretty regularly, and so I just

1149
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 3: thought that was incredible that he would take his money

1150
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:04,440
Speaker 3: put it to a nonprofit that focuses on doing that

1151
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:08,520
Speaker 3: because that is so incredibly necessary in the larger fight

1152
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:11,960
Speaker 3: for social justice. And so yeah, this boost is just

1153
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:15,520
Speaker 3: big ups to Colin Kaepernick because that's amazing, amazing.

1154
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:18,839
Speaker 1: Well that I don't know if that would even bring

1155
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:21,200
Speaker 1: comfort to the family, but I hope that I think

1156
00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:24,719
Speaker 1: the truth any any closer to the truth. Yes, I agree,

1157
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 1: it was crazy how it just completely fell off of

1158
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:28,720
Speaker 1: mainstream news.

1159
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:30,839
Speaker 4: Nothing about it.

1160
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 3: No, And I've literally been like every time I'm on

1161
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:35,279
Speaker 3: the new I'm looking at the news. I'm like, a

1162
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 3: matter of fact, the other day, I was going through

1163
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:39,240
Speaker 3: my phone. I pull up this New York Times article

1164
00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 3: and it's like Tarlor Swift's new album, here are the

1165
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 3: top songs. I'm like, how is this news? New York Times?

1166
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 2: I've been seeing us here are the worst songs people.

1167
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:53,680
Speaker 3: I'm just like, New York Times, how is this news?

1168
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:54,000
Speaker 2: Please?

1169
00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 3: I truly don't understand, like how that comes to my

1170
00:53:57,239 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 3: email inbox when there's all kinds of crazin happening and

1171
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:03,920
Speaker 3: that it's not deemed news, Like I don't put me

1172
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 3: on this mic to talk about that. But anyways, So

1173
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 3: shout out to Don Kaepernick. Shout out to him, because

1174
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:11,719
Speaker 3: that's amazing. We It just put fuel under me to

1175
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 3: recognize that every time I think about my wife for

1176
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 3: financial independence, it's because I feel like there's so much

1177
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:19,200
Speaker 3: work that needs to be done that a lot of

1178
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 3: like official channels won't do. And that's where independently wealthy

1179
00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:25,239
Speaker 3: people can come in and play a very powerful role

1180
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:27,200
Speaker 3: and just like fired me up to keep doing what

1181
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 3: I'm doing.

1182
00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I should have done a break for the Epstein shit.

1183
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:35,959
Speaker 1: I'm so tired of that man's name and jazaying what's

1184
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:37,959
Speaker 1: her face? Like that's been on the New York Times

1185
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:41,399
Speaker 1: ham page for megor I'm sick of that shit. I can't. Yeah,

1186
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:44,239
Speaker 1: that's true, you know, and let's keep Trey's naming the

1187
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:47,440
Speaker 1: news because I think exactly that's just a symptom of like, oh,

1188
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 1: America must be really comfortable with the idea of a

1189
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:53,440
Speaker 1: black man swinging from a tree to just you know,

1190
00:54:53,640 --> 00:54:56,000
Speaker 1: turn the page on it and pretend like it never happened.

1191
00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:58,640
Speaker 2: I know, by white woman.

1192
00:54:58,719 --> 00:55:01,640
Speaker 1: Let it have been a Suzanne or something like and

1193
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 1: we would not hear the end of it.

1194
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:06,359
Speaker 3: Anybody like it. Just it's so bizarre to me, Like,

1195
00:55:06,560 --> 00:55:10,439
Speaker 3: what kind of person who wants to underlive themselves does

1196
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 3: it in a like extremely public place, in a public

1197
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 3: way like that people usually want to do that they

1198
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:18,240
Speaker 3: did in the privacy of their own home and hotel

1199
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 3: room and the bathroom and the you know, it just

1200
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:23,200
Speaker 3: seems so bizarre. And then to them immediately say it's

1201
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:26,480
Speaker 3: a suicide. I mean, nobody obviously knows exactly what happened,

1202
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:29,240
Speaker 3: but the fact that Kaepernick is putting money behind actually

1203
00:55:29,239 --> 00:55:32,440
Speaker 3: figuring it out is just it's necessary, because it just

1204
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:33,400
Speaker 3: seemed way too sketchy.

1205
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:36,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, because no black person's choosing that as their way

1206
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:36,799
Speaker 4: to go out.

1207
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:41,359
Speaker 1: That's a level of self cloathing. That doesn't I don't

1208
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:44,120
Speaker 1: think we're capable. You gotta trust the mother. The mother

1209
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:46,200
Speaker 1: always said like he would not do this, He was

1210
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:50,600
Speaker 1: not that unhappy. I believe. I believe her. I hope

1211
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 1: that the truth comes out.

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00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:53,439
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1213
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:58,800
Speaker 2: Same, All right, Chris, You're okay?

1214
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 4: All right? I I was. I was letting it breath.

1215
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:02,560
Speaker 4: I didn't want to just hop right in. Yeah.

1216
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:04,680
Speaker 3: I can't jump in with something. That's why I said,

1217
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 3: I I preface mind. We're like, this is a this

1218
00:56:06,719 --> 00:56:07,640
Speaker 3: is a hard one.

1219
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:08,840
Speaker 2: Sorry, that's my anxiety.

1220
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:11,280
Speaker 1: I don't know how to how to how to let silence.

1221
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:12,000
Speaker 2: You saw what I did with.

1222
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:18,480
Speaker 4: What to do? Uh? You know what? I'm gonna do

1223
00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:21,359
Speaker 4: a brown boost and mine. You know, Amight. It's gonna

1224
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:23,920
Speaker 4: be for the city of Portland, which neither of YouTube visited.

1225
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:28,520
Speaker 4: But you know it's Portland. You know, it's another West

1226
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:30,439
Speaker 4: Coast city not too far from where I live. Right now,

1227
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:33,640
Speaker 4: It's been in the news. I can't I couldn't bossly understand

1228
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:34,840
Speaker 4: why it's been in the news, but it's been in

1229
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:38,719
Speaker 4: the news, and I gotta say I enjoyed my time

1230
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:41,160
Speaker 4: in the city of Portland. It was beautiful.

1231
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:43,560
Speaker 1: Wait, why has it been in the news for for ice?

1232
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:47,320
Speaker 3: Is that why? Yeah? Yeah, because they were the court

1233
00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:51,960
Speaker 3: the judge said that they can't bring in forces to

1234
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:54,920
Speaker 3: protect people in Portland, like essentially stopped him from sending

1235
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:58,960
Speaker 3: in troops, which is wild. That yeah, anyway, but that's

1236
00:56:58,960 --> 00:56:59,840
Speaker 3: why they've been in the news.

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00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:02,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, and because you know the same you know, Portland's

1238
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:06,480
Speaker 4: in a state of revolution. I was. I spent five

1239
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:09,719
Speaker 4: days in Portland, and I gotta say it was Look,

1240
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:12,320
Speaker 4: it's still a city. Every city. I've lived in cities

1241
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:13,919
Speaker 4: my whole life. You're gonna see some stuff in the city.

1242
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:15,600
Speaker 4: That's just how it is. And if you've never been

1243
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:17,320
Speaker 4: in a city, it is shocking. But if you've lived

1244
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:19,080
Speaker 4: in cities, you're like, hey, that's just part of it.

1245
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 4: It's part of being in the city. But there are

1246
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:25,840
Speaker 4: so many beautiful areas out there. I was, look, Portland

1247
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:29,120
Speaker 4: the most bike friendly city I've ever visited. I was

1248
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:32,120
Speaker 4: zipping around that city on e bikes, left and right,

1249
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:36,400
Speaker 4: hopping on trains, going down to different restaurants, different parks.

1250
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:38,960
Speaker 4: Went to this, uh, this is mount like little park

1251
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 4: called Mount Tabor. It's like a little mountain hill. You

1252
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:43,080
Speaker 4: can ride a bike all the way up to the top.

1253
00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:45,360
Speaker 4: Had views of the city, got to talk to There's

1254
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 4: like just a couple up there walking around. We were

1255
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:50,439
Speaker 4: talking to them, so it was it was just there's

1256
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:53,640
Speaker 4: so much good food. It feels almost like you're going

1257
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:57,160
Speaker 4: in like like a little time capsule, because Portland is

1258
00:57:57,200 --> 00:57:59,800
Speaker 4: weird and people are definitely dressed like it is nineteen

1259
00:57:59,840 --> 00:58:02,200
Speaker 4: nine three out there and it's like the grun scene.

1260
00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:04,840
Speaker 4: I was like, I feel like I've traveled back at time.

1261
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 4: But it was just cool to see there's so many

1262
00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:09,520
Speaker 4: like they like a lot of their food scene. Come sure,

1263
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:11,760
Speaker 4: you know it's a city is expensive like any other places.

1264
00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:14,120
Speaker 4: A lot of restaurants have these like food trucks and

1265
00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:15,880
Speaker 4: trailers that they park together and it'll be like a

1266
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:18,760
Speaker 4: whole like little park of just like trailers, all these

1267
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:21,440
Speaker 4: different food. Which is once when they had music playing,

1268
00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:23,360
Speaker 4: they had like I had like this great Japanese sandwich

1269
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:26,040
Speaker 4: from these people who wore from Japan who set up

1270
00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:31,120
Speaker 4: this this this sandwich shop that was amazing museums. Yeah,

1271
00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 4: sandwich I was like a you know, like a Japanese sando.

1272
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:37,919
Speaker 4: It was like anyone used like a soft milk bread.

1273
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:43,160
Speaker 4: It's like like a fried chicken or pork little katsu.

1274
00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:44,920
Speaker 2: I love.

1275
00:58:47,240 --> 00:58:48,680
Speaker 4: It was so good and so I'm.

1276
00:58:48,520 --> 00:58:50,640
Speaker 2: Like, you know what, prepping too long?

1277
00:58:50,720 --> 00:58:53,520
Speaker 1: I just want to take something different. I'm so sick

1278
00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:54,840
Speaker 1: of salmon and chime.

1279
00:58:56,360 --> 00:58:59,280
Speaker 4: Saying you came to Portland. I could have taken you

1280
00:58:59,320 --> 00:59:01,840
Speaker 4: to some of those plays, but you weren't there, so

1281
00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:02,800
Speaker 4: you missed out.

1282
00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:08,560
Speaker 2: You know that Twilight music girl, I don't know what that.

1283
00:59:09,280 --> 00:59:10,560
Speaker 4: I didn't know what.

1284
00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:15,080
Speaker 1: Oh, y'all are not on my side of TikTok no.

1285
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:17,800
Speaker 4: I think whatever you did was never on TikTok I

1286
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 4: don't know where that was.

1287
00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:21,120
Speaker 3: I was like, what is that to do with.

1288
00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 4: You?

1289
00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:26,840
Speaker 3: When there's living around the ploorest on the north?

1290
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:28,360
Speaker 4: Is this a frozen.

1291
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:30,760
Speaker 2: Music you sing?

1292
00:59:31,040 --> 00:59:31,960
Speaker 4: I didn't know what was happening.

1293
00:59:32,040 --> 00:59:37,800
Speaker 3: I was confused if you could it out into into hymn.

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Speaker 1: Were you in Portland as a flyover on your way.

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Speaker 2: To Hawaii or just like was that a destination?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 2: When she went to you, weren't you in Hawaii recently?

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Speaker 4: I did get to go to Hawaiian, I know, but

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Speaker 4: I was in fortand Fan Con. That's why I was here.

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Speaker 3: That's why was that girl He was japping at you

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Speaker 3: the whole time about going to Scortland, not going to

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Speaker 3: Big Con.

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Speaker 4: It went right over you was so far away from

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Speaker 4: ever coming to fix us. She didn't even get the

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Speaker 4: jokes even just for my bad bad Yeah, shout out

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Speaker 4: to Portland, keeping it weird.

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Speaker 3: Were shouting out Portland. We should also shout out the

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Speaker 3: federal judge who blocked Trump's National Guard deployment to Portland,

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Speaker 3: because I think that's like breaking news and honestly so

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Speaker 3: important in the follow that order.

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Speaker 1: I'm afraid for the day when he stops listening in

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Speaker 1: judge's orders.

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Speaker 4: Well, listening the California National Guard up there now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's honestly, it's a lot like there. I don't

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Speaker 3: know if y'all have heard of these stories, but there

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Speaker 3: are a couple of stories about a bunch of people

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Speaker 3: who are just being murdered on ships that are like

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Speaker 3: throughout the Caribbean, off the coast of Venezuela, and every

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Speaker 3: possible international law or maritime law is being broken by

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Speaker 3: this Trump administration because they have not to this day,

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Speaker 3: not presented any evidence that these boats were indeed filled

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Speaker 3: with drugs. But yet they're like, oh, we're just trying

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Speaker 3: to vent these boats from bringing all these drugs to America.

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Speaker 3: So they just bombed them and killed like twenty something

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Speaker 3: people so far in the past thirty days. Imagine just

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Speaker 3: murdering one person every day for the past month, and

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Speaker 3: nobody's talking about it and it hasn't really been on

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Speaker 3: the news that much. I haven't seen people posting about it.

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Speaker 3: And it's like such a blatant, like violation of international

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Speaker 3: and maritime law. So I hear you, Mandy, I am

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Speaker 3: a little nervous about the like, does he even care

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Speaker 3: about what judges are saying he can can't do because

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Speaker 3: clearly there's no concern over violating international law in those cases.

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Speaker 3: But at least the judge did what she's supposed to do.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, Well, Supreme Courts back in session this week,

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Speaker 1: so we go. I think this is the first, like

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Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe the second time they've been in

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Speaker 1: session this year. But we'll see if he follows anything

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Speaker 1: that they say, because I know a lot of the

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Speaker 1: cases that they're hearing have to do with shit he'd

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Speaker 1: been trying to do, these National Guard deployments and ice

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Speaker 1: raids and all of that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, giving really happening.

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Speaker 2: It's really giving.

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Speaker 1: Like Israel, everyone that they bombed in Gaza was Hamas

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01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:05,440
Speaker 1: you know, was harboring her home. It was it's all propa.

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01:02:05,600 --> 01:02:07,240
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of propaganda. We have to really

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Speaker 1: be I was gonna say mistrustful, but just like.

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Speaker 3: No, a healthy level of examining.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, skeptical, that's the right word. Skeptical of everything that's

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Speaker 1: coming out of this administration.

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Speaker 3: I agree, m hmm.

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Speaker 2: But that was supposed to be a boost. Well, thank

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Speaker 2: you Chris for taking us to it.

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Speaker 1: How was Hawaii? What's Chris like in Hawaii? What were

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Speaker 1: what was happening over there?

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Speaker 4: Oh? Well, Southwest? I got a companion passed through their

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01:02:34,560 --> 01:02:36,840
Speaker 4: promo day going on? Did you get did you see that?

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Speaker 4: You know other day, like if you would be like

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Speaker 4: a ropter flight And I got it for two months

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Speaker 4: and so we're like, well, where can you go on Southwest?

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Speaker 4: And I was like, We're like, oh, Hawaii, And so

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Speaker 4: we ended up using it to go to Kawai and

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Speaker 4: the Big Island and it was so so beautiful. I

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Speaker 4: mean it's hot and humid, but you're on the island.

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Speaker 4: That's what you expect and so but I was like,

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Speaker 4: you know, just just getting the island breeze, eating some

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Speaker 4: food with uh no so dolphins though, almost got seastick

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Speaker 4: on a boat because I'm like, oh, I don't really

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Speaker 4: go on boats like that, and I would, but it

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Speaker 4: was still beautiful. Get around the I think it's the

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Speaker 4: Nepali coast on Kawhi, the Big Island.

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Speaker 3: You would love it, many you would love it.

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Speaker 4: I know it's a trick Look, that's far from someone

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Speaker 4: on the East Coast. That's like a twelve hour flight.

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Speaker 1: Damn near across. I might as well keep going to Japan.

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Speaker 3: But worth it. Yeah, you get exactly. You do a

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Speaker 3: trip to the West Coast and then you stay for

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Speaker 3: a day, and then you do a trip to Hawaii

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Speaker 3: and he lived, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Just make your way around the world, come.

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Speaker 2: Back to America.

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01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:40,720
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, why do you want to question?

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Speaker 1: Why do you want to come on the Jello ship?

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01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:47,640
Speaker 1: I hear that you had some R and R and

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01:03:47,720 --> 01:03:50,800
Speaker 1: how is the sleepy time? Sleepy Talk Sleepy to Me.

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Speaker 4: Let me just cut you off because you just given

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01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:55,920
Speaker 4: all the wrong names Talk Sleepy to Me. There you go.

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01:03:56,560 --> 01:03:59,200
Speaker 4: The podcast is called Talk Sleepy to Me. The official

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01:03:59,240 --> 01:04:01,200
Speaker 4: trailer and all that. It's out and now you can

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01:04:01,240 --> 01:04:03,760
Speaker 4: subscribe to it. You can follow it and.

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01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:06,480
Speaker 2: Just the trailer. When's the first.

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Speaker 4: First episode is coming out? Next week? Next week the

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Speaker 4: first episode will be launching, and uh yeah, I love

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01:04:12,120 --> 01:04:14,520
Speaker 4: to get any feedback from people listening. And you want

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Speaker 4: me to.

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Speaker 1: Moonlight, I can do like a little Twilight for you

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Speaker 1: for one of your.

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Speaker 4: The thing is, I would like the podcast to survive

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01:04:22,280 --> 01:04:26,000
Speaker 4: if it keep going. And I feel like that.

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01:04:26,200 --> 01:04:27,960
Speaker 2: And I'm like brow, I'm really nailing it.

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01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:32,680
Speaker 4: I mean you, I love that. I love that confidence

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01:04:32,720 --> 01:04:33,560
Speaker 4: you have in yourself.

1404
01:04:36,160 --> 01:04:39,120
Speaker 2: I feel like Hillary Duff and yes.

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Speaker 3: Yes that is accurate. All right, y'all, I just hit

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Speaker 3: the follow button on Spotify Talk Sleepy to Me, Chris Browning.

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Speaker 3: I can't wait for the first episode. I cannot wait.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate it. Just so y'all know, if you're all nervous,

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01:04:53,880 --> 01:04:56,480
Speaker 4: Mandy will not be on that podcast, So you're safe

1410
01:04:56,520 --> 01:04:57,840
Speaker 4: to subscribe.

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01:04:58,440 --> 01:04:59,200
Speaker 2: We'll see if it works.

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01:04:59,200 --> 01:05:01,160
Speaker 1: Because drink here is in the news again for being

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01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:03,400
Speaker 1: showing her ass, and I've been listening. I fall asleep

1414
01:05:03,440 --> 01:05:05,480
Speaker 1: to Harry Potter every night. I'm not ashamed to admit that.

1415
01:05:05,560 --> 01:05:07,400
Speaker 1: So maybe a little something different would help.

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01:05:08,040 --> 01:05:08,920
Speaker 4: Shake it up a little bit.

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01:05:10,080 --> 01:05:11,120
Speaker 2: Well, thank y'all so.

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01:05:11,040 --> 01:05:12,680
Speaker 1: Much for doing the Brown Table with me. I really

1419
01:05:12,720 --> 01:05:16,480
Speaker 1: missed y'all. Hopefully we can do another one the next

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01:05:16,520 --> 01:05:17,080
Speaker 1: few weeks.

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Speaker 2: We can get it together.

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01:05:18,720 --> 01:05:21,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure we could. You know, we could have done

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01:05:21,200 --> 01:05:25,080
Speaker 4: in person in Portland, but hey, that opportunity is gone.

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01:05:25,400 --> 01:05:30,840
Speaker 1: You know, bitterness really rots the soul from within and

1425
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:32,360
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want that for my friend.

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01:05:32,720 --> 01:05:34,600
Speaker 2: You know, I want you to be liked.

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01:05:35,240 --> 01:05:36,920
Speaker 4: Thanks for looking out for me. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: All right, Love y'all be well, take care, NBA fam

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01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:46,440
Speaker 1: love you even more. Don't forget to leave us a

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Speaker 1: review while you're at it. Comments on Spotify, on YouTube, Oh,

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Speaker 1: that's where I forgot to look for comments. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go to YouTube next time.

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Speaker 2: Y'all.

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Speaker 1: Shout out our YouTube listeners and our Patreon. Don't forget

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Speaker 1: to sign up for the Patreon, where you can join

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Speaker 1: dot com Slash Brown Ambition and I'll be announcing our

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Speaker 1: November December book club pick very very soon, so make

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Speaker 1: sure you stay tuned and we'll see y'all next time. Bye,

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Speaker 1: okayva fam, Thank you so much for listening to this

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Speaker 1: week's show. I want to shout out to our production team, Courtney,

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Speaker 1: our editor, Carla, our fearless leader for idea to launch productions.

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Speaker 1: I want to shout out my assistant Lauda Escalante and

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01:06:34,200 --> 01:06:37,480
Speaker 1: Cameron McNair for helping me put the show together. It

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Speaker 1: is not a one person project, as much as I

1446
01:06:41,200 --> 01:06:43,720
Speaker 1: have tried to make it so these past ten years.

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01:06:43,840 --> 01:06:47,080
Speaker 1: I need help, y'all, and thank goodness I've been able

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01:06:47,120 --> 01:06:49,440
Speaker 1: to put this team around me to support me on

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01:06:49,480 --> 01:06:51,720
Speaker 1: this journey and to y'all be a fam.

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Speaker 2: I love you.

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Speaker 3: So so so so much.

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Speaker 1: Please rate, review, subscribe, make sure you're signed up to

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Speaker 1: our tent, your anniversary celebrations to come, and until next time,

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Speaker 1: talk to you soon via bye