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Speaker 1: It's I Do Part two and I'm one of your hosts.

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Speaker 1: It's Jana Kramer. And most of the time I'm on

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Speaker 1: this podcast, I'm talking with celebrities or people that want

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Speaker 1: to share their divorce stories. But I'm kind of excited

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Speaker 1: because today my guest is none other than my husband,

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Speaker 1: Alan Russell. Welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: So today we're going to dive into some questions maybe

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Speaker 1: we haven't answered before, give our listeners a little more

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Speaker 1: insight to who we are as a couple. You know,

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Speaker 1: we share on my you know, wind down and adult

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Speaker 1: education podcast that we do some things about our relationship,

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Speaker 1: and I feel like we've opened up about, you know,

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Speaker 1: certain things, whether it's parenting or our marriage.

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Speaker 3: But we're going to get a little deeper so to give.

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Speaker 1: People a little backstory that don't really know our relationship.

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Speaker 1: Alan is from Alabama. He's got a beautiful Southern accent,

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Speaker 1: right then, I do, yeah, yeah, he's he's from Glasgow, Scotland.

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Speaker 1: And we have been together all right, beib how many

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Speaker 1: years have we been together for? How many long, long,

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Speaker 1: long years?

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Speaker 2: Nearly three, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So we've been almost together for three We've been married

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Speaker 1: for almost a year or year anniversaries coming up on

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Speaker 1: July thirteenth, and we have a nineteen month old baby.

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Speaker 4: This is technically our fourth years together because we met

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Speaker 4: in twenty two three ago, twenty four together and there's

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Speaker 3: Can you do it like that?

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Speaker 2: You can do it how you funny?

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Speaker 3: How you make the numbers work for you, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, one way if you want it to work the

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Speaker 1: other way. You minus like, oh, we were just you know,

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Speaker 1: a few short months manpulation.

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Speaker 3: So when I was.

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Speaker 1: Single, this basically how we met, because that's one of

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Speaker 1: the things that people ask us all the time. So

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Speaker 1: when I was when I was single, obviously I got

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Speaker 1: a d M from Alan. He slid into my DMS

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Speaker 1: very respectfully.

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Speaker 2: It's just you always use the world slid.

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Speaker 3: Well, what would you like to call it? Jump? You

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Speaker 3: jumped in you.

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Speaker 4: SLID's such like a creepy, horrible way of describe as

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Speaker 4: I've mentioned manythings.

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Speaker 3: Okay, how would you like to describe it?

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Speaker 2: Then? Respectfully and politely.

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Speaker 1: And entered that sounds that sounds I entered the premises.

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Speaker 1: And so so that was so that was that. A

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Speaker 1: few thoughts starters though on this just in general about

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Speaker 1: when we started dating. You know, because I have been married,

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Speaker 1: so obviously you googled me. I mean you had to,

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Speaker 4: I would not, but not like, not like any sort

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Speaker 4: of I knew you were. I knew you were an

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Speaker 4: actress in a single, but that was kind of that

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Speaker 4: you knew I was a mom. You knew more than that,

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Speaker 4: I know, mom. Yeah, I didn't. In no way did

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Speaker 4: I had a deep dive into your career, your your

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Speaker 4: writing career, your singing career, your past.

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Speaker 2: Nothing like that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I have a hard time believing

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Speaker 1: that because just I mean, you flew from another country

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Speaker 4: I'm not saying I did little research, but I didn't

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Speaker 4: do a deep dive into because people's people's past as

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Speaker 4: the past, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: But I think your past tells a lot though about

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Speaker 2: It does it?

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Speaker 4: Does it tells you the experiences they've had? Mm hmm,

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Speaker 4: it doesn't. And I always said this to you from

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Speaker 4: I've always said that to you, right. But I didn't

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Speaker 2: I just wanted to get to know you.

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Speaker 1: I think girls definitely do a more of a deep dive,

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Speaker 1: How many times I've been married, like you have to

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Speaker 1: my past all the time. No I used to, I

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm also it looks terrible but you can tell

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Speaker 4: the you made chessy decisions when it wasn't because like

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Speaker 4: I think like one of your monitors was like a

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Speaker 4: week or somebody even though, yeah, so you can see that, Okay,

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Speaker 4: it might like married four times, but when you actually

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 4: One of them was probably a real long term profile

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Speaker 4: marriage and the rest of them were maybe just decisions

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Speaker 3: M So it wasn't a turn off, No.

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Speaker 4: Not so all I've ever made you feel like it,

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Speaker 4: like it was a ton of things.

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Speaker 2: I told you I would never judge you on your past.

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Speaker 3: No, and I love that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think one of the reasons why I

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Speaker 1: was on when someone brought that up and said, my

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Speaker 1: many times you've been married, and so immediately it was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: there's a shame around that, like it's you know, this

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think i've And again it goes

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Speaker 4: back to things that I've always said to you, right,

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Speaker 4: And I've always wanted you feel like I would never

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Speaker 4: because as things has maybe happened to you. But I

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Speaker 4: to be called out just because I've made prap decisions

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Speaker 4: in my past. Everyone makes them. You've made pretty poor

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Speaker 4: ones when in certain phases of my life through anger

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Speaker 4: never want you to feel shamed, and I would never

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Speaker 4: judge you, which is why I've never done that. I

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Speaker 4: don't think I've ever once brought up the fact that

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Speaker 4: you are married four times, even in an argument or.

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Speaker 1: No, well, because it's so to me. I mean it's

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Speaker 1: kind of I don't say, irrelevant, but it's been dealt with, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: were you nervous about dating a woman with baggage?

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Speaker 4: The fine baggage like everyone befoty years old, bit everyone's

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Speaker 1: I mean, I would say with you know, you're right,

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Speaker 1: like what I feel like once you once, if you're

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Speaker 1: dating in your mid thirties, someone's either most likely been

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Speaker 2: Abused, has been abused, has.

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Speaker 1: Those Yeah, and so I actually don't like the word baggage.

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Speaker 4: No poof if you know it sounds like a damaged well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's where I don't like it. It's like

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Speaker 1: we've all been through things and it's kind of it's

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Speaker 1: very it's a very shaming word to put on someone.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, what's your baggage? You have kids, baggage, that's life.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's actually beautiful. You're a mom and you're a father.

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Speaker 4: Previous is you have previous marriages like either therefore you

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Speaker 4: learn from them and you become better. I think baggage

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Speaker 4: just another world for You've you've lived life a little

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think baggage is such just sounds so negative.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So I'll get a question for you. With me

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Speaker 4: that gets a certain reputation like I remember dating some

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Speaker 4: not today because you've been a professional football and you're

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Speaker 4: a professional coach. Because so there's a stigma attacks to

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Speaker 4: professional athletes, some justified and some not. Yeah, was that

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Speaker 3: I don't think you're gonna like my answer. You're actually

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Speaker 2: Either raise the flag or it doesn't.

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Speaker 1: Well, but the answer is is the I've never dated

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Speaker 3: Okay, I've dated all the other ones, but every day

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Speaker 4: A professional athlete. They have, they have reputations, right.

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Speaker 1: And you know some are some they say are worse

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Speaker 1: I mean there's the stigma for a reason. There's there's

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Speaker 1: what's the stat and that it's a lot higher than

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Speaker 3: You weren't.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, yeah.

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Speaker 1: So again I think it just goes back to and

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Speaker 1: you could say the same thing about actresses, right, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's that's possibly a flag somewhere thrown around

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Speaker 1: to put that stigma on every athlete that they're going

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Speaker 1: to cheat for I agree, So no, I don't think

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Speaker 1: I think it helped that you weren't playing though.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay when we first met, yep, were you thinking

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Speaker 1: I mean for for me, I I'm not. I've never

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Speaker 1: But yeah, anybody else i'd be like, that is a

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Speaker 3: And that when it was evident to me, I.

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Speaker 3: When we had sex, Who did you tell?

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Speaker 2: Call my brother?

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Speaker 4: Well I didn't call him and say, oh, we had sex.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So what you mean then what you said?

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Speaker 2: What if city on my I phone phoned my mom,

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Yes, usable like my best friend.

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Speaker 3: That's true. Did you tell me? How down? Alan?

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Speaker 4: It's not like like my brother is like I speak

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Speaker 3: And but who did you tell my best friends? Almost

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Speaker 1: Queendom. What did you say though with your brother? Because

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Speaker 2: We spens for that long.

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Speaker 3: But we weren't like that. We've seen each other sexy

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Speaker 2: No, it's quite cheap, but I mean there's times we've

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Speaker 1: I think the spiciest thing is just communicating how old

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think it's also good to be honest

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Speaker 4: My mom loved you, my dad loved you, my brother

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Speaker 2: So that was there was zero negativity.

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Speaker 1: I already had a podcast where I talk about, you know,

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Speaker 4: It wasn't something that I'm used to, like being a

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Speaker 4: But early on it was it was tough because I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I was like, because it's this is my life, Like

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Speaker 1: I was like, this is this is my life too,

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