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Speaker 1: All right, hey, then everybody, welcome to Amy and TJ.

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Speaker 2: TJ.

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Speaker 1: Hol Heer, Amy Rebrox sitting next to me as we

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Speaker 1: give you episode two of our new podcast. Were very

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Speaker 1: excited if you listen to episode one, and many of

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Speaker 1: notice at the top of that Robes started by saying

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Speaker 1: she was nervous. So episode two, how you feeling still nervous?

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Speaker 3: I think it's very much mixed with excitement and gratitude

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Speaker 3: think it's just one of those things when you put

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Speaker 3: reading whatepy, you are okay, right, But when we were

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Speaker 3: get to that place. So when you're putting yourself out there,

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Speaker 3: your live's out there, your heart out there. Yes, there's

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Speaker 3: more at stake, and I think you and I both

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Speaker 3: and it's terrifying.

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Speaker 1: You know, you kept using the word terrifying. We talk

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Speaker 1: I mean, these are twenty five generally twenty five year careers,

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Speaker 1: So it's a huge thank you to a lot of

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Speaker 3: We are so grateful. And we did not read the comments,

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Speaker 3: we were told ninety five percent were good. You got

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Speaker 3: Yes, So we were very much just my fears were calmed.

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Speaker 3: thank you every one of you all who left comments,

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Speaker 3: good and bad, because that's part of what this is

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Speaker 3: is hearing you and your thoughts and what you think

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Speaker 3: We're open to all of that. This is a relationship

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Speaker 3: So anyway, we appreciate any and all feedback. We are

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Speaker 1: I don't mean that from appreciate all feedback. Okay, you

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Speaker 1: You are right, and we do appreciate it. But there

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Speaker 1: And we ended up we landed, and this is no

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Speaker 1: for because of your interest and your listening and your comments,

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Speaker 3: NYU play Medisoul and she played the role of June,

437
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Speaker 3: so they were coming to support her. And it just

438
00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:12,040
Speaker 3: so happened that this was podcasting week. I mean, we

439
00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:14,800
Speaker 3: didn't plan any of this. It just all kind of aligned.

440
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Speaker 3: So they came in and the four of us went

441
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Speaker 3: out to celebrate.

442
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Speaker 2: Boy, do we.

443
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Speaker 1: Make clear the last time they came here or last year,

444
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Speaker 1: they just happened to be coming right, and that they

445
00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:32,160
Speaker 1: were in the plane the exact day or the exact moment, yes,

446
00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:35,960
Speaker 1: the that our private romance was revealed, yes, And so

447
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Speaker 1: now they're on the way on this big day. So

448
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Speaker 1: they're supposed to be coming back later this month, and

449
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Speaker 1: we were like, oh, what's gonna happen.

450
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Speaker 3: They're coming back in two weeks everybody, buckle up. I

451
00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:49,760
Speaker 3: don't know what's gonna happen. I'm terrified something is.

452
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Speaker 2: It's always.

453
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Speaker 1: But Wednesday we had the great dinner with them. It

454
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Speaker 1: was Celibra, just so night. And I've known your parents

455
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Speaker 1: for a long time.

456
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Speaker 2: So it's always.

457
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Speaker 1: I love hanging out with them. By the way, they're

458
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Speaker 1: just as well. Go to the dinner that night, had

459
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Speaker 1: a good one.

460
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Speaker 3: And you know, you know my dad well enough to

461
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Speaker 3: know his tricks. He has this thing, so it's always

462
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Speaker 3: who's going to pay the bill at the end of

463
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Speaker 3: the night. And we had we ordered a lot of food,

464
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Speaker 3: a lot of wine, a lot of booze I don't know.

465
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Speaker 3: And I got him and he got him, got him.

466
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Speaker 2: I got to pay the sick and it.

467
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:21,320
Speaker 3: Was fun because this was our first So we formed

468
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Speaker 3: a corporation and we decided to name our company Banana Bean.

469
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Speaker 4: Uh.

470
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Speaker 3: My youngest daughter's name is Anna, I might call her

471
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Speaker 3: Anna banana, Annalise banana. And TJ's Daughter's name is to Bean.

472
00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:38,399
Speaker 3: He calls her bean. And you came up with the idea,

473
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Speaker 3: I think to call our company banana Bean. And it's great.

474
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Speaker 3: So we got to pull out the is it an

475
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Speaker 3: actual official expense. We felt like it was a business dinner.

476
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Speaker 1: Okay, we are saying, we need to say that for

477
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Speaker 1: irs purposes right now. It was a business had a

478
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Speaker 1: business dinner with your parents that night, of course.

479
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Speaker 3: I mean it was absolutely tied to the podcast, so

480
00:22:57,760 --> 00:22:59,520
Speaker 3: we were able to I don't even know if my

481
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Speaker 3: dad knows we were expensing that dinner. But Dad, don't

482
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Speaker 3: worry about it. We're expensing it. It was on the

483
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Speaker 3: business card. So that was fun. It was, it was fun.

484
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Speaker 3: My dad was, I mean, he was he was mad.

485
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Speaker 2: He likes to pay the bill.

486
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Speaker 3: Well he was, he liked. He wasn't mad. He was

487
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 3: just like he got me.

488
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Speaker 1: Okay, tell him he can venmo me if he wants

489
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Speaker 1: to the balance.

490
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Speaker 2: But no, I don't want him mad. But then the

491
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Speaker 2: next day we got to.

492
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Speaker 1: Lunch with him, a lunch that was supposed to be

493
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Speaker 1: twelve thirty to what.

494
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Speaker 3: We had, yeah, like maybe an hour. My mom and

495
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Speaker 3: I had plans to go shopping and soho. That never happened.

496
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Speaker 2: So we ended up having this long, April sprits filled lunch.

497
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Speaker 3: I think again we were the last people because it

498
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:42,440
Speaker 3: was like in between servings and so looking between lunch

499
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Speaker 3: and dinner.

500
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Speaker 1: It was that uncomfortable time where the whole wait staff

501
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 1: is looking at you saying, when are they leaving?

502
00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,160
Speaker 3: Right, we would like to prepare for the next shift. Yes, so,

503
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:51,040
Speaker 3: but we were still there.

504
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but that was funny. That day we were leaving,

505
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:54,960
Speaker 1: I went to the waiter. I said, hey, man, we

506
00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,520
Speaker 1: need to square up. He said, no, the gentleman already.

507
00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 3: Took care of it, so he got your back.

508
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:01,800
Speaker 2: It's okay, So our next meal is gonna be fine.

509
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,160
Speaker 3: It's a ruined competition that I hope never stops. It's fun.

510
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:07,320
Speaker 1: But then so that takes us now to Friday, the

511
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:10,399
Speaker 1: next day, which is jingle Ball New York, huge, huge event.

512
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:12,960
Speaker 1: And we were so excited about this because Sabine was

513
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Speaker 1: so excited. I've been talking to my daughter, a ten

514
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:18,120
Speaker 1: year old Sabine, the little one, about this for weeks

515
00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:19,159
Speaker 1: and we have been.

516
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Speaker 2: Planning her outfit.

517
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:22,719
Speaker 1: She got to pick everything out, She got new shoes,

518
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:24,160
Speaker 1: she got some new designer.

519
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:25,159
Speaker 2: What was it called a triple T.

520
00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:27,600
Speaker 1: I think I wish I could give the designer credit

521
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,240
Speaker 1: right now. But the church she was wearing had Elvis

522
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 1: and Memphis on it, and we were so excited about

523
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 1: the jingle ball.

524
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Speaker 3: She had her motorcycle boots.

525
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,000
Speaker 2: Oh yes, we were very excited about that.

526
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:39,800
Speaker 3: Did her hair with the braids on the.

527
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Speaker 2: Side, mohawk all thereby home.

528
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Speaker 1: It continues, But that was another great, great night to

529
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Speaker 1: be able to go there, and you had to only

530
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:53,880
Speaker 1: be there for a short time, or we're only able

531
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:55,960
Speaker 1: to because you had mommy duty and you had to

532
00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,560
Speaker 1: go see another show.

533
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Speaker 3: I had to go see Medisol for the second time.

534
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,719
Speaker 3: There was a change in the cast and so she

535
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 3: wanted to have me see her play roles with different people.

536
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 3: So it was great. But it's just one of those

537
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 3: things that any mom knows what it's like. You know,

538
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:13,919
Speaker 3: you have a business. It was again, this is business,

539
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 3: but it was fun. A business obligation that is fun.

540
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,639
Speaker 3: And also you've got you got mommy duty. So we

541
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:23,680
Speaker 3: figured it out and did both and had a rush

542
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,120
Speaker 3: across town. But I made it, and it was fun

543
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 3: to be able to celebrate her and what she's been

544
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:32,199
Speaker 3: able to accomplish there at NYU, And that was a

545
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 3: fun moment.

546
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Speaker 1: I was able to do both because my work event

547
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 1: happened to be the fun event exactly. So we go

548
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,440
Speaker 1: out and you and I didn't see a lot of

549
00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:42,919
Speaker 1: the concert in LA because we were shaking hands and

550
00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,920
Speaker 1: doing that thing. But Sabine wanted to stay in the

551
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,679
Speaker 1: arena and watch everybody perform, So I had to go

552
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 1: out there and fake like I knew the lyrics to

553
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:53,359
Speaker 1: some of those songs.

554
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Speaker 3: Actually, didn't you post something where I was laughing so hard?

555
00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 3: You were trying to pretend like you knew the words,

556
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:00,720
Speaker 3: but it was so obvious as you did it.

557
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Speaker 2: It's good for you, It's that's all I got.

558
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:12,359
Speaker 3: Yeah. Meantimes, Tabe knows every word, every word, So.

559
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Speaker 1: That on Friday, that was another late night, and then

560
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Speaker 1: Saturday we get together.

561
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Speaker 2: We have We just happened to have a wedding too.

562
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Speaker 3: We just happened to have a wedding. This is one

563
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,879
Speaker 3: of my oldest and dearest friends. And I don't mean

564
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 3: to say she's old, it's just we go way back.

565
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Speaker 2: At NBC.

566
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Speaker 3: She's gonna love that. She is so young and beautiful.

567
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 3: You wouldn't believe it, but no, she was. I was

568
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 3: so excited for her getting married for the first time

569
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Speaker 3: at fifty one. She found love and we were there

570
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 3: to celebrate with her, and it was fun to see

571
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Speaker 3: all my old colleagues from NBC. I was there for

572
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 3: nine years so and it had been a long time

573
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Speaker 3: since I had seen a lot of them. So it

574
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:56,399
Speaker 3: was an amazing way to end a very incredible week

575
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 3: that had so many highs. And it was just the

576
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Speaker 3: perfect way, I think, to button it up to celebrate love,

577
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 3: and that's what we were doing. And it was a

578
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,199
Speaker 3: it was a unique experience for you.

579
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Speaker 1: Which part the dress you were wearing would tell you about,

580
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:15,640
Speaker 1: I'd say, I can't.

581
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,399
Speaker 2: Even believe I'm on this thing now. About where my

582
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 2: hand goes?

583
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 3: Oh right, because it had it had a lot of sequence,

584
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,120
Speaker 3: and it wasn't comfortable for you to have your hand

585
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 3: it was.

586
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Speaker 1: This was a very difficult dress to do PDA in

587
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 1: because we say sequence, and it was the larger one.

588
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 3: It was big sequence. Yeah, they like coin and they

589
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 3: would flip up and down.

590
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was so I mean we found a

591
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 1: way to keep my hands to myself. You wear that

592
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 1: dress often enough, it's like.

593
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 3: A training dress for you.

594
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:44,919
Speaker 2: What does that mean?

595
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,879
Speaker 3: Meaning after enough times if I wear it, you'll know

596
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 3: not to put your hand there anymore.

597
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 2: Like you train a dog to do something.

598
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 3: Husbands need to be trained and so so to boyfriends.

599
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 3: I guess, I mean, I think most women would agree.

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Speaker 1: But the wedding that night, I well, I we bring

601
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: it up now because we have a I got a

602
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 1: note this morning as we were preparing for this podcast,

603
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 1: note from our producer Hanna, who we love, that was

604
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 1: giving us suggestions about what to put in things we

605
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 1: could talk about. And one of the notes she had said,

606
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Speaker 1: you want to talk about the wedding you all went

607
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:24,959
Speaker 1: to and that you all were reportedly dirty dancing. So

608
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 1: that's the note she sends. You were still asleep at

609
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:29,640
Speaker 1: the time. That's the time I came.

610
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 3: That's a trend. I'm sleeping and wait working.

611
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 2: But that is when I came.

612
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 1: Into the room and said, hey, baby, you're a waking.

613
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Speaker 1: I did not know I've said this in the previous podcast.

614
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 1: You absolutely know this. I do not read headlines. I

615
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,719
Speaker 1: do not google my name. I stay away from it.

616
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 1: And so I had to ask, what is she talking about?

617
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 3: And I said, oh, I did see that yesterday. There

618
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 3: was Yeah. I mean, sometimes ignorance is bliss, and that

619
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 3: is part of your reasoning behind not reading all the headlines.

620
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 3: But I got a kick out of it because I

621
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 3: read it, and I thought, wait, it didn't just say

622
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 3: that we were dirty dancing. It said that it was

623
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 3: a very in front of it. It was like an

624
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 3: extra emphasis on the dirty dancing. And I found it

625
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 3: to be hilarious and probably not even worth me bringing

626
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 3: it up to you, because you and I know, and

627
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 3: everyone at the wedding knows. You didn't even get on

628
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,959
Speaker 3: the dance floor. You stood at the corner of it

629
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 3: and watched me do my thing with some of my

630
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 3: girlfriends and the bride. But you were like, eh, no thanks.

631
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 3: And there's a reason why.

632
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 1: It's hilarious, the idea that we were dirt Okay, stay

633
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: with me here.

634
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 2: We were dirty dancing.

635
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 1: At a wedding reception where the band and the genre

636
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: of music.

637
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 2: Was yacht rock.

638
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 3: In fact, everyone on the dance floor at the end

639
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 3: of the night had Sai caps on that they hand

640
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 3: it out to everyone who was there to celebrate because

641
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 3: it was a yacht rock party. And so there are

642
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 3: some songs that I could tell you every word too,

643
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:17,479
Speaker 3: that you've never even heard before. Like there was one

644
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 3: in particular, and it's one of my favorite songs by

645
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 3: Christopher Cross Sailing. Everyone was like sailing and we run

646
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 3: on the dance floor and he's like, how do you

647
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 3: dance to that song? And then you watched how we

648
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 3: danced that song, and you were like, I'm gonna stay.

649
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 2: In my see no, but it was It's just funnier.

650
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 1: Hannah's note is funnier because the theme of our night

651
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 1: really was as soon as I hear a song by

652
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: a black artist, baby, we're gonna be in there.

653
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 2: And I was waiting for a song I knew, or.

654
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 1: How okay, can you everybody right now close your eyes

655
00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 1: hear that song in your head and imagine me and

656
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:01,240
Speaker 1: Robot dirty dancing to it.

657
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 2: What do you even do?

658
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Speaker 3: It's hilarious. So I got a kick out of it.

659
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Speaker 2: It's a kick.

660
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 1: It's funnier because I literally did not dance a single

661
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Speaker 1: song that night.

662
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Speaker 3: You did not because it was yacht rock, and I

663
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 3: didn't know how. I didn't even try because sometimes I

664
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 3: would be like, come on, come on, come on, dance

665
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 3: with me. I knew it was a moot point. It's like,

666
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 3: he's not getting on this dance floor. So it's very funny,

667
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 3: okay to see someone say something that not only isn't true,

668
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Speaker 3: but couldn't have been further from the truth.

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Speaker 1: And for your information, there were two songs by black

670
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Speaker 1: artists that we heard them cover. One was sitting on

671
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: the dock of the Bay is Reading and the other

672
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 1: was a Gladys Knight in the pipsul Night Night Train.

673
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 1: That was the only two that we heard.

674
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Speaker 3: And that was actually when we were having dinner and

675
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 3: no one was on the dance floor, So you even

676
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Speaker 3: missed that opportunity.

677
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Speaker 1: Well, look, we are laughing, we are cracking up. It's

678
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 1: hilarious that that was a funny hand line that we

679
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 1: can make light of. But there were Look, there were

680
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: other headlines this week with agendas, and we absolutely anticipated

681
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: but that was going to happen. There's nothing we can

682
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: do about those. But this place, this podcast, its platform,

683
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,959
Speaker 1: is not and will never be. We are committed to

684
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: a place that this is not going to be about gossip.

685
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: This is not going to be a place where we

686
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 1: clap back at headlines. We are not going to get

687
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 1: into that back and forth games because gossip is toxic.

688
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 1: And so today we are here. We are happy, we

689
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 1: are healthy, we are grateful, we are so touched by

690
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 1: the response, and we are onward and.

691
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 3: Upworth We certainly are, and you know what. We also

692
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 3: are tired, even with all the sleep apparently I got

693
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 3: while you weren't sleeping. We're tired. And I say this

694
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 3: because it was a pretty funny moment. We get done

695
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 3: with the wedding, so Bean's at home home. She's actually

696
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 3: being Nikki, the aforementioned Nikki who got us the fancy Champagne,

697
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 3: was watching Sabine and she was excited because we told her, Hey,

698
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 3: as soon as we come home from that wedding, we

699
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,239
Speaker 3: are going to watch a horror movie with you, and

700
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 3: that's kind of been our thing now. She likes watching

701
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 3: because we love horror movies and like what wasted for

702
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 3: a while, Yeah, she did, but she is in on

703
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 3: it now and she had a specific show. She picked

704
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Speaker 3: the movie right that she wanted to watch with us.

705
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Speaker 1: Again, we didn't get done with this wedding UNTI almost

706
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: eleven o'clock. Yeah, and she was committed. Nope, nope, I'm

707
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Speaker 1: gonna stay up and we're gonna watch a movie when

708
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Speaker 1: y'all get back.

709
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Speaker 2: And she wanted to watch The Blackenning.

710
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Speaker 1: So we partied. After the week that was this is

711
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 1: finally the last event. We can stop. We can shut

712
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Speaker 1: it down, We can go and go to sleep. So me,

713
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: it was like, uh uh, when y'all get home, she

714
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: was texting. She was texting Bud, when y'all get home,

715
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 1: the Black Inning, we gotta watch it. So sure enough,

716
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 1: we get in and we set it up. You make

717
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:53,960
Speaker 1: the popcorn, you hand it out to everybody in the

718
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Speaker 1: individual tens, and we start the movie. Sabine is loving it,

719
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Speaker 1: and then she almost ussed me out the next morning

720
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Speaker 1: because she said, y'all went to sleep on me again.

721
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Speaker 1: We fell asleep in them halfway through them.

722
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Speaker 3: They took a picture of it. It's a pretty funny photo.

723
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Speaker 3: We can we can give it to the producers. Yep,

724
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Speaker 3: it is documented. We didn't last I don't know. I

725
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Speaker 3: think I lasted thirty minutes maybe into the.

726
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Speaker 2: Movie, but if you haven't seen it, but.

727
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Speaker 3: It was the third time we had seen it. We

728
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 3: would never fall asleep during that movie normally, yes.

729
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Speaker 2: But that's the week that was. It was a wonderful one.

730
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Speaker 1: There were I guess you could say highs and lows,

731
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:36,280
Speaker 1: but there were so many highs that it almost seems

732
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,959
Speaker 1: like we are doing a disservice by spending a.

733
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Speaker 2: Moment on the lows.

734
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Speaker 1: So thank you all, we are grateful and we are

735
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Speaker 1: off and running, and we've gone back a little bit too,

736
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Speaker 1: and kind of the lead up to the podcast launch

737
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 1: and all the events and good time and what parties

738
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Speaker 1: and whatnot and things.

739
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Speaker 2: We had to celebrate. But it is Wild Robes that

740
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,280
Speaker 2: it started out.

741
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:13,399
Speaker 1: Like as heavy as it could, but it helped us

742
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 1: with perspective over the past week and a half because

743
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 1: you lost someone near and dear to you. We found

744
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: out about it just days before launch.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and I'm going to try to do this without crying,

746
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 3: but I don't think that's gonna work, so I apologize

747
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 3: ahead of time. But this is somebody who has been

748
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 3: so special to me over the past eight years. And

749
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Speaker 3: I met this beautiful soul, Olivia Hutcherson, right after I

750
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:44,400
Speaker 3: finished my breast cancer treatment. She had just finished hers

751
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 3: and we were both declared cancer free in remission, and

752
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 3: I did a story with her. She was so young

753
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,919
Speaker 3: when she was diagnosed. I believe she was twenty eight,

754
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Speaker 3: and she had such a vibrant spirit about her and

755
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 3: so much positivity and so much hope and joy for

756
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 3: the future. And it was a way to celebrate even

757
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:11,800
Speaker 3: younger women getting cancer, and so it was also explaining

758
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 3: to our audience that you don't have to be an

759
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 3: older woman to get cancer. Breast cancer can happen to anyone,

760
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,919
Speaker 3: and so it's on you to take charge of your health.

761
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Speaker 3: So she was that woman who embodied all of those things,

762
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Speaker 3: and she was just incredible, so much so that we

763
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 3: developed a tight friendship over it and stayed close all

764
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 3: these years. Several years later, her cancer came back stage

765
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Speaker 3: four metastatic, and she was in the fight for her

766
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:39,240
Speaker 3: life literally and figuratively. And I watched this beautiful woman

767
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:44,400
Speaker 3: fight with grace, with love. She was a professional dancer

768
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Speaker 3: and she taught dance to students, and she had accomplished

769
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Speaker 3: so much in her life, but she had so much

770
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 3: more to do, and mostly she just wanted to give.

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Speaker 3: She wanted to give love, she wanted to give hope

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Speaker 3: and inspiration. And she documented her battle on Instagram in

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Speaker 3: a very real and honest way. And I know many

774
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 3: of you might have followed her. I hope you do now.

775
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 3: Her account is still up. But we lost Olivia this

776
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 3: Saturday after Thanksgiving, and I reflected back at the moments

777
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 3: that I still wanted to have from her. The last

778
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 3: text that I sent to her was just a few

779
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:26,319
Speaker 3: weeks before she passed. I didn't know how bad off

780
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 3: she was. She didn't tell me, she didn't want me

781
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 3: to know. She told me she started her new treatment.

782
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 3: Let's get together, and I said, yes, I will be

783
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:37,360
Speaker 3: thinking of you and I will be on standby for

784
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 3: a date. And that date never happened because she passed

785
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,399
Speaker 3: away very quickly after that last text I sent her.

786
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Speaker 3: What was the Remember how old Olivia was? Thirty four

787
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:51,439
Speaker 3: years old?

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Speaker 1: I remember if for folks, I only got to be

789
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,279
Speaker 1: around her, I think twice, but certainly once we had

790
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 1: her on the show even once. But this was a

791
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 1: young woman. If she walked into the room and on

792
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 1: two front here looking at her, you would never you

793
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 1: wouldn't even know she was dealing or fighting a battle

794
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 1: with cancer, and two talking to her, you would never

795
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 1: know she was struggling the way she was because her energy,

796
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 1: her spirit. I've been amazed by this, and I've been

797
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,760
Speaker 1: I've seen it more with being around you and actually Morgan,

798
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 1: a good friend of yours, who will certainly be talking

799
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 1: about and maybe even have on the podcast at some point.

800
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 1: I don't understand how people who are that you described

801
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,439
Speaker 1: to me going through the hell that they're going through,

802
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: literally in a battle for their lives. How they're picking

803
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:43,880
Speaker 1: me up, not just because oh I feel okay, I

804
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: shouldn't complain about anything because somebody's going through word.

805
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 3: No, no, no.

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00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,880
Speaker 1: They literally talk to you in such a way that

807
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 1: they are encouraging you and your life and concerned about you.

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00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 2: I was always amazed by that.

809
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 3: With Olivia to that point, going through all of this

810
00:38:57,680 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 3: and she's fighting for her life and she's checking in

811
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 3: on me. I have a couple things I just want

812
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 3: to share with you because I want you to know

813
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 3: the love that Olivia gave not just to me, but

814
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 3: to everyone around her. And it's just inspirational to the

815
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 3: point where I think we all, I know, we all

816
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 3: can learn something from Olivia and continue to live differently

817
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,840
Speaker 3: because of how she lived her life. Just a few

818
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 3: months ago, she wrote to me and said, I had

819
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 3: a dream about you last night. It was so vivid,

820
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 3: very crazy. I felt you so strongly.

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Speaker 5: I know I must sound crazy, but I just want

822
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 5: to tell you how proud I am of you for

823
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 5: being such a life force and choosing love so side noted,

824
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 5: dear friend of mine transitions last week to heaven and

825
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 5: I couldn't help but think of you.

826
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Speaker 3: Sadly, death teaches us how to live, she says to me.

827
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 3: This is her quote. I am sorry I haven't checked

828
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 3: in on you more, but please know I think of

829
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 3: you often. I pray for your peace always hope you

830
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 3: are well, my sister. That is remarkable to me that

831
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Speaker 3: in what she was dealing.

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Speaker 2: With, literally fighting to live, and she's she's.

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00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 3: Worried about me, and that is just that takes a

834
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:11,359
Speaker 3: very special person in that situation. And I also just

835
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 3: I really want to share with you. I know people

836
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 3: who are familiar with Instagram, they know that when you

837
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:19,799
Speaker 3: have a post, you want people to check back in

838
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 3: on or read you pin it. I don't I'm not

839
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 3: that savvy with tech, but I do know that much.

840
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Speaker 3: And so I was looking back because she was a

841
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:29,800
Speaker 3: poet as well. She has a book out there. She

842
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 3: gave so much and she gave so much art to

843
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 3: the world, not just through dance, but through her words

844
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Speaker 3: and of course through her love. But she had this

845
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 3: is almost exactly a year ago she put this post up.

846
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:45,239
Speaker 3: And I'll truncate it slightly, but she put this post

847
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 3: up on Instagram and for anyone who wants to go

848
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 3: and look at it. It's still up there to read.

849
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:56,360
Speaker 3: But this just hit me after her passing her words

850
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 3: of inspiration that I will keep, and I kept with

851
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 3: me through this week, and you know I did. I've

852
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:06,399
Speaker 3: been wiping away tears, but they're also tears of joy

853
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 3: because I know she's not in pain anymore. I know

854
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 3: that she's free of her body, and I know that

855
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:15,800
Speaker 3: her soul and her spirit live on, not just literally

856
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 3: but through the people who she touched. So I just

857
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 3: I'm hoping that her words you all can listen to them,

858
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 3: will also have the same impact on you. She wrote

859
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 3: this in December of twenty twenty two. I wanted to

860
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:31,720
Speaker 3: write something super motivational as the year comes to a close.

861
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 3: The only thing I can truly tell you is this though,

862
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 3: when you see me and you see something good, the

863
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 3: only good thing about me is God. He has literally

864
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:44,879
Speaker 3: lifted me off of the floor and put me back

865
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:48,879
Speaker 3: together again time after time. She goes on to say,

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00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 3: I didn't get here overnight. It took pressure, process, tears, fears, surrender,

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Speaker 3: re surrender, an army or prayer warriors, my mother's arms,

868
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 3: my brother's ted talks in the living room and a

869
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:10,919
Speaker 3: few real ones. I learned less is more and time

870
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 3: is running out every second.

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Speaker 5: So let's love now, forgive more, and yes, pray for

872
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 5: those who have come against us and our families.

873
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 3: The poison only makes us bitter. Life is short today

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Speaker 3: is what matters most.