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Speaker 1: Hey, guys, I'm Kaylie Short and this is too much

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Speaker 1: to say, but questions it out you. Okay, So this

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Speaker 1: week's episode is on something that I feel like we

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Speaker 1: can all relate to, which is you never know what

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Speaker 1: other people have going on. And it ties back to

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Speaker 1: that old cliche you can't judge a book by its cover,

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Speaker 1: but you can't judge somebody's life by how it looks

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Speaker 1: from the outside because you really never know. And if

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Speaker 1: somebody's going through something really difficult, the chances of them

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Speaker 1: opening up to every single person that they see about

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Speaker 1: it is very rare and honestly just impossible. Like I'm

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Speaker 1: a very open person. That's why my album is called

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Speaker 1: Open Book, and I write about all of these things

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Speaker 1: that are very um, you know, very personal to me

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Speaker 1: and a lot of the difficult things I've gone through.

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Speaker 1: But it's still there's so much like that really only

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Speaker 1: scratches the surface of the things that I deal with.

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Speaker 1: And I have had a really crazy past few weeks

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Speaker 1: dealing with some family stuff, and it's just it's hard

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Speaker 1: because like, okay, so, like you have somebody who isn't

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Speaker 1: they just they do something to quote unquote let you down,

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Speaker 1: and they're like, oh, you know, I just had some

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Speaker 1: family drama. And it's so easy to assume like, okay,

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Speaker 1: like we all have family drama, but when somebody says

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Speaker 1: I mean I know people who have said something like

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Speaker 1: because they just don't want to get into it. And also,

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Speaker 1: you don't really owe anybody an explanat planation when it

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Speaker 1: comes to something like that. And it just got me

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Speaker 1: thinking about all the times in my life that I've

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Speaker 1: been presenting as I was living a life that was

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Speaker 1: not anywhere close to what was actually going on. And

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Speaker 1: there's this person I follow on Instagram named mix zas

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Speaker 1: On and she's so great. She's very like um body

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Speaker 1: positivity focus. She's in recovery from a needing disorder and

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Speaker 1: myself these days like seeing filters and being like, for

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Speaker 1: like the first time in my life, being like, should

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Speaker 1: look like. And that's like a microcosm for this greater issue.

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Speaker 1: But um Mick posted a thing like a real that

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Speaker 1: was like what was happening when these photos were taken?

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Speaker 1: And it was like the story behind these photos. And

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Speaker 1: and it was like I hadn't eaten for three days,

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Speaker 1: and I um photo shopped the ship out of this

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Speaker 1: I know that we all know this about Instagram. I

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Speaker 1: you just you just the more you think about it,

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Speaker 1: the more layers, the more like just insane. It gets

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Speaker 1: And so I was looking back at some of my

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Speaker 1: story behind them and the things that we're going on,

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Speaker 1: and it just doesn't line up to what I'm posting

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Speaker 1: on Instagram. And also, like I don't know what the

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Speaker 1: solution is in that sense, because it's like do you

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Speaker 1: worst time ever. Here's all this stuff that's going on

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Speaker 1: with me, Like it's not really anybody's business. So I

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Speaker 1: so much too like be completely transparent, but it's to

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Speaker 1: understand that everybody else isn't going to be completely transparent

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Speaker 1: and that's okay, and to just treat people with you know, compassion.

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Speaker 1: So I'm going to share some specific examples when we

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Speaker 1: come back about times that this has happened to me

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Speaker 1: and tell the story behind some of my Instagram posts. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we are back, and I've told this story before on

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Speaker 1: the podcast because it just feels like such a like

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Speaker 1: So like, but I'm not going to say all that.

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Speaker 1: It's not the fucking persons business. But they chose to

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Speaker 1: like react. You just don't know. Someone cuts you off

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Speaker 1: because so much, so often it has so much less

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Speaker 1: doing a like word or a cross word, like I

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Speaker 1: love reading books, like physical books, Like I don't like

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Speaker 1: And there's like so many more examples of this. I mean,

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Speaker 1: then also like a lot of drama happens around the Rheman.

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Speaker 1: But there was the next time I played the Rheman

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Speaker 1: to was the fact that the night that I played

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Speaker 1: But you know, supposed to keep picture in front of

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Speaker 1: the Rhyman God. The Ryman was like a dramatic time um.

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Speaker 1: And then I mean, I was pretty publicly open when

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