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Speaker 1: You confession I can't take back.

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Speaker 2: El arm Mouse.

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Speaker 1: Speak, Texas seventy eight five ninety two says whenever I

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Speaker 1: do self check out at the grocery store, I always

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Speaker 1: try to scan as quickly and competently as possible, thinking

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Speaker 1: that maybe the staff will be impressed and I'll get

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Speaker 1: head hunted from my excellent scanning abilities.

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Speaker 2: Wait till you bag your own grocey like a boss.

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Speaker 2: You know that's right.

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Speaker 1: The reason I do self checkout is because I'm ashamed

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Speaker 1: about how many bottles of bourbon and vaselina I buy

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Speaker 1: every single time. I wish I could stay anonymous at

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Speaker 1: the store. Yeah, but the good news is we can

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Speaker 1: keep you anonymous here on the Mass Speaker.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I will.

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Speaker 1: That way, we keep your shame under wraps. And one

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Speaker 1: of our listeners wants to share today anonymously. She's chosen

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Speaker 1: to go by Belinda as her fake name. So Linda,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the show.

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Speaker 3: Hey, thank you so much. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: How many tubs of bassoline did you get in your

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Speaker 2: last shopping?

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Speaker 1: She's like, you took my secret. The voice changer is on, Belinda.

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Speaker 1: You are the mass speaker. Whenever you're ready, let's hear

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Speaker 1: your confession.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so my fiance and I were looking to

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Speaker 3: buy a house for a while.

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Speaker 1: You sentence that you have a fiance, you're buying a

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Speaker 1: happy that's awesome.

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Speaker 2: Poor and frustrated. I mean, it's probably.

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Speaker 3: We're just at the start of this story for it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, it's hard out there, man.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure somebody you know, like the whole process is

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Speaker 3: just a freaking headache, and prices are insane.

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Speaker 2: You're getting beat out by other people.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, always. And we don't live like downtown in

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Speaker 3: a big metro area or anything, but it's still just

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Speaker 3: out of control.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, even in my little town of like seven hundred

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Speaker 2: people where I grew up is nuts.

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Speaker 1: Really, Oh my god, for like six months, now, what

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Speaker 1: are you in doing van life now?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: No, no, we kept waiting and waiting. We're renting right now.

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Speaker 3: We were waiting so long for the bubble to birth,

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Speaker 3: and it just it just wasn't happening. Right. My dad

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Speaker 3: swooped in and told me he wanted to help, and

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Speaker 3: so yeah, it was so sweet, like super just unexpected

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Speaker 3: kind and it was it was not small, it was

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Speaker 3: He gifted us forty eight thousand dollars to put towards

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Speaker 3: the down payment.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, your dad has big dreams for you.

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Speaker 2: Alexis is ready to be adopted.

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Speaker 1: Yea, that's awesome.

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Speaker 3: Yeah it was great, but we're still looking around. Even

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Speaker 3: with that extra forty k, it still wasn't happening, Like

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Speaker 3: we'd still be just stretching our budget to the absolute limit.

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Speaker 3: And the thing is so our wedding was also coming up,

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Speaker 3: and I had been cutting corners to save for that,

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Speaker 3: right and now suddenly we have this extra forty K

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Speaker 3: just burning a hole in my bank account. I'm thinking, like,

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Speaker 3: maybe I can just spend a little bit of it

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Speaker 3: on wedding stuff.

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Speaker 1: You know, is dangerous.

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Speaker 3: You can see where this is going. I'm thinking like, okay,

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Speaker 3: I can just upgrade our table settings a little bit,

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Speaker 3: you know, add some more flowers, upgrade my wedding.

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Speaker 1: Dress, upgrade your fiance while you're at it at this point.

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Speaker 3: No, that's the hound is great. But my dress. I

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Speaker 3: had like settled for a dress from a retail place

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Speaker 3: and I was like really like, oh but this Alexander mccreamley.

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Speaker 3: They just want this dress. It's going to make the

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Speaker 3: day perfect.

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Speaker 2: Now I know why your dad didn't give you this

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Speaker 2: money long time ago.

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Speaker 3: Well, I know, I'm just like, maybe you shouldn't have

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Speaker 3: but so and I hired one of those companies that

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Speaker 3: do just those floating lanterns that you light and I

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Speaker 3: slot up in the sky, you know, like hundreds of them.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, those are pretty romantic.

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Speaker 3: So we're thinking all of that might cost like an

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Speaker 3: extra five to seven thousand dollars, you know, which isn't nothing.

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Speaker 3: But it's like that I could make up quickly.

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Speaker 1: As wedding wedding industry people in general just like to

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Speaker 1: charge a lot of money for whateverything.

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Speaker 3: Well, and some things, it's just like piece by piece,

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Speaker 3: and so all of a sudden you're like, oh, that

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Speaker 3: now is way more than I thought it was going

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Speaker 3: to be. So I was thinking it was going to

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Speaker 3: be like seven k action it was more like thirty

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Speaker 3: five thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: Thirty five thousand of the forty grand that your dad

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Speaker 1: gave you for a down payment, Oh my god.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then I ended up using the other five

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Speaker 3: kate on our honeymoon.

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Speaker 2: Oh you don't sound upset by this. It sounds like

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Speaker 2: maybe Dad would expect this.

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Speaker 1: Well, how was the wedding? Was it worth wedding.

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Speaker 3: The wedding was amazing. It was it was so amazing,

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Speaker 3: and my dad was blown away by the wedding. But

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Speaker 3: obviously he doesn't know.

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Speaker 2: You know that he funded it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah right, And now he's wanting to go house shopping

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Speaker 3: with me all of the time, and he has no

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Speaker 3: idea that down payment went towards the wedding. So it's

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Speaker 3: awkward because he wants to come with me to only

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Speaker 3: showings and he keeps showing me listings that are in

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Speaker 3: my price range because.

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Speaker 2: He stole your dad's money.

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Speaker 3: Kind of Yeah, so like I keep making stuff up,

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Speaker 3: like you know, he doesn't know we're actually broken. I

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Speaker 3: keep having to come up with more and more excuses

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Speaker 3: as to why each house isn't right, and it sucks

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Speaker 3: a lot.

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Speaker 2: It's hard to feel bad for you. Yeah, I'm having

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Speaker 2: a hard time. But at least you can look at

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Speaker 2: your design address from your apartment around you.

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Speaker 1: Can cry the first class on your honeymoon.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure you're still using those table place settings so.

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Speaker 1: In your apartment yeah right, yes, all right, Well, I'm

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Speaker 1: glad that we wedding and financially shamed you.

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Speaker 2: Before, but like, how does your fiance feel about this, like, well, he.

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Speaker 3: Did not have much to do with the wedding playing.

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, does dad have room in his house?

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Speaker 3: But when you need to move in.

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Speaker 1: Maybe well it sounds like you just need a little

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Speaker 1: bit of like a like a scam to fall force.

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Speaker 1: You can file for bankruptcy and then it's not on

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Speaker 1: you anymore.

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Speaker 2: Right, or maybe you just go see do they have

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Speaker 2: financial therapists? I feel like they should.

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Speaker 1: Well, just out of pity, Brook's gonna venmo you twenty

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars just to make you feel a little bit better. Okay,

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Speaker 1: text in seven, eight, five nine too. If you have

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Speaker 1: a confession you've been holding on to, we'll hide your identity,

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Speaker 1: mask your voice, and make you the next mass speaker.

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Speaker 1: Your phone tab's coming up next

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Speaker 2: Brooking Jeffrey in the morning,