WEBVTT - Ep. 51 — Drugstore Drama

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<v Speaker 1>Here's a reminder. We are doing the Brown Ambition one

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<v Speaker 1>year anniversary contest and we want everyone to send us

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<v Speaker 1>and you could win a free dinner in New York

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<v Speaker 1>City with me and Tiffany in September. So send your submissions.

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<v Speaker 1>The deadline, I believe is the end of this week

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<v Speaker 1>and winners will be announced next week and we just

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<v Speaker 1>would love to treat you guys.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you want to tell them what they because someone

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<v Speaker 2>did ask me what date?

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<v Speaker 1>Now that we pick the date, Oh, the date of

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<v Speaker 1>the dinner would be September sixteenth.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, what time? Like what like seven.

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<v Speaker 1>Fifth or seven pm ish evening time? Ish? It's going

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<v Speaker 1>to do one of those things where we find out

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<v Speaker 1>when everyone's free.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so it's Friday. That's a Friday.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a Friday, September sixteenth.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>At Delicious Popo.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh my god, Popo. Honestly that even if you don't

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<v Speaker 2>want to see me and Mandy, you want to eat

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<v Speaker 2>that food, the chicken.

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<v Speaker 3>Everything, literally everything, It doesn't even make sense. Somebody's grandmother

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<v Speaker 3>is like it's like she must sleep in the kitchen

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<v Speaker 3>there and just wakes up and just cooks because the

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<v Speaker 3>food is like poochao, you just gotta love it. So yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>so we hope to see you and we want to

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<v Speaker 3>you know, hung up on you talk talk, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>a brown girl smiles and all that kind of fun stuff.

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<v Speaker 3>So definitely email us what Brown Ambition means to you

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<v Speaker 3>at Brown Ambition Podcasts at gmail dot com.

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<v Speaker 2>Brown Ambition, Brown Ambition.

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<v Speaker 3>It sounds like a like threes company, Like remember did

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<v Speaker 3>you ever used to watch Three's.

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<v Speaker 1>Company have a knock on my door? No?

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<v Speaker 2>No, take us up?

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<v Speaker 1>That is that's all I all. I think I learned

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<v Speaker 1>that from an episode of Full House possibly it was

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<v Speaker 1>like very meta and never actually watched an episode.

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<v Speaker 3>Right, That's like I didn't know until I got older

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<v Speaker 3>that like the Brady Bunch was from like years before

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<v Speaker 3>I didn't. You know, as a kid, you don't think

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<v Speaker 3>about why these kids wearing mail bottoms. You're just like, whatever,

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<v Speaker 3>that's true, you know, and you're like, oh, did you

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<v Speaker 3>go you were just in San.

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<v Speaker 1>Fran right, yes, Also, welcome to Brown Ambition. If you

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<v Speaker 1>didn't catch it, this is the show you're listening to.

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<v Speaker 2>Our Man, Our poor manners, Our poor.

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<v Speaker 1>Man is how how dare we. Yeah, I was just

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<v Speaker 1>an SF. The locals call it SF, so that's what

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going to call it. Oh excuse me, I've been twice,

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<v Speaker 1>so that's what I qualify as. Oh okay, okay, yeah, no,

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<v Speaker 1>that wasn't serious. I'm not a local at all. It's

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<v Speaker 1>it was good. I was like a workation, okay, where

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<v Speaker 1>you work, but then you try to have fun at

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<v Speaker 1>the same time, which was new for me. Yeah. I

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<v Speaker 1>did have a really good time like work. During the day,

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<v Speaker 1>I actually was mooching off my best friend who just

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<v Speaker 1>got a really sweet job at LinkedIn and got to

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<v Speaker 1>go check out their offices, which are I don't know,

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<v Speaker 1>you know. It just makes me like think back on

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<v Speaker 1>my Silicon Valley days at the good old Yahoo because

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<v Speaker 1>just when I tell you this cafeteria, I had the

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<v Speaker 1>best Indian food I've had pretty much anywhere at the

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<v Speaker 1>LinkedIn cafeteria, Like it was delicials. Yeah, they had the

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<v Speaker 1>Poppa Doom, which is like crunchy, like crackery bread type

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<v Speaker 1>thing and like buttered chicken. But then they also had

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<v Speaker 1>a barbecue area. It was just like the Land of

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<v Speaker 1>Riches and like a rooftop area, and then an ice

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<v Speaker 1>cream bar every day at two pm.

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<v Speaker 2>That's just fattening, Like, that's not even right.

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<v Speaker 1>I literally stayed there from noon until four pm. I

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<v Speaker 1>was just like, I guess I'll just stay here, read

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<v Speaker 1>my booth on the rooftop and a nice view of

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<v Speaker 1>downtown and I went. You know, I didn't partake in

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<v Speaker 1>the ice cream social because you know, malactose, but they

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<v Speaker 1>have like Eminem's on tap and just like just nuttiness.

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<v Speaker 1>Like I had to get out of there at the

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<v Speaker 1>end of that. I'm like, this is not natural, this

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<v Speaker 1>is not okay. I need to go back to reality.

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<v Speaker 2>Does everybody overweight? There?

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<v Speaker 1>No, everyone, It's California. Everyone's like thin and like active.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sure they all like rode their bikes to work.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know. But what I like the most about

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<v Speaker 1>SP is the weather though, because like it must be

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<v Speaker 1>the most boring job in the world to be a

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<v Speaker 1>meteorologist in San Francisco, because you're just like, well, the

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<v Speaker 1>same as it was yesterday, folks, and that's your forecast

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<v Speaker 1>by like it's the same every day. It's like fifty

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<v Speaker 1>five with the highest sixty two. But we did we

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<v Speaker 1>went out and did something I always wanted to do,

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<v Speaker 1>which was Napa Valley. We went on a wine tour.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh aren't you very almost thirty?

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<v Speaker 1>It was very fancy. Well, whenever I like doing tours

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<v Speaker 1>where like you get a driver because it's actually on

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<v Speaker 1>a wine tour, because you don't want to be designated driver.

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<v Speaker 1>You want to enjoy yourself and you don't want to

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<v Speaker 1>worry about directions and that kind of stuff. So we

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<v Speaker 1>did this nice tour through the a dot com which

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<v Speaker 1>I think is owned by trip Advisor. But we're The

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<v Speaker 1>average age of the van was basically like sixty six,

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<v Speaker 1>and me and my friend were like, hella, la la. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it was funny, but we had a great, great time,

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<v Speaker 1>very fancy pants.

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<v Speaker 2>I like, sanfriend, did you do the trolley?

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<v Speaker 1>Yes? We did? Why is that so exciting? Like, yes,

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<v Speaker 1>we did the trolley. She dragged me this seven dollars.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like, why am I paying seven dollars to go

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<v Speaker 1>to First of all, we had to pay two dollars

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<v Speaker 1>to get to the trolley, took the bus to the

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<v Speaker 1>trolley just to hop on the trolley and pay seven

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<v Speaker 1>more dollars just to ride up the hills and the

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<v Speaker 1>opposite direction where we needed to go. That we could

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<v Speaker 1>get off and then pay for an uber back to

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<v Speaker 1>where we needed to go.

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<v Speaker 2>So you can say I hit the trolley. I would.

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<v Speaker 3>So I'm very touristy, honestly, like embarrassingly, so whenever I

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<v Speaker 3>go places, I'm always like, what's the torsy things I

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<v Speaker 3>can do? So I did the trolley. In San France,

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<v Speaker 3>I had to run a bike and I.

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<v Speaker 2>Rode over the Golden Gay Bridge.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh you did, I've driven over. I didn't ride my

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<v Speaker 1>bike over it, though.

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<v Speaker 2>It was much windier than I anticipated.

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<v Speaker 1>How did they windy city it is?

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, so I'm freezing every.

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<v Speaker 1>And every corner is a different climate in San Francisco.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, And then like you like, so one we went

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<v Speaker 3>to the Pere Fisherman' Dwarf. Well not we, I was

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<v Speaker 3>by myself, but I went to Fisherman's Wharf, which is cool.

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<v Speaker 3>It's like, you know, a port or I don't know, like.

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<v Speaker 2>Not really a beach, but it's just like a like

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<v Speaker 2>the sea, That's what it seems like. But then you

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<v Speaker 2>have downtown and then you have beaches.

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<v Speaker 3>Honestly, San France is one of my favorite American cities.

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<v Speaker 3>I even did the Crookedest Road in America.

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<v Speaker 1>A Lombard Street.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, I was like, oh my god, I'm doing everything.

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<v Speaker 3>It's just I had such a good time. I you know,

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<v Speaker 3>they have a Mere Woods which is beautiful redwood forest.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, i'd gone like we did a uh fiance and

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<v Speaker 1>I went a couple of years ago and did like

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<v Speaker 1>the big road trip up the Pacific Coastal Highway, and

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<v Speaker 1>so we hit all we hit all the big stuff

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<v Speaker 1>in San Francisco, like during that trip, like we went

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<v Speaker 1>to the Redwood Forest, we did all the the Lombard

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<v Speaker 1>Street and like the pier and that kind of stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>So this time I like to like get all that

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<v Speaker 1>stuff out of the way in one visit. Yeah, and

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<v Speaker 1>then and then come back and just focus on the food.

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<v Speaker 2>They have very very very good food.

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<v Speaker 3>I think San France is known for their Asian food,

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<v Speaker 3>isn't it like Indian food and Thai food.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, oh my god. We had the most amazing We

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<v Speaker 1>were in the Mission District, which is like the Latino

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<v Speaker 1>heavy neighborhood, but we had the best Thai food there. Randomly,

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<v Speaker 1>but yeah, it has like they have Japan towne China Town.

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<v Speaker 1>Really good food, really really good food, and even better

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't pay for my flight because I had points

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<v Speaker 1>points points points.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm actually going away to for my birthday.

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<v Speaker 3>I finally booked my birthday trip pre birthday trip because

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<v Speaker 3>you know, Superman, we're counting on you to make this

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<v Speaker 3>birthday special.

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<v Speaker 2>If you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, I forgot the other day.

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<v Speaker 3>It was like, so at this point, he's given up

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<v Speaker 3>on trying to even be like a surprise or anything.

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<v Speaker 2>He's like, so send me pictures of rings.

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<v Speaker 1>You like, what come play the charade.

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, okay, I'll just Sendrina with you. He's like, no,

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<v Speaker 2>I could do it. I'm like, yeah, I will send

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<v Speaker 2>with you.

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<v Speaker 3>So, I mean, I'm sure it'll be a surprise when

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<v Speaker 3>it happens, but at least we're moving in the right direction.

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<v Speaker 1>So I decided to go for your trip.

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<v Speaker 2>So I'm going to go to Paris and Prague. Pep

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<v Speaker 2>oh cool. I know.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm excited to go to Prague.

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<v Speaker 2>Me too.

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<v Speaker 3>And so a friend of mine, I've always wanted to

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<v Speaker 3>go to Paris. I mean, I've been to France before.

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<v Speaker 3>I've been to the French Riviera, Cannes and stuff, but

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<v Speaker 3>I've never gone to Paris. And a friend of mine cool.

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<v Speaker 3>She's like my favorite travel partner because we have like

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<v Speaker 3>identical travel like emos, you know, like she's very easy going.

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<v Speaker 3>She likes walking. I like to do a lot of walking.

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<v Speaker 3>She's very like, you know, we can either do a

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<v Speaker 3>lot or little.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't. She's just a perfect travel.

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<v Speaker 1>Partner, like those are hard to come by, it.

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<v Speaker 3>Is, And it's so weird because we live in the

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<v Speaker 3>same city and we never hang out.

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<v Speaker 2>Like she's like we're friends, like hey.

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<v Speaker 3>Girl, hey, but we don't hang out. But when it's

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<v Speaker 3>time to travel, I'm like, Madeline, are you ready. She

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<v Speaker 3>actually has a company called Traveling Mad where she like

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<v Speaker 3>helps kids travel. So she helps like college kids do

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<v Speaker 3>like exchange programs, and she also tries to get kids,

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<v Speaker 3>especially in urban areas, like their first passport stamp.

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<v Speaker 2>So she's dope.

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<v Speaker 3>So she actually went to Paris for her masters and

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<v Speaker 3>lived there for a number of years. Speaks French fluently,

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<v Speaker 3>and like, so I'm excited to go to Paris with

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<v Speaker 3>her so i can do touristy things, but then I

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<v Speaker 3>can also do like, you know, not super touristy things.

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<v Speaker 3>And then Prague is a new place for her and

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<v Speaker 3>I've never been either so.

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<v Speaker 2>It's gonna be fun.

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<v Speaker 3>We'll be for about a week, like seven days, seven

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<v Speaker 3>seven eight full days, so it'll be fun.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm excited.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh fun times. That's October.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, we're gonna I'll be going in the first week,

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<v Speaker 3>first or second week of October.

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<v Speaker 1>I love it.

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<v Speaker 2>Yep. So I'm excited because I was like, yes, finally,

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<v Speaker 2>we've been trying to go to Paris for the longest.

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<v Speaker 3>We missed out on super cheap tickets round trip from

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<v Speaker 3>Newark for two fifty last year, and we nearly cried

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<v Speaker 3>tea years.

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<v Speaker 1>I tell you, it's the worst.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it is. And I was just like, h and

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<v Speaker 3>I really want to go back to Santorini. That is

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<v Speaker 3>like like one of my friends.

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<v Speaker 2>It was just there. Her name is Amita.

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<v Speaker 3>I want to go yeah, ah, Mandy when I tell you,

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<v Speaker 3>oh mg, like Santorini is either like perfect for your

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<v Speaker 3>girlfriends or perfect for like romantic place for boo.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm working. I'm working on that honeymoon honeymoon fund savings

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<v Speaker 1>fund right now?

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<v Speaker 2>Is that where you want to go? Where do you

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<v Speaker 2>want to go for honey.

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<v Speaker 1>We haven't decided. We're looking at Europe, but really it's

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<v Speaker 1>going to come down to where do the points take us? Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>but I think I think Europe's gonna happen. We've talked

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<v Speaker 1>about Cuba, but that got put on the back burner.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm thinking Europe. I just want to go somewhere like

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<v Speaker 1>really cheesy, romantical that you'll like, you know, like just

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<v Speaker 1>embrace the like where would Audrey hepburn.

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<v Speaker 2>Have you ever been to Paris?

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<v Speaker 1>I have, but when I was younger, not as like

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<v Speaker 1>a grown up, and I'd love to go there, but

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<v Speaker 1>I kind of want something more remote and not so like,

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<v Speaker 1>uh you know, big city like exhausting. I don't want

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<v Speaker 1>to be like exhausted.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, so like not like I Abizza.

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<v Speaker 1>No, I don't want to like be uts utzing I

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<v Speaker 1>was every night. Is not what they do there.

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<v Speaker 3>You know it's so crazy, but because it so as

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<v Speaker 3>I said it, Bizza in my mind, I was like

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<v Speaker 3>dancing like I.

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<v Speaker 1>Took a No, I don't want to take any pills. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>thinking of the US, did you watch I know I

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<v Speaker 1>know the answer, but didn't you watch the VMA's last night?

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<v Speaker 2>I actually did not.

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<v Speaker 1>I watched Shocker.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow, you thought you knew I wasn't gonna watch it.

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<v Speaker 1>I barely knew half the people. I was like looking

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<v Speaker 1>through the slideshow of VMA's like red carpet arrivals barely

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<v Speaker 1>after Beyonce, I was like, and who do what A what?

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<v Speaker 2>I know?

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<v Speaker 3>I was like, so I figured like I didn't even

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<v Speaker 3>realize they were on, and so like I was like,

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<v Speaker 3>what was I doing last night? I think honestly, I

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<v Speaker 3>I think I was just like reading like old lady.

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<v Speaker 3>And then I happened to look on Facebook and I

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<v Speaker 3>was like, oh, the umuz is on. But I'm like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>I don't care. I'll just watch the clips that people

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<v Speaker 3>tell me I should see. So art strategy, right. I

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<v Speaker 3>saw Beyonce. Obviously she's played, she did a full concert.

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<v Speaker 3>She was amazing. Rihanna was Okay, So let's talk about

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<v Speaker 3>Tianna Taylor in that body?

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<v Speaker 1>O my god, is there a personal finance angle here?

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<v Speaker 1>How much money would it cost you to spend on

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<v Speaker 1>a gym membership to get that body?

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, this woman had a baby.

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<v Speaker 3>A baby, A full human being came out of this

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<v Speaker 3>woman's body.

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<v Speaker 2>She is like magnificently made.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm like, wow, this, but you know, she's like just

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<v Speaker 3>the perfect size of like not super skinny, not like

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<v Speaker 3>overly muscular. She's just like just God was like, We're

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<v Speaker 3>gonna give you this thing, and no one else in

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<v Speaker 3>the world will happen.

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<v Speaker 2>Here. You go be blessed and bless others. And she did.

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<v Speaker 1>And if you missed it last night, and you guys

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<v Speaker 1>are scratching her head. So she starred in Kanye West's

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<v Speaker 1>new video for a Fade. Yeah, and we won't even

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<v Speaker 1>mention the speech, his little speech he gave before. He

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<v Speaker 1>just like he should just hit play on the video.

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<v Speaker 3>I didn't even fotch. I was just like, like I said,

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<v Speaker 3>I just caught the clips. I watched Beyonce, I watched her.

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<v Speaker 3>I didn't even watch Brittany. I heard it was a

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<v Speaker 3>little sad to watch, especially post Beyonce, so I didn't

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<v Speaker 3>want to do it to myself.

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<v Speaker 1>Brittany came after Beyonce.

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<v Speaker 2>I know, why would they They played her. That's called

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<v Speaker 2>the setup.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't have friends, I mean, Brittany just like gotta

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<v Speaker 1>know your lane, go back, you know, stay in Vegas.

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<v Speaker 2>M I mean, Brittany still don't like.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, I grew up with like, you know, hit

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<v Speaker 3>me baby one more time, so you know I'm feeling her.

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<v Speaker 1>She's faded. It's not the same.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's not. But did you see Drake Drake profressing

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<v Speaker 2>his love for Rihanna? I was like, oh, I I.

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<v Speaker 1>Also didn't watch. I don't know why I even brought

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<v Speaker 1>it up, but no, I didn't see it.

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<v Speaker 2>I read.

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<v Speaker 1>I read the headline. Though he loves her, Drake just

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<v Speaker 1>looks too much like my little brother. I have a

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<v Speaker 1>really hard time like looking at him because everyone's like,

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<v Speaker 1>oh my god, Drake, like huh so sexy, but he

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<v Speaker 1>looks exactly like my baby brother, and I can't handle it.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't.

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<v Speaker 3>But there's some bran ambish and listeners that are like, so, wait,

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<v Speaker 3>so where's your baby brother located?

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<v Speaker 1>Except my brother is smarter, wiser and has beautiful Chris

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<v Speaker 1>green eyes and lady he is newly single. Now that

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<v Speaker 1>I mention it, that's gross. Never mind, I'm not as pim.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't mind around. But he but my my little brother,

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<v Speaker 1>Alex is his name. He he had like a little

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<v Speaker 1>rap career in college and he just like couldn't deal

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<v Speaker 1>with the drake he got, I think, the drake of comparisons.

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<v Speaker 1>And to this day he just walks down the Streeople

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<v Speaker 1>be drake at him. I think it bothered him so

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<v Speaker 1>much he just like put it on the table. But

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<v Speaker 1>he was really talented. It's a little rap hip hop career.

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<v Speaker 1>I digress, just bab but it was it was it

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<v Speaker 1>was cute.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, like I said, I I felt like from

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<v Speaker 3>what I could understand that the the VMA seemed like,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, people enjoyed them, although I did not partake,

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<v Speaker 3>but you know, it was cool.

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<v Speaker 2>I guess.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, speaking of MTV and youth, actually there's no good

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<v Speaker 1>segue for this. I really want to talk about the

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<v Speaker 1>EpiPen controversy. Have you been following this? Yes, there's those

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<v Speaker 1>yeah for an EpiPen. So and you know what's crazy.

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<v Speaker 1>I you always hear about EpiPens and allergies and stuff

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<v Speaker 1>and that kind of thing. But I didn't realize how

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<v Speaker 1>many of my friends and family RELI on EpiPens for

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<v Speaker 1>their kids or like for themselves, and how how how

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<v Speaker 1>important they are. And so this company, Mylon, they like

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<v Speaker 1>doubled the price of EpiPens to like six hundred dollars

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<v Speaker 1>and even if you had a coupon, it was still

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<v Speaker 1>like my my cousin's wife said that even with a coupon,

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<v Speaker 1>it was still one hundred and fifty dollars for the EpiPen,

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<v Speaker 1>which is like all that stand between someone in death,

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<v Speaker 1>like if they have an allergy, you.

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<v Speaker 2>Know, which is crazy, and.

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<v Speaker 1>There's all this controversy. I even saw Sarah Jessica Parker,

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<v Speaker 1>so apparently her son has a peanut allergy, and she

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<v Speaker 1>was like a spokesperson for this company, and then she

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<v Speaker 1>like posts on Instagram you know, I'm no longer going

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<v Speaker 1>to be affiliated with them, and like denounced it, and

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<v Speaker 1>it looks like today I think I'm pretty sure that

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<v Speaker 1>they decided to lower the price by fifty percent and

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<v Speaker 1>response to like all the controversy.

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<v Speaker 3>Because that's just I mean, like you said, this is

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<v Speaker 3>life saving medicine, and you're putting someone in a position

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<v Speaker 3>to say I'm just going to have to die because

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<v Speaker 3>I don't have it like that, doesn't you know what

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<v Speaker 3>I mean? Like, how does someone sleep? I was just

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<v Speaker 3>talking to him about Superman. I was like about it earlier,

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<v Speaker 3>and I'm like this, I bet I get that you

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<v Speaker 3>have to make a profit, but how does one sleep

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<v Speaker 3>at night knowing that you are sentencing some people to

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<v Speaker 3>death because you know, because of profit and I get

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<v Speaker 3>that money has to be made, but at what costs?

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<v Speaker 2>When does it when does it become okay too much?

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<v Speaker 1>Well, this is this is a really crazy thing, the

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<v Speaker 1>fact that they so they're basically releasing a cheaper version,

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<v Speaker 1>a generic version of the EpiPen in the next couple

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<v Speaker 1>of weeks and response to all this controversy. So it's

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<v Speaker 1>going to cost three hundred dollars versus the six hundred

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<v Speaker 1>dollars for the name brand, but they're still going to

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<v Speaker 1>offer the name brand. And here's what people don't realize, Like,

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<v Speaker 1>so if your insurance covers the EpiPen, like they're there's

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<v Speaker 1>still these these pharmaceutical companies are still offering them more

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<v Speaker 1>expensive one because they know if you don't pay attention

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<v Speaker 1>you're insurance, you'll just put you'll fill the prescription for

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<v Speaker 1>the brand name EpiPen, and your insurance company will pay

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<v Speaker 1>for it and they're still going to get their money.

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<v Speaker 1>So that's why they have these like two different same thing,

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<v Speaker 1>different prices. And this has always like pissed me off,

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<v Speaker 1>But recently I got stuck. So I was picking up

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<v Speaker 1>my monthly supply of Lady Pills. You know what I'm

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<v Speaker 1>talking about. And I went to the drug store and

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<v Speaker 1>I had new insurance for the first time, and they

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<v Speaker 1>told me my prescription was going to be one hundred

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<v Speaker 1>and thirty five dollars and I was like, say what

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<v Speaker 1>to who? What about Obamacare? This should be free? But

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<v Speaker 1>it was like it was like the end of the day.

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<v Speaker 1>I tried calling my insurance company. They were hanged. They

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<v Speaker 1>had closed at six pm, and it was I needed

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<v Speaker 1>to start this new cycle because I'm on you know,

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<v Speaker 1>a schedule or whatever. So I was just like, screw it, here,

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<v Speaker 1>here's my money. I'll figure it out later. I ended

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<v Speaker 1>up calling and it turns out my doctor messed up,

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<v Speaker 1>so there's I'll just go ahead and say so, of

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<v Speaker 1>course I'm talking about birth control. But there's two versions

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<v Speaker 1>of birth control that I could have been prescribed. One

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<v Speaker 1>is called Yazz, which is like the name brand one.

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<v Speaker 1>The other one created the other one by the same company,

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<v Speaker 1>is called Yazmina. And so when my doctor sent in

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<v Speaker 1>the prescription, they mistakenly put Yazz instead of Yasmina or

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know if they thought yas was short for Yasmina.

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<v Speaker 1>They got confused by the drug company, and so I

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<v Speaker 1>was given the name brand prescription and thought I had

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<v Speaker 1>to pay one hundred and thirty five dollars when all along,

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<v Speaker 1>if they had just put Yazmina the generic, I would

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<v Speaker 1>have had to pay zero dollars and by the way,

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<v Speaker 1>would have gotten three cycles for free, like for three

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<v Speaker 1>months supply for free. And I was just so mad

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<v Speaker 1>that that that that drug companies do that, and it's

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<v Speaker 1>it's like for all drugs, you know, there's always a

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<v Speaker 1>more inexpensive generic, but so long as they know insurance

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<v Speaker 1>companies will pay for the more expensive one, they just

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<v Speaker 1>continue to market them.

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<v Speaker 2>Yep, you're right. And it's just a shame because you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I forget who was that guy.

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<v Speaker 3>Remember there was a guy who was a super jerk

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<v Speaker 3>and he had a number of medicines that he jacked

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<v Speaker 3>up the price like seven something.

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<v Speaker 2>Ridiculous in sc Yeah, and.

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<v Speaker 3>He laughed all his way all like like they had

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<v Speaker 3>him like you know, testify before like send it, and

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<v Speaker 3>all of a sudden, basically he thought it was a

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<v Speaker 3>joke and he laughed and he.

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<v Speaker 1>He's way all the way to jail.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, oh he's in jail now.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah he was, oh yeah, he was like it was

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<v Speaker 1>something else. It was he had like misled misled investors

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<v Speaker 1>company or something like that. But yeah, he's well, look.

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<v Speaker 3>At God, Look at God. A baby and teenage Jesus

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<v Speaker 3>working in our favor.

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<v Speaker 1>Said, yeah, yeah, I think that this EpiPen company just

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<v Speaker 1>saw the writing on the wall. I don't think. I

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<v Speaker 1>think after this whole Martin screlly nonsense. And that was

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<v Speaker 1>for a cancer drug. Yes, I remember that even worse,

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<v Speaker 1>I would say. Anyway, so boo drug companies. I should

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<v Speaker 1>have saved that from my brown Boost. But I digress.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sure you guys have crazy drug insurance stories out there.

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<v Speaker 1>It is just it's a nightmare. So if you guys

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<v Speaker 1>have questions or stories you want to share, feel free

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<v Speaker 1>to email us at Brian Ambition Podcast at gmail dot com.

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<v Speaker 3>And you know, it was funny because I was just

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<v Speaker 3>talking to Linda, my best friend, today and one of

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<v Speaker 3>my best friends and a friend of mine text me.

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<v Speaker 3>He said, hey, Tiffany, he saw my post about my

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<v Speaker 3>friend Breathe that passed away from diabetes and how Linda

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<v Speaker 3>and I were working on getting her services. And he

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<v Speaker 3>was like, one of my friends, his mother has had

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<v Speaker 3>a stroke and she needs services.

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<v Speaker 2>And I told Linda.

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<v Speaker 3>Like we need to create like a because I was

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<v Speaker 3>just asking her and passing because Linda went to school

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<v Speaker 3>for social work and she's an advocate, and she just

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<v Speaker 3>had so many resources of like, oh, girl.

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<v Speaker 2>Tell them to call this, tell them to say this,

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<v Speaker 2>tell them.

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<v Speaker 3>To ask for that. And I'm like, why people you

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<v Speaker 3>don't know the stuff? She said, No, they don't, and

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<v Speaker 3>they don't know how to advocate. So I'm really trying

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<v Speaker 3>to get Linda to like, because she's pretty, like, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>chill and quiet, to like speak and share.

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<v Speaker 2>So whether I do like some sort of free workshop.

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<v Speaker 4>So because if you need help and you're not able

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<v Speaker 4>to provide for yourself of basic health care, there are

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<v Speaker 4>all of these resources, like if you can't go food

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<v Speaker 4>shopping for yourself, they will send somebody to cook.

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<v Speaker 2>For you, food shop for you, drive you around all

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<v Speaker 2>of this stuff. But most people don't do it.

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<v Speaker 3>And if you don't push and you're not persistent because

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<v Speaker 3>you know they don't.

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<v Speaker 2>Want to pay for it. But by law, that is

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<v Speaker 2>you're right you have access to that.

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<v Speaker 3>And Linda was like, girl, like, if you need medicine,

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<v Speaker 3>she was like, there are laws in place that you

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<v Speaker 3>will you must receive them you have to jump through

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<v Speaker 3>some hoops.

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<v Speaker 2>But she was like they're in place, and I was

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<v Speaker 2>just like wow.

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<v Speaker 3>She So I'm trying to get like, you know, I

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<v Speaker 3>don't know when I create some sort of spreadsheet or

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<v Speaker 3>some sort of like one sheet of things you can do,

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<v Speaker 3>because I feel like if more people knew, you wouldn't

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<v Speaker 3>especially if you have health issues, borring anything. I don't

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<v Speaker 3>know about any major health issues when I As you

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<v Speaker 3>get older, you know, your parents are getting older. Like

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<v Speaker 3>I'm in my mid thirties now, my dad is in

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<v Speaker 3>his mid seventies, and I'm like, okay, Like you know,

0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:15.480
<v Speaker 3>I'm grateful that he is he doesn't have any major

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<v Speaker 3>health issues, but I mean, how long does that last?

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<v Speaker 2>He's in his mid seventies.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, Yeah, I think it's only a matter of time.

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<v Speaker 1>For some it's someone in your life, you know, it's

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<v Speaker 1>something you're touched in some way by a medical crisis.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's unfortunate that the system isn't set up to

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<v Speaker 1>In a lot of ways, it is, but only if

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<v Speaker 1>like you come prepared, You've got the insurance, you're prepared.

0:22:36.160 --> 0:22:39.080
<v Speaker 1>If you're in a vulnerable position, it can it can

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<v Speaker 1>destroy you. I mean how many cases of bankruptcy are

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<v Speaker 1>caused by medical debt. I think it's over fifty percent.

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<v Speaker 1>It's bad news bears.

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<v Speaker 2>No, yeah, so yeah. I just think knowledge is key

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<v Speaker 2>and that's why we do what we do.

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<v Speaker 1>Are your favorite brown boosts, Brown Break.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, ground Break, ground Boots, ground Break, brown Boo Brama

0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:13.359
<v Speaker 3>called the BB section. I'm trying to think should I

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<v Speaker 3>boost or should I break?

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<v Speaker 2>I think I'm gonna.

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<v Speaker 3>Break, but it's kind of like lighthearted. I'm gonna break

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<v Speaker 3>take a brown break from unpaid invoices.

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<v Speaker 1>What's what you heard about your money?

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<v Speaker 3>I know, but you know, lighthearted like in a lord

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<v Speaker 3>Like every entrepreneur, I know, we have a little key

0:23:30.560 --> 0:23:33.040
<v Speaker 3>key gig along, like you know, invoices.

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<v Speaker 2>Taking forever or you having to remind companies like hey girl,

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<v Speaker 2>so you know you owe me right? And so today

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<v Speaker 2>was like.

0:23:40.480 --> 0:23:43.359
<v Speaker 3>Invoice day, So I like emailed everyone made some longe

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<v Speaker 3>calls with my fake hey girl, hey voice to be

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<v Speaker 3>like hey.

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<v Speaker 2>Girl, where's my goddamn money?

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<v Speaker 1>No, well, so for real, what is your like I

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<v Speaker 1>think on the house of everyone out there who's like

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<v Speaker 1>isn't getting paid and like wants to know, like what's strategy?

0:24:00.600 --> 0:24:03.399
<v Speaker 1>How do you kindly nudge people to give you your money.

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<v Speaker 3>So usually you know, you come up with a strategy

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<v Speaker 3>before like the action takes place. So typically if it's

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<v Speaker 3>a client that I have not worked with, either I

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<v Speaker 3>ask for pre payment or ask for payment after like

0:24:16.359 --> 0:24:18.960
<v Speaker 3>right there, so I've spoken today, and if I step

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<v Speaker 3>off stage, check.

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<v Speaker 2>Is handed to me. So that's usually what happened.

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<v Speaker 3>But every once in a while, like I have clients

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<v Speaker 3>who I've worked with, so they've paid so before, so

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<v Speaker 3>they don't typically have to pay me like right here,

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<v Speaker 3>right then, but sometimes they drag their feets because they're

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<v Speaker 3>like old clients. So I'm like, girl, you know how

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<v Speaker 3>this works. So I if the payment is due on

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<v Speaker 3>the first I typically if I haven't gotten payment within

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<v Speaker 3>like four or five days, then like I'll send a

0:24:46.160 --> 0:24:50.359
<v Speaker 3>reminder email something like very passive aggressive, like hey, do you.

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<v Speaker 2>Need anything else from me in order to expedite payment?

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<v Speaker 1>Like do.

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<v Speaker 2>You write and versus and so?

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<v Speaker 3>And then usually is the right back of they won't

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<v Speaker 3>and if they don't within if I don't hear back

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<v Speaker 3>via email within two days, then I'll usually will pick

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<v Speaker 3>up the phone and call and just say like, hey,

0:25:08.200 --> 0:25:11.359
<v Speaker 3>what's going on? And even still sometimes you still have

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<v Speaker 3>to a few days later call again or email again,

0:25:15.160 --> 0:25:17.360
<v Speaker 3>and it usually doesn't take more than two or three

0:25:17.400 --> 0:25:20.040
<v Speaker 3>emails for a client that's late. I have to say

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<v Speaker 3>that I've never.

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<v Speaker 2>Not gotten paid.

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<v Speaker 3>I know a lot of my clients can't, a lot

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<v Speaker 3>of my friends who are entrepreneurs can't say that. But

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<v Speaker 3>there was one time that I was dangerously close, and

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<v Speaker 3>it was eleven thousand dollars of not being paid. But

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<v Speaker 3>I wrote the most sickening letter you have ever read.

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<v Speaker 2>Ooh child, That letter is is stuff of legend.

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<v Speaker 3>Still to the client that didn't want to pay, and

0:25:44.920 --> 0:25:47.399
<v Speaker 3>they were a municipality, and they were I didn't know,

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<v Speaker 3>but they were notorious for not paying. And I did

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<v Speaker 3>not know that they had ordered a ton of books

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<v Speaker 3>like I myself had to pay three thousand dollars for

0:25:55.600 --> 0:25:58.560
<v Speaker 3>the books, like I think they ordered like eight hundred or.

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<v Speaker 2>A thousand books or whatever.

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<v Speaker 3>And then and on top of that, I spoke so

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<v Speaker 3>all together they owed me eleven thousand hours.

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<v Speaker 2>And I had been emailing them, emailing them, emailing them.

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<v Speaker 3>Nothing, and so I ended up writing a letter where

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<v Speaker 3>I highlighted every single name, like highlighted yellow every time

0:26:14.960 --> 0:26:17.720
<v Speaker 3>I mentioned someone that I had spoken to, I highlighted

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<v Speaker 3>and I said, see screen shot below exhibit A, just

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<v Speaker 3>to show, like you know, just to show kind of

0:26:23.480 --> 0:26:28.359
<v Speaker 3>like the paper trail, and I see Seed, the mayor,

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<v Speaker 3>I see Seed, his staff, I see Seed, every council member,

0:26:33.200 --> 0:26:34.560
<v Speaker 3>I see Seed, assembly people.

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<v Speaker 2>I see see every.

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<v Speaker 3>Body in power that I could think of that was

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<v Speaker 3>not even related to my payment.

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<v Speaker 2>But I just wanted them to know the shame of

0:26:42.840 --> 0:26:43.560
<v Speaker 2>what was happening.

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<v Speaker 3>And like I said, I bolded and highlighted every name

0:26:46.880 --> 0:26:49.000
<v Speaker 3>of the person. It was only like three people who

0:26:49.000 --> 0:26:51.439
<v Speaker 3>were kind of responsible for me not receiving payment. And

0:26:51.480 --> 0:26:53.560
<v Speaker 3>I laid it on thick about how much I gave

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<v Speaker 3>back to the city, how I had.

0:26:55.320 --> 0:26:57.479
<v Speaker 2>Developed and all this other stuff, and how I had

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<v Speaker 2>been working in the city for years and how why would.

0:27:00.280 --> 0:27:03.640
<v Speaker 3>They do this, and you know, and and then I said,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, this is my last ditch effort. I had

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<v Speaker 3>even gotten the mayor's actually private email, like I can't

0:27:08.160 --> 0:27:09.399
<v Speaker 3>even say where I got it from, because I was

0:27:09.440 --> 0:27:10.800
<v Speaker 3>like I had people on the hunt, like go get

0:27:10.800 --> 0:27:12.560
<v Speaker 3>his email to make sure he gets this, even though

0:27:12.600 --> 0:27:15.119
<v Speaker 3>he didn't have anything really to do with this, And

0:27:15.200 --> 0:27:16.960
<v Speaker 3>I said, you know, this is my last ditch effort

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<v Speaker 3>to reach out for fair compensation for what I delivered

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<v Speaker 3>before I go to the media.

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<v Speaker 2>That was the last line.

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<v Speaker 1>And they had.

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<v Speaker 3>Already known me to be on TV sometimes and like

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<v Speaker 3>it definitelyly and like major media outlets regularly.

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<v Speaker 2>So I made sure to leave that. I left that

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<v Speaker 2>lingering at the end, like live Richard.

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<v Speaker 1>Girl.

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<v Speaker 2>These are people who had.

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<v Speaker 3>Not called me in months, Mandy, I mean, I don't

0:27:44.600 --> 0:27:47.159
<v Speaker 3>even think about it. Took three minutes before my phone

0:27:47.240 --> 0:27:51.240
<v Speaker 3>was therein you know, my phone was jumping he he

0:27:51.400 --> 0:27:51.960
<v Speaker 3>hell up.

0:27:52.080 --> 0:27:54.600
<v Speaker 2>I couldn't even decide who to answer first.

0:27:54.720 --> 0:27:58.000
<v Speaker 3>I'm like, oh, hi, hey girl, Yes, oh that was

0:27:58.040 --> 0:27:59.960
<v Speaker 3>inappropriate that email. And I was told that my email

0:28:00.080 --> 0:28:02.359
<v Speaker 3>was inappropriate, and then by then I was like living.

0:28:02.440 --> 0:28:03.400
<v Speaker 2>I said inappropriate.

0:28:03.400 --> 0:28:05.240
<v Speaker 3>I said, why I know I was inappropriate the fact that

0:28:05.240 --> 0:28:07.560
<v Speaker 3>I had been messaging you for months and the only

0:28:07.600 --> 0:28:09.960
<v Speaker 3>reason why you're messaging me back is because I wrote

0:28:09.960 --> 0:28:12.760
<v Speaker 3>that letter. I said, that's what's inappropriate. And the nerve

0:28:12.800 --> 0:28:15.280
<v Speaker 3>of you to tell me I'm inappropriate for demanding payment,

0:28:15.840 --> 0:28:17.560
<v Speaker 3>And she was just like the girl on the line

0:28:17.680 --> 0:28:20.000
<v Speaker 3>was just like after stuttering, and I said, you know.

0:28:20.520 --> 0:28:22.840
<v Speaker 3>And then then somebody else called and they said, you know,

0:28:23.119 --> 0:28:24.760
<v Speaker 3>we can have your payment to you.

0:28:24.760 --> 0:28:25.840
<v Speaker 2>You know, do you want to pick it up or

0:28:25.880 --> 0:28:26.359
<v Speaker 2>do you want us to me?

0:28:26.480 --> 0:28:28.280
<v Speaker 3>I said no, I'll pick it up, and they made

0:28:28.320 --> 0:28:30.359
<v Speaker 3>the woman who had been shading me bring it and

0:28:30.400 --> 0:28:32.560
<v Speaker 3>walk into my car like walk the walk of shame

0:28:32.920 --> 0:28:36.520
<v Speaker 3>across the girl I was so shading me while I

0:28:36.560 --> 0:28:38.080
<v Speaker 3>was in my gym clothes looking like a bomb. But

0:28:38.120 --> 0:28:39.720
<v Speaker 3>I was like, you see me in my nineteen ninety

0:28:39.760 --> 0:28:41.280
<v Speaker 3>nine Tolia to Camri, this check is.

0:28:41.280 --> 0:28:42.120
<v Speaker 2>Worth more than my car.

0:28:43.840 --> 0:28:45.800
<v Speaker 3>And I rolled down the window just enough for her

0:28:45.840 --> 0:28:47.520
<v Speaker 3>to slip the check in, and I gave it a

0:28:47.560 --> 0:28:49.920
<v Speaker 3>look like it didn't have to be like this, and

0:28:50.000 --> 0:28:50.680
<v Speaker 3>I rolled.

0:28:51.080 --> 0:28:52.760
<v Speaker 1>You brought this on yourself.

0:28:53.680 --> 0:28:57.480
<v Speaker 3>But what it did teach me was one because I

0:28:57.480 --> 0:29:00.960
<v Speaker 3>didn't want to demand payment, you know, like I felt like, well,

0:29:01.240 --> 0:29:04.680
<v Speaker 3>but sometimes you have to. You have to stand up

0:29:04.680 --> 0:29:06.920
<v Speaker 3>for yourself and don't wait till long. The longer you

0:29:06.960 --> 0:29:09.360
<v Speaker 3>wait for your money, the less likely it is that

0:29:09.400 --> 0:29:12.080
<v Speaker 3>you're going to get it. Do not let two weeks pass.

0:29:12.440 --> 0:29:13.800
<v Speaker 3>So if you don't have it in a few days,

0:29:13.880 --> 0:29:16.360
<v Speaker 3>reach back out. Two days after that, reach back out

0:29:16.400 --> 0:29:18.840
<v Speaker 3>two days after that reach back out. It's better to

0:29:18.880 --> 0:29:21.560
<v Speaker 3>be annoying because if you wait a month, people have

0:29:21.640 --> 0:29:24.240
<v Speaker 3>moved on to other things. I once I waited nine

0:29:24.280 --> 0:29:27.480
<v Speaker 3>months for a magazine publication to pay.

0:29:27.360 --> 0:29:28.880
<v Speaker 2>Me my money. It was like six hundred bucks. It

0:29:28.880 --> 0:29:30.480
<v Speaker 2>wasn't even like a whole lot.

0:29:30.360 --> 0:29:33.600
<v Speaker 3>Of money, but nine months of bugging them, like, you know,

0:29:33.640 --> 0:29:36.520
<v Speaker 3>out of principle, like give me my money. So yeah,

0:29:36.560 --> 0:29:39.800
<v Speaker 3>so today's brown break is just unpaid invoices. And I

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<v Speaker 3>just there's certain people who I would never ever work

0:29:42.800 --> 0:29:44.840
<v Speaker 3>with again. Some people just you know, there was there

0:29:44.880 --> 0:29:47.160
<v Speaker 3>was a mistake or whatever. But some people you just

0:29:47.160 --> 0:29:48.400
<v Speaker 3>would never ever work with again.

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<v Speaker 1>Good lesson. Yeah, I think a lot of people will

0:29:52.280 --> 0:29:55.280
<v Speaker 1>find that usefuls Like send me that.

0:29:55.400 --> 0:29:56.920
<v Speaker 2>Let a girl I need a template.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, my brown boost. I'm gonna do a boost because

0:30:05.440 --> 0:30:07.400
<v Speaker 1>this was super helpful to me. And I know it's

0:30:07.440 --> 0:30:09.880
<v Speaker 1>really awkward when you're traveling or hanging out with friends

0:30:09.920 --> 0:30:12.160
<v Speaker 1>and you're spending it, like especially when you're going on

0:30:12.200 --> 0:30:14.160
<v Speaker 1>like trips with someone like you going on your trip

0:30:14.200 --> 0:30:16.920
<v Speaker 1>with your friend, like when you are like, oh I'll

0:30:16.960 --> 0:30:19.120
<v Speaker 1>get this, and oh I'll get that, and then everything's

0:30:19.160 --> 0:30:20.880
<v Speaker 1>a big fat mess at the end, and you don't

0:30:20.880 --> 0:30:23.440
<v Speaker 1>feel like, you know, one person paid more than the other.

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<v Speaker 1>So I started using this app called try Count TRII

0:30:28.120 --> 0:30:30.800
<v Speaker 1>Count which and there's a couple others like it. I

0:30:30.800 --> 0:30:33.680
<v Speaker 1>think the closest one to this one is called split wise.

0:30:33.800 --> 0:30:35.440
<v Speaker 1>It's not the only app, but it's the one that

0:30:35.480 --> 0:30:37.800
<v Speaker 1>I use, and I like it a lot. And you

0:30:38.080 --> 0:30:40.880
<v Speaker 1>can create a like kind of like create an expense

0:30:40.960 --> 0:30:43.560
<v Speaker 1>report and you put in like who's involved, and then

0:30:43.600 --> 0:30:46.400
<v Speaker 1>you easily just add expenses to it, like Mandy paid

0:30:46.400 --> 0:30:48.720
<v Speaker 1>for this uber. You know so and so paid for

0:30:48.760 --> 0:30:51.480
<v Speaker 1>that dinner, and you say who and if you have

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<v Speaker 1>more than like ten friends or a few friends, and

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<v Speaker 1>like someone goes grocery shopping but only two people eat

0:30:57.000 --> 0:30:59.360
<v Speaker 1>the food, then you can put so and so paid,

0:30:59.400 --> 0:31:01.840
<v Speaker 1>and then so and so benefited from that, or you

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<v Speaker 1>know it was for whoever. And at the end of

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<v Speaker 1>it, it does all the math for you and it just

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<v Speaker 1>easily says you, oh, Stephanie seventy five dollars, Stephanie Oh's

0:31:10.560 --> 0:31:13.000
<v Speaker 1>Chris twenty five dollars, and it just like does it.

0:31:13.040 --> 0:31:15.720
<v Speaker 1>And it's so nice and like democratized and like there's

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<v Speaker 1>no awkwardness you know, it's like, well, trycount said, you

0:31:18.920 --> 0:31:20.600
<v Speaker 1>owe me, so here, you know, give me the money

0:31:21.320 --> 0:31:23.160
<v Speaker 1>and then you could just send a little express Spencer

0:31:23.160 --> 0:31:25.480
<v Speaker 1>report to all your friends at the end and you know,

0:31:25.640 --> 0:31:28.200
<v Speaker 1>venmo or whatever you do to send the money around.

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<v Speaker 2>I like that try Count. Okay, it's t ri I.

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<v Speaker 1>CEO n U t coo U NT.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, if you.

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<v Speaker 3>Spell correctly, that's I mean, if you want to get tactical, if.

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<v Speaker 1>You want to find the app, if you're interested. I've

0:31:44.600 --> 0:31:47.160
<v Speaker 1>heard split wise is good too, but like I said,

0:31:47.200 --> 0:31:48.720
<v Speaker 1>that's the only way I haven't used split wise. I've

0:31:48.720 --> 0:31:50.760
<v Speaker 1>only used try count. It's it's basic. It gets the

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<v Speaker 1>job done, and it makes everything less awkward, and there's

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<v Speaker 1>no like you know, it just sucks when you have

0:31:56.280 --> 0:31:59.400
<v Speaker 1>to get seventeen checks, you know. Yeah, yeah, just make

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<v Speaker 1>sure your friends are good for it.

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<v Speaker 2>No, but that's cool.

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<v Speaker 3>I like that because you know, these days, as you

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<v Speaker 3>get older, people pay for things and.

0:32:07.000 --> 0:32:08.520
<v Speaker 2>You want to make sure you get your payment back,

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<v Speaker 2>like I just did.

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<v Speaker 3>There was an all white affair like like dinner en

0:32:14.240 --> 0:32:17.360
<v Speaker 3>Blanc in my city, and I was like, I purchased

0:32:17.360 --> 0:32:19.720
<v Speaker 3>like six tickets and then the people who were supposed

0:32:19.760 --> 0:32:22.880
<v Speaker 3>to go, didn't end up going, but we were able

0:32:22.880 --> 0:32:23.480
<v Speaker 3>to like get.

0:32:23.360 --> 0:32:25.360
<v Speaker 2>Other people to tickets. And I'm still short because you're

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<v Speaker 2>just like, ah, you know how.

0:32:27.160 --> 0:32:29.080
<v Speaker 3>That works, you know it is, and you're just like

0:32:29.320 --> 0:32:30.520
<v Speaker 3>you know, and after a while you're just like, you

0:32:30.560 --> 0:32:32.960
<v Speaker 3>know what, forget it, you know, like, I'll just eat

0:32:32.960 --> 0:32:34.960
<v Speaker 3>that twenty dollars. But you never know where things come from.

0:32:34.960 --> 0:32:36.600
<v Speaker 3>You're like, but I thought, and everyone's like, no, I

0:32:36.640 --> 0:32:39.280
<v Speaker 3>paid my money, so we should have used you know,

0:32:39.320 --> 0:32:41.200
<v Speaker 3>we should have used Well. The lesson learned is one

0:32:41.280 --> 0:32:44.240
<v Speaker 3>paying up front and then less than to try and counts.

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<v Speaker 1>Less than three. Don't hang out with them anymore, don't

0:32:48.640 --> 0:32:50.640
<v Speaker 1>make plans with you know, you go through life and

0:32:50.840 --> 0:32:52.920
<v Speaker 1>you know the friends, you know the ones so you

0:32:52.920 --> 0:32:57.400
<v Speaker 1>need payment up front. You love them, but you know

0:32:57.480 --> 0:33:01.840
<v Speaker 1>they need you need retain or security deposit or whatever

0:33:02.880 --> 0:33:04.640
<v Speaker 1>for the movies. Yeah, you all have.

0:33:04.600 --> 0:33:07.160
<v Speaker 3>Those persts that you're like girl or the friends are

0:33:07.200 --> 0:33:08.560
<v Speaker 3>always like, oh you got.

0:33:08.320 --> 0:33:13.080
<v Speaker 2>This for me, and you're like the last prettycot. No, No, you.

0:33:13.080 --> 0:33:14.720
<v Speaker 1>Know they're friends. Doesn't mean you're got to be friends.

0:33:14.720 --> 0:33:16.800
<v Speaker 1>It just means you have to just the way you

0:33:16.840 --> 0:33:17.760
<v Speaker 1>handle things with them.

0:33:18.200 --> 0:33:19.560
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, It's like the type of friends that make you

0:33:19.560 --> 0:33:21.320
<v Speaker 3>swipe your metro car, Like, girl, you got your metro

0:33:21.360 --> 0:33:24.360
<v Speaker 3>car and you're like.

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<v Speaker 1>You, that's a lot of money that adds up. It is, so.

0:33:28.320 --> 0:33:30.480
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm not plenty any fingers, but you know who

0:33:30.520 --> 0:33:44.640
<v Speaker 2>you are. It's a man the first week. So what

0:33:44.680 --> 0:33:46.320
<v Speaker 2>are your what's your win this week?

0:33:46.960 --> 0:33:48.960
<v Speaker 1>I have a win that I've been meaning to say

0:33:48.960 --> 0:33:50.520
<v Speaker 1>and I keep forgetting, but I wanted to give this

0:33:50.560 --> 0:33:52.920
<v Speaker 1>a shout out because if you listen to our show

0:33:52.920 --> 0:33:56.320
<v Speaker 1>on Single Moms and the Amazing Single Mom Keona Harris,

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<v Speaker 1>she took her daughter on a road trip cross country

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<v Speaker 1>over the summer and one of the things they did

0:34:01.840 --> 0:34:05.600
<v Speaker 1>on their road trip was volunteer at different organizations along

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<v Speaker 1>the way, because you know, they couldn't be any more perfect.

0:34:08.520 --> 0:34:10.520
<v Speaker 1>And she told me about one of the organizations that

0:34:10.520 --> 0:34:14.719
<v Speaker 1>they helped out based in Cleveland by a woman named

0:34:14.800 --> 0:34:18.120
<v Speaker 1>Kevenny Gilmore, and she started she basically grew up in

0:34:18.120 --> 0:34:21.360
<v Speaker 1>foster care and when she was out of college age,

0:34:21.400 --> 0:34:23.120
<v Speaker 1>you know, you age out of the system and you

0:34:23.120 --> 0:34:25.320
<v Speaker 1>have to kind of just like go start your life.

0:34:26.280 --> 0:34:28.279
<v Speaker 1>And she actually ends up having she basically went to

0:34:28.320 --> 0:34:30.920
<v Speaker 1>college because she needed a place to live, and she

0:34:31.040 --> 0:34:33.359
<v Speaker 1>was homeless on her summer, on her winter breaks and

0:34:33.440 --> 0:34:36.680
<v Speaker 1>fall breaks and things like that. So she decided, you know,

0:34:36.760 --> 0:34:38.680
<v Speaker 1>a lot of young people when they aged at foster

0:34:38.760 --> 0:34:41.279
<v Speaker 1>care have nowhere to go. So she decided to buy

0:34:41.280 --> 0:34:44.040
<v Speaker 1>a house and turn it into like a halfway house,

0:34:44.160 --> 0:34:48.719
<v Speaker 1>kind of a home for foster children who have aged

0:34:48.760 --> 0:34:52.680
<v Speaker 1>out of the system. I know, it was like a

0:34:52.680 --> 0:34:55.680
<v Speaker 1>great initiative. It was called or it is called hashtag

0:34:55.760 --> 0:34:59.560
<v Speaker 1>foster care with hashtag spelled out. Okay, But then I

0:34:59.600 --> 0:35:02.360
<v Speaker 1>was reading on her about Keviny Gilmore and it turns

0:35:02.360 --> 0:35:04.960
<v Speaker 1>out like this. This the house that she had bought

0:35:05.360 --> 0:35:08.120
<v Speaker 1>and was preparing to turn into this little oasis for

0:35:08.160 --> 0:35:13.440
<v Speaker 1>foster kids. It was ransacked and burglarized back in the spring,

0:35:13.560 --> 0:35:16.000
<v Speaker 1>and people had come in and stole like all the

0:35:16.040 --> 0:35:19.880
<v Speaker 1>copper wiring and like the hot water heaters. And it

0:35:19.880 --> 0:35:22.640
<v Speaker 1>was a duplex, so they got double of everything and

0:35:23.160 --> 0:35:27.239
<v Speaker 1>no just thousands of dollars that she lost. So if

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<v Speaker 1>you have, you know, I just thought I would give

0:35:29.320 --> 0:35:32.120
<v Speaker 1>her a shout out. I believe there's still raising money

0:35:32.160 --> 0:35:34.640
<v Speaker 1>to help replace some of the things that were stolen

0:35:34.680 --> 0:35:36.640
<v Speaker 1>from the house, and they have a go fund to

0:35:36.680 --> 0:35:40.600
<v Speaker 1>me page up and you can just look up hashtag

0:35:40.640 --> 0:35:42.600
<v Speaker 1>boster Care on GoFundMe and you can probably find your

0:35:42.640 --> 0:35:45.760
<v Speaker 1>way there. We'll put a link on this week's blog

0:35:45.840 --> 0:35:49.200
<v Speaker 1>post with the podcast too. But yeah, I was just

0:35:49.520 --> 0:35:51.120
<v Speaker 1>it was like a yay, this is a win, but

0:35:51.160 --> 0:35:53.160
<v Speaker 1>also it's sad when someone's trying to do some good

0:35:53.160 --> 0:35:53.640
<v Speaker 1>in the world.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, no, I'm done.

0:35:55.160 --> 0:35:58.440
<v Speaker 3>I'm going to donate just because I you know, it

0:35:59.000 --> 0:36:03.000
<v Speaker 3>really is the the duty of those who have to

0:36:03.200 --> 0:36:05.320
<v Speaker 3>help those who don't, and not just I'm not just

0:36:05.360 --> 0:36:08.840
<v Speaker 3>talking about financially. I mean, you know, whatever gift that

0:36:08.880 --> 0:36:11.760
<v Speaker 3>you have, you might be like, you know, I'm musically inclined.

0:36:11.840 --> 0:36:14.720
<v Speaker 3>This person needs music in their life. But I feel

0:36:14.760 --> 0:36:18.239
<v Speaker 3>like everyone has something that they can contribute, And if

0:36:18.280 --> 0:36:22.160
<v Speaker 3>you can contribute to this amazing organization, then just imagine

0:36:22.160 --> 0:36:24.080
<v Speaker 3>that. I always think to myself, just imagine like when I

0:36:24.080 --> 0:36:26.600
<v Speaker 3>see Superman outside like playing with the kids and buying

0:36:26.640 --> 0:36:29.600
<v Speaker 3>them pizza and school clothes, and like like the other

0:36:29.640 --> 0:36:31.239
<v Speaker 3>day we got school clothes. Came to the house and

0:36:31.280 --> 0:36:34.000
<v Speaker 3>I'm like, this is not supergirls school clothes color, And

0:36:34.040 --> 0:36:36.000
<v Speaker 3>he looked all sheepish. He was like, oh no, that's

0:36:36.040 --> 0:36:38.480
<v Speaker 3>for the girl next door. And I was like, oh,

0:36:38.640 --> 0:36:40.640
<v Speaker 3>this is why I love you. Like who just buys

0:36:40.719 --> 0:36:41.560
<v Speaker 3>random school clothes.

0:36:41.719 --> 0:36:43.560
<v Speaker 2>The little girl next door told him the.

0:36:43.600 --> 0:36:46.960
<v Speaker 3>Other day, I have a godfather, but you're my godfather now.

0:36:49.560 --> 0:36:51.720
<v Speaker 2>Which I thought was alive. She knows where the money

0:36:51.719 --> 0:36:55.719
<v Speaker 2>comes in from. She was like, yeah, capitalist yes, yes.

0:36:56.120 --> 0:36:58.560
<v Speaker 3>She was like, so we've dropped him, just so we're clear,

0:36:58.719 --> 0:37:04.040
<v Speaker 3>you're my godfather. And but just imagine if we all

0:37:04.360 --> 0:37:08.040
<v Speaker 3>just took care of like the small circle of influence

0:37:08.040 --> 0:37:10.239
<v Speaker 3>that you have, like just around you. Just imagine if

0:37:10.239 --> 0:37:13.080
<v Speaker 3>people just did small acts of kindness like that, then

0:37:13.280 --> 0:37:15.600
<v Speaker 3>you really could change and shift the world. You don't

0:37:15.600 --> 0:37:18.280
<v Speaker 3>have to do huge overtures if you don't have it,

0:37:18.480 --> 0:37:20.560
<v Speaker 3>just something as simple as you know, doing something nice

0:37:20.560 --> 0:37:22.920
<v Speaker 3>to someone in your neighborhood and so corner.

0:37:23.120 --> 0:37:25.760
<v Speaker 1>You do a little bit, and that's all this woman

0:37:25.840 --> 0:37:31.080
<v Speaker 1>was trying to do. So So check out hashtag hashtag

0:37:31.120 --> 0:37:31.759
<v Speaker 1>foster care.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, no, I'm definitely on a gam so I don't

0:37:34.120 --> 0:37:37.520
<v Speaker 3>have a win, but I do have a book. So

0:37:38.000 --> 0:37:40.880
<v Speaker 3>I am like really really big on like the like

0:37:40.920 --> 0:37:42.759
<v Speaker 3>the laws that you've heard about obviously, like the law

0:37:42.760 --> 0:37:43.400
<v Speaker 3>of attachment.

0:37:44.960 --> 0:37:47.120
<v Speaker 2>Oh, no, the law of attraction, like the law of attachment,

0:37:47.120 --> 0:37:47.560
<v Speaker 2>the law.

0:37:47.400 --> 0:37:53.480
<v Speaker 5>Of attraction, you know, yeah, let me be wrong, Okay, Yeah,

0:37:53.560 --> 0:37:55.880
<v Speaker 5>So for those of you who've ever heard of The Secret,

0:37:56.239 --> 0:37:59.640
<v Speaker 5>the Secret talks about the law of attraction, which is

0:37:59.680 --> 0:38:01.239
<v Speaker 5>based on it means the things that you think about

0:38:01.400 --> 0:38:02.080
<v Speaker 5>you bring about.

0:38:02.360 --> 0:38:06.520
<v Speaker 3>And there's all of these other spiritual laws. And so

0:38:06.640 --> 0:38:08.880
<v Speaker 3>there's this great book. I just saw that someone had

0:38:08.920 --> 0:38:11.880
<v Speaker 3>posted it on Facebook, and I always wondered, like, you know,

0:38:11.920 --> 0:38:13.920
<v Speaker 3>where could I read more of some of the other laws,

0:38:13.960 --> 0:38:16.560
<v Speaker 3>Like there's like the Law of detachment, which I like,

0:38:16.960 --> 0:38:20.240
<v Speaker 3>and deprak Choper actually has a book called the Seven

0:38:20.360 --> 0:38:24.160
<v Speaker 3>Spiritual Laws of Success, A Practical Guide to Fulfillment, to

0:38:24.200 --> 0:38:26.759
<v Speaker 3>the fulfillment of your dreams. And so I'm excited because

0:38:26.800 --> 0:38:31.520
<v Speaker 3>I really want to dig more into these laws.

0:38:31.840 --> 0:38:35.839
<v Speaker 2>You know that because the law of attraction has worked

0:38:35.880 --> 0:38:36.280
<v Speaker 2>so well.

0:38:36.560 --> 0:38:39.479
<v Speaker 3>The Law of detachment I love, which just states that

0:38:40.120 --> 0:38:43.040
<v Speaker 3>you're supposed to detach yourself from the outcome and just

0:38:43.120 --> 0:38:45.839
<v Speaker 3>do good and just know that good is going to come.

0:38:46.040 --> 0:38:48.759
<v Speaker 3>You don't know specifically in what way we returned to you,

0:38:49.400 --> 0:38:51.360
<v Speaker 3>but in some way it will be. So you detach

0:38:51.400 --> 0:38:54.440
<v Speaker 3>yourself from the outcome and that has helped significantly, Like

0:38:54.560 --> 0:38:56.880
<v Speaker 3>especially like if I'm going out or you know, like

0:38:56.920 --> 0:38:59.640
<v Speaker 3>maybe I'm going someplace with a friend, and you know,

0:38:59.680 --> 0:39:01.960
<v Speaker 3>you're like, okay, in order for this party to be fun,

0:39:02.000 --> 0:39:03.440
<v Speaker 3>I want to be able to do this, this, this,

0:39:03.480 --> 0:39:05.920
<v Speaker 3>and this, and then if it doesn't happen, you kind

0:39:05.920 --> 0:39:07.840
<v Speaker 3>of feel like, oh, I should have stayed home. But

0:39:07.880 --> 0:39:10.839
<v Speaker 3>if you detach yourself from the specific outcome, you just say,

0:39:10.920 --> 0:39:12.520
<v Speaker 3>you know what, I'm going to go out and enjoy

0:39:12.600 --> 0:39:15.960
<v Speaker 3>myself whatever that looks like. And so that's one of

0:39:16.000 --> 0:39:18.640
<v Speaker 3>my favorite laws, detachment of just allowing things to flow.

0:39:19.640 --> 0:39:23.719
<v Speaker 1>The law of low expectations. No, I want to be

0:39:23.760 --> 0:39:27.040
<v Speaker 1>happy in life. Lower It's so true though people don't

0:39:27.040 --> 0:39:30.680
<v Speaker 1>want to hear it. But I'm like, lower than expectations

0:39:30.680 --> 0:39:33.319
<v Speaker 1>college graduates. Maybe you won't make one hundred thousand dollars.

0:39:33.320 --> 0:39:35.160
<v Speaker 1>How about that lower expectations.

0:39:36.440 --> 0:39:38.239
<v Speaker 3>And so I'm just excited just to read it. It's like,

0:39:38.360 --> 0:39:40.719
<v Speaker 3>for I got it on my kindle. It's apparently not

0:39:40.760 --> 0:39:42.440
<v Speaker 3>that long. It's like an hour read, which so I

0:39:42.440 --> 0:39:43.840
<v Speaker 3>mean I should be able to go through it.

0:39:43.840 --> 0:39:46.719
<v Speaker 2>Pretty quickly if you have any cause I love reading.

0:39:46.760 --> 0:39:49.720
<v Speaker 3>I have a wide range of the type of books

0:39:49.719 --> 0:39:52.560
<v Speaker 3>I like to read, Like, I love romance novels, but

0:39:52.600 --> 0:39:54.879
<v Speaker 3>then I also really like books like this the Law,

0:39:55.280 --> 0:39:57.960
<v Speaker 3>you know, the Seven Spiritual Laws of Success. But I

0:39:58.000 --> 0:40:00.319
<v Speaker 3>also love marketing books. So I'm really like I have

0:40:00.360 --> 0:40:02.520
<v Speaker 3>a wide range of what I enjoy. So I would

0:40:02.600 --> 0:40:05.600
<v Speaker 3>love if you have book suggestions of just a good book.

0:40:05.600 --> 0:40:07.479
<v Speaker 3>I don't have any preferences. If you've read a really

0:40:07.520 --> 0:40:11.960
<v Speaker 3>good book, please email us, share it, Tweet me at

0:40:11.960 --> 0:40:15.320
<v Speaker 3>the Budgetista, tweet us is it the BA podcast?

0:40:15.880 --> 0:40:18.520
<v Speaker 1>It is at the BA podcast?

0:40:18.880 --> 0:40:21.960
<v Speaker 2>Yes, tweet yes at the BA podcast.

0:40:22.040 --> 0:40:25.479
<v Speaker 3>Tweet Mandy Mandy with an I You're not Mandy Money,

0:40:25.520 --> 0:40:26.880
<v Speaker 3>It's Mandy Woodroof on Twitter.

0:40:27.000 --> 0:40:27.239
<v Speaker 1>Yep.

0:40:27.880 --> 0:40:31.080
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. And So, because I'm looking.

0:40:30.800 --> 0:40:33.680
<v Speaker 3>Always to I have my Kindle with me always, and

0:40:33.719 --> 0:40:35.799
<v Speaker 3>so sometimes I flips through and say, well.

0:40:35.719 --> 0:40:36.680
<v Speaker 2>What do I feel like today?

0:40:36.800 --> 0:40:38.319
<v Speaker 3>So I'd like to always have a ton of like

0:40:39.040 --> 0:40:41.000
<v Speaker 3>unread books that I can get to at any moment.

0:40:42.040 --> 0:40:45.360
<v Speaker 1>You too, School's back and sessions, So everyone get on

0:40:45.400 --> 0:40:46.000
<v Speaker 1>them books.

0:40:46.400 --> 0:40:59.799
<v Speaker 2>Now you gotta read, honey,