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Speaker 1: Hey bessies, Hello Sunshine. Today on the bright side, we're

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Speaker 1: talking about the met Gala. It is right around the corner.

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Speaker 1: And who better to spill all the tea on the

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Speaker 1: glitz and glam ahead of fashion's biggest night than Blake

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Speaker 1: Lee Thornton, internet sensation and pop culture anthropologist. It's Friday,

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Speaker 1: May third. I'm Danielle Robe.

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Speaker 2: And I'm Simone Boye and this is the bright side

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Speaker 2: from Hello Sunshine.

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Speaker 1: Y'all.

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Speaker 2: Danielle, we made it to Friday. We did a girl.

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Speaker 1: We barely made it this week Oh god.

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Speaker 2: You are absolutely right. What are you up to this weekend?

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Speaker 1: Simone? I feel like you because this weekend I have

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Speaker 1: no plans.

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Speaker 2: It's a social battery weekend.

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Speaker 1: It is a social battery weekend. How about you? What

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Speaker 1: are you doing?

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Speaker 2: I have a baby shower this weekend. I'm so excited

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Speaker 2: for my friend. It's your first baby, so can't wait

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Speaker 2: to shower her with love.

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Speaker 1: Mazzle tub that's exciting. I'm so curious what you're getting her.

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Speaker 1: I'm really interested in baby shower gifts.

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Speaker 2: I got her a couple of items from her registry,

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Speaker 2: mostly pertaining to breastfeeding, like nursing bras, nursing ointments, that

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Speaker 2: sort of thing.

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Speaker 1: The essentials are important. I don't want to take that away,

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Speaker 1: but I do have like a secret weapon baby gift

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Speaker 1: that gets rave reviews, so I'm gonna share it with everybody.

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Speaker 1: I always get Levi's Denam baby jacket and then I

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Speaker 1: have it embroidered with either the baby's name on the pocket,

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Speaker 1: or if they don't know the name yet, I'll do

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Speaker 1: the last name of the family on the back of

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Speaker 1: it and they pass it down from baby to baby,

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Speaker 1: which is cute.

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Speaker 2: I think that's really sweet. That's really cute. I would

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Speaker 2: love that if I received it. The thing with registries

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Speaker 2: is baby gear is really expensive, especially as a first

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Speaker 2: time mom. And I can remember us being in a

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Speaker 2: small apartment and we didn't want other people buying like

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Speaker 2: these huge baby things that we didn't have room for.

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Speaker 2: We just wanted the essentials. Yeah, but a jacket, that's

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Speaker 2: I think that you can make an exception there.

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Speaker 1: No, but you actually make a really great point, like

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Speaker 1: you usually need a lot of the things that you're

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Speaker 1: asking for, so it's important too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: See money bumble. The dating app is making some news

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Speaker 1: because after ten years of having women doing the initiation.

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Speaker 1: They're switching it up. They're having guys make the first move.

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Speaker 2: Now, okay, so let me get this straight. Bumble was

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Speaker 2: all about putting the power in women's hands, allowing them

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Speaker 2: to initiate contact first, and now they're reversing that stance

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Speaker 2: opening it up to men so they can initiate as well.

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Speaker 1: So the new feature is called opening Moves, and it

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Speaker 1: lets men respond to prompts on a women's profile even

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Speaker 1: before she reaches out. But I like that they called

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Speaker 1: it opening moves because that's kind of my philosophy in dating.

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Speaker 1: I like to open the conversation and then let the

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Speaker 1: man make the move. I used to never go up

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Speaker 1: to guys. I would never initiate, Like my idea of

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Speaker 1: initiation was like accidentally spilling a drink on somebody at

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Speaker 1: the bar and being like, oops, I'm sorry. I initiate

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Speaker 1: conversation classic. The key is really to make contact like

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Speaker 1: two or three times with your eyes, or open the

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Speaker 1: conversation quickly with like a hey, I love your shoes,

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Speaker 1: or how's your day or something really low stakes, and

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Speaker 1: then it opens the conversation for them to jump in. Okay,

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Speaker 1: because I think a lot of people don't want to

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Speaker 1: initiate because they're worried about like being turned down or rejected.

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Speaker 1: I would feel that way too. Yeah, before you met Michael,

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Speaker 1: did you ever initiate?

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Speaker 2: I honestly didn't have that much dating experience. I was

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Speaker 2: kind of a late bloomer. But I don't think, like,

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Speaker 2: in hindsight, if I were to have dated for longer,

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Speaker 2: I don't think I would have had a problem with initiating.

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Speaker 2: I'm a very bold person.

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Speaker 1: I used to never initiate, Like I didn't want to

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Speaker 1: want to go out? You're cute, So I'll just go

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Speaker 1: and if they're open to the conversation, then it's like

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Speaker 1: I feel like I initiated.

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Speaker 2: Hey King, I love your shoe.

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Speaker 1: Sure, oh my god, you're so married.

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Speaker 2: That's not how it goes down.

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Speaker 1: You know, half of adults in the US under thirty

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Speaker 1: it's a thing.

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Speaker 2: They're on the apps, but are they working.

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Speaker 1: I don't love them. I'm an in person person. They

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Speaker 1: don't work great for me.

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Speaker 2: You're a pickleball meet cute yeah kind of girl.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I totally. I need to meet someone at a

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Speaker 1: coffee shop or something or through work. But yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't know. They're not my favorite, but people really do

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Speaker 1: find success. I have a lot of friends who are

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Speaker 2: You know what this makes me think of. We are

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Speaker 2: going to have a flirting expert on the show soon,

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Speaker 2: and I think we have to ask him about this.

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Speaker 2: We should about initiating flirting.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of the evolution of the feminist in the

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Speaker 1: dating space. We need to ask an expert totally.

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Speaker 2: So if a man were to initiate on Bumble or

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Speaker 2: any dating app, what would work on you?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so I just opened my phone. I'm going through

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Speaker 1: my dating apps to see my hossage.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I love doing this. I love swiping on my

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Speaker 1: Do you want to read them?

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Speaker 1: There's just a lot of emojis. People say hi with

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Speaker 1: a load. Yeah, you know, I love when people say, like, hey,

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Speaker 1: you're from Chicago, Like right, I like like a geographical intro. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: We also like a little research too. Right, someone who's

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Speaker 1: I'm going to be embarrassed and my mom's going to

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Speaker 1: be mad at me because you're going to read these

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Speaker 1: and I don't reply. I need to meet someone in

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Speaker 2: All right, we have a very important investigative follow up

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Speaker 2: to share with you all about his hard core journalist.

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Speaker 2: This is a hard core, bright side journalism about Lenny

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Speaker 2: Kravitz's leather pants gate at the gym. So, there was

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Speaker 2: a viral video of Lenny Kravitz doing crunches in the

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Speaker 2: he had on the mess shirt, the leather pants, the sunglasses.

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Speaker 2: And he spoke to Variety about that viral video and

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Speaker 2: he said, listen, people like, don't worry about me in

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Speaker 2: the gym with my leather pants. I know what I'm doing. Okay,

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Speaker 2: here's his rationale. Lenny says that he doesn't wear the

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Speaker 2: pants for cardio, So everybody calmed down. He's not sweating

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Speaker 2: profusely in the pants. He's just doing lifting and he

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Speaker 2: say that a lot of times I'm coming from somewhere

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Speaker 2: We're just gonna hit it, and then I'm gonna run

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Speaker 2: to where I'm going.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine working out in leather pants and then

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Speaker 1: getting to where you're going? Like you smell so bad?

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Speaker 2: That is problematic? He also, I think this is interesting,

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Speaker 2: he says. I don't do it for effect. I just

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Speaker 2: do it for practicality, Like this is my lifestyle, and

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Speaker 2: I sip love that it's practicality. In what world is

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Speaker 2: leather pants practical? I feel like we need an expert

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Speaker 2: to settle this.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 2: I'm so glad that you brought that up, Danielle, because

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Speaker 2: we have the perfect pop culture fashion expert coming on

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Speaker 2: our show today. You know Blakelee Thornton.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I know Blakelee.

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Speaker 2: You know Blakeley.

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Speaker 1: The internet knows Blakely.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna come on. We're gonna ask him about Lenny.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna ask him about the met Gala. So grab

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Speaker 2: your favorite bevy, whether it's a coffee, a latte, or

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Speaker 2: maybe even a glass of wine. It's Friday. You deserve

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Speaker 2: your Friday juice.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's gonna spill the tea.

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Speaker 2: He really is. Welcome back, everybody, Well, Fashion's biggest night

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Speaker 2: is fast approaching, Danielle twenty twenty four met Gala is

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Speaker 2: happening on Monday, and to help us get ready for

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Speaker 2: the explosion of couture, style and grace, We've tapped the

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Speaker 2: internet's favorite rich gunkle. It's Blakely Thornton.

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Speaker 1: Y'all, Blakelee is a pop culture anthropologist. He's breaking down fashion,

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Speaker 1: pop culture, and of course celebrity news with equal parts

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Speaker 1: SaaS and smarts. So Blakely, welcome to the bright side.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you for you have the most regal name.

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Speaker 2: Are you like a descendant of royalty? Blakely Thornton.

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Speaker 4: I talked to my parents about that all the time

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Speaker 4: because my middle name is Neeman. My name is Neman Thornton.

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Speaker 2: It's stripping in luxury the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: Who did they want you to be?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I hope very wealthy.

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Speaker 4: I think my options were to be either an incredible

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Speaker 4: success or just mired and failed. I think there's no

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Speaker 3: Fo me.

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Speaker 1: I was almost named Danny Miami. My mom put the

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Speaker 1: kabash on.

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Speaker 2: That that sounds like a Mary Kate Nashley Olsen character.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking it was an exotic dnswer or both.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's a long life, it could be both.

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Speaker 2: It could be both.

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Speaker 1: Okay, More importantly, Blakely, we need you to settle a

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Speaker 1: long lasting debate that we've been having on this show

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Speaker 1: about Lenny Kravitz and leather pants.

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Speaker 3: Always.

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Speaker 1: Have you seen him working out always out forever?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Yes, I've talked to people that know him about that.

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Speaker 1: Is it real?

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Speaker 4: That's just him, That's just Lenny. It's Lenny twenty four

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Speaker 4: to seven, Lenny twenty you know, twenty five eight. Lenny's

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Speaker 4: being great. It's awesome.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it a little unhinged to work out in leather pairs?

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Speaker 4: Foolishness when people are not wearing moisture waking materials in

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Speaker 4: the gym? I'm like, what year are you in? Or

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Speaker 4: like when you see a bro at the gym like that,

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Speaker 4: like works out in like a flannel.

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Speaker 1: Oh have you seen this silver lake?

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Speaker 3: Mmm? Carl, It's everywhere. It's making its way west.

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Speaker 2: Just get ready, okay, Blakelee. I don't think we're gonna

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Speaker 2: be seeing a lot of leather pants or leather anything

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Speaker 2: on the red carpet for the Mecala this year because

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Speaker 2: the theme is the Garden of Time, which I am.

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Speaker 2: I am so here for that theme. How about you?

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Speaker 2: What do you what do you think about it?

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Speaker 4: I am both here and queer for it because I

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Speaker 4: think it allows everything, because I feel like the Garden

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Speaker 4: of Time sleeping beauties. You can give us gorgeous, gorgeous

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Speaker 4: gowns floral for spring and you're still on theme. I

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Speaker 4: want dead roses sown on to a corset that like

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Speaker 4: explode at the top of the stairs. Like that's what

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Speaker 4: I want.

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Speaker 3: You want the drama, Yeah, I want drama.

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Speaker 2: And can you explain to any of our bright side

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Speaker 3: She actually gave us like performance art.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it was almost like Mary Poppin's on Acid or

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Speaker 3: I keep thinking about that. Or you know, Katy Perry

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Speaker 4: Like that's the thing. I was like, who's going to

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Speaker 1: Like last year I loved was it Jacques Moose? Yeah,

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Speaker 4: Anybody wearing Jacques Moose or Tom Brown is always kind

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Speaker 4: Well, I have to say, o, MEZ gave me stuff

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Speaker 4: But like now we get the bad bun, you know,

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Speaker 3: I'm looking for a hero. Guys, So somebody step up.

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Speaker 2: Wait, who would be at your dream Met Gala table?

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Speaker 1: We're drafting a team, right.

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Speaker 3: I love this. Wow, this is a great question.

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Speaker 4: Okay, obviously Rihanna, because she's gonna turn up, it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 3: You know, she's got a babysitter. It's on Pedro Pascal.

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Speaker 4: Because I do think, hey, Pedro, that we are gonna

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Speaker 1: I don't know if she even talked to you.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm gonna make her.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna talk to her, so unless she wants to

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Speaker 3: Okay, So we get Rihanna, we got Pedro.

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Speaker 4: You know, friends are contextual. I think she has more

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Speaker 2: It is classy.

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Speaker 4: Honestly, she's too classy for me after seven, So you know,

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Speaker 3: Okay, So we got Rihanna Anna, Ricky Martin to that.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, that was really a curveball.

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Speaker 4: Vita loca, you know, and then round it out.

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Speaker 2: I would say, share, okay. I mean that conversation at

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Speaker 3: Want the generations, I want the identity. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Let's get your take on some other pop culture stories

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Speaker 1: was on Jennifer Hudson's show, talking about why she dates

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Speaker 1: younger men at seventy seven years old. She says, all

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Speaker 4: I mean, honestly, what she said is just mathematically true,

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Speaker 4: I love it. I say, more power to her. I

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Speaker 4: The kind of younger straight man that goes for an

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Speaker 3: Man can be.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing, Okay I am for first of all,

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Speaker 1: and now I'm thirty three and look back on that

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Speaker 1: relationship with kind of an ick. I'm like, why was

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Speaker 1: he ever interested in me? I was so young?

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Speaker 2: Where were you at though in your life?

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Speaker 3: Where?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 2: Mentally, like, what was appealing to you about dating a

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Speaker 2: man that much older than you?

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Speaker 1: I didn't have a lot. I was always really goal oriented.

447
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Speaker 1: I didn't have a lot in common with people like

448
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Speaker 1: college age like I was. So I was like, this

449
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Speaker 1: man's in the workforce, he knows things, and I.

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Speaker 3: Loved that he makes his bed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I don't even think he made his bed.

452
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Speaker 1: Let's be honest. He was straight.

453
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Speaker 3: Yeah true, I mean I barely do it.

454
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Speaker 1: I'm getting he needed supervision.

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Speaker 2: Honestly.

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Speaker 3: I had to think about it this morning. I was like, oh, no,

457
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Speaker 3: be better than this.

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Speaker 2: Fun fact. I didn't know this, but there's research that

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Speaker 2: shows that age gap relationships with older women and younger

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Speaker 2: men experienced more longevity and satisfaction.

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Speaker 3: H M.

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Speaker 1: I mean my mom is always like wanting to get

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Speaker 1: out of the house and go dancing and go do stuff,

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Speaker 1: and my dad wants to stay home. Like I get

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Speaker 1: the appeal younger men want to go out with you.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, I just personally think women are better.

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Speaker 3: I'll just say I'll just say it so like I

468
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Speaker 3: was going to say it.

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Speaker 4: I want to see them happy, go forth and prosper.

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Speaker 1: It's literally the ethos of the show. We just want

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Speaker 1: to see women happening.

472
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Speaker 3: I want to see women. Just let's close the wage gap.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: I'm literally wearing something about like reproductive rights on my shirt,

475
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Speaker 4: Like I just come on, guys, what are we doing?

476
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Speaker 3: This is so dumb.

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Speaker 2: That's it, whether or not you're in a relationship with

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Speaker 2: someone older than you or younger than you. There is

479
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Speaker 2: a new date night spot, dining hotspot in Los Angeles

480
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Speaker 2: that I have so many questions about. So this is

481
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Speaker 2: a restaurant where celebrities like Justin Bieber, Harry Styles, and

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Speaker 2: Taylor Swift are going for dinner. And it's called Sushi Park.

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Speaker 2: But here's the catch with this place. It's in a

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Speaker 2: strip mall in West Hollywood. It's so unassuming and low key.

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Speaker 2: Can you can you explain me why is this such

486
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Speaker 2: a celebrity hot spot?

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Speaker 4: Right? This has been my latest, like this is my

488
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Speaker 4: Roman empire, this is my this is my empire. I

489
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Speaker 4: looked into it, but there's like a Starbucks and like

490
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Speaker 4: a sketchy massage place.

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Speaker 3: Next to it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's above my fat X.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I was like, let's go look at this, like, try

495
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Speaker 4: to book a dinner. It can't book it's booked. It's

496
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Speaker 4: it's like a four hundred dollars om case. I was like,

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Speaker 4: what in a strip in a strip mall and a

498
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Speaker 4: strip mob So people are having like thousand dollars dinners

499
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Speaker 4: in a strip mall right now? But I was, I

500
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Speaker 4: was like, what's going on?

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Speaker 2: So here's one of the things that is attracting actors

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Speaker 2: and musicians to the spot. It has a no photography policy,

503
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Speaker 2: but I guess that's one of the things that people

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Speaker 2: love about it. Probably it's low key, you know, unassuming, Okay, the.

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Speaker 4: Thing is, but I think it's been featured in like

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Speaker 4: teen Vogue and like Cosmopolitan now because like I think

507
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Speaker 4: once I saw that balcony the tenth time. I was like,

508
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Speaker 4: there's somewhere everybody's going yes, And I think also, if

509
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Speaker 4: there's no photos aloud inside, you're gonna get photographers outside.

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Speaker 4: So at this point, like is the sushi that good?

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Speaker 3: We're hitting that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know she's actually been there, so I was

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Speaker 1: about to jump in. I originally went because like years

514
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Speaker 1: ago before all these people and the Kardashians were photographed.

515
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Speaker 1: Jay Z used to go there all the time, and

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Speaker 1: I was dating a guy who loved jay Z, and

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Speaker 1: so I was like, let's go and see if we

518
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Speaker 1: can run into him. So we went at like five

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Speaker 1: thirty pm and just walked in because we couldn't get

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Speaker 1: a reservation. Walk in, there's like three or four tables

521
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Speaker 1: in a sushi bar, old tiles on the floor, like

522
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Speaker 1: old wood chairs. It's not super beautiful or posh, and

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Speaker 1: like you said, it's super expensive. I think the Oma

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Speaker 1: kasse was like six hundred bucks for two people, and

525
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Speaker 1: it was like we didn't He just kid his coffee.

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Speaker 3: I just choked my coffee.

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Speaker 1: I don't totally get it. I have to be honest,

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Speaker 1: I don't get it. I think club's just like going

529
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Speaker 1: there because they know that a lot of people like

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Speaker 1: aren't going to bother them and aren't there because it's

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Speaker 1: in a strip mall.

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Speaker 2: But I think this is funny. A lot of tourists,

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Speaker 2: I think, come to Los Angeles thinking that they're gonna

534
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Speaker 2: like see celebrities on Hollywood and Highland or something. No,

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Speaker 2: you need to find a strip mall and find the

536
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Speaker 2: most unassuming restaurant that you can see, and they're probably there.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we have to take a quick break, but we

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Speaker 1: will be right back, and we're back with pop culture anthropologists.

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Speaker 1: The man that says what's on his mind, Blake Lee Thornton.

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Speaker 1: So Blake Lee. We've been talking about tennis core because

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Speaker 1: of Challengers. Zendaya was in that film and she's been

542
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Speaker 1: rocking such great outfits courtesy of law Roach. I kind

543
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Speaker 1: of love that there's a theme happening here. It does

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Speaker 1: feel kind of met galat to me in a way

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Speaker 1: that other, like movie premieres outside of Barbie haven't felt like.

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Speaker 1: Do you like that celebrities and designers are doing like

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Speaker 1: themed outfits for these premieres?

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Speaker 3: Now, I love it.

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Speaker 4: I kind of again, but I'm gay, So I love

550
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Speaker 4: occasion dressing. I love a theme, but I also think

551
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Speaker 4: there's a marked financial effect on it. I think Barbiecore

552
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Speaker 4: drove a lot of box office to that movie. People

553
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Speaker 4: dressing up like Barbenheimer. I think I think Oppenheimer actually

554
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Speaker 4: had the biggest bump up effect from being with Barbie

555
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Speaker 4: because the opportunity for like a man to dress in

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Speaker 4: the hat and the girl to dress in pink. And

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Speaker 4: I think you've seen that continued with like this tennis

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Speaker 4: core Tashi made me wear a hashtag like I did

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Speaker 4: a video where I kind of calculated what I thought

560
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Speaker 4: was the actual financial value of them doing this, because nowadays,

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Speaker 4: the impetus to go seem to pay thirty dollars to

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Speaker 4: go see if I'm gonna go out of your house

563
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Speaker 4: when you're getting cinema quality films in your home is

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Speaker 4: a lot. So I think you have to create this

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Speaker 4: tangible moment. And there was one dress which I knew

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Speaker 4: was a recreation of Venus William's two thousand Wimbledon rebox

567
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Speaker 4: dress where she won her first Grand Slam. But she's

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Speaker 4: recontextling all these like black tennis luxury historical moments that

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Speaker 4: get people excited about it. And when I did the video,

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Speaker 4: I saw law created that hashtag and said go out

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Speaker 4: in your Tashi core do it. They even created a

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Speaker 4: fake magazine interview with her that like was on this

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Speaker 4: gorgeous gowns that like Krolina Haware addressed her like Venus

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Speaker 4: Williams from nineteen ninety eight. And the movie is also

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Speaker 4: really really good.

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Speaker 2: I loved it. It was so good. But I think

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Speaker 2: that Zendeya is brilliant. I think that the movie business

578
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Speaker 2: is lucky to have her because she actually has the potential,

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Speaker 2: I think, to revitalize an industry that has really been struggling,

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Speaker 2: you know, since COVID and now with the popularity of

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Speaker 2: watching movies at home. She really is drawing in this

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Speaker 2: younger gen Z audience and she knows that fashion is

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Speaker 2: a way to connect with this audience. And it's a

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Speaker 2: messaging that like disperses on social media and like you said,

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Speaker 2: it just catches on and there's so much engagement around it.

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Speaker 2: It's really really smart from a strategic level.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think just millennials and especially Gen Z value experience. Yes,

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Speaker 4: I think you have to create an experience because really

589
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Speaker 4: sitting and watching a movie to them is not an experience,

590
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Speaker 4: but like getting dressed up, having the hashtag possibly having

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Speaker 4: loans and day a repost you having this thing that

592
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Speaker 4: becomes a lot, going to get in shop for it,

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Speaker 4: and again like if you were think about it's a

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Speaker 4: tennis movie. I think she is the generation's like Reese

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Speaker 4: Witherspoon or Julia Roberts in a way that they just

596
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 4: had a glavi toss of, like cruel intentions or my

597
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Speaker 4: best friend's wedding. Like she's doing it on that level

598
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Speaker 4: where like these movies that aren't really getting made, like

599
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Speaker 4: a mid range non superhero film is probably gonna do

600
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Speaker 4: seventy five to one hundred million at the global box office,

601
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Speaker 4: and that's where movies used to like eat no pun intended,

602
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Speaker 4: she ate four plus four.

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Speaker 1: Okay, this brings me to my next topic because I

604
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Speaker 1: need help. Okay, I looked at my closet the other

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Speaker 1: day and I thought, you're dated, Danielle. Your clothes are

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Speaker 1: out of fashion, your jeans are not fitting. Right. If

607
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Speaker 1: I start to redoce some things this summer, what do

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Speaker 1: you think I should be looking at? Like who's summer fashion?

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Speaker 1: Are you into? What trends are you into? What should

610
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Speaker 1: my jeans how flared or not flared?

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Speaker 4: Should they be well, I feel like it's just so

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Speaker 4: much more confusing for women, Like.

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Speaker 3: You're being told every day what's in and what's out.

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Speaker 4: Honestly, just go back and look at what you wore

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Speaker 4: in like the nineties, and wear a more tailored version

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Speaker 4: of that. Go back and look at an old picture

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Speaker 4: of the Spice Girls and wear a subdued version of

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Speaker 4: what sporty or posh wore.

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Speaker 2: That's such a good tip. Actually, what do you.

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Speaker 1: Think when you look at your closet? Are you like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I have good stuff right now?

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Speaker 2: Why do you think I'm wearing a Kmart white tank

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Speaker 2: top Target? Why am I wearing this? Because I have

624
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Speaker 2: nothing to wear in my closet.

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Speaker 1: I just look at the trends now and I'm like

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Speaker 1: glad that there's so many more choices, because I feel

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Speaker 1: like when we were growing up, there just wasn't a

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Speaker 1: lot of choices. I was always a little curvier, so

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Speaker 1: I never like felt like I fit into clothes. Now

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Speaker 1: I do, but there's so many trends that I don't

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Speaker 1: know what to pick.

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Speaker 4: I suggest always just do tailored basics. If your clothing

633
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Speaker 4: fits you well, you're beating ninety five percent of the

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Speaker 4: crowd and This is one thing I always tell me

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Speaker 4: in like, you have to tail like I have, you know,

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Speaker 4: I'm you know, slim slim waistick in the hips what

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Speaker 4: Like I have to get my jeans tailored otherwise I

638
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 4: look like buckwhat And I have to like tie them

639
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Speaker 4: together because I have thick thighs, like Mom blessed me

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Speaker 4: with those.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: But I just do think like well tailored basics and

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Speaker 4: with like one accessory.

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Speaker 3: Like today I'm wearing like.

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Speaker 4: Literally Haynes Mother jeans, but like I have like a

646
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Speaker 4: little like blood red Chanel boy bag.

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Speaker 3: People like you're well dressed. It's like, no, this is baby,

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Speaker 3: this is barely pajamas.

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Speaker 1: I like that because like just black and white T shirts, tanks, jeans,

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Speaker 1: and then you kind of dress it up with jewelry or.

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Speaker 4: One jewelry pop color of bright yellow sweater, like the

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Speaker 4: accessory like sweater bag shoes one of one to three

653
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Speaker 4: of those, and people are like you're doing it when

654
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Speaker 4: reality you're just you rolled out of bed.

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Speaker 1: I really like that.

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Speaker 2: I also think monochromatic dressing is such a great shortcut

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Speaker 2: color do it all over. I go on pinchers all

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Speaker 2: the time for a fashion inspiration. Because I like that.

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Speaker 2: The algorithm just feeds me more images that look like

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Speaker 2: that one image, and then I can kind of build

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Speaker 2: off of.

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Speaker 4: That just to feel good. Honestly, it's such a cliche,

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Speaker 4: but it's so true, Like if you feel good in

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Speaker 4: what you're wearing, it just kills everything else.

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Speaker 2: I've decided my fashion inspiration for my thirties is Diane Keaton,

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Speaker 2: like all of her nineties wardrobe, and.

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Speaker 3: That's called Coastal Grandma. That's got the gen Z calls.

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Speaker 3: It's called Coastal Grandma.

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Speaker 1: Who was watching book Club, which is her movie with

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Speaker 1: Jane Fonda, on an airplane to New York. And then

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Speaker 1: I get off the plane and she was right there

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Speaker 1: wearing her suit and her hat, and I actually went

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Speaker 1: up to her. I love that baggage claim. The problem

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Speaker 1: is that like a gremlin when I travel, and so

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Speaker 1: I was so embarrassed.

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Speaker 3: Who does it?

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Blakelee, who doesn't The airport is

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Speaker 4: a lawless place, okay, So don't you ever fault yourself.

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Speaker 4: There's no other place where you can see somebody drinking

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Speaker 4: at seven am and be like, I feel you. You're

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Speaker 4: not a grandma. You're in the airport.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm.

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Speaker 2: Do you guys want to hear my embarrassing Mecala story

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Speaker 2: before we go?

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Speaker 1: Yes, we have to.

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Speaker 2: So I covered Metcala a couple of years on the

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Speaker 2: red carpet and one year I was walking across the

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Speaker 2: street to get into my position and I had my

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Speaker 2: hair in corn rows and I was like really proud

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Speaker 2: of my hairstyle, and somebody from across the street goes,

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Speaker 2: I don't like your hair, I don't like your face.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I hate your general being.

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Speaker 2: I was stunned.

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Speaker 1: I was just like horrible, Okay, was he like?

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Speaker 3: Wait? Was he like an unhinted stranger? Was he?

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Speaker 1: Who is this man?

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Speaker 2: Truly, she was totally an unhinged New York stranger, because

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Speaker 2: you know, they all like congregate outside of the Metcala,

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Speaker 2: and New Yorkers will just say anything. They'll just say

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Speaker 2: whatever's on their mind.

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Speaker 3: Did you not scream back? I did.

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Speaker 2: I forget what I said, but I scrumped something.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, that's horrifying. I'm so sorry that happened. But

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Speaker 1: I also I've never been to the met Like, what

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Speaker 1: is it like to be on the carpet?

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Speaker 2: First of all, you think it's going to be so

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Speaker 2: glamorous being a red carpet reporter at the Met, but

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Speaker 2: you are packed in there like sardines. There are probably

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Speaker 2: fifty sixty reporters on either side of the steps going

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Speaker 2: up to the Met, and you're on an incline the

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Speaker 2: whole time, so you're always yes, so you're always trying

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Speaker 2: to gain your balance. You probably have about two feet

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Speaker 2: of personal space to yourself. You have to bring snacks,

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Speaker 2: you have to bring hydration. You are literally screaming at

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Speaker 2: celebrities to try to get their attention and get them

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Speaker 2: to come talk to you. Most people didn't talk to me.

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Speaker 2: I got like a couple of people. Shout out Eatris Elba,

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Speaker 2: he was really nice. Shout out Katie Kuric, she came

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Speaker 2: to talk to me. But it is really it is rough.

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Speaker 2: It is like a gauntlet.

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Speaker 3: How long are you on the carpet for?

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, you're on the carpet for six hours.

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Speaker 1: But how do you even go about thinking what you're

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Speaker 1: gonna wear at the Met? Gallop because like it's hard

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Speaker 1: to find an outfit for anything.

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Speaker 2: Girl, I was so broke. I was I was a

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Speaker 2: local news reporter. I was accepting charity so I had

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Speaker 2: a friend who was a designer who dressed me. So

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Speaker 2: I was so grateful for that. But yeah, it's a

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Speaker 2: lot of people don't realize a lot of times when

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Speaker 2: you're a reporter, you got to spend your own money

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Speaker 2: to buy.

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Speaker 4: I literally DM Dormez I did for a clothes mouth

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Speaker 4: doesn't get fed. I saw that a lot of like

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Speaker 4: just fashion pr people are like heads of brands will

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Speaker 4: follow me just because I talk about fashion. Yeah, and

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Speaker 4: then the same day I got the gig to do

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Speaker 4: the Instagram party, I got like an accidental butt dial

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Speaker 4: call from Instagram from the head of like RAMZ Celebrity Dressing.

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Speaker 3: So I just DMed him like hey, could.

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Speaker 4: I have some pieces and like send him like four

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Speaker 4: outfits from like the fall collection and they're like.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So I just asked because I was.

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Speaker 2: Not buying something, you got to ask, I think. Listen,

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Speaker 2: it is a really grueling experience. There's a lot of

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Speaker 2: character building that takes place, but it is really cool

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Speaker 2: to have a front row seat to all of that,

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Speaker 2: and you get to see all the behind the scenes

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Speaker 2: machinations of like how it all comes together, and then

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Speaker 2: to see the dresses and the spectacle in real time?

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Speaker 1: Is it's cool it's as show exactly?

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Speaker 2: Speaking of iconic movies in movie fashion, let's take a

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Speaker 2: trip down memory lane, shall we. Did you guys know

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Speaker 2: that Janet Jackson was supposed to play Storm in the

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Speaker 2: X Men franchise and I didn't know that?

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Speaker 3: Why did you turn it down?

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00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 2: Okay? She recently told Drew Barrymore that she passed on

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Speaker 2: the role because she was going on tour, and then

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Speaker 2: of course it went to our girl, Halle Berry. Okay,

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Speaker 2: but I can't decide who. I mean. I think both

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Speaker 2: of them. Obviously, Halle did an amazing job, but I

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Speaker 2: think Janet Jackson could have done an amazing job too.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 4: Honestly, I wanted Angela Bassett because because based on the

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Speaker 4: X Men cartoon, that voice Angela Bassett's tone was the

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Speaker 4: most like Storm is very like a Baroque Shakespearean person

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Speaker 4: like out here, like dropping like you know, Elizabethan language

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Speaker 4: on haters. Yes, and I feel like Angela Bassett and

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Speaker 4: like seeing the basket with the white hair and black

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Speaker 4: panther too kind of like brought that full circle for me. Yes,

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Speaker 4: But I think if we cast Storm today, i'd want

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Speaker 4: it to be Cynthia Evo, I think we.

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Speaker 1: Should just right now recast I love it us okay,

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Speaker 1: because there's a bunch of others, right, Like Christina Applegate

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Speaker 1: said no to playing Elwoods in Legally Blonde, which honestly

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Speaker 1: may have changed the course of my and Simone's career

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Speaker 1: because obviously Reese Witherspoon played that role.

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Speaker 3: To Christina Applegate, thank you, I can do this. Man.

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Speaker 3: Who else can you think you could have done Legally Blonde?

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Speaker 3: Except her?

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Speaker 1: Oh no, we cannot recount that movie.

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Speaker 3: What if we rebooted it? What if we rebooted it? Actually?

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Speaker 1: Yes, I want her daughter to do it.

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Speaker 2: This one blows my mind. Bette Midler was almost Sister

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Speaker 2: Mary Clarence in Sister Act.

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Speaker 1: How do you do that?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 4: No, I could Bette Miller's like vaudevillian, like Sister Mary Clarence.

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Speaker 3: I could definitely see Bette Miller being in Sister Act.

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Speaker 1: I love that word.

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Speaker 3: She's just you know, I think jazz hands every time

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Speaker 3: I see her.

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Speaker 1: How about John Travolta was going to be Forrest Gump.

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Speaker 1: I hate that instead of Tom Hanks.

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Speaker 3: I hate that so much.

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Speaker 1: I know Tom Hanks was meant to be Forrest Gump.

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Speaker 4: I just yeah, John Travolta is a very specific actor,

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Speaker 4: and I think that this is spanning the decades would

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Speaker 4: have been very like it would I think Forrest Gump

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Speaker 4: would have been water worlded if John Travolta.

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Speaker 3: Was in it. I don't think it fits.

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Speaker 2: Can we talk about an undervalued John Travolta film for

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Speaker 2: a second, and that is Phenomenon? Yes, Eric Clapton's sound track.

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Speaker 1: Oh good, so good.

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Speaker 4: I was literally just thinking about Phenomenon before you said that.

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00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:41,840
Speaker 2: It's kind of my It's like my mini Roman Empire.

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Speaker 3: I think Phenomena.

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00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 4: I watched some time about at least once a month.

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Speaker 4: I was SI, it's my comfort movie. Phenomenon Stream six.

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00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,240
Speaker 2: Oh, scream sex is your comfort movie.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 4: I don't know why I've talked. I've actually talked to

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Speaker 4: my therapist about it. I think it's because they survive, Okay.

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Speaker 4: I think it's just these girls just getting through, and

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Speaker 4: they're just getting through in New York City.

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Speaker 3: Yes, you know, shit keeps happening. Six gram six is

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00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 3: like life. Life comes at your fast. It really must.

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Speaker 3: We're a helmet and.

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Speaker 2: It really does. Blakely, it has been so much fun

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Speaker 2: having you with us. We cannot wait to have you back.

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Speaker 3: Think I will be back with a Vengeance.

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Speaker 2: And we cannot wait to watch your met Galla watch

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Speaker 2: party this Monday. Yes, where can people watch it?

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Speaker 4: I believe it will be on the Instagram Creators channel

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Speaker 4: and also possibly Instagram's feed, so we'll see, I'll tell,

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Speaker 4: I'll DM you guys.

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Speaker 1: You can find the Blakelee almost Nieman Thornton on Instagram

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Speaker 1: and TikTok at Blakelee Thornton.

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Speaker 2: All right, bright Side, besties, we are out of here.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for listening and hanging out with us.

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Speaker 2: Have a wonderful weekend.

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Speaker 1: Yes, please do something that brings you joy. We'll be

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Speaker 1: back on Monday to talk women in Tech with author

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Speaker 1: and entrepreneur Brook Marcovicis. The bright Side is a production

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Speaker 1: of Hello, Sunshine and iHeart Podcasts and is executive produced

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Speaker 1: by Reese Witherspoon.

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Speaker 2: Production by Arcana Audio. Courtney Gilbert is our associate producer.

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Speaker 2: Our producers are Stephanie Brown and Jessica Wank. Our engineer

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Speaker 2: is PJ. Shahamat, and our senior producer is Itsy Qinthenia.

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Speaker 1: Arcana's executive producers are Francis Harlowe and Abby Ruzika. Arcana's

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Speaker 1: head of production is Matt Schultz.

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Speaker 2: Natalie Tulluck and Maureen Polo are the executive producers for

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Speaker 2: Hello Sunshine.

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Speaker 1: Julia Weaver is the supervising producer, and Ali Perry is

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Speaker 1: the executive producer for iHeart Podcasts. Tim Palazzola is our showrunner.

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Speaker 1: This week's episodes were recorded by Graham Gibson.

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Speaker 2: Our theme song is by Anna Stump and Hamilton lighthauser.

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Speaker 1: Special thanks to Connell Burn and Will Pearson.

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Speaker 2: I'm Simone Boyce. You can find me at Simone Boyce

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Speaker 2: on Instagram and TikTok.

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Speaker 1: And I'm Danielle Robe on Instagram and TikTok. That's r

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Speaker 1: O b A.

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Speaker 2: Y See you Monday fam. Keep looking on the bright side.