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Speaker 1: This is How Men Think? And Gavin de grab and

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Speaker 1: I heard radio podcast. Welcome to another episode of How

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Speaker 1: Men Think. My name is Brooks Like and I'm super

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Speaker 1: excited to get back into this one because if you

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Speaker 1: listened last week, we had one of the most polarizing,

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Speaker 1: most incredible debates, most intensity in the studio last week

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Speaker 1: with Boris and back with us again is Eve Rodsky

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Speaker 1: to discuss her new book, fair Play. And it's a

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Speaker 1: hot topic. It's a hot button issue we're gonna get

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Speaker 1: into today. Carry on from last week. It's about the

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Speaker 1: roles in the household and specifically the sharing of roles

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Speaker 1: between men and women. And my buddy gave here is

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Speaker 1: still fired up about this, and I wish this was

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Speaker 1: on TV because he's kicking back, he's got his arms crossed,

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Speaker 1: he's shaking his head, and you're thinking, why does anybody

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Speaker 1: want to get married? No, I'm thinking, how I mean

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Speaker 1: when I hear all these all I seem to year

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Speaker 1: are problems. You know, you know that everybody's just complaining

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Speaker 1: about each other and and and it's it's it's almost

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Speaker 1: like people are looking for silver silver linings more than

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Speaker 1: blue skies. You know what, I'm saying, oh, there's a

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Speaker 1: silver lining. We worked through it and that's why we're strong.

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Speaker 1: But there's still a cloud and and and and it's

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Speaker 1: it's hard to listen to. I have to say, it's

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Speaker 1: it's about your society though, about how it's changed, because

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Speaker 1: I think that's really important. Yeah, I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: as I was listening to, do you guys discuss uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, raising kids and sharing responsibilities and things like that,

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Speaker 1: all of the all of the you know, the gripes

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Speaker 1: about it or the difficulties about are completely valid, completely valid.

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Speaker 1: I totally understand. But you know, society has changed so

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Speaker 1: much it's almost unfair to expect one person or two

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Speaker 1: people to raise a child anymore, not anymore to raise

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Speaker 1: a child alone. See, we have we have neighborhoods. Now

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Speaker 1: in modern society, we have neighborhoods, but we don't have

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Speaker 1: we don't have communities. So so you know, maybe maybe, however,

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Speaker 1: many years ago, you know, maybe if the you know,

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Speaker 1: in a in a tribal society, it makes more sense. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know, the you have kids and then

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Speaker 1: the tribe shares the responsibility because you know, the men

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Speaker 1: have they have their roles, and the men had their

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Speaker 1: roles and the kids. The kids would be with the

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Speaker 1: with the women at least until a certain age. And

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Speaker 1: the boys that go off and you know, they learn

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Speaker 1: hunting and things like that do all their different things.

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Speaker 1: And right now in society, I feel like too much

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Speaker 1: and there is no community to rely on. And I

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Speaker 1: guess that may be part of the you know, the

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Speaker 1: the evolution of what you know, the schools have become.

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Speaker 1: The schools have sort of developed into these these child

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Speaker 1: rearing institutions, you know, just to make it easier on

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Speaker 1: That is the problem. I think the social structure is

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Speaker 1: so we're not trusting powerful point. That's a massive social problem.

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Speaker 1: It's not the problem of the couple. The couple is

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Speaker 1: the disease. It's also but it's also our own fault then,

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Speaker 1: and it's also our own fault individually. If I move

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Speaker 1: what my role in this being an unfriendly city is.

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Speaker 1: So in same thing in the community, same thing an

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Speaker 1: men were expecting so much out of each other. We're

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Speaker 1: expecting two much, meaning that we were expecting everything my

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Speaker 1: a lot about in the book about how important it

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Speaker 1: is to also have spiritual friendships. And what I mean

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Speaker 1: built in community. People are going to church less, there's

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Speaker 1: So what I found was that one rabbi actually said

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Speaker 1: to me, this idea of spiritual friendship someone who wakes

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Speaker 1: wife to sort of see who she's friends with, to

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Speaker 1: sort of make my own friendships, and so yeah, like

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Speaker 1: I went to interviews from men from every single state

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Speaker 1: And the fundamentals of the fundamentals of interviewers and surveys

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Speaker 1: true cross section society because I would never do, uh,

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Speaker 1: what I mean? Tell me do you have your own friends? Oh? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: hear about your own friendships. A lot of women do

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Speaker 1: not want their husbands to have female friendships because they

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Speaker 1: feel threatened, and I think they're doing themselves at this

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Speaker 1: service because one person cannot fulfill pletely. Well, I'm actually

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Speaker 1: curious about your listeners. I'd love for them to reach

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Speaker 1: out and for them to say, do they really have,

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Speaker 1: you know, their own friends that aren't through their partners.

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Speaker 1: I'd be curious. So a couple of things on that

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Speaker 1: On what you just on, what you just said Amy

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Speaker 1: about I do not believe. And I say this to

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Speaker 1: cannot fulfill everything for me. It's not possible. You need

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Speaker 1: other friendships, other energies, other perspectives, other conversations, other hugs,

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Speaker 1: other laughter than myself. And I need it to so

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Speaker 1: love you, but I also need it to somebody else.

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Speaker 1: So that's number one. By the way, How great that

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Speaker 1: you actually communicated that back to communication. We know that, right.

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Speaker 1: It's not a defensive thing. It's just that's you need

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Speaker 1: that's not dependent upon her and I relationship. And I

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Speaker 1: like you're also still singing. People lie. Actually, people like

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Speaker 1: being single as a play, it's not a problem. That's

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Speaker 1: a I think it's a it's absolutely a choice. Group.

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Speaker 1: People are so shamed against it's literally you're But I

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Speaker 1: wasn't shaming you. I'm jealous. Are less shameful of somebody

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Speaker 1: in an atrociously bad marriage? Then? But oh no, I

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Speaker 1: I understand that I have my own identity, I have

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Speaker 1: my own life, I have my own going on right

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Speaker 1: beyond that right, so I hear the problems of married

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Speaker 1: people and you all scare the living better. Let me

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Speaker 1: talk about this. I had a teammate once I think

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Speaker 1: And he said one comment to me that stuck with

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Speaker 1: He said, Brooksie, relationships are about doing ship you don't

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Speaker 1: you wake up one day and you're drowning and you

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Speaker 1: don't feel like you are you anymore, and you've lost

429
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Speaker 1: your identity totally and you're self worth? I think I

430
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Speaker 1: think a lot of people can can can see the

431
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Speaker 1: potential for that. If you're if you if you have

432
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Speaker 1: so much on your plate and so much is expected

433
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Speaker 1: of you, and so much goes unseen that you are accomplishing,

434
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Speaker 1: that the smallest thing that you don't get accomplished is

435
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Speaker 1: seen as a giant foul. Right, Yeah, And then of

436
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Speaker 1: course you see yourself ultimately as you're the person who

437
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Speaker 1: is is basically just checking off items on a list

438
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Speaker 1: rather than being a human being potition to be in

439
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Speaker 1: and whereas which you'd rather be as someone who was

440
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Speaker 1: given no list and trusted that you were just gonna

441
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Speaker 1: go get everything that you knew everyone needed and and

442
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Speaker 1: he wants that we're desired. Perhaps the other person could

443
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Speaker 1: go and pick those up if you didn't happen to

444
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Speaker 1: toss those in the baggy. But that's right, and you

445
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Speaker 1: and you want that. And the problem is so many

446
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Speaker 1: women will say to me, well, I just you know

447
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Speaker 1: the time, and it takes me to tell him to

448
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Speaker 1: do he should just figure it out again, but again

449
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Speaker 1: back to so it's just but then that is why

450
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Speaker 1: we need books, right, It's why we need systems and

451
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Speaker 1: card games. No, I didn't say we didn't need books.

452
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Speaker 1: I'm saying you get you know, people can get in

453
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Speaker 1: this this dangerous place of of That's the fear for

454
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Speaker 1: people like like Amy. That's the fear that goes to

455
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Speaker 1: my head is do you end up ultimately accidentally or

456
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Speaker 1: or somehow semi intentionally in this scenario where you're deferring

457
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Speaker 1: to professional of how do I make this thing where work?

458
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Speaker 1: You know, this train is so far off the track.

459
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Speaker 1: I think about it all the time because it's like, yes,

460
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Speaker 1: I have a broken heart right now and it's freaking brutal,

461
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Speaker 1: but sorry, we can talk about it later. Um it's

462
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Speaker 1: so rough, it's literally so that I know that tomorrow

463
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Speaker 1: could be better and the next day after that could

464
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Speaker 1: be better. Whereas I have friends in bad marriages where

465
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Speaker 1: it's like, oh, that's just gonna suck for ever. So

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Speaker 1: I think I'm really miserable crying in the bathtub, but

467
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Speaker 1: yet I'm not. That's what's that movie something about Mary.

468
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Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, he's like, you're living the dream, but

469
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Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, each day is better than the next.

470
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Speaker 1: It's awesome. It's like, yeah, I'm so good, miserable, but

471
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Speaker 1: I've got hope, Whereas I have these friends that are like, oh,

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Speaker 1: they don't have hope. That's right. That's why I love

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Speaker 1: Nora Ephron, who will talk about her as a philosopher

474
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Speaker 1: who she says, you could be the victim of your

475
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Speaker 1: own life or your heroine. Right, I mean, at the

476
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Speaker 1: end of the day, if we're just going to sit

477
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Speaker 1: around and just complain and be victims or publicly shame

478
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Speaker 1: our our partners through that she doesn't pick up. Then

479
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Speaker 1: I can't help you if you're not willing to come

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Speaker 1: to the table and have the conversations with the books

481
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Speaker 1: in the Gavins of the world to say, like, I

482
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Speaker 1: see your perspective, and I want to be in this

483
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Speaker 1: relationship and I love you, but this is what's you know,

484
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Speaker 1: happening to me right now, and bring your own identity

485
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Speaker 1: into it and say, I hope you can relate to

486
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Speaker 1: what you may not have it happened. It's not happening

487
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Speaker 1: to you with different perspectives, but this is what's happening

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Speaker 1: to me. I'm losing my identity. Well, let me let

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Speaker 1: me say first of all, I think I think in

490
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Speaker 1: the in the era that we're in, my personal belief

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Speaker 1: is that there's too much expected of women in general.

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Speaker 1: I think the plate is more than full. It's no

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Speaker 1: longer the option, oh should I work? Should I stay home?

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Speaker 1: Women have to work. The economy has changed, Okay, you

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Speaker 1: would never be able to keep up a single uh

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Speaker 1: salary and a single and come home. Can't keep up

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Speaker 1: with inflation, okay, it can't compete with the market. Any longer.

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Speaker 1: So women have to be out of the house. They

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Speaker 1: have to be working. Fundamentally speaking, it's not a choice

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Speaker 1: any longer. Right. So, now women are out there working,

501
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Speaker 1: and of course they hit the magic age where they

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Speaker 1: have to have kids. Okay, the cloth is ticking. We

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Speaker 1: all know that. We all know there's an age that

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Speaker 1: comes and most of the time that becomes a new priority,

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Speaker 1: and their job, although they're passionate about it, tends to

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Speaker 1: take slightly a backseat because they know that clock is

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Speaker 1: taking They're going to run out of time. Okay, we

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Speaker 1: all know that. That's a fact, right, we all agree

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Speaker 1: on that. So so what happens is now they're pressed

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Speaker 1: to have kids. Now they have kids. Now, they're happy

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Speaker 1: that they have kids. But the economy is still moving

512
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Speaker 1: the way the economy is gonna move. Inflation is still

513
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Speaker 1: happening every year. They have to compete, they have to

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Speaker 1: they have to be in the workplace. So now, because

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Speaker 1: of their instincts, they want to be with the kids instinctually.

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Speaker 1: Instinctually women want to be with their children. But mothers

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Speaker 1: have to be with their children biologically, at least up

518
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Speaker 1: until recent time to recent times. But men want the

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Speaker 1: same they have the same instinct. They just don't have this.

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Speaker 1: We have instincts, we have instincts. There are differences. There

521
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Speaker 1: are differences, and and wind want to be their kids,

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Speaker 1: and they want to work, or now they have to work,

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Speaker 1: and they want to work, but they're also going. But

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Speaker 1: I want to be with the kids. I gotta have

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Speaker 1: a breastpump on. I gotta have a breast pump MP.

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Speaker 1: It's not something that he says. Something you say, she says,

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Speaker 1: but he never says this is too much for me.

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Speaker 1: I got the breast pump on the seat here. I

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Speaker 1: am right, that's not part of our equation. So, yes,

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Speaker 1: there are things that are demanded of women that are

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Speaker 1: not demanded of men. It's an unfair amount of things

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Speaker 1: to balance trying to take by pointing out that there

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Speaker 1: actually are physical differences and to ignore them would be

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Speaker 1: a to deny science. Okay, so I think there are

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Speaker 1: there would be to deny science. I am on your team.

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Speaker 1: But it's become an unfair amount of things for women

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Speaker 1: to balance in modern day society period, because you're going

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Speaker 1: to want to be with the kids and have to

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Speaker 1: be with the kids for a certain amount of time

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Speaker 1: period and if you don't, you get shamed. You shame.

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Speaker 1: There's a shame on top of everything. But even worse,

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Speaker 1: even worse is what you're saying in terms of women

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Speaker 1: having children and actually having to be in the workforce.

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Speaker 1: The scariest thing is that women lose ten percent of

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Speaker 1: their wages. For each child, they have five percent of

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Speaker 1: their wages, and that's called the motherhood penalty. So on

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Speaker 1: top of everything you just said, I'm being penalized because

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Speaker 1: I'm being perceived is not wanting to be in the

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Speaker 1: workforce and having some other obligations. Do you think it's

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Speaker 1: perception or is it your boss is paying a certain

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Speaker 1: amount of money for you to be there? You can't

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Speaker 1: be there. You're in you're in labor, you're you're at

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Speaker 1: a work or you're taking however from many weeks off. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It is what it is, right,

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Speaker 1: So it depends on how you want to value mothers

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Speaker 1: in the workplace. What was happening is that men when

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Speaker 1: they have a child, they get six percent extra and

558
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Speaker 1: their wages because they're seen is having to take care

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Speaker 1: of their family, whereas women are seen as being pulled

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Speaker 1: away from the workforce. Right, So that's that's a that's

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Speaker 1: a really um, it's a tough, tough, brutal place out

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Speaker 1: there for women who want to be mothers, who want

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Speaker 1: to stay in the workforce, because then if you're paid

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Speaker 1: less than your partner, then you know what happens. Then

565
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Speaker 1: you start saying things like, well, maybe it's not worth

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Speaker 1: it for me to be in the workforce, or I'm

567
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Speaker 1: gonna take a career detour, And four of women with

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Speaker 1: kids take a career detour. So, like you said, there

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Speaker 1: is these unreal expectations. What what would detour would be, uh,

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Speaker 1: leaving your job, quitting and then coming back in the workforce.

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Speaker 1: A detour would be taking a step down, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: not being partner at a law firm, being of counsel,

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Speaker 1: and that's what. So but that's a lot of women's

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Speaker 1: I also think and we I know we have to go,

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Speaker 1: but I want to talk about this next sometime in

576
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Speaker 1: the next episodes, because I literally do think we're forgetting

577
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Speaker 1: how much shame we place on people who don't want

578
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Speaker 1: to have kids and who don't want to get married,

579
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Speaker 1: how much people are much if you're just a person

580
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Speaker 1: looking at a single person or looking at people in

581
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Speaker 1: crappy marriages. People are much more like, oh, but they're

582
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Speaker 1: trying and they need to keep at it and look

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Speaker 1: at them they have love and like, is the single

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Speaker 1: person so well? Any I'm obsessed with that topic. I

585
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Speaker 1: don't feel that. I don't feel that. I think people

586
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Speaker 1: need to email us, like single women need to email

587
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Speaker 1: men at iHeart Radio and say do you feel like

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Speaker 1: such a because back, I'll just say one last thing

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Speaker 1: about being so I know we have to go. That

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Speaker 1: is a very important point because that's shaming of women

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Speaker 1: and men single people in general, especially women. It leads

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Speaker 1: to this idea of what I just said to you before,

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Speaker 1: what happens if all the milestones you told me in

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Speaker 1: society you're supposed to make me happy don't make me happy.

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Speaker 1: Can your next book be this? Because let's think that

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Speaker 1: article that says single, childless women are the happiest people

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00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 1: there are other than the stink I were super happy. So, like,

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Speaker 1: my next book is called Unicorn Space. It's about what

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Speaker 1: happens when you lose your identity, especially after being in

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Speaker 1: a couple and with a child, especially for women. Men

601
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Speaker 1: have this happen to them too, because we were told

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Speaker 1: these are the things that make us happy, the white pick, events,

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Speaker 1: the beautiful house, and I don't need to remember who

604
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 1: I was before kids anymore, when you can reclaim your passion.

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Speaker 1: If I said to you can never sing again, I mean,

606
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Speaker 1: how would that feel to you? I have women men

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Speaker 1: all over saying, well, I just I left my skis

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Speaker 1: in the airport. I stopped singing. I don't do my

609
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 1: poetry anymore. I don't think it is, but it's also

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Speaker 1: something we have to remind people that it is. It's

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Speaker 1: not paid. And back to what you said about a Mary,

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00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 1: we hold a lot of value for things that are paid,

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00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 1: and we're tax and everything's in money monetary terms. There's

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Speaker 1: something important about just being who we are. I think

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Speaker 1: quit their jobs to have kids and they are well,

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Speaker 1: what about the shaming that happens with women who who

617
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Speaker 1: didn't go get a full time job and became mothers.

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Speaker 1: The few women who the few women who were were

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Speaker 1: afforded that. Who you know, if their husbands making a

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Speaker 1: bunch of money and they get to stay home with

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Speaker 1: their kids or stay home with their kids, what about

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Speaker 1: the shaming? What about the shaming? What about what about

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Speaker 1: the shaming of people who are full time mothers? When

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Speaker 1: did that become uh, somehow this horrible thing. Who would

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Speaker 1: turn their nose up at a mother? What's more important

626
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Speaker 1: motherhood or your day job? But you know, my father

627
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Speaker 1: would never say, because my father would never say that

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Speaker 1: his job was more important than his fatherhood. My father

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Speaker 1: would have stayed at home every day if we had

630
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Speaker 1: the money, you know, but instead he had to work doubles.

631
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Speaker 1: So you know, so so I want to know who,

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Speaker 1: fundamentally at the source made a woman feel is making

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Speaker 1: a woman feel guilty for being a mom? I mean,

634
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 1: what is more important than being a parent in your life?

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Speaker 1: I mean, fundamentally speaking, I'm not I'm not a parent,

636
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Speaker 1: but what what what could possibly be a more important

637
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 1: job than that? And and you do you do hear

638
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 1: stories about moms saying, well, yeah, they made me feel

639
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Speaker 1: uncomfortable at the dinner table because they asked me what

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Speaker 1: I do and I said, I'm I'm the mother of

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Speaker 1: But society doesn't value you? Go into the courts. I

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Speaker 1: called a Gavron warning, your duty to become self sufficient

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Speaker 1: within six months. And she said, what is what is

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Speaker 1: Do you value this? And they said, well that was

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Speaker 1: your choice. Two decades. She gave up her earning potential.

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Speaker 1: She wanted to invest in being a mother. The court

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Speaker 1: back for her nursing degree. Brutal because they don't value

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Speaker 1: the invisible work. And so if anybody gets anything out

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Speaker 1: of this podcast is to say what Brooks said before,

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Speaker 1: allow men into their full power in the home. Let's

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Speaker 1: invite men into their full power in the home. Because

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Speaker 1: I do believe, like your father and like you, there

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Speaker 1: is the beauty of being a parent, of being a

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Speaker 1: partner is our most important human connection is what makes

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Speaker 1: good human beings. When you said hi to someone on

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Speaker 1: someone's head off that day. Human connections matter, or he

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Speaker 1: it to him, right, Do you save someone else from

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Speaker 1: It's not about blueberries and glue sticks. It's about being

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Speaker 1: the best person we can be looking at each other

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Speaker 1: and saying we were seen. And that's actually what bars

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Speaker 1: want to be in a community where we're seeing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's what it's about. Um, where can because you've given

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Speaker 1: so much to our community, where can our community find you,

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Speaker 1: get in contact with you, find the book all of that.

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Speaker 1: Just follow me in eve Rodsky on Instagram or fair

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Speaker 1: play life. So let's go to spell that out for Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's at eve Rodsky e V E r O d

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Speaker 1: s k y and they can find everything there, all

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Speaker 1: the articles I've written, uh, and the book and we'll

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Speaker 1: link to everything here on our how Men Think podcast Instagram.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, that was one of the most Thank you.

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Speaker 1: That was one of the most polarizing debates I think

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Speaker 1: we'd love to get your thoughts on this. We got

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Speaker 1: a new system set up. We've got a voicemail where

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Speaker 1: Until next time, take care of one another, Love one another,

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