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Speaker 1: Hey, hey, hey, we're back. We're black, We're brown, We're back.

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Speaker 2: Did you see the news, this is breaking breaking news

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Speaker 2: that did you see that there was an explosion apparently

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Speaker 2: at the Ariana Grande concert in England, like an hour

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Speaker 2: ago or something. This is this is Monday night when

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Speaker 2: we're recording. Obviously they so they don't know what yet,

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Speaker 2: but like twenty people apparently at least twenty people are dead.

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Speaker 1: What.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I don't know. I don't I'm sure by

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Speaker 2: the time people listen to this podcast will know what

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Speaker 2: happened if it was. And they're saying it could be

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Speaker 2: an explosion, it could be a suicide bomber, it could

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Speaker 2: be a gas explosion, like it could have been like

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Speaker 2: it was at the very end of the concert apparently,

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Speaker 2: That's what I've heard just in watching news reports, and

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Speaker 2: like you can see in the crowd, like at the

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Speaker 2: end of the concert they have these pink balloons at fall.

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Speaker 2: So it was right after like the big finale, I guess.

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Speaker 2: But that's frightening, that totally frightening.

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Speaker 1: I can't twenty people. That's like, that's I don't even

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Speaker 1: know what to say about that. That's crazy. You know,

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Speaker 1: you go to a concert. You're not thinking like it's

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Speaker 1: not like a mosh pit concert. It's Ariana Grande, you know, right,

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Speaker 1: She's like a you know, an arm b singer, So

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Speaker 1: you're not even thinking like there's going to be I

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Speaker 1: don't know. And it's just from the you know, the

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Speaker 1: to this, it's like it makes you scared to go outside.

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Speaker 2: I was, you know, usually like living in New York,

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Speaker 2: New Jersey, like you're used to it. You're not used

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Speaker 2: to it, but you understand, you know, you live in

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Speaker 2: an area that could be a target, but like you

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Speaker 2: kind of go about your day. But when yeah, like

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Speaker 2: when the things happened back to back like this, it

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Speaker 2: does make you feel like maybe I will just work

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Speaker 2: from home tomorrow, right, And it certainly because any any

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Speaker 2: and with the fact that it was a crazy person

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Speaker 2: and not like a terrorist attack almost made it scarier.

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Speaker 2: Does that make sense, Yeah, like or worst in my

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Speaker 2: There's literally no reason why these people had to be hurt.

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Speaker 2: It was just the result of you know.

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Speaker 1: With he on drugs. I couldn't like I didn't get

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Speaker 1: the I was trying to understand, like what because I

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Speaker 1: mean I know that I heard that. Okay, what's an

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Speaker 1: act of terrorists as far as the way we understand terrorism,

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Speaker 2: Like well, terrorism is defined by a political motivation. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, it was an act of terror in

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Speaker 2: a little while, but not like not like the official,

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Speaker 2: you know, government definition. But he certainly terrorized a uh

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Speaker 2: the city. No, it was just a guy from the Bronx,

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Speaker 2: twenty six year old guy, ex Navy guy. Oh, he

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Speaker 2: said he was. They said he was on marijuana and

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Speaker 2: PCP or some sort of mix of drugs. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: just sad. Sorry to start the show on a low note,

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Speaker 2: but I don't know. Maybe some of you guys are

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Speaker 2: feeling the weight of these incidences too. But it's like

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Speaker 2: last week when we said when things happen, Now it's

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Speaker 2: like you can't even It's like a Trump as president.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just one.

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Speaker 2: More thing, but anyway, the show must go on, as they.

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Speaker 1: Say, yeah, give me some good news. Well note today,

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Speaker 1: did you see this? The students walk out during the

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Speaker 1: commencement ceremony when Vice President Mike Pence was giving his address.

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Speaker 1: Not all of them, but a number of them.

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Speaker 2: They shaded our VP.

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Speaker 1: Yes, they were like, yeah, not today, not today, not

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Speaker 2: You don't watch VEEP, do you?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: I feel like VIEP is like a pair. It's supposed

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Speaker 2: to be a parody Vice Presidency and like Julia Louis

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Speaker 2: Dreyfus is in it, and but it's just hilarious because

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Speaker 2: now it's like life is funnier than VEEP. Like, I

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Speaker 2: don't think there's an episode where the VIEP gets booed

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we kind of don't want to hear from you

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Speaker 2: All I have to say is I hope that these kids,

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Speaker 2: you know, walk out but then still vote, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 2: insinuate that there was all these illegals, illegal people voting

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Speaker 2: to find No one has found any evidence of widespread

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Speaker 2: voter fraud. And because he is so stubborn, he decided

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Speaker 2: to use taxpayer dollars and appointed committee to investigate nothingness.

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Speaker 1: Wow, you won, dude, So like wow, that's literally pure

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Speaker 1: ego and like if I could see if he would

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Speaker 1: have lost the election, and he's like, no, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to put together this independent committee. No, you literally want

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Speaker 1: so you're putting together an independent committee to prove what

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Speaker 1: that you actually won the popular vote? You won? Like

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Speaker 1: be president?

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Speaker 2: Wow, move on, But he can't. He can't. He gets

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Speaker 2: stuck on it. But the real issue here is the like,

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Speaker 2: we don't have to worry about voter fraud. What's really

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Speaker 2: control the control Congress pretty much. But there are these laws,

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Speaker 2: these voter suppression laws, which you know have the they're

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Speaker 2: they're they're marketed by these politicians as like, you know,

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Speaker 2: going to prevent voter fraud, but really what they do

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Speaker 2: is they create barriers to vote for the very people

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Speaker 2: who are less likely to vote for Republicans, and that's

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Speaker 2: very often young people and people of color. They'll do

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Speaker 2: This just happened in Atlanta. Actually luckily they had to

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Speaker 2: were gonna make it. They were going to make certain

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Speaker 2: that's the kind of crap that could happen when you

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and like walking out is great, but you're right

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Speaker 1: also walking to the to the polls it's even better.

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Speaker 1: I don't let us stop there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't want you to vote. They do not

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Speaker 2: They want you. They want young people not to vote

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Speaker 1: Know that if we do, it's millennials sway heavily toward,

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Speaker 1: you know, not this this administration they swear heavily toward.

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Speaker 1: I mean, and I'm not at the time like Democrats

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Speaker 1: are like some like amazing choice, but like this is crazy,

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Speaker 1: like the current Republicans are making to be like you

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Speaker 1: know what, I kind of like George.

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Speaker 2: W He's like and y'all thought I was bad.

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Speaker 1: I'm right. He's over there Payton Dogs in Florida in Texas.

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Speaker 1: Do you see that now? Now he does watercolors and

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Speaker 1: paint him because you know, paying as actually not quite bad.

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Speaker 1: I was just like, look ad, He's like what I

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Speaker 1: what you won't do is I'm having a good time.

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Speaker 1: So other good news. It looks like remember those the

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Speaker 1: two beautiful girls with braids. I see that the charter

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Speaker 1: hoping that. I don't know. Was it too late for

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Speaker 2: I don't know. You're the one who brought you're the

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Speaker 2: Prom and get back on their teams?

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Speaker 1: Sidebard So, Brian Ambission listeners, you know, we have like

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Speaker 1: an awesome Facebook page. Mandy and I were like hanging

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Speaker 1: our facebook page is awesome. My favorite video currently on

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Speaker 1: our Facebook page. If you're not liked it, you should's

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Speaker 1: Woke Baby. Scroll down and you know woke Baby Mandy, right.

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Speaker 2: The little baby baby is all of us yo.

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Speaker 1: So well those you are like, what's walk Baby? So?

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Speaker 1: Walk Baby is this cute little brown girl. She's clearly

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Speaker 1: Wop Baby gives her the most epic like what side

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Speaker 1: It's just Facebook forwards. Slash Brown Ambition and scroll down

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Speaker 1: to you see woke baby and get your life together.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and if you have a link that you think

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Speaker 2: on Facebook. It's a little curated fun news for you. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I love our Facebook page.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all kind of awesome. Did you ever listen?

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Speaker 1: Did you listen to Escape? Coming up? Mandy? Are you

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Speaker 1: too young for that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Wait? Yeah, hold on, I'm gonna dig reallyp and

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Speaker 2: find this song that I know I know from Escape

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Speaker 2: because my sister and I used to sing it.

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Speaker 1: Week.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna remember it because you started singing that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the most famous Escape song.

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Speaker 2: Is it?

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Speaker 1: Wait? Let me make sure. Yes, I can hardly speak.

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Speaker 1: I lose all control and something takes oh the meek

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Speaker 1: like every girl knew that song beginning to end. Wait,

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Speaker 1: hold on, let me make sure week.

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Speaker 2: Oh here, right here, probably right while you're while you're

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Speaker 2: looking at it up. Though, I can apologize for mixing

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Speaker 2: up Kim Whitley with Jackie Harry. Uh, it was not

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Speaker 2: Jackie Harry, the mom from Sister Sister a Master of None,

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Speaker 2: just driving every day. That was our style I wanted.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking that actually a dream catcher who was

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Speaker 1: telling me how much she loved what I did and

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Speaker 1: wanted to give to me, And I guess she works

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Speaker 1: at some of these resorts, but it was like thirty

435
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Speaker 1: to forty five minutes forty minutes outside of Universal, and

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Speaker 1: I would have taken her up on her offer because

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Speaker 1: she was gonna let me stay for free. Like I

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Speaker 1: guess she was gonna give me some sort of like

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Speaker 1: friends and family free path. But we're only there for

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Speaker 1: two days, and it's just that's just too much time away.

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Speaker 1: Like I don't even though I'm like, h free, but honestly,

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Speaker 1: it's if we were there for a week, had yeah,

443
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Speaker 1: but we're only there for literally we fly in on

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Speaker 1: a Friday and we leave on Sunday. So it's just

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Speaker 1: that's just too much time back and forth. We would

446
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Speaker 1: lose so much time to travel. So you know, I

447
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Speaker 1: told her, you know, next time, for sure, when I

448
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Speaker 1: come down there, I'll certainly take you open your offer.

449
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Speaker 1: But this time we're just kind of like in and out.

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Speaker 2: That's definitely. Did I ever tell you about the first

451
00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,920
Speaker 2: time my dad and I I ever came to New York.

452
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Speaker 2: I was nineteen years old and I let my dad

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Speaker 2: book the hotel. Big mistake. I was like, Dad, where

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Speaker 2: are we staying. We were staying in Jersey in the

455
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Speaker 2: not even like Jersey City, like close to the It

456
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Speaker 2: was Weehawken, New Jersey. We had to take we had

457
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Speaker 2: to take two buses just to get to the train

458
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Speaker 2: station to get to downtown Manhattan, and it was like

459
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Speaker 2: the flee motel of my worst nightmares. And I'm not exaggerating.

460
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Speaker 2: We got bitten by all kinds of things. My dad

461
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Speaker 2: is cheap, and I think that's I think I'm like

462
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Speaker 2: reverse cheap. Like now, I think when you grow up

463
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Speaker 2: watching your parents be so extremely penny, I think you

464
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Speaker 2: either go two ways. Either you're just like them or

465
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Speaker 2: you're like extremely the opposite. And I'm terrified of it.

466
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Speaker 2: But I think I'm becoming the extreme opposite of my dad,

467
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Speaker 2: who's like such a penny pincher.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's my dad. Like where can we

469
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,119
Speaker 1: stay that? Basically people wouldn't even stay for free.

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Speaker 2: He's like it was on Expedia. You really, but you know,

471
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Speaker 2: you think you're saving money with an up to factor

472
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Speaker 2: and like the time it takes the cost of paying

473
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Speaker 2: to travel in there. Yeah, all of that sort of Man. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm exhausted for you playing this two day trip. But

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Speaker 2: can I just say when I was eleven years old

476
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Speaker 2: that's how old she is, right, or nine she's ten?

477
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Speaker 2: Oh close. I used to get two dollars exactly for

478
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Speaker 2: every A and one for every B and that was

479
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Speaker 2: my reward, So she should be grateful for whatever.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a surprise. She's going to be like, oh

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Speaker 1: my god. I'm going to pretend like we're gonna like

482
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Speaker 1: surprise her. Her mom's gonna pack her bag, and then

483
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Speaker 1: we're gonna wake up in the morning and be like,

484
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Speaker 1: we gotta go. Her father's gonna tell her, typically gonna

485
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Speaker 1: speak an engagement and we have to go with her.

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Speaker 1: She's gonna be like what I don't and then we're

487
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Speaker 1: gonna go. She's gonna be.

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Speaker 2: Like, my life, Oh damn, what do you guys do

489
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Speaker 2: for Christmas?

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Speaker 1: Honestly, we're not I'm not a big this is like

491
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Speaker 1: the biggest splurgs. We don't like on Christmas, Like well,

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Speaker 1: I've I've you know, kind of showed Superman not to

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Speaker 1: We don't go all out as far as like gifts

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Speaker 1: and stuff.

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Speaker 2: I already know she got a baller birthday party, Alissa

496
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Speaker 2: a hustle.

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Speaker 1: She did get a nice birthday.

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Speaker 2: Y'all don't have another baby. I need all the resources.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, she did. It was her test birthday, so

500
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Speaker 1: they and honestly then it wasn't even super baller like that.

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Speaker 1: We had it in the community room where we lived.

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Speaker 1: It was free her mom, but all the decorations from

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Speaker 1: the dollar store. We all decorated. It was like it

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Speaker 1: was cute, but it wasn't. It was more inventive and

505
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Speaker 1: creative than it was expensive.

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Speaker 2: I'm just better because we used to go to Shony's

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Speaker 2: for our birthday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, my mother. We used to go to the basement. Okay.

509
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Speaker 1: My mother would make her famous chocolate cake and invite

510
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Speaker 1: the neighborhood kids. And I would put on my Sunday's

511
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Speaker 1: best and be like, everybody sing to me. And that

512
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Speaker 1: was my birthday and I loved it. And I shared

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Speaker 1: it with my sister because we had birthday that I

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Speaker 1: told so I never had it my own work. What never?

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Speaker 2: That's annoying.

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Speaker 1: Now that we have finished boosting and breaking, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: we've got some awesome questions from the BA listeners. If

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Speaker 2: Mandy, ask us anything, Ask us anything. You've been to

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Speaker 2: the website that was a mistake. You go there all

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Speaker 2: the time.

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Speaker 1: I know. Two years later.

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Speaker 2: Here's our question for the day. We'll just call her

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Speaker 2: miss Kay. She says, I have a lot of student

530
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Speaker 2: loan debt and I started repaying my loans in February.

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Speaker 2: My credit report says my original lender was the US

532
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Speaker 2: Department of Education. However, I guess the debt was sold

533
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 2: to Naviant, another student lender or student loan servicer, and

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00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 2: it now says they are my current lender, and it's

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Speaker 2: who I am now paying my bills to. My problem

536
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 2: is that all my credit report, the same account is

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00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 2: listed twice under each lender. My Naviant accounts are in

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00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 2: good standing, However, the US Department Education accounts are listed

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Speaker 2: as closed. It makes it seem as if I have

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Speaker 2: eighteen loan accounts when I only have nine. Is there

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Speaker 2: a way to get the original lender the original US

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Speaker 2: Department Education accounts deleted. I'm not saying I don't owe

543
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Speaker 2: the debt, but the closed accounts look bad on my report.

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Speaker 2: Please help.

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Speaker 1: Well, madam one, I don't know that the closed accounts.

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00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 1: I remember when that happened, like everybody, when they switched

547
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Speaker 1: over and everyone in the Dreamcature group was freaking out.

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Speaker 1: They're like, who's Navian? First of all?

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00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 2: Navy And is the biggest, the baddest student loan service

550
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 2: out there? Pretty much like everybody. There's eleven different student

551
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 2: loan companies that manage the federal student loan debt, but

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00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:11,919
Speaker 2: Navian is like one of the biggest and one of

553
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 2: the literally baddest. They get in some trouble.

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Speaker 1: So one, I don't know that the closed accounts are

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00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:21,399
Speaker 1: you worried about, like if you go for like a

556
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 1: loan or something that they're going to look at it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's it's pretty well known that

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00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:30,160
Speaker 1: you know, Navvy and now handles your your federal student loans,

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Speaker 1: So looking at them as closed, knowing that Navvy and

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Speaker 1: brought them, I'm not sure what the concern is as

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Speaker 1: far as the closed accounts. Are you worried that they

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Speaker 1: lowered your credit score? Is?

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Speaker 2: Uh, she's not here, I know. Do you want me

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00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 2: to call her.

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Speaker 1: I don't have her number, no, but I guess I'm

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Speaker 1: just trying to like wondering, like what the worry.

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00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 2: Maybe she's just worried. Maybe she's maybe she thinks that

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00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 2: closed accounts on your credit report look bad because you

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Speaker 2: did hear so often that it's bad to close credit

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Speaker 2: cards because it'll lower the average age of your credit

571
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Speaker 2: and lower your credit score.

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Speaker 1: And it can, but and typically that's like a temporary drop.

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Speaker 1: But closing from like you know, your federal loan, you know,

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Speaker 1: from that to Navvy And as far as like if

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Speaker 1: you're going to get a loan and they pull your

576
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Speaker 1: credit score and they're looking at that, that that's not

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Speaker 1: something that people are going to be like what happened here,

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00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: because that was a shift that was that's just no nationwide,

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Speaker 1: this is what happened, you know. And I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: figure out how long ago that was, because they made

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Speaker 1: that shift a long time ago. So right, I feel it.

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Speaker 2: Like a big I mean, I think a large chunk

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Speaker 2: of people's federal student loans were were bought by Navviant,

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Speaker 2: But I mean that can happen anytime, and I don't

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Speaker 2: know about a long time ago. Basically after the recession,

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Speaker 2: the government stopped managing student loans directly and they contracted

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Speaker 2: a bunch of different student loan companies, including Naviant, there's

588
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Speaker 2: about eleven of them, and said, okay, we're going to

589
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Speaker 2: sell you. We're going to sell you parcels of loans

590
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Speaker 2: and give you the you know, give you the opportunity

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Speaker 2: to manage these loans for us. And that happened after

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Speaker 2: the recession. So like my loans, I think we're sold

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Speaker 2: two different times. But it's it's common with any kind

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Speaker 2: of debt. I don't know if there was like some

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Speaker 2: major recent purchase for Naviant bought a whole a new

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Speaker 2: bundle of debt, but I'm I don't know.

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Speaker 1: We're both like wait, So I'm just saying that I

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Speaker 1: don't think that it's going to affect your credit as

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Speaker 1: much as you might be worried because it wasn't like

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Speaker 1: I get why, because you're right, you don't want a

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Speaker 1: credit card company, you know, like to necessarily close your

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Speaker 1: card because one you do lose some of that credit history.

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Speaker 1: But the truth of the matter is there's nothing you

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Speaker 1: can't tell like that credit history with the federal government

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Speaker 1: as far as it being under their name is gone.

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00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 1: There's nothing you can do about it. You can't write

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00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: them back and say hey, open that back up again

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Speaker 1: because they've sold it already, so there's nothing you can

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Speaker 1: kind of do about that. And sometimes you have to

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Speaker 1: remember on our credit reports that your credit report. This

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Speaker 1: is why sometimes I don't like not I don't like

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Speaker 1: but those people who quote unquote fix your credit and

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Speaker 1: they're like, oh, we could take these things off, but

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Speaker 1: you have to remember your credit report is like your

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Speaker 1: report card. Like if you got a d in science

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Speaker 1: when you were a freshman in high school and I

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Speaker 1: know you're a senior now and you're getting a's, but

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Speaker 1: you got a d in science when you're a freshman.

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Speaker 1: That happened. So your credit report is supposed to report

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Speaker 1: on what actually happened. So that happened. You know they

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Speaker 1: close those accounts, So yes, I suppose you can. You

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Speaker 1: can write any creditor and say hey, can you take

623
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Speaker 1: this off? But if it's real and it's true, they're

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Speaker 1: under no obligation to take that off because it happened.

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Speaker 1: But that's not something that it's going to be counted

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Speaker 1: against you. Although you will lose that, you know that

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00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: that piece of credit history, but you can build up.

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Speaker 1: When people worry about credit, I'm always like you know,

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Speaker 1: of all things to worry about, to meet credit is

630
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Speaker 1: the easiest to manipulate and fix because you can pay

631
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Speaker 1: your debt down, you can make on time payments, you

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Speaker 1: can pay off a small debt and full every month,

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Speaker 1: like a small credit card and full every month. There

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Speaker 1: are things you can do to fairly. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to say quickly. It all depends on where you are

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00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: credit wise, but to raise your credit score versus like

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Speaker 1: debt and budgeting, those things are a little bit harder,

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00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: so I wouldn't worry about it quite honestly. I'm just like, well,

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00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: it's there and it happened, and you can write any creditor,

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00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 1: including the federal government, to ask them to remove it,

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00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 1: but they're under no obligation if it's actually a factual

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00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: credit reporting.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it takes closed accounts, and I'm just talking

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Speaker 2: about accounts that were closed because they were paid in

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Speaker 2: full or whatever. They don't disappear. They'll stay in your

646
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Speaker 2: account for like ten years, I think up to ten years,

647
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 2: but doesn't mean they're hurting your credit, and especially if

648
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 2: you never miss payments it's not like they have a

649
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 2: record of your missed payments like double miss payments or

650
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 2: something from your old loans and your new ones. So

651
00:32:57,920 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 2: as long as you were making your payments on time

652
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 2: and you just have these older accounts on your credit report,

653
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 2: it really shouldn't matter because it's just a record of

654
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 2: what happened and you did used to have those loans.

655
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 2: They're just I mean, they're closed, and I think anyone

656
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 2: reviewing your credit will put two and two together and say, Okay,

657
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 2: these were closed and then these were opened. Obviously these

658
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 2: were sold to the new lender.

659
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: And like I said, like the only way that I

660
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: really see that it is going to affect your your

661
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 1: because I just want to be clear that closed accounts,

662
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 1: when that account is closed, you do lose that credit history.

663
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: So sometimes you can see your your credit score go

664
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: lower because credit history is a percentage of your credit score.

665
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: And how long OD is it fifteen percent? Is that

666
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: what credit history is? How long your credit history is?

667
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 2: I think it's ten.

668
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: It's yes, it's a get credit.

669
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 2: It's the smallest factor.

670
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 1: So there is a small factor that's in play, but

671
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 1: it shouldn't dramatically affect your credit score. Unless that's the

672
00:33:51,760 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 1: only thing you have on your credit report. All right,

673
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 1: all right, it's time for wins. What's your win?

674
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 2: Oh? You know life?

675
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't do a tiffany win. That's the BS. I

676
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 1: ain't get a chance to think about a win.

677
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 2: It's not fair. I did the first brown break.

678
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:21,320
Speaker 1: I know. Okay, I'll go first with my wins because honestly,

679
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,439
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, what is my win again? So

680
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: my win is health and fitness. Here's why. Although I've

681
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: been going to the gym for three weeks straight, five

682
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: days a week, I've been doing my little exercises, I

683
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 1: have gained a pound and I don't know why. But

684
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:44,880
Speaker 1: the win for me is that I'm still going and

685
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 1: I'm starting like I'm trying to figure out, like, you

686
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:48,919
Speaker 1: know what, I've been eating better. Like, honestly, you guys

687
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:52,320
Speaker 1: have sent me like a lot of suggestions about eating

688
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: better and you know, exercising, and honestly, I've been taking them.

689
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:58,759
Speaker 1: I've been eating better. I've been you know, fruits and vegetables.

690
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I've always liked that anyway, But honestly, I

691
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 1: cut out junk food, cut out like processed sugar, well

692
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 1: processed sugar like in the obvious form, like I used

693
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 1: to be like a a like a Snicker's bar, you

694
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: know whatever, just chocolate aholic, and I cut that down

695
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 1: and I'm like, how the heck. But I mean, I

696
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: don't know. I feel better, but I'm just like, what

697
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:22,839
Speaker 1: in the world is going on? Of course, two man

698
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 1: is getting thinner by the moment. He's six six and

699
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,800
Speaker 1: like one pound, and I'm like, so clearly I'm gaining

700
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 1: whatever you're putting down. But I'm just saying I'm just

701
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 1: calling it a win because even though I told myself

702
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:36,799
Speaker 1: that it's going to be a process. The same thing

703
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,400
Speaker 1: that I tell like people who were like signing up

704
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:41,400
Speaker 1: for one of my Live ritual challenges or following the

705
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:43,359
Speaker 1: bunch of Nissa and they're like, I did it, then

706
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,399
Speaker 1: you said in my credit scores not moving or went

707
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 1: down a point. I tell them to stick with it,

708
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 1: that it's a process. So my wind is that I'm

709
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 1: sticking with the process, and I'm actually I'm feeling better,

710
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: even though you know, I'm not necessarily losing I might

711
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,919
Speaker 1: have lost an inch or so because my pants were

712
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 1: not quite as tight around stomach, so that's a little

713
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: bit of a wind. But yeah, I mean health in general. Child,

714
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 1: It's hard out here in these streets. I'm like, I

715
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 1: wish I could just whenever I see him eat like Superman,

716
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: I just want to like push it out of his

717
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: hand into the floor, because this man can eat. When

718
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 1: I say whatever, Mandy, whatever, he could eat a possum

719
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:23,399
Speaker 1: and come out healthy. If I'm just saying like, it's

720
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: so unfair because like.

721
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 2: You can't do that, because I do that. I did

722
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 2: my in my entire life. All my friends are skinny.

723
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:32,799
Speaker 2: They can eat whatever they want. I'll eat the same

724
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 2: thing and I'll gain like twenty pounds. Husban's the same way.

725
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 2: It's it's not the bitterness will not help us, believe me.

726
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 2: In fact, the bitterness adds weight.

727
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,319
Speaker 1: So I'm trying. But this lit like today he had

728
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: Chinese food and he was dogging it. And here I

729
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 1: was with my leaf of my leaf of lettuce and

730
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:53,400
Speaker 1: hummus and I was just looking at him, and he

731
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:55,800
Speaker 1: was looking at me just because you want something. I

732
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: was like, you know, I don't want any I mean,

733
00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 1: you know I do, but I'm not gonna eat it.

734
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,359
Speaker 2: You him some articles on how skinny fat is a thing.

735
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,280
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Mandy he's ripped, okay, because well, for work, he's

736
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:09,720
Speaker 1: he he's physical for work, like you know what he does,

737
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 1: so like he's literally exercising all day long. So that's

738
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:15,360
Speaker 1: one of the reasons too. Why you like he's slim

739
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 1: is just that he's like ripped for no reason. I'm

740
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: just like, yeah, so this is life. You you look

741
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 1: like a super like he literally, I'm like, you look like,

742
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 1: you know, you could be modeling in somebody's magazine muscles

743
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 1: for no reason.

744
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 2: Why it sounds like you're complaining about that though.

745
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,240
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously it's good for personal reasons.

746
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, everyone everyone right now is like and

747
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 2: why why.

748
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: That would be nice to have just a little bit

749
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 1: of those of that inside me as well. I mean, well,

750
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 1: you know, like anyway, health is my win, and then

751
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 1: I'm sticking with it. I'm sticking with it. And yes,

752
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:58,720
Speaker 1: even though yeah, I'm having a little trouble, but I'm

753
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: proud of myself that haven't given that's my win.

754
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:05,399
Speaker 2: I'm sorry I did not help your I didn't help

755
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 2: your progress when I gave you that Kisha on Saturday.

756
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: And I dogged it and I was thinking to myself,

757
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 1: I really shouldn't have a piece this big, but I

758
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: ate every last like crumb of it, and it was delicious.

759
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 2: It was the perfect surfing. So my win is gonna

760
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 2: be cake because we made two of them yesterday. So

761
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 2: baking has become our new favorite. This is and now

762
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 2: I understand how when you get married to let yourself

763
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 2: go and you put on like one hundred pounds because

764
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:35,240
Speaker 2: all I want to do is stay home on Sunday

765
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 2: and bake all day. And it started with we did

766
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,839
Speaker 2: pretzels a while back. Yesterday he made a carrot cake.

767
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 2: I made a lemon drizzle pound cake. My god, I

768
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 2: tell you, it is the most delicious thing I've ever made.

769
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 2: It is so good. Yeah, I yeah, I got it

770
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 2: barefoot contessa. She put her foot in that recipe, and

771
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:01,839
Speaker 2: thank you for it. Now I need to donate it

772
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:04,880
Speaker 2: to a good cause because it's gonna go right on

773
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,320
Speaker 2: my ass if I let it sit on the counter

774
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 2: any longer. So I guess that's my win. Just cake,

775
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 2: the therapy of baking.

776
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 1: Now you made me want some cake.

777
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 2: I hate you, I know, with some nice in his hat.

778
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 2: He made his like cream cheese frosting homemade.

779
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 1: But I don't like carocakee. My mom makes a good one,

780
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 1: but I don't like carocake. But that that pound cake,

781
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,479
Speaker 1: that lemon, just a pound cake that you're talking about.

782
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:29,359
Speaker 2: Honestly, I'm good.

783
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 1: That sounds like heaven.

784
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,400
Speaker 2: You can see the zest when you cut into it,

785
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 2: all the zest inside.

786
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: And I love lemon and like and likes. I don't

787
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,720
Speaker 1: like carrot and like, you know, like pastry, but lemon

788
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: is like life, honey. I'm like, I'm just living, like

789
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 1: my mouth is salad. I just gave to thanks, just

790
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: figure about it.

791
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,439
Speaker 2: I just think it is just the most relaxing thing

792
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 2: to cook and to bake. And I'm really it's like

793
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:56,839
Speaker 2: this new like Sunday thing. I mean, we cooked during

794
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 2: the week, but it's it's just fun to like go

795
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,319
Speaker 2: to the store getting ingredients and just come back and

796
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:03,880
Speaker 2: make it. And I feel like now I get it.

797
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:05,719
Speaker 2: Now I get white people bake because it just makes

798
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 2: you so happy.

799
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:10,840
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And one last little win, Facebook, thank you

800
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 1: for the lookout that you can go live from your

801
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 1: computer now, because going live just from your phone is ridiculous.

802
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 2: Wait, you can go live from Wait a second, we

803
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 2: have to do a live show.

804
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:22,279
Speaker 1: Then, yeah. Oh, that would be fun. Oh on the pot,

805
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 1: look at what I did there. Yes, Mandy, you can

806
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 1: go live from your computer, because somebody was telling me that.

807
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 1: But you know, Facebook loves to be shady and will

808
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: only roll out to certain people and it roll out,

809
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:34,440
Speaker 1: you know. So people were telling me for months like, oh,

810
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 1: I go live on my computer. I'm like, I don't

811
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 1: have that option. I just went live today in like

812
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 1: my my two Facebook groups and Dreamcatchers and then the

813
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 1: Liveratyre Academy group and it was awesome because typically I

814
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 1: have to hold my phone steady.

815
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 2: I've been there, you know, and then.

816
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,919
Speaker 1: My phone overheats because it's like child, We're not built

817
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 1: for this. So I went live today and it was great.

818
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: So yeah, we could definitely do a live Oh that'll

819
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 1: be fun.

820
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:58,839
Speaker 2: That's just more reason for you guys to go check

821
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 2: out our Facebook page around Ambition, Facebook dot com, slash

822
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 2: brown Ambition. Don't want to miss those live shows exactly.

823
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:08,760
Speaker 2: Hear how we really sound without all my careful editing.

824
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 1: Right Oh that means I can't look crazy because right

825
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 1: now I'm in like boxers and in a ratty T shirt.

826
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 2: One day my hair is just gonna reach around and

827
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 2: finally strangle me because that's how big it gets.

828
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 1: No, Mandy's hair is slaying. If we're gonna do a win,

829
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 1: what like, Miss Miko, I don't know what elixir of

830
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 1: unicorn that you put in those products. Mandy's curls have

831
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 1: been popping for I swear three weeks straight to see you. Mandy.

832
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, these curls are everything like I mean,

833
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 1: you always had like cute curls, but now the curls

834
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 1: are like peek up boo. I'm like, wait, Mandy, did

835
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 1: you usee something different? You're like mm hmm Miss Jesse's

836
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 1: pillow soft curls. Honestly, it agrees with you, like your

837
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:55,720
Speaker 1: your curls are slaying the bigger You'm little signe.

838
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:58,759
Speaker 2: I want to thank my DNA and I want to

839
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 2: thank Miss Jesse's of for just working together and creating

840
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 2: all this. It's just just been awesome and I'm so grateful.

841
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:07,360
Speaker 2: Hashtag blessed.

842
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:11,800
Speaker 1: Jamal has already he's like I'm knocking off Jamal.

843
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 2: We lost him at Ariana Grande. He didn't even know

844
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:18,879
Speaker 2: that there was an attack, Actually I didn't. I don't

845
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 2: want to belittle it because it does look like it

846
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:26,839
Speaker 2: was terrorism. We're just going to bookend this show with atrocities. Yeah,

847
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 2: we so go out and hug a puppy, Go live

848
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:35,280
Speaker 2: your life, love your life yolo because you never know, yes.

849
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 1: And go look at a wolf Baby's video for a

850
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 1: little lighthearted giggle and you'll get your life. That's what

851
00:42:39,520 --> 00:43:01,239
Speaker 1: I needed, okright until next week, Mandra Adi