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Speaker 1: Welcome to Reasonably Shady, a production of the Black Effect

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Speaker 1: Podcast Network and I Heart Radio. Welcome to another episode

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Speaker 1: of Reasonably Shady. I am Gazelle Bryant. What's up? What's

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Speaker 1: up y'all? This Robin Dixon? Happy New Year? Yeah, happy,

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Speaker 1: happy happy Year? Oh my god, now too much. It's great.

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Speaker 1: I was. I was just amazed by how beautiful it was.

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Speaker 1: Happy New Year. I mean, it's can you all believe

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Speaker 1: the three years ago? What was the pandemic? Like the

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Speaker 1: start of COVID pandemic? Was it? Was it? Right? Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's all been a blur. Like I just I can't

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Speaker 1: believe we're three years removed, almost three years removed from

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Speaker 1: like the start of cod that nonsense. Yeah, we added

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Speaker 1: that COVID is over. I mean, okay, it's not that

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Speaker 1: so fast, but it's baby. We're about to do the

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Speaker 1: champ Banks Yeah yeah, okay, So I want to know

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Speaker 1: what is Robin going to be doing? Let the people

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Speaker 1: hear it from you here first breaking news, d see. Okay,

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Speaker 1: my she's gonna be playing with her hair first and foremost. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm doing right now. Okay, Like, honestly, I

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Speaker 1: don't really know what my plans are um, but I

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Speaker 1: can say just as far as like what I want

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Speaker 1: to work on. I don't like to use I mean, okay,

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Speaker 1: a resolution, and we're gonna use that word. Okay, what

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Speaker 1: are my resolutions? What are my goals? Um? Number one

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Speaker 1: is to pay more attention to my business embellish. Okay.

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Speaker 1: I love that because I have been kind of just

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Speaker 1: running it, like almost like I've been letting it run itself,

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Speaker 1: meaning like I don't do a lot of like marketing.

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Speaker 1: I haven't posted on Instagram on my embellished Instagram page

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Speaker 1: and over way over a year probably let me actually

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Speaker 1: actually let me, let me push it up, I mean,

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Speaker 1: let me pull it up. You know why. Um so

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Speaker 1: I had I had a person doing my social media

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Speaker 1: and then okay, so my last post yeah January twenty one,

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Speaker 1: of Okay, that's ridiculous. So it's been almost an entire

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Speaker 1: year since I've posted on embellished page. Do you still

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Speaker 1: have a business? Yes, I do. It just runs itself.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's I have a business. I mean it's

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Speaker 1: it's like steady, it's consistent. But I know that I

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Speaker 1: can do so much more to really make it um

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Speaker 1: you know, just like super fruitful. Um, so that would

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Speaker 1: be you know, doing more social media, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: more photoshoots, more marketing stuff, more email marketing, more text

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Speaker 1: message marketing, more product development, all of that. And so

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Speaker 1: I really really really really want to like hone in

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Speaker 1: and focus on my business. I love that because I

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Speaker 1: have a great customer base, you know, and I need

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Speaker 1: to just you know, we're gonna hold you to it,

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Speaker 1: please do yes a matter of fact, pulst right now, No,

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Speaker 1: not right now, no, I will. I know, and I

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Speaker 1: need and I need to be better with social media

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Speaker 1: in general. And that's the hard part. Like I I

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Speaker 1: just you know, I've talked about social media and not

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Speaker 1: just because of like the trolls and the negativity. Like

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Speaker 1: I just don't like social media period like for myself,

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Speaker 1: Like I don't need to. I don't know, I don't

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Speaker 1: I don't even I don't like to take pictures of

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Speaker 1: myself period, right, But we gotta use social media for

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Speaker 1: your advantage and it will help with your business for sure.

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Speaker 1: That's been proven. Yeah yeah, I know, I know, but

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Speaker 1: it is a hard thing for me because I just

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Speaker 1: I don't necessarily even like to take a picture. So um. Secondly,

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Speaker 1: and this one. I know, like ninety five percent of

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Speaker 1: the world has the same resolution, but I want to

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Speaker 1: get in the best shape of my life. Like, okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to do it with you. Yeah, okay, well,

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Speaker 1: I mean you already work out, but so like for me,

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Speaker 1: like I haven't been active. I have not worked out

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Speaker 1: consistently in a very long time, which is you know,

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Speaker 1: unlike me kind of um. One day I was working

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Speaker 1: out with my trainer. This was like literally before the pandemic,

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Speaker 1: Like this, how long I have not been consistent because

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Speaker 1: if it's been three years as a problem. Yeah, So,

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Speaker 1: so I was in the gym and it was like,

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Speaker 1: all this stuff whatever it was, and it was just

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Speaker 1: it should not be this hard. Yes, that's what gets

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Speaker 1: the results, I know, but it was just I just

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Speaker 1: got frestrated. I was like this, I should not have

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Speaker 1: to work this hard every day of my life. Good, well,

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Speaker 1: you're good to feel good, thank you. I'm I'm very lucky.

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Speaker 1: Like Honestly, I'm very lucky that I am in the

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Speaker 1: you know, my my body is the way it is,

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Speaker 1: not that it's good, Like I definitely have a high

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Speaker 1: I know that I was I was given an athletic body,

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Speaker 1: and so I feel like I'm doing myself a disservice

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Speaker 1: by not putting it into action, putting into action, like

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Speaker 1: getting the most out of it. Once again, I'm Iran

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Speaker 1: and we aren't here, Bob. Okay, so let's talk about

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Speaker 1: recently Shade. We want recently Shady to like hit the

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Speaker 1: ten million mark of like download, Yeah, because what do

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Speaker 1: we We're at like four point five is right now? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so we can hit ten million. And it took over

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Speaker 1: two years, yes, but now we're popping. We are in

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Speaker 1: double A c P. No nomenkees, honey. We almost had

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Speaker 1: an image award. Honey. Well, you know you know how

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Speaker 1: we would do that? How if we recorded more often? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're not We're not doing that. Okay, moving on, we

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Speaker 1: had multiple more than one episode a week. Yes, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna go international. We're gonna have international because wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: can we talk about this before? Yes, I want to

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Speaker 1: do that before before. You remember when we had that

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Speaker 1: talk with Teddy Teddy Meilon Camp was no longer on

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Speaker 1: Beverly Hills, Yes, uh, yes, and you remember where we

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Speaker 1: were like, well, she's like, well, we have more downloads,

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Speaker 1: and but they record more frequently. Yes, and so so

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Speaker 1: she told us she had more downloads that I didn't

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Speaker 1: get it. I was like, what are you talking about?

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Speaker 1: And so then I said how often do you all record?

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Speaker 1: And they were like twice a week, right, two or

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Speaker 1: three times? So they put out they yeah, they put

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Speaker 1: of course you do, girl, you're that I call that

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Speaker 1: like um beating the system or like you're you're doing

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Speaker 1: the most. No, it is what it is. It is.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It's it's like you can't it's not

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Speaker 1: a true comparison. Yes, it's not apples and apples, yes,

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Speaker 1: but whatever. Okay, So the Reasonably Shady is going to

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Speaker 1: do international live shows. Yes, we have to go to

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Speaker 1: the UK. We're going to the UK. We're gonna tear

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Speaker 1: London to Smithereens, Yes, for sure. So we're coming people.

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Speaker 1: Um okay. So I have like some bittersweet things going

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Speaker 1: on with me in so I have Grace graduating from

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Speaker 1: high school, which is like whoo, and then I have

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Speaker 1: her going to college, which is so happy for her.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna be so hard, I know. So that's what's happened.

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Speaker 1: So just bear with me. I'm sure there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: some episodes. I might be crying. I feel like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: So when you were getting ready for college, yeah, did

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Speaker 1: you feel like your parents cared that you were going away? No? Literally,

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Speaker 1: my father was like pack your ship, let's now. I

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Speaker 1: mean they were very matter of fact with me, like

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Speaker 1: they were like, um, here you go, like going goodbye,

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Speaker 1: Like let's get in the car, packaged off. But once

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Speaker 1: got upset. I could see them. My mother was boooing,

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Speaker 1: I just I feel like even though I went to Maryland,

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Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, you're going to go to college and

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Speaker 1: you're gonna do get your good grades. Yes, and you're

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Speaker 1: not gonna you're gonna stay four years, not five because

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Speaker 1: we're only paying for four. Intentionally, I intentionally I didn't

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Speaker 1: a half years. Yes, Okay, my father wasn't having it.

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Speaker 1: We're also gonna blow Patreon out the water, guys, if

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Speaker 1: y'all don't know we're on Patreon. Yes, and we love

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Speaker 1: we love it because we get to I love our

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Speaker 1: lives zooms that we have with our reasonably shady bunch. Yes,

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Speaker 1: and I love, you know, just having that our little

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Speaker 1: you know, we always give you like different on the Patreon.

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Speaker 1: We have all kinds of teath that we're spilling on

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Speaker 1: and then we're going to do our small dinner parties. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we appreciate you all so much. I don't know that

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Speaker 1: And then for me personally, I have decided I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: It's me with my spot appointments. Okay, my massages and whatnot.

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Speaker 1: It's coming back full throttle because my my back be hurting. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that back on. Do you ever go to a chiropractor? No,

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Speaker 1: I probably should so I recently started. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I always always kind of had that like stig. You know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, it was always like Gary thought to me,

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Speaker 1: but they do wonders and and really like so MIA's

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Speaker 1: you know, Mia has the joint chiropractor practices, and those

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Speaker 1: or like you know, routine maintenance or whatever. But I

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Speaker 1: think it is good to go to a chiropractor. You

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Speaker 1: know that's like more of like a chira like a

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Speaker 1: assess like so much that's going on in your body. Um. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so I need that. It's really good, Like you literally

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Speaker 1: because he's just you know a little rough on his

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm like to add that in. But three

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Speaker 1: so this is when you know I'm gonna do it now,

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Speaker 1: but Taylor is going to do it later. What do

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Speaker 1: you do? That's amazing? I feel so motivated. So we

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Speaker 1: want to encourage everybody to write down your wish list

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Speaker 1: and like check back in every three months to make

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