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Speaker 2: We never had a doubt. I'm good. How are you happy,

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Speaker 2: brunanbish and Wednesday?

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Speaker 1: Yes, and we are back. So first things first, I

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Speaker 1: need to know dishwasher update.

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Speaker 2: Listen, I had. I had very little expectation when I

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Speaker 2: was just complaining to you guys about my whole dishwasher saga.

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Speaker 2: If you are out of the little you got to

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Speaker 2: listen to last week's show. I told you all about

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Speaker 2: how LG and Best Buy were conspiring to just try

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Speaker 2: busted dishwasher. So I went to Twitter. I took Tiffany's advice.

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Speaker 2: I haven't used Twitter to complain about a problem with

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Speaker 2: to Twitter and I started a thread just telling my story,

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Speaker 2: and I asked you guys to retweet me and at

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Speaker 2: them and comment and you you came through to like

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Speaker 2: a hilarious degree. I loved it.

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Speaker 1: We are both the best and the worst.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the worst. I mean to LG the worst, but

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Speaker 2: to me the best. Oh my god, I should read

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Speaker 2: some of the some of the tweets. It was like

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Speaker 2: I know which brand I'm never gonna buy again. Yes,

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Speaker 2: and Tiffany, thank you for retweeting. So what that? What

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Speaker 2: conversation with LG customer support pretty much for two days

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Speaker 2: Was they kept saying, it's not covered by the warranty.

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Speaker 2: We're so sorry, nothing we can do. And I kept

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Speaker 2: them saying, we have forwarded your we have forwarded your

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Speaker 2: case to our returns department. Here's your order number or

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Speaker 2: here's your case number. You should get an answer in

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Speaker 2: three to five business days. And I asked my husband, like,

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Speaker 2: our refund and our exchange has been approved. Yes, it worked.

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Speaker 2: like because right now, because the thing is, we bought

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Speaker 2: it through best best Buy, but it was an LG dishwasher.

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Speaker 2: LG is saying that they've approved it for the warranty

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Speaker 2: I don't know, like I don't know Best Buy, like

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Speaker 1: Yes, oh my gosh, that is awesome.

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Speaker 1: But when I found out that, like that whole complaint

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Speaker 2: Thanks. Yeah, I'm bout halfway there. I'm at week twenty.

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Speaker 1: the kids outside. How about you lay down on a

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Speaker 1: cod Oh like you and your boyfriend broke up. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna come by this weekend and I'm gonna we'll watch

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Speaker 1: movies and So that kind of like care for each

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Speaker 1: other as women in the workplace is what I experienced

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Speaker 1: when I taught preschool for ten years, and I think

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Speaker 1: that it made us better teachers. It made us just better,

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Speaker 1: you know, it just just made us better. And I

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Speaker 1: want to bring that to the company and we just

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Speaker 1: like I said, we have some some pivot points that

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Speaker 1: we can do to make it better. So I'm excited,

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Speaker 1: especially for the childcare credit to roll out and to

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Speaker 1: finding you know, childcare options for the people who need it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, we got so many great stories from our

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Speaker 2: listeners on their childcare experiences. But you're right, it's not

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Speaker 2: just about like the financial burden. It's also how you

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Speaker 2: how your employer wherever you work, startup independent, you know

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Speaker 2: how you're treated at work when it comes to those issues,

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Speaker 2: and like get into it because as a parent, I

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Speaker 2: think you need to build up that confidence in opening

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Speaker 2: up to your employer. And any good manager, whether you

448
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Speaker 2: are you know the budget needs to or you work

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Speaker 2: for a company, any good managers having a one on

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Speaker 2: one check in at least bi weekly with their direct reports,

451
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Speaker 2: and you need to use that time tonight, And I'm

452
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Speaker 2: constantly harping on this to my people, it's like it's

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Speaker 2: not and I and I make a point. I'm not

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Speaker 2: the best at small talk. Sometimes I'm like very much

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Speaker 2: like goal oriented just when I get to the point,

456
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Speaker 2: but I force myself to, you know, learn about each person.

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Speaker 2: Not that I have to force myself, but you know how

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Speaker 2: it is when you're just like focused on the work,

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Speaker 2: but open up about myself. And I think by talking

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Speaker 2: about my pregnancy and not making it some big secret

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Speaker 2: saying I do need time off every few weeks to

462
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Speaker 2: go to the doctor for the morning, like and and

463
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Speaker 2: not making it something that's I should be ashamed about

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Speaker 2: because I'm not so that they feel when they're ready

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Speaker 2: to start a family or they need to ask out,

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Speaker 2: you know, time off for their kid being sick. Believe me,

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Speaker 2: I'm cash all the all the flexibility I've given my

468
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Speaker 2: team when it comes to childcare for their kids, I

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Speaker 2: will be granting it to myself as well. And good

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Speaker 2: and uh yeah yeah, And it's not just about the money.

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Speaker 2: But that's that's amazing. I think that that it will

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Speaker 2: make a huge difference and just show where you where

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Speaker 2: your values are, you know, for your team, and that'll

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Speaker 2: trickle down awesome.

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Speaker 1: Yes on the brain right, this is such a warm

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Speaker 1: im like I feel like we're like like the whole

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Speaker 1: ba you know, like listenership is like slowly, we're like,

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Speaker 1: come in for the hug. You know. I'm not a

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Speaker 1: big hugger, but at this moment in time, I want

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Speaker 1: you to lean into the hug. Okay, hug, hug, hug Okay.

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Speaker 1: Squeeze let gouted.

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Speaker 2: December second, and childcare wise, we were fortunate because my

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Speaker 2: husband's mother doesn't work, and she fortunate slash am I fortunate?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. She basically wants one hundred percent childcare

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Speaker 2: custody as soon as this child is in the world,

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Speaker 2: so we'll have support, Like, you know, I've got my

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Speaker 2: I'll have my maternity leave, my husband's got his paternity

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Speaker 2: It's not amazing, but we'll probably we'll be able to

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Speaker 2: cobble together probably five to six months off to be home,

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Speaker 2: and then I plan on I plan on just letting

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Speaker 2: myself figure out what I want. Like people are asking me,

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Speaker 2: what's your childcare plan? Is your mother in law going

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Speaker 2: to move in? You know? Are you going to put

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Speaker 2: him in daycare? And I'm like, how do I know?

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Speaker 2: And what I need until it's like in the world,

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Speaker 2: and I don't know if I'm gonna, like, I might

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Speaker 2: be so crazy you staying at home and I'm gonna

498
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Speaker 2: want to go back to work immediately, or I might

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Speaker 2: negotiate work from home for a few extra months, Like

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It's okay not to know, and just will sign now

502
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Speaker 1: because everyone is going to give you so much quote

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Speaker 1: unquote advice.

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Speaker 2: Or they just ask questions that stress you out with

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Speaker 2: no actionable tips included.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and you don't have to I mean, like, honestly,

507
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Speaker 1: nobody knows anything like you just you don't have to

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Speaker 1: know you just like you said you'll. I remember when

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Speaker 1: when like Roman first came home. I remember we all

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Speaker 1: had like this plan, like Okay, I'm gonna spend two

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Speaker 1: weeks with Carol, then you spend then you spend after

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Speaker 1: a week Carols like, everybody get out of my house.

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Speaker 2: Right, yes, I feel like I will be Carol.

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Speaker 1: She was like, you're stressing me out. Everyone is stressing me.

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Speaker 1: Everyone get out of my house. It's too much. I

516
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Speaker 1: will the baby, Like the baby is stressed enough. Now

517
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Speaker 1: I gotta worry about you, Like did you eat? Do

518
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Speaker 1: you want some cereal, like so so exactly. But then

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Speaker 1: my sister Karen was different, like her her mother in

520
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Speaker 1: law moved in and she's like her mother in law's amazing,

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Speaker 1: she's super nice, like fun, and she moved in and

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Speaker 1: Karen was like, oh my gosh, she's so great with

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Speaker 1: the baby. I'm so glad she's here. And then my

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Speaker 1: mother stayed for a couple of months, and then my

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Speaker 1: sister Tracy went. Then like my sister Lisa went, so

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Speaker 1: Karen was very much like, you know, please tag tag

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Speaker 1: the next person in. So you just don't know you're

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Speaker 1: gonna feel until you get there, and there's nothing wrong

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Speaker 1: with either way.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. I'm just gonna give myself a space to

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Speaker 2: just you know, be this, you know, vessel of life.

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Speaker 2: And just I caught myself watching YouTube videos on childbirth.

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Speaker 2: Don't do that. Do that you don't want to see,

534
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Speaker 2: you don't want to see. But anyway, I'm very excited.

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Speaker 2: Thank you guys. You know, I don't know why I'm

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Speaker 2: saying thank you. Thank you for your gifts. In advance,

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Speaker 2: I'll send you my registry. Think no, but yeah, first

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Speaker 2: brand ambitionion, baby, we need like some broad ambition onesies

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Speaker 2: or something we do. All.

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Speaker 1: Well, now that we've gotten all that great news out

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Speaker 1: of the way, it is time for one of my

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Speaker 1: favorite segments, questions the name not tune? Mandy?

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Speaker 2: Was that a song?

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's not there. I'm gonna do it again. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna do it. It's I mean, it's the tune that

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Speaker 1: you want to name. It is time for brown ambition questions.

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Speaker 1: Please ask what you need. Now, it's time to ask

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Speaker 1: a question. You wait, wait, what is it? You're no toll?

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Speaker 1: It's deck the Hall, Deck the Hall.

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Speaker 2: Wait, that's the same tune. I think.

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Speaker 1: No Jingo jing a bell is jingo bells?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you're right, you're right, Deck the Halls? But

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Speaker 2: why are we in Christmas? I don't understand. It's Sali

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Speaker 2: though it's one hundred degrees though.

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Speaker 1: Honestly, I didn't even know who it came from. It

556
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Speaker 1: just came from nowhere. And I would like to see if,

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Speaker 1: like you know me, and I'm always testing Mandy's like

558
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Speaker 1: random unnecessary knowledge, and you're like, I don't, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I thought I was gonna lose another black card because

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Speaker 2: it's always some like obscure nineties black reference that I

561
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Speaker 2: wasn't alive long enough to know what is straight. I

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Speaker 2: got you on Christmas on Christmas Carols, you did?

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Speaker 1: You got me like you know you you were in

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Speaker 1: at least the vicinity. So we're gonna we're gonna let

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Speaker 1: you keep that one, all right. So it's time for

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Speaker 1: some questions. What questions are in the box?

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Speaker 2: Ooh, got some good questions today? Let me pop over

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Speaker 2: to the Instagram again. We are at Brown Ambition Podcast

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Speaker 2: on Instagram. Feel free to shoot us your questions. Do

570
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Speaker 2: let me know if you want me to put you

571
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Speaker 2: on blast with your name or if you want to

572
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Speaker 2: be anonymous, because if you don't, I will say your

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Speaker 2: name or at least your Instagram handle. And for those

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Speaker 2: of you who've been sending questions, thank you very very much.

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Speaker 2: So first question, let me see, let me see, let

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Speaker 2: me see ooh for this question comes from let me

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Speaker 2: see what's her name? Oh? At Meme seven zero two

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Speaker 2: on Instagram. She says, I'm loving your podcast, but I

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Speaker 2: need some help. I feel completely lost. I'm forty one

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Speaker 2: years old and I've never invested, but I would love

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Speaker 2: to start. I work as a childcare provider in my home.

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Speaker 2: My husband works outside of the home. Where should I start? Well,

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Speaker 2: forty one, I mean it's over for you, Like, why

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Speaker 2: are you even trying? I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding.

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Speaker 2: That's so young. Yes, yeah, I mean forty one. Forget

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Speaker 2: about your age when it comes to like investing, like,

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Speaker 2: just start when you feel ready, honestly. And so if

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Speaker 2: you're working from home and your husband's outside of the home,

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Speaker 2: I would ask is your husband get access to a

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Speaker 2: four to one K If he does, and even better

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Speaker 2: if his company matches his contributions, I would definitely start

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Speaker 2: there because you don't want to leave money on the

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Speaker 2: table if they're going to match you know, a percentage

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Speaker 2: of his savings. You, as an independent you know, working

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Speaker 2: for yourself, don't have the same Bennett or don't have

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Speaker 2: the opportunity to get match, So I would first start there. Secondly,

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Speaker 2: you can easily open you know as far as like

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Speaker 2: the you know options you can go to like any

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Speaker 2: any firm like a Vanguard, a Fidelity, uh TDM Error

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Speaker 2: Trade and open a starter just an I array individual

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Speaker 2: retirement account that you can open and start saving in. Personally,

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Speaker 2: there's also a step I array, which is an option

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Speaker 2: if you are self employed I would say, check with

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Speaker 2: an accountant. So first investment I think might be good

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Speaker 2: for you is invest in, you know, a consult a

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Speaker 2: consultation with an accountant, someone who can give you really

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Speaker 2: solid advice to get you off the ground. It may

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Speaker 2: cost a couple hundred bucks, but think about just having

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Speaker 2: someone give you that shove in the right direction and

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Speaker 2: select the right account for you, and then just start

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Speaker 2: setting aside however much you feel comfortable with each month,

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Speaker 2: you know, warranted that your day to day expenses are covered,

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Speaker 2: and you are you know, you have a decent sized

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Speaker 2: emergency fund, then there's no need.

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Speaker 4: To to delay.

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Speaker 2: Just start small. It can be you know, one hundred

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Speaker 2: bucks a month, just something.

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Speaker 1: Exactly, and I mean honestly, Mandy basically said it all.

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Speaker 1: That's what I would say. Honestly, look to your husband

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Speaker 1: where he can start. You could put whatever amount of

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Speaker 1: money that you want a month into into like a

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Speaker 1: Vanguard find Sometimes I think people think like, well, if

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Speaker 1: my job doesn't offer it, that's okay, because you can

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Speaker 1: do the same for yourself outside of your you know,

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Speaker 1: your job. But you want to start quickly and as

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Speaker 1: soon as possible, because yes, there is a benefit to

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Speaker 1: starting early, but it's never too late to start. I

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Speaker 1: mean I started early, backtrack by taking all that money out,

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Speaker 1: that started a little later. And you know, either way,

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Speaker 1: you're in the game. That's really what's most important. That

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Speaker 1: getting in the game is better than not being in

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Speaker 1: the game.

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Speaker 2: And at forty one, I mean, I hope you live

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Speaker 2: along and blessed life. Average age is like for women

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Speaker 2: today is in their eighties, early eighties. You got forty

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Speaker 2: years ahead of you. That is a long time horizon.

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Speaker 2: It's definitely not too late to start investing now. And

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Speaker 2: you know, it's also not too late for you to

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Speaker 2: be a little aggressive with your investing too. Like, don't

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Speaker 2: think you need to just like keep your money in

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Speaker 2: a savings account because you're not gonna especially if you're

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Speaker 2: starting a little bit later, you're not gonna you don't

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Speaker 2: have the potential to earn what you might earn, you know,

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Speaker 2: if you were to invest. That being said, you're also

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Speaker 2: not twenty one, so you don't want to be over

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Speaker 2: invested in stock. So that's why I think it might

647
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Speaker 2: be a good idea for you. Start with maybe a

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Speaker 2: consultation with a financial planner or an accountant. Just get

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Speaker 2: someone who's fee only, who will charge you a flat

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Speaker 2: you know rate just to get you started, and someone

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Speaker 2: who isn't gonna, you know, want to take a cut

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Speaker 2: of your future you know, earnings and your investment account.

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Speaker 2: Or if you want to do even simpler, what is

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Speaker 2: that app called Acorns. That's the one where you can

655
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Speaker 2: sign up and it rounds up your does it round

656
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Speaker 2: up your purchases and then it saves yep.

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Speaker 1: So you can let doors because I have Acorns, so

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Speaker 1: you can you can put like, you know, you can

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Speaker 1: say fifty bucks a month or whatever, and then you

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Speaker 1: can also say, hey, every time I swipe this particular

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Speaker 1: card or whatever, you know, round up that that change.

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Speaker 1: So that's a good, like super easy place to kind

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Speaker 1: of start. But I agree with Mandy that you know

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Speaker 1: you're gonna want to sit with a professional just to

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Speaker 1: get a better understanding. But you can literally sign up

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Speaker 1: for Acorns tonight just so you get started, even if

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Speaker 1: it's twenty bucks a month. So it's something It's not

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Speaker 1: about the twenty bucks. It's about the habit of I

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Speaker 1: am setting aside for my future. I understand that it

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Speaker 1: is my younger self job to take care of my

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Speaker 1: older self.

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Speaker 2: Take care of your inner Wandra, Wanda, Wanda. Okay, I

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Speaker 2: have a cousin named Wandra. Shout out to key. Hey,

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Speaker 2: all right, thank you for your question at meme seven

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Speaker 2: oh two. Let's see. Oh, here's a question that we

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Speaker 2: got from last week, and I just asked for a

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Speaker 2: little bit of follow up information. So this is Instagram

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Speaker 2: user Banks. So Banks has a question about paying off

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Speaker 2: her card note. So she says, I'm thinking of purchasing

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Speaker 2: a home and the next few years. I think to

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Speaker 2: get there, my first step should be to pay off

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Speaker 2: my car. But I find that idea unsettling because honestly,

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Speaker 2: people cannot drive in Atlanta. So I was thinking of

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Speaker 2: saving the amount in an online savings account. If I

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Speaker 2: were to save up enough money to pay off my car,

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Speaker 2: do you think that I could negotiate how much I

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Speaker 2: owe with my lender down by having a lump sum Banks? Interesting,

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Speaker 2: I was gonna say that.

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Speaker 1: I never heard that before. I don't want to say no,

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Speaker 1: but I'm saying not likely, because I mean, it's it's

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Speaker 1: the amount of I mean, it's not it's not like

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Speaker 1: a lull. Well, you know, I don't want to say no.

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Speaker 1: I'm not I quite honest, I've never heard about anybody

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Speaker 1: negotiating for like, Hey, I know I owe you, you know,

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Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars on a car. What if I gave

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Speaker 1: you eight in a lump sum. Because here's in general,

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Speaker 1: this is what I found about lenders, even when I

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Speaker 1: was going through my foreclosure and stuff, that the only

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Speaker 1: time that they are open for negotiation is when you

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Speaker 1: haven't given them anything for a while, because at that

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Speaker 1: point they're like, just give me something, even when you're

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Speaker 1: going for modification. So modification is like when you're trying

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Speaker 1: to get your like so for a mortgage. And when

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Speaker 1: I couldn't form my mortgage anymore, I applied for modification.

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Speaker 1: And that's when they're trying to modify my mortgage to

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Speaker 1: a lower monthly payment. And the only way to qualify

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Speaker 1: for modification was for me to be late and consistently late.

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Speaker 1: So I wasn't late, So when I first applied, they

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Speaker 1: would not they would not give me modification because in

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Speaker 1: the bank's eyes, so you're telling me, person who pays

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Speaker 1: on time, that you don't want to give me the

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Speaker 1: money that you've been giving me. Why should I take

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Speaker 1: less when you're give me my money now? I'm not

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Speaker 1: advocating for you not to pay, like like, well, I'm

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Speaker 1: just gonna be laid on my in my car payment

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Speaker 1: and then see if they'll take a take less money

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Speaker 1: because you don't want to tank your credit score and

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Speaker 1: your chances of getting a home. But I'm just saying

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Speaker 1: that lenders typically don't look to settle or negotiate when

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Speaker 1: they're already receiving your money. Like I'll take yourself out

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Speaker 1: for a minute of like it's you and just like

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Speaker 1: imagine somebody owed you money. They owed you a thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars and they were giving you one hundred dollars a month,

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Speaker 1: and it's been four months and they paid you your

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars on the first of every month, never been late.

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Speaker 1: And they're like, hey, girl, I know I owe you

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Speaker 1: six hundred dollars, Can I just give you four? It's

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Speaker 1: like no, I'll just continue to give my hundred dollars

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Speaker 1: a month for the next six months. Thanks, you see

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Speaker 1: what I mean. So there's no real benefit for the bank. So,

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Speaker 1: like I said, I'd never heard of it before. I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna say no, but I just don't know how

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Speaker 1: likely that is.

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Speaker 2: Well, let me help out a little bit here. So

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Speaker 2: when I got this question, I reached out to Jennifer Jones,

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Speaker 2: who is the autos writer that we have here at

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Speaker 2: lending Tree where I work, And I asked Jen because

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Speaker 2: she has experience actually working in the financing office at

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Speaker 2: dealerships around the country. So I asked, Jen, is this

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Speaker 2: something that you've heard before? And she said, honestly, every

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Speaker 2: lendar is a little bit different. It takes two to negotiate,

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Speaker 2: so all you you know, all you can do is

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Speaker 2: start to ask. But she said, so you're to your

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Speaker 2: point because I had the same thought. You know, what's

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Speaker 2: in it for the bank to negotiate someone who's been

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Speaker 2: paying their auto, who's been paying their note on time.

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Speaker 2: But Gen actually said, if you tell them something like,

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Speaker 2: you know, be truthful about your situation, if you're truly struggling,

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Speaker 2: if you think you're about to file bankruptcy, or you've

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Speaker 2: got other debts that have been piling up, you know,

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Speaker 2: since you originally took out the loan, and you ask

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Speaker 2: them how to how they can help you, you may

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Speaker 2: find that they may be actually sympathetic to your cause.

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Speaker 2: And one of the reasons that Gen points it out

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Speaker 2: is that yes, you can say, why would they negotiate

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Speaker 2: with you? All they have to do is repossess your

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Speaker 2: car if you stop paying. But Jen said, it's people

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Speaker 2: don't realize it's actually expensive for the lender to repossess

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Speaker 2: cars and they have to sell the car for wholesale,

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Speaker 2: which means they would get less than probably what they

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Speaker 2: wanted to if they were able to trade it in

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Speaker 2: or something like that. So they may not even want

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Speaker 2: to take the car back in most situations, and that

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Speaker 2: may give you some negotiation leverage when it comes down

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Speaker 2: to it. So it's not a no, it's just more

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Speaker 2: of a depends in this particular case with listener Binks.

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Speaker 2: You know, she's thinking, let me pay off my car

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Speaker 2: so I'll be ready to purchase a home and have

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Speaker 2: you know, that'll help you lower your debt to income ratio,

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Speaker 2: which which is a big factor for getting approved for

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Speaker 2: a mortgage or even just getting a better mortgage rate.

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Speaker 2: So I do think it's a good idea. I would

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Speaker 2: just say, you won't know unless you ask your lender,

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Speaker 2: and you will go into the conversation, and Jen agreed

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Speaker 2: with this. You'll go into the conversation a lot stronger

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Speaker 2: if you can say I have this lump sum and

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Speaker 2: I can pay off the car right now.

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Speaker 1: And so you might want to wait to have the

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Speaker 1: conversation until you actually have the lung sum.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, that was good.

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Speaker 1: I've never heard that before. I was like, huh, I

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Speaker 1: never thought about that, but yes, honestly, and if you

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Speaker 1: do it, let us know, because I would love or

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Speaker 1: if anybody's in the audiences has done that before, please

785
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: let us know. I would love to know the outcome

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Speaker 1: and maybe kind of share with us what kind of

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Speaker 1: tip the scale in your favor so that we can share.

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Speaker 2: One hundred percent. Hit us up at Brandnambisson Podcast at

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Speaker 2: gmail dot com or Instagram at Brown Ambition Podcast. Where

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Speaker 2: else can they find us? Twitter at the BA Podcast,

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Speaker 2: brandnibisionpodcast dot com, just google Brand Ambition Podcasts. We're everywhere.

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Speaker 4: Thank you guys for your questions.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and now it's time for Booster to break for

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Speaker 1: all the family. Will you booth? Will you break? What

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Speaker 1: will it be?

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Speaker 2: Mandy Mickeydow's Club nailed it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well you know, I mean, after ten thousand years,

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Speaker 1: but I'm gonna let it. I'm gonna leave it okay easy.

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Speaker 2: So I've got to do a break this week. I

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Speaker 2: heard so we all I think it came out a

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Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago. Disney cast Halle Bailey of Halle

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Speaker 2: is it Halle and Chloe? How do they pronounce that

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Speaker 2: X in the middle? Okay, So they cast young, beautiful

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Speaker 2: black singer actress Halle Bailey as the new Ariel in

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Speaker 2: The Little Mermaid, which was like, no one saw that coming.

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Speaker 2: It was freaking amazing. But of course, very quickly after

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Speaker 2: that news broke, we had this hashtag start on Twitter,

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Speaker 2: hashtag not my Aeriel, which became a whole thing. There

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Speaker 2: were think pieces written on it. Black Twitter went insane.

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Speaker 2: Of course, we're all defending why we need you know,

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Speaker 2: why a mythical character, you know, can be any shade

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Speaker 2: of the rainbow. And then an article came out this

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Speaker 2: week that actually people looked back, where did this hashtag

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Speaker 2: not my Ariel come from? Turns out it was Russia. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so that you know, if you haven't heard like a

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Speaker 2: lot of the reason like, what's there there's these Russian

817
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Speaker 2: like there's these companies that just hire people to stoke

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Speaker 2: flames on Twitter, just to you know, get Americans all

819
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Speaker 2: riled up and at each other's throats, and they created

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Speaker 2: this hashtag purposefully to tap into what actually worked, which

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Speaker 2: is like this latent understanding, this latent expectation of racism

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Speaker 2: in America, and god, it was like minorities versus white people,

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Speaker 2: and you know, just all this unnecessary debate, which is

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Speaker 2: not because like it was started by these Russian these

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Speaker 2: Russian bots on social media. It like distorts what's really

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Speaker 2: going on. Are people really that upset about a black

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Speaker 2: aerial or is it just Russian bots making us think

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Speaker 2: that we have you know, of course, I'm sure there's

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Speaker 2: a handful of people in America who you know, are

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Speaker 2: very upset about this, this in black Santa Claus and

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Speaker 2: everything else. But I just I got to do a

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Speaker 2: brown break for buying into the social media rage machine

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Speaker 2: and just like jumping on the bandwagon and chiming in,

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Speaker 2: because you could just be proliferating a completely false, a

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Speaker 2: completely false like narrative. Narrative, Yeah, thank you, narrative. So

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Speaker 2: just think about it and and you know, do your

837
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Speaker 2: Google to see where things originated from before you believe

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Speaker 2: what's really going on.

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Speaker 1: It's such a shame that you know, it caught on

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Speaker 1: so quickly. There's something to be said for that as well. Well,

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Speaker 1: I am actually going to boost speaking of dope black

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Speaker 1: women in the movies and such. So Double O seven,

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Speaker 1: James Bond, I take my what is it is he

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Speaker 1: saying like shaken, not stirred or something like that. I

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Speaker 1: don't know.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, Bond, James Bond, That's all I know.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, currently he's played by a man named Daniel Craig.

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Speaker 1: That's he's a kind of blondish blue eyes. But it

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Speaker 1: wasn't he like originally from who was he was so handsome,

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Speaker 1: like he's got like a Scottish accent. The original James Well,

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Speaker 1: he's not the original Purece Brosnan.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no. Sean Connery. Sean Connery, Yes, where

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Speaker 2: did I dike that up from?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I didn't have it, so Sean Connery

855
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:01,719
Speaker 1: know if that was the first one, and I don't.

856
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:03,399
Speaker 1: I know it's not, but that's like the first one

857
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:07,720
Speaker 1: I remember. So anyway, it's always been played by a dude.

858
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Speaker 1: So for the very first time, not only is Double

859
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Speaker 1: O seven obviously her name is not gonna be James Vond,

860
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,799
Speaker 1: but not only is the Double O seven character gonna

861
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 1: be played by a woman. It's by a black woman,

862
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: a black British actress to be. In fact, her name

863
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 1: is her name is Lashanda Lynch. And for years that

864
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:32,360
Speaker 1: has been intense speculation about who's gonna take over the

865
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Speaker 1: reins of the most I mean, honestly, the James Vond

866
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:37,319
Speaker 1: kind of like series is like the most durable and

867
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 1: profitable film franchises in history, and so the fact that

868
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 1: they're getting a black woman is like, wait a minute.

869
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:49,319
Speaker 1: She is thirty one years old. She is a newcomer.

870
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 2: She was, wasn't she in the Captain Marvel movie? She

871
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 2: played like the Air Force pilot, the best friend of

872
00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:57,360
Speaker 2: Captain Marvell.

873
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:58,239
Speaker 1: Yes, I think you're right.

874
00:42:58,320 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was when I first saw her.

875
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 1: Knowing things a pop culture. Okay, so honestly, I am

876
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 1: super duper excited. So now that you know about the

877
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 1: whole fake hashtag now my area, please be mindful. Then

878
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 1: I'm sure that the Russian box are also working on

879
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 1: not my bond or whatever.

880
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:17,359
Speaker 2: Don't do it. Don't retweet it.

881
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't don't do it. Just you know, just enjoy it.

882
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:24,839
Speaker 2: Just show up to the movies whenever it comes out.

883
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:26,879
Speaker 2: That's all you have to do to protest. That's all

884
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 2: I have to do.

885
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, So yeah, honestly, I'm really excited to see it

886
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 1: because I'm like, I'm excited to see, like, you know,

887
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 1: from a woman's perspective, like what are they going to do,

888
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:39,359
Speaker 1: because you know, James Bond is supposed to be like

889
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 1: kind of like this like sexy spy that solves crime

890
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 1: or whatever, but also seduces women. So I'm really excited

891
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 1: to see what is it going to look like from

892
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:51,799
Speaker 1: a woman's perspective. You know, if it.

893
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 2: Wasn't going to be Idris Elva, the god of you know, cinema,

894
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 2: like I love a trace, if it wasn't going to

895
00:43:58,320 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 2: be him, because you know, he was in the mix

896
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 2: for a while and I really was like wanting him

897
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,839
Speaker 2: to win this role. But yeah, if it wasn't gonna

898
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 2: be him, this is that this is like, honestly even

899
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 2: better than I could have imagined. Like I didn't even

900
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:11,319
Speaker 2: think beyond it's got to be a dude, which you know,

901
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 2: I should question my own, you know, my own thought process,

902
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 2: but the fact that it's a woman and they have

903
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 2: a woman writing it, Phoebe waller Bridge, who who's like

904
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 2: a writer and actress that I've really been a fan

905
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 2: of She's actually writing the script like this is major,

906
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 2: I'm excited major.

907
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 1: This is like honestly, since Wakanda was discover it's really

908
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:34,919
Speaker 1: been kind of a good thing for blacks and browns.

909
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 2: And wa Kanda effect it could be I.

910
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:39,880
Speaker 1: Don't know, you know, I feel like that movie was

911
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: so like, wait, black people go to movies. Black people

912
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:45,400
Speaker 1: like seeing black people.

913
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,280
Speaker 2: Wait a man, who are Adia?

914
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: Which I mean, no shade tall of pair because you know,

915
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 1: we're also grateful for the fact that they're you know.

916
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 1: But at the same time, it's like, it's like when

917
00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 1: my cousin started Munaluchi Bridle. Right, so it started off

918
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: as a magazine. Now it's like this whole enterprise. But

919
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:07,880
Speaker 1: I remember when she wanted to get into Barnes and

920
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 1: Noble and somehow she got with the buyer Barnes and Nobles.

921
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 1: She hadn't even launched the magazine just yet, and they

922
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: were like, I don't know, do like do basically like,

923
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 1: do black people want to see bridal magazines? As if

924
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 1: black and brown women don't get married? I mean, are

925
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:25,760
Speaker 1: you kidding me? And so when she did the first

926
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 1: first run of the first issue of Muduluchi Bridle. They

927
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:32,839
Speaker 1: told her, do not print more than three thousand copies.

928
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,320
Speaker 1: They were actually gonna which I don't know how Jackie

929
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: managed to shout out to Jackie so she was able

930
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 1: to convince them to like roll it out to all

931
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 1: the Barns and Nobles. Meanwhile, Jackie was like a scientist

932
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 1: or something ahead of the time. She had no printing experience,

933
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:48,200
Speaker 1: none of this. She just was like, I wanted to

934
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Speaker 1: get I got married to my husband. There were no

935
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 1: magazines available. This sucks. I'm going to start something. And

936
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 1: she had gotten really into photography and started this magazine.

937
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:57,280
Speaker 1: They told her, don't print any more than three thousand

938
00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 1: copies and we'll just sprinkle them in a few Barns

939
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:02,280
Speaker 1: and Nobles around the country. She did a ten thousand

940
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: dollars run that means like just amount that you print

941
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:07,520
Speaker 1: at one time, and they were like, not ten thousand dollars,

942
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 1: ten thousand issue run. They were like, yo, you're bugging

943
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:11,880
Speaker 1: You're crazy. It's sold out in like three days. They're like,

944
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 1: do you have more? Because black and brown women get

945
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 1: married and they'd like to see themselves in magazines. They

946
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 1: could not believe Barnes and Noles could not believe how

947
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:25,360
Speaker 1: quickly it flew off the shelves, and that was like,

948
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 1: I don't even know. It might have been up till

949
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:29,840
Speaker 1: like ten years ago, but it's been forever ago and

950
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 1: she's been killing it ever since. So this is just,

951
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:34,839
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes we forget like black and brown women

952
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 1: they care about finance, Black and brown women get married,

953
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 1: Black and brown women like we do all the things.

954
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:44,439
Speaker 1: So having representation is always going to be a win

955
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:46,839
Speaker 1: for you. Rihanna Tallas that we actually like to wear

956
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: makeup too, I imagine that, you know. And so now

957
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:53,319
Speaker 1: you see literally every makeup brand many do you notice

958
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 1: they all have like fifty colors. Now I'm like, so yeah,

959
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:00,399
Speaker 1: it's just like this is just such an awesome thing,

960
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 1: and I just love that, like we're starting to normalize, like,

961
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:08,239
Speaker 1: you know, brownness and make it just mainstream because we

962
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:12,799
Speaker 1: are mainstream. And so yes cha, I can't wait, can't

963
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:13,439
Speaker 1: I wait, can't wait?

964
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 2: Congrats Lashawna.

965
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Speaker 1: Yes and shot y'all. Because a friend of a friend

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Speaker 1: of the show Tanya of my Fat Finance, she had

967
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Speaker 1: posted I think I saw Tita. I was tagged. She posted,

968
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Speaker 1: like what what what financed podcasts? Do you guys listen

969
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Speaker 1: to And when I tell you, Brann and Bishon was

970
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Speaker 1: all in those comments. I mean like I felt like

971
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Speaker 1: every other comment.

972
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:35,880
Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god, you guys love us

973
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:37,840
Speaker 2: on the show.

974
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 1: I know. And I was like, it was just so

975
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Speaker 1: night because you know, someone because they most people had

976
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Speaker 1: tagged brand Ambish, but one person was tagged me and

977
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Speaker 1: I'm like, what's this? And I was looking in the

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Speaker 1: bha Many, Tiffy, Branna bish Brother. I was like, oh mg,

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Speaker 1: So I just thought that was really like, you know,

981
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Speaker 1: just really, you guys really love us that we love

982
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Speaker 1: you back.

983
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:03,759
Speaker 2: I knew they loved us, but it's always amazing to

984
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:05,920
Speaker 2: hear it to see you guys keep tagging us on

985
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:08,720
Speaker 2: Instagram too, because I love sharing your fun little videos.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, shall I'll see the video of the

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Speaker 2: little boy, the little toddler? I forget what the yes,

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Speaker 2: Oh my God gave me hope from my own little

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Speaker 2: human spawn. Will it be that cool? I hope so

990
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 2: it will are the best. We have literally been through

991
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Speaker 2: every life stage with our listeners. To be honest, single live,

992
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 2: should we be recording into our eighties. I mean, come on,

993
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Speaker 2: if I if I can still see my computer screen,

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Speaker 2: I might I.

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Speaker 1: Know, right, I mean, yeah, honestly, it's it's awesome. I

996
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Speaker 1: love that you guys have grown up with us. So

997
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Speaker 1: tell a friend, tell a friend, tell a friend to listen. Okay,

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Speaker 2: Leave a review for all our new listeners. Please go

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Speaker 2: just go to go to iTunes, leave a review. Let

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Speaker 1: Okay, mandod you rest because I know baby takes a

1011
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: lot of energy.

1012
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 2: I'm in the second trimester. I'm feeling good. You know,

1013
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:18,279
Speaker 2: first trimester for sure, it was a struggle struggle bus city.

1014
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:20,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, you sound good, you sound like more like peppy.

1015
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:23,040
Speaker 2: I had a coffee an hour ago so that helped.

1016
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Speaker 1: Coffee.

1017
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Speaker 2: You can do that, science says, I can. Don't even

1018
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Speaker 2: get you started. I don't want it, you guys. I

1019
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 2: don't care about your opinions. What I read said I

1020
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Speaker 2: can have two hundred milligrams of caffeine to day and

1021
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Speaker 2: believe you know what.

1022
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Speaker 1: Like, my bestie did that too, because she's really at

1023
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:41,439
Speaker 1: the coffee and she literally used to measure it every day, like, oh,

1024
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Speaker 1: I can't wait for so I right, I totally yep.

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Speaker 1: One of my best es is like a coffee fanatic,

1026
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Speaker 1: and she was like, I know how much I can nap,

1027
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Speaker 1: I have it, leave you alone. I'm like, you know what.

1028
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Speaker 1: And her baby is the arrive at the four now

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Speaker 1: and just like and he is coffee chocolate shout out

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Speaker 1: to Gape, Hey baby,