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Speaker 1: Hey there, Chip, Hi, how you doing this Friday?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 3: How are you?

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Speaker 4: It's actually Thursday. We don't actually record these on Friday.

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Speaker 4: That would be very unprofessional of us.

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Speaker 2: It would be, especially because we often have troubly been

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Speaker 2: getting it done by Thursday to.

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Speaker 1: Give we all are tips.

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Speaker 4: I know, I know. So we are here today obviously

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Speaker 4: if you guys don't know, there's been a lot going

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Speaker 4: on from Hurricane Heleen, and you know, it's really interesting though,

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Speaker 4: is the reason I actually wanted to talk about this.

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Speaker 4: It's not like we are able to talk about everything

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Speaker 4: that happens in the world all the time, and then

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Speaker 4: there's sometimes where we feel like we can't talk about

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Speaker 4: anything except the bad things happening in the world because

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Speaker 4: it just feels inappropriate. But this one is interesting because, like,

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Speaker 4: I got a text literally today from a friend of

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Speaker 4: mine who lives in LA and she had just heard

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Speaker 4: about this devastation that happened in North Carolina. And so

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Speaker 4: there is this weird kind of responsibility I feel right

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Speaker 4: now just to spread the news about this in some

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Speaker 4: weird way because we know people who've been personally affected

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Speaker 4: and it's obviously really bad, and I just don't know

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Speaker 4: that the media is doing any service by like talking

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Speaker 4: about it. Maybe they're starting to a little bit more

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Speaker 4: now and that's how people are finding out. But it

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Speaker 4: just doesn't even seem like it was publicized when it

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Speaker 4: first was happening, which was wild to me.

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Speaker 2: Well, and it's you know, obviously it hit several states,

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Speaker 2: so it's Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia and Tennessee and

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Speaker 2: Florida were the majorly affected ones. And because we live

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Speaker 2: in Tennessee, I think we're we hear about it more

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Speaker 2: like I keep thinking about when we had the tornado

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Speaker 2: rights and then it kind.

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Speaker 3: Of goes quiet, and you know, it took years.

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Speaker 2: I mean there's still buildings in Nashville that have not

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Speaker 2: been replaced or fully torn down or whatever. And looking

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Speaker 2: at the photos of what's happened in Ashville, in particular,

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Speaker 2: because we've got a personal relationship with someone there, I

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Speaker 2: mean it's going to take them decades oh yea yeah,

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Speaker 2: to get it back to any place of that's recognizable.

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Speaker 2: And I've had friends and be like.

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Speaker 3: Wait, what what happened?

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Speaker 2: And it baffles me that it is not something that

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Speaker 2: everyone is talking about because there's so many people in

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Speaker 2: pain right now, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, but this is very common, because you know, I

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Speaker 4: was telling our friend that actually ended up going to Asheville.

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Speaker 4: My grandparents lost their flood in kind of an aftermath

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Speaker 4: of a hurricane in Louisiana, And because I've grown up

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Speaker 4: in Louisiana, I know what that devastation is like. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 4: that is something that's common down there. You see it often.

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Speaker 4: And then whenever that happened, I went down and you know,

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Speaker 4: we helped tear down the house and salvage anything that

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Speaker 4: could be salvageable. But I don't think that people fully

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Speaker 4: understand the trauma, the tragedy, the loss that is that

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Speaker 4: unless you've kind of seen it firsthand, because we see

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Speaker 4: it on the news, and that's like anything. It's like

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Speaker 4: when we're seeing, you know, the wars happening overseas. It's

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Speaker 4: not like it fully registered how bad. Ye, yes, but

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Speaker 4: when you've gone through it, I think it is such

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Speaker 4: a massive loss, Like you don't think about the fact

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Speaker 4: like my grandparents did not have toothbrushes, they didn't have

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Speaker 4: any sort of clothing, like you literally have nothing, and

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Speaker 4: they had lived in that same house for forty something years.

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Speaker 4: So the amount of just memorabilia of life, like pictures,

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Speaker 4: all of those things, they were gone.

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Speaker 3: They're gone.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and we're lucky to have a lot digitally now,

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Speaker 4: but like if you don't, or just you know, things

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Speaker 1: Like that, Like, all of that was lost and it's.

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Speaker 4: Devastating to have to start over like that. And that's

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Speaker 4: what we're seeing in Asheville. Like when you see these

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Speaker 4: that it fully registers again, like unless you've gone through

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Speaker 2: Well, not to mention the homes that literally were swept away, Like, right,

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Speaker 2: this was so bad that trees were banging into homes

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Speaker 2: it's hard to imagine what that is really like. I mean,

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Speaker 2: and nothing be there. The city of Chimney Rock in

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Speaker 4: It doesn't exist. I know, yeah, just grasp that. I

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Speaker 4: just can't like it's so much. But you and I

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Speaker 4: but I did want to put it on people's radar.

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Speaker 4: If you have not heard about it, go look up

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Speaker 4: what's going on in North Carolina, And we are going

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Speaker 4: to list a bunch of resources for places that you

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Speaker 4: can go donate and help if that is something that

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Speaker 4: like that. But it was interesting because as you and

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Speaker 4: because we were having these similar processes in our mind

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Speaker 4: of the bigger picture of these types of things. And

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Speaker 4: just feels like we're innundated with just thing after thing

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Speaker 4: after thing after thing, Like we're oversaturated all the time

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Speaker 4: with bad news and you can only take in so much, right,

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Speaker 4: so we kind of shut it down. But when tragedies

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Speaker 4: I start to get just so overwhelmed, I have to

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Speaker 4: think about, Okay, what is this happening for? Like we

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Speaker 4: can just pretend like this is all happening as a fluke,

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Speaker 4: you can, but for me, that doesn't bring me any peace,

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Speaker 4: Like I have to think about the bigger purpose. And

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Speaker 4: I used to kind of get stuck in this place

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Speaker 4: it's almost felt like punishment, you know, like, well, why

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Speaker 4: they're being punished and this is like you know, they've

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Speaker 4: I definitely don't look at it at all like that

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Speaker 4: I think that that's what's happening. But I do see

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Speaker 4: some sort of thing happening in our world on a

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Speaker 4: we're not doing something right here, Like we're missing something

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Speaker 4: as a race, as a human race, and what is

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Speaker 4: the universe trying to show us to get us to

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Speaker 4: word that both you and I kept coming to with

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Speaker 4: this tragedy is just community, which might sound separately like

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Speaker 3: We found this out.

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Speaker 2: Because I told her before we started recording that I

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Speaker 2: because obviously this can get really deep and dark, and

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Speaker 2: that's not what we want to do here, because it's

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Speaker 2: as humans. So I was thinking about the idea of community,

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Speaker 2: and I wrote down it's the people, not the place.

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Speaker 2: And you know, we're in a political season and you

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Speaker 2: hear a lot about like we have to protect our community,

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Speaker 2: and I think a lot of people will think that

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Speaker 2: that means like their neighborhood, and that to me, is

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Speaker 2: not what community is.

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Speaker 3: Community is when.

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Speaker 2: People that have a set of values or beliefs come

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Speaker 2: together and you can have a global community, you know,

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Speaker 2: And I had written it down and then Kelly posted

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Speaker 1: On It was about the astrologgy and it was all.

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Speaker 2: About community, and I was like, this is wild, because

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Speaker 2: we sometimes we're just not on the same page, even

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Speaker 2: when we're talking about the same topics.

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Speaker 1: Right, and this one we just are.

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Speaker 4: And that also is just like a ping ping ping

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Speaker 4: from the university maybe like we're supposed to be getting

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Speaker 4: these messages. But and this isn't to be like, oh

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Speaker 4: the go do that. You know, everybody has to do

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Speaker 4: it this way and this is the right way. It's

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Speaker 4: like whatever that means to you. But what was interesting

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Speaker 2: Which and she was disappearing to a place that literally

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Speaker 3: Right. We were like, go do it. We got it,

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Speaker 1: Don't worry about worry about it, like we'll take care

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Speaker 4: And that felt like nothing to me. I think that's

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Speaker 4: And it was interesting though to watch everyone have their

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Speaker 4: that we were able to step in and do our

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Speaker 4: silly and small, but it's like that is what a

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Speaker 4: show up for one purpose, for a bigger purpose together

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Speaker 4: And I just have felt like this world, it feels

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Speaker 4: something that was like a beautiful experience to think about

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Speaker 2: Obviously, this is only affecting me per really aside from

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Speaker 2: just the emotional trauma that it causes when you see

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Speaker 2: this is proof that you never know, Like no one

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Speaker 2: expected this to happen in a landlocked area that's five

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Speaker 4: Yeah, those are great points. I'm also obviously going to

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't want to line list this stuff and

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Speaker 2: I don't have have a self sufficient like disaster pack.

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Speaker 4: are sending you all the love and please reach out

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Speaker 4: via email to us at the Edge, at velvetegeat Calm

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Speaker 4: if there's anything that we can do or say on

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Speaker 4: whatever it is. I will put a lot of places

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Speaker 4: just financially contribute in the description of this podcast. But

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Speaker 4: I love what you said, Chip, like, if there are

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Speaker 4: ways that you feel led to help or something that

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Speaker 4: calls to you, specifically follow that calling, like there's a

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Speaker 4: And we're just sending you guys all the love and

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Speaker 4: hope the communities that form really really really help out.

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Speaker 4: I guess I'll position into as you guys are living

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Speaker 4: that it feels like are really weird.

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Speaker 3: We're all living on the edge of these days.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll also here's what we'll do. I will also

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Speaker 4: post these on my Instagram and my stories so you

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Speaker 4: guys can go find them, and you can find that

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Speaker 4: at Velvet's Edge on Instagram.

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Speaker 3: Chip, I'm at Chip DOORSH It's h I P D

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Speaker 3: O R S C H and.

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Speaker 4: As you guys go into your weekend in community. I'm

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Speaker 2: Today kindly and be prepared to be prepared to bye

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