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Speaker 1: If your boyfriend says he has a little romantic surprise

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Speaker 1: for you, what are you hoping for? Maybe a candlelight dinner, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: maybe trip to Sandals Jamaica. Oh, a salmon protein shake,

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Speaker 1: one glass too strong, Hello, blended well. One of our

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Speaker 1: listeners says she was not ready for the surprise her

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Speaker 1: boyfriend had in store, and now she needs help figuring

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Speaker 1: out how to get him to take it back and

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Speaker 1: do it without hurting his feelings. You're gonna hear it

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Speaker 1: in your special all New Awkward Thursday phone.

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Speaker 2: Call right after this It's awkward, It's Thursday. It's awkward

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Speaker 2: Thursday phone call.

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Speaker 1: When you think of the most awkward parts of navigating

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Speaker 1: any new relationship, it usually involves questions like when do

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Speaker 1: I introduce them to my friends and my family? When

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Speaker 1: do I go through their hair brush to send a

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Speaker 1: strand to a lab and see if there's any signs

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Speaker 1: of fetanol use. You know, those are normal, everyday things

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Speaker 1: that people always go through at the start of a relationship.

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Speaker 1: But one of our listeners, Aaron, is navigating a different

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Speaker 1: set of circumstances, one that I don't think I've ever

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Speaker 1: heard before. So Aarin, thank you for trusting us with

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Speaker 1: the health and wellness of your relationship. Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 3: Thanks guy, Thank you. Yeah, I need some guidance in this.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he's fine. People who call us are

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Speaker 4: always desperate.

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Speaker 1: It's okay, are you collecting strands of his hair yet?

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Speaker 3: You know it hasn't gotten that far yet, But based

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Speaker 3: on the story, I don't know. If I did, you

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Speaker 3: probably wouldn't blame me.

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Speaker 4: Oh what are we solving? Is this a mystery? What's

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Speaker 4: happening going on?

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Speaker 3: Okay, So basically I have been dating this guy and Paul,

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Speaker 3: We've been together for about six months or so, and

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Speaker 3: it's been going great until just the other day brings

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Speaker 3: up this scenario.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, didn't need a sound effect in that.

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Speaker 5: Another day.

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Speaker 3: What happened? What happened? So anyway, we're having dinner at

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Speaker 3: my apartment the other night and he's like, oh, I've

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Speaker 3: a piece of paper that he had printed out from

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Speaker 3: like the courts County system or something, and it's a

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Speaker 3: it's a name change form change, like to legally change

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Speaker 3: your name. Who. My first I was like, oh, my gosh,

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Speaker 3: is this like a proposal?

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Speaker 1: And you're now go to your change your last name.

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Speaker 3: That would be a red flag. Enough together for six months.

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Speaker 1: And a terrible proposal.

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Speaker 5: You hand some document, Well, will you notarize this legal

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Speaker 1: It's romantic that he went the extra mile to do

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Speaker 1: that for her.

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Speaker 5: Oh wait, what was it?

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Speaker 3: Was?

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Speaker 4: It filled out?

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Speaker 3: So it was like half filled out. But I and

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Speaker 3: once I took a look at it, I saw it

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Speaker 3: he wants to change his name, okay, And he basically

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Speaker 3: tells me that he likes my name so much my

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Speaker 3: to Aaron too, Like the male very double.

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Speaker 1: A what what's what was your reaction to that?

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Speaker 3: My first I thought it.

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Speaker 6: Was a joke.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, I'm like I start laughing, and I was like,

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Speaker 3: oh my god, wouldn't that be crazy? Yeah, he's so

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Speaker 4: To go from Paul to Aaron.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he wants to legally change his name. And I

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Speaker 4: Why does he need to legally change anything? Then just

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Speaker 3: It seems very dramatic, but that's what he wanted. He

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Speaker 5: Okay, so there's red flags here.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what they are, but it's one of

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Speaker 1: Okay, personally, I like this idea, but I'm sensing in

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Speaker 3: And also it's weird. He's met a lot of my friends.

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Speaker 5: Let me go through with it. My dad name is

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Speaker 5: also Jose. We go by Big Jose little Jose. You

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Speaker 3: Yeah I don't. He just kept saying that he just

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Speaker 3: I don't know, it wasn't making a lot of sense.

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Speaker 4: The name Aaron to him.

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Speaker 5: Believe him, you should be flattered in a sense like

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Speaker 4: Can you continue dating a guy who just changed his

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Speaker 5: Girl changed her name to Jo?

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Speaker 1: Do you have the same last name as your husband

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Speaker 1: before you guys got married, so you.

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Speaker 4: Don't last name? All right?

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Speaker 1: Call the over seriously. Obviously you've reached out to us

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Speaker 3: So, he I mean he hasn't changed it officially yet,

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Speaker 4: Okay, if you don't want to break up with them

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Speaker 5: You still like him?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's been going really well jug up

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Speaker 1: Okay, I mean some say it might go even better

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Speaker 1: It's fine. We can try and help you out when

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Speaker 1: we come back. Yeah, some some people name some do

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Speaker 1: back for your awkward Thursday phone call right after this.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, hold on, it's awkward.

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Speaker 2: It's Thursday. It's awkward Thursday phone call.

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Speaker 1: Tina Fey, Brad Pitt, Rihanna. All people who decided to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, self made only a billionaire. Sad story. And I

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Speaker 1: think we learned from all those examples that going with

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Speaker 1: the next Brad Pitt doesn't want it because his name's Paul,

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Speaker 4: It's strange.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and luckily he hasn't done it officially yet, but

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Speaker 1: I do want to just get a little clarification. Aaron,

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Speaker 1: Erin or what?

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Speaker 3: Okay, no, so he basically he just wants to swap

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Speaker 3: his first and middle name legally, okay, Paul, Aaron, he

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Speaker 4: Be Aaron like the guy from Baking Bad.

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Speaker 1: Yes, right, yeah, his career has not gone well since

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Speaker 1: the end of breaking that.

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Speaker 5: His name is Heisenberg.

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Speaker 1: He missed the window exactly. So again, Aaron needs advice

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Speaker 1: on how to stop her boyfriend from changing his name. Jose,

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Speaker 1: what do you have for her?

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Speaker 5: A person's name is a big thing, right, It's not

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Speaker 5: their identity, but can be your personality.

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Speaker 4: Oh for sure, I feel brook yes, in my soul.

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Speaker 5: So just tell him, like, things are going so good

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Speaker 5: right now if you change major things like this, You're

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Speaker 1: It's affect Okay, that's good. Threaten him with a bad future.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Well I'm all about you know me. Compromise in

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Speaker 4: a relationship brook to a T. So, Aaron, how would

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Speaker 4: Like listen, honey, you just keep Paul, and then I'll

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Speaker 5: That's the weird part.

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Speaker 3: By the way he's been talking about it, I honestly

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, okay, I mean I would just be careful

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Speaker 1: but really up to you. I'm gonna dial Paul, at

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Speaker 6: Here we go, Hello, Hi, Paul. Yeah, I'm sorry, I

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Speaker 6: think you've got the wrong number. This is Aaron.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's me Aaron. Hey, Oh oh.

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Speaker 6: Hey babe, how's it going.

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Speaker 4: Hey?

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Speaker 3: So you know how I was going to come over

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Speaker 3: after work tonight. I don't I don't think I should

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Speaker 6: Actually, oh why not, sugar Bear.

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Speaker 3: To be honest, I feel like things have really been

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Speaker 3: going well in our relationships recently, But lately I've just

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Speaker 3: talk to you about it exactly.

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Speaker 6: Oh, I mean I think it's going well too. Look,

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Speaker 6: whatever's on your mind, you can tell me, because i'm

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Speaker 6: your sugar bear. All right, I'll listen to you. Aaron

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Speaker 6: to Aaron, I'm here here for you. I'm okay.

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Speaker 3: Well, okay, that that right there? That that is what

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Speaker 6: Wait, what's nuts it me being here for you?

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Speaker 3: No? No, just you using my name as your name.

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Speaker 6: Okay. Well, first of all, it's not the same name,

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Speaker 6: because you're Aaron with any and I'm Aaron with an

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Speaker 6: A with two a's, And technically i'm older impact though

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Speaker 6: I actually had the name person. If anyone should be

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Speaker 3: Mother gave you. Well, even you told me that the

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Speaker 6: Name, and it was and I thank you for that.

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Speaker 6: I went, wow, this person, But I also went wow,

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Speaker 6: I think I'm also that person. I think I think

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Speaker 3: The point is, we've been seeing each other for six

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Speaker 6: Come on, they're probably just saying that out of jealousy

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Speaker 3: Nobody, unfortunately, thinks it's super cute other than you and mom.

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Speaker 6: And I don't want that, but you know what, she

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Speaker 3: Oh now your mom wants to go by Aaron too.

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Speaker 6: What just happened? Are you okay? Man?

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Speaker 4: I don't know if she's okay.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. We're feeling okay though, because we're telling you that

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Speaker 1: you're on the radio right now, Paul.

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Speaker 6: Okay. First of all, Aaron is my name. Second of all,

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Speaker 1: We're a radio show. We're called Brook and Jeffrey in

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Speaker 1: the Morning, and your girlfriend, Aaron is a listener. She

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Speaker 4: It's a good thing. She wants to make this relationship work.

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Speaker 4: That's why she was asking for help exactly.

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Speaker 6: That's really sweet. This is super embarrassing. I wish you

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Speaker 6: But let's say this out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what we're here to help figure it out.

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Speaker 4: Yes, are you being serious? Your mom wants to change

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Speaker 4: her name to Erin. I'm sorry, we got to go

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Speaker 4: back to that.

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Speaker 6: Well, she's the one who gave me the name in

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, wow, whoever, she has a fondness for it.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you should have an opportunity to be an Eron.

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Speaker 5: It's sure ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: I mean, the thing about being in a healthy relationship

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Speaker 3: Like you need to be you and have your own

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Speaker 3: don't like the name Paul, that's totally fine. We can

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Speaker 1: I mean, what about Baron?

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Speaker 4: It rhymes with Aaron. There's so many options.

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Speaker 1: Karen, that's a really popular name.

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Speaker 3: Right now, we'll come up with something for sure.

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Speaker 1: How about we use initials where guy Aaron you can

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Speaker 1: be a p and girl Aaron you could be ep, okay.

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Speaker 4: Diy, Eric can just stay Paul Jeff. That's what we're

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Speaker 3: This is getting so confusing, but I think Brooke gave

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Speaker 3: some good advice. She said, why don't I just call

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Speaker 3: our saying, like, you know, my little pet name for you.

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Speaker 3: But then still in life you.

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Speaker 1: Go by Paul Lena. What do you think about that? Paul?

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Speaker 6: What about this? What about I go by Aaron in

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Speaker 6: public and then if it bothers you so much, then

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Speaker 6: a private you can still call me Paul.

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Speaker 5: It's the opposite.

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Speaker 3: Yeah know, then that's like circumventing all of the issues,

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Speaker 3: which is that you've already been introduced to my family

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Speaker 3: It would be it would be crazy to change it.

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Speaker 6: Now. I know, I just changed my email signature already,

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Speaker 3: That's a lot easier than legally changing your name.

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Speaker 1: How about let's just meet in the middle and all

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Speaker 1: agree on Sugar Aaron and call it a dad.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if I can get on board with that.

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Speaker 1: I still like.

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Speaker 5: Them as square and as a couple.

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Speaker 4: What are you going to do?

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Speaker 3: I think we're going to have to sit down and

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Speaker 3: have a conversation about that somewhere and maybe not on

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's a good idea, And the best news is

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Speaker 1: and that's put the idea out there. Just put the

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Speaker 4: Pretty sure. We established the beginning we were trying to

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Speaker 1: Changing at all, and now we have fifteen different solutions

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Speaker 1: resolve itself. You two go off the air and figure

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Speaker 1: back to us, give us an update on how you decided.

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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, we definitely have some good leads.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but don't just sign a erin because we won't

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Speaker 1: Yes, Sugar Erran, pase rerook and Jeffrey in the morning, Well,

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Speaker 1: did we accomplish what we set out to do at

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Speaker 4: No, not exactly, not at all.

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Speaker 1: Did we at least get the conversation started between the

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Speaker 1: two of them. Yes, yes, that's true. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: an entire family full of errands could actually be kind

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Speaker 1: of a cute thing.

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Speaker 4: Really.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like the Kardashian family with their whole case situation.

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Speaker 1: This just takes it to the extreme literal.

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Speaker 4: Did George Foreman name all his kids George?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they're like, there's.

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Speaker 4: A eighteen George's and his family.

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Speaker 1: I know there is a road to happiness with these two.

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Speaker 5: If you pronounce a different an.

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Speaker 4: The famous actually all the monogrammed Aaron stuff around them.

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Speaker 1: The more we talk about it, the more I like it.

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Speaker 1: I hope that they give us an update on what

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Speaker 1: That's the compromise that would not be cute if they

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, it'd be easier for Texas the same and

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Speaker 1: I'm loving it more and more. And we can help

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Speaker 1: out you and your personal life, just like we did

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Speaker 1: with the Aaron family. The point reach out to the

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