WEBVTT - Bare Minimum Mondays To Help The Sunday Scaries 🦥 🥱

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<v Speaker 2>I've been thinking about the water just sitting then I'm like,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, I guess it's safe. I have definitely dabbled

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<v Speaker 1>of plastic every day or something.

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<v Speaker 3>Literally, I'm not scared coming through this.

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<v Speaker 1>I've been through that right now.

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<v Speaker 3>Anyway, let's get on with the show.

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<v Speaker 1>You're listening to Flex and Rooms on kata.

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<v Speaker 2>A new concept just dropped in workplace bludging. It's called

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<v Speaker 2>bare minimum Mondays, and it's a direct response to getting

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<v Speaker 2>the Sunday scaries.

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<v Speaker 3>Now I get the feeling.

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<v Speaker 2>I know a lot of people, myself included, will just

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<v Speaker 2>start working on Sunday to get prepared for Monday. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>it's ridiculous behavior, it's heinous, it's embarrassing, and it has

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<v Speaker 2>to stop because it's directly contradictory with all this. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>going to work life balancing. Work starts on Monday. What

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<v Speaker 2>are you doing in the emails on Sunday? I will

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<v Speaker 2>give myself a pass. When you own your own business,

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<v Speaker 2>the work doesn't stop. Caneto Who are?

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<v Speaker 3>Who are? Alas?

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<v Speaker 2>We've talked a lot about the concept of quiet quitting,

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<v Speaker 2>and I would say currently in the social zeitgeist, a

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<v Speaker 2>lot is changing around career. Someone said, we've gone We're

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<v Speaker 2>in post career at the moment where there aren't defined

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<v Speaker 2>careers and people just people just work. You know, we

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<v Speaker 2>talk a lot about professionalism, work life balance, working from

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<v Speaker 2>home versus the office, career progression. All of these conversations

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<v Speaker 2>are happening and they're changing quite rapidly, and nobody knows

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<v Speaker 2>what their place is. One thing I will say is

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<v Speaker 2>and one thing I'm happy to see is individuals the

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<v Speaker 2>worker developing the agency enough to realize that you can

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<v Speaker 2>change your environment, like you can move to a new workplace,

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<v Speaker 2>and you also can redefine the way you work. A

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<v Speaker 2>lot of us fall into the trap of wanting to

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<v Speaker 2>be overachievers or wanting to prove that we're worthy of

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<v Speaker 2>the hire, and so we create these habits that come

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<v Speaker 2>back to bite us in the bump. We come early,

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<v Speaker 2>we stay late, we have no boundaries, we don't express

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<v Speaker 2>what we need, we don't ask for support, and then

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<v Speaker 2>we feel overwhelmed and then are forced to do things

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<v Speaker 2>like bare minimum Mondays. So the idea is that you

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<v Speaker 2>don't do any work on Sunday standard, but when you

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<v Speaker 2>come into work on Monday, you don't pressure yourself to

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<v Speaker 2>get much your to do list done. You use your

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<v Speaker 2>Monday as an opportunity to ease back into the work week.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe do some of those menial tasks or the ones

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<v Speaker 2>that you know will just get you in the right

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<v Speaker 2>head space. Maybe start with some emails, and then by

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<v Speaker 2>Tuesday you're kind of primed into working and then you

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<v Speaker 2>can like get your head in the game. Do I

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<v Speaker 2>have thoughts about this. Yeah, is it gonna work for everyone?

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<v Speaker 2>Absolutely not. Will most of you get fired? Probably, let's go.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's go boys. You know what kind of like what

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<v Speaker 1>you say about realizing you have the agency to leave,

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<v Speaker 1>It's like the other day I realized I just had

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<v Speaker 1>the agency agency to just eat McDonald's in bed.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you can do whatever you want.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like you have these random lucid moments of being like, oh, wait,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm an adult and your little child mind goes whoa yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>or like you're driving and you're like, whoa, this is

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<v Speaker 1>my dream when I was fired, literally driving a car.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's bring back those movements.

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<v Speaker 2>But one day I have the sustinct thought of being like,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know eight and being like and having like

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<v Speaker 2>little boobs when I was like, one day, my boobs

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<v Speaker 2>are going to poke out farther than my stomach and

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<v Speaker 2>that's when I'll be a woman. Can you imagine what

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<v Speaker 2>kind of thoughts did you were you having? Cis you

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<v Speaker 2>had little boobs in your eight Yeah? Cute chubby girl?

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<v Speaker 2>You know, yeah, what doubt?

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<v Speaker 1>What else did I want? When I was young? Blonde hair?

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<v Speaker 1>Can you did that? I did that? I will say

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<v Speaker 1>I do like this concept However, the I think people

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<v Speaker 1>do their emails on the Sunday so that they can

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<v Speaker 1>have a relaxed Monday, because honestly, there is nothing worse

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<v Speaker 1>than coming in and thinking, fuck, I'm gonna sift through

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<v Speaker 1>all this.

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<v Speaker 3>Shit meetings, meetings, emails, emails, talk.

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<v Speaker 1>I've seen some people's calendars, friends of mine. It's all meetings. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>when do you expect my bitch to be doing the

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<v Speaker 1>actual fucking work.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm always having that conversation.

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<v Speaker 2>I recently put on an out of office, a permanent

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<v Speaker 2>one on my emails because I was like, you, but

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<v Speaker 2>just don't need me as bad as you think you do.

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<v Speaker 1>See this permanent.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm looking two days a week max, not even the

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<v Speaker 2>full day, a couple hours. Here are the people you

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<v Speaker 2>can talk to for specific things. Without it's about Cater,

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<v Speaker 2>go to Brookie. You don't need to talk to me

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<v Speaker 2>about that. I don't need to respond about that. If

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<v Speaker 2>it's a general inquiry, go to the general inquiries. Everyone's

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<v Speaker 2>going straight to Sauce. I just had an experience now

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<v Speaker 2>in real time in Cater. Somebody sent me an email

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<v Speaker 2>about a potential job. Right They want to set up

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<v Speaker 2>a phone call, want to pitch an.

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<v Speaker 1>Idea to me?

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<v Speaker 2>Why have they emailed me, DMed me, linked in, me,

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<v Speaker 2>emailed my assistant, emailed my COO, and then gone and

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<v Speaker 2>emailed the head of production at Catera, not email, texted

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<v Speaker 2>to say, if you're in and she's in, do you

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<v Speaker 2>mind grabbing her her and let's have it?

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<v Speaker 3>What is wrong with you?

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<v Speaker 1>Is it that deep?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm at work, babe. It hasn't even this came this morning.

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<v Speaker 2>We haven't even got to the end of the day yet.

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<v Speaker 1>Relax. This is it a good job? I haven't even

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<v Speaker 1>seen it, mate. This could be your big break.

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<v Speaker 2>I've had plenty of big breaks, and I don't want

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<v Speaker 2>to work with someone who has no concept of boundaries.

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<v Speaker 2>That shit is insane, Like there is. There's a gateway

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<v Speaker 2>for a reason. We have emails as the main primary

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<v Speaker 2>source of work communication for a reason. You need to

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<v Speaker 2>start flexing your personal contacts to bypass. Makes me look

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<v Speaker 2>at you funny.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't like that.

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<v Speaker 2>But what I will say is that I do think

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<v Speaker 2>this like heightened uh, like this, like heightened response, like this,

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<v Speaker 2>like quiet, quitting Sunday scaries, burnout Mondays, whatever it is.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like.

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<v Speaker 2>I will say, It's like we've definitely blurred the lines

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<v Speaker 2>with work from home, right. I love work from home,

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<v Speaker 2>done it since what for a decade Now I.

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<v Speaker 1>Think it's sick.

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<v Speaker 2>I also really appreciate the office because there is something

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<v Speaker 2>about just sitting next to the person you work with,

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<v Speaker 2>being like, hey, I've got a question, sort of hey

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<v Speaker 2>can you do get jump off the zooms of an

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<v Speaker 2>email and whatever. But we went into it with not

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of guidelines, and now we're looking at the

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<v Speaker 2>consequence of that. The contact of burnout doesn't go because

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<v Speaker 2>you bludged on a Monday. Now you've got four days

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<v Speaker 2>to figure out what you need to do. What you

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<v Speaker 2>really need is resources and assistant and support and help,

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<v Speaker 2>not ways to compromise your career and your job as

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<v Speaker 2>like a rebellious response to the fact that you don't

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<v Speaker 2>have any support and a lista. I feel like, what's

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<v Speaker 2>that phrase? There's nobody bigger than the business. I've seen

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<v Speaker 2>really amazing people be made redundant. I've seen, really for me,

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<v Speaker 2>I've seen really amazing people be cast aside.

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<v Speaker 1>I've seen really.

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<v Speaker 2>Amazing people give give give more hours than required, their

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<v Speaker 2>personal networks, their health, their time, their energy, their money,

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<v Speaker 2>to cultivating a good career and have been fired and

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<v Speaker 2>let go. So your solution to you burn out and

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<v Speaker 2>like Bareman and Mondays and whatever, is to really have

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<v Speaker 2>some good thoughts about like how much you really are

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<v Speaker 2>giving because you pulling back to do your actual job

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<v Speaker 2>is like a risk you can take, but it's also

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<v Speaker 2>a decision you made in the beginning.

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<v Speaker 3>Take some accountability. Let's switch up some things.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's okay as you get older to careless.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, or care more about yourself flex and rooms on kata.

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<v Speaker 1>My name is Lucinda Froome's price government name. Your name

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<v Speaker 1>is Lilian Rose and Hanken.

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<v Speaker 3>Where's Rose coming from?

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<v Speaker 1>Just giving a rose fin?

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, I'll take it. Do you have a midle name,

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<v Speaker 3>not like a government one?

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<v Speaker 1>Nice? I found this TikTok about what our last names mean.

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<v Speaker 1>Play it DJ, I.

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<v Speaker 5>Bet you have people in your phone with names such

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<v Speaker 5>as John Landlord or Hannah it t What I think

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<v Speaker 5>is cool about this is we've kind of come full

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<v Speaker 5>circle as to how surnames were formed hundreds of years ago.

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<v Speaker 5>If Hannah had been a baker back in the day,

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<v Speaker 5>she would have been Hannah Baker or Carpenter or Fisher,

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<v Speaker 5>and these are examples of what we call occupational surnames.

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<v Speaker 5>Maybe some people are in your phone based on where

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<v Speaker 5>they're from or where you met them, such as Sarah Inferno's.

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<v Speaker 5>These are called toponymic surnames, and they can often be

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<v Speaker 5>based on specific places. Jack London's ancestors will have come

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<v Speaker 5>from London. Well, they can be based on geographical features.

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<v Speaker 5>Might look like Brad Pitt's family will have come from

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<v Speaker 5>will have lived near a Pitts, while Wayne Bridge's family

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<v Speaker 5>will have lived near a Bridge and hopefully far away

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<v Speaker 5>from the Terryes. Maybe you have some people with names

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<v Speaker 5>such as Charles Andrew's brother, but these family and relationships

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<v Speaker 5>are pretty common, although usually from father to son, so

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<v Speaker 5>Stevenson will be son of Stephen, while MacDonald comes from

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<v Speaker 5>son of Donald. Lastly, we have nicknames. Maybe some people

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<v Speaker 5>in your phone are listed as things like Michael the

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<v Speaker 5>Racist or Lourie Legend, and that's another source of surnames

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<v Speaker 5>from hundreds of years ago. If your surname is short,

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<v Speaker 5>then your ancestor was probably being mocked by his village mates.

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<v Speaker 5>Like likewise peacock. It was a name that was often

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<v Speaker 5>given to people who were seen as vain or arrogant.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow, this is more Caucasian core. I'm like going through

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<v Speaker 2>my friends, I'm like, okay, that doesn't really work.

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<v Speaker 3>What does Lee mean?

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<v Speaker 2>Okay?

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<v Speaker 3>What is maliono? Okay, that doesn't like that's.

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<v Speaker 2>So Lucinda Frum's price, Yes, banker tax people hated tax price.

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<v Speaker 1>I will say Frooms comes from a word called from

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<v Speaker 1>which is like river nice. So we come from a

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<v Speaker 1>river folk. Yes, and you are a prices true true.

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<v Speaker 1>I thought that was really cool.

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<v Speaker 3>So Brooke Taylor producer, Brooke Taylor.

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<v Speaker 1>Taylor Stressers. I did see a comment that said, where

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<v Speaker 1>did Dickinson come from? Son of Richard?

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, have a thing be for real mature.

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<v Speaker 1>We also have a special guest in the studio, Claire.

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<v Speaker 3>Do you want to be docked?

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<v Speaker 1>Last name Harrison? Where's that from? Claire? The son of Harry,

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<v Speaker 1>son of Harry? And you know that for a fact? Yep, gumption, gumption.

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<v Speaker 5>I like that.

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<v Speaker 1>It's cool.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh I wish people took names more seriously. Gosh, it

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<v Speaker 2>really does paint such a beautiful picture of who you

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<v Speaker 2>are or who you're going to be. I come from matriarchy.

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<v Speaker 2>Did I know that when I name myself, flex Mammy, No,

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<v Speaker 2>I did not.

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<v Speaker 1>It's because you have DNA and learned experience genetics. That's it, Kat,

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<v Speaker 1>Flex and Frooms.

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<v Speaker 3>You're listening to flex and Frooms.

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<v Speaker 1>What the frick FLEXI. We have another listener submission. Her

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<v Speaker 1>name is Catherine, not to be confused with Karen, though

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<v Speaker 1>same with a k. She's sending this voice message about aliens.

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<v Speaker 1>It's one of your community flex player.

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<v Speaker 4>Thank you, Hi, Flexen Trooms. Hope you're doing well. I

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<v Speaker 4>just have an alien question. I'd love you too, guys

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<v Speaker 4>to debate. Okay, here it is what cycle called tactics?

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<v Speaker 4>Would aliens use on us? And if so, do you

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<v Speaker 4>think they're already being used on us? Would love to

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<v Speaker 4>hear what do you guys think.

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<v Speaker 1>Any tactic that an alien users is not psychological? They've

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<v Speaker 1>got one finger and you got one corn hole, and

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<v Speaker 1>that's all say.

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<v Speaker 3>Not you being ablest?

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<v Speaker 1>Who who came up with the with the idea that

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<v Speaker 1>aliens probe you op your ass? One of your community,

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<v Speaker 1>for sure, I'm serious.

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<v Speaker 2>One comedian who loved poor human too much and he

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<v Speaker 2>was documented, the only one who was documented, and so

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<v Speaker 2>we just went with it. I would say if aliens

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<v Speaker 2>came down now and we were exposed to them visually,

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<v Speaker 2>like we're like, okay, they'll they've all clocked it. I

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<v Speaker 2>think what they would do is like the Stanford prison experiments.

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<v Speaker 2>They would divide us, right, and they'd be like, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>we're picking path population. You guys are who we've identified

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<v Speaker 2>as superior and premium, the other half are not. We're

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<v Speaker 2>going to come back and check on you and give

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<v Speaker 2>you tasks and things to accomplish. But in the meantime,

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<v Speaker 2>just continue as you were and we'll be back. And

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<v Speaker 2>I think people would slowly start to almost settle into

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<v Speaker 2>that role of being like, well, they said, I'm superior,

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<v Speaker 2>and then they'd be like global warfare, the supremes and

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<v Speaker 2>the regular people freaking out, no longer able to coexist

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<v Speaker 2>because the aliens gave them a title, and those who

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<v Speaker 2>were given the superior title are obviously going to a

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<v Speaker 2>rise to that occasion. This supreme being has also recognized

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<v Speaker 2>that in me, I'm not one, are you? And then,

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<v Speaker 2>as you say, the common folk are going to feel

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<v Speaker 2>really demotivated and demoralized that these people who don't even

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<v Speaker 2>go here have just landed and can already clock that

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<v Speaker 2>I'm inferior. Well, I must be, and then they're going

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<v Speaker 2>to start like civil warfare or something.

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<v Speaker 1>Did aliens create capitalism? Nah? No, that seems like an

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<v Speaker 1>alien thing to do. If we're here to segregate. I

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<v Speaker 1>just think like it's taken. Maybe it was like small scale.

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<v Speaker 1>They're just seeing like how it was going to fit. Perhaps, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>someone built the pyramids. This is flex and Froomeskita.

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<v Speaker 2>Am I the asshole for letting my roommate go hungry

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<v Speaker 2>because I can't figure out how food works? That is

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<v Speaker 2>the question we're answering today on flex and rooms. Comprehension

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<v Speaker 2>hats they're on, baby, they're on my roommate. Tammy and

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<v Speaker 2>I are both on fairly limited budgets. I get a

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<v Speaker 2>little help for my parents. There we go, there we go,

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<v Speaker 2>say the chest, So I have a little bit of

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<v Speaker 2>buffer in my income. Gosh, little little little little. I

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<v Speaker 2>tend to make meals for myself where I'll have leftover,

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<v Speaker 2>so I can skip making myself a lunch or a

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<v Speaker 2>dinner later on in the week. Tammy, on the other hand,

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<v Speaker 2>makes each meal as precisely as she cans, so she

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't waste her money. She says, just two ways of

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<v Speaker 2>cooking meals. I guess just after Christmas last year, Tammy

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<v Speaker 2>was very low on money and asked if she could

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<v Speaker 2>please have some of my leftovers.

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<v Speaker 3>I agree.

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<v Speaker 2>Instead of serving herself a small portion to see if

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<v Speaker 2>she would like my food, she just took a full portion.

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<v Speaker 2>She ate about a quarter of what she took and

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<v Speaker 2>threw the rest in the trash. I didn't say anything.

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<v Speaker 2>Almost the same exact thing happened two weeks ago. This

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<v Speaker 2>time I asked her to try and be a little

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<v Speaker 2>bit more mindful before she took a full portion. She

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<v Speaker 2>said she was really hungry. Again, almost an entire meal

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<v Speaker 2>in the trash two nights ago, asked for my spaghetti.

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<v Speaker 2>I said no, it isn't really gonna affect me for

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<v Speaker 2>her to throw away a meal, but it means she's

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<v Speaker 2>wasting not just my money, but my time that I

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<v Speaker 2>spent getting the ingredients, preparing the food.

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<v Speaker 1>All that stuff.

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<v Speaker 3>Now she isn't talking to me, but she's complaining.

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<v Speaker 2>To other people about me being cheap and letting her staff.

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<v Speaker 2>But I'm not actually go her a box of generic

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<v Speaker 2>mac and cheese for how to eat. I'm just not

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<v Speaker 2>gonna watch my hard work literally go into the garbage.

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<v Speaker 2>She thinks I'm being an asshole because I won't share

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<v Speaker 2>my food, but I would share it if she wasn't

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<v Speaker 2>wasting it.

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<v Speaker 3>So am I the asshole?

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<v Speaker 1>Just on principle? Give it up them. Don't tell me

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<v Speaker 1>you're getting hungry when I've gone on, I'm already getting

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<v Speaker 1>mac and Chase.

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<v Speaker 3>From the packet from the box.

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<v Speaker 1>I just don't vibe like if I'm going to share

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<v Speaker 1>my leftovers with you, I need to account for that

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<v Speaker 1>when I'm buying food, do you know what I mean?

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<v Speaker 1>Particularly when it's past her because pasta is better on

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<v Speaker 1>the reheat. I gotta say this is pretty cut and dry.

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<v Speaker 1>It some one FLEXI the asshole is the woman who's

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<v Speaker 1>going hungry. Order uber eats, no sponsor content.

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<v Speaker 5>Order uber eats.

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<v Speaker 1>There's nothing worsancing food going to the bin.

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<v Speaker 2>I will say, I'm very generous friends, I'm a generous girl.

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<v Speaker 2>They offer to cook for me a lot. I often

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<v Speaker 2>don't accept, because if you're going to accept someone's home

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<v Speaker 2>cooked food, you have to finish it. There's no if

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<v Speaker 2>butts or whatever, and you can't get a small, stingy portion.

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<v Speaker 2>It looks bad, it's disrespectful. So it's a TUFA. If

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<v Speaker 2>you can't commit to accepting the food and finishing it,

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<v Speaker 2>then leave it. Also, I understand why Tamy doesn't want

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<v Speaker 2>to cook more than she can eat, but why scoop

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<v Speaker 2>more than you can eat and then throw it out?

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<v Speaker 2>Why wouldn't you just put that away if you're not

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<v Speaker 2>gonna be hungry later on?

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<v Speaker 1>Pal move and then now to.

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<v Speaker 2>Go call you stingy after you've been so generous. Tammy

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<v Speaker 2>wants to fight, and I say, let's do it. Fight

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<v Speaker 2>fun as you take literally.

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