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Happy Hour #71: The Gin Gin Mule · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is any and Samantha, and welcome to Stephan
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  Speaker 1: I never told you protection. I heart radio, and welcome
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  Speaker 1: to another edition of Happy Hour where we're actually going
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  Speaker 1: back to the origination of our happy hour sort of
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  Speaker 1: before we start. This is not sponsored, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: if somebody out there with alcohol and or dreams or
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  Speaker 1: bever just want to sponsor us, let us know. But
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  Speaker 1: this one is not outside of our regular sponsors. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I mean. And then yeah, if you are drinking
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  Speaker 1: or whatever you may be drinking, whatever you may be
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  Speaker 1: part taking of, be responsible, do what you need to,
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  Speaker 1: but keep yourself healthy, keep people around you healthy and
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  Speaker 1: happy and living the good life within the boundaries whatever
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  Speaker 1: your boundaries are. How do I say that in the
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  Speaker 1: other way, Well, you've got on a bunch of disclaimers,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, I think you've got the main point to cross. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you always talk to be cautious, and yeah, we are
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  Speaker 1: back with some of the original intent behind the Happy Hour,
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  Speaker 1: where we feature a delicious drink and or beverage typically
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  Speaker 1: created by a woman or a film, a non binary
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  Speaker 1: person or maybe there is there actual beverage like a
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  Speaker 1: beer or whiskey. We've done those two um. And then also,
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  Speaker 1: we're actually going to make it a happy happy hour
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  Speaker 1: this time, I promise. I know. I'm the Queen of
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  Speaker 1: the sad sack content, ok And no, I'm gonna We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna try to keep in line with happy or happiness
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  Speaker 1: or maybe dreadful even Okay, But today we are featuring
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  Speaker 1: a delicious Gin cocktail created by mixologists Audrey Saunders, a
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  Speaker 1: legend in the field, a pro who has been in
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  Speaker 1: the business for years, like ninety nineties or earlier, and
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  Speaker 1: which sounds not that long ago, but apparently it is.
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  Speaker 1: I have having in crisis. It has been in the
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  Speaker 1: business for years and making waves, beginning with an ode
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  Speaker 1: to gin because Gin is delicious. She opened the Pago Club,
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  Speaker 1: which is named after the Gin cocktail. If you want
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  Speaker 1: that recipe you can just google it. Uh, having shelves
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  Speaker 1: and shelves of gin, which sounds like my dream place.
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  Speaker 1: I think it said like thirty something bottles of gin
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  Speaker 1: and seven bottles of vodka. So I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let me go to this place. And today we are
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  Speaker 1: sipping on her cocktail or our variation of Gin Gin
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  Speaker 1: Mule again with a smnty twist because one of us
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  Speaker 1: any has an allergy, and neither one of us has
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  Speaker 1: any ment on hand. So yeah, so it feels like
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  Speaker 1: we didn't, you know, necessarily need to mention it. But
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  Speaker 1: you're right, all right, we don't have meant, we don't
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  Speaker 1: have mint. So here's the actual recipe before we begin.
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  Speaker 1: It is one mint sprigg, one ounce simple syrup, three
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  Speaker 1: four ounce lime juice, one and three fourth ounce dry
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  Speaker 1: gin um, and one ounce of ginger beer. And if
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  Speaker 1: you actually go look for her recipe, Saunders created her
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  Speaker 1: own ginger beer recipe which is in there. It is
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  Speaker 1: as delightful and I don't but I don't have any
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  Speaker 1: ginger on hand, do you? I know, because there's actually
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  Speaker 1: a story behind that, but no I don't. So essentially
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  Speaker 1: you muddle up I believe, the first three ingredients, uh,
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  Speaker 1: and then you add the dry gin and ginger beer
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  Speaker 1: and shake it up. According to one of the sites,
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  Speaker 1: the ginger beer that she makes is not as fizzy
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  Speaker 1: so it can be shaken up. You can't with the
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  Speaker 1: kind that Annie and I have because it is can
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  Speaker 1: very carbonated. Sorry, So also thank you Samantha for the
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  Speaker 1: emergency ginger beer delivery. Um. But also I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: confess a lot of times I skipped this step, and
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  Speaker 1: I know that makes me terrible, but I just was
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  Speaker 1: gonna skip it anyway, so I don't shake it up.
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  Speaker 1: To be fair, I didn't do this one either because
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  Speaker 1: a I didn't add neither simple syrup nor a minced brick.
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  Speaker 1: So this is really our own variation obviously, because our
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  Speaker 1: ginger beer is pretty sweet, and so I don't feel
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  Speaker 1: it's necessary for that. And I did the one time
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  Speaker 1: shaking of the carbonated drink champagne, and it was a disaster,
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  Speaker 1: so it was bad. It was like everywhere it was
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  Speaker 1: a Holliday episode even better. So she was like, what
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  Speaker 1: are you doing? That's fair? Yes, but yes. I also,
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  Speaker 1: for my variation, added halipeneos because I love halipeneos in
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  Speaker 1: ginger anyway, so I was like, why not might as well?
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  Speaker 1: And mine is, uh the impress gin, which is the
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  Speaker 1: blue one that turns purple with acid. What about your variation, Annie, Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's cracking me up because I think you and I,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we have our our differences in our loves,
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  Speaker 1: but we have our similarities. Because I also didn't use
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  Speaker 1: simple syrup because I prefer less sweet things, and I
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  Speaker 1: added more lime juice, but I still had some of
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  Speaker 1: my cosmic Star Wars color changing sparkly gin. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: I used it. So we both have kind of a
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  Speaker 1: purplely variety of this and we didn't plan it. We
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  Speaker 1: didn't plan it at all. We're just in sync. That's
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  Speaker 1: how it goes, except when it comes to in sync
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  Speaker 1: versus Backstreet Boards and about that. But yeah, so we
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  Speaker 1: did take a variation. Obviously, UM, I would put pretty
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  Speaker 1: big variation. So we're just going to call it the
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  Speaker 1: Sminty Gingin Moule. Can we call it that? But we
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to give credit to the fact that she
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  Speaker 1: created a drink. It has a lot of recipes which
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  Speaker 1: I want to look into more as we come through. UM.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things about song RSS, she talks about
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  Speaker 1: her journey and becoming a professional in the cocktail industry,
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  Speaker 1: has a pursuing of her interests. So she started it
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  Speaker 1: after finding all these different types of cocktails, really loving
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  Speaker 1: it and was like, I need to I need to
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  Speaker 1: be a part of this, and so she took every
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to learn and grow within the craft. She talks
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  Speaker 1: about pushing and finding people to teach her and find
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  Speaker 1: her way to expand in this industry and take a room.
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  Speaker 1: I love that she was, like she even talks about
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  Speaker 1: how she bothered a couple of friends to teach her more,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure it wasn't that way, but loving it
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  Speaker 1: and then growing it into this giant business, owning her
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  Speaker 1: own cocktail bars and becoming an icon in this industry
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  Speaker 1: in New York. So that's I thought that was huge,
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  Speaker 1: And I thought this was a great example of finding
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  Speaker 1: joy and then taking that joy and expanding upon that.
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  Speaker 1: So I wanted to take some time and do that
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  Speaker 1: as a happy hour eighty. I kind of already know.
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  Speaker 1: I think the listeners who love you and your fans
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  Speaker 1: in general kind of already know. But one of the
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  Speaker 1: best things about talking to you about what you love
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  Speaker 1: is that it is contagious, like it makes people want
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  Speaker 1: to be a part of that. So will you tell
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  Speaker 1: us something that you have found joy in and that
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  Speaker 1: you expanded upon. Yes, well, I would say obviously it's
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  Speaker 1: fan fiction, is one um. Fan fiction can seem like
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  Speaker 1: a solitary thing if you don't know much about it,
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  Speaker 1: but it's all fans who are connecting of our loves
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  Speaker 1: of these characters and these stories. And putting them in
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  Speaker 1: these situations that are sometimes terrible. Like last night, I
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  Speaker 1: was in tears at one of my favorite ones. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, why but I love it? But why? But
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: kind of I guess that finding that connection through passion
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  Speaker 1: and in my case like very nerdy things. So for example,
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  Speaker 1: like this jin that I made that I call my
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  Speaker 1: galactic gin. I made it for a Dungeons and Jagons
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  Speaker 1: thing because I love doing themes. I love like creating
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  Speaker 1: things based on things that I love. So I love
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  Speaker 1: like making foods and giving them horrible Star Wars pun names,
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  Speaker 1: or making drinks and giving them horrible Star Wars fun
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  Speaker 1: names puns. I love making. I mean, I find joy
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  Speaker 1: in a good pun, especially when it takes a minute
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  Speaker 1: a hit, and then when it does, they're like, oh
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  Speaker 1: I love it, I love it. I just I go
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  Speaker 1: all out like writing these scenarios and D and D
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  Speaker 1: and they're just full of puns. And I like sharing
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  Speaker 1: that creativity and seeing people find their own joy in
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  Speaker 1: my goofiness. I like that um and I always try
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  Speaker 1: to keep track of that because sometimes I can get overwhelmed,
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  Speaker 1: like I gotta make a puppet show for Dungeons and Dragons.
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  Speaker 1: Which is absolutely true. Uh, but the moment when they
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  Speaker 1: do the puppet show, it's gonna be so good. It's
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  Speaker 1: gonna make me so happy. I love sharing those things.
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  Speaker 1: I love sharing like anything star wars with people. I
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  Speaker 1: love giving random facts. But also recently I've rediscovered my
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  Speaker 1: love for just if I can taking a moment outside
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  Speaker 1: and just appreciating the sun and the breeze and the
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: colors right now, they're like greens of the trees. Amazing. Also,
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  Speaker 1: I like a good I like a good competitive streak.
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  Speaker 1: I got a Mario party situation going on right now,
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  Speaker 1: and the stakes are high listeners, and I really like it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm mad about it, but I enjoy it. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: you're actually pretty good to me, I think in comparison,
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  Speaker 1: like yeah, and everybody's better than me. But when you
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  Speaker 1: were telling me about the people you're competing with, the like, no,
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  Speaker 1: they're better than me, I'm like, really, yeah, we play
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  Speaker 1: with the CPUs on hard. I don't like that. That's unnecessary,
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  Speaker 1: un necessary. I think I complained about that on several
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  Speaker 1: days ago. Why is this hard like this? Why did
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  Speaker 1: you do this war? I was very upset though You're Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for me sometimes I have a hard time
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  Speaker 1: pinpointing what brings me joy because I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: don't have hobbies like the regular normal hobbies I I
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  Speaker 1: I felt like I was lacking growing up because I
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  Speaker 1: didn't have things like that. I tried to make myself
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  Speaker 1: because it felt more human. So I was like, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm an emotionless robot for a long time, so I
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  Speaker 1: would just make up things like Okay, i'll collect this,
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  Speaker 1: I'll collect this, and I just never really cared. I
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  Speaker 1: did it for the sake of feeling like there's something,
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  Speaker 1: some type of identity to it. So for me, I
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: don't necessarily have things like that. I used to love
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  Speaker 1: to write. I don't write anymore. I used to love
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  Speaker 1: to read. I don't really read anymore. I tried to
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: pack up knitting. It did not go well. Coming back.
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  Speaker 1: I try to pick up card reading. It did not
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  Speaker 1: go well. I think for me, my happiest joy ist
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  Speaker 1: time is spending time with people that I love, and
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  Speaker 1: that's I know that's not exactly a hobby, but that's
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  Speaker 1: something that I find joy in when I can connect
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  Speaker 1: with someone on a deeper level. Which also was really
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  Speaker 1: anxiety written for me. God, I'm trying to be happy,
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  Speaker 1: but that like I am, I am intense and I've
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  Speaker 1: gotten this often. I feel like listeners may already know
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  Speaker 1: this by the way I bring up subjects and the
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: things I want to talk about. So I know it
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: can be exhausting, but I don't know how else to
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: be because for me to know you, I have to
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: truly know you, and when I do, then I can
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  Speaker 1: connect with you and trying to be jokey, jokey and fun,
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  Speaker 1: which I can do that too. That means we're probably
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  Speaker 1: not that close. Um. If that's my only personality that
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  Speaker 1: you know, most likely that you don't know me, and
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  Speaker 1: that's that's a whole thing of like trust and building up.
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  Speaker 1: But because I need to know who you are first
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  Speaker 1: before I trust you, if we can't even get to
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  Speaker 1: that point, then we're not We're not that level. And
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  Speaker 1: I find the joy of having those people in my
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  Speaker 1: life again. We're talking about coming back and getting those
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  Speaker 1: moments with friends. Finally have I had that with you,
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  Speaker 1: And I've been really grateful because I think You've been
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  Speaker 1: one of two people maybe three, that I've been able
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  Speaker 1: to have that with, um, And so it still keeps
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  Speaker 1: me grounded. I am absolutely an introvert and can't do
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people at it once without feeling completely
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  Speaker 1: zapped and or yeah, panicked. But having these moments have
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  Speaker 1: it's my joy that's out of it's a hobby, but
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  Speaker 1: also having the moments of like being with my dog
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  Speaker 1: while she's cuddling him on me while I'm watching TV
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  Speaker 1: at the same time I'm playing a phone game that's
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: kind of been a joyous thing where I've just kind
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: of check out. I've talked about this before, where I'll
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  Speaker 1: wake up in the mornings in silence, go sit in
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  Speaker 1: the living room after grabbing my coffee hot coffee, getting
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  Speaker 1: on my phone and just taking a couple of hours,
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  Speaker 1: maybe an hour, maybe thirty minutes, who knows, maybe five hours,
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  Speaker 1: just playing a little game and zoning out, but in silence.
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  Speaker 1: And there's been something really joyous to that. To collect
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  Speaker 1: myself another thing. And this is maybe just a nero
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  Speaker 1: divergent thing. I don't think I'm on the spectrum, but
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  Speaker 1: maybe i am. Sometimes I'm like this makes me think
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  Speaker 1: I am. Um is that I love just sitting in
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  Speaker 1: the bed and not moving. Uh, that is my safe
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  Speaker 1: space and so on, like today is a bed day.
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  Speaker 1: I will be doing nothing but sitting in my bed.
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  Speaker 1: I will eat all my food here, I will watch
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  Speaker 1: TV here, I may work here, I'll probably take a nap.
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  Speaker 1: But that has also brought me joy, which also makes
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  Speaker 1: me feel very lazy m hm, and I feel bad
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  Speaker 1: about that sometimes, but that's something that I also find
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  Speaker 1: joy in in that moment, and I love it when
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  Speaker 1: my partner will join me, like he will just sit
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  Speaker 1: there with me. I'm like, Okay, this is why I
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  Speaker 1: love this. I love this, but it's the same way
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  Speaker 1: like I also love seeing my friends on a different
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  Speaker 1: level when I'm not having to think about things. So
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  Speaker 1: when I see my friends at my little day as classes,
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  Speaker 1: I don't do that much anymore because the pandemic. I
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  Speaker 1: would go in and out, and I've done it less
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  Speaker 1: because it's been very stressful and I don't have time
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  Speaker 1: right now. But I enjoyed those moments of being like
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  Speaker 1: a completely different person. They don't know the ins and
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  Speaker 1: outs of me that I have to go on that level,
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  Speaker 1: but we can dance and joke and move on and
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  Speaker 1: still feel connected by that moment. There is something to
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  Speaker 1: that too, So those are the ways I find enjoy
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  Speaker 1: and I miss a few of these things, but keeping
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  Speaker 1: those intact, especially at a really rough time and almost
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  Speaker 1: every person's life right now. Yeah, yeah, I think that. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: for me, there has been several moments during this pandemic
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  Speaker 1: which I have largely spent alone. Again, you and I,
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  Speaker 1: I've I've found so much joy and hanging out with
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  Speaker 1: you and you kind of doing your thing and me
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  Speaker 1: doing my thing and like letting me live my Star
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  Speaker 1: Wars best life. It's been great and it's been a
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  Speaker 1: enjoy working with you. We've we've been able to find
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  Speaker 1: a way to work from home and that's so lucky
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  Speaker 1: to do that. And certainly through the pandemic, I've, as
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  Speaker 1: I said, I have spent most of it alone. But
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  Speaker 1: those times I do hang out with people and I
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: get in competitions and with Mario party or a do
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  Speaker 1: D and D or whatever it is, it's it's really
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  Speaker 1: made me. The friendships that have remained and if lasted,
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  Speaker 1: just feel so special, YEA, so special to me. And
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  Speaker 1: the times that we do get to hang out, even
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  Speaker 1: if it's not that often, I feel so special right
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  Speaker 1: and bring me joy. Right, Yeah, And I think that's
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  Speaker 1: obviously the bigger conversation in this is that we Andy
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  Speaker 1: and I have been able to make this a bigger thing,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's we get to get on here and have
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  Speaker 1: our voices heard and talk about uh issues or things
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  Speaker 1: that make us sad, make us mad, make us happy,
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: um also talk about the loves that we have about
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: social justice and these like conversations about women and having
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: these types of diagnosis or having these things that they've
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: battled or trauma is important to me and something that
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: I feel like it's important that we keep talking about
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: it so that a we don't feel alone but be
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  Speaker 1: also see each other and support each other in those times.
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  Speaker 1: But also like having these moments of finding your laws
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  Speaker 1: for things that many of the other audience listeners they
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  Speaker 1: do too, and they don't get to share it because
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  Speaker 1: it's not a girl's world quote unquote, or it's not
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  Speaker 1: of World War films or not, you know, like all
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  Speaker 1: of these things and then being able no, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: taking it and this is what I know and loving
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  Speaker 1: and expanding on it. But that's we get to do that.
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  Speaker 1: So there's we have been fortunate and thank you all
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  Speaker 1: for being a part of that with us, because it's
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  Speaker 1: something that again for me is fairly new uh, and learning,
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  Speaker 1: learning that level of privilege as well as hopefully um,
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  Speaker 1: honoring it and honoring the you, the listener as well
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  Speaker 1: in these things. UM, and we just wanted to take
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  Speaker 1: a time to celebrate eight that that we do have
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  Speaker 1: the freedom to have these important conversations, so that we
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  Speaker 1: can build up our own community and to see that
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  Speaker 1: we're not alone. M hmm. Yeah, you all bring us joy, listeners,
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  Speaker 1: It's really true. I love several of you have written
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  Speaker 1: in about your like Star Wars fan girling lately, and
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  Speaker 1: I've been like, oh my god, and thank you to
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  Speaker 1: those who have validated my opinion and my feelings on
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  Speaker 1: rogue one. I appreciate you. Thank you. My screaming, I
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  Speaker 1: get it. I thought it was great to Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: well this was nice. I'm glad we got to take
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  Speaker 1: this moment. Um. Cheers, cheers, and as always, listeners, Yes,
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