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25+ Life Lessons From 2025 (PART 1) · Two Broke Chicks

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Speaker 1: Hey chicks.
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Speaker 2: Before we jump into the episode, we want to start
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Speaker 2: by sending all of our love to the victims of
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Speaker 2: the terrorist attack in Bondai on Sunday, the fourteenth of December.
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Speaker 2: We are so heartbroken by this absolute tragedy that words.
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Speaker 1: Just aren't enough.
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Speaker 2: We send all of our love to the victims, their
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Speaker 2: friends and family, the Jewish community, and anyone affected by
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Speaker 2: this tragedy.
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Speaker 3: We paused our content and podcasts for the last week
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Speaker 3: as we wanted to give space and show respect.
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Speaker 1: These episodes were.
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Speaker 3: Also pre recorded on Friday, the twelfth of December before
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Speaker 3: the attack, and therefore don't acknowledge the many lessons about
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Speaker 3: the importance of kindness, love and unity that we've been
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Speaker 3: reminded of now more than ever.
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Speaker 2: Our hearts are still feeling very heavy, and we know
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Speaker 2: a lot of you chicks love these end of year
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Speaker 2: episodes and use them as an opportunity to reflect, pick
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Speaker 2: up a life lesson, and some giggles. So we hope
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Speaker 2: this episode feels like a little bit of a reprieve
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Speaker 2: and a cuddle from us to you.
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Speaker 3: If you're looking for ways to show your support and
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Speaker 3: help victims of the Bondie attack, We've shared some resources
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Speaker 3: in the show notes, and if you're feeling overwhelmed, we
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Speaker 3: have also shared some free resources for help there too.
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Speaker 2: We're sending all of you chicks so much love.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's get into the episode.
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Speaker 2: This podcast is recorded on gadigal Land Always was, always
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Speaker 2: will be Aboriginal Land.
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Speaker 1: Hotigs.
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Speaker 2: I'm out and this is Two Broke Chicks, the show
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Speaker 2: that shares life lessons and tips to help make you
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Speaker 2: rich in life.
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Speaker 3: And final episode of the year, the Final Countdown.
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Speaker 1: This is my favorite episode that we do of the year.
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Speaker 1: Every year we've been doing our.
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Speaker 2: Ex life lessons from what ever year is since I
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Speaker 2: think twenty twenty one.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so this would be our fifth year doing it
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Speaker 1: right right because it's one, two, three, four, five, Very
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Speaker 1: good county my fingers too, yeah, very cool. That's crazy.
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Speaker 3: I know we should go back and listen to the
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty one one.
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Speaker 1: I would be so hundred percent because obviously it was
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Speaker 1: during COVID so single.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I think there was definitely some very like
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Speaker 2: pointed life lessons.
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Speaker 1: That was get girl, Oh my God podcast that no
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Speaker 1: one listened.
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Speaker 3: To, so funny, that's it's for the best. We got
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Speaker 3: it out Yeah, that's okay, humble beginning. It's gotta start somewhere.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I like it.
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Speaker 2: So today are you talking our twenty five life lessons
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Speaker 2: from twenty twenty five, and so given that it's a
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Speaker 2: big chunky of an episode, we're just going to get
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Speaker 2: straight into it.
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Speaker 1: So how do you want to kick us? Olf?
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Speaker 3: Yes, so my first life lesson of twenty twenty five
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Speaker 3: comes with a little bit of a story time from
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Speaker 3: both of us, and it's to always make sure that
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Speaker 3: you have a buffer in your travel budget.
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Speaker 2: Oh yes, I'm trying to think of what story this
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Speaker 2: could be.
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Speaker 3: So we've told this story on our Instagram stories, but
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Speaker 3: I don't think we actually dove into it on the
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Speaker 3: podcast Poopgate yep, okay, Poopgate in Barcelona.
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Speaker 1: Poopgate.
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Speaker 3: So we went to Barcelona our first time in Barcelona,
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Speaker 3: and we booked a hostel and it was, you know,
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Speaker 3: a nice hostel. We had our own private room and bathroom.
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Speaker 3: We were you know, pretty happy with it, but I
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Speaker 3: think it was.
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Speaker 2: Still expensive, Like, yeah, everything in Europe is so expensive.
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Speaker 2: It was like an Airbnb hostel. Yeah, so, like all
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Speaker 2: the rooms.
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Speaker 3: I think were private there, and then there was like
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Speaker 3: a communal kitchen.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, situation.
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Speaker 3: I think we were staying there for maybe like five
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Speaker 3: or six nights.
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Speaker 1: Barcelona was our longest spot. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And then by the second night the building ran out
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Speaker 3: of power and we didn't realize but not only does
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Speaker 3: that in packed obviously like lights, the charging point lights
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Speaker 3: couldn't charge our phone. And also this is in Barcelona
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Speaker 3: in the middle of summer, so it was about thirty
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Speaker 3: six thirty seven degrees it was very, very warm.
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Speaker 2: I literally wedged one of those like Amazon portable fians
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Speaker 2: that are like literally the size of a ruler, and
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Speaker 2: I lodged that in between my legs to try and
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Speaker 2: have a breeze on my face because even with the
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Speaker 2: like the windows open, it was no breeze.
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Speaker 1: There was no breeze and it was just hot.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I was on the verge of crying. Yeah. Yeah, it
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Speaker 1: was like I'm a baby, Yeah, do you hire I see? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was a struggle.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, So we didn't realize as well that having
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Speaker 3: no electricity would also impact the plumbing, so we couldn't
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Speaker 3: use the toilet, and we couldn't use the shower, and
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Speaker 3: we weren't supposed to like flush or use the toilet
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Speaker 3: or anything. Like the power went out on the second
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Speaker 3: day and we'd been using the bathroom. I didn't even
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Speaker 3: realize there were plumbing systems that could run on electricity.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, like that is just I'm.
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Speaker 2: Probably an idiot for that, but it's like, yeah, didn't
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Speaker 2: realize that. Yeah, and then the bathroom just kept getting
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Speaker 2: a bit stinkier. Yeah, it's a bit stinkier.
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Speaker 1: And then and then and then let's how.
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Speaker 2: Do I say this, The blue toilet water started coming
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Speaker 2: up through the shower.
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Speaker 1: It smelt like shit, and we sacrificed a number of
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Speaker 1: toilet trees and we just went, we can't do this.
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Speaker 1: The whole room smell like shit. Yeah, the whole room
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Speaker 1: smell like shit.
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Speaker 3: And like, keep in mind that would be bad on
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Speaker 3: any regular day. But also then throw in that it's
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Speaker 3: thirty seven degrees. Yes, So this is why it's so
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Speaker 3: important to have a travel buffer in case anything.
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Speaker 1: Does go wrong.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, because thank god, the Airbnb that we were staying
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Speaker 3: through was so understanding. They did give us a partial
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Speaker 3: refund on some of the trips, so we were able
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Speaker 3: to use some of that and then also, you know
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Speaker 3: a bit of our travel budget buffer to book very
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Speaker 3: last minute accommodation at a nice hotel, and we were like,
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Speaker 3: you know what, this is the last point of.
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Speaker 1: Our trip together. Let's splurge. Let's stay somewhere nice.
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Speaker 3: And also it was like one of the few places
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Speaker 3: that was available and very clumb yes, and thank god.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'll never forget walking into that hotel
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Speaker 2: and just like the room was cold, yeah, and the
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Speaker 2: bathroom was clean, and there.
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Speaker 3: Was robes and we couldn't get like a cab or
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Speaker 3: an uber because it was really busy, so we walked
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Speaker 3: like twenty minutes, which we were like that's fine.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we were like walking around with like forty kilow suitcases. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but with all of our suitcases we got the fun.
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Speaker 3: We got there and we were like, well, I was
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Speaker 3: drenched in sweat, and the lady at the front desk
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Speaker 3: was like you guys.
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Speaker 1: She was like the water jugs over there, if.
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Speaker 2: You need it, and I was like putting my mouth
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Speaker 2: under it, like good, good, good good.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And then like once we were there, we're like, now
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Speaker 2: I feel like I'm in Barcelona.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: It was like okay, because it was just yeah, and
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Speaker 2: we're probably princesses, Like I feel like a lot of
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Speaker 2: people have been in a lot harder conditions totally.
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Speaker 1: In their travels. But I was too hot and it
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Speaker 1: smelt like pooh. Yeah, and there's a little bit of it.
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Speaker 1: It was just too much. And yeah, getting that hotel
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Speaker 1: and then the bed was comfy. Yeah, the bed was
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Speaker 1: can't for the shower, douna. It had lots with hotels
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Speaker 1: and like Airbnbs and things not having a doner.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a sit. It's just a sheet and
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Speaker 2: a blanket. I don't give me the fucking doner.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I got another Airbnb had dounas in the cupboards and
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Speaker 2: we pulled it.
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Speaker 1: Out and had blood on it. That's a great one.
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Speaker 3: That's a funny story, though it is I like, gave
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Speaker 3: us some good content and made us appreciate the nice
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Speaker 3: place that we ended up.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was the best. Okay.
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Speaker 2: My first life lesson is also like a rich girl
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Speaker 2: habit for twenty twenty six and it's to wait until
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Speaker 2: the pr halls pass. Okay. So we spoke about this
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Speaker 2: a little bit. I don't know if you remember, but
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Speaker 2: it was basically, do not buy anything when every single
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Speaker 2: influencer or creator is doing the unboxing of that product.
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Speaker 2: Because my example for this is remember the Hood Beauty lipstains,
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Speaker 2: and remember how many people were doing PR halls of
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Speaker 2: the lip stains and doing the swatches and trying them on.
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Speaker 2: This is not me saying that those lipstains are not
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Speaker 2: good or anything like that. I actually haven't tried them.
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Speaker 2: I really wanted it, but it's happening. We went to
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Speaker 2: like three different suphorts to try and find them, right
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Speaker 2: because I was like I need this, I want this,
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Speaker 2: I need it biblically, and because everyone was talking about
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Speaker 2: it online. But it's like that's because everyone's getting in PR.
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Speaker 2: Everyone's also buying it because they're seeing influencers or brands
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Speaker 2: pushing out marketing for it, and you couldn't buy it.
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Speaker 2: It was everywhere. And this was about six months ago.
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Speaker 2: It's not like it was two years ago. It's not
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Speaker 2: like a product that was a really high selling product.
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Speaker 1: Of two years ago. This was like six years ago.
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Speaker 1: This is this year. Have you seen anyone speaking about it? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: No, Where's like the content I want to see in
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six is like the after the PR hole,
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Speaker 2: what's the product that people bought and like they're still
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Speaker 2: using three months later.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, like, that's what I want to use.
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Speaker 2: And so basically my life lesson is to not buy
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Speaker 2: anything when the pr holes are happening, and wait until
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Speaker 2: after see whether it becomes a consistent part of people's routine,
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Speaker 2: see whether or not the reviews come out after using
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Speaker 2: it for six months, twelve months, whatever that is.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because there's always.
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Speaker 2: You know, hype around a new launch, and it's so
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Speaker 2: interesting because yeah, you think of so many products that
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Speaker 2: hit the market and it's like, oh.
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Speaker 1: My god, this is the best. Look at this, look
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Speaker 1: at that, and it's like where is she now?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Remember the hood of beauty lipstains? This is her now?
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Speaker 2: And we were in Seppo recently. Guess what was stock
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Speaker 2: to the rim? Yeah, good beauty lipstains. That's what I
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Speaker 2: And like, wait until after the pr hals.
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Speaker 1: Finish, until you buy something. Yeah. Will you love it
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Speaker 1: after the hype diet? Yeah? Will you love it when
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Speaker 1: it's no longer viral? Is it good? Or is it
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Speaker 1: just viral? Little me this, seriously, do you think of
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Speaker 1: anything when I think of that?
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Speaker 3: I mean immediately, when I'm thinking of twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 3: I think of lu Boo boos. And I also think
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Speaker 3: that this will happen in Australia when Road launches, but
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Speaker 3: obviously Road has continued the hype. But I do think
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Speaker 3: that sometimes Australian audiences they have different reactions to certain
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Speaker 3: things or different responses to certain things. So I'll be
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Speaker 3: interested to see because obviously the hype around that is
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Speaker 3: going to be insane, But if it will continue and
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Speaker 3: what some of those legacy products will be and if
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Speaker 3: it will be the same here, I'll be really interested
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Speaker 3: to see.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, crazy crazy for the next life.
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Speaker 2: Lesen is a quote that I saw on an interview
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Speaker 2: with like two models discussing their rider. Right, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: it was us two models. It's exactly what people think
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Speaker 2: about when they think about two roticks. Yeah, and anyway,
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Speaker 2: they were listening all of the like wild things they
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Speaker 2: have on their rider, which was funny to watch. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: one of them had an iPhone, another one had like
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Speaker 2: fresh flowers. Like writers are like a foreign concept to us.
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Speaker 2: Like there were comments in it being like if this
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Speaker 2: was the music industry, this would be like the easiest
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Speaker 2: writer to fulfill. Like yeah, okay, you know, it's like
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Speaker 2: I'm not chit talking that. I'm like people can put
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Speaker 2: on their riders whatever they want. Yeah, Like it's not personal,
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Speaker 2: doesn't affect me.
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Speaker 1: It's a video. I'm not related. Yeah, I don't have
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Speaker 1: to organize it exactly. Do I think there are some
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Speaker 1: writers that are like a little bit wild. Yeah. Sure.
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Speaker 2: And in the video, this model says closed mouths don't
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Speaker 2: get fed.
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Speaker 1: If you don't ask, you won't receive exactly.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm like I loved that saying because it's
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Speaker 2: such a mentality that like I live by h of
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Speaker 2: Like you know, even like with things that we work on,
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Speaker 2: will be talking about.
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Speaker 1: Something, You'll be like, oh, yeah, but you know this
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Speaker 1: will happen. I'm like, oh, well, what else they can
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Speaker 1: do is say no? Yeah. But then in the same
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Speaker 1: position that we're in if we don't ask. Yeah, so true.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's something that I'm like not good at or
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Speaker 3: like something that I need to improve on. Is like
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Speaker 3: I preempt all the reasons that somebody could say no.
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Speaker 3: And it's like, yeah, you're always like we'll just ask,
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Speaker 3: you never know, and if they say no, then but
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Speaker 3: like I do.
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Speaker 1: The same thing.
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Speaker 3: I'm like.
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Speaker 1: They might say no for this reason.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, well I'll let them then, yeah, Like I'll
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Speaker 2: let them say no because I'm going to open my
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Speaker 2: mouth to try and get fed. Yeah, you know, and
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Speaker 2: I just or like, there's just so many things that
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Speaker 2: I think there's never anything wrong with asking, obviously within reason,
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Speaker 2: Like if you're asking for a new iPhone just because
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Speaker 2: you're doing photo shoot, then yeah maybe yeah, but like yeah,
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Speaker 2: I just really love that mentality. It's something that I
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Speaker 2: try to take into a lot of my decision making,
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Speaker 2: and it's a habit that like was a process for
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Speaker 2: me break as well.
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Speaker 1: It's like a preempting discomfort.
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Speaker 2: For someone else and you're assuming discomfort on their end,
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Speaker 2: or like apprehension when you have no crystal ball or
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Speaker 2: you know, psychic ability to actually know. And like, for example,
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Speaker 2: where in the process of trying to like build something
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Speaker 2: which I can't say what it is yet soon, but
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Speaker 2: like we reached out to a couple of brands to
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Speaker 2: like work with us on it and like supply equipment, right,
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Speaker 2: and it was like, you know, we're asking them to
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Speaker 2: supply this, and they might say no, but I'm like,
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Speaker 2: if they say no, then we're still in the situation
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Speaker 2: of we need to you know, invest the money anyway.
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Speaker 2: So I'm like it's better than zero odds. Yeah, so yeah,
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Speaker 2: that's my life lesson. And when I read that, I
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Speaker 2: was like, oh I like that one.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, me too, but that shit that I'm going to
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Speaker 3: mix it up for this life lesson.
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Speaker 1: You know, everybody's obsessed with pistachio.
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Speaker 3: And marcha, not everyone, A lot of people, not me,
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Speaker 3: and how we have food trends and whatnot.
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Speaker 2: Hate mustachio? Why is it everywhere? Why is it in coffee?
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Speaker 2: Why is it in croissants? Why is it in cakes?
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Speaker 2: Like and now there's like mustachio body wash.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's obsessed with that.
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Speaker 3: But the food trend that I've been obsessed with in
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty five and then I think deserves a little
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Speaker 3: bit more time. The sun is hot honey.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I feel like I've been seeing that ironic because
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Speaker 2: I'm allergic to honey.
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Speaker 1: I really, Oh you should tell me that. I told
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Speaker 1: you that before, but it's a niche allergy.
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Speaker 2: I had an anaphylactic rerection to an lcmbar when I
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Speaker 2: was like in year three and I had to go
14:46
Speaker 2: to hospital and it was the tinny year that was
14:48
Speaker 2: in the lcnbar LCM don't sue me, no, we love it.
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Speaker 2: It was like the first time it was the it
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Speaker 2: was like a corn Flakes one. They had like a
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Speaker 2: special edition corn Flakes elcmbar And I'm going of this
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Speaker 2: information from my parents, but they were like it was
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Speaker 2: some like Argentinian honey. Okay, Like it wasn't like the
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Speaker 2: stock standard honey.
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Speaker 1: What we would have. But do you just steer clear? Well,
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Speaker 1: sometimes I just have honey and I'll put it on
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Speaker 1: my skin and see what happens, and like it's fine,
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Speaker 1: Like I've had honey lemon tea. We're still not one
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Speaker 1: hundred percent.
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Speaker 3: Have you had one of those allergy testing No, but
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Speaker 3: my mom keeps asking me to go keep one.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're stressing me, I know.
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Speaker 2: But now I'm like, I'm allergic to avocado, I'm allergic
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Speaker 2: to gay we fruit, I'm allergic to cats.
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Speaker 1: We were out of that one though. Allegend dash fucking
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Speaker 1: walk analogy this millhouse. Yeah, I know.
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Speaker 3: But anyway, short and sweet, Literally, if you haven't tried
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Speaker 3: hot honey, it is incredible. If you're like an avocado
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Speaker 3: toast fan, there's a little bit of it on that
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Speaker 3: on pizza.
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Speaker 1: Amazing.
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Speaker 3: I just feel like it really elevates some of the
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Speaker 3: meals and that's some a trending food item that I'm like.
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Speaker 1: Finally, something I actually liked. Finally.
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Speaker 2: Okay, this life lesson I think is potentially controversial.
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Speaker 1: Oh but I'm going to be controversial, yeah, rave okay,
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Speaker 1: and it's I'm more opening it up for discussion. Do
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Speaker 1: we really need more than two pillows on the bed? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. And now hear me out.
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Speaker 1: This is because it's a unique situation to everyone, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't use more than one pillow. When I see like,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, I just use the one pillow that I'm
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Speaker 1: sleeping on.
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Speaker 2: I kind of stopped like cuddling the other pillow and like,
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Speaker 2: you know, yeah, I know you cuddle a pillow, like
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Speaker 2: I know you cuddle it so like you need. But
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Speaker 2: if you don't do that, I feel like pillows are
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Speaker 2: starting to slowly take over the world, Like it's going
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Speaker 2: to expand and expand and expand it to the point.
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Speaker 1: That like you're in your room being like, yeah, I'm
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Speaker 1: like cover it up. I'm covered in pillows. Like I'm
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Speaker 1: more pillow than man.
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Speaker 3: Don't worry about like AI and robots, Yeah, I worry
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Speaker 3: about pillow.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if we need more.
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Speaker 2: Let's say four, then I don't think we need more
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Speaker 2: than four pillows on the bed. Yeah, because at this point,
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Speaker 2: I mean this thing of being like, why is there
16:57
Speaker 2: so much fucking shit in my house right? Like living
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Speaker 2: in a little rental apartment that I'm like, like, there's
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Speaker 2: just so much stuff everywhere that I have to put
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Speaker 2: pillows on the floor and then I basically just have
17:09
Speaker 2: to put them back on the bed. That I'm like,
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Speaker 2: I'm creating work for myself here by having a billion pillows. Yeah, wow,
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Speaker 2: like the accent pillow of like the one that just
17:19
Speaker 2: goes in the center or what point?
17:22
Speaker 1: For what point? You're a lot pretty at the back?
17:25
Speaker 1: You know, Like I feel like Louis back just got
17:28
Speaker 1: a shoot, I know, and Louis, I love you.
17:30
Speaker 2: And I'm sorry, I'm just asking the question. I'm not
17:33
Speaker 2: saying I've decided this. But this week I've just had
17:36
Speaker 2: two pillows on the bed. I've just put the douneru
17:39
Speaker 2: and put the pillows on.
17:40
Speaker 1: And I'm not gonna lie.
17:41
Speaker 2: It looks fine and it's great and I don't have
17:44
Speaker 2: to fuck around with like seven billion pillows.
17:47
Speaker 1: Also, no one's looking except for you and like whoever
17:50
Speaker 1: lives with you? Yeah, I don't know. Is that like
17:53
Speaker 1: have I been living with a man for too long?
17:55
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I feel like that's a blue opinion.
17:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, so concerned because that's what it's always like.
18:01
Speaker 3: We have these huge pillows that like we put on,
18:04
Speaker 3: so we have like five pillows.
18:06
Speaker 1: On the bed. Yeah, it's too much. He's like, so
18:08
Speaker 1: you just make the bed to put them on and
18:10
Speaker 1: then take them off. And I'm like, sure, sh I know,
18:14
Speaker 1: I know.
18:14
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm having an allergic reaction right now.
18:17
Speaker 2: People saying this because I feel like I'm going against
18:19
Speaker 2: girl code here, but I'm like, do I want this?
18:27
Speaker 1: Like who am I? I just don't a question. I
18:30
Speaker 1: don't know.
18:31
Speaker 2: I don't have the answer, but I'm like, do we
18:35
Speaker 2: need Like if this is purely for esthetics, can I
18:39
Speaker 2: be asked?
18:40
Speaker 1: Yeah?
18:40
Speaker 2: Is more the question I'm asking because there's too many
18:43
Speaker 2: fucking pillows on my bed.
18:44
Speaker 1: And fissed me off.
18:45
Speaker 2: And also I lay on my bed like I don't
18:48
Speaker 2: you know, sleep, get out of bed and then get
18:51
Speaker 2: back into it at night time. So that's the other thing,
18:53
Speaker 2: is like I want to just be able to lie
18:55
Speaker 2: on my bed whenever I want to lie on my bed,
18:56
Speaker 2: But when there's a fuck ton of pillows on it, it's.
18:59
Speaker 1: Not even comp the ball. Yeah, that's the other point.
19:02
Speaker 3: That's actually another life lesson that I've learned this year,
19:05
Speaker 3: just from Internet discourse, is that some people only use
19:09
Speaker 3: their bed for sleeping, Like they don't lay and lounge
19:12
Speaker 3: on their bed during the day. Like they don't, you know,
19:15
Speaker 3: like work on their beds like that. We don't know
19:18
Speaker 3: people Like that's really bad, But like I love my
19:20
Speaker 3: bed that afternoon, like getting home from the office and
19:23
Speaker 3: then just laying down and like on top.
19:25
Speaker 1: Of the covers reading a book. Yeah, or watching three
19:29
Speaker 1: pm afternoon to light. Yeah that's what I mean.
19:34
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I mean at the lake. But yeah,
19:38
Speaker 3: that really rocked my world. Yeah, it's like you're really
19:40
Speaker 3: limiting side. I don't even know if I believe you
19:42
Speaker 3: the great opportunities.
19:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like you lie.
19:46
Speaker 3: Like another life lesson that I've picked up this year
19:50
Speaker 3: is to know your anxiety meals.
19:52
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
19:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this isn't a universal experience, but I know
19:57
Speaker 3: a lot of people experience.
19:59
Speaker 1: Yeah that if you experience.
20:01
Speaker 3: Anxiety a lot of the time people either feel nauseous
20:05
Speaker 3: or you.
20:06
Speaker 1: Completely lose your appetite.
20:08
Speaker 3: And a lot of the time I completely lose my appetite,
20:11
Speaker 3: which then only exacerbates the problem because obviously eating food
20:14
Speaker 3: is going to help with your anxiety in the long run.
20:18
Speaker 1: But I feel like I'm force feeding myself.
20:19
Speaker 3: I found it like really difficult if I was like
20:21
Speaker 3: nervous or stressed, or even if I was like, I
20:23
Speaker 3: don't even know why I'm anxious. I just you know,
20:26
Speaker 3: it's lunchtime, and I know I should be hungry, but
20:28
Speaker 3: I don't feel hungry, but I know I need to eat.
20:31
Speaker 3: And someone said to me, like, oh, you need to
20:34
Speaker 3: know what your anxiety meal is. And essentially, it's the
20:38
Speaker 3: meal that you could eat like rain, hail or shine,
20:42
Speaker 3: no matter what time of day. It is a meal
20:44
Speaker 3: that you could eat every single day without getting sick
20:46
Speaker 3: of it, and knowing exactly what that meal is, so
20:49
Speaker 3: that if you are feeling anxious, then you know, okay, well,
20:53
Speaker 3: I can order this one thing and I will.
20:54
Speaker 1: Be able to eat it.
20:55
Speaker 2: It's a cheeseburger with no meat and extra extra onion,
21:01
Speaker 2: extra pickle and chips. Yep, and I could eat it
21:06
Speaker 2: everything hail or Shyep, that's a really good tip.
21:09
Speaker 1: I think that would make sense to a lot of people.
21:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, anxiety is a universal experience and it's just a
21:15
Speaker 2: spectrum of like how severe people's anxiety is. Right, but
21:19
Speaker 2: I think that would be a very relatable occurrence for
21:22
Speaker 2: a lot of people. It's whether they're sad, it's whether
21:24
Speaker 2: they're angry, it's when they're anxious. Like, there's so many
21:27
Speaker 2: things that like, you know, can affect that. So I
21:29
Speaker 2: think that's a really good tip.
21:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder what mine is.
21:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, it probably is pasta. This life lesson can kind
21:38
Speaker 2: of be put to a few things. But I have
21:41
Speaker 2: a specific example as to what like inspired this life
21:45
Speaker 2: lesson and the life lesson is the race doesn't exist.
21:50
Speaker 2: The reason why I pulled this life lesson is this
21:54
Speaker 2: year I started the Basic Bitch book Club right and
21:57
Speaker 2: purely was like fun hobby, side hustle, creativity vibes, not
22:02
Speaker 2: even side hustle, Like it was just like this is
22:03
Speaker 2: fun and I want to do it to your.
22:04
Speaker 1: Passion a creative outlet.
22:06
Speaker 2: That isn't you know my main job which is to
22:10
Speaker 2: bis to brew chicks, not to be confirmed, Like.
22:14
Speaker 1: Wait, what this isn't I'm quitting. This is my we'll
22:19
Speaker 1: find out it's you know, taking off.
22:23
Speaker 2: It's grown over one hundred thousand followers this year, which
22:26
Speaker 2: I was like, were Hornie Sheelers unite?
22:29
Speaker 1: Love that?
22:30
Speaker 2: But in doing that, it kind of then made me
22:34
Speaker 2: look at it a little bit less.
22:36
Speaker 1: Like how when I started it.
22:38
Speaker 2: And it was like, Okay, now I have to make content,
22:41
Speaker 2: like I've got to do this, I've got to do that.
22:43
Speaker 1: And then I started getting in.
22:46
Speaker 2: The make believe race of like everyone else is moving quickly,
22:50
Speaker 2: I have to move quickly too, And that then started
22:53
Speaker 2: translating to the books I was reading, and how because
22:59
Speaker 2: I started this thing, I then felt pressure to read
23:04
Speaker 2: my books really really quickly, especially if it was a
23:06
Speaker 2: new book that came out. And I think this has
23:08
Speaker 2: also translated to a lot of people because whether it's
23:11
Speaker 2: a movie that just came out, whether it's a book
23:14
Speaker 2: that just came out, whether it's a TV series, whether
23:16
Speaker 2: it's a product, and it's about getting it first and
23:20
Speaker 2: finishing it first.
23:22
Speaker 1: And especially like in on.
23:24
Speaker 2: BookTalk or even with TV shows, it's like, Okay, I'm
23:28
Speaker 2: going to finish it first so that I can talk
23:30
Speaker 2: about it and I can make content and I'm the
23:32
Speaker 2: first person to do that, and I'm going to be
23:34
Speaker 2: like the first in the thing.
23:35
Speaker 1: And then it created this scenario where I.
23:38
Speaker 2: Didn't get to sit and enjoy the book that I
23:41
Speaker 2: was reading because I felt like I had to finish
23:42
Speaker 2: it in a week. Yeah, because I needed to make
23:45
Speaker 2: content on it and I needed to finish it within
23:47
Speaker 2: a week. And I know that's a niche example to
23:50
Speaker 2: like the job that we do, right, but I think
23:53
Speaker 2: it applies to so many other things that because social
23:59
Speaker 2: media and work and life is so fast paced, we
24:02
Speaker 2: put ourselves in like a rat race of this invisible pace,
24:08
Speaker 2: this invisible pressure to be quicker and faster, and everything
24:11
Speaker 2: needs to happen immediately, and it's like, when are.
24:15
Speaker 1: We stopping to enjoy the journey.
24:17
Speaker 2: My other example is how beautiful of an experience and
24:21
Speaker 2: the universal experience of the summer I turned pretty this
24:24
Speaker 2: year of having one episode release each week, and Wednesday
24:28
Speaker 2: nights became Conrad nights, Like it was just such a
24:33
Speaker 2: fun experience to not have that race on it, And
24:36
Speaker 2: there was still a little bit in terms of like
24:38
Speaker 2: if you didn't watch it on Wednesday night rip Thursday,
24:42
Speaker 2: you're getting a spoiler Yeah, which fucking sucks, but it
24:45
Speaker 2: still was a little bit like that pace slowed.
24:47
Speaker 1: Down a little bit. Yeah, And I just made me
24:50
Speaker 1: think about it, being like who made the rule? Why
24:52
Speaker 1: does this happen? And I'm like, you know what, the
24:54
Speaker 1: race just doesn't exist. So there's this book that's like
24:56
Speaker 1: come out that's probably one of the biggest releases of
24:58
Speaker 1: the year that tech.
25:00
Speaker 2: If I wanted to, you know, use it for work
25:03
Speaker 2: and the basic Bitch book Club content, I would be
25:06
Speaker 2: having to read that really really quickly. I'd be having
25:09
Speaker 2: to take notes and pull theories and blah blah blah,
25:11
Speaker 2: and I actually wouldn't get to enjoy it, which the
25:13
Speaker 2: main reason I started this in the first place was
25:16
Speaker 2: because I enjoy the hobby. So I was like, Okay,
25:19
Speaker 2: do you know what, I'm not going to do it.
25:21
Speaker 2: I'm not going to read it now. I'm going to
25:22
Speaker 2: wait till I'm on holiday break and i'm having a
25:25
Speaker 2: rose while I'm camping, and I'm just going to take
25:28
Speaker 2: myself out of the race because it doesn't exist.
25:31
Speaker 1: I love that.
25:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think because you did say, you know,
25:36
Speaker 3: that specific example might not be relevant to every single person,
25:40
Speaker 3: but what I do think is relevant to every person.
25:43
Speaker 3: Even on the flip side of that is that we
25:45
Speaker 3: expect people to respond to everything straight away, eve an email.
25:51
Speaker 1: Sorry I'm interrupting you, but it's like if you don't
25:53
Speaker 1: respond to someone within the same business day.
25:55
Speaker 2: I've noticed that the immediate response on the emails like
25:58
Speaker 2: apologies for the delay.
26:00
Speaker 1: I'm like, what, it's one day. When did we get
26:02
Speaker 1: to this point, Like the delay should have like it
26:04
Speaker 1: used to be like, apologies for the.
26:05
Speaker 3: Delay in my response, but it's like a week yeah, yeah, exactly.
26:09
Speaker 3: But you know, whether it's a book review or somebody
26:13
Speaker 3: commenting on something that's happening in society in the news
26:17
Speaker 3: headlines or has a thought on anything. By expecting like
26:21
Speaker 3: an immediate response or an immediate piece of content, we
26:25
Speaker 3: lose that nuance that you can get from maybe sitting
26:28
Speaker 3: back and actually sitting with your opinion. So whether it
26:31
Speaker 3: is you know, like reading a book and then being like, actually,
26:33
Speaker 3: let me ponder on that theory for a little while,
26:35
Speaker 3: instead of being like, okay, like this is my immediate
26:37
Speaker 3: first reaction, even.
26:38
Speaker 2: Like success or goals like buying a house or like
26:42
Speaker 2: having a baby, getting a boyfriend, drinking water.
26:45
Speaker 1: Whatever, it is.
26:45
Speaker 2: It's like that this race doesn't exist. Yeah, like this
26:49
Speaker 2: pressure to have all of these goals and metrics of
26:52
Speaker 2: a successful life, Like what is that?
26:55
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter, It's all fake.
26:59
Speaker 2: Okay, we're going to wrap part one of our twenty
27:02
Speaker 2: five lessons here, but we're going to be doing part two.
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Speaker 1: Thanks to you chicks for having a senior E house.
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Speaker 1: We love to be here. Part two Sleeper Part two