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Things We Think Are A Scam · Two Broke Chicks

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  Speaker 1: This podcast is recorded on gaddigle Land Always was, always
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  Speaker 2: And I'm sad, and this is Two Broke Chicks, the
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  Speaker 2: show that shares life lessons and tips to help make
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  Speaker 2: you rich in life.
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  Speaker 1: And we're back in your ear holes. We're bag another Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: Another cheeky tooth day. How are you sour good?
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  Speaker 3: How are you going? I'm excited for this episode.
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  Speaker 1: Me too.
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  Speaker 2: We've got spicy one. We've been wanting to do this
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  Speaker 2: episode for a while and we're going to be chatting
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  Speaker 2: about the things we think are a scam, from the legit.
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  Speaker 1: To the girlipop. Some of these legitimate scam, some of
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  Speaker 1: these just personal, just personal vendettas.
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  Speaker 4: And we also asked you chicks to send in the
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  Speaker 4: things that you think are a scam, so we'll run
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  Speaker 4: through those as well, which I'm very excited to say.
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  Speaker 2: I had a cheeky little look through it this morning
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, guys, are spicy cheek.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, you don't knowing all right.
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  Speaker 2: But before we get into the episode, Sally Bally love
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  Speaker 2: my love, what is your obsession of the week?
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  Speaker 4: My obsession of the week is for the junk journaling
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  Speaker 4: and craft girlies out there, and it's Martina Calvey and
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  Speaker 4: if you are into journaling or junk journaling, you may
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  Speaker 4: have seen her content across the internet. So this is
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  Speaker 4: kind of like a two parter of recommendation because I
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  Speaker 4: think that she's a great person to follow for inspiration
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  Speaker 4: on like journaling prompts and if you want to get
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  Speaker 4: into journaling or being more crafty or doing you know,
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  Speaker 4: di wise. She just has so many amazing ideas, which
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  Speaker 4: I think is really cool. And she's also fostered a
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  Speaker 4: really beautiful community and does like in person events and whatnot,
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  Speaker 4: which I think is really cool. But she also has
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  Speaker 4: a store called Martina's Tiny Store, and she has really
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  Speaker 4: beautiful like scrap booking paper and stickers, and there's so
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  Speaker 4: many great places that you can get journaling supplies from.
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  Speaker 4: But we always love supporting a small Australian business and
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  Speaker 4: everything that she creates is so girly pop and like
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  Speaker 4: Pinterest coded and just so cute and beautiful. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's my recommendation.
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  Speaker 2: I love that one, And like you've really stuck with
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  Speaker 2: that this year, So like what's been the way that
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  Speaker 2: you stay consistent with it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So I have like formats that I do in
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  Speaker 4: my journal, So I do a quarterly wrap up where
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  Speaker 4: I have like a double spread and I'll do January February, March,
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  Speaker 4: for example, and then so I leave space for all
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  Speaker 4: of those things. And then I also do like gig reviews,
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  Speaker 4: so every time I go to a show, I do
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  Speaker 4: a little review about it in my journal. And whenever
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  Speaker 4: we've gone traveling, I do like a double page spread.
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  Speaker 4: So there's like a whole thing for Europe. So I
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  Speaker 4: think tying it to events like that has made it
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  Speaker 4: more manageable for me, whereas I know other people prefer
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  Speaker 4: to be like and today's prompt is pink.
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  Speaker 3: And orange, and then they'll like collect all things that
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  Speaker 3: are pink and orange and make a spread like that.
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  Speaker 4: And then I try to do it also every Sunday
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  Speaker 4: when I'm watching the footy, and that's like my little
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  Speaker 4: anchor thing on like a Sunday avo.
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  Speaker 3: I put the footy on and I journal at the
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  Speaker 3: same time.
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  Speaker 1: So cue I can't wait to see it.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you make a feature quite a few.
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  Speaker 2: Spreads, Yes, as I should naturally obviously. Okay, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: piggyback on your idea of creators we recommend following and
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  Speaker 2: mine is the Bear Faced podcast and also TikTok.
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  Speaker 1: So I've chatted with.
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  Speaker 2: Lily who is the face behind the account before because
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  Speaker 2: I literally just think she's amazing and we need to
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  Speaker 2: have her on this podcast as well. But it is
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  Speaker 2: probably one of the smartest beauty pages I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 2: So she kind of pulls in a bunch of industry
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  Speaker 2: knowledge and uses her engineering background to kind of scrape
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  Speaker 2: the back end and really find trends within marketing, beauty
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  Speaker 2: and all of that realm.
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  Speaker 1: It's so cool, Like.
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  Speaker 2: If you were interested in and the beauty industry and marketing,
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  Speaker 2: this is one hundred percent page you should follow. Like
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  Speaker 2: some examples of her tiktoks is like Locks of Time
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  Speaker 2: acquiring Sol Dejanio, So why did their stock price sink?
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  Speaker 1: Uh huh?
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  Speaker 2: How fifty five K salaries are killing fashion and beauty?
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  Speaker 1: The return of.
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  Speaker 2: Multi use makeup, why vanilla sents everywhere?
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  Speaker 1: Like it's just so interesting.
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  Speaker 2: And I feel like I am hotter, smarter, and richer
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  Speaker 2: for following this account.
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  Speaker 1: That, Yeah, I think her work is incredible.
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  Speaker 2: She also does have a podcast, and yeah, Okay, shall
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  Speaker 2: we get into the episode.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get into the scams.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, things we think are a scam? Number one, cute debt, Oh, elaborate,
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  Speaker 2: I'm elaborate for you.
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  Speaker 1: This is my kind of like t Hea but serious one. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So by this, I am talking about buy now, Pay later,
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  Speaker 2: so and the recent marketing would we call it recent,
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  Speaker 2: but the marketing that's very specifically aimed at women and
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  Speaker 2: this idea that.
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  Speaker 1: You can have cute debt.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Right, So there was a recent advertisement from
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  Speaker 2: a buy now, Pay later service that literally read.
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  Speaker 1: Little payments are so much cuter. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have another one from Klana which read brains
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  Speaker 2: are pink. Klana is pink. Brains are smart. Klana is smart.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And according to a twenty twenty four study from the
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  Speaker 2: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, on average, men have more
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  Speaker 2: total debt than women, but women are a huge sixty
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  Speaker 2: eight percent.
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  Speaker 1: More likely to use installment payment services.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I can see that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because does that debt include things like mortgages? Because
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  Speaker 4: if that was the case, then I wouldn't be surprised
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  Speaker 4: that men would have have more decks. They have probably
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  Speaker 4: more access to apply and get alone, Yeah for something
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  Speaker 4: like that. Whereas yeah, those sorts of services are targeted
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  Speaker 4: at women.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I think that statistic just supports the fact that, like,
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  Speaker 2: women are being targeted. However, this messaging that by now
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  Speaker 2: pay later is for the girls isn't just coming from
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  Speaker 2: the brands themselves, It's coming from inside the house.
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  Speaker 4: Ah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I saw a TikTok this week from a
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  Speaker 2: creator who I'm not going to say a name or
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  Speaker 2: anything because I don't want it to seem like I'm
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  Speaker 2: piling on.
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  Speaker 3: But there are some.
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  Speaker 2: Quotes in it that I just think of fueling this
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  Speaker 2: idea that debt is cutesy and little and for the girls.
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  Speaker 1: Like literally, the statement was after pays for the girlies.
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  Speaker 2: And so here's some quotes, and it said, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: someone who after pays things that I couldn't pay in full.
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  Speaker 2: So the video starts with that, followed by being someone
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  Speaker 2: with a raging shopping addiction.
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  Speaker 1: It makes me feel better about the money I'm spending.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh uh huh.
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  Speaker 2: The creator goes on to explain, I placed a Sephora
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  Speaker 2: order and it was one hundred and seventy dollars. You know,
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  Speaker 2: how much better I felt about myself financially knowing that
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  Speaker 2: I was paying forty three dollars today and opposed to
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy dollars today. My shelves are full
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  Speaker 2: of makeup. I can't justify spending more money on makeup.
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  Speaker 2: But hey, it's only forty three dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sharing this to sit on a high horse
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  Speaker 2: and be like boo bad. I'm sharing that because that
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  Speaker 2: was exactly how I used to think about it too.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly how I think it was ingrained.
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  Speaker 5: And I've absolutely made the joke of being like it's
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  Speaker 5: after paid, so it's free, exactly, and like I've made
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  Speaker 5: the mistake of thinking about it like that, of looking
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  Speaker 5: at purchases using buy now pay lad services and thinking
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  Speaker 5: it's only the first payment, that the three other payments
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  Speaker 5: they don't exist.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're just they.
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  Speaker 1: They're in the future at some time and I can't
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  Speaker 1: see them, so they don't exist.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's where I think this whole narrative just
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  Speaker 2: becomes quite dangerous and a slippery slope. But then the
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  Speaker 2: other part of why I think this is kind of
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  Speaker 2: giving scam vibes is just like the misinformation and the
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  Speaker 2: smoke and mirrors. And we recently this year spoke about
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  Speaker 2: how you know the rules and regulations and how artope
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  Speaker 2: affects your credit score are changing.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't. I still don't think people know that enough.
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't think so, because it's if you like
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  Speaker 4: default on your payments and you can't pay it back,
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  Speaker 4: it can have an impact on your credit score, which
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  Speaker 4: of course is like the worst case scenario. And I
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  Speaker 4: think that it is like a good thing really that
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  Speaker 4: they're rolling these things out, that it's more regulated.
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  Speaker 1: It also affects your chances of getting a home loan.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's also encouraging like reckless spending if you're
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  Speaker 4: thinking about it, that it makes you feel less guilt
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  Speaker 4: about making a purchase. Like people should be using these
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  Speaker 4: services if they want to as a way to free
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  Speaker 4: up cash flow, if that's what works best for them,
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  Speaker 4: as long as they're paying it off and not paying
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  Speaker 4: any of the extra fees.
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  Speaker 3: But the fact that it's.
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  Speaker 4: Being marketed as or thought of as a way to
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  Speaker 4: alleviate any guilter make you feel better about yourself for
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  Speaker 4: spending money. I just think that's kind of like putting
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  Speaker 4: your head in the sand.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, and that's what I would do.
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  Speaker 2: I would never even look at how much was like
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  Speaker 2: the total amount that I owed to after pay because I.
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  Speaker 1: Was like, that's scary. I don't want to look at that.
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  Speaker 2: And because what happens is, you know, you have these
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  Speaker 2: small one off payments at the start, and then you
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  Speaker 2: do a second order, and then you do a third order,
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  Speaker 2: and all of those total amounts get added onto the
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  Speaker 2: account that yes, maybe for that first order it's forty
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  Speaker 2: three dollars in two weeks, but what about the third
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  Speaker 2: and fourth order that you've also made, that they're all
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  Speaker 2: coming out in two weeks time, and it actually adds
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  Speaker 2: up to two hundred and twenty dollars when you really
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  Speaker 2: were probably just better off spending the full amount of money.
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  Speaker 2: And I think as well, when I stopped using buy
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  Speaker 2: now pay later for like just one of purchases that
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  Speaker 2: absolutely I did not need to be using by not
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  Speaker 2: pay later, I think if you don't want to pay
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  Speaker 2: the full amount for something in that one transaction, like
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  Speaker 2: you like, let's say you can afford it, You've got
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  Speaker 2: the money in your bank account, but you're going one
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  Speaker 2: hundred dollars is too much money.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to spend that, but twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Five dollars if that's if one hundred dollars for whatever
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  Speaker 2: you're buying is too much money, you.
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  Speaker 1: Don't want it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't want it.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's like.
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  Speaker 2: That is literally the thing that rewired my brain when
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  Speaker 2: I stopped using it that way, because I was like,
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  Speaker 2: it helped me realize all the things that I'm buying
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  Speaker 2: just because I want the dopamine hit exactly versus no,
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  Speaker 2: I actually want that item.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and then by the time you make that fourth payment,
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  Speaker 4: you don't even like the item.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you've worn it once and you've gone to the wedding,
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  Speaker 2: and then you're selling it on deep pop.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not I really don't want.
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  Speaker 2: To come across like I'm like, no, it's evil and
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  Speaker 2: it's really bad, and never use it.
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  Speaker 1: It is a good tool when used.
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  Speaker 2: Correctly for things like Christmas shopping or moving out of home.
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  Speaker 2: But this narrative and cutification of debt aimed at women
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  Speaker 2: is giving scam.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely, it's giving scum. It's a scum.
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  Speaker 1: It's a scum. I don't like it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like it. Ah, So that's my.
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  Speaker 2: Little my little pep talk serious one, my serious one,
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  Speaker 2: because again I was the after pay early Yeah, like
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  Speaker 2: I loved it, and that's what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I really don't want it to come across like and
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  Speaker 1: being like you're bad girl smack on de boom.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, it's just.
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  Speaker 4: I guess another perspective to help you realize maybe what
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  Speaker 4: some of these marketing tactics are trying to. Absolutely and
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  Speaker 4: while we are like girl math and that whole thing
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  Speaker 4: is fun and cutesy, there are some parts of it
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  Speaker 4: that can be potentially damaging. And just to take the
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  Speaker 4: rose colored glasses off that, Okay, what is your scum?
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  Speaker 3: My scum?
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  Speaker 1: Your scum?
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  Speaker 4: The first thing that I think is scam is airport
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  Speaker 4: prices fucking mood. Aside from Judy Free, why is everything
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  Speaker 4: in an airport so fucking expensive? Like, somebody please jump
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  Speaker 4: into the comments and justify why, because I think that
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  Speaker 4: the only reason that it's so expensive is because we
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  Speaker 4: have no other choice.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, you're locked in there.
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  Speaker 4: We're trapped in there, and I need a Snickers to
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  Speaker 4: survive the fly and you.
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  Speaker 1: Know that it's actually eraught.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's just like, look, not all airports are
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  Speaker 4: created equal as well. By the way, we'll say, you know,
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  Speaker 4: there are some airports out there that are fabulous. You
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  Speaker 4: can get fabulous services and delicious meals and whatnot, But
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  Speaker 4: a lot of the time you are buying the most
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  Speaker 4: mediocre coffee and toaster you've ever had, and you end
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  Speaker 4: up spending thirty eight dollars.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy. Yeah, do you know what?
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  Speaker 2: I actually just feel like, Bunny, that I spend at
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  Speaker 2: the airport is like not real.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm like, that's like I mentally disassociate.
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  Speaker 4: I think a lot of people do, and that's why
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  Speaker 4: we're just willing to suck it up and pay for it.
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  Speaker 4: And I was wondering, like how much our products actually
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  Speaker 4: marked up at the airport and compare the market did
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  Speaker 4: a study last year which blew my mind.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, I am sat. I am SAT.
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  Speaker 4: So last year people were paying ninety five point six
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  Speaker 4: percent more across the ten most popular items at the airport,
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  Speaker 4: not almost double.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Should I run you through some of the step too, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: So I'll put the link to the study in the
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  Speaker 4: show notes so that you can read the full list.
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  Speaker 4: But let's go through the top three most expensive. The
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  Speaker 4: top three most marked up. Okay, so detol instant hand sanitizer.
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  Speaker 4: The RRP at the supermarket is two dollars eighty. At
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  Speaker 4: the airport it's six dollars and ninety nine cents.
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  Speaker 1: For what size?
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  Speaker 3: Just for a fifty mil YEP.
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  Speaker 4: So, that is a price difference of four dollars and
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  Speaker 4: nineteen cents, or a markup of one hundred and forty
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  Speaker 4: nine point six percent.
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  Speaker 1: I'm actually gonna start crying next.
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  Speaker 4: One panodole rapid caplet's a twenty pack. So the RP
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  Speaker 4: at a supermarket is six dollars fifty. At the airport
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  Speaker 4: it's fifteen dollars and ninety nine cents.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: That is a price difference of nine dollars and forty
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  Speaker 4: nine cents, or a markup of one hundred and forty
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  Speaker 4: six percent. Popcorn Cob, popcorn, Yeah, cops, popcorn sweet and
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  Speaker 4: Sally sounds delicious RP three dollars fifty at the airport
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  Speaker 4: eight bucks. Price difference of four dollars and forty nine cents,
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  Speaker 4: or a markup of one hundred and twenty eight point
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  Speaker 4: three percent.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel sick. I want to know more.
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  Speaker 2: So A pump water pure bottle oh yeah, hit me
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  Speaker 2: with this one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So the RP is three bucks.
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  Speaker 4: At the airport, you're paying five dollars and ninety nine
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  Speaker 4: So that is a markup of two dollars and ninety
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  Speaker 4: nine cents, or a percentage difference of ninety nine point
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  Speaker 4: seven percent. And then last, but not laced in the
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  Speaker 4: top five, a Boss Coffee iced latte, which.
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  Speaker 3: I believe is one of those.
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  Speaker 2: Like can the prices, Yeah, that'll set you back four
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  Speaker 2: dollars in real life at the airport.
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  Speaker 4: That is seven dollars and ninety nine cents. Again, a
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  Speaker 4: markup of ninety nine point seven percent and a price
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  Speaker 4: difference of three dollars and ninety nine cents. I will
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  Speaker 4: say as well, this was this study was conducted at
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  Speaker 4: domestic airports. So I believe a lot of these things
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  Speaker 4: you can actually take through security, like dead adle, panadol,
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  Speaker 4: the popcorn.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe not the beverages.
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  Speaker 1: No, you definitely can't take water through.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but with whatever you can.
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  Speaker 1: But that's that's wild, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: It's like you can't bring water through you have to
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  Speaker 2: go and buy this six dollar bottle of water.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you want to behrydrated.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So I thought that was very interesting and just
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  Speaker 4: a good reminder that if you're like packing your things
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  Speaker 4: for a trip and you're like, I'll just get panodole
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  Speaker 4: at the airport, I'll just get this at the airport,
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  Speaker 4: like whatever, you can try to organize it and bring
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  Speaker 4: it in advance because at the time you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever, three bucks.
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  Speaker 4: But if you're buying a couple of things and you're
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  Speaker 4: paying double the amount that you need to and it's
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  Speaker 4: just so unnecessary.
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  Speaker 1: That is wild.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's something we always know, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't think have actually like looked at the price difference
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  Speaker 2: and to see that and see that intense markup is
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  Speaker 2: so hectic that it's actually the hickup the bum.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, to be like.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: No, I'll get my detel, Yeah, I'll get and my pantole.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: I'll just go to chemist house.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just have with a friends that does always have
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: that shit.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: That's my life hack. Ye that I'm always like, Samy,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: can I have some lip bump, Sally? Can I have
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: some pt Sally? I have a headache?
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: Okay. My next scam and this is my silly girl scam.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Why are pants so long? Why are pants so long?
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: I literally have not bought a pair of pants, and
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go ahead and say the last five
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: years that have not had at least a good fifteen
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: centimeters of wiggle room at the bottom. That is just
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: dragging on the dirt, getting in the puddles, yes, stepping
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: in my shoes.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't know if I can get my
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: leg up that far.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: But literally, you've literally cuffed your jeane.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: My Jane's for the exact same reason.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Now, I understand that there are tall girlies that exist,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: of course, and this is great for them.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: But it's just as a short girlie.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: But I just I refuse to believe that this is
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: the standard. That's the thing, because then you hear tall
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: girlies being.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Can get find tall jeans.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So I'm like, who are these?
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: I guess because I'm like, they seem too long to
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: fit like an average height, whatever that average height is.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: So I'm that is happening here.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Like I'm one hundred and sixty five cent centimeters tall.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: I don't feel like I'm definitely not the shortest person
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: in the world, but I'm definitely not the tallest person.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: The average height of a woman.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Of a woman of a woman. Average height of a woman.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, so the average height for an Australian woman
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: is around one hundred and sixty one point eight centimeters.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, so.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Are you talking?
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Am I talking?
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Damn?
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Holy shit?
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Australian Bureau Statistics the average Australian woman was
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty one centimeters tall. Yeah, so explain
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: to me why someone who is taller than that cannot
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: get fucking pants that don't.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Drag for eighty meters behind that.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: That's the thing. And it's not even that they're a
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: little bit too long.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: It's that they literally fold under your shoe and I
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: and it looks like a mouse. Yeahs Oh my god.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: The amount of jeans that I have that are just
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: like completely ripped and like scared on the bottom. Scam.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: And you know what this is where I was like,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: oh my god, the scam has brainwashed me. Was when
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: we were doing our Tuesday shopping day where we go
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: and film like a bunch of content and we found
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: these Reformation started jeans duops at bigw and there were
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: thirty five dollars and again they touched the floor, they
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: were dragging on the floor and in my head.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I went, oh, that's okay.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: They're thirty five dollars, so the bottom of these can
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: get fucked up.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: And I was like, that's not what way should be thinking.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: It's also the look, like the oversizes look they kind
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: of slouchy on the bottom. But with the price of
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: everything going up and an ad tailoring, Like, yes, I know,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: I can take them to a tailor.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I don't want to. I don't want to pay that much.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: It's just another expense, it's another one.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: It's something I have to do.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's actually the biggest thing.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: It's like, I gotta go somewhere. So is it very serious? No?
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Do I believe it is a scam? Yes?
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I hate it.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Scam. My next scam cottage cheese.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: I saw someone turn this in.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Did they? Okay, so I'm not alone.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: You're not alone, which I absolutely love the cottage cheese trend.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: You've probably seen all over your fip.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: You're all lying. You can't tell me that you actually
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: like it.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: I know that it's like a good source of protein
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: or whatever the fuck. Yeah, but cottage cheese literally has
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: the taste, appearance, and texture of expired milk.
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah, there is no way that you are willingly going
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: out of your way to add that to every fucking meal,
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: and like it's selling out.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Really yeah, because I've never had cottage cheese before my life.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: I don't think you would like it. It's like, it's
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: really salty.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: It's salty, it's a texture for me, it's salty, watery
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: and chunky, which I didn't know if this one was
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: also on your list.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: But the other one that I was thinking that's in
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: a similar vein is pistacio.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: So we we have discussed this.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: When Sam and I were planning this episode, I was like,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: we should do an episode on things we think you're
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: a scam. And I was like, from silly to girlipop
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: for example, pistacio, croissants, Yeah, pistacio chocolate, pistachio fucking everything.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Pistachio spread.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Like I personally enjoy a pistacio like the actual nut.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: I think that is quite delicious, but I do not
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: like pistacio lado or the spread or croissants or muffins. Again,
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: I'm like, I think there's a conspiracy happening and you're
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: all lying and saying that you like it because it
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: doesn't really taste like anything, whereas the actual nut is like, Okay.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: My final thing I think is a scam is expensive
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: beauty tech gadgets.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Now hear me out, there is an asterisk on this.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Beauty tech gadgets have become one of the highest growing
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: trends that we have seen.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I'm talking red.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Light masks, I'm talking the like new face sculptors, I'm
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: talking these like Underry blitzers and all that jazz. I
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: feel like these are giving scam personally, because you just
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: if you don't already do a seventeen billion step skincare routine,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: and if you don't love doing that, it's going.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: To be the biggest waste of money.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: I have spent a lot of money on gadgets like that,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: but I don't do that.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: That's not in my.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Habitual routine to be sitting there for like five minutes
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: using a new face.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: To like sculpt my cheeks or something like that, you know.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: And I think if you don't already have that habit
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: of really kind of doing your skincare routine, buying an
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: item that needs consistent use for months to three months
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: to six months or whatever it is is not going
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: to get it. And it's not going to hit and
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: I think you get the dopamine hit of buying this
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: really expensive item and then you just stop using it
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: and it sits in a draw and you never put
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: it out. Yeah that I am also saying this as
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: a commitment to myself to start using those items and
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: I'm going to use them for a month so that
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: I can actually say whether or not they work.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because consistency is key.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Consistency is key those things. But if you're not a
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: consistent person, I E me.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Mm scam Yeah, like scim if you struggle to get
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: the motivation to take your makeup off or even put
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: a moisturizer on. Okay, now, no need to be mean,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: but I'm just saying, like, then you're probably not going
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: to use your red light therapy mask three to five
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: times a.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Week, yeah, as recommended.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: I wish I was a girlie that like set up
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: her iPad and had like Hailey Bab doing her skincare
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: while I was doing mine.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: And I wish that I had a robo on, But
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: I'm not.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Okay, your final one, My final scam is the nine
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: to five work week. Yeah, you felt that in your
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: soul and the nine to five work week hasn't been
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: around for that long. It's only been around for the
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: last one hundred years. So if you think about the
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: history of the human race, we've only been working a
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: nine to five work week for the last hundred or
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: so years. And I we just don't think that humans
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: are meant to live in such a rigid structure where
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: from nine to five, five days a week, all we
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: do is work and then you go home and you
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: only have time to like do all the errands that
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: you need to do, and then you go to bed.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: I do think having set hours is helpful, but everyone's different,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Like I like having the hours we work like you
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: and I work like eight to four most days, or
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: eight to six if it's like a hectic day, go
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: on now, I know. But I didn't want to turne
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: around to sound like a dickhead.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: We worked twelve hour days.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: No, it's because I think for us, we came from
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: a corporate background. We both worked as journalists for the
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: first you know, seven or so years of our career
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: and then launched this and we just carried on and
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: we work Monday to Friday, and we work, you know,
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: essentially the nine to five structure, and that works for
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: us in the way that we you know, I think
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: that helps keep.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Us accountable, but I think we love it. We love
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: a routine.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: The reason why we do that is because that's also
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: when everyone else is working exactly.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: So if everyone else just doesn't show up on Friday,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: let's all start a clap. Yeah, what if we all
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: start a group chat and none of us go to
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: work on Friday?
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: They go make us and no one replies to an
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: email like what, We're all going to get fired?
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Were no?
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: So let's just all do it together. Because I was like,
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: when did this begin? Because obviously in our living memory
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: it's always known.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Wasn't it a man a black man?
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: No, it was Henry Ford, Fuck you no way.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: So it was popularized by Henry Ford in nineteen twenty six,
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: and then it was later codified into US law in
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: nineteen thirty eight, which was amended in nineteen forty to
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: mandate the forty hour standard work week. And then that's
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: been rolled out, you know, in the Western world.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: All over the world to have going for them s
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: estas afternoon siesters.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Let's bring that in.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: We have seen pushback from gen Z but also by
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: organizations who are testing out short work weeks. And there
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: was a year long study of a thirty two hour
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: working week aka four day working week in the UK
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: and it has shown improvements in mental health and wellbeing
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: of Star without a negative impact on productivity. Yeah, and
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: this study found that sixty nine percent of staff who
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: were in the study reported less work related stress, sixty
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: eight reported improved mental well being, sixty four percent reported
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: a greater sense of life satisfaction, and seventy nine percent
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: reported better work life balance.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: That's only one day, four day workweek.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: Let's go yeah, Okay, should we run through some of
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: the scams from the chicks?
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Okay, so things we think are a scam paying for parking? Yes,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: did you know that if you get a parking ticket
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: in a private parking lot that you don't actually have
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: to pay the fine because it's not like government regulated
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: and there's no way for them to like track you
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: or know nForce.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: So if you were in like a shopping center, for example, and.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: You park somewhere and you've got a fine, that's why
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: they all have boom gates. Now, a few people said tolls, absolutely,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: it's the rom there. Someone said delta gutrum, No, way,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: could you what an icon these innocent eyes bang up? Yeah, okay,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: this one I won one hundred percent agree on things
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: we think are a scam.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Dating apps and Hinge.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: We were talking to a friend about this and discussing
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: how Hinge one hundred percent keep the hot people behind
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: a paywall. So Su, who has never had a dating
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: app in her life, we were explaining, so basically, they
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: have this thing with roses and you get one rose
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: per day on the free account, I think, and you
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: can give that to the hot people that are behind
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: the roses, but you can't like them. They don't come
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: up in like your feed to like and not like
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: I can swipe right and swipe left right, They're only
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: behind the roses, and to have more roses you have
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: to pay.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: That's so fucked, is it?
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: How do they determine that do that?
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: Is there like an AI thing that's able to like
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: analyze symmetry of their face, like can they see maybe
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: how people are interacting?
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: So from what I understand from the rumor mial, it's
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: they figure out who hot people are based on the
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: amount of likes that person gets versus the likes they
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: give other people. Absolutely, I think dating apps are giving scam?
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Do you know what I think is a scam? First dates?
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: First dates are the biggest scam of all because that
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: is not who that person is. On first dates, people
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: are giving the like one hundred and fifty percent version
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: of themselves when really most people are like the forty
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: percent version of that. Yeah, they're giving like their most extroverted,
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: their funniest, their.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: Most polite, or in the worst case scenario, it's actually
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: not even one hundred and fifty percent of themselves.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: It's a completely different cars completely different.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: That's not them that it's only really the second date's
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: the first date. The second date is where you actually
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: get because they're like, all right, made it past the
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: first round, We're good, let's go.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: And that is why.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Second dates suck balls. I hated second dates. They were
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: always so bad because I was like, who is this?
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you see people, who are you?
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: This isn't the lovely, charismatic, funny person that was like, no, no,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: let me get the bill.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: Last week someone said, being an adult, I didn't ask
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: for this shit. Honestly, same Oh pokeys.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I agree.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Another scam now having to pay for ad free streaming services.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Absolutely the amount of streaming services that the base level
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: is now just had ads added on to it unintended Netflix,
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: paramoun Binge. I was trying to watch the paper the
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: other day and I was telling you about this, and
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: the paper is on Binge and obviously Binge has just
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: gone because HBO has left.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Them with their now their own streaming service. And to
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: start the show was two ads.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Then a quarter of the way through the show was
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: four ads, and then another quarter through the way was
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: four ads.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: That there was a total of ten ads.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you may as well be watching Free Day.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: A team a butt is going on. It's ridiculous.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: And I think I'm like, is this that trend pendulum
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: that swings back and forth that this is going to
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: get to a point that streaming services are basically Foxtel? Yeah?
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: And where and like it.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Was all the rich parents and families that had Fox
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Tell and had all the channels.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Are we all just going to become that?
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: And if you have every streaming platform, you're the Viennetta family.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And then and then Bridge.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: That makes ice.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want one of those so bad. And I'm
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: not the brose in it.
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: If somebody said protein on every food, itier Yeah, what's
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: up with that, Chloe Kardashian, I don't think I need
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: protein in my popcorn.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Strawberries going bad as soon as you bring them home?
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: What's with that? I know it's a conspiracy. It's like
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: the strawberries.
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: No, yeah, they have a censor that as soon as
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: they leave the supermarket.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: Mold.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: I've tried everything too. I've done the thing where I
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: pat them with the paper towel, I've done the thing
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: where I wash them. I've done the thing where I
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: bought the container that has a little sive in them. Nothing. Yeah, nothing.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well that is a wrap for this episode.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: Bit chaotic, but standard stand by it.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah and yeah, these are just our opinions. If you
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: like these things, that is so fine.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: You are allowed to spend your any however you want.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: As we say, we are not the police.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: You have free will eat.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Your pistachio crest, your pistasiocres on, and your moldstra breath.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: Okay, well, thank you for listening to this episode.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: We love being in your ear holes.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: And shout out to m I ka Made for making
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: this episode of two broad Cheese Happen. Love you Chikis,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: buye bit Rock on Chicks and Fuck the Airport