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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: The $45 Purchase That Changed My Life Forever · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey hurdlers, Welcome back to another installment of five Minute
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  Speaker 1: Friday from Hurdle.
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  Speaker 2: Emily a body here.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to say thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: everyone this week. You're awesome feedback I'm a low Bosworth episode,
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  Speaker 1: It has been so rewarding and exciting and I'm just
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  Speaker 1: For those of you that may be new to the pod,
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  Speaker 1: five Minute Friday is when I share a story with you,
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  Speaker 1: offer up to prompt to take you into the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: and then share some of my content picks of the week,
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  Speaker 1: some highlights of the week, some cool stuff that's going on,
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  Speaker 1: and links to all of these things can be found
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  Speaker 1: in the description to this episode. So this week I
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  Speaker 1: am sharing a really special story with you, prompted by
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  Speaker 1: the sad news that this year in Connecticut, overnight summer
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  Speaker 1: camps will not be permitted to open. Now I totally
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  Speaker 1: understand the safety reasoning behind it, I get it, but
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  Speaker 1: still as someone that went to summer camp for fifteen
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  Speaker 1: total years as a camper and a counselor man that
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  Speaker 1: was a hard pill to swallow. As always, if you
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  Speaker 1: like what you're listening here, please make sure to reach
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  Speaker 1: out over Instagram, over Twitter, over Facebook, at Emily a Body,
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  Speaker 1: and at Hurdle Podcast. Now. I have always been a
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  Speaker 1: visual sort of person, and perhaps that's why I love
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  Speaker 1: writing and reading so much. Back in college, I was
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  Speaker 1: the kind of student who just had to rewrite literally
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  Speaker 1: absolutely everything in our college textbooks onto small, lined, indexed
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  Speaker 1: parts prior to an exam in order to truly learn
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  Speaker 1: the material. Now these days, I have a vision board
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  Speaker 1: at my desk and a zillion post its around the
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  Speaker 1: apartment filled with everything from positive affirmations and reminders to
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  Speaker 1: Italian phrases as my never ending quest to learn a
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  Speaker 1: third language continues, which is why, in true Emily fashion,
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  Speaker 1: I purchased a pair of genes that were two sizes
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  Speaker 1: too small in June two thousand and eight. At the time,
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  Speaker 1: I was down about thirty five pounds from where I
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  Speaker 1: started my weight loss journey in April two thousand and seven.
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  Speaker 1: For more on that, you can click on over to
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  Speaker 1: episode one of the podcast. This particular denim purchase happened
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  Speaker 1: on a sunny Wednesday afternoon at the Gap Outlet in Clinton, Connecticut,
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  Speaker 1: and at the time I was determined, so determined to
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  Speaker 1: continue losing weight in the weeks and months to come.
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  Speaker 1: As I settled into my role as programming director at
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  Speaker 1: Camp Laurelwood in Overnight Camp, about fifteen minutes down the road.
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  Speaker 1: This would be my fifteenth summer of Sophie shorts and
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  Speaker 1: no air conditioning and letter writing. My stint at camp
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  Speaker 1: was one of my longest love affairs to date, starting
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  Speaker 1: when my parents shipped me off at six years old
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  Speaker 1: for an entire month away from home in nineteen ninety five. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember all that much from growing up, but
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  Speaker 1: I can sing you the song I learned at age
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  Speaker 1: seven about my bunkmate Alana's home information including phone number
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  Speaker 1: and address should we have ever gotten lost. From that
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  Speaker 1: first summer, I was hooked. Every year I would stay
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  Speaker 1: longer and eventually I would become a counselor, and this
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  Speaker 1: particular year in two thousand and eight, I was head staff.
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  Speaker 1: I knew that the summer of two thousand and eight
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  Speaker 1: it would have obstacles and not just professional ones coming
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  Speaker 1: up with fun activities to occupy campers from ages six
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  Speaker 1: to fifteen, but also personal ones, the I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: keep losing weight ones. Aside from the irresistible goodness of
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  Speaker 1: regular campfire s'mores, abundant ice cream nights, and limited mess
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  Speaker 1: hall options, I wouldn't have regular access to a gym
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  Speaker 1: where I could mindlessly spend forty five minutes watching reality
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  Speaker 1: TV on an elliptical. And so this brings us back
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  Speaker 1: the investment I made for myself, a forty five dollar
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  Speaker 1: investment to be exact. Once I pulled up to four
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  Speaker 1: sixty three Summer Hill Road, unpacked my box, fan, arranged
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  Speaker 1: my toiletries on the top shelf of my lopsided cubby,
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  Speaker 1: and applied my summer scent of Kirkland branded bug spray.
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  Speaker 1: I went to the closet and got a hangar complete
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  Speaker 1: with two clips. I pulled the jeans out of their
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  Speaker 1: dark blue bag and hung them up on the backside
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  Speaker 1: of my bathroom door.
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  Speaker 2: I stopped.
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  Speaker 1: I stared light blue wash wipe like I remember it
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  Speaker 1: clear as day, something I never would have dared put
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  Speaker 1: on my quote unquote already big thighs before hanging there
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  Speaker 1: for the next seven weeks, those genes would serve as
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  Speaker 1: a reminder of my big, lofty goals. I told myself,
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  Speaker 1: a reminder of how far I had already come and
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  Speaker 1: where I was going, And that moment I breathed in
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  Speaker 1: that feeling of excitement and possibility. I was continually working
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  Speaker 1: on letting go the Emily of yesteryear, that Emily who
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  Speaker 1: felt ashamed of her body, uncomfortable in some social situations,
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  Speaker 1: scared of the camera, afraid of intimacy. This Emily, though,
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  Speaker 1: standing in that wooden cabin, she was ready for change,
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  Speaker 1: and boy did a lot change that summer. I started
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  Speaker 1: to really come into my own as a woman. With
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  Speaker 1: the weight loss came a necessary shift in my inner dialogue.
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  Speaker 1: And while I recognized that some individuals they can find
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  Speaker 1: happiness at a bigger size, I.
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  Speaker 2: Just was not one of them.
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  Speaker 1: As the pounds continued to come off, I had noticeably
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  Speaker 1: more energy and a better attitude. I became more outgoing,
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  Speaker 1: and I also became a runner.
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  Speaker 2: You know, some days still it's weird to say.
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  Speaker 1: That sentence out loud. I'm a runner, but facts are facts.
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  Speaker 1: And during the summer of two thousand and eight, I
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  Speaker 1: ran every single day. You can hear me talk about
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  Speaker 1: that some more in the How to Start and Stay
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  Speaker 1: Running episode that I'll include in the show notes. And
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  Speaker 1: today I'm a three twenty eighth eight marathoner, but back
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  Speaker 1: then I was a fourteen minute half miler. It didn't
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  Speaker 1: matter though the pace, you know. At the time, I
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  Speaker 1: made a commitment to myself just to give it a try.
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  Speaker 1: I made a commitment to myself to move my body
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  Speaker 1: every single day, to sweat every single day. Every single day,
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  Speaker 1: I'd walk in and see those light washed jeans hanging
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  Speaker 1: up on the door next to my full body mirror,
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  Speaker 1: and I'd remember that commitment. I'd change into a Hanes
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  Speaker 1: V neck T shirt and a pair of black caught
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  Speaker 1: in thick waistband leggings from Target and hit the road
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  Speaker 1: every single day. Now, some things, of course, they did
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  Speaker 1: remain the same though. My friendship, some of which I'd
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  Speaker 1: had since age six at Laureland, those friends, they became
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  Speaker 1: my family. At camp, your family does everything together, you
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  Speaker 1: giggle over first kisses. Mine was memorably behind canteen, naturally
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  Speaker 1: with a boy named Zach Lewis. About six people stood
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  Speaker 1: around us in a circle and counted to five, so
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  Speaker 1: that it really quote unquote happened in a camp. You
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  Speaker 1: get nervous about first dances, and you brave swim lessons
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  Speaker 1: in a speedo swimsuit and the boating lake, and you
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  Speaker 1: bond over ty Die and you argue over the best
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  Speaker 1: bug juice flavors. That summer for me was one of
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  Speaker 1: the most special of my life, as I not only
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  Speaker 1: got to be in one of my favorite places with
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  Speaker 1: my favorite people, but I also came to understand the
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  Speaker 1: importance of prioritizing my health and while being while still
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  Speaker 1: showing up doing my job and doing it well. So
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  Speaker 1: I'll bring us full circle. I'll never forget the final
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  Speaker 1: night of that summer, I took a shower after free swim,
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  Speaker 1: and I walked into the center of my cabin and
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  Speaker 1: turned around, and there they were, in the same place
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  Speaker 1: I put them about sixty days before. I grabbed the
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  Speaker 1: soft denim down from the hangar with so much confidence
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  Speaker 1: in one slightly sunburnt leg at a time, I slipped
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  Speaker 1: into my never before Warren jeans and I buttoned them
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  Speaker 1: with these they fit. I felt proud, not because of
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  Speaker 1: anything that the scale said, but because that summer I
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  Speaker 1: worked really hard that summer. I invested in way more
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  Speaker 1: than just a forty five dollars parachene. I invested in
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  Speaker 1: my well being. I invested in myself. And so for
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  Speaker 1: this week, my prompt that I leave you with, how
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  Speaker 1: have you invested in yourself lately? Highlights of the week?
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  Speaker 1: All right, guys, run for a good cause. Adidas is
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  Speaker 1: doing a pretty cool thing called their Hometown Hero Challenge.
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  Speaker 1: For every hour of tracked activity and either their Adidas
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  Speaker 1: Running or Adidas Training app between May twenty ninth to
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  Speaker 1: June seventh, they will donate one dollar to the COVID
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  Speaker 1: nineteen Solitary Response Fund for the World Health Organization, with
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  Speaker 1: the goal of reaching one million hours. You can sign
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  Speaker 1: up in advance by clicking over to the show notes,
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  Speaker 1: and again, all of this will be in there.
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  Speaker 2: My other pig.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's talking about this, but ESPN's ten part documentary series
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  Speaker 1: The Last Dance, which chronicled Michael Jordan and the nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety seven to ninety eight Chicago Bulls, is pretty excellent.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Admittedly, I'm not on the finale episode just yet, so
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  Speaker 1: don't spoil it for me, but I am.
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  Speaker 2: Totally digging it. You've got to check it out.
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  Speaker 1: Also worth highlighting the Call Her Daddy podcast drama is
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  Speaker 1: so juicy. Basically, Call Her Daddy is a show with
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  Speaker 1: a wild following where two women in their mid twenties
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  Speaker 1: discuss their lives and sexual experiences, something that I could
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  Speaker 1: never share on audio ever.
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  Speaker 2: Personally, the drama right now is that they're in a
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  Speaker 2: huge feud.
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  Speaker 1: With both each other and they're broadcaster bars sports, and
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  Speaker 1: again it is just so interesting. So in the show notes,
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  Speaker 1: I've shared the New York Times article about it, and
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  Speaker 1: of course a really interesting episode from Barstool's founder and
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  Speaker 1: president Dave Portnoy. Also of note, this week, I finally
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  Speaker 1: decided to give my living room a necessary upgrade. I
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  Speaker 1: ditched my twenty ten Apple TV in favor of an
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  Speaker 1: Apple TV four K.
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  Speaker 2: This thing is bananas.
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  Speaker 1: Not only is the picture quality absolutely so much better
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  Speaker 1: than before, but now I've got a whole app store.
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  Speaker 1: I finally got that cool screensaver with all the different
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  Speaker 1: cool cities.
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  Speaker 2: To look at all the time.
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  Speaker 1: And I just am telling myself and I'm sharing with
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  Speaker 1: you that you are worthy of this investment. With all
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  Speaker 1: of the staying at home and streaming that we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: I highly recommend and last, but not least, a recommendation
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  Speaker 1: for this week. I've been getting so many messages over
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  Speaker 1: on social media asking me about wearing a mask and running,
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  Speaker 1: and I have been leaning into either a bandana tied
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  Speaker 1: around my face or some sort of a buff. Eddie
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  Speaker 1: Bauer sent over some of what they call I'm gonna butcher.
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  Speaker 1: How you say this word multi clovas, multi clavas.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: They're absolutely perfect. It's a buff. They've got really cute styles.
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  Speaker 1: I ran in one this morning. It doesn't budge, it's
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  Speaker 1: super breatheable, and it's so much better than wearing any
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  Speaker 1: other mask that I've tried so far.
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  Speaker 2: And that's it for now this week.
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  Speaker 1: I'm leaving you with a piece of wisdom that I
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  Speaker 1: look at every day sitting in.
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  Speaker 2: My living room.
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  Speaker 1: On a small signboard, it says, remember when you wanted
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  Speaker 1: what you have right now. Happy Friday hurdlers, Another hurdle conquered.
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  Speaker 1: Catch you guys next time.