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Cheap Eats Hack, $6 Foundation & Spooky Season Books · Two Broke Chicks

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  Speaker 1: This podcast is recorded on Gadigal land. Always was, always
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  Speaker 1: will be Aboriginal land. Hey, chicks, I'm Sal. And I'm Al.
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  Speaker 2: And this is Two Broke Chicks, the show that shares
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  Speaker 2: life lessons and tips to help make you rich in life.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to another Monthly Favourites September edition this time.
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  Speaker 2: So for anybody who's new to the Monthly Favourites, we
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  Speaker 2: share what we've been listening, reading, buying, loving this month.
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  Speaker 1: And give our little reviews and recs.
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  Speaker 2: So would you like to kick us off, Al? What's
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  Speaker 2: your first monthly favorite from September?
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  Speaker 1: I would love to. My first monthly favorite is a
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  Speaker 1: post I saw on Instagram about a happiness study. Ooh.
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  Speaker 1: Which I'm always like, give it to me. Yeah. I'll
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  Speaker 1: take what I can get. Hit me. So it says,
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  Speaker 1: a man who studied happy people for 40 years said
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  Speaker 1: these eight things decide your quality of life. And I
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  Speaker 1: was like, write that down, write that down. Yeah. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm going to run through the list and we
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  Speaker 1: can have a little discussion on each. Yes. Okay, so
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  Speaker 1: number one, how far you live from your work.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: A long drive eats hours you never get back. Make
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  Speaker 1: it shorter and you buy back time, energy, and peace
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  Speaker 1: every single day. Now, you're someone who used to do
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  Speaker 1: like an hour and a half commute every single day
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  Speaker 1: each way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, so I can absolutely vouch for this. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the thing like with any big major
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  Speaker 2: decision decision that you make in life is like what
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  Speaker 2: is your every day going to look like and what
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  Speaker 2: is like your morning and night time going to look
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  Speaker 2: like like for the first like maybe three years I
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  Speaker 2: think of my career I was commuting from Wollongong to
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  Speaker 2: Sydney every day which was yeah like an hour and
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  Speaker 2: a half each way so at least three hours in
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  Speaker 2: commutes let alone like delays missing the train all of
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  Speaker 2: that stuff And like it was definitely doable and I
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  Speaker 2: was able to like do things on the train. Like
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  Speaker 2: at the time I was working on my honours thesis.
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  Speaker 2: So I would like do a lot of uni work
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  Speaker 2: on the train or I would read books or listen
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  Speaker 2: to audio books. So it's not like my quality of
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  Speaker 2: life was completely diminished or anything. But it just meant
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  Speaker 2: that like the work-life balance was harder because I would
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  Speaker 2: associate the commute with the time that I spent at work.
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  Speaker 2: And it meant that, like, if I wanted to do
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  Speaker 2: something after work with a friend or if I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to go to the gym or, like, you know, go
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  Speaker 2: to a concert or something, like, it made all of
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  Speaker 2: those things so much harder.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it is just, like, a necessary thing as well. Yeah. Like,
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  Speaker 1: not the same thing, but, like, I used to live, like,
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  Speaker 1: an hour-ish away from work. And, like, that's just where
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  Speaker 1: I lived. Yeah. And it is just what it is.
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  Speaker 1: But that's number one.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Number two, what you look at every day. Your feed
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  Speaker 1: teaches your mind what to expect. Scroll drama all day
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  Speaker 1: and your mind starts to think in drama. Feed it
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  Speaker 1: calm and it gets calm. I think that's a good point.
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  Speaker 1: If your feed is constantly TikTok drama and hate videos
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  Speaker 1: and whinging and complaining, that's how your brain is going
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  Speaker 1: to start perceiving just everyday life. That's how you will
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  Speaker 1: start kind of computing information when it goes into your brain.
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  Speaker 1: Number three, your sleep. Nothing else works when this one
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  Speaker 1: is broken. Guard your sleep like it holds up your
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  Speaker 1: whole life because it does. Number four, who you spend
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  Speaker 1: the most time with. You slowly become the five people
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  Speaker 1: closest to you. Have you heard that theory? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think I brought it up on the show a few
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago. Yeah, yeah. Keep the ones who lift you
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  Speaker 1: up and let the ones who drain you get quiet.
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  Speaker 1: Number five, how much you move your body. A body
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  Speaker 1: that sits all day makes a restless, heavy mood. A
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  Speaker 1: daily walk is the cheapest lift you will ever find.
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  Speaker 1: Number six, your money stress. It's not about being rich.
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  Speaker 1: It's about not lying awake over bills. Build a small
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  Speaker 1: cushion and watch half the worry go quiet. Number seven,
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  Speaker 1: sunlight and time outside. Ten minutes of morning sun resets
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  Speaker 1: your whole day. The people who feel the best are
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  Speaker 1: rarely the ones stuck inside all week, which, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a level of control that like comes with that.
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  Speaker 1: Like if you have to go to work and work
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  Speaker 1: in an office every day, you can't control that. But
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  Speaker 1: even just prioritizing a walk outside or sitting in the sun,
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  Speaker 1: I know personally, like if ever I've had like an
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  Speaker 1: email or something can annoy me, literally a walk around
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  Speaker 1: the block does the trick. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I love about all of these things is
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  Speaker 2: that most of them are pretty achievable. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And most of them are affordable i would even say
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  Speaker 1: go as far to say so i'm not so much.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a matter of like prioritizing them because i
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  Speaker 2: think that's the thing like they almost feel so small
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  Speaker 2: that they could be insignificant so we don't prioritize.
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  Speaker 1: Them but it really is yeah yeah it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 1: if i sit in the sun for 10 minutes this
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  Speaker 1: morning yes it does yeah it really does you are
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  Speaker 1: a sunflower yeah honestly and number eight your room decides
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  Speaker 1: who you become fill it with people who make you
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  Speaker 1: think deeper act wiser and live better your mind copies
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  Speaker 1: the room you sit in And yeah, I just loved
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  Speaker 1: it because I was like, it is exactly what you're saying.
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  Speaker 1: It's that little reset of thinking of like, okay, kind
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  Speaker 1: of like it makes you do a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: like a life audit, I feel, of looking around being like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: how much of my life actually supports long-term happiness? And yes,
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  Speaker 1: some of those things you may be able to change
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  Speaker 1: right now. Some of those things might be a future thing,
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  Speaker 1: but it's good to have like a vision of what
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  Speaker 1: you want to work on and have in your life
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  Speaker 1: and what you're thinking.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that feeds me. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Love that. Happiness audit. Happiness audit. Into it. Okay. My
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  Speaker 1: first monthly favorite is a book recommendation. Hit me. And
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  Speaker 1: it's called The Witches of Vardo. Have you seen this book? No,
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  Speaker 1: but I like it. So it was written.
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  Speaker 2: By Anya Bergman in 2023. And it's like a mix
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  Speaker 2: of historical fiction and fantasy. So I do think that
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  Speaker 2: it would be potentially up your alley. It's set in
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  Speaker 2: Norway in 1662. And the basic premise is that there's
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  Speaker 2: a woman who she's been widowed.
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  Speaker 1: And she has like an affair with a local merchant. Scandal.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And when it's discovered, she's sent off to a
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  Speaker 2: fortress at Vardo to be tried as a witch.
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  Speaker 1: And then. Because she's been taken away.
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  Speaker 2: Her daughter then like sets off into the wilderness to
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  Speaker 2: go find her and bring her back and release her.
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  Speaker 2: And she's accompanied by a girl who is actually the
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  Speaker 2: daughter of a witch. And it's just like a good
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  Speaker 2: spooky read, which I feel like as we head into
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  Speaker 2: October is the perfect time.
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  Speaker 1: And I love books like that that.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of intertwine history and fantasy because I feel like
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  Speaker 2: you learn something, but it's not just like reading books.
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  Speaker 1: A history book. That's me when I watched Outlander. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, I could write a thesis on this and
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  Speaker 1: it's probably all factually incorrect. But I was like, I know,
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  Speaker 1: that's also how I felt watching Grey's Anatomy. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I reckon I could save a life. Yeah, yeah, so true.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, you're going into labour company. She's like,
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  Speaker 1: get away. I'm going to the hospital. I'm like, nah.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, please. Save some money. I know how to
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  Speaker 1: do this. All right. It's a wonderful day to save lives. Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: But I also wanted to share some other like witchy
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  Speaker 2: book recs to read in spooky season as we're heading
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  Speaker 2: into October.
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  Speaker 1: Love this.
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  Speaker 2: So in addition to The Witches of Ardo, I've also
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  Speaker 2: got Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman. Obviously a great time
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  Speaker 2: to revisit that as well since the sequel just dropped.
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  Speaker 2: The Witches of Cambridge, which is also by Alice Hoffman.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a new book.
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  Speaker 2: It came out on the 8th of September and it's
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  Speaker 2: on my to read list. I was like, oh my God,
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  Speaker 2: she's releasing another book. Absolutely need to read that. The
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  Speaker 2: Last Witch of Scotland.
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  Speaker 1: By Philip Harris. I've heard of that one. It's really good.
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed that.
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  Speaker 2: It's a similar kind of vibe of The Witches of
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  Speaker 2: Ardo in that it I feel like it kind of
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  Speaker 2: combines a bit of history and, and fantasy in it,
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  Speaker 2: but it, and it has romance in it as well.
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed that.
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  Speaker 2: The Tarot Reader of Versailles, which is also by Anya
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  Speaker 2: Bergman who wrote The Witches of Ardo. Wayward by Amelia Hart.
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  Speaker 1: And then Sisters of.
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  Speaker 2: Scandal by Ainsley Harvey, which basically chronicles like different women
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  Speaker 2: in history and like the different scandals and things that
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  Speaker 2: they were involved in. So like, Marie Antoinette, Joan of Arc,
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  Speaker 2: that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, which I also love because sometimes, like, real life
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  Speaker 2: is more interesting than fantasy, like, in some of these instances.
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  Speaker 2: And there's so many, like, interesting stories and stuff about
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  Speaker 2: these famous historical figures that we don't know. And that's also, like,
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  Speaker 2: a pretty coffee table book as well.
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  Speaker 1: Oh. Yeah. Great, Rex. Love that. My next favorite of
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  Speaker 1: the month is the Too Good To Go app. Have
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  Speaker 1: you heard of this?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I have.
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  Speaker 1: But I haven't used it. Okay. I like it when
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  Speaker 1: I bring you something you haven't heard of and you're like, wow.
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  Speaker 1: You can just pretend for me. Wow. Thank you. So
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  Speaker 1: it's a mobile app that lets you buy surplus unsold
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  Speaker 1: food from local cafes, bakeries, and restaurants. at a large
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  Speaker 1: discount to help stop food wastage. Love that. I'm literally
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  Speaker 1: going like it's a food blind box. It is. It
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  Speaker 1: literally is like the sunny angel of the food industry.
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  Speaker 1: How it works is that you find a spot, open
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  Speaker 1: the map in the app to see participating shops near
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  Speaker 1: you and then you buy a surprise box. So good.
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  Speaker 1: So you purchase a bag of leftover food for a
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  Speaker 1: third or like half of the regular price. You will
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  Speaker 1: not know the exact content until you pick it up
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  Speaker 1: as it depends what the store has leftover on the day. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the reason why I love this is because my first
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  Speaker 1: job ever was at a patisserie and like a bakery,
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  Speaker 1: patisserie vibes. And I would get to take home all
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  Speaker 1: the shit that we didn't sell that day. So good.
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  Speaker 1: And there's some good stuff in there. Like sometimes you
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  Speaker 1: just had a slow day. Best job of my life.
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  Speaker 1: I was taking home cupcakes, donuts, pies, quiches, sausage rolls,
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  Speaker 1: bread loaves. Like my mom didn't have to do the
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  Speaker 1: grocery shopping for the week because I was like, Soup zone.
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  Speaker 2: I wish there was a bakery near our work.
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  Speaker 1: I want that for lunch now. Oh, so, so, so good.
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  Speaker 1: I can drive us to pie tin.
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  Speaker 2: Perfect.
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  Speaker 1: So you then collect your food during a specific time
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  Speaker 1: window set up by the business. So this is obviously
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  Speaker 1: a great thing to kind of help get rid of
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  Speaker 1: the food wastage that we have. but also to help
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  Speaker 1: support local businesses as well. Because the individual stores set
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  Speaker 1: their own prices, but most bags range from about $ 4
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  Speaker 1: to $ 12. So it's also a really affordable alternative to
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  Speaker 1: some of the grocery shopping prices that we're navigating at
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  Speaker 1: the moment. And the contents inside are guaranteed to have
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  Speaker 1: a retail value of roughly two to three times the
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  Speaker 1: purchase price. For example, a $ 10 bag will contain at
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  Speaker 1: least $ 30 worth of surplus food. So good. And I
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  Speaker 1: love shit like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's the lack of dopamine in my brain,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm like, what are you going to get? Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: The element of surprise. Also like a cool way to
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  Speaker 2: maybe discover some new restaurants.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Or things that you've never tried before as well. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like go out of your comfort zone. Yeah. Because like
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  Speaker 1: I know I just order the same shit. Seriously.
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  Speaker 2: From the same places like every week if I'm getting
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  Speaker 2: food out. I saw somebody on TikTok and they were
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  Speaker 2: traveling so the the budget was tight and they gave
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  Speaker 2: themselves a challenge to order all three meals of the
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  Speaker 2: day using that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. That's so cool. Yeah, it was interesting.
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  Speaker 1: We should definitely do that. But, yeah, so the app
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  Speaker 1: Too Good To Go is also free to download and
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  Speaker 1: you pay for the bags directly through the platform. So
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  Speaker 1: it's just a fun thing that you can also try.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I love that. I like that it supports,
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  Speaker 1: you know, local restaurants and cafes. I like that it's
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  Speaker 1: fun and I think also go into it with like
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  Speaker 1: probably the perspective that it's not going to have like
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  Speaker 1: the most popular things from that cafe because those will
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  Speaker 1: likely sell out. But you never know. Like when I
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  Speaker 1: worked at the patisserie, sometimes we would sell out of
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  Speaker 1: all the cupcakes and I'd be standing there and I'd
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  Speaker 1: be like, no, don't buy the last one because then
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  Speaker 1: it means I can't take you home. Yeah. And then
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  Speaker 1: there'd be days where I'd have six cupcakes and I'd
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  Speaker 1: be like, what a day to be alive. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Best ever.
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  Speaker 2: And also if you're only going for like the most
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  Speaker 2: popular items, you could be missing out on some other
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  Speaker 2: really yummy things that are less popular.
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  Speaker 1: Like the caramel slice. The vanilla slice. Keep going. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: what else you got?
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  Speaker 2: Best job ever. Yeah, I love that.
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  Speaker 1: I just wasn't very good at making the coffees. That's okay.
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  Speaker 1: People would ask for a different barista. Now I'm better
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  Speaker 1: at it. Yeah. Now I understand coffee. Yeah, especially if
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  Speaker 1: you're not a coffee drinker. A 14-year-old doesn't know how
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  Speaker 1: to make a good coffee, okay? At least I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: At least not this 14-year-old. There's probably a bunch that
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  Speaker 1: are like, um, I do. I'm like, yeah, it was
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  Speaker 1: my voice. Yeah, it was me. It was me. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: what's your second monthly favorite?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it's actually from an article that I read in
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  Speaker 2: Frankie magazine.
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  Speaker 1: Last month. So remember her? I remember her. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like it was a few months ago and we were like,
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  Speaker 1: love a mag. Love a mag. We need to buy
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  Speaker 1: magazines more.
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  Speaker 2: And I've been sticking to that and I've been buying
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  Speaker 2: magazines more. One, because it is like just a great
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  Speaker 2: way to like read articles on topics that I never
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  Speaker 2: would read about. And also I use them for my
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  Speaker 2: junk journaling. So it has a two-prong.
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  Speaker 1: Benefit for me. I like that as well because then you're, like,
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  Speaker 1: also using recycling it. Yeah. Yeah. And it doesn't go
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  Speaker 1: to waste.
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  Speaker 2: And also, like, Frankie Magazine especially, they're always working with, like,
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  Speaker 2: amazing artists and illustrators. So if you are a junk
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  Speaker 2: journaling girly or I used to use it to, like,
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  Speaker 2: wrap presents and stuff when I was younger as well,
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  Speaker 2: like the pages.
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  Speaker 1: Is that what your Christmas wrapping is going to be
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  Speaker 1: this year? No, it's not festive enough. But birthday presents
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  Speaker 1: for me I would use. But.
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  Speaker 2: There was one particular article that I wanted to bring
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  Speaker 2: to the show that I thought was really interesting and
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  Speaker 2: it was called Inventive Women, Some Clever.
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  Speaker 1: Clogs Worth Celebrating. Ooh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was written by Leda Keynes and basically
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  Speaker 2: the article explored the inventions of five women who were
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  Speaker 2: responsible for like everyday things.
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  Speaker 1: Including– I love this. Yeah, like duct tape, windscreen wiper.
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  Speaker 1: I love this. I love this. You know the like iconic.
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  Speaker 2: RWS tarot cards? Like if you think of tarot cards
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  Speaker 2: and it's like– that very iconic illustration, the artist behind that,
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  Speaker 2: the folding umbrella. But my favourite was the story of
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  Speaker 2: the inventor of Monopoly.
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  Speaker 1: Have you heard this story?
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  Speaker 2: No. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to make me angry. Potentially.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, God. So I was telling Chris about this last
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  Speaker 2: night and, yeah, I won't spoil it before. I won't
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  Speaker 2: deliver the cart before the horse.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the saying. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so the invention was Monopoly and the inventor was
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  Speaker 2: a woman.
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  Speaker 1: Named Elizabeth Maggie. And she was a, or Maggie, M-A-G-I. Maggi. Maggi.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just thinking Maggi Noodle. Yum. Okay, and she was
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  Speaker 1: a writer, poet, and comedian.
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  Speaker 2: And in 1904, Lizzie received a patent for the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: game originally called The Landlord's Game, which was a board
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  Speaker 2: game designed to demonstrate.
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  Speaker 1: The two evils of capitalism. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So a later patent had two sets of rules, one
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  Speaker 2: to demonstrate the unfairness of a capitalist system that was
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  Speaker 2: known as monopoly, in which the winner was a person
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  Speaker 2: who forced everyone else out of business.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds familiar to me. And the second was.
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  Speaker 2: Known as prosperity, which advocated for the benefits of interacting
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  Speaker 2: with opponents. Maybe unsurprisingly now with hindsight, prosperity was less
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  Speaker 2: popular and fell into obscurity in But the article pointed
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  Speaker 2: out that unlike most board games of the time, which
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  Speaker 2: had like a very clear start and end point, Lizzie's
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  Speaker 2: circular structure meant that the game could go on forever.
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  Speaker 1: And doesn't it dress. Exactly. So some things never change.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: But Lizzie and some friends set up a company in
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: Chicago to market the game. And while it was super
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: popular amongst uni students, she didn't really make much money
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: off the game at the time. And she eventually tried
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: to sell the idea to a large games company, but
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: they turned down the idea. So it kind of like
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: was a bit of a cult following, I think, and
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: was quite popular, but didn't really make her much money
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: and didn't really go anywhere. Then almost 30 years later
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: in 1935, Parker Brothers bought a very similar game called
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Monopoly from the then unemployed Charles Darrow, who had played.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: A homemade version of Lizzie's.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Game at a friend's house and So he basically copied
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: it and palmed it off as his own and created.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: What we now know as Monopoly.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Dog.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: I know. Yeah.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: And as far as I understand, Lizzie did try and
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: fight it, but I don't think she really got anywhere.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: And it wasn't until like decades later that people now
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: recognize her as the true inventor of Monopoly.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Oh my God. Yeah. How crazy is that? Just another
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: man taking credit for a woman's work.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: But also I thought that was really interesting because Monopoly
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: is a game that I think a lot of us
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: take for granted. And I never necessarily would have thought
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: of it as a critique on capitalism or like a
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: critique on the monopoly of certain industries.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: I think it is a game that's actually helped people
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: understand that how big companies do genuinely create a monopoly.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Because if like, you know, especially that word, I really
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: understand what you mean.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: When we say, you know, that companies, you know, they
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: start out, they'll start as really easy, really affordable. Oh
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: my God, how have I not used this for ages?
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Like this is so cheap. This is so easy. It's
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: so affordable. Then when they get this influx of customers
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: that need that thing, that rely on it, whether it's,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: you know, a ride share app or a meal delivery
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: that's like this is so easy this is so cheap
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: and then because everyone's using it then they go okay
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: now we're going to increase the delivery price we're going
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: to increase the tax and you're going okay okay and
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: then it creates a monopoly that it buys out every
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: single other thing because they've just got too much money
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: yeah exactly.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: And I do think also it's like taught probably a
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: lot of people some solid life lessons and starting points
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: on managing your money.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: So it's not all bad.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: I'm not here to completely critique the game or anything like.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: That, but justice for Lizzie. Justice for Lizzie. Yeah. I
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: love that. Thank you so much for sharing that. I
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: like knowing that now. I'm going to tell that. Good
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: piece of trivia. Literally everyone.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: When you play Monopoly, who do you play as? The Thimbles.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Always because in Peter Pan when Wendy's like, do you
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: want a kiss?
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: And Peter's like, what's a kiss? And then she's like, um,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: and she gives him a thimble. So I always loved that.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: And I love putting it on my finger in between
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: the turns. But it's got to stay on its thing.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: I know where it was. It can go on my
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: finger in between. Cheetah. What was yours? I think I
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: would mix it up a little bit. I'd be a
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: dog sometimes. I'd be the horse other times and then cats.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Sometimes the car. Wow. But I was privy to the
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: top hat. Oh, yeah. Mary Camp. Yeah. That's so interesting
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: that you would change it up.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Essentially.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Okay. My final monthly fave is an oldie but a goodie. Oh. So...
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I feel like there's always some kind of makeup product
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: that I just like trying different things. And foundation is
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: one of those for me. I like playing around with
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: different foundations. But kind of what we were talking about
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: in the recent episode is sometimes we fall into this
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: trap of only trying what's new and only things that
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: are new being viral and being the next sensation. And
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: at the start of this year, at the end of
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: last year, I said I wanted to hear more about
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: the things that people have used for years. I want
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: to hear about the products that people have loved for
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: like five years or they got it six months ago
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: and they took it to the last drop and they're like,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: love that repurchasing. What are those things, right? And anyway,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I was having a think of what's mine and I
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: was like, it's the Maybelline Fit Me Dewy and Smooth
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Skin Foundation. Did you ever try this foundation? I don't
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: think so. This thing has been around for eons and
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: it's essentially the OG dewy, glowy, lightweight foundation. But it's buildable, right?
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: So it's ideal for normal to dry skin and it
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: hydrates and smooths skin texture while leaving a naturally luminous finish.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: And I actually did a bit of research on it,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: and it is a really, really close dupe for the
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation, which is like $ 105 and
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: a house mortgage.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which you also have tried and loved in the past.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Which I also love that foundation, but like for that
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: price point, it's not one that I'm repurchasing every now
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: and again. I had a look online, and this foundation–
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Depending on what retailer you purchase it from, you can
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: get it for $ 6 to $ 20. Shit. Literally. I bought
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: it recently for $ 6. Wow. And I was like, thank you.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: And I just think this foundation is so underrated because
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: it's not a new product. It's because it's been around
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: for so long. No one is like, this is flashy,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: this is exciting, this is new. It's a, you know,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: we walk through Priceline and we see it every single time.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: But it has over 4,000 five-star reviews on the Chemist
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Warehouse site. And I think that speaks for itself. I
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: remember wearing this foundation years ago and repurchasing it so
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: often that I was like, let's bring that back. Yeah,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I agree. And I think that.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Sometimes there's a little bit of shame when you're using
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: like a product that's maybe considered like old school.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Or not trending and not new. It's like, oh, really?
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Like you still use that or you haven't tried? I
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: think that is such actually a testament to it. Yeah.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Like I know what product I like. Yeah, exactly.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: I'm into that. I have to give it a go.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: It's so good. But also if you have oily skin,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: they have, like a more matte version as well. So
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: like if you have normal to dry skin, the dewy
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: and smooth, but if you have normal to oily skin,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: they also have a more matte version of it. And, yeah,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: 10 out of 10. I like that. Highly recommend. All right.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Don't discontinue it now. That's going to fucking happen. No.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: That's what's going to happen. I just know it. Everything
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: I like gets discontinued.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is the biggest heartbreak of all is, yeah.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I'm just thinking of the– Don't. Yeah, it's all right.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: I won't bring it up.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: I won't bring it up.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Love that. Add to cart. All right.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: My last monthly favorite is a quick one, and it's
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: a website or an app called Music Board, and it's
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: basically the letterboxd or Goodreads for music.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, yeah, it's like a– I use the– the
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: website browser, but there is an app and you basically
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: can like review, rate and organize your favorite albums, songs
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: and artists. So Chris and I have been like playing
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: this game when we're in the car or, you know,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: like when we're cooking dinner or whatever. And we'll be like, okay,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: what's like the top 10 best bands in this genre?
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Or what were the– Oh, cool.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Or, like, if you think of 2006, what's the album
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: that describes this?
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: And we've been, like, sharing it.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: And I was like, we should write this down because
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: I'm like, it would be fun to, like, write it
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: down and chronicle the different things and, like, categorize that.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: And then so I just looked up, like, what is
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: the letterboxd for music. Yeah.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: And Music Board is the app that came up.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Also, there's, like, another site that we use called Discog.com,
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: which we use to, like, chronicle our music because Chris
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: and I have, like, a very.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Large– vinyl collection.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: And I would find that I'd be going to like
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: record fairs and stuff like that.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: And I'd be like, do I already have this? Like,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: I don't actually remember or know.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: And so we've been using that to like chronicle the
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: music that we own and like as well. But I'm
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: like more of that, you know, sharing our opinions in
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: a way that's like fun and light. And even just
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: like for yourself, you can go on and read other
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: people's reviews like you can with Goodreads or with Letterboxd,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: so it can be like a cool discoverability tool. But
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: I thought it was fun if you are like a
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: music girly.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: So I was like, we've got Letterboxd and Goodreads. Yeah,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: we've got books sorted, movies sorted, and then music just
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: brings it all together in a holy trinity. Love that.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But that's a wrap for our monthly favourites for September.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Can't believe we're in October. Oh, my God, there's only
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: three more months of the year.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: It's Christmas.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: It's spooky season. And I can't wait. And when that's done,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: it is Christmas. Love it. And as always, thanks to
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: you chicks for having us in the eHoles. We love
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: to be here.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: We do.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Bye. Bye.