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Monday Mini: Was SMNTY Trendy? · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha.
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  Speaker 2: I'm welcome to stuff I ever told you, protection of
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  Speaker 2: iHeart Radio.
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  Speaker 3: And happy New Year.
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  Speaker 4: I believe this is the first Monday MANI of twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty six. Yeah, I got it, right, got it, I
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  Speaker 4: got it. I didn't have to write that down, y'all. However,
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  Speaker 4: we are recording this in twenty twenty five, so I
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  Speaker 4: left from the past. Yeah, welcome to.
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  Speaker 1: The present always, I guess technically for the luck.
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  Speaker 3: For the future.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but even though it is a new year, I
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  Speaker 4: thought we would use this Monday Mini and look back
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  Speaker 4: at some of the happenings of twenty twenty five. And
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  Speaker 4: I decided I wanted to look at the listicles, which
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  Speaker 4: kind of have fallen out of favor.
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  Speaker 3: I don't see those as much, mayb because I don't.
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  Speaker 4: Get like BuzzFeed, which was the beginning of the listicles.
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  Speaker 4: But I thought we would look at some of those
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  Speaker 4: that and tell us the biggest trends of twenty twenty five, which,
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  Speaker 4: by the way, was really hard because it's very specific.
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  Speaker 4: They don't just give you big trends anymore. It's just
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  Speaker 4: irritating indeed. But with that also see if Adi and
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  Speaker 4: are are trendy. We'll see this if we are a
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  Speaker 4: little bit, a little bit more than you would think.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe it's a cyclical. A lot of these things are cyclical,
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  Speaker 4: I'll say that. So I thought we would start off
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  Speaker 4: with beauty trends, and I'm going by like different resources.
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  Speaker 4: So I'll tell you what's coming from what this one
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  Speaker 4: was for Vogue. Obviously Vogue would have beauty trends. One
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  Speaker 4: of the things that they talked about are Bob's and Bixi's, which,
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  Speaker 4: by the way, I'd never heard of Bixi's, but that
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  Speaker 4: means Bob plus Pixie, so shorter but shaggy. I'm assuming
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  Speaker 4: Bob plus Pixie would be shaggy.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I do have a if that's what it is,
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  Speaker 2: I can see it in my head.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen people wearing their hair like that.
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  Speaker 4: So we just saw Holly and I feel as she
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  Speaker 4: may have ohixy because kind of that.
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  Speaker 3: I could be wrong. I could be wrong.
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  Speaker 4: I think hers is probably a little longer than that,
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  Speaker 4: but in my head, if it was shorter, it would
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  Speaker 4: be that.
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  Speaker 3: I will say.
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  Speaker 4: Because this came from like the popularization was way back
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  Speaker 4: when obviously tweties, even probably before then, but the nineties
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  Speaker 4: were raging with the bob, and I actually had one.
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  Speaker 4: I look very news anger ish, but I thought about
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  Speaker 4: rocking one this year and I didn't. But I used
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  Speaker 4: to do that every couple of years because I would
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  Speaker 4: brow my hair out and then chop it off and
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  Speaker 4: I could not pull off a pixie. I don't think
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  Speaker 4: I could pull off a bixie either, But but the
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  Speaker 4: bob Bob was in. I know, you've never done a bob, right,
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  Speaker 4: I kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of had one right after COVID.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, And I went to get my haircut
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  Speaker 2: and I was gonna donate it, and they were like,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna have to go real short to meet the
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  Speaker 2: minimum length to donate hair. So that was probably the
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  Speaker 2: closest I got. When I was in fifth grade, I
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  Speaker 2: tried to do I don't know if anybody remembers the this,
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  Speaker 2: but Courtney Cox's hair from friends and screamed too.
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  Speaker 1: And it was.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of a bob and it did not look good
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  Speaker 2: because my hair is thick and drives it like flutes.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like a bowl cut kind of situation, not
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  Speaker 2: in the good way. Some people could pull that off.
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  Speaker 4: I couldnot the nineties also loved the bowl cut, so
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  Speaker 4: you must have said it more than you thought.
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  Speaker 1: It did look good.
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  Speaker 3: I did look good, all right, I will I need pictures.
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  Speaker 3: I need pictures. Pictures. Are you're lying to me?
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  Speaker 4: The other trend which I kind of want to come
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  Speaker 4: back to, because we need to have a conversation about
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  Speaker 4: body image once again. I feel like because there's a
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  Speaker 4: whole reversal, but face left transparency. Now we're not just
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  Speaker 4: talking about facelift, because I feel like that's a constant,
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  Speaker 4: especially when we look at the celebrity world and the
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  Speaker 4: famous people. But the transparency part is what they were
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  Speaker 4: saying was trending, like finally gotten to the point that
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  Speaker 4: people were being up front about what they were happening
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  Speaker 4: because they don't want to pretend like it's just how
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  Speaker 4: I did these things. I've seen a lot of TikTok
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  Speaker 4: influencers talking about their procedures and giving shout outs to
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  Speaker 4: people as well, because they're like, you know, it's something
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  Speaker 4: that I do to make myself feel better, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: not going to sit here and pretend like all of
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  Speaker 4: a sudden I started deaging. So again, I do want
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  Speaker 4: to come back because I feel like the rise of
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  Speaker 4: the facelift and plastic surgery has gone up. There's some
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  Speaker 4: new technologies that have happened, and so people are really
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  Speaker 4: jumping back on board because we've seen some good examples
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  Speaker 4: of like, oh wow, this is interesting because it's not
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  Speaker 4: what we typically see a facelifts, Like there is like
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  Speaker 4: one look typically when it comes to facelift, and something
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  Speaker 4: has changed and caused like a little less robotic look.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how else to describe it, but that's
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  Speaker 4: coming out. This is from Vogue. They write this, What
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  Speaker 4: sit out the most is that people have become more
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  Speaker 4: comfortable admitting when they have gotten work done. A controversial picture,
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  Speaker 4: but whatever your stance on plastic surgery, there's no denying
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  Speaker 4: that this type of trans parency is refreshing. And I
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  Speaker 4: think at least noting that this is not natural, it's
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  Speaker 4: not just because and then giving people false hope of
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  Speaker 4: buying products A, B and C will do these things
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  Speaker 4: for you, it is nice to see. I feel like
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  Speaker 4: we've kind of backtracked with the ozimbic usage because people
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  Speaker 4: are now not wanting to talk about that, and people
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  Speaker 4: who are already thin are using it to get even thinner,
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  Speaker 4: and we need to keep going back onto this conversation
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  Speaker 4: because that so I feel like we're going back to
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  Speaker 4: the nineties eighties unfortunate like eating disorder, level of skinny,
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  Speaker 4: not that that's ever gone away, but like it actually being
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  Speaker 4: in a trend.
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  Speaker 3: We need to have a conversation about that. But all
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  Speaker 3: that to say is this transparency is the new part
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  Speaker 3: of the plastic surgery.
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  Speaker 4: And then there's a thing called a blush renaissance, and
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  Speaker 4: I was like, there's several other things. At first I
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  Speaker 4: thought this said British renaissance, and I was like, what,
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  Speaker 4: I don't get it.
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  Speaker 3: But they are.
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  Speaker 4: Talking about actually using blush, and this is what they
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  Speaker 4: write again. Vogue Marie Antoinette blush, cherry blossom blush, watercolor blush.
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  Speaker 4: Twenty twenty five marked the year of flushed and rosy cheeks.
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  Speaker 4: On the surface, blush can add dimension and energy to
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  Speaker 4: your entire look without putting too much effort. But experts
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  Speaker 4: believe that this year we use blush as a marker
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  Speaker 4: of our identity. We had a makeup sponsor, Merit that
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  Speaker 4: sent us a blush that I love and I use
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  Speaker 4: it all the time because I feel like I look
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  Speaker 4: sick without it now. My niece had to teach me
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  Speaker 4: how to use it, by the way, because that's the
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  Speaker 4: way that you use it has changed over the years,
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  Speaker 4: which is the whole different conversation. But I was like,
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  Speaker 4: oh oh, and the application is so much easier than
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  Speaker 4: what it used to be.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I love it and will say I did
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  Speaker 3: hop on board in this one.
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  Speaker 1: Annie.
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  Speaker 3: Did you use your blush because you got.
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  Speaker 2: Some Okay, okay, currently not a sponsor, no, but they were.
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  Speaker 2: I did really enjoy their products. And actually I'm glad
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  Speaker 2: you because I couldn't remember the name Marrit. I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I knew I have it somewhere and I really enjoyed it,
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  Speaker 2: and I just can't remember what it is. I don't
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  Speaker 2: wear makeup unless time going out somewhere, and even then
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  Speaker 2: I might not, yeah, depending on because usually I shower
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  Speaker 2: before I go somewhere, which and I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: have I don't want to shower again after I put
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  Speaker 2: on the makeup.
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  Speaker 3: Wash your face.
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  Speaker 1: I do, but it's not enough. Yeah, So I don't
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  Speaker 1: wear I told.
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  Speaker 4: You I was gonna be turn well, Okay, I do
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  Speaker 4: use this blush, and I do love the blush style.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's different.
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  Speaker 4: So this is from innertech dot com. H e U
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  Speaker 4: R I T e C.
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  Speaker 1: H Uh.
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  Speaker 3: They had a boo ho chic and Swede.
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  Speaker 4: I do not wear Swede. I will tell you this,
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  Speaker 4: But what I have used, and they have talked about
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  Speaker 4: it is like the larger like bags and skirts and outerwear,
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  Speaker 4: so like, what do you see is a little more
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  Speaker 4: flowy and I am all for that. The more room
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  Speaker 4: in my pants.
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  Speaker 3: Weird, but the better.
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  Speaker 4: Like I love a floey but I don't use swayed.
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  Speaker 4: Sweet is too heavy when you live in Georgia. It
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  Speaker 4: feels like it's too much. Also, I am completely accident prone.
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  Speaker 3: Sway is not great for that.
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  Speaker 1: No, famously not great for that.
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  Speaker 3: You have you worn any Swede as of late, I.
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  Speaker 1: Can't recall the last time I wore Swede.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think I feel like mine was in the
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  Speaker 4: nineties when I had a swayed jacket that again got
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  Speaker 4: disgusting and nothing could clean it, like you took it
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  Speaker 4: to the dryers and the color changed on it, like yeah,
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  Speaker 4: dry cleaners, and I was.
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  Speaker 3: Like, what just happened?
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  Speaker 4: Anyway, hotpants apparently is in any According to them as well,
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  Speaker 4: they have become the new mini skirt, they said, and
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  Speaker 4: it's styled with either bare legs or paired with stuckings.
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  Speaker 3: I will tell you no, I don't wear hotpants. I
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  Speaker 3: never have, never will.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I would shame my ancestors because I
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  Speaker 4: do not.
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  Speaker 3: I would not look great in them.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not even entirely sure what hot pants are.
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  Speaker 3: They're pretty much like bloomer but tighter.
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  Speaker 5: Oh really yeah, like very short short hotpants. What seventy style,
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  Speaker 5: very seventy style, like rollerbladers from those times with the
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  Speaker 5: shorts shorts, Uh, tight pants like shorts that just come right.
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  Speaker 1: Below the But they're called pants.
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  Speaker 4: Hot pants, very I believe. I'm pretty sure that's what
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  Speaker 4: the pictures that I saw. Kids are going to be, like,
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  Speaker 4: what the hell out with you? There's so many things.
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  Speaker 3: This is why we're not trendy. Uh, this is what
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  Speaker 3: this is kind of for you.
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  Speaker 4: The elevated cute sportswear or at leisure wear has become
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  Speaker 4: a huge trend this year. So it says for spring
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  Speaker 4: summer twenty five, a shift towards softer, more feminine code
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  Speaker 4: to sports like yoga, which feels very gendered and gross,
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  Speaker 4: pilates and ballet is being shown think about effortless, more
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  Speaker 4: cute elegance with a sporty edge. So essentially like wearing
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  Speaker 4: yoga pants instead of jeans as a part of your outfit,
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  Speaker 4: like wearing that, which, by the way, again very nineties,
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  Speaker 4: because we would wear tights or legging like that and
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  Speaker 4: with our boots, our Timberlin boots and the long socks
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  Speaker 4: which is coming out, y'all is all here with like
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  Speaker 4: a sweater.
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  Speaker 2: I do like the leggings with the sweater. Look, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's good.
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  Speaker 3: It's back in.
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  Speaker 4: I know, you go out in most of the times
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  Speaker 4: in like very convenient, like yoga pants with pockets and
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  Speaker 4: sweatshirts and stuff. And I have just embraced the love
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  Speaker 4: of sweatpants and tennis shoes while I go out.
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  Speaker 3: And I never used to wear I would never.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it used to be like your life must be
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  Speaker 2: falling apart sweatpants exactly.
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  Speaker 4: And now it's kind of cute and they want you
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  Speaker 4: to have the whole outfit, the hoodie and being cute
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  Speaker 4: with use and like I'm like.
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  Speaker 3: That's acceptable. Yeah I missed. I just have to make
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  Speaker 3: sure we off here.
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  Speaker 4: Forever we've been preparing, we've been training for this, but yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's apparently in I appreciate that animal print. I have
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  Speaker 4: never been a fan and that's an eighties as an
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  Speaker 4: eighties I like it.
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  Speaker 3: I can't do it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like it. I don't think it's not my thing.
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  Speaker 4: It's not my thing, and I think it's good on
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people. But we grew up with it
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  Speaker 4: being like older women, older rich women, like sixty seventies
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  Speaker 4: wearing like or love you New Jersey, but that stereotype
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  Speaker 4: of New Jersey people wearing leperskin pattern.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I just never no, I just
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  Speaker 1: never liked it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we are not doing well in this trend.
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  Speaker 1: That will no.
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  Speaker 4: Then we have a couple of other things and we're
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  Speaker 4: not talking about men. But one of the things I
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  Speaker 4: didn't want to talk about was that men in makeup
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  Speaker 4: have come to a rise, like the amount of people,
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  Speaker 4: amount of men who are now wearing makeup has gone up,
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  Speaker 4: as in fact, the purchase of Foundations went up nineteen
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  Speaker 4: percent this year for men to use that as well
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  Speaker 4: as other types of makeup, and it actually being at
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  Speaker 4: advertising to geared toward men as well, which is lovely
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  Speaker 4: to see feel good about yourself. The use of lab
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  Speaker 4: grown diamonds have increased. And it's interesting the way they
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  Speaker 4: speak about it, because it looks like it's a marketing
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  Speaker 4: competition the entire time, not necessarily like environmental. So I'm
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  Speaker 4: not really sure the context of it. But the rise
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  Speaker 4: has come about as well as the fact that they
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  Speaker 4: are competing about what's the best quality. The beers was
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  Speaker 4: all up in that, So I don't know they are like, no,
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  Speaker 4: make sure they know we are the leading. Whoever, again,
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  Speaker 4: sports has risen again, they said from the meat glimpse
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  Speaker 4: dot com. This is from meat Glimps dot com.
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  Speaker 3: At leisure.
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  Speaker 4: The mix of sports wear into everyday fashion is one
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  Speaker 4: of the top fashion and apparel trends. Its growth is
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  Speaker 4: oed to the decline of formality in American fashion and
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  Speaker 4: the desire to be seen as healthy. I don't feel
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  Speaker 4: like I've never noticed that as being healthy. No, but okay,
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  Speaker 4: comfortable your pants, tights, sneakers, legings, gym shorts and so on.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like jim shorts have always been acceptable because
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  Speaker 4: men didn't are not.
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  Speaker 2: No, this is teered. It just cheered a memory for
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  Speaker 2: me that I totally forgot about. So I at the
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  Speaker 2: college I went to predominantly male college. Our newspaper printed
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  Speaker 2: like an opinion piece. Oh, and it was basically like
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  Speaker 2: it's acceptable for men to wear gym shorts to class,
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  Speaker 2: but not women.
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  Speaker 1: And it caused this whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: On campus, and like people were people were writing in
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  Speaker 2: and being so angry about like why so dudes can
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  Speaker 2: wear jim shorts to class.
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  Speaker 1: If we can't. I forgot about that.
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  Speaker 3: It's the thing. It has always been a thing.
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  Speaker 4: One of the also other rises, obviously is Korean beauty products,
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  Speaker 4: and I feel like that's been the trend for the
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  Speaker 4: last two or three years on social media. Has a
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  Speaker 4: lot to do with this, but they say, they write
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  Speaker 4: the global cultural influence of K pop and K dramas
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  Speaker 4: have affected a range of industries, from introducing popular skincare
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  Speaker 4: trends like Glaskin and to sparking Korean inspired alcohol trends
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  Speaker 4: so like soju, which has become big as well.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm like, it's true, it's true.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of like at least Asian focused makeup has
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  Speaker 4: become more popularized over the last couple of years. This
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  Speaker 4: is from trend hunter dot com. They have a lot
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  Speaker 4: of lists as well. They have like over one hundred
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  Speaker 4: different things from their twenty twenty five trend report, and
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  Speaker 4: these were the few like beauty trends or like clothing
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  Speaker 4: fashion trends.
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  Speaker 3: They say Dad.
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  Speaker 4: Bought T shirt are in again, I don't think that's
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  Speaker 4: never been out. T shirts in general movie inspired apparel.
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  Speaker 4: So we've had a lot of like and with that,
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  Speaker 4: a lot of collabs are seen, whether it's through food,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's through makeup, whether it's through clothing items. One
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  Speaker 4: of the things they talked about is Wicked and Forever
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  Speaker 4: twenty one having a collab with their stuff. I'm like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that makes sense. I see a lot of things happening
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  Speaker 4: with like Capop Damen a Hunter again and having apparel.
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  Speaker 4: We know that one of the biggest things with shoes
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  Speaker 4: in like basketball. Like, all of these collabs and individual
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  Speaker 4: people and celebrities are pretty huge and have always been.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't know, but that's that was a thing.
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  Speaker 4: Contemporary cowgirl clothing and I have seen a large amount
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  Speaker 4: of boots.
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  Speaker 1: Cowboy boots just another thing. I was never really a fan.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't either.
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  Speaker 1: They're not comfortable. I had a pair when I was
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  Speaker 1: a kid.
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  Speaker 2: Oh really, even as a kid, I didn't think they
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  Speaker 2: looked good, but also they weren't comfortable.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah that makes sense, that doesn't It doesn't look comfortable.
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  Speaker 4: I think you have to break them in like any Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure.
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  Speaker 3: Being from L A J. I did not want cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: No. No.
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  Speaker 4: I wondered if there was an opposite I guess like Vans,
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  Speaker 4: and I still didn't wear those either.
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  Speaker 1: Converse that was big.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, do you know the Vans like the big uh.
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  Speaker 4: Thick shoes that looked like Yeah, that was That was
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  Speaker 4: the opposite trend for us. And then there's the food trends.
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  Speaker 4: This is from eater dot com. Macha Macha was big.
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  Speaker 4: I really don't like Macha. I was telling someone that yesterday,
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  Speaker 4: executive producer Maya, and she's like really, I was like, no,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not a fan, did you. I guess you don't
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: drink Loft caffeine anymore, so you probably don't.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: I don't, but I did like.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: I liked certain Japanese restaurants they have the bunch of
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: ice creams and I liked that as a kids. Yeah,
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: I don't have a lot of experience with Macha outside
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: of that. I've had it, but that's like the first
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: thing that pops the ice cream.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: That makes sense.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: Uh, there's a rise of steakhouses, And it's true because
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: I actually went to one recently, and there's like several
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: around here in Atlanta that have popped open.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, yeah.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: Because it used to be such a foreign idea, Like
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: we went to one of the oldest ones in New
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: York a couple of years ago last year, and it
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: was wonderful, but the experience threw us back to the
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: eighties or seventies.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of times they do.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: I feel like it's either your going back in time
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: or you're like it's so new aging like, yeah.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: It's so ridiculous, but they're trying to make it old
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: school at the same time that it feels odd. It
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: was good. Atlanta one was really good, I will say.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: And then Vogue wrote about proteins being one of the
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: biggest trends of the year, and it's true. I got
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: caught up in that too. I still am caught up
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: in it because I'm like, I don't know if I'm
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: getting into proteins, and then I'm like, maybe I'm getting
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: too many.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: This is what they wrote. Algorithms were filled with protein hacks.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: Then we saw the launch of protein popcorn and protein
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: liquid drinks all over our grocery store aisles. Everyone was
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: obsessed with this nutrient and they still are.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: I think it has a little to do with like Atkins, maybe.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: The Atkins diet for listeners who might not younger folks
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: might not know.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: They still have products out there.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: It still exists.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: I in fact trying to get you to do some
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: more protein as they put it in your coffee.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: You did, but I was not eating too much so well.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Also, yeah, this was about nutrients more so than the
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: protein part.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but this is another one where I'm like,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: did this ever go away?
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: I feel like it maybe not, But like iink, we're
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: saying adding more things into more protein instead of just
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: being like you need more proteins that are actually making products.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: That's just like, oh it has proteins. Oh this has proteins. Milk,
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: this is proteins. Mm hmm, okay like that yeah yeah yeah.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: Trend Hunter says that we have romantic champagne cocktails have
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: made a comeback.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm try.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: I don't feel like they've gone away either, but apparently
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: maybe again, this also has a lot of celebrity collabse.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: We see a lot of groups like selling specific types
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: of food, ramen, k pop, like we've seen that as
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: a whole thing.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: If nothing else.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: Korean has got the whole celebrity collab on lock with
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: every damn thing, including coffee, including ramen, including your dumplings.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: They love some celebrity collabs and sponsorships. Apparently there's a rise.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: And I do see this with the toys in meals
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: and to the point that they were like being nostalgic
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: enough to gear it towards adults, like giving adult version
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: toys and like McDonald's toys and trends and people trying
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: to collect those, and now them being like selling out
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: in such masses.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Did you see that? I know you didn't participate, but
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: have you seen.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: I feel that I did see as someone who unfortunately
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: still has to watch ads on YouTube, I feel that
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: I did see you.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Like an adult.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Happy Meal there at two a year, yeah, which they've
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: done before, but it was an ad about like here
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: are your adult Happy Meal options and here are the
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: toy options.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: And I was kind of like, uh, okay, yeah, it's
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: back in meat glimps dot com, which we are going
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: using several of their stuff because they have great categorized
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: trends for you to see statistically.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: But they put liquid mills as.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Being one of the biggest trends of twenty twenty five,
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: and that actually has always been the thing a little bit,
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: but it has become even bigger. So they wrote today's
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: other category leader. Soilent first sold itself as the non
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: food of choice for busy for too busy to eat
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: Silicon Valley workers, but it's now facing a rising lot
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: tide of petition. Heughle, a person who contributed, says customers
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: include doctors, students, and shift workers, on top of fitness
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: buffs and efficiency obsessed tech executives.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: The focus is.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: On offering nutritionally complete meals rather than low calori products,
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: a message that mirrors the broader cultural shift toward health
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: and wellness over weight loss. So it's not just about
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: weight loss, it's just about getting what you can very
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: quickly out of there. And I think that rise has
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: come up because we can see it in smoothies, we
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: can see it in like even liquid IV and like
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: restoration care, all of this stuff, and that's interesting. They
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: also talk about food delivery apps, but not necessarily about
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: the usage, but about like decision making. So this is
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: what they wrote. The rise of food delivery apps has
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: led to unprecedented analysis paralysis, with consumers taking to TikTok
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: and Reddit for advice. Post titled what should I eat
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: rack up millions of views. Some apps, like Tiny Decisions
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: and food Picker, featured in February twenty twenty three, are
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: designed to help users rate the deadlock for the sake
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: of deciding, producing answers that are either truly random or
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: close to it. The which One app has emerged as
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: a blend of decision making meets social media. Users can
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: post polls for questions like what books should I read next?
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Or what pictures should I post? On Instagram, providing a
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: dual opportunity both for posters to make decisions and scrollers
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: to feel their voice is heard. If your favorite creator
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: or artist pops a question, it even presents a unique
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: chance to be on the inside of their creative process.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: So analysis paralysis has gone up and it has become
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: a friend in twenty twenty five, to the point that
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: there are apps made to help you decide what to eat.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Didn't This used to be called decision fatigue?
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Or we just you tell me because I don't know
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: the obviously.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Decision fatigue is like the common example would be if
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: you were at a sandwich place and had so many
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: options that you eventually were just like, I'm tired.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't make another decision.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: I will say when I go on vacation, and if
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: it's like something I supposed to be special for me,
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: I'm like, I don't want to do make decisions. Please
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: just do it for me, That's all I'm asking. And
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: like some of the biggest arguments, not arguments, but like frustrations,
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: this is going back and forth, what do you want
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: to need?
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: I don't know what do you want to eat? Well?
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Do you do you have? What do you like? So
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: maybe it is, but at this point.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: The analysis prows. It's okay.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Analysis paralysis is a thing. Another food trend. Alternative milks
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: or dairy products rather postechio milk has gone up, but
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: ninety one percent.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: I don't even know if I've seen this, Nope, but
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: I have.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: I have tried, Like I there are brands that are
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: solely alternatives and have no like milk or dairy options.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: So I've accidentally bought alternatives without meaning to.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: It would not surprise you how much of a war
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: in the dairy industry this is. I'm sure Savor has
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: done several episodes on it, but like calling something milk
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: and what it means, Oh my gosh.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Oh there's what a fight.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: But you know what, the trend is only rising because
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: they're adding more options, but it's more expensive than milk.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, unfortunately.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: And the other trends that I saw are was the
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: usage of AI and this is from meeting glimps dot com.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: But we're not specifically talking about AI because we know
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: it is a trend. People are using it. It is
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: are on the rise, people are being forced to use it.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Whether or not you want to just be on internet
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: means you're probably on AI. But the one of the
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: increases of the usages of AI is for companionship. So
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: this is again from meet glimps dot com and they
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: write recently a number of companies have experimented with giving
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: robotic pests to nursing home residents. Remarkably, one business called
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: Pair got the FDA to classify their companion robots as
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: a medical device. This significant milestone allows the product to
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: be eligible for insurance coverage and shifting to spend from
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: the consumer to the insurance company means a whole lot
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: more revenue potential and less price sensitivity. So they're using
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: this purposely in order to see if they can help
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: the loneliness epidemic, not just mal but in general, maybe
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: in a medical way.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: I have seen, have you.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: I've gotten ads that aren't ads that are the robots
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: the way you can communicate, like your your sibling or
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: your pamily parents live across the country. These little robots
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: can pretend to be with you and you're just watching
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: them roam about and freely go around and talk to
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: you through this. I don't know that's not AI and robotics,
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: but like it's kind of that level.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen that, but I've seen an ad for
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: it's a puppy. Yeah, it's a robotic puppy. And the
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: ad starts out with like even a veterinarian anarian friend
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: didn't know.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: This, wasn't seen that.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: That's a lie.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that doesn't seem right.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: That's a lot.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: So the usage of AI Companion, which is one of
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: the companies, has gone up to one hundred and six
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: percent in its actual usage, So that's a huge number.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: It could have been from zero to that, but you know,
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: and then of course again bots. This is from Forbes
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: dot com. And what I mean by bots, I mean
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: bots that like infiltrate social media.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: They write this.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: In twenty twenty five, bots are expected to account for
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: over fifty percent of Internet off traffic, which we noted
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: posing significant risk in areas like elections and the spread
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: of conspiracy theories. Key countermeasures to tackle the problem will
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: include using AI and machine learning to detect encounter increasingly
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: sophisticated human like bots. Of course, all of this conversation
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: has to do with like, what are the ais bringing
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: in the bots?
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, are the AI the boss ai? Mm hmmm.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: So that was coming from a Forbes because this one
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: was a more serious trend, global trend that I was like,
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: We're not getting into this, We're not getting into this.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: This is It is on our short list for episodes
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: of New Year.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Though, Yeah, I know it's gonna be sad.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Like going back to music trends. Uh So this one
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: is from newsroom dot Spotify dot com.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Two of the I.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: Believe workers or people that work in Spotify or having
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: an interview about some of those trends. They saw this
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: year kpop he made a huge rise. Growth of afrobeat
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: made a huge rise. I am one of those people
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: who was listening to afrobeat. So yeah, they did actually
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: say that they felt like social media things like TikTok
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: have really opened up for people to see a broader
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: selection of music worldwide, and so they think that this
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: type of reach has gotten big because of the again,
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: like the trends and the music's being used or the
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: sounds being used on different social media. So I find
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: that fascinating kind of exciting. Also, I thought I would
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: do a small thing about hobbies game like tabletop gaming
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: is on the rise, just for you to know, Anny.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Have you played a lot of tabletop games recently this year?
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: No?
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: But I have so many I want to play. Some
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: of it is like you got to hang out with people,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: although I do have some thanks to some listeners have
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: written in here. Some you can play by yourself, like
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: the Final Girl games you can play by yourself. So
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: I've been that Last of Us game. I gotta look
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: at that one, I mean, the Last of Us board game.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: I bet it's hard. I bet it's really difficult.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure it.
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: So some of the hobbies that teenagers and this is
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: from modakmakers dot com that were for twenty twenty five
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: were searches, which that makes me so happy as a
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: kid who also loved worse search, and I still love
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: them today that I'm.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Like, kids love word search.
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: Teenagers specifically teenagers. Just so you know, they also said
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: soaking corks was a thing.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Didn't know that was a thing. I didn't know that
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: was a thing for like children.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like I knew it existed, but I've never I
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: don't even.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Know if I knew existed.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: To be fair, some of the trends for adults and
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: one of the what what do you think? Was one
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: of the number one hobbies for.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Adults this year coloring.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: No when I say you're going to give me as
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: a pickleball?
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Oh sure, yeah, I never heard of pickleball. And then Sudden.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: Everywhere Apparently in twenty twenty five they the business one
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: of the businesses that were for pickleball. It's worth over
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: three million dollars. It went from like being a shark
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: take to a three million dollar company in a year
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: because of the popularity of pickleball. Apparently, seniors, seniors really
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: like pickleball. Yeah, so I hear apparently, who knew? I
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: didn't know that, But it makes sense. F one fandom
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: has gone up.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, gosh, oh it has.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Oh you know this, I'm seeing this and a lot
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: of fan fiction people are writing F one really like
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Star Wars fan fiction. I did not know that that
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: makes sense now that you say, because there's been like
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: three or four that I've seen recently, are like, why
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: are we doing F one? Okay, all right, who knew?
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: I did not know this.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: Now I knew pickleball was getting like a lot of love.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: I didn't realize that was gonna be. Yeah, has loved
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: as it's such such a rich sport.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know much about it other than it
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: feels like a.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Kind of a rich older.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Lamborghinia type of like FERRARII people that we only
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: think about rich.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: I'm happy for.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Hobbies are good, sure, sure, just be careful.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: And we asked a list from hobbyco dot com and
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: they said that the most popular hobby in twenty twenty
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: five were model kids people bringing back the model kids
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: because creativity and patience apparently was love puzzles and brain users.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: I knew it would be there. That was number three
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: for them. Board games and tabletops were number four, and
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: then the number five was collectibles and pop culture, including
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: things like Star Wars figurines as well as Pokemon cars
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: type of thing. Huh, how many of those were you
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: a part of?
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: I feel like you're cute.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: But there are some of the trends of twenty twenty five.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: I am, I will be. I think we'll try to
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: do this again next year. Remind me any because I
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: want to forget, or we will look and see if
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: any of these have changed for us, or if we
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: pick up any I don't think pickleball will be a
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: thing for me.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: No, I don't neither, Swede.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: I could animal print. No, unless something very wild happens
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: in my life. I don't think so.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: I might go back to the Bob. That might happen
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: this year. Okay, it might happen this year.
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: Well, everyone happy twenty twenty six. As we are here,
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: let us know what you thought of some of these trends.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: Did you think there was something that was glaringly omitted? Yeah,
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: don't tell us sad stuff. They just interesting stuff.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Did you ever have an unfortunate bob?
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: Oh? My bobs are always been very cute like that.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: My whoever would cut my hair did a really great job.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Well, I was asking the listeners. I appreciate me.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: Yes, let us know about your bob. Did you have
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: a bowl cut? Did you have a pick? See that
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: went wrong?
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: All right, I like how we were like, don't tell
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: us any sad stuff, but give us your hair horror story.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: It is not sad. Then I'm in world.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you can look back and I can look
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: back at last right, Yeah, it wasn't funny at the time,
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: though you can love it. No, it looked very terrible. Oh,
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: I'll try to find a picture to you. It is
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: no good. Yeah, let us know about what trends you
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: saw and what we might have missed. Uh, and we
• 33:32
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• 33:36
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• 33:38
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• 33:55
  Speaker 2: my heart Radio. You can check out the heart Radio app,
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.