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Meet Bev & Lindsay-The Intro Episode · This Is The Thing With Bev and Lindsay

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to This Is the Thing, our episode zero zero, where we tell you a little bit about who we are.
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's sort of a cheat sheet.
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  SPEAKER_01: So later when you hear Bev talk about Aaron, you won't be like, who is Aaron?
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  SPEAKER_01: And every time she doesn't have to go, my husband of 20 years, Aaron.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's kind of a cheat sheet to let you know who we are, how we got here, that kind of stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm Lindsay Bruno.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm Bev Widener.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we met when I was 27.
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  SPEAKER_01: You were 28, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're we're closing in on 50 right now.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bev actually just turned 50.
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  SPEAKER_01: But we met.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's kind of a crazy, it's it was kind of crazy.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_01: I was thinking about it the other day.
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  SPEAKER_01: I worked at this ad agency.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bev worked across the street.
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  SPEAKER_01: But we didn't just like meet in the middle of the street.
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  SPEAKER_01: I worked at this ad agency and a guy that worked there said, I mean, knowing me one day, he was like, You've got to meet my friend Bev.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it was it was Seth.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Seth is best friends with your husband Aaron.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I think like that day, or maybe day two of me working here, working there, we walked across the street to meet you.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I remember we were like, hi, hi, we're best friends.
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  SPEAKER_01: Immediate.
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  SPEAKER_01: Immediately best friends.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then just started hanging out all the time.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it was amazing.
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  SPEAKER_00: We had a group of five of us that we called ourselves the gaggle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Back then, back in the early We still have a group chat called the 2000s.
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  SPEAKER_00: 2005-ish.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we do have a group chat called the Gaggle.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we would walk, I would, I remember I would walk over from my job, and I was like an office manager for a tech sort of startup kind of thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I knew nothing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just knew I was like, I'll go get coffee's guys.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I remember walking over to SHS, that it was called back then, at lunch.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we would either we would, well, we would walk.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'd go for walks.
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  SPEAKER_01: We would go for long walks with the girls.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's funny.
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  SPEAKER_01: I would, I had friends that like worked at Hallmark and stuff, and they would be like, I saw you in the group today.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, because we were always just hiking around downtown.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes we did yoga in the upstairs of the ad agency where I worked too.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was just like it was a fun time.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's one of those things of like, you don't know they're the best days when the best days are happening.
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  SPEAKER_01: And those were some of the best days.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of the best.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: We didn't have a kid.
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  SPEAKER_00: Aaron and I had just gotten married.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Nicole and Brandon had just gotten married.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so and everyone was just young and fresh and no jowls.
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  SPEAKER_01: And like my neck, my neck was I had such a good neck.
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  SPEAKER_01: I had such a good neck back then.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's all I think about.
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  SPEAKER_00: So good.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know.
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  SPEAKER_00: All the yoga and all the running and the walking and everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And now you can still do it, but it doesn't look the same.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_01: It'll never look the same.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I because I was looking at those old pictures, which we'll post, but there were other old pictures from around that time, and I'm like, wow.
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  SPEAKER_01: And of course, like at the time, you're like, I thought I was like hitting a hideous monster.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, what a waste.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: I know.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_00: I know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like, look at that waist, girl.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna have twins someday.
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  SPEAKER_00: You still have a waist.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, well, you're delusional, and I'll PayPal you later.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't accept PayPal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Venmo.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_00: Venmo.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_00: See, that's that's the Gen X in me.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I'll I'll send you money or later, huh?
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you're like, what's your hotmail?
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_01: What's your hotmail?
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  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's how we met.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then Bev was in a really cool band with her husband at the time called The New Tragedies, which I'll link in the show notes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because it's I shit you not.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sorry about the cursing.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_01: Shit you not is one of my favorite albums of all time.
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  SPEAKER_01: But we would they would play all over Kansas City and we were just there screaming our heads off, so excited to see you guys.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_01: Because it was, it was so good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was a fun, fun era.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I feel like our friends would come to every show.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was, I it was just a vibe.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_01: It was a vibe.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I think that is the thing is it's like, oh, I have a show.
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  SPEAKER_01: Can you come?
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_01: Of course I can come.
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  SPEAKER_01: What else?
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't have to get one.
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  SPEAKER_01: Responsibilities.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like it was just working and playing at shows.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was just working and playing.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was so fun.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Really fun.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: You were playing the shows.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was working in advertising.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's how we met.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then I moved.
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  SPEAKER_01: I moved to New York.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I was gone for a while.
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  SPEAKER_01: And of course we would keep in touch.
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  SPEAKER_01: But you know, always just was like, oh, Dev's one of my one of my dearest, my closest and dearest, even though time has passed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now I don't I left when I was like 30, 31.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then now I'm 40.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we had three.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_01: How old am I?
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  SPEAKER_01: 48?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: 40.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you're about to be 49.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next month.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we were really, really close for three years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we did all the things together.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was a blast.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then yeah, you but then at that point we had bought our house, I want to say, in two years, you just because you had that awesome loft.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_00: We did.
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  SPEAKER_00: We had an awesome loft and we would have the fondue parties.
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  SPEAKER_00: We called it fun due.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember how dumb that was and amazing.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, it was the best loft.
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  SPEAKER_00: So much fun.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was a good loft.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was such a good loft for two cool people in a band.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, come on.
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  SPEAKER_01: It would like just picture what you think that looks like, and that's what it looks like.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's exactly your whatever your memory or whatever your imagination is.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like high ceilings, brick wall.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was so cool.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then you guys bought a house, and while I was gone, you guys bought a house and you went through quite an IBF journey to have your twins.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: But that it was very long.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was, you know, we bought our house in 2007 and which is 20 years next year, which is weird.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: But then we started like I hit 30 and I remember hitting 30, and like I I'm kind of ready to get a dog and have have a baby and you know, clean the baseboards and grow a garden.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, I the baseboards were always something that I was, I would look at like, I've got to clean you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hate this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, that's a side story.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it took so long to to get pregnant.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we went through this giant infertility journey.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we had, we went through a lot of rounds of not IVF, but the other one I'm just like blanking on.
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  SPEAKER_00: This, the, the less expensive one.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: I'm blanking on.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what that is.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just the it's the insemination.
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  SPEAKER_00: Insemination.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so then we did one round of IVF in 2013 and it worked.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we had twins, boy girl twins, Will and Natalie.
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  SPEAKER_01: So when I'm just picture, picture the cutest boy girl twins you ever could.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then you'll be like, that's actually her children.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we had them in 2014, in January 6th of 2014.
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  SPEAKER_01: So since I moved to New York, you stopped working at the tech company.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you have been mostly been like a really popular food blogger.
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  SPEAKER_01: Is that what do you call yourself a food blogger or what do you say?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been a food blogger since 2011.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so it was before the kids were born.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I've what's funny is that it was a cool era.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I did it for a long time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm still doing it, but I'm not posting recipes to my blog anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm doing more sporadic.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, well, it's kind of funny.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like this summer leading up to 50, I was feeling I've been feeling a tug for a long time to change direction, to not be so tied to chicken tacos.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like how to describe a pasta sauce, even though that's so fun and people love you have to eat.
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  SPEAKER_00: So why not get a cute story out of it?
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  SPEAKER_00: And my hopes is that the stories are fun and the photos are amazing.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I say the photography is amazing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_00: That's very kind.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_00: Again, I'll I'll send you money order, you know.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_01: Um I'll write sure it's checked.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you were a food blogger, still are.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then you felt like this need to pivot.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's basically what you've been doing since I've been gone.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's been so fun to watch your success.
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  SPEAKER_01: I remember just checking you out from different places I was and being like, she's doing so, you're doing amazing, sweetie.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_01: That's a Christian.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_01: That's a Christian thing.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_01: I know you don't know it because you don't watch as much reality TV as I do.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_00: I barely know anything about the Kardashians.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, and I will also wear that badge with honor.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_00: No, I was gonna say, I think that's pretty cool.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's probably good.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh Ross Geller style, I am pivoting and into different, different things in my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have a magazine column called The Slowdown.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that comes out obviously just once a month.
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  SPEAKER_00: And but it's in print, and so that's really fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: To look at.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_00: And I it's funny how I will you bring me a copy next time?
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I can get one, I guess.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_00: No, I I'll bring it to you.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_00: I got it to you.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_00: And will you how about we swap and I get your book?
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, okay.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_00: I can't.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm dying to read your book.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I keep meaning to do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh anyway, so I'm doing the magazine, and uh, it's funny I was telling Aaron this summer I was I was like, I need to get a job.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_00: Just like a job.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to move away from food blogging and a but starting a podcast has been something that I wanted to do for a long time, and here we are.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_01: And I Well, when we met, you were like, I think I'm gonna get a job.
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  SPEAKER_01: What were you saying like in a flower shop?
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_01: Or where were you saying?
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_01: I don't I I think I just have all these ideas a bookstore.
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  SPEAKER_01: A bookstore.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, you're like such a Nancy Myers come to life.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're like, I just want to work in a bookshop and slow down and like whatever.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_00: Well, now I don't have to enroll in self-esteem camp for next summer.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_00: I feel so good about myself.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I but the book industry is something that I I want to be involved in somehow.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know how.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_00: And I have a book tasting, I have a series that I put on Instagram, and I actually have a sponsored book tasting coming up very soon.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's gonna be very Kensington books, right?
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's right.
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  SPEAKER_00: A couple of holiday Hallmark rom-com style books that I will have on Instagram.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in the meantime, it's funny how just things pop up, like you know, little partnerships here and there.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, and I'm helping my friend who is starting her own bookstore.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: I'm helping her with some social media stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's a bunch of creative outlets, you know, there there's writing, there's talking, there's living, there's there's food, there's food, there's photographs, there's books, there's reading, there's all these things, and I want to tap into it all all the time.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_00: And I love that.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_01: You like get to an age where you're like, I'm gonna do the things that I love and then I'm like gonna lean into those.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_01: You write you read for like an hour a day, you think?
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, probably a little bit more than that.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, that's a great.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_00: I get up very early and and try to read a bunch before the kids get up.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, yeah, it's very exciting.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_00: And Lindsay, like you moved to you went to New York, and then did you go to Chicago after New York?
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, sometimes when I tell people like my life trajectory, I'm like, I'm not schizophrenic, really.
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  SPEAKER_01: But like I moved to Chicago after school, after college, which was at SMSU, Springfield, Missouri.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then I moved, no, I moved to LA for six months.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then I moved home when we were besties, still are, but then I moved to New York, then I moved back to Chicago, yeah, and then I came home probably 10 years ago.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_01: I came home when the Royals won the World Series.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_01: When was that?
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  SPEAKER_01: That I that was when it was 20, uh, the kids were little.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_00: So maybe 2015.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_00: 2016, something like that.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because I was like, oh my God, like Kansas City is amazing.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_01: Cause we were like, like everyone was on fire.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_01: But anyway, so then I came home to be near my family, never married, no kids.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_01: I have um a little Shia poo who I'm in love with.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_01: His name is Mo.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_01: So you'll hear me talk about Mo a lot, the light of my life, my tormentor.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_01: You know, he screams if I don't hold him.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_01: He's he's really crazy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Love him.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you hear me talk about my parents a lot.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_01: I'm really close to my parents, which I feel really fortunate about.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm really close to my niece and nephew.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_01: Marley's 21.
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  SPEAKER_01: She actually lives with me, which is fun.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_01: And my nephew Max is a senior in high school.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, I talk about them a lot.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, probably too much.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's annoying.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_01: But you also have like a solid group of girls that you have been friends with for 30 plus years.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_01: I do.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_01: One of my friends, Carrie, who I know will listen to this, she's such a good supporter.
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  SPEAKER_01: Carrie, I literally don't remember not knowing her because my mom babysat her when we were like two years old.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_01: We joked that I hated her because I was like, eh, because I just wanted all my mom's attention.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_01: Cut to, we've been friends this entire, our entire lives.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_01: Awesome.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: But I've always been an advertising copywriter, always kind of like a lot like Bev.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I I love the writing, I love the reading, I love just like getting into all of it.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I've written a couple books, we'll link them somewhere.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_01: I I did a little, like I tried to podcast for myself a couple years ago.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_01: And that that is a very challenging thing.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_01: To you might be like, I have a lot of opinions, I want to talk about the blah blah blah.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_01: And then you get that it's just you, and it's very hard to do.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_01: So whenever I see some, I'm trying to think of some people that do a solo podcast.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_01: And you're like Kylie Kelsey.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_00: Does she do a solo podcast?
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_01: No, she has a guest.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_01: She probably occasionally will be like just her and the mic, but she almost always has a guest.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_01: And it's really hard to do.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, but I always liked the experience, and like I feel like I learned I learned a lot from the first time.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_01: So when Bev and I got back together and we were like, Do you maybe want to do a podcast?
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_01: We were so excited and we're excited to bring this to you.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_01: Here's like what we're thinking, like how when we were brainstorming all this, it's kind of like every week I like get so into things and I'm so consumed by a true crime thing, a reality TV thing, the book I was reading, the podcast I was reading.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_01: Is AI gonna kill us?
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: Like every week I'm consumed by his.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_01: I can't believe today we didn't talk about is AI gonna kill us.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just so glad we didn't say the words AI at all.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_01: I know.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_01: Isn't that so good?
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_01: But so these are the things that we're probably consumed with the same things you guys are consumed with.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_01: So if you listen to us, which I know you will, you'll hear us talk about things as far as like our refrigerator's broken, just like personal things to what we're consumed with, which we're like I said, is pretty much what we're all consumed with.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_01: Like what's feeding our algorithm right now?
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_01: That happens to all of us.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_01: We're like, oh my God, I keep seeing this thing about the American Idol murder, and then you go down a rabbit hole and learn about it.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_01: And there's always a good, you know, six things that you can be consumed with in a week, and that's what we'll talk about.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_00: And how to navigate your own sanity with it because we're being thrown so many things constantly.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_00: And I have this big craving right now to to to pause, to slow down, and then to just sort of take in all the little moments and you know, all of that.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: So it's like balancing the amount of information that we are, that our algorithm and the news and whatever, like just anything, podcasts, anything that gives us that feeds us how to manage all that emotionally.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: Because I do think that there's a balance there.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_00: So maybe we'll touch, we will not get super serious in this podcast.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you never know.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_01: And then just for, you know, why we're different.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_01: We're we're about 50, we're coming at it from like a Gen X perspective, which I think there's a lot of things out there, but not a lot from maybe women our age talking about all the things that are consuming them, which are going to be different than people that are younger or people that are older.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_01: So hopefully, if you're our age, you'll relate.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_01: And even not, even if you're not, you're just they'll just get into it.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_00: And leave a comment if you want us to talk about anything specific or because I can go down a rabbit hole.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_01: Just draw me anything.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_01: Tell me anything, and I will be obsessed when I'm obsessed with it.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_00: We we obsess easily over things, that's for sure.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: So this will be a fun place to discuss things.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_01: So we're excited and we'll come to you once a week.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_01: Right now, we have a little plan, you guys, for the first probably three months.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_01: It'll be us on the mic, and then we'll add some videos so you can see, you know, our next our next.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_00: So you can see our Efron style.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: Bye.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: Bye.