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TikTok Made Me Buy It · Pop Culture Junkie®

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  (upbeat rock music)
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  ♪ Fill me up with a barrel ♪
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  ♪full of monkeys I hate being bored, ♪
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  ♪ I hate being bored ♪
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  ♪ Hit me up 'cause I'm such a junkie ♪
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  ♪ Everyday all I want is more ♪
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  ♪ So entertain me, entertain me right now ♪
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  ♪ I need it bad, I need it bad ♪
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  ♪ So entertain me, entertain me right now ♪
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  ♪ I need it bad, I need it bad ♪
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  - Welcome to Pop Culture Junkie Podcast.
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  We are back for season five with Olivia.
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  - Nicole.
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  - And Shauna.
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  - I am so excited to be back with you guys.
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  It has been a little bit.
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  I know that we have not gotten together
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  really since our Christmas episode.
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  But I wanted to kind of get a little update
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  on what you guys have been up to.
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  - I've just been watching a lot of new things
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  that I'm very excited to talk about with you guys.
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  - A lot of it's still reality TV, of course it is.
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  - It's so really good and I love it.
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  I can't wait to just discuss it with you guys.
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  But I would love to know what you guys have been up to
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  before we start talking about that.
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  - Oh gosh, what have I been up to?
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  - I mean, just live in the drain, right?
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  - 3935.
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  - I did, you're not supposed to.
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  25, 25.
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  - Thank you.
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  It was my 25th birthday.
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  I'm learning a lot.
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  - Oh yeah.
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  - Killing it to me 30.
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  - Yes, I turned 30 thrive and it has been lovely.
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  And I went to Texas and ate a lot of barbecue.
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  - Me too.
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  - Yeah.
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  - Austin, okay, I went to Austin.
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  I need some preference.
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  - I didn't go to Texas.
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  - I love Austin.
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  Austin's really fun.
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  - And it's like,
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  - The craft beer is excellent.
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  - Shona gets off the plane to go to Austin
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  and she just starts throwing finger guns
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  and like walking with her knees really wide.
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  And I'm like, this feels like a bomb situation.
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  Like you can't say bomb on a plane.
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  You can't like do fake finger guns.
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  - I mean, take that exact voice.
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  - We're taking, she's gonna be some guns.
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  I can't have a no more shame.
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  - Shush, purp, purp, purp.
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  - So.
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  - That was her exact model.
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  I've heard that it's up for an Oscar.
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  - Thank you.
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  - Thank you.
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  - They told me recently.
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  - They, they, they, the Oscar overlords.
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  - The ominous, the ominous, the, the ominous, the,
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  well for me, I feel like last episode I had said
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  that I am obsessed with fantasy books now
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  and I've just been ultimately consumed by them.
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  And so I have just been pretending
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  that I don't exist in this reality only in a day one.
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  - I texted live and I was literally
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  at her apartment complex and I was like,
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  "Where are you?
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  What are you doing?"
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  She's like, "I'm in my bedroom crying."
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  It's like, "Come hang out with me, I can't."
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  - Please tell them it was because I was reading a book.
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  You missed a part.
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  - I feel like she was having an emotional breakdown.
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  - I figured it was a book.
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  - I think she was talking to her.
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  - Yes.
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  - She was reading a book.
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  - Yeah.
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  - And she did come down for a little bit
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  and hang out with me, but I had to peel her away.
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  - It was came to Mavash for anyone who was run
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  out of the boss and it was a really hard time to read,
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  to leave.
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  - And read.
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  - And read as I was crying.
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  The tears made the words blurry.
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  - It was so cool.
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  What reality TV have you been watching?
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  I need a new one.
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  - I started and finished the two seasons
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  of Family of Stallone.
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  - Okay.
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  - I'm Paramount Bless.
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  It is the Sylvester Stallone reality show.
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  - It's he on it.
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  - Yes.
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  - Of course.
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  - I don't know if it's like his extended family
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  and he's just like, oh, do we fall up your lip for this?
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  - He's just lending his name.
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  - Oh, no.
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  - Up to a baby's finish shit.
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  - No, of course he's on it and I am obsessed.
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  I was not a fan.
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  I'm not saying that wasn't a fan of Sylvester.
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  - He is a love guy.
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  - Yeah, I dished in it.
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  - You weren't like rocking it.
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  - Yeah, exactly.
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  - Yeah, okay.
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  - But I love his family.
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  They are so funny and quirky and everything like that.
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  His daughters grew up just,
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  they just don't seem spoiled.
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  - Love that.
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  - Stuff up or anything like that.
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  They don't seem like they come from a background
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  where they grew up with a father figure of someone coming
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  from money if that makes sense.
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  They just seem very grateful and down to earth people.
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  The whole family does.
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  - That's good.
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  - So it's really fun watching them grow up
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  and not grow up, they're all adults, but whatever.
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  - Watching them live their life.
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  And I just feel bad too for the two older daughters
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  'cause they are in their 20s
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  and they're all looking for boyfriend's
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  and all that.
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  - And their dad's investors still alone.
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  - Yeah, the one oldest daughter,
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  she's going on dates or might have been the middle daughter.
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  She was going on dates and randomly the one date
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  brought out boxing gloves.
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  - Oh my God.
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  - The very first date.
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  - It's just all these fanboys.
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  - Yeah, no.
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  - Your dad's still a vest, you're still low.
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  - Yes, he brought out the gloves and he was like,
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  "Hey, can you sign this and have your dad sign this?"
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  - Oh my God, no.
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  - No, no.
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  - I would immediately.
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  - So I just felt so bad
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  'cause they're like, we don't know if we're being dated
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  or we are or if we're a dad is like our last name,
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  but like sometimes we wish we could just take our last name off
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  but the obviously grew up loving who they are
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  so they want to get to that same.
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  And the other one I've been watching is called
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  Ring by Spring and it's on Roku.
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  - Okay.
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  - And I've been watching it because my best friend
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  from light attendant training her daughter is on it.
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  - Oh what?
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  - Yes.
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  And it is a small college in Texas that they're covering
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  and it's a group of these college kids
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  who want to get engaged by the spring semester.
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  - In college?
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  - Oh no.
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  - Texas Christian.
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  - Yes.
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  - Does anybody who's listening please.
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  - But her daughter is like the wild one on the show.
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  - Oh my gosh.
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  - She's so freaking funny.
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  Her name is Maddie, so Maddie,
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  you're probably not listening, but I'm gonna tell you
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  to listen to some of them.
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  - I'm sure.
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  - In Christy's, her mom Christy's my friend
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  and I told Christy that I'm gonna be talking about this
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  on the episode.
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  So I know she's,
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  she knows that I'm talking about it.
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  - So do they date?
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  Is it like a regular dating show where there's like
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  a 15 guys and one girl over?
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  - No, so it's just a bunch of,
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  there's couples on there already who are like,
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  the girls are like, oh my gosh, I can't wait.
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  Like we're gonna go bring shopping together
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  and then Maddie, she's single
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  and she's like looking out for a boyfriend.
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  - The one.
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  - But yeah, some of these people like
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  one of the couples are not kissing
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  until they're writing day.
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  - Oh, yeah.
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  - It's like one of those.
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  - Yeah.
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  - I remember claiming that in high school
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  for like a heart-to-step case.
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  - Oh yeah.
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  - And then I remember the girls,
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  she was kinda out there,
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  not out there like in a bad way,
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  but just like out there like,
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  she liked her boyfriend's,
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  I don't know if better way to put it,
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  but not in a bad way at all.
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  And then she wants to get back into God and following God,
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  which is no big deal.
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  And then she's like, okay,
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  I'm about this really nice guy
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  and she wrote down on an app
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  and like all these Bible verses to this guy.
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  She's like, I'm gonna be-
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  - I don't need to keep laughing, I'm sorry.
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  I'm gonna stop laughing.
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  - She's like, I'm gonna upstand here.
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  - I'm having flashbacks so hard right now.
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  - And she wants to like upstand again
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  and not have sex.
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  - And then literally the next day
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  and her interview, she goes,
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  I just had sex with him.
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  - Oh no.
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  - And she's the funniest thing ever.
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  - I'm like, don't be ashamed.
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  - Don't be ashamed.
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  - It's not, you're not gonna knock it into heaven
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  if you believe in those two different worlds and things
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  just because you had sex.
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  - Literally.
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  - Trust me.
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  I mean, don't trust me 'cause I don't know.
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  (laughing)
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  - Nicole talked to God a little today
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  and he was like, girl, get it.
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  - Yeah.
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  - Yeah.
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  But anyways, you do you boo.
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  - You do you boo.
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  - You go sleep with whoever you want.
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  Just use protection and get checked.
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  - Very good.
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  - That's all I gotta say.
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  - Slafer Jesus.
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  - Slafer Jesus.
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  - She's the girl I love to.
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  - What's the girl?
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  - Ring by spring on Roe Hue.
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  - Ring by spring.
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  - I would have gotten her ring the guy
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  that I was dating in college though.
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  Just life would be.
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  - How many promise rings do you want?
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  - I have gotten three promise rings.
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  - I can't think there's more.
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  - There's more.
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  - There's three and I gave two of them back
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  and the one I'm wearing right now is from my husband.
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  - Literally, literally.
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  - Literally, it was an opportunity ring though.
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  We were banging.
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  - Yeah.
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  - Yeah.
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  - Well, it was like that.
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  - Thank you.
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  - Yeah.
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  - Love me banging my husband.
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  - Yeah.
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  - I do.
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  - I do.
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  I love that.
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  - Shona, what about you?
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  What have you been to?
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  - Oh my God.
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  I've been consuming a lot of content.
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  We've caught up on a lot of anime.
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  I say we, my husband and I watch a lot of anime.
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  - A parody ring.
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  - My parody ring boy.
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  (laughing)
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  Instead of sleeping together, we watch anime.
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  (laughing)
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  - Yeah.
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  - Jiu-jitsu kai-zeng.
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  We finished second season of that.
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  We just started bleach thousand year war,
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  which is the latest season of this anime
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  that him and I started watching years ago.
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  There's been a 10 year hiatus
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  between the last season of the show and this season.
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  - So let's say whole marriage.
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  - Literally.
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  So people have been waiting for this next season
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  of this show to come out.
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  So we just started it and the graphics
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  have just gotten so much better since last time,
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  you know, anime.
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  And then I benched the entire first season
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  of this adult animated series.
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  It's not an anime.
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  It's called Hasbin Hotel.
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  It's on Prime.
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  And it's from this, oh gosh, I don't remember her name.
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  This female creator who created the first episode
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  of this show and it was on YouTube
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  and she made a GoFundMe to try to make it into a show.
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  And it's been since 2019, she's been trying to get this made.
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  And it finally, Prime picked it up
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  and released the whole first season of it.
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  - Oh wow.
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  - Yeah, so it's about Lucifer's daughter in hell.
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  Who is trying to make a hotel
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  that can redeem the souls in hell
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  so they can become better people and make it to heaven.
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  And it's also a musical.
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  - Oh, wow.
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  - And I was a twist.
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  - Right.
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  - And the singers in the show are like Disney level singers.
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  They're so good.
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  Her girlfriend is played by Stephanie Beatrice.
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  She's from Brooklyn 9/9 and she also
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  is the lead character of InConto.
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  But yeah, it's a really cute show.
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  So definitely recommend that.
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  And then we also binge the entirety of Beef.
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  I'm obsessed with Stephen Yoon.
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  - Mm-hmm.
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  - Anyone who has watched Beef.
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  - It's so good.
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  It's so good.
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  - And then finally, recently saw a movie called Lisa Frankenstein.
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  - It was a good.
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  I've seen a lot of advertising on it.
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  - Yes.
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  - But I was like, isn't it gonna be in?
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  - I really enjoyed it.
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  - So.
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  - It's a new, right?
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  - Yeah, it's Catherine Newton and Coles Browse.
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  Coles Browse.
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  - I'm weird.
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  I'm weird.
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  - I don't fit in.
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  - In.
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  - I don't want thin.
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  - My spirit.
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  - That is a Riverdale reference for anyone who's
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  - Unfortunately.
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  Unfortunately.
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  I really liked it.
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  It's from Diablo Cody and Zelda Williams,
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  who is Robin Williams' daughter.
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  - Mm-hmm.
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  - And it definitely reminds me of Jennifer's body.
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  Like it's super kitschy.
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  And I mean, people react in very strange ways
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  to very serious situations.
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  There's murder in everyone.
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  Because this woman's becoming a murderer over the course
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  of the movie.
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  Not taking it quite seriously.
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  - It's true.
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  - She's literally in a silly goofy mood.
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  - Yeah.
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  - And then commit some murders.
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  - I'm just a girl.
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  - Just a girl.
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  - Just a hashtag girl dinner.
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  - Yeah.
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  - But I really liked it.
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  It was cute.
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  Coles Browse is delightful.
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  He's basically Frankenstein's monster,
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  the entirety of the movie,
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  and his dialogue breaks down to, and I quote,
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  "Mmm."
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  (laughing)
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  "Mmm."
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  - Wow.
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  - And that's about it.
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  - Wow.
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  - Wow.
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  - I think you should have gotten that role.
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  That was beautiful.
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  - I know.
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  Why didn't I get that?
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  - Well, I didn't like that.
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  - God, I miss 100% of the shots I don't take.
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  - That's amazing.
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  I love that.
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  - I love you, though.
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  - I really have been sucked into the fantasy world.
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  And when I'm not in the fantasy world of books
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  with my morally gray men,
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  I have been watching a lot of true crime.
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  And so I watched "Love Our Stalker Killer" on Netflix,
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  which is really, really good.
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  - I keep stepping up on my like, recommend.
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  - I knew the case already,
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  so that kind of spoiled things for me,
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  but it is really crazy and really, really good.
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  So I don't want to ruin too much about it,
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  but it is one of those male horror stories
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  where you're like, "Oh, okay, those things actually do
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  "have a good time to a man again."
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  - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  - And so that one was really, really good.
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  I just watched this one over the weekend,
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  and it was the truth about Jim.
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  And I went into it thinking it was a Jim Jones documentary,
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  which I love cults.
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  I will watch a million documentaries about cults.
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  - But it actually was about this granddaughter
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  trying to prove that her grandfather was a serial killer.
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  - Oh my God, I saw the preview,
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  and I just haven't watched it yet.
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  It was just like, who is grandpa?
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  - Yeah, the girl's a little annoying.
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  And at one point in it,
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  she tries to be like, is he the zodiac killer?
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  - Oh my God.
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  - No, that's Ted Cruz.
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  - That is literally, it is Ted Cruz.
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  I'm like, okay, we don't need to connect every potential
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  where the murderer is.
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  - So she wants to prove that her grandpa is a serial killer?
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  - Yeah, because he's been known to be a serial rapist.
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  - Oh.
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  - So it is not too far of a job.
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  - It's a grandpa's self.
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  - Yeah, so they're trying to prove it.
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  I haven't fully finished it yet,
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  but whenever I watched it, they were at the zodiac part.
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  And I was like, okay, let's move on.
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  - Not every killer is the zodiac killer.
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  - No, not the California area in the '70s is the zodiac killer,
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  but I thought it was really, really good.
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  And another one that I would really recommend
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  is escaping Twin Flames universe.
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  - I started it.
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  - That one was amazing.
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  - I haven't finished yet.
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  - It is crazy.
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  I'm a spiritual girl.
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  I love like, we will stop.
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  I love tarot cards.
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  And I'm single.
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  And you can totally see how these cult leaders
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  and these narcissistic people just came in
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  and ruined these people's lives.
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  - Absolutely.
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  - Like to the point where they're cutting off their family,
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  they're transitioning genders because of what they're recommending
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  that they do.
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  And it was a really interesting look at how cults move
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  in the internet age and how they can grow followers
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  and how people can get sucked in.
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  So I thought it was a really, really interesting
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  documentary and I would say check it out.
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  Prime did a really good one too on the same topic.
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  - I watched both.
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  - Yeah.
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  But I don't remember the prime one, but I don't know.
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  - It starts like, I watched the first couple episodes.
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  Like I said, and it's like, oh yeah, I could totally see myself
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  or how a person could easily fall for this.
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  - And then you just fall into the rabbit hole.
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  - Exactly.
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  And then the more and more, they kind of pull you in
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  because it offers a lot of things like, oh, you know,
• 14:15
  if you're in the universe, there's one person out there
• 14:17
  who's your twin flame and you have to find them.
• 14:21
  And once you do, don't let them go no matter what.
• 14:23
  - Yeah.
• 14:24
  - And even if it means you're stalking them
• 14:26
  and getting arrested.
• 14:28
  - Yeah.
• 14:28
  - And they don't want to be your twin flame.
• 14:30
  - Literally one girl like has a restraining order.
• 14:32
  - Yeah.
• 14:32
  - Because they were, and they were just like,
• 14:34
  controlling her brain and her mind.
• 14:35
  And yeah, I thought it was really, really interesting
• 14:38
  to see how much the internet can kind of influence us
• 14:42
  and impact us and our love lives and everyday.
• 14:45
  - What you buy, who you love.
• 14:47
  (laughs)
• 14:48
  (dramatic music)
• 14:51
  - I want to go into our next segment here.
• 14:55
  And we're calling this one a TikTok made meat by it.
• 14:59
  We're gonna dive into how TikTok has turned
• 15:02
  from a doomsday scroll fest during the pandemic
• 15:04
  to an uncontrollable shopping spree.
• 15:07
  So not just a go-to for dances or cat videos
• 15:10
  or funny sounds.
• 15:11
  It really is a gold mine for brands who have figured out
• 15:14
  that a TikTok shout out means selling out literally.
• 15:17
  The influence of TikTok has been so profound
• 15:19
  that major brands are now investing upwards of five figures
• 15:23
  for a single promotional video.
• 15:25
  This trend is reminiscent of the Instagram brand deal boom
• 15:29
  I think the Kardashians with skinny T.
• 15:32
  But TikTok has seen its ability to drive
• 15:35
  buying habits reach unparalleled levels.
• 15:38
  And the platform really does have a knack
• 15:39
  for making these products go viral overnight
• 15:42
  and has turned into a digital marketplace
• 15:45
  where trends are set and products are sold
• 15:47
  in a matter of mere hours.
• 15:50
  And TikTok really with this trend
• 15:54
  and what we've seen on the app has started to say,
• 15:57
  we want in and they've launched TikTok shop.
• 15:59
  So if you are a TikTok user,
• 16:01
  and we've probably seen quite a bit of increase
• 16:05
  on those shop ads or just those videos
• 16:07
  that are actually recommending you to buy this thing.
• 16:10
  And you know, it's always about an ad.
• 16:12
  It might be about a vibe, a moment, a trend,
• 16:14
  or a must-have that you're seeing on your or you page.
• 16:18
  But you probably ended up buying it
• 16:20
  and you didn't need it, right?
• 16:21
  And so we're really gonna kind of dive into
• 16:24
  what we as the junkies have seen as TikTok made me buy it.
• 16:28
  So, you know, junkies, I'm really curious.
• 16:31
  When did you guys first start getting influenced
• 16:33
  on TikTok and what was that first thing that you bought
• 16:36
  from seeing a TikTok?
• 16:38
  - I feel like I've been influenced by TikTok.
• 16:41
  - 85 years now.
• 16:45
  (laughing)
• 16:46
  - Probably when I started using it
• 16:48
  and I don't know how long ago that was probably--
• 16:49
  - Before the pandemic, you think?
• 16:51
  - Yeah, probably either before,
• 16:53
  probably to say during.
• 16:54
  - That's been most of us signed up.
• 16:57
  - I feel like I haven't actually bought from TikTok until recently.
• 17:02
  I don't know, I can't give you a time frame, sorry.
• 17:07
  - But you have done it before.
• 17:09
  - Within the year. - Yes, but within the year.
• 17:11
  Within the past year, I would say though,
• 17:13
  I bought something off TikTok shop,
• 17:16
  which was so popular and I regret buying it,
• 17:21
  of course. - It's always yeah.
• 17:23
  - Yeah, no.
• 17:24
  - The burial blanket, oh my god.
• 17:26
  - I hope you guys have seen it,
• 17:27
  'cause if not, this is gonna sound so weird,
• 17:29
  but it was the snail mucin.
• 17:31
  - No.
• 17:32
  - Okay, great.
• 17:33
  - It's like snail jizz?
• 17:35
  I think so.
• 17:36
  (laughing)
• 17:37
  Oh my god, what do you do at that?
• 17:39
  - You put it on your face.
• 17:40
  - Oh.
• 17:41
  - It's like a--
• 17:42
  - Patreon's exclusive.
• 17:44
  - Yeah.
• 17:45
  - I've checked snail jizz.
• 17:46
  - So it's a snail mucin and it is by,
• 17:50
  the one I bought is by KosRx.
• 17:53
  - Oh, okay.
• 17:54
  - Interesting.
• 17:55
  - And did it work?
• 17:56
  - So in the videos that people posted,
• 18:00
  their faces looked like last.
• 18:02
  - Yeah.
• 18:03
  - Their faces look so, so nice.
• 18:04
  You had to put it on like a damp face,
• 18:07
  which I know a lot of people on TikTok didn't really know.
• 18:09
  So then I read, I did my research on this product
• 18:11
  because I care a lot about my skincare.
• 18:13
  - Yeah.
• 18:14
  - And so yes, I did my research on this
• 18:17
  and I was like, okay, cool, I'm gonna buy it
• 18:18
  because it's from like a Chinese product, I believe,
• 18:22
  for some Asian country product.
• 18:25
  And I'm like, you know what, we're gonna try it.
• 18:27
  So I bought it off a TikTok shop
• 18:29
  and it came up like $15 and it was a decent size.
• 18:32
  Did not work.
• 18:33
  I don't know if it's like one of those products
• 18:34
  we have to use it for like maybe three months
• 18:36
  before you see--
• 18:37
  - Every single day.
• 18:38
  - Yeah, which I did use it every single day.
• 18:41
  But again, I don't know if it's one of those products
• 18:42
  where we have to use it continuously for say,
• 18:45
  again, two, three months, two, three months.
• 18:47
  - Yeah.
• 18:47
  - And then you probably run out of it the product
• 18:50
  and so you have to buy another product.
• 18:51
  - Exactly.
• 18:52
  And once I ran out of the first bottle,
• 18:54
  I was like, I'm not buying this.
• 18:55
  - Yeah, we're done here.
• 18:56
  - Did you have it at all to though?
• 18:57
  So if you did want to buy,
• 18:58
  you could always run it all to and grab it
• 19:00
  rather than waiting for it to be shipped to you.
• 19:02
  But I was just over it at that point.
• 19:04
  I saw no results and I just didn't feel
• 19:06
  like putting this on my face
• 19:07
  because you literally rubbed it on your hands,
• 19:09
  you lifted it up and it was just like sticky looking.
• 19:11
  Like it's literally what you're thinking it is.
• 19:14
  - No, you're doing it in which you're gonna say it.
• 19:16
  - Yeah, you're gonna say it.
• 19:17
  - And what was that?
• 19:18
  - What was that?
• 19:19
  - Yeah, so I was putting this on my face
• 19:21
  and I was like, oh my God, my face is gonna look so, so good.
• 19:23
  It's gonna be smooth as the baby's bottom.
• 19:26
  I'm gonna be a horse on skin.
• 19:28
  - I have so many jokes that I am trying so hard not to say.
• 19:31
  - Please, please just let 'em out.
• 19:33
  - Yeah.
• 19:33
  - You could just...
• 19:35
  - Just jerk off a skin.
• 19:36
  - I didn't say you, jerk off a skin.
• 19:38
  - Jerk off a skin.
• 19:38
  - No, I know, I'm so bad.
• 19:39
  - Get a man to give you a facial.
• 19:41
  (laughing)
• 19:43
  That's probably gonna do about the same for your skin.
• 19:46
  - Yeah, that's interesting.
• 19:47
  - You should test that theory for it, Shanna.
• 19:49
  - What is it?
• 19:50
  - Yeah.
• 19:51
  - We should.
• 19:52
  I got my promise ring all set.
• 19:52
  (laughing)
• 19:54
  - Give the snail a promise ring.
• 19:56
  - Oh, okay.
• 19:57
  - Oh, this is okay.
• 19:58
  - Like, my husband or the snail.
• 20:00
  I could try it with both and see which one affects my skin.
• 20:02
  - Yeah, just to say one thing.
• 20:04
  - This is just one thing.
• 20:05
  I'm so sorry, everyone.
• 20:05
  - One half.
• 20:06
  - Let's try it out.
• 20:07
  - One half of the first science.
• 20:08
  - Shanna for science.
• 20:09
  - Shanna, Ashak for science.
• 20:10
  - Shanna for science.
• 20:11
  - Ashak's snail jigs.
• 20:12
  - Yeah.
• 20:13
  - I'm sorry you bought that.
• 20:14
  - You know what, it's not like 15 bucks.
• 20:16
  - Okay, that's not that bad.
• 20:17
  - That's not bad.
• 20:18
  - Yeah, 'cause it was my first time.
• 20:19
  So like the first time I were on TikTok shop,
• 20:21
  you do get percentage off if you didn't know that.
• 20:24
  You know that now, so gone by.
• 20:25
  - That's in your card on TikTok shop.
• 20:28
  - Yeah, man.
• 20:28
  - 'Cause you get a percentage off.
• 20:30
  - So I'm gonna be honest, I've only ever bought one thing
• 20:33
  through TikTok shop.
• 20:35
  - Yeah.
• 20:36
  - But I have had Instagram Reels,
• 20:39
  which is a TikTok competitor,
• 20:41
  Influence me to buy other things.
• 20:43
  - Okay.
• 20:44
  - So the things that I've been influenced to buy,
• 20:47
  I got a red light wand from a brand called Solar Wave.
• 20:52
  I really like it.
• 20:53
  It's great.
• 20:54
  You do have to use like a serum with it,
• 20:56
  but I always feel like my skin looks really nice and glow.
• 20:58
  We afterwards, no come necessary.
• 21:01
  And it's just like a little like vibrating red light wand.
• 21:04
  So it's not.
• 21:05
  - No it's vibrating too.
• 21:05
  - It does vibrate.
• 21:06
  It's multi-purpose.
• 21:07
  - Ooh, of that for you.
• 21:09
  - You know.
• 21:10
  - So that's the serum you're really using.
• 21:11
  - Yeah.
• 21:12
  - It's a special serum.
• 21:13
  - The shot of special.
• 21:14
  Why is it all coming back to the end?
• 21:16
  (laughing)
• 21:18
  - 'Cause it always does.
• 21:19
  - Because it always does.
• 21:20
  I don't love you.
• 21:21
  What kind of sex product did you buy?
• 21:23
  Oh, I also bought a booty scrub.
• 21:25
  I got this thing called a niece, that booty though.
• 21:29
  And it's like, I would never,
• 21:31
  I would not recommend buying this.
• 21:33
  It's just this jar of pink sandy kind of goo.
• 21:37
  - Oh, I have seen that.
• 21:38
  - And you rub it on your ass cheeks.
• 21:40
  Like specifically, it's for your ass cheeks.
• 21:42
  - Yeah, I think it's just a body scrub.
• 21:45
  - It's literally just a body scrub.
• 21:46
  But like, it's for your ass.
• 21:48
  And then I got a mask to go with it, but it's for your butt.
• 21:51
  - Yeah.
• 21:52
  - And so you put like, first you scrub your booty cheeks
• 21:55
  with this stuff.
• 21:55
  And then you wipe the cream all over your cheeks.
• 21:59
  But you have to let it kind of like,
• 22:00
  air out for 20 minutes.
• 22:02
  So I would just be like.
• 22:03
  - So you're just standing there?
• 22:05
  - I would be laying butt naked just like,
• 22:07
  flanking in my living room or like in my bed,
• 22:10
  just like letting my butt mask dry.
• 22:13
  And then you get back into wife and I,
• 22:15
  like, watch it just licking your face.
• 22:16
  - She's like, what are you doing?
• 22:18
  - That's a lot of work.
• 22:20
  I think, get out.
• 22:22
  Mommy needs her butt exfoliation.
• 22:24
  And you know, I'm sure did my ass cheeks feel a little smoother?
• 22:27
  - Yeah.
• 22:27
  - But like, I think a lotion would have made my butt cheeks
• 22:32
  feel just as nice.
• 22:33
  - Well, that worked.
• 22:34
  And what did it get there?
• 22:36
  (laughing)
• 22:37
  - It may be that was like, why did I do it?
• 22:38
  If you were like an ass model, maybe.
• 22:41
  Like, I don't post a lot of pictures of my bare ass.
• 22:45
  A lot.
• 22:45
  - I post a couple.
• 22:46
  - Maybe if you had more scrub and mask, you would.
• 22:49
  - Maybe if my ass was just perfectly smooth and exfoliated,
• 22:52
  I would do it more often.
• 22:53
  - Very small butt.
• 22:54
  - Small butt cheeks.
• 22:55
  - Small butt.
• 22:56
  - So, those are my-
• 22:57
  - I love that.
• 22:58
  So I have to say, my TikTok influences,
• 23:01
  I feel like are much different.
• 23:03
  Now, I haven't purchased anything through it,
• 23:06
  but I've gotten a lot of people,
• 23:07
  like ads or sponsored posts through it.
• 23:10
  And I would say the first thing I ever bought
• 23:13
  was before Tinks became like Tinks,
• 23:16
  she was like influencing everyone to buy this water bottle
• 23:20
  in 2020.
• 23:21
  I don't know, I feel like it was so random
• 23:24
  and I was like, I need this water bottle.
• 23:26
  And I felt like I had my Stanley Cup era
• 23:28
  before everyone had their-
• 23:29
  - I do not understand that.
• 23:31
  - I used it for like a week.
• 23:32
  - I don't know.
• 23:33
  - I don't know.
• 23:34
  I just can't keep it all dry.
• 23:35
  - Did it hold your water?
• 23:36
  - I did hold my water.
• 23:37
  - There it is.
• 23:38
  I didn't drink more water.
• 23:39
  It was annoying to bring it around places.
• 23:42
  - Is it one of those jugs?
• 23:43
  It kind of has the markings on the side.
• 23:45
  - It wasn't a big one, actually.
• 23:46
  - She'd go in girl, it was really sleek,
• 23:49
  but it was just like a regular big cup.
• 23:51
  And then like a couple months later,
• 23:53
  I saw this thing about those straws
• 23:54
  having a bunch of bacteria in them.
• 23:56
  So I got de-influence.
• 23:57
  I got influenced and influenced by TikTok
• 24:00
  and a matter of months.
• 24:01
  - De-influence, you know?
• 24:02
  - So yeah, that was the first thing I ever bought.
• 24:05
  - Oh God.
• 24:06
  - I feel like there's a lot for some reason.
• 24:08
  I feel an aura about you
• 24:09
  that you give the internet your money a lot.
• 24:11
  - Yeah, that I have an uncontrollable shopping problem.
• 24:14
  - What?
• 24:15
  - Never know.
• 24:16
  - The one thing that I did by off of the shop
• 24:18
  was your Christmas present.
• 24:19
  And it was a Taylor Swift calendar.
• 24:21
  - Mm-hmm. - It's very calendar.
• 24:22
  - Very calendar.
• 24:23
  - I mean, I got like a girl.
• 24:24
  I was like, if you ever friend,
• 24:25
  who's a Swiftie, you have to get them this calendar.
• 24:27
  And I was like, sold.
• 24:28
  - It is great.
• 24:29
  - Done.
• 24:30
  - It is great.
• 24:31
  - We just did it.
• 24:32
  - The past, for any of our Taylor Swift fans
• 24:33
  in the house, right before Valentine's Day,
• 24:35
  it's a dinner with SD, you know how that one ends.
• 24:39
  Murder.
• 24:40
  - Oh my God.
• 24:41
  - I don't know.
• 24:42
  - No, it's in a song.
• 24:42
  - Oh, I love that.
• 24:43
  - Not real.
• 24:44
  - Taylor Swift committed murder.
• 24:46
  - There is a fairy that her and Harry committed
• 24:49
  vehicular manslaughter.
• 24:50
  - Oh my God.
• 24:52
  - The trouble.
• 24:53
  - Of course, they're fucking it.
• 24:54
  - Of course, there is.
• 24:55
  - I don't know if it is one of my favorite celebrity
• 24:57
  conspiracy theories.
• 24:58
  - I think it's so funny.
• 24:59
  - We can talk about it more later in the live.
• 25:01
  - Yeah, that may be an example of what we're gonna talk
• 25:04
  about in season five for you guys.
• 25:06
  - Spoiler.
• 25:07
  - Yeah, no, one of my favorite celebrity conspiracy theories.
• 25:10
  - That's absurd.
• 25:11
  - Yeah, and I love it.
• 25:12
  - I don't believe it.
• 25:12
  - No.
• 25:13
  - Just so you guys know.
• 25:14
  - I want to believe.
• 25:15
  (laughing)
• 25:16
  - I think it's funny.
• 25:17
  - Not death, but.
• 25:18
  - No, manslaughter is not funny.
• 25:19
  - The theory.
• 25:20
  (laughing)
• 25:22
  - The pop culture junkies would like to put out there
• 25:24
  that we do not think the vehicular manslaughter is funny.
• 25:26
  - Unless you're a genius.
• 25:27
  - We do not conjown it.
• 25:29
  - Unless it's a genius conspiracy.
• 25:31
  - Then it's funny.
• 25:32
  - In arm.
• 25:33
  - It's like, always a leg.
• 25:34
  - That's right.
• 25:35
  - Oh my gosh.
• 25:37
  - All right, I've even snailed Jiz, Nicole.
• 25:40
  What else have you gotten?
• 25:41
  - That just has six buckets of fucking snailed too.
• 25:44
  It just keeps showing up.
• 25:48
  - Other than that.
• 25:51
  (laughing)
• 25:54
  - Let's see, the other things I bought were,
• 25:59
  I buy a lot of, again,
• 26:02
  the only thing I bought off of TikTok shop was
• 26:04
  that's now musin' and then other things,
• 26:06
  I just get influenced to purchase.
• 26:08
  - Yeah.
• 26:09
  - Off of TikTok is the Summer Fridays lip balms.
• 26:12
  - Mm, I think I've seen those.
• 26:14
  - I probably have every single one except for like one.
• 26:16
  And I have to.
• 26:17
  - Is that what you're wearing right now?
• 26:18
  - No, this is the elf lip oil.
• 26:20
  - Your lips look so good.
• 26:22
  - I think, see, I appreciate that.
• 26:23
  - They're so juicy.
• 26:24
  - No, I have like every Summer Friday lip balm gloss
• 26:28
  whatever you wanna call them.
• 26:29
  - And I really hate to admit it because they are dumb.
• 26:33
  - They're dumb.
• 26:34
  How am I trying to?
• 26:35
  - They're like $20, $24.
• 26:36
  - For one lip balm?
• 26:38
  - Yeah, it's gonna put you in a, in debt, girl.
• 26:42
  - These better look kinsable.
• 26:43
  These, you better send us a selfie with this lip check.
• 26:46
  - They're gonna be happy on tomorrow.
• 26:48
  - They're just so good and I did lose one going to work one day.
• 26:51
  - On the parking lot.
• 26:52
  - And I'm so upset about it 'cause it's my favorite one.
• 26:54
  - Oh no.
• 26:55
  - But it's okay, but it's the flame.
• 26:56
  - It was mint.
• 26:57
  - Okay.
• 26:58
  - Literally, I'm a huge, this might get me canceled, but.
• 27:03
  - I'm a huge mint chocolate chip ice cream flavor.
• 27:06
  - Wow.
• 27:07
  - The most controversial thing we've ever said
• 27:09
  of this podcast.
• 27:10
  - I love eating toothpaste.
• 27:11
  (laughing)
• 27:13
  - Love it.
• 27:14
  - Just whole tube, just squeezed in the mouth.
• 27:16
  - But it literally tasted just like
• 27:17
  the mint chocolate chip ice cream.
• 27:19
  - I think that sounds delicious.
• 27:20
  - So it was my favorite and I lost it, but anyways,
• 27:23
  that's okay.
• 27:23
  So now I have basically every single one
• 27:26
  and I hate to admit that because they are pretty
• 27:28
  expensive, if I didn't buy them, I could inherit
• 27:30
  that money into something else.
• 27:32
  - Yeah.
• 27:32
  - And have future child college.
• 27:33
  - Yeah, exactly.
• 27:34
  - But it's not a shrine in your apartment, just.
• 27:37
  - Oh, I know.
• 27:39
  - That's why I thought about my lady Gaga.
• 27:41
  Had like, she's got these lip looker, look her.
• 27:44
  - Yeah.
• 27:45
  - Freudian slip.
• 27:46
  - Lip lacquer, like lipsticks and you shake them
• 27:50
  and they're really shiny and I own this every single color.
• 27:53
  I bought every single one and they're like 30 bucks a pop.
• 27:56
  And I dropped one in my bathroom and it's this
• 27:59
  long lasting lipstick and it's a glass bottle.
• 28:03
  I dropped it and it shattered in my bathroom
• 28:06
  and it looked like a crime scene.
• 28:08
  It was all over in my grow on my rug and I was like
• 28:12
  trying to wipe it up with toilet paper
• 28:14
  versus panicking and I threw the toilet paper in the toilet
• 28:17
  and then it stained the toilet bowl.
• 28:19
  - Was it right?
• 28:21
  - It was right.
• 28:22
  - Oh.
• 28:23
  - At least I was like, yeah, I guess.
• 28:26
  Like black or something.
• 28:28
  - Yeah.
• 28:29
  - Now it just looks like blood.
• 28:30
  It looks like I salotted something in my bathroom.
• 28:32
  - So I know that feel girl losing your, I know.
• 28:36
  - Slay.
• 28:36
  - Slay.
• 28:37
  - I get it, I slay.
• 28:38
  Cause I killed something in my bathroom.
• 28:40
  - Slay.
• 28:41
  - It's a slay.
• 28:42
  - I think my biggest one is, you know,
• 28:44
  again, bringing it back to the fantasy.
• 28:46
  I have literally purchased every S.J.M. book.
• 28:50
  It was just Sarah J. Mas.
• 28:52
  She wrote "Akatar, Thorena Glass,
• 28:54
  "Cresson City, Terrible Person on Paperback
• 28:57
  "and on audiobook."
• 28:58
  And now I want it.
• 29:00
  - And now you want the art cover.
• 29:01
  - You have all of them?
• 29:02
  - Yeah.
• 29:03
  - Or what?
• 29:04
  - Did you buy book number four?
• 29:05
  Cause then I need to buy all of it.
• 29:05
  - No, I only have that one on audiobook,
• 29:08
  but I have all of the Thorena Glasses if you want them.
• 29:11
  - But they're great, they're great.
• 29:13
  - They're great.
• 29:14
  - I'm like prostalatizing Sarah J. Mas right now.
• 29:16
  I made Shawna read it.
• 29:18
  I made her other friend Stephanie.
• 29:19
  I've been trying to get Nicole to read it.
• 29:21
  And then I'm just giving them the first one.
• 29:24
  And then that's what we need to do as you Nicole is.
• 29:26
  Cause that's what she did to me.
• 29:27
  She like forced this book on me.
• 29:28
  And I just had it on my bedside table for like a month.
• 29:32
  And I was like, final fucking read this book
• 29:34
  cause Olivia, did you read it?
• 29:35
  - Yeah.
• 29:36
  - Get your credit.
• 29:37
  - You just reading a book right now.
• 29:38
  So maybe when I'm done with this one.
• 29:40
  - Oh, you did say you were reading a book.
• 29:41
  - I did finish the one I was talking about
• 29:44
  and I started a different one.
• 29:45
  - The flight attendant book?
• 29:47
  - Yes.
• 29:47
  - Ooh.
• 29:48
  - Do you still have it?
• 29:49
  Cause maybe I want to read that.
• 29:50
  - No, no, no, I'm already happy.
• 29:52
  - No, actually it's on my work iPad.
• 29:53
  - I'm a bugger than I work iPad.
• 29:55
  - We love reading here.
• 29:56
  - Yeah, we did.
• 29:57
  - We have debated doing another book club
• 30:00
  with you guys, whether it's on like pop culture
• 30:02
  or another one that's really popular
• 30:05
  like on a book talk or something like that.
• 30:07
  So if you want to reach out to us on Instagram
• 30:10
  or leave in the reviews, say,
• 30:12
  "Hey, I would love for you guys to do this book."
• 30:14
  That would be really great.
• 30:15
  - Yeah, let us know if you're reading it.
• 30:16
  - To know that.
• 30:17
  But ultimately I am so freaking close to buying
• 30:21
  all of the Ackitars in the special edition
• 30:24
  - Cucumbers.
• 30:25
  - With them like painted and like hand-playing in your house.
• 30:28
  - Yeah, and I want them so bad.
• 30:31
  - Treat your son.
• 30:32
  - But the other thing that I've been like
• 30:33
  really wanted to buy is like your own book cover
• 30:36
  making thing.
• 30:38
  And I'm like, I would do that for a month.
• 30:40
  - Yeah, you would.
• 30:41
  - And then you would do it again.
• 30:41
  - You would become so obsessed with it.
• 30:43
  - Literally like TikTok just makes me be like,
• 30:45
  "Oh, this is gonna be my new personality."
• 30:47
  And it's like that for like a week
• 30:49
  while I'm like not depressed.
• 30:51
  And then I just never touch it again.
• 30:53
  - I think that's called a manic episode, honey.
• 30:55
  - Yeah, you know, hey, hey, we're gonna call it
• 30:57
  not depression.
• 30:58
  - I'm not depressing.
• 31:00
  We're calling that not depression.
• 31:01
  - They ate it so much.
• 31:02
  - It's a win.
• 31:03
  - I have so many things I wanna do.
• 31:04
  Maybe I'll just rot in the self of for six hours
• 31:07
  and start to talk and buy things I don't need.
• 31:09
  - I mean, that's Monday through Friday, baby.
• 31:11
  - Okay. - What do you mean?
• 31:12
  - The stupidest fucking thing that I've bought on TikTok.
• 31:15
  I got this ad for this shirt.
• 31:18
  This shirt company that's called like turn me vintage.
• 31:22
  And you send them pictures.
• 31:24
  And ads like, "I got my boyfriend, I'll share it
• 31:26
  with my face all over it."
• 31:28
  And it's supposed to look like a, like, air spray.
• 31:32
  What's the word I'm looking for?
• 31:33
  - Yeah, like the, yeah.
• 31:34
  - Yeah, yeah.
• 31:35
  - And it has your name.
• 31:36
  It has like a bunch of pictures.
• 31:37
  - A bunch of pictures.
• 31:38
  - And it's supposed to look kind of cute and vintage,
• 31:39
  right? - Mm-hmm.
• 31:40
  - And I was like, okay, this would be really cringe
• 31:42
  if I just got my face all over it and gave it to my husband.
• 31:45
  - Yeah.
• 31:46
  - So I ordered him one and I sent in like six pictures
• 31:49
  of our cat.
• 31:49
  - Of toast.
• 31:51
  - Yes, I will post this on the Instagram.
• 31:54
  It's so, it's at least pictures of like that of toast.
• 31:58
  - Yeah.
• 31:59
  - But it's so off-center.
• 32:01
  It's like way too low on the chest.
• 32:04
  - Oh, yeah. - And it's a minsture.
• 32:05
  I bought it for my husband.
• 32:07
  It's all these like pork quality images of toast.
• 32:10
  - Saggy tits toast.
• 32:12
  - Oh my God.
• 32:13
  - Oh my God.
• 32:14
  - It's so stupid.
• 32:16
  It's so stupid and I was gonna give it to him.
• 32:18
  It's like a gift or an anniversary,
• 32:20
  like a little side funny gift.
• 32:22
  But the day it showed up in the mail,
• 32:24
  I went into the office and I opened it
• 32:25
  and I just started cracking up.
• 32:27
  And I came out and I was like, I bought you this.
• 32:29
  Take it now.
• 32:31
  Just take it.
• 32:32
  And his words were,
• 32:34
  "Stop spending money on things you find on the internet."
• 32:38
  - Oh, whoa.
• 32:40
  So it says the man who works for Amazon.
• 32:42
  - That is true.
• 32:43
  But we don't get any like backlog of that base
• 32:45
  of his money.
• 32:46
  - Yeah, but I mean,
• 32:47
  he just get a W2 from it.
• 32:49
  - That's true.
• 32:50
  He does literally work for a company that is paid.
• 32:52
  - I am keeping you paid, so.
• 32:53
  - My online shopping is keeping you employed.
• 32:56
  - As Biden was saying,
• 32:57
  it's good for the economy.
• 32:58
  - It's good for the economy.
• 32:59
  - It's good for the economy.
• 33:01
  - It's a terrible Biden.
• 33:04
  - Yeah, don't buy one of those stupid term eventings.
• 33:08
  - Or just because it's hilarious.
• 33:09
  - Or it seemed good ones.
• 33:11
  - Yeah, that made it seem like it was gonna be a good one.
• 33:14
  - I don't know.
• 33:15
  I think you just got conned.
• 33:17
  - What's crazy about the TikTok shop though,
• 33:19
  is a lot of people will make a video,
• 33:22
  like an influencer.
• 33:23
  Like there's a really good example of this dress
• 33:26
  that is all over TikTok.
• 33:27
  It's a house a CB like Duke.
• 33:30
  It's that sunflower dress with the tie.
• 33:32
  - Under here, I was thinking--
• 33:33
  - Oh, like this strawberry dress they have.
• 33:35
  - Yeah, okay.
• 33:36
  - And it's super cute.
• 33:37
  It's very like cottage-cory.
• 33:38
  - I want that strawberry dress.
• 33:39
  It's a house a CB Duke.
• 33:41
  And a lot of these dropship companies
• 33:43
  were taking videos of people in the house a CB dress,
• 33:47
  which is like $400.
• 33:48
  - Yeah.
• 33:49
  - And they were saying like, oh, this is that dress.
• 33:51
  And then you would get it from the dropship company
• 33:53
  like Alibaba.
• 33:54
  - And it's just awful.
• 33:56
  - Yeah.
• 33:56
  - But it really is the wild, wild west out there.
• 33:58
  When it comes to TikTok shops,
• 34:01
  so what a lot of the time I'll do is I'll find it on TikTok shop.
• 34:04
  And then I'll just go to Amazon and find the reseller
• 34:07
  or find the seller.
• 34:08
  - Because Amazon will verify it.
• 34:10
  - Exactly.
• 34:11
  You can read the reviews, actually see if it's the legit thing.
• 34:13
  - Well, and if it's like not legit, Amazon will like
• 34:16
  force the company to not get that money.
• 34:18
  - Yeah.
• 34:19
  - Versus TikTok's shop is still kind of the wild west.
• 34:21
  - But yeah.
• 34:22
  - If the same with like Pinterest shopping,
• 34:24
  you can buy things off of Pinterest now.
• 34:26
  And I never have, 'cause I follow this girl on YouTube
• 34:29
  who does it so that the rest of us don't have to.
• 34:32
  And the shit that she gets is just kind of funny.
• 34:35
  Like you find something on Pinterest.
• 34:37
  Like that's gorgeous.
• 34:38
  And it's nothing like what you order.
• 34:40
  - Yeah.
• 34:41
  Generally I try to avoid those, 'cause I'm like,
• 34:43
  one, I'd not that's gonna eat too.
• 34:45
  - What is that?
• 34:46
  - It's not, I'm not gonna look that good in it.
• 34:48
  And then it's gonna be like horrible quality.
• 34:51
  - You're gonna look amazing in anything.
• 34:53
  - Thank you.
• 34:53
  - But yes, this is just good advice to buy quality items
• 34:57
  and not just fast influence things that you see online
• 35:01
  that are gonna fall apart in two days.
• 35:03
  - Yeah.
• 35:04
  Yeah, one thing that TikTok did,
• 35:05
  that wasn't totally consumerism for me.
• 35:08
  Is it really made me interested in rifting?
• 35:11
  - Yeah.
• 35:12
  - And so like a lot of my second hand buying
• 35:14
  and what I do came from other people teaching me
• 35:17
  how to do that.
• 35:18
  - How to find good things.
• 35:19
  - How to go through.
• 35:20
  - Diaries and they're out of fine good things.
• 35:21
  Same thing on the plants,
• 35:23
  like how to propagate my plans.
• 35:24
  'Cause I was like buying all these plans all the time.
• 35:27
  And I'm like, how are people affording this?
• 35:29
  - And they're like cutting pieces of their plants off.
• 35:31
  And then growing those into things.
• 35:33
  So yeah, I think there's good and bad where it can really lead
• 35:37
  to consumerism with TikTok shop and then doing those things.
• 35:40
  But you can really find new hobbies and things like that.
• 35:43
  - Yeah, absolutely.
• 35:44
  - It also has influenced me to buy a lot of take out.
• 35:48
  - Oh my God.
• 35:50
  - Like all these mukbangs or mukbangs, however you wanna pronounce it.
• 35:54
  - Oh my God, especially Wings Stop has been so popular.
• 35:57
  - Yeah, I mean I had Wings Stop back in Chicago.
• 35:59
  Like that was really popular,
• 36:01
  but I did not like Wings Stop growing up.
• 36:03
  - Yeah.
• 36:04
  - And I was becoming super duper popular
• 36:06
  and there's a couple that actually just opened up right
• 36:08
  by my house and so I was like, okay,
• 36:09
  I'm gonna try it out again.
• 36:11
  And it's good.
• 36:13
  - It's not like my favorite, but it's pretty decent.
• 36:16
  And just all those different types of food
• 36:18
  that are coming up on my TikTok.
• 36:20
  And I'm like, I need to save money,
• 36:24
  but I'm being very influenced.
• 36:26
  I know it's not TikTok shop, but it's very similar.
• 36:28
  - Yeah, so you can find on TikTok
• 36:31
  and then it can influence you to spend your money on.
• 36:33
  - Yeah, I'm gonna spend my money on.
• 36:34
  - I appreciate it.
• 36:35
  - I am gluten free so I can't do it,
• 36:37
  but I really, really, really wanna try those bulldog noodles.
• 36:40
  Have you seen those?
• 36:41
  - No, what's the dough?
• 36:42
  - The one in like the black and the, yes, yes.
• 36:44
  - I've been seeing so many people go.
• 36:46
  - Oh my gosh.
• 36:47
  So you should try noodles and you should describe it
• 36:50
  in very explicit detail.
• 36:52
  - I'm trying to think, by the time this comes out,
• 36:54
  I'm not giving away my location.
• 36:55
  I think by the time this comes out,
• 36:56
  I will have gone to San Jose, California,
• 36:58
  ready for an overnight for my job.
• 37:00
  - Postent and literally instinct.
• 37:02
  - Right across from an Asian market, is our hotel.
• 37:04
  - I know, I have it, yeah.
• 37:05
  - They'll probably have them.
• 37:06
  I should go do it and get some.
• 37:07
  - Do it for the ground, do it for the country.
• 37:09
  - It's like it's the 99 ranch market.
• 37:11
  And it's a big one and every,
• 37:13
  like all the fighters and I have it.
• 37:14
  - I love going there and getting through it.
• 37:16
  - I have those in Arizona.
• 37:17
  - I know this one's like super like,
• 37:19
  like right by where you gonna be.
• 37:20
  - Yeah, I know.
• 37:21
  - So I should go and see.
• 37:22
  - I want us good and then like the like,
• 37:25
  the like soup one.
• 37:26
  - Okay, we're gonna go there and do it.
• 37:27
  - We did buy the like hottest noodle challenge stuff
• 37:30
  from social media too.
• 37:31
  Like that really hot ramen.
• 37:34
  I didn't try the chip, like,
• 37:35
  but I couldn't get through that ramen.
• 37:37
  It was so hot and I like spicy food,
• 37:40
  but this was like uncomfortable.
• 37:42
  - Yeah.
• 37:43
  - So I don't know, buy your, buy stuff if you want to,
• 37:47
  but spend money on more long lasting items.
• 37:50
  - Yeah.
• 37:51
  And listeners, we wanna know what's the dumbest thing
• 37:53
  you've ever bought from TikTok.
• 37:55
  - Yeah.
• 37:56
  - From something and influence.
• 37:57
  - We're going through, yeah, by influence.
• 38:00
  Well, that about wraps up this episode of season five,
• 38:04
  episode one.
• 38:05
  We wanted to keep it a little bit light coming back
• 38:07
  and just kind of catching up with you guys,
• 38:09
  but let's tell everyone where they can go ahead
• 38:11
  and find it.
• 38:13
  - You can find me, Nicole, on Instagram and TikTok
• 38:15
  at @nicole_eldridge
• 38:18
  - You can find me, Shauna on Instagram,
• 38:21
  and TikTok @ShaunaTrinidad, SHAUNATRINIDAD.
• 38:28
  And you can find me, Olivia, on Instagram @livimariez
• 38:33
  and on TikTok @livyolife420
• 38:40
  And then you can find the Pop Culture Junkie podcast
• 38:43
  at popculturejunkie.com
• 38:45
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• 38:47
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