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Things You’re Wasting Money On Without Realising · Two Broke Chicks

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  Speaker 1: This podcast is recorded on Gadigal land. Always was, always
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  Speaker 1: will be Aboriginal land.
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  Speaker 2: Hey chicks, I'm Al. And I'm Sal.
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  Speaker 1: And this is Two Broke Chicks, the show that shares life.
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  Speaker 3: Lessons and tips to make you rich in life.
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  Speaker 1: And today we bring you a sexy little episode on
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  Speaker 1: the conspiracy theories costing you money. These are the things
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  Speaker 1: that you've been told, old wives tales, myths, legends. But
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  Speaker 1: are they actually true? Not so much.
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  Speaker 3: And they're actually costing you more money than you think.
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  Speaker 1: But before we get into the episode, of course, we
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  Speaker 1: have to talk about our obsessions of the week. So
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  Speaker 1: Sally Bally loved my life. What you got for me?
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  Speaker 1: Also love that we're both wearing band tees today.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, what one are you wearing?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, nice.
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  Speaker 2: Wrapping some warrant.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Sweet.
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  Speaker 3: Very off campus with you.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Very true. Very true. On trend. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: My obsession of the week is that Dyson has released
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  Speaker 4: an $ 800 toothbrush.
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  Speaker 2: The toothbrush is called.
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  Speaker 4: The Dyson Camera Jet. So apparently this toothbrush uses a
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  Speaker 4: 100K pixel macro lens with a light.
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  Speaker 2: And it's powered by the company's.
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  Speaker 4: AI algorithm that analyzes 28 live images per second to
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  Speaker 4: detect gaps between teeth within 100 milliseconds. It then shoots
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  Speaker 4: a burst of mouth rinse at the gap to floss
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  Speaker 4: your teeth. And because it also connects to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth,
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  Speaker 4: you can use the camera as an endoscope to see
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  Speaker 4: a live view.
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  Speaker 2: In the brushes, live viewing or auto jet modes.
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  Speaker 4: So you can basically like get a zoomed in close
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  Speaker 4: up look at your teeth while you're brushing them. In
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  Speaker 4: the app, you can also say coverage maps, guided cleaning,
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  Speaker 4: brushing and flossing insights, and also get feedback. It comes
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  Speaker 4: in a ceramic ultra blue and a ceramic pink. And
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  Speaker 4: it also comes with two regular brush heads and a
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  Speaker 4: charging dock and charging cable and a travel case. But
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  Speaker 4: I just want to ask the dentists out there, like,
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  Speaker 4: do we actually need this? Because I feel like I
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  Speaker 4: go between using a mix of like an analog toothbrush,
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  Speaker 4: a water pick, just regular floss. And then sometimes I'll
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  Speaker 4: use an electric toothbrush.
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  Speaker 2: But every time I go to the dentist, like.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't have any feelings or anything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't think anyone really needs this product. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Do I really want to try it?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Would you actually look into the data and, like, follow
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  Speaker 4: the tips and guides, do you think, though?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so.
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  Speaker 1: Like, I barely remember to brush my teeth some days,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Like, I have to have my toothbrush in
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  Speaker 1: the shower and it's like, it's me, I'm here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, like, you know, that's just on the way my
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  Speaker 3: brain works.
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  Speaker 1: But, like. Yeah, it looks really cool, but the thing
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  Speaker 1: is Dyson, like I watched the video and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: fuck Dyson know how to make an ad.
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  Speaker 2: They do. Because I was like, that's really cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And like I would love to try it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, maybe we just need to take one for
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  Speaker 1: the team for the girlies and like trial it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But like I don't think there is any universe that
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be going to someone, you need this toothbrush. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like that's wild, but– I also agree. Like I've just
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  Speaker 1: been kind of manual for, I also go between using
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  Speaker 1: an electric and using a manual and my teeth are fine.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know whether or not this isn't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: a need.
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  Speaker 2: I know, but definitely fascinating. It's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I think I saw a post from Girl Boss Town
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  Speaker 1: and she was saying how like dental is going to
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  Speaker 1: be the next industry to get like beautified essentially. We've
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  Speaker 1: also seen like toothpaste brand come out with vitamin C toothpaste.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And like treating your toothpaste like skincare. And I'm very like,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't tried it. I don't know the science behind it.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it works a treat.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm like, I would just go back to minty
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  Speaker 1: toothpaste and the toothbrush. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I need to know. Any dentists or oral hygienists listening? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Sound off in the comments, please.
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  Speaker 1: I feel, though, like when you were describing being like
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  Speaker 1: when it sees a gap, it'll floss it. Is that
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  Speaker 1: like as you're brushing it?
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  Speaker 3: I feel like that would be too much going.
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  Speaker 1: On in my mouth.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That I would get overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I kind of feel like that with a water
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  Speaker 4: pick anyway.
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  Speaker 2: I hate water picks. Like I have to brace myself. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: literally brace me. Like they're good. They do the job.
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  Speaker 4: But especially because I've got like a retainer, I use
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  Speaker 4: like the combo of water pick and floss.
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  Speaker 1: But stressful.
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  Speaker 4: Stressful.
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  Speaker 3: Too stressful.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like it.
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  Speaker 4: And yet we'll probably try it and we'll let you
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  Speaker 4: know how we go.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm like, we can take one for the team.
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  Speaker 1: But then again, as well, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: if we're like, it's amazing, we love it. What are
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  Speaker 1: you going to do? Exactly. Like, I'm sure it's probably
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  Speaker 1: going to be mind blowing, but like, do you need it?
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  Speaker 3: Probably need it.
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  Speaker 1: My obsession of the week is the new hourglass ambient
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  Speaker 1: lighting holiday palettes have officially been revealed. However... These have
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  Speaker 1: been a viral sensation year on year. I know the
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  Speaker 1: term viral gets thrown around a lot with product launches,
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  Speaker 1: but this one is truly like the girls are lining
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  Speaker 1: up on the day they drop. We have predicted when
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  Speaker 1: they drop in stores each year, and every time we
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  Speaker 1: do a video like that, it gets so many views,
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  Speaker 1: and people really, really love these palettes. I've had a
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  Speaker 1: couple of them over the years, and they are genuinely beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: They're quite expensive, that I do feel like I'm slowly
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  Speaker 1: beginning to get priced out of how much I love them. However,
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  Speaker 1: they revealed them this year. And I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: it's just the fact that they've, you know, it's another year,
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  Speaker 1: another palette, but there's nothing blowing my mind about them.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what I think it is? What is it?
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  Speaker 4: It's because they released those, the palettes with the charms
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  Speaker 4: earlier this year. And I know that when they launched
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  Speaker 4: into Australia earlier this year, you could go to like pop-ups.
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  Speaker 4: And I think maybe at select Sephora's you could get
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  Speaker 4: the charms that you can like attach and customize so
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  Speaker 4: I just feel like maybe it isn't really offering anything
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  Speaker 4: super new whereas I do think that of course the
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  Speaker 4: the product is very very important people always looking forward
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  Speaker 4: to the actual product but I do think that it's
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  Speaker 4: the design of the packaging that people are most excited
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  Speaker 4: to see and that's the reason why they want that
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  Speaker 4: because it looks beautiful like in their makeup bag or
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  Speaker 4: I do think it's part of it. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: But like as someone who has bought one, like it
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  Speaker 1: lasts forever.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I still have mine from last year.
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  Speaker 3: You don't need to buy a new one every year, right?
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  Speaker 1: So that's like definitely one thing that I would say
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  Speaker 1: is like don't fall into like if you bought one
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  Speaker 1: last year and it's already kicking, like you don't need
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  Speaker 1: to buy a new one. But there's also rumors of
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  Speaker 1: like another drop of, of palettes, right?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I saw that on Trend Mood.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it kind of looks more like a face and
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  Speaker 1: eyeshadow palette. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Which would be cool, I think.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Because then it's actually adding like an element of
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  Speaker 4: interest to it.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: This is something a little bit different that I'm like, yeah, cool.
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  Speaker 1: Like now we're like reinventing the wheel a little bit
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  Speaker 1: because like after they've done it for, you know, three
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  Speaker 1: or four years and they've gone gangbusters, I'm like, let's
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  Speaker 1: mix it up a little bit. So that I'm obsessed with.
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  Speaker 1: That I'm like, I want to see more. But how
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  Speaker 1: do you guys feel about the Hourglass palettes? Like, do
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  Speaker 1: you feel like they're exciting still? Do you want to
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  Speaker 1: see something a little bit different from the brand? Or
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  Speaker 1: are you just obsessed with the cover girl dupe like
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  Speaker 1: I am?
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  Speaker 3: Because I love that girl.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, on that note, shall we get into the episode?
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Our first conspiracy cab off the rank.
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  Speaker 4: Planned obsolescence is the reason why my phone breaks just
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  Speaker 4: before a new product launch.
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  Speaker 2: But the truth is this one's a.
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  Speaker 4: Tricky one because it kind of is like half truth,
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  Speaker 4: half not. Because I do think that, yes, planned obsolescence
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  Speaker 4: is a thing, but also we do need to do
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  Speaker 4: more research and take better care of what we own.
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  Speaker 4: Can you walk it back a bit for us?
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  Speaker 2: What is planned obsolescence? It's a tongue twister.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I also was like going back to Drag Race
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  Speaker 1: being like opulence.
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  Speaker 2: You own everything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Every time.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So plan obsolescence is, you know, like I was saying that,
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  Speaker 4: conversation around like, oh, a new laptop is about to launch.
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  Speaker 4: And all of a sudden mine is feels like it's
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  Speaker 4: going really slow or I'm having some issues with it
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  Speaker 4: or a new phone is about to launch. And all
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  Speaker 4: of a sudden my battery's like gone to shit. And
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  Speaker 4: I feel like the camera doesn't work.
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  Speaker 2: As it used to.
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  Speaker 4: And part of me was always like, oh, this is
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  Speaker 4: a placebo. And it's just like these things that I
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  Speaker 4: feel like I'm convincing myself.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we would get like I don't even
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  Speaker 1: know who's saying it but how often we would be like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: their technology is designed to only last one year or
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  Speaker 1: two years so that when the new one launches, your
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  Speaker 1: one breaks and they're all on a master motherboard and.
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  Speaker 3: They all go, you're done.
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  Speaker 4: They press a red button and all of the phones break.
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  Speaker 2: At the same time.
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  Speaker 4: So, yeah, that kind of phenomenon is explained by plan
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  Speaker 4: obsolescence and it refers to a genuine business strategy and
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  Speaker 4: in which manufacturers intentionally design products with like a limited
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  Speaker 4: useful lifespan before they break down or become outdated or
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  Speaker 4: stop working after a set period. Or potentially it's like
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  Speaker 4: when they're mapping out the next product while they're working
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  Speaker 4: on the one that's about to drop, they know that
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  Speaker 4: the next one is going to be slightly better or
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  Speaker 4: they're going to, you know, upgrade these things ever so
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  Speaker 4: slightly so that within like two or three years when
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  Speaker 4: the next one drops or whenever it is, you feel
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  Speaker 4: like you need to buy.
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  Speaker 2: The next one. And for... So long, I was like,
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  Speaker 2: that's not true.
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  Speaker 4: It's a conspiracy. But apparently there is some truth in it.
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  Speaker 1: Has someone been busted doing it?
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  Speaker 4: Well, in France earlier this year, they've criminalized planned obsolescence
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  Speaker 4: in a step to protect consumers and also the environment.
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  Speaker 1: Name and shame, you dirty dogs.
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  Speaker 4: I know. And I saw that this is also something
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  Speaker 4: that I think in Ireland they're planning on doing as well.
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  Speaker 4: So I'll be interested to see how that rolls out
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  Speaker 4: and impacts, like, the different products that are being launched.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I thought that was really interesting because when you're.
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  Speaker 4: Thinking, oh, they just don't make things the way that
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  Speaker 4: they used to. Like, yes, you sound like your dad,
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  Speaker 4: but also there is some.
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  Speaker 2: Truth to that. And I think that's the thing, like,
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  Speaker 2: it's frustrating, right?
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  Speaker 4: Knowing that that is like a thing that is built in.
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  Speaker 4: But I do also think that there are some things
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  Speaker 4: that shoppers can do to either overcome plant obsolescence or
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  Speaker 4: just buy products in general with a priority for the
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  Speaker 4: long term. So the solution here, I've got a couple
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  Speaker 4: of tips, I think. The first one is read real
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  Speaker 4: customer reviews. So when like a new product launches, I
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  Speaker 4: think a lot of us are like, oh, like I
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  Speaker 4: want to get it straight away. I want to jump
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  Speaker 4: on and like upgrade.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: If you genuinely need to upgrade your phone or your
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  Speaker 4: laptop or your fridge, whatever it is, that's fine. But
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  Speaker 4: if you can wait, do that. Like give people the
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  Speaker 4: chance to actually use the products first and go online
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  Speaker 4: and read genuine Because a lot of the time, like
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  Speaker 4: when reviews first drop, their first impressions, they might be
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  Speaker 4: paid collaborations with the brand. And also if your priority
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  Speaker 4: is longevity, you're probably not going to get that sort
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  Speaker 4: of information in like a first impressions review. So I
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  Speaker 4: do think that looking at product reviews on websites or
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  Speaker 4: TikToks or jumping into forums, going on Reddit is where
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  Speaker 4: you'll be able to find like more authentic reviews.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think as well you can even say like sometimes
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  Speaker 1: on brands' websites, like the reviews will be an exchange
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  Speaker 1: for products. Like brands send, especially when things launch at first,
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  Speaker 1: they send it to like groups of people. And like
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  Speaker 1: they're not influencers, they're not creators, but they're like review
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  Speaker 1: boards essentially where people sign up to get products to
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  Speaker 1: review them. Yeah. And so those, you know, reviews are
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  Speaker 1: also a lot of the time they're from those like
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  Speaker 1: panels of people who test the products. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, totally.
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  Speaker 4: I was going to say that I feel like that's
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  Speaker 4: exactly what's happened with the Dyson toothbrush.
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  Speaker 2: What, there are reviews already?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, like there's already been publications sharing reviews. I
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  Speaker 4: guess they got early access to the products. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: which makes sense. Like that is, you know, how they
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  Speaker 4: get the word out about how these things work.
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  Speaker 2: But I do think that.
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  Speaker 4: If you can hold off and wait until some of
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  Speaker 4: those like genuine customer reviews come in, that's definitely a
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  Speaker 4: good first step. Also, don't be afraid to repair and
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  Speaker 4: reuse your items as well. Like so many of us,
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  Speaker 4: something breaks and we're like, oh, well, that's done. Like
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  Speaker 4: we couldn't be bothered going to the little bit of
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  Speaker 4: effort that it takes to maybe do some research to
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  Speaker 4: see how you could potentially repair it yourself or take
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  Speaker 4: it to like a repair service. Or there's like community
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  Speaker 4: groups and stuff that you can do swaps and like
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  Speaker 4: and do repairs, which we've spoken.
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  Speaker 2: About on the show before.
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  Speaker 1: And you can even just like see like do the
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  Speaker 1: cost analysis like if you've had a phone for five
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  Speaker 1: years and it breaks and the cost to repair it
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  Speaker 1: you know is close to the cost of getting a
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  Speaker 1: new one then like yeah that makes sense.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah exactly which is always frustrating but it's it's worth
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  Speaker 4: looking at that that cost comparison also buying secondhand and
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  Speaker 4: refurbished items like where you can when I've first moved out,
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  Speaker 4: I feel like so many of the things that I bought,
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  Speaker 4: like my fridge, my microwave, so much of my furniture was,
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  Speaker 4: and like my TV, like these were all things that
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  Speaker 4: I bought secondhand. And then I just kept for, you know,
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  Speaker 4: 10 or so years before I needed to upgrade them
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  Speaker 4: and saved a lot of money there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I bought my, um, Dyson Airwrap secondhand marketplace for
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  Speaker 1: like 300 bucks.
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  Speaker 3: And it was from like Some chick who.
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  Speaker 1: You know, she just had a baby and she was like,
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  Speaker 1: I just don't use it.
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  Speaker 3: It just sits there collecting dust. And I'm like, I
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  Speaker 3: can't be fucked to do my hair. And I was like,
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  Speaker 3: so fair.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: And it was literally so old. It lasted so long.
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  Speaker 1: And like, I really feel like we need to bring
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  Speaker 1: back like running our shit into the ground.
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, I love those products where. They are
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  Speaker 1: like that. I do think the Dyson Airwrap is like
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  Speaker 1: that after just slagging off their toothbrush.
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  Speaker 3: For five minutes.
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  Speaker 1: But like Dyson Airwrap, my original one, that lasted like
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  Speaker 1: a solid, I think it was like seven years old.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Or something like that. And also like Kindles, those last ages. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And like earlier this year, like Amazon announced that they
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  Speaker 1: like Kindles that were older than 2014, I think, roughly
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  Speaker 1: around that time and earlier like those would stop working
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  Speaker 1: alongside like the new software updates that they were doing.
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  Speaker 1: And like it was really annoying and frustrating because if
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  Speaker 1: you've got a Kindle and you're like, cool, so now
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  Speaker 1: you're forcing me to buy a new one. But alongside
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  Speaker 1: being devil's advocate on the other side of that, I
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  Speaker 1: was like a product that's been kicking for 12 years,
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  Speaker 1: like you've gotten.
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  Speaker 3: Your money's worth out of that. That's a solid stint.
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  Speaker 1: It's annoying that it got– the stint got– cut short
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  Speaker 1: because someone was like it's not gonna work anymore yeah
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  Speaker 1: but like products like that where it's like love.
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: That yeah yeah those real like ride or dies yeah yeah.
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: Like the nokias of the world oh my god you
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: could build a house with nokias honestly i reckon that
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: would be more stable than a brick house yeah boy
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: literally bring back the.
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: Nokia i know bring her back oh Also choosing modular brands.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: So depending on the product, but you can, I guess,
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: prioritize your purchases by companies that design the products with
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: easily replaceable parts. So like batteries that you can buy
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: again or, you know, like the different attachments that you
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: can actually buy separately. Like have a look at that
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: if you can't and you're going to have to buy
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: the entire product again if you like lose a part
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: or whatever.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Maybe don't go with that.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: But also warranty.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah that too like most tech items should come with
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: some kind of warranty as well yeah yeah totally like
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: if something's breaking in the first year that you bought
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: it and they're even trying to argue there's no warranty
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: i would be such an asshole in those emails i'd
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: be like no sorry like i've paid 400 for this
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: you are replacing.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: It yeah yeah absolutely that's what happened.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: With our rings Yeah.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Like both our Oura Ring's battery, there must have been
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: some like faulty badge. Yeah. And like your battery, my
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: battery and Rob's Ring's battery all went kaput and then
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: they like just replaced it and it's been fine ever since.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: But yeah.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: What happened there?
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: But also I think that something that we all can
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: do is just take better care of the things that
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: you own, you know. Like I do think that it's,
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: I'm not putting the entire onus on consumers. I do
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: think that the criminalisation of plant obsolescence is definitely a
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: good thing.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: But I think across the.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: Board that we need to look at our purchases and
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: the things that we own as less disposable than we
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: currently do. Whether it's like your tech items or your
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: clothes or your appliances, like look at things like the
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: maintenance guidelines or the washing instructions and the proper like
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: cleaning and storing of because if you're not doing those things,
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: like you're kind of just asking for them not to
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: last as long even as they're designed to, let alone
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: trying to extend.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: The lifespan of the things that you own.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: So I think that's definitely something that we all can
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: take on a little bit more.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Okay, moving on to the next conspiracy theory. is
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: every new version of you needs a starter pack and
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: the buyer's remorse that comes with it.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: So the truth is you.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Basically, you don't need to buy something new to start
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: something new. So data tells us that the average Australian
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: spends $ 81 a week on unplanned impulse purchases, which roughly.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Gets to around $ 4, 212 a year.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: That's a lot of money.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: But it kind of, this conspiracy zooms out. Into this
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: thing that I came across this week that I found
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: very interesting and I was like, okay, guilty. So this
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: is called gear acquisition syndrome. And it started as a
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: term used by musicians who constantly felt the need to
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: buy new instruments and equipments to like hone their craft.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: But the same behavior can show up across heaps of hobbies.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: And I saw the creator Orin John discussing this in
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: the now viral video with over 600,000 views. So it's
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: obviously resonated with a lot of people. And it's the
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: constant urge to buy and own and upgrade items, equipment,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: or hobby tools under the false belief that new items
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: will instantly bring happiness or make you better. at whatever
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: you're trying to achieve. So to put it in the
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: simplest terms, like if you want to try Pilates, you
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: go out and buy a new matching set before you
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: even go to a class. Or if you want to
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: read more books, you spend hundreds of dollars on an
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: e-reader that, you Or you want to cook more, so
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: you go and get like a Le Creuset Dutch oven
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: and a KitchenAid and new stainless steel pots and pans
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: before you've even learned a new recipe, right? And that's
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: where the buyer's remorse of this can kind of kick in,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: is buying the equipment gives us the immediate feeling that
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: we've made progress towards becoming that person before we've.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Actually even done anything.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: You're like, God, I'm good.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Because when we buy something.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Our brain gets a dopamine hit. When we do something,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: our brain gets a dopamine hit. So by buying the thing,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: your brain is thinking we've done the thing.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: So now we don't need to do it anymore.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: We're done.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Oh my God.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Yay.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Congratulations. We went to the polite spot. No, we didn't.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: We lie. We lie to ourselves. We lie.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: And research and community discussions show that you know, researching,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: buying and unboxing new items gives the brain that quick
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: hit of satisfaction, which is.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Similar to doing the actual activity.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: That's so fucked. I am so guilty of this.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Lock me up now.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Honestly.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And like the thing is the Pilates phase lasts
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: three weeks, even if you get there, the KitchenAid sits
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: untouched and you're left with all this stuff that's like
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: around your house that you're looking at it being like, oh,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: that was so expensive.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know where to put that. oh, why
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: did I buy that? Like that was such a waste
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: of money.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: And a lot of people report being stuck in the
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: cycle of see, want, buy, regret. And in a survey
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: in 2022, it found that almost 60% of us feel
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: guilty about our spending, but it doesn't have to be
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: that way. So buyer's remorse comes from how we see
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: the purchase and if it aligns with our values and expectations.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: So instead of buying the thing before you do the thing,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the solution here is to kind of flip the order
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: a little bit. And there's this thing called like a
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: habit reward loop, which there's been lots of people that
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: talk about it online. The first time I came across
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: it was in Atomic Habits by James Clear, who, viral book,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: we all have heard of it. But the habit reward
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: loop is this proven psychological method that kind of allows
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: you to keep the promises you make to yourself. And
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: rather than buying the reward– it's like being like– when
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: your mum would say, when you do your homework, you
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: can have ice cream. Yeah. And then it's what we
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: do now. It's basically your mum giving you the ice
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: cream and then saying, now can you do your homework?
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: And you're like, but I got the ice cream. Yeah,
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: you're like– I don't want to do the homework. Now
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: I got the thing I wanted.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, where's the motivation now? Exactly.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: So like rather than buying the matching Pilates set to
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: motivate yourself, do 10 classes first– And then reward yourself
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: with the set. Read 10 books before upgrading to the e-reader.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Cook dinner at home or learn five new recipes before
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: buying the Dutch oven. Run consistently for a month before
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: getting a garment or new trainers. Like buying the thing
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: will not make you do the thing. And that is
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: something I'm still learning to this day.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, honestly, I think that's a tough one. I think
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: the other thing as well is not only is it
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: a waste of money and you get that buyer's remorse,
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: But it's also like demotivating when you look around your
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: apartment and.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: You see all of your failed hobbies just sitting.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: There staring back at you.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Whereas if you actually gave them a chance to see
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: if you like them, either you would realize, you know what,
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: like this isn't for me.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to follow through.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: And then you don't buy the thing or you do
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: it enough that it becomes a habit and then you
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: get to reward yourself with the thing.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Because I'm like that's fair enough if you start Pilates.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: And you– want to buy some new active wear, but
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: you need to genuinely use it.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: So exactly.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: You got to get the proof in the pudding first.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Exactly. So you need to teach your brain, I do
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: the behavior first, then I get the reward second, because
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: the purchase.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Becomes evidence that you actually enjoy the habit.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: And rather than an expensive bet on the person you
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: hope you'll become, you.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Essentially already become the person.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: And I do think as well, when you do the
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: hobby or you do the thing, you can probably end
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: up realizing half the shit you thought you needed to buy.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: You probably actually don't need literally like you can kind
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: of fall down the rabbit hole of like, and also
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: the researching part of it comes into this like gear
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: acquisition syndrome. Like, I don't know about you, but I
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: feel like I also get gassed when I'm like, I'm
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: going to get a new hair care routine. I don't know.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: I'm just plugging something out of my butt, but like,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: And then you go down the rabbit hole of researching
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: all the best ones and saving all the products and
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: like all the, all the things that you're putting into
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: a spreadsheet. No one probably shops like that. I'm just
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: probably mental, but like that also gives you the dopamine
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: hit of thinking you did the thing.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: It gives you that sense of achievement. Like look at
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: all this work I've put in and I found this
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: discount code and I bundled it with this. I saved
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: this like, Those are all great things.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: I am she, she is me.
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: And it's like you can still get that dopamine hit
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: and you can still enjoy all of those things but
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: with greater longevity and without the buyer's remorse if you
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: do the thing first and realize you actually like it.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I did a thing.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: It's all that's in my head. Do the thing.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Do the thing. Do the thing. Do the thing.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: I do love the do the thing though.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Do the thing.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Just a girl.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: That likes doing things.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: As we always say, so many of these things we
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: have fallen victim to. to ourselves so 100 yeah okay
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: next conspiracy okay the conspiracy you need to wash your
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: hair once a week and cut it every two months
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: okay the truth it actually depends on your hair type
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: yeah so over washing your hair and over cutting it
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: can cost upwards of 215 annually obviously depending on the
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: hair salon and the hair products that are used 215 annually.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Where's everyone getting their hair cut? Can you send me
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: the link?
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: I think that would be like the extra money that
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: you would spend on top. So it's like it's not
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: that $ 250, it costs $ 250. It's like you're spending more.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: That's like one haircut.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: You're spending $ 215.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: More than you need to.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: Oh. Yeah, because you're overwashing and overcutting.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: I've been walked back now. Yeah, yeah. I was like.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I've been scammed. I've been stung by
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: a wasp. I've been stung by a wasp.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: But the thing is that's confusing is that some people
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: say that you should wash your hair every day and
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: then other people say that, you know, they wash.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Their hair once a week.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: How often do you wash your hair?
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: I wash my hair twice a week.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I used to wash it every day.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Oh my God, you poor thing.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then I walked it back.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's like sometimes there's certain hair types that like
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: do need to have more frequent washing.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think that's the thing is knowing your
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: hair type and doing that research because also then like
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: you add on going to the salon and the lines
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: become even more blurred. Like how often are you supposed
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: to go? How often are you really supposed to get
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: a haircut? And like I was saying, the simple answer
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: is that it really depends on your hair type.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: How many haircuts have you had this year?
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: I get my hair cut like once or twice a year.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you do. And, like, you've got the longest hair
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: in the world.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: And, like, the thing is as well, I think.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: In the best way.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: I could. Yeah, and that's the thing.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: Like, I do think that it really depends because I
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: also bleach. Like, I use bleach on my hair and
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: I use heat styling on it almost every single day.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: You are the symbol that every hair is. Lesson I've
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: ever been told is propaganda. No, it's also, again, it's
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: also like I think you just have magic hair. But
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: like you heat style your hair, I would say, close
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: to every day.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Also correct me if any of these are wrong.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: You bleach your hair maybe like twice a year.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Roughly.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: And you never get it cut.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: And you have the longest, healthiest, most beautiful hair in
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: the world. And I'm like. Makes sense of that.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: Someone riddle me that.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: It's very interesting.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: But I want to share, like, a breakdown for washing
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: your hair based on your hair type. So for fine
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: hair and if you have an oily scalp, it's okay
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: to wash your hair every day to get rid of
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: oil and product buildup. For coarse hair and a dry scalp,
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: wash your hair less often. Consider every five days to
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: a week to avoid stripping your hair of its natural
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: oils and moisture. If you have dandruff, washing daily can
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: help control it since you're removing the yeast that causes it.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: But just be sure that you're using a shampoo that
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: clarifies the scalp without stripping out the moisture because I
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: think that can lead to like the dryness in the
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: scalp as well.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: But everybody should consider.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: These things before changing their hair wash schedule, your hair type,
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: your scalp conditions, exercise, like if you go to the
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: gym often, and also the products that you're using. Because
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: that's the thing, like when I used to wash my
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: hair every day, I was using product in my hair
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: every day.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Whereas now I.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: Like hardly ever use products. Like I'll use a hair
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: oil on the ends and like a spray, but I'm
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: not really using product on the roots.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: That much.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: And then when it comes to cutting your hair, this
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: also depends on two factors, the length and the counterintuitive,
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: but the shorter your hair, the more maintenance that it needs.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: I think it's because like, if you've got shorter hair,
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: then you probably have like a shorter style that needs
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: to be cut more often. So you would like, it
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: would be normal to get a trim every six weeks.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: If you have short hair, then medium length hair, get
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: a trim every six to 12 weeks. And then long hair,
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: if you are prone to flyaways and split ends, they
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: do say eight to 10 weeks. And if you have strong,
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: healthy hair every 10 to 12 weeks.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: So that's like every two to three months.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: And for cutting your hair, there was a little helpful
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: hack that I got told from a hairstylist. And it's
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: that if you hold up your hair, wherever you like,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: like if you're holding up the ends of your hair
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: and you pinch it between two fingers, if it's falling over,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: like flopping over to the side, that means that part
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: of the hair is healthy. Once it starts standing up
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: straight and not moving, that's where the hair has kind
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: of become deader hair.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: I mean, all your hair is dead.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: But like split ends, that's where you could probably do
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: with a trim. So if you're holding your hair up
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: and it's all flopping over and it's gorgeous, starting amazing, right,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: you don't need a haircut. If it's like two centimeters
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: of standing up straight, you probably still don't need a haircut.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: You know, so using that method has helped me to
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: realize like whether or not I really do need to
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: cut as much off. Um, as you know, sometimes we
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: get told, cause we've all been sitting in the chair
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: and we've been like just a trim.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: And then you walk out with a bulb and you're like,
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: what happened?
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: And yeah, I think that's the thing.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: Like these are all like general tips, but listen to
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: your hair and just follow what is right for your hair.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: Because like I was saying, I get my haircut twice
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: a year and sometimes I'll go and I'll be like,
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: do I need a haircut?
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: And she's like, not really.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: She's like, I'll do a little like trim on the
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: end so that it looks a little bit more even.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: And she was like, but in terms of your hair health,
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: like you're fine. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. And our final conspiracy theory is seasonal colors. So
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  Speaker 1: seasonal colors aren't scientifically proven to be effective or even
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  Speaker 1: a thing.
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  Speaker 3: They kind of made up.
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  Speaker 1: So Australians spend between $ 2, 200 and $ 2, 500 annually on new
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: clothes and footwear to upgrade their wardrobes, including in between seasons.
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  Speaker 1: I think most of us listening would know if I
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  Speaker 1: said to you autumn colors or summer colors, like Autumn colors,
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  Speaker 1: you're picturing Gilmore Girls. Summer colors, you're picturing Zara Larsson. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And like the seasonal color palettes and trends were actually
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  Speaker 1: introduced through nail polish.
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  Speaker 3: History lesson.
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  Speaker 1: Love it.
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  Speaker 3: I love shit like this.
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  Speaker 1: So seasonal nail polish colors actually came through in the
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  Speaker 1: 1930s when a French makeup artist, Michelle Menard, created nail
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  Speaker 1: lacquer from the same ingredient used for car paint.
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  Speaker 2: That is crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Right? Then Revlon perfected the formula and started making nail
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  Speaker 1: polish shades that matched seasonal colors in fashion and in lipstick,
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  Speaker 1: thus creating the first example of seasonal color coordination. And
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  Speaker 1: the reason for this is kind of similar-ish to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what we were talking about with technology before. And it's
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  Speaker 1: how if, you know, we say red's the color and
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  Speaker 1: we're like red's amazing, red's the best nail polish color.
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  Speaker 1: When I buy one bottle of red nail polish, I,
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  Speaker 1: as a customer, am now tapped out. I don't need
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  Speaker 1: to buy anything else now. But if now you're saying
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  Speaker 1: no red for summer, blue for winter, well, now I
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  Speaker 1: need to go and get a blue nail polish.
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  Speaker 3: And that's kind of how this.
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  Speaker 1: Works because yes, it's fun to wear your florals in spring,
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  Speaker 1: your pastels, and then your earthy tones in autumn, but
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  Speaker 1: there's actually no scientific evidence that these colors make you
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  Speaker 1: look better during those times of year and we've actually
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  Speaker 1: kind of seen the modernized version of this go forward
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  Speaker 1: even more with like color analysis and as much as
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  Speaker 1: like you know I definitely look at people sometimes and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like that is definitely your color like that is
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  Speaker 1: absolutely amazing I do think with color analysis has come
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  Speaker 1: this idea of being like, throw out your entire wardrobe
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  Speaker 1: and you need to buy a completely new one.
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  Speaker 2: In these four colors. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And in 2017, there were actually participants who were asked
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  Speaker 1: to judge their preferences of a set number of colors
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  Speaker 1: during winter, summer, spring, and autumn. And the results indicated
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  Speaker 1: that color preferences change dynamically as people experience change over time.
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  Speaker 1: rather than being strictly dictated by seasons in the year.
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  Speaker 1: So the study also found that the fact that preferences
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  Speaker 1: differ systematically over seasons alludes to an influence from fashion,
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  Speaker 1: which builds seasonal variations.
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  Speaker 3: Into color palettes.
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  Speaker 1: So my point here is, if you like a color,
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  Speaker 1: wear it. You don't have to kind of buy a
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  Speaker 1: completely new wardrobe. just because the season is changing and
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  Speaker 1: we're heading into spring in australia now and the northern
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: hemisphere is heading into autumn that it's like yes we
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  Speaker 1: can have our different sections of our wardrobe for obviously
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  Speaker 1: the season of temperature yeah for practicality exactly but you
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  Speaker 1: don't need to do a complete reinvention of like who
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  Speaker 1: you are per season and simply because of the colours
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  Speaker 1: that that season represents.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Like it's okay to wear black in summer and baby
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  Speaker 4: blue in winter. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: 100%. Yeah. Love it.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, wear whatever makes you feel comfortable and whatever
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  Speaker 1: makes you feel confident and seasonal colours are a conspiracy.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: It's all a conspiracy. We're here with like that meme
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  Speaker 1: of the guy in front of the whiteboard with all
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: the red string.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, literally.
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  Speaker 3: But how interesting is that about the nail polish?
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 4: I can't believe that it came from car paint. Why
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: doesn't it stay on longer then? Riddle me that.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably not car paint.
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  Speaker 3: We're like, bring back the car paint.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That will never, ever, ever, ever, ever come off.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, literally. That's like, why does nail polish on your
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: toes last a million times longer than the nail polish
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  Speaker 1: on your hands?
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  Speaker 2: Got a good rec for it.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: Someone answered that conspiracy.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it does.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's because you're using your hands in water
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: and shit more often.
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: No, no, no.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: It's all a conspiracy. It is. It's all a conspiracy.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Well, that's a wrap for today's episode of Two Broke Chicks.
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  Speaker 4: Chicks. Chicks. Fabulous.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having us at eHoles. We love to be here.
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  Speaker 4: Bye. Bye. Bye.