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Coming Soon: Don't Pack Your Bikini · Don't Pack Your Bikini

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  SPEAKER_03: Don't pack your bikini has no script on purpose.
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  SPEAKER_03: Sometimes we have a topic with amazing women that will leave you inspired, or at least not feeling like you're alone.
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  SPEAKER_03: Sometimes it's just our Disney friends getting together to laugh because real life isn't scripted or contrived.
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  SPEAKER_03: It just sort of dumps out all over the place from what was that neatly organized and well-prepared suitcase intended for a perfect life journey that maybe didn't turn out so perfect.
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  SPEAKER_03: We invite you to listen in and subscribe as we launch Don't Pack Your Bikini this October.
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  SPEAKER_03: Until then, here are a few clips from our upcoming episodes.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know that moment when you're about to pack your favorite bikini.
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  SPEAKER_03: But some part of you knows you're not gonna use it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we know that feeling.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm Polly.
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  SPEAKER_04: And I'm Jennifer.
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  SPEAKER_04: We started as Disney interns and found a friendship that survived hurricanes, heartbreaks, career pivots, and everything life decided to throw at us.
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  SPEAKER_03: Welcome to Don't Pack Your Bikini.
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  SPEAKER_03: Real conversations with women who have the receipts for lives that didn't go according to plan.
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  SPEAKER_04: It's messier, harder, funnier, and honestly, so much more interesting than anything you could have packed for.
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  SPEAKER_03: No filters and no pretending it was always graceful.
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  SPEAKER_03: So grab a glass of wine and your comfiest pajamas.
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  SPEAKER_03: Because here's what we do know.
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  SPEAKER_03: The bikini was never the point.
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  SPEAKER_04: That's a whole other story when we grow up and we hear things.
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  SPEAKER_04: Like my family, they have said from I don't know how long, my mother, well, we came over on the Mayflower.
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  SPEAKER_04: No, you didn't.
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  SPEAKER_04: No, you didn't.
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  SPEAKER_04: You didn't come.
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  SPEAKER_04: There's no record of you on the Mayflower.
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  SPEAKER_04: No, no, we didn't, because I did the genealogy.
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  SPEAKER_04: And then forever, my mom would say that we were related to John Brown.
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  SPEAKER_04: The you know, the guy that killed people in Kansas.
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  SPEAKER_04: And uh no, I don't know that, but John Brown, the guy that hanged he Harper's very Virginia.
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  SPEAKER_04: Go Google that.
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  SPEAKER_04: Oh, okay.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, anyway.
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  SPEAKER_04: Go Google that.
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  SPEAKER_04: Anyway, she would always say, Oh, we're related to John Brown.
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  SPEAKER_04: No, we're not.
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  SPEAKER_04: No, we're not.
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  SPEAKER_04: We're related to a John Brown.
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  SPEAKER_03: Sometimes the conversation takes a turn.
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  SPEAKER_03: Like what happens when retirement makes your marriage?
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  SPEAKER_02: Time's coming.
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  SPEAKER_02: I mean, when Chris retires, I mean he travels all the time, and and I agreed to like pick up all the things, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: The things that he was doing that he'd done our whole marriage.
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  SPEAKER_02: But then my time's coming because I'm I'm gonna have to give it back.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then the thing is gonna be is all the things that we're farming out now, he's gonna want to do.
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  SPEAKER_02: And it's not gonna bring me joy to paint the walls and change the oil in the car and all the grass.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like, I am not gonna want to do all the farmed-out activities.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_02: So, and he's gonna be like, Let's mow the grass today.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, There's no us in that statement.
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  SPEAKER_02: But it's that's what he's gonna think.
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  SPEAKER_02: So my time is coming.
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  SPEAKER_02: Sometimes we get serious because life doesn't always give you a heads up.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I called my husband, I said, I am going to be laid off today.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he was like, You're overreacting, that's not what it means.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I said, I have a portfolio of projects, and these two are my biggest.
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  SPEAKER_00: And sure enough, that's exactly what happened.
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  SPEAKER_03: I did not have insurance, I did not get a severance package, I had a mortgage, it was a hundred percent on me.
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  SPEAKER_03: College tuition was 60% on me, and it was terrifying, and I was sick, and I remember making choices between gasoline and food.
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  SPEAKER_03: I remember looking, wondering how long before my savings is entirely gone, and I start pulling out my 401k.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then again, sometimes we're just trying to sedate a dog to clip his nails.
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  SPEAKER_04: Is it you're gonna clip the nails yourself?
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  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, uh well, yeah, Mike and I.
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  SPEAKER_04: We we it it has to be a two-person job.
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  SPEAKER_04: So uh we're gonna sedate him.
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  SPEAKER_04: Don't listen.
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  SPEAKER_04: We're gonna sedate him.
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  SPEAKER_04: And uh he's too stupid to know.
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  SPEAKER_04: And then we're gonna um hopefully clip it.
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  SPEAKER_04: We tried Monday night, but the dosage wasn't.
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  SPEAKER_04: You know, we we tried the lowest dosage.
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  SPEAKER_04: We tried.
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  SPEAKER_04: Doc's been on a perpetual high since.
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  SPEAKER_04: No, we gave him all last night.
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  SPEAKER_04: Last night we he was just so tonight he gets a he gets instead of one pill, he gets two pills, but there's a combination, so he gets four pills because you gotta give him the gabapentine and you gotta give them the other one.
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  SPEAKER_04: I don't know what that is.
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  SPEAKER_04: And so and have you clipped meals.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, what Mike and Polly don't know is that Marshall's been out in the backyard to the neighbor dogs filling.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, he's been cheeking them and he's taking them out back.
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  SPEAKER_04: That's why we couldn't do it, probably on Monday night.
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  SPEAKER_03: Tune in, subscribe, and follow us on Don't Pack Your Bikini.
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  SPEAKER_03: I promise you're gonna have a good time.