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MIDLIFE WOMEN: THE SONGS AND SCENTS THAT TAKE US BACK · Uncluttered and Unfiltered: The Podcast For Women Over 50

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Welcome to Uncluttered and Unfiltered, the podcast urging
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you to let it go and don't look back, with nationally acclaimed
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professional organizer Christine Stone and self-proclaimed Hot
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Damn Mess radio and TV personality Eden Kendall.
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Welcome everyone to Uncluttered and Unfiltered.
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Today's episode is very much one that you helped us create by
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answering a couple of questions. Our ladies only uncluttered and
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unfiltered Facebook page. And we're going to get to to
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that topic, which is things that bring you back when you talk a
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lot about music, we're going to talk a lot about smells because
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of all of these different categories of of senses.
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Those are the two that I do. I actually did a little
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research, believe it or not, and found out why those are the two
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senses that trigger the memories the most.
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So we're going to talk about that.
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But first, this is our, this is the start of our fourth season.
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So we're. Changing leagues that Can you
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believe that? You know, part of me can't and
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then part of me can't. Imagine a world where I didn't
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have you to catch up on a regular basis.
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I. Know me too, I feel the same
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exact way. So yeah, isn't that true with
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everything in time? Like sometimes you're like, how
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did the time go so fast? In other days, you're just like,
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man, this feels like it's forever.
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So, so I feel like it's very much that way.
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But anyway, that, that being said, we're going to start
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segmenting these episodes in that we're going to start off
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with a segment that we call What's on our radar, which is
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where we can talk about things that we've been noticing things
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that maybe are pop culture references that may not hold up.
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If you're hearing this, you know, a year after it was
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reported. So just bear with us.
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If that's the case, then we'll take a quick break.
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We'll come back and talk about our topic.
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Then we'll take a quick break and we'll come back with an
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organizational tip. So that's the new format.
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Hope everyone is buckled up because we're going to start
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with what is on our radar. We each, we've each picked a few
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things and we'll go back and forth.
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So we'll start with your first radar thing.
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Christine, what do you have? Well, my first radar thing and
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everyone's probably like, how is this old lady like so into this?
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But it is Ella Langley. I am obsessed with her new
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album. I love every song on it.
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Each one's better than the other one and I was watching the music
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video to Choosing Texas and everyone was correlating it with
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Urban Cowboy which I don't know if you all remember my Urban
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Cowboy story on how I ended up going to school in Fort Worth,
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TX but it was because of her urban cowboy.
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And when I was watching this video I said Oh my God this is
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exactly like 80s country. She brings back old school
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country which has not been done in a really long time by a
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female artist and I mean old school not Carrie Underwood
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country. Sorry.
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I know people love her and all that, but that she's in a
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different ranking in my opinion. Ella Langley is, she's only 25
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years old, correct. And I remember when I told you
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that she go, Oh my God, I interviewed her.
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I'm like I did. In person.
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Die. I would die, that's how much I
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am like a fan girl. So anyway.
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So for those not familiar with Ella Langley, the first way we
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got to meet her was when she did a duet with Riley Green Love it
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Excuse. Me.
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You look like you. I love that song.
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And that's when I had the opportunity to meet her, an
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interviewer. Now her new album, Dandelion,
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but she's in Texas, has broken all kinds of records and she's
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trying to pull up some of the records that have broke.
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But she she beat a record set by Taylor Swift and Beyoncé for
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that Choose in Texas song because it was at the top of all
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of the charts, not just country music.
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Right. Not just country.
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I think I I predict she is not only the next hot big thing, but
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she has staying power. Staying power.
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Exactly. And she also brought back bangs
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because her bangs are just adorable.
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I saw a picture of her without bangs just the other day and it
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was almost like I couldn't recognize her.
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I mean, I saw a beautiful woman, but it wasn't that one.
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She's she just looks so different.
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I love the fact that her album that she just came out with is
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called Dandelion. You know, I have a very big
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fondness for dandelions. I only have one tattoo and it's
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a dandelion. I.
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Love, Wait, wait, wait, wait. Stop right there.
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What? Where is your tattoo?
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It's on my side. And is it big or small?
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It's it's. Big.
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It's pretty big. It's pretty big.
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Did it hurt? No.
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Did it hurt? It did hurt.
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It was, but I got it when my daughter left for college.
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It was my empty nest tattoo. And because a dandelion, you
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know, those little seeds, they fly off and they start their
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own, right? Right.
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So I have two. It's a dandelion with two of the
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seeds blowing off of it. Oh my, those are my kids.
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Oh, so you must really love this album I.
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Love this album and I love the song Dandelion.
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It kind of has a little different theme.
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It's more about it being a wildflower.
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But I just, I do. I really love it and I love her
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so. Ella Langley, if you're not
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familiar, she's one of the things on Chris's radar.
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Oh yeah, and all the guys are called Ella fellas.
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I think that's the. Cutest thing?
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There's guys of all ages that are going on doing videos of
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them dancing and singing to her music and they're called Ella
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Fellas and I just think the whole thing is so cute.
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So I told my daughter cuz she lives in the state of Tennessee,
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I have to see Ella Langley and she's like you and everybody
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else mom. Exactly.
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So anyway, so what's on yours? OK, so I have several things,
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but in the entertainment world, there are a couple of different
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shows that we have been binging, but one that we found, and it
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actually is not new. It's six seasons long and it's
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on PBS, believe it or not. And it's called Miss Scarlett
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and the Duke. And I'm a big Downton Abbey kind
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of person. I love the Gilded Age, those
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kinds of well, this is very much like that in in that it has the
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historic costumes. It's from way, way, way back in
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the day. And it happens in in England, in
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London, but she's a detective and he's the police commissioner
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and romance will they won't they?
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There's a lot of that. She's sassy as can be super
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cute. There are six seasons and I did
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not think I could ever get my husband to watch one of these
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period pieces with me. But even he loves it.
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And every time she says something cute or sassy, he's
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like Miss Scarlett. Oh, Miss Scarlett.
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I have to watch that I love. Period.
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And there's there's plenty of it, you know, there's there's a
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seventh season being worked on right now.
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Wow. So yeah, there's plenty of it to
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to enjoy if you're looking for something, if you like Gilded
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Age. I love all that stuff.
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And then this is even better because it's a detective series,
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so there's always mystery. So it's great.
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It's got some good characters in it.
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OK, So what about you? What else is on your?
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Radar OK, this is recent as of not last night, the night before
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last night. I didn't even tell you about
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this one yet. It's called Sky King Panic in
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the Sky, and it's on Hulu, at least in the United States.
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That's where I watched it and it's a it's fascinating.
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You have to watch this. What is it, a documentary?
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It's a documentary and it's about, I think there's like 3-3
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little episodes. I mean, they're not that long,
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but it's about a 2018 incident where a Horizon air worker, he
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was a sky agent. Like he just worked on the
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ground. Like with the little things that
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waves in the planes and takes the luggage out and all that.
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His name was Richard Bebo Russell and he stole a turbo
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prop plane from the Sea Tac airport.
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Never learned how to fly, doesn't know anything about it.
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And he stole this plane. And they have all the original
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audio from the tower to him, all of it in this documentary.
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So you hear. And what they do is they go back
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to tell you how normal this guy was.
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He was like homecoming king. And he was like this normal guy
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that everybody loved, like the nicest, sweetest guy.
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And what the documentary does, it not only explores what he
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did, but explores why he did it. How can someone so normal, so
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loved by everybody just snap? I think I remember this story.
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It was in Florida, right? No, it was.
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In I don't remember this story obviously then.
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Alaska. OK.
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Yeah, like a whole someplace. No, no, not in Hawaii, but it I
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mean, I don't remember what exactly it was something rural
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though, you know what I mean? And it explores not only
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focusing on what he did, but the human story behind it.
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Because they interview his entire family.
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He had all these brothers, sister, mother, aunt, friends.
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They got all his best friends to say this is not him.
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This is never in a million years.
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And then on the live videos, I mean audio they have it says
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like he says, I just don't want to live anymore.
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And I don't know how to fly this plane, but I'm doing it and I
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don't think I want to land it, you know, because they're like,
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we can help you try to land it. And he's like, I just don't want
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to. I don't want to do this anymore.
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I don't. It was so good, so sad, because
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they didn't just focus on this crazy guy stealing this airplane
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like something went terribly wrong in his life that nobody,
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nobody picked up on. So it was really good.
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So my husband watched that and it was amazing to see that this
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guy could fly an airplane without ever learning to fly an
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airplane and to steal it. Can you imagine?
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There it goes, the guy. I cannot.
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I cannot imagine. I simply can't.
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Yeah. Wow.
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So that that was on my radar and I love, you know, I love a
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documentary. So I know you do.
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Yeah. So my next two things are not
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entertainment world related at all.
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They're just little things I've been into since we last spoke.
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And I don't know why I got back into this habit.
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It's not a great habit, but it's not going to kill me.
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I mean, there will be things that will kill me far before
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this. Ever gets nervous?
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The crispy Diet Coke the have you have you, you know, really
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good sharp. That's so funny, you've been
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saying. This yummy Diet Coke.
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I mean, I know that the kids sometimes now are calling Diet
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Cokes, fridge cigarettes, refrigerator cigarettes because
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like, it's just not great for you, but you just can't help it.
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But I just lately, I don't know, I just feel like more than I
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care to admit, I've been stopping on my way home and
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going through a drive through for a crispy Diet Coke on ice
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and not coke 0 which I know everyone makes better.
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I like the. Diet Last July I started doing
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that and I didn't tell anyone. It was like I was hiding crack
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cocaine or something. Like I would throw the the thing
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underneath a big pile of stuff in the garbage so no one could
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see that I went and got a Diet Coke.
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I haven't had Diet Coke and I would say 20 years.
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I'm not joking. Like I used to drink it all the
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time and then just quit. Same thing.
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And you know, I quit when they're like, you can clean your
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toilet with Diet Coke and it there's cleans it perfectly.
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And I'm like, I don't think I should be drinking something
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that can clean a toilet bowl. But anyway, six months ago, last
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July, I'll never forget, I started drinking Diet Coke
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again. But no one knew.
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No one, nobody. Not one person.
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And then, almost like a confessional, I was in the car
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with my daughter. I go, I have something to
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confess. And she goes, what?
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I go, I've, I'm ashamed. I'm really ashamed.
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And she goes what I go, I started drinking Diet Coke and
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I've been hiding it and she's like, I can't believe your treat
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like gave me grief about it. And I was like, I told you
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because I wanted to feel better about it.
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You're making me feel worse. There is nothing like a Diet
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Coke for me from a gate gas station.
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But anyway. But do you like it?
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I'm so on ice. Or do you want?
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Crunchy ice. Crunchy the crunchy ice.
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Yes. Or in a pinch.
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And see, I did go through a phase when I had my hysterectomy
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many years ago and I was on pain medication which made me
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nauseous. So the only thing that would
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take that away was a diet Doctor Pepper out of the bottle with a
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when you opened it. So it was super sharp, like
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really sharp. So I kind of got into that for a
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while, then I started getting away from it and this is just
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kind of this one. I It's not about the bottle that
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has to be on the rocks. Oh yeah.
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Crispy Pebble ice, which is. Yes, Pebble Ice.
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I got a Pebble ice machine for Christmas.
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You. Did.
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Yes. Oh my God, I'm so.
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Jealous got in items I swear by on.
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It yes, because I would love one of those.
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Oh, you, you have to get one. It's from Amazon.
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You have to get one. I have to get one, especially
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now that I'm hiding my Diet Coke addiction.
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I only drink one and not even every day anymore because I felt
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so guilty. It's like once a week maybe.
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But when I tell you when you have that first Diet Coke that
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you haven't had in like 20, you're like, Oh my God, this is
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the best thing I've ever tasted. I mean, honestly.
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There's just something about it. Yeah, I know what it.
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Is that's so funny you brought that up.
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OK. Do you have another radar?
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I have one last one and you all know I don't read books.
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I'm not proud of it. I don't.
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Quote, air quote. Read books, but you listen to
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books. Well, I actually listened to
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this book because my daughter was telling me how great of a
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book it was. And then I saw someone else
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talking about it going, Oh my God, this is the best, you know,
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book on the whole Bernie Madoff, his daughter-in-law, Stephanie
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Madoff. Mack wrote this book telling
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it's called the end of normal and it tells from before it
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happened, the whole crash before they found out he would you know
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what their life was like what was going on her husband's job
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with her, his dad like everything all the way to when
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they found out the reactions everything like step, but she
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leaves not one thing out. And when I tell you not one
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thing out, not one thing out. Is this the wife of the son that
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took his life? Yes, yes, yes.
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And it she's got. She's got.
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She's angry like, and you're kind of like still really angry
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with her mother-in-law, still very angry with like his first
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wife who he had two kids with prior, on how they were dealing
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with everything after his, after her husband's death, on suicide,
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on what it did to her life. She had two kids with him and
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one of them was like still a baby.
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So it was just devastating. And she just goes into such
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detail on even writing Bernie Madoff in prison to get it all
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off her chest on what a horrible person he was.
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And then he wrote her back like some nonchalant letter like, you
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know, not even not even accepting really what he had
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done. And so I have, I highly
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recommend that I listen the whole book into like literally 2
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days. It was just so fascinating.
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Anyway, I also love anything like I watch American Greed,
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anything where people are really greedy.
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It just fascinates me that you can do that to people.
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And I forgot you did tell me this was a book.
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So I went to go look at the documentary thinking, OK, well,
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I want to have this so we can chat about it.
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And my husband just randomly was watching it.
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So I assumed, oh, you know, must be on his radar because it's on
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Christine's radar. And so I started watching that.
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I kind of got bored from it. But one of the things that he
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kept saying was Bernie Madoff himself.
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And this is no excuse, but he kept saying, Hey, I was just
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playing off other people's greed, you know, and, and yes,
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and because I, my husband and I had this whole conversation last
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night about it. I said, well, what if our guy
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that we love that handles retirement funds and everything
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was doing really, really well, We might say, hey, here's some
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more, right, here's some more money, here's some money.
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Is that greed or is that just wanting to?
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Be a part of something. I don't think it's greed.
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I mean, I think it's trusting somebody with the most important
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thing, which is your retirement and your financial light
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livelihood that you're planning on retiring with down the road
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or giving your kids inheritance or whatever you want to say.
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I think that's why I'm fascinated by him.
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I think he's the most horrible person ever.
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And the book goes into the whole kind of lifestyle they were
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living before he got caught. Just like the how how over the
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top it was with the houses and the yachts and the private jets
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and you know what I mean? Just it just, it was terrible.
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But she she was really good and she reads the book herself.
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So it really, you really get that really emotional.
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Like there's a few times where you hear like she's getting all
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choked up, especially when she talks about her husband's death.
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It's really, really sad. So anyway, that's on my radar.
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It was definitely a good listen to.
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I'd say read, but I didn't read it.
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OK, so we're going to leave off there.
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I have a few things left, but we're recording 2 episodes
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today, so I'm going to save the rest of mine for our next
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episode, which right now that we're going to take a quick
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break. We're going to come back and
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we're going to talk about those two senses that we have.
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Our sense of smell and our sense of hearing where it comes to
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music and how, how and why they trigger us so much.
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And what you guys are saying are some of the smells and some of
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the songs that really take you back.
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We're going to be right back. Welcome back.
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So we are talking today on this episode about smells and songs
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that really bring you back. Now, I did a little bit of
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research and I don't want to bore anybody with the science
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behind it. You can certainly Google all of
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that. But there are scientific reasons
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why those things cut through all of the noise in our brain the
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way that they do. We actually are feeling
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something versus just remembering something.
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You know if you read a book, you see something on a page, it
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might bring you back, but not the way smelling something or
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hearing a song. Well, right.
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Absolutely, absolutely. I see it happening all the time
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throughout my day, throughout my day.
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So I posted in our ladies only uncluttered and unfiltered
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Facebook group which we always say please do join.
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We will have to let you into that.
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We do that so we can gatekeep just a little bit.
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Every now and again someone gets on there and tries to sell
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something and then they get booted out of the group and we
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just want everyone to feel safe in that group.
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But anyway it's a picture of a woman and she has the very very
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tight multi colored curlers in from a home perm and the caption
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on the picture says I can literally smell this.
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And I thought to myself I can too but what are some other
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smells that the minute you smell them they bring you back
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immediately? Mine, a lot of you guys said.
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Loves baby soft, if I smell I can smell it right now that
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loves baby soft perfume. Yeah, I don't remember that.
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You don't remember that? A lot of you guys did say that,
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but if I smelled it right now, it would immediately transport
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me back and I can remember it. What would you say is yours?
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I say for me there's 21, OK, you all know I was a flight
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attendant in my previous life. I call it and 1 flight, some
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woman was wearing Giorgio Elizabeth Arden perfume.
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OK. And you know, when you're in an
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airplane, there ain't no getting away from it.
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So back in the day, you could smoke on the airplane too.
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So mix the Elizabeth Arden Giorgio perfume or Giorgio
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perfume. I don't know if it was a Liz
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mixed in with cigarettes. And I literally felt like I was
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going to puke the whole entire flight.
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So one day I was in an elevator somewhere and someone walked in
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that elevator with that perfume on an older woman and I'm like,
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Oh my God, I'm going to be sick. Like literally.
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It brought me right back to being a flight attendant on the
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airplane of the woman who stunk up the whole entire airplane
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mixed with cigarette smoke. So I think perfumes, because I
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also wore Polo perfume in college, which I would never in
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a million years wear now because I don't like any smells or
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fragrances at all, which I've told you about.
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But if I smell that now goes right back to the college dorm
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room, you know, where I lived, what, what my apartment look
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like. You know what I mean?
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Yeah, so some of the other things that you guys were saying
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on our Facebook page, Tony said, and this is no wonder she
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remembered the name. She said, ah, yes, the dreaded
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Tony home perm. I couldn't have given you the
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name Tony, but I remember that was one of the brands.
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The other one was Ogilvy. A couple of you remembered a
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name brand of those home perms called Ogilvy.
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Gina Tay. Gina Tay.
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Yeah, I know, Gina Tay. I definitely remember.
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Now here's one that is a loves fresh lemon body splash.
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Tina talked about her farm and she showed us a picture of her
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farm. I guess, you know, sometimes
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it's just not even something that's pop culture related.
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It's just specific to her. She grew up on a farm, so when
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she's smelling a farm, it's going to bring her back there.
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Another one is hot asphalt. If I'm ever walking somewhere
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and it's so hot that you can smell that asphalt, that brings
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me right back to childhood of playing outside with my friends.
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I can picture being on a bike. Well that's how I feel about
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fresh cut grass. Whenever I smell that it reminds
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me of being at my grandparents house in the summers and just
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the smell of someone mowing their lawn.
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It just smelled so good. I don't know why it just smelled
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so outdoorsy and fresh. I agree.
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I think those type of smells. And Holly mentioned something
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along those lines as well, because she said orange blossoms
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because she's from Central Florida.
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And so orange blossoms in the air and.
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Baby oil, even if you go and put old school baby oil and you open
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the cap, you're like, Oh my God, I remember being at the beach
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slathering my body in that, but you would never even use it now
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for it. You know what I mean?
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Like so. Yeah, right, right, right.
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Parties. But yeah, that's so true.
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Actually, I have baby oil here in my office because we did a
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little project with it where we painted seashells because it
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makes them really shine. And just an FYI.
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And as soon as I opened it, it brought me back to those days in
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the 80s, tanned on a silver blanket with baby oil, which is
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obviously the worst idea ever, but.
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Yeah, well, and that's also how I feel about music.
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I feel like yesterday I was in the car and I think I Love You
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by David Cassidy came on and all of a sudden and I knew we were
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doing this. I'm like, Oh my God, I'm doing
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it. I'm like screaming in the car,
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dancing to it going. I remember having that my
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brother being everybody was in love with him and like just
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screaming loudly in your bedroom to the music or with your
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brothers dancing around to this song.
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I'm like, it is weird how if you ask me what I did last week and
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I say this all the time, I could not tell you.
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But I can tell you what my bedroom looked like, what you
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know, anything that brings you back to a moment, what dress I
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was wearing, how my hair looked. I mean immediately.
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Well, I could tell you every word to rapper's delight, and
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I'm not the only one who could do that because on our Facebook
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page, one of you all, I'm going to find out who it was right
25:05
now, Said Said. That was the song that just
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brings you back and transports you.
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And there are songs like that make me feel like I have to
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hurry up and get my roller skates laced up and get out on
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the floor. Things like, you know, Michael
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Jackson. Yep, Letter N is one that comes
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on on SiriusXM, sometimes the John Travolta.
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Oh yeah, totally, totally. Rex Smith.
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We've talked about him before. Makes me feel angsty.
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Yeah, I mean. So angsty.
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You just remember exactly where you were when someone asked you
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to dance to a certain song. You're like, Oh my God, I
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remember when he asked me to dance and I was dying to dance
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with them. And he, you know what I mean?
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Like it just immediately, immediately brings you back to a
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time in your life that just seems so much more carefree.
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There's a song by Styx, The Best of Times, and I get that sad
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feeling in my stomach that I got when I watched this girl Tracy
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and this guy Craig couple skate to it when I had a crush on
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Craig when I was in like 8th grade, you know what I'm saying?
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Like I remember the song I watched them couple skate to and
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it brought me back to that feeling of like, yeah, I'm not
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good enough. I'm Yeah, I'm telling you so
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much better than me. Yeah, I'm telling you I and.
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Music will do that. Yes, yes, I I mean, anything
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Earth, wind and fire, the Carpenters, I can go on and on.
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It's like I remember exactly what I was doing the first time
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I heard that song. You know, no matter what it is,
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you just remember what you were doing.
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It's it's weird how your brain stores information.
26:49
It really is. It's like a key that unlocks
26:53
certain doors. Yep.
26:55
So do us a favor if you have not ever done so, join our ladies
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Both of those are you might have to scroll a little bit depending
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on how recently someone else post commented on it.
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But go ahead and comment on those.
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Let us know what is the smell. And then in a separate comment
27:14
area, you can put what is the song that just brings you back
27:17
immediately. So we're we're going to take
27:20
another quick break. We're going to come back with an
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organizational tip since Christine is indeed a
27:25
professional organizer and yesterday, the day that we're
27:29
recording, this is actually the day it is.
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So I don't know why I said yesterday, today in real world
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time is National Clean Out Your Medicine Cabinet Day.
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So that's going to be our topic when we come back.
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We'll be right back, OK, We are back with our.
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Hearts fourminds.org For more information and to learn how you
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can help and we'll segment in this episode of Uncuttered and
28:22
unfiltered. And it is National Clean Out
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Your Medicine Cabinet Day today when we're recording this.
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So walk us through this because I know it's going to start with
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taking everything out and and getting ready to do some
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purging. Yeah, I've been actually doing a
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lot of this with older clients as well, getting them more
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organized for, you know, what they are actually taking and all
28:45
the medicines they've kept that they never, ever use.
28:48
So of course, whether it's a medicine cabinet, whether you
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have an area in your linen closet that you keep medications
28:55
in your bathroom in a drawer, it doesn't matter where you have
28:58
it, it kind of all goes along the same line of of course, you
29:03
have to take every single thing out, every medication, gather it
29:09
all in one spot and start looking at the expiration dates.
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And there's different philosophy.
29:16
So you can go ahead and ChatGPT that or Google it or whatever
29:19
you want to do. But one thing I could say is
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there are safe ways to dispose of medications and you can ask
29:27
your pharmacist. There's take back locations,
29:30
there's different ways to get rid of prescription medication.
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So ask your pharmacy, they'll tell you exactly how to do that.
29:39
And once you've gotten rid of all the medications that are
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old, expired, have a teeny tiny bit of cough syrup left in them,
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whatever it is, what you want to do is decide, OK, now I'm going
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to organize everything back to the way it hopefully will stay.
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And the first thing you want to do is make a list of what you
30:00
got rid of that you need. So did you need more band aids
30:03
or Neosporin or whatever it is you need regular cough medicine
30:08
from the drug store, Make a list so that you're replenishing it.
30:12
Because if you don't, when you need it, you're going to go, why
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did I throw that out even though it was expired?
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Because I'm dying over here and I need this medicine.
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So don't wait till you're sick to get what you need.
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Another thing I like to do is sort and label things.
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So things for headaches, for stomach problems, first aid,
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keeping all the necessary first aid items together.
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It just makes it easier not only for you, but if you have a
30:40
family or your spouse, so they can grab what they need and just
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put it back in. So I personally am a big bin
30:49
user, whether it's in a drawer or on a shelf because I have
30:54
grandkids. And that's another thing.
30:56
You need to be able to have a system, if you have grandkids or
31:00
young kids that are going to be around that you can grab the
31:04
items and put them high up on a shelf and then when they leave,
31:06
you can grab them and put them back down because you don't want
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anything like that to happen. So I like to keep them in bins
31:14
and label them. What organizing products do you
31:18
need to get them organized? If you're doing it in a medicine
31:21
cabinet, there are organizing products to keep them all
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organized. If it's a drawer, there are
31:27
drawer inserts to keep them separated and organized.
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And like I said, there's bins. So there's different ways of
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doing depending on your space and the key to keeping them
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organized is to purge on a regular basis.
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I purge medications at least every, I'd say two to three
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months because it just, you know, you're going to keep
31:48
getting more in, especially as you get older.
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It's not like you're going to be getting less medicine.
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So keeping it purged just keeps everything you know neat,
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organized, and ready to go when you need the medications.
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OK, good, good, good information.
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OK, so there you have it. You've learned some things about
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our brains, you've figured out what's on our radar and now you
32:15
can organize your medicine cabinet in the time it takes you
32:18
to probably have listened to this whole podcast, you could
32:21
have started from the beginning and, and and done it all the way
32:24
through. So your assignments are in
32:27
addition to the medicine cabinet thing, of course, would be to
32:30
please do tell one friend about our podcast, our little podcast.
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And if you want to follow us on all the socials, we are on all
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the socials, but the one that we love the most is our ladies only
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32:45
bring you into that. And you can post and some ladies
32:47
post some really funny things and we love that.
32:49
Or some ladies post some really serious questions and we welcome
32:52
that as well. Eventually we can even add a ask
32:55
an organizer part to this piece of it too.
32:58
So if you have a question for Christine, just know it might
33:00
end up as this final segment of the of the podcast.
33:04
But until then, that Tylenol you bought in 1985, you can let it
33:10
go and. Don't look back.