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24 Life Lessons From 2024 · Two Broke Chicks

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  Speaker 1: This podcast is recorded on gaddigal Land always was, always
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  Speaker 1: will be Aboriginal Land. Hey chicks, I'm out and I'm
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  Speaker 1: sou and this is too very chicks to show that
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  Speaker 1: chest life lessons and tips to make you rich in life,
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  Speaker 1: And oh my god, it's the last episode of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Can you chicks believe it? I can't. Well, well, clearly
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  Speaker 2: we're on the same page. Jinx, you owe me a coke?
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  Speaker 2: Can you owe me one? Two?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay, crazy buy each other one? Then great, now
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking about that. However, we always finish our podcast
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  Speaker 1: of the years with our lessons from X year, So
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  Speaker 1: today we are doing twenty four life lessons from twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four. I know it's the end of the year
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  Speaker 1: because I kept thinking it was supposed to be twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. I know, I kept thinking twenty five life
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  Speaker 1: lessons and I was like, wait, no, it's twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's because it means that we have to come
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  Speaker 2: up with more and more life lessons every year, so
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  Speaker 2: when we started, it would have been twenty one life
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  Speaker 2: lessons from twenty twenty one. That's crazy, I.
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  Speaker 1: Know, given that we are doing a whole episode about
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  Speaker 1: life lessons. We will just start with life lessons. There's
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  Speaker 1: no life lessons of the week, it's life lessons of
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  Speaker 1: the year.
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  Speaker 2: Should we kick off with our first life lesson of
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  Speaker 2: twenty five? So my first life lesson is a really
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  Speaker 2: sexy one and it's that you need to clean your
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  Speaker 2: washing machine. Oh, yes, have you ever done this?
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  Speaker 1: I have a story, but I'll wait for you.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, great, because I hadn't. So if you are always
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  Speaker 2: washing your clothes on like a cold cycle, your washing
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  Speaker 2: machine will get a build up of this thing called scud. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it has a name, and it's like the build up
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  Speaker 2: of the washing detergent over time, and then it comes
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  Speaker 2: back out through the washing machine and sticks all over
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  Speaker 2: your clothes as like little brown sort of soapy scum flakes.
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  Speaker 2: It's like linked almost. Like that's how like small and
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  Speaker 2: like hard it is to like get off shit. And
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  Speaker 2: it's really simple to solve it. You just have to
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  Speaker 2: run a hot cycle through your wash once a moile like.
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  Speaker 1: A drum clean. Yeah yeah, yeah, do you have that
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  Speaker 1: setting on yours?
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  Speaker 2: Nap? So we just yeah, you just do like a
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  Speaker 2: hot wash. Yeah, throw it.
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  Speaker 1: But because we've got a new one, recently asked, it's
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  Speaker 1: like you need to drum clean. Yeah. Yeah. I learned
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  Speaker 1: this after our washing machine didn't like just stopped working,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, what the fuck is going on?
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  Speaker 1: And this was a curse washing machine. This was the
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  Speaker 1: old one and just always didn't work. And then anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we're like, maybe we need clean the filter. So then
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  Speaker 1: we tried to like take the filter thing out from
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  Speaker 1: the fray and get it out.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, what is going on?
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  Speaker 1: And then one day I was just like I just
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  Speaker 1: went into like my dad mode. We're like my dad,
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  Speaker 1: if something's broken, he takes it like a personal bandetta. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like we grew up calling a mister feet it because
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  Speaker 1: like it was actually laughable that sometimes if we wanted
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  Speaker 1: to fuck with him, we would be like do you
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  Speaker 1: like the painting being a bit crooked or is it
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be? And like Dad would just be evil
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  Speaker 1: just to fuck with him.
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  Speaker 2: Poor Greg.
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  Speaker 1: And then anyway, one day I was like absolutely not.
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  Speaker 1: So like for an hour, I'm just like trying to
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  Speaker 1: pry out this thing. I get it. The whole kitchen
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  Speaker 1: becomes flooded. My undies were in the filter. Oh my
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  Speaker 1: seamless undies had somehow worked their way past the drum
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  Speaker 1: past actually, and like gone in the filter and they
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  Speaker 1: were stuck in the filter.
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  Speaker 2: Your washing machine does eat your undies on yourself, yes, fully.
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  Speaker 1: And then I think I saw a video on TikTok
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  Speaker 1: and it was someone and they're like, this is where
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  Speaker 1: all your socks go, and their socks were all in
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of their washing.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, it's true. I feel like we've all
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  Speaker 2: been gas lit this whole time, thinking that we just
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  Speaker 2: lost them. But no, it's the washing machine.
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  Speaker 1: He's a hungry, hungry washing machine. That's a children's book
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  Speaker 1: waiting to happen. But I would also like to thank
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  Speaker 1: you for intry. Do you see me to my new
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  Speaker 1: favorite insult for twenty twenty five scared. I knew you'd
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  Speaker 1: love it as soon as I go fucking scud. Oh
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  Speaker 1: oh no, I met this person on the weekend that was.
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  Speaker 2: Such a scud. I'm so glad you guys broke up.
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  Speaker 2: He was such a sky I went on a date
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  Speaker 2: this weekend, scud. I don't know, I'm just feeling a
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  Speaker 2: bit scarred.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my manager is being the biggest scud at the moment,
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  Speaker 1: best best insult insult of twenty twenty five scud love
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  Speaker 1: it Okay. My first life lesson of twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 1: is having a life before you go to work infinitely
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  Speaker 1: makes your life better and makes you feel so much
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  Speaker 1: more in control. So I am a sleepy little girl,
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  Speaker 1: and basically my entire life, I would not get out
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  Speaker 1: of bed until it was like of dire circumstance that like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm actually already lated by the time I get out
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  Speaker 1: of bed. Yeah, and that was just that, literally my
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  Speaker 1: whole life. I've never been like an early or someone
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  Speaker 1: that gets up early. Now, don't fretch. I'm not about
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  Speaker 1: to be like joining that five am club.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely not next year. No, you know you know what
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  Speaker 2: to do if.
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  Speaker 1: That happens, and I'm not going to say it on air.
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  Speaker 1: This year, I've started waking up like an hour earlier
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  Speaker 1: that I need to get up, and it's around like
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  Speaker 1: seven am, which I know is probably a time that
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  Speaker 1: most people wake up. But again, like we work from
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  Speaker 1: home or we work from the office, so I literally
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  Speaker 1: would like roll out and then be like yep, I'm
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  Speaker 1: here and I look feral, but waking up like an
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  Speaker 1: hour earlier just to actually have a coffee or write
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  Speaker 1: in my fucking journal, or go for a walk with
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  Speaker 1: a friend, or do something that is purely for the
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  Speaker 1: sake of like my own entertainment and joy and fun
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  Speaker 1: is so much nicer, Like I feel like I have
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  Speaker 1: so much more control over my life and even using
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  Speaker 1: work commutes not for work but for self enjoyment. So
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  Speaker 1: listening to a fiction book or a funny poga or
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  Speaker 1: just doing calling like a friend or my mum rather
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  Speaker 1: than like getting straight into work mode is just has
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  Speaker 1: been the most fulfilling thing this year and I just
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  Speaker 1: love it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and also means that you're less likely to be
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  Speaker 2: running around stressed and late for work as well, which
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  Speaker 2: is just the worst way to start your date, especially
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  Speaker 2: if that's your consistent routine.
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  Speaker 1: I know, coming from someone that thought five minutes fifteen
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  Speaker 1: minutes so sleeping in was like more valuable. Then you're
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  Speaker 1: like stressed because you're running late, and you're like, fuck
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  Speaker 1: that fifteen minutes of sleep was actually kind of shit. Anyway.
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  Speaker 2: You can never fall back asleep properly, and even if
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  Speaker 2: you do, if you were to fall back into a
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  Speaker 2: deep sleep, you completely fuck like whatever your rem cycle
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  Speaker 2: is literally.
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  Speaker 1: And half the time I'm just trying to get back
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  Speaker 1: to like the horny sleep dream that I had, and
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  Speaker 1: I ain't never care.
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  Speaker 2: I do hate when that happens.
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  Speaker 1: I know, when it's a really good one.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, no, no, no, go back up? How are you
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  Speaker 2: come back? I mean, Chris.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Our third life lesson of twenty twenty four is for
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  Speaker 2: financial compensation if you're inconvenienced by a brand, so an institution,
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  Speaker 2: I'll say, a big brand that Alex and I have
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  Speaker 2: to deal with for work very often.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like a branded content like sponsor or anything
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  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 2: No, we're talking like, let's say it's like for a
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  Speaker 2: bill or for a take an.
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  Speaker 1: Electricity service or a banking thing like that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: that you use as a service.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. So I won't give away too many details
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  Speaker 2: on what it was, shame, but it's a huge, huge
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  Speaker 2: brand that Alex and I have to deal with for
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  Speaker 2: work on a regular basis. And long story short, this
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  Speaker 2: company had been fucking us around for over a year
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  Speaker 2: for the most simple thing that we basically required in
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  Speaker 2: order to be able to use the service that we're
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  Speaker 2: essentially paying for, and they were just running us around
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  Speaker 2: in circles and circles for so long, and I finally
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  Speaker 2: got to the point where we'd gotten to the same
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  Speaker 2: issue again, and I was just for like.
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  Speaker 1: Two years as well.
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  Speaker 2: It was over a year, like it was.
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  Speaker 1: We've been having issues with this person for two years,
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  Speaker 1: but that was a separate one.
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  Speaker 2: Safe to say. We'd had enough at this point. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm on time. One time, we're on.
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  Speaker 1: We're on hold. So they had to call So out
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  Speaker 1: and I both at the same time to sort something out.
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  Speaker 1: And we're on hold. And here's a thing that some
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  Speaker 1: people might not necessarily know that if someone puts you
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  Speaker 1: on hold, they might be able to hear what you're
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  Speaker 1: actually saying. You're not off in an ether where they
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  Speaker 1: can't hear you. Because when these people put us on hold,
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  Speaker 1: I turned to Rob and started having the biggest fucking
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  Speaker 1: bitch about this service in the entire world. And Sally
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  Speaker 1: texts me and goes, I can hear you, so, which
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  Speaker 1: means that this service could also hear every single thing
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  Speaker 1: I was saying. So if you're on hold and you're
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  Speaker 1: being like the fuck's sake, they can hear that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's an extra life lesson volume. It had
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  Speaker 2: gotten to the point where we were just over it.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not the sort of person to scream down
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  Speaker 2: a phone at somebody, because I also know a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the time it's not the customer service person's responsibility
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  Speaker 2: or fault. So I just had a stern conversation with
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  Speaker 2: this person and said, if you go back through the
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  Speaker 2: history of our calls, you'll see that we've been trying
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  Speaker 2: to get this one issue resolved for over twelve months,
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  Speaker 2: and I want to be financially reimbursed for the time
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  Speaker 2: you've wasted. And at first he was like, I can't
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  Speaker 2: do that. I was like, yes you can. I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I know that you are a huge corporation and you
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  Speaker 2: can afford this, and the amount of time that you
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  Speaker 2: have wasted of mine, I deserve and my company deserves
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  Speaker 2: to be financially reimbursed. And I said, because why else
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  Speaker 2: would I ever stay with you? Why would I not
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  Speaker 2: just leave right now and change to a different institution
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  Speaker 2: after everything you've put me.
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  Speaker 1: Like put us in if I carried them.
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  Speaker 2: And I was going to say, I was inspired by
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  Speaker 2: Mariah Carey and that time that she sued her ex
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  Speaker 2: for wasting her time in the divorce.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't she get like a designer handbag or something like
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  Speaker 1: anything like that, or like didn't she win?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't remember the details, but it inspired me
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  Speaker 2: enough that we did get a financial compensation. But be respectful.
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  Speaker 2: Oh of course, don't raise your voice. Be respectful.
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  Speaker 1: You catch more flies with honey stern honey than vinegar, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, what's yours? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: My next one is making someone else's day will also
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  Speaker 1: make yours, specifically as strangers. So in our rich in
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  Speaker 1: life journals, there's daily habits that you're supposed to do
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  Speaker 1: every day, and I think next year my focus for
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  Speaker 1: those is going to make them things that just purely
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  Speaker 1: make me happy and it's not about self betterment. So like,
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  Speaker 1: one thing I want to do every single day is
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  Speaker 1: have like one positive interaction with a stranger, even if
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  Speaker 1: that's just smiling at them on the street, or like
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  Speaker 1: when sound I were going to see Wicked, there were
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  Speaker 1: these girls that we drove past that were very obviously
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  Speaker 1: going to see Wicked, and I wound down my window
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, you guys, look fucking amazing, and
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  Speaker 1: they just like started screaming and they were like so happy,
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  Speaker 1: and they started like dancing up the street after that,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, I'm like really really nice. So I just
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  Speaker 1: realized how like egotistical is amazing, but it just honestly,
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  Speaker 1: it brings me so much joy.
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  Speaker 2: One thing that.
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  Speaker 1: I do love to do, especially at this time of
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  Speaker 1: the year, is to wish strangers are happy holiday. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so one thing that I like to do that makes
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  Speaker 1: me feel better than everyone else is whenever I'm getting
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  Speaker 1: out of an uber, or I'm leaving a shop or
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting my groceries, is I like to say not goodbye,
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  Speaker 1: but I like to say have a happy holidays. It
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  Speaker 1: just makes me feel fucking great. I feel like Santa
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  Speaker 1: Claus and I feel like I'm walking on air, and.
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  Speaker 2: I feel better than everyone else. I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: Satan engl.
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  Speaker 1: Like, I just feel it's like the epitome of putting
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  Speaker 1: your hair behind your ear. Like I'm just like that
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  Speaker 1: felt good.
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  Speaker 2: That felt god like, just being like, have a happy holidays,
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  Speaker 2: thank you.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, Sam and I were getting back from being
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  Speaker 1: on the Today Show, which were nailed, and we're pulling
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  Speaker 1: up to our office and in my brain, I'm going,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I reckon, It's time that I can
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  Speaker 1: start saying it now. In two days. It's the first
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  Speaker 1: of December, and I reckon, it's about time, and it's
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  Speaker 1: my first it's my first of the season, and.
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting really excited and somewhat know this.
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  Speaker 1: And so we're getting out of the car and he's
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  Speaker 1: like in like this big fool drive and I've kind
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  Speaker 1: of like practiced in my head already as well, and
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  Speaker 1: I have a.
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  Speaker 2: Happy hold of ow and I fell out of the car.
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  Speaker 2: I fell out of the fucking car.
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  Speaker 1: I have a bruise the size of a fucking handball
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  Speaker 1: on my knee. I fell out of this four wall drive.
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  Speaker 1: And apparently a part that I didn't even see is
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  Speaker 1: that the Uber driver didn't care that I had injured
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  Speaker 1: myself while trying to wish him a happy Holidays, but
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  Speaker 1: in fact turned to sell and started piecing himself with
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  Speaker 1: her because I just like collapsed in the.
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  Speaker 2: Back seat trying to get out.
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  Speaker 1: I think I still have the bruise. But do you
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  Speaker 1: know what, even though it ruined my day, it made
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  Speaker 1: his and it made mine too, and that also made
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  Speaker 1: my day.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm quite.
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  Speaker 1: Happy with how it worked out, minus the injury.
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  Speaker 2: But I haven't I haven't.
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  Speaker 1: Actually said it since.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I'm not. I know, I remember, Oh well I
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  Speaker 2: said it on the weekend when I was doing some
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  Speaker 2: gristal I hope you did. But I like laughed at
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  Speaker 2: the end because I remember you such a mean, so
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  Speaker 2: funny fuck.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Number five. My next life lesson is one I picked
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  Speaker 2: up from a book that I read this year called Phosphorescence.
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  Speaker 2: Have you seen that?
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  Speaker 1: What a mouthful? Mo?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's by Julia Baird, and I think it came
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  Speaker 2: out maybe like last year or the year before. In
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  Speaker 2: this book, she talks about the concept of freuden Freud.
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  Speaker 1: What the fuck are these words that you're saying? Sound?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, phosphorescent. It sounds that you're making up word. I
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  Speaker 2: am big bam Yeah, the concept of Freud and Freud.
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  Speaker 2: Apologies if I butchered the pronunciation, but essentially it's taking
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  Speaker 2: joy in someone's success, which is the opposite of another word,
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  Speaker 2: which is shaden freud shouden freud.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So in this episode we've had scudden Freud, Freuden, Freud,
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  Speaker 1: and phosphorescent. Okay. I just wanted to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: I was up.
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  Speaker 2: To take Yeah, you're great, this is your word of
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  Speaker 2: the day calendar. I'm building. I feel like I'm playing
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  Speaker 2: wordle But yeah, so it's the opposit that of Shade
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  Speaker 2: and Freud, which is taking joy in someone's misfortune demise,
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  Speaker 2: which I understand is ironic because I'm laughing at you
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  Speaker 2: for falling out of the car.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're being very taden Freud right now.
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  Speaker 2: I am. But I think this is something that we've
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  Speaker 2: spoken about on the show before. But I always love
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  Speaker 2: when you hear like a word or a phrase that
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  Speaker 2: really encapsulates something, because I feel like that notches in
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  Speaker 2: your brain and can act as a good reminder, which
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  Speaker 2: I think is really great because it means that you
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  Speaker 2: are having empathy for other people around you and not
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  Speaker 2: getting jealous or not having any of those negative thoughts
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  Speaker 2: when somebody else is experiencing something good in their life,
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  Speaker 2: and that it isn't a game of comparison or competitiveness. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: which I think a lot of us do experience and
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  Speaker 2: is so normal. But it's so freeing once you let
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  Speaker 2: go of that. And I also think that in the
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  Speaker 2: age of the Internet that we're living in right now,
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  Speaker 2: there's always so much internet drama happening and in Australia,
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  Speaker 2: tall poppy syndrome is absolutely rife and we love seeing
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  Speaker 2: the downfall of someone.
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  Speaker 1: Especially this year. I feel like this year the tall
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  Speaker 1: Poppy cycle has been crazy crazy, Like within weeks of
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  Speaker 1: something popping off, it's like that's then the signal for
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  Speaker 1: people to be like, Okay, what can we see is
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  Speaker 1: wrong with this now? Yeah, wrong with them or wrong
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  Speaker 1: with it or whatever it is, and it's like, oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And I do think there is power in holding people
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  Speaker 2: accountable who deserve to be held accountable. But I also
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  Speaker 2: think that this is seeping into our everyday lives as well,
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  Speaker 2: and I think it makes us so much more critical
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  Speaker 2: and less likely to be happy for somebody else. I'm
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: just ready to poke holes in something good that's happening
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: for somebody else, or something that's happening in the world.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: So fraud and for it that ties into mine. Whow
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: So our sixth life lesson is a quote and it says,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: some people never clap for you. If you continue waiting
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: for their applause, you'll never achieve a thing. I love
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Drop the mic, HP the mic. Sometimes we do things
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: from a place of competition or from a place of
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: proving a point, and when it stems from that, you're
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: never necessarily doing anything for the right reasons. Doing something
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: for you for the sake of bringing joy for yourself
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: or for others, however that looks, is always going to
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: be so much more fulfilling than doing it out of spite,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: or doing it in competition, or doing it just because
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: you want praise. Especially in my early twenties and in work,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: I would work so so so hard just because I
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: wanted people to tell me I did a good job.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Like that was like fucking music to my ears, like
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: I could kick a door off its hinges at some
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: positive reinforcement, and there's definitely still the time and place
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: for that, but it meant that whenever I didn't get that,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: it felt like all my work was for nothing. It
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: felt like if someone didn't, you know, give me a
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: compliment or say good job, or at least acknowledge that
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: I'd done something or worked hard, then that felt like
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: all of that was for nothing, not as if I
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: had actually just done a really good job and got
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: something done, or I did work really hard or I
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: learned something new. All of those achievements internally were like
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: nothing because no one else saw it or no one
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: else applauded me. And once you realize that the biggest
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: applause that you can give yourself is from yourself. Everything
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: else doesn't fucking matter, And it helps you prioritize the
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: things that actually matter that you want to do. And
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: so you know, getting a promotion at work and all
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: of that is amazing, but it really helps you stabilize
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: what your values are and what you would actually applaud
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: yourself for rather than other people. It takes away that
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: need to people please.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: I guess. Yeah, And if praise is your only motivator
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: or your biggest motive, then you're always relying on somebody
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: else to feel proud of yourself, and that's exhausting.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Give yourself a pat on the back.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Come on, chicks, everyone. Next life lesson. If you have
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: a fear of something, it's never too late to overcome it.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: What I was referring to, I guess when I was
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: reflecting on this life lesson is public speaking, which I
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: know is ironic because we have a podcast. But speaking
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: into a microphone to you chicks, who I know and
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: hope love us and it's a welcoming space, is very
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: different than when you're speaking in front of a huge
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: group of people. For example, at the live show or
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: on live TV, on somebody else's podcast, or hosting an
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: event or whatever it is. And I've always been really
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: scared of public speaking and would always say I'm bad
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: at public speaking, like it wasn't an opinion, it was
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: a fact for me and part of my personality and
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: something that I thought that never change. That's me, that's
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: who I am. And I still think that I have
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: a long way to go when it comes to that.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: But this year, the opportunities that have been given to
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: us forced me to face that fear, and I've realized
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: that exposure therapy to a fear can definitely help you
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: get through it. But raw dogging it isn't always the
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: best scenario. If you speak to somebody professionally, or if
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: you open up to a friend, or if you read
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: a book or listen to a podcast, or get tools
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: that can help you face whatever fear you have, that
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: will set you up and to make you feel so
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: much more confident than if you were to just raw
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: dog it. I think sometimes we're just like, oh, cold turkey,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: I'll throw myself in the deep end. And I do
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: think sometimes that works, but also sometimes that'll go wrong
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: and then that'll make you even more scared of the
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: thing that you were fearful of in the first place.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: So do the work to get you there to face
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: whatever your fear is, and it will get easier. It's
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: still hard, but the more that you face these things,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: it does get easier with time. But I think preparing
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: yourself with the right tools or strategies, whatever it is
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: to face that fear will really help you and make
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: you feel more confident.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Exactly what you're saying is what we spoke about in
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: the Live Show of when you think you can't do something,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: like you're saying it as if it's like a belief
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: in a fact, and as soon as you give your
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: brain evidence to tell it otherwise, that's when you start
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: believing the other version of it.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: So, like you, you know, speaking at the Live show
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: and doing TV talks and talking at conferences and things
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: like that, you're giving your brain evidence to show like
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: you're not bad at public speaking, like that's not a fact.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which is okay.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: My eighth life lesson of twenty twenty four cocktails kind
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: of suck?
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah wow? Yeah what cocktails?
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Like all of them?
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: I just feel like they're too expensive. Anymore to be
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: worth it. It is more rare to that. I feel like
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I get a cocktail nowadays and I'm like, damn, yeah,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: that was worth twenty five dollars, you know what I mean?
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: So true? Yeah, I love an espresso.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Martini, don't get me wrong, But is it worth it? Yeah?
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: All right, I'm like, is it worth spending like twenty
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: five dollars on a spicy margarita? Like they're just too
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: expensive now. If we're at a happy hour, sure this
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: changes things all right, But they're just so expensive now
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: that for one, the time it takes to wait for
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: them at the bar, that's the real kick for horrible two.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: If they're made, well, sometimes you get them and you're like,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: oh that's not what I thought it was going to be.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so true.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Well, like I spend twenty five dollars on an espresso
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: martini and it was made with bourbon. Yeah, disgusting disc
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: that was like reimagined And I was like, disgusting, how
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: about that? Should I imagine that this dispersion my teeny
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: is gross and they're just too expensive. So for me,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: I think cocktails are an out for twenty twenty five
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: and getting mummy wine drunk is in. That's always been
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: in for me though, right, Yeah, look a glass of
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: wine or a bud Clime soda. That's it, That's all
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: I need.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: A vode Clime soda is a tiless classic, and I
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: won't hear any bad words.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: All right, what's your next one?
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Okay? Our night life lesson of twenty twenty four is
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: that female friendship is finally getting the recognition it deserves.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: This is what I mine amazing. But yes, look, maybe
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Finding Your People started this trend. Obviously. I think it
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: definitely did a book about the Ultimate guy, do Bye,
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Sally and Alex Rogan. I think the whole year has.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Just been like a feminineo on and on if you will, Yeah,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: so true, like the Rise of Me.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and obviously Wicked has really helped cement this at
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: the tail end of the year with the very powerful
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: friendship between Ariana and Cynthia. And I think it's so
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: nice just seeing that on a worldwide stage. And I
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: know that people are poking fun at them for always
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: holding hands and crying and their interviews, but I actually
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: think it's really beautiful and really powerful and something that
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: deserves to be applauded as well, as you know, sometimes
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: giggled at, but just for fun.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I think if people saw two people in a couple
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: doing that, they would think it was really cute. They'd
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: be like, oh, look at them, they're so in love.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Whereas you see two female friendships like being so in
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: love with each other that for some people it's like
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: laugh that, whereas that should be something that's celebrated to
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I found like such a platonic soul made in someone
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: is something that is amazing and so nice to see.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is beautiful, and I almost I do hope
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: that we see something similar for male friendships in the
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: future two and that that is celebrated in the same
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: way without being a joke and a romance in that way.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Our tenth life lesson of twenty four is one that
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I saw from Caitlin Amico on TikTok and she saw
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: it from somewhere else, but I don't know where that was.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: And nothing has ever rocked me to my care more.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: And it's that once you wear a shirt to bed,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: the shirt is dead.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: I saw this as well, where's the lie?
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: So once you wear like a graphic tea or a
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: top or something and you sleep in it. That is
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: now a bedtime top. You don't wear it out anymore.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: It's not like your nice shirt anymore. And I was like,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: oh my god, there's so many shirts in a graveyard
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: now because I slept in them once. Yeah, which is
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: just like obviously not true, like I still wear them
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: all the time, but it's.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Like, but now they're a bad shot.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Now they're bedtime ts.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: I think that the this is like the trajectory of
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: a T shirt going out shirt, yep, gym or workout
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: shirt yeap, tanning shirt, Oh yeah, bed shirt.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say something controversial. Sometimes my gym shirts
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: and my sleep shirts interchange. Oh like a sleep a
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: bedtime T and a gym T they're the same thing.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: They're both an oversized tea.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: I think for me, a tan T and a gym
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: T can interchange, but not a bed te.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Has to be that's that's for that purpose, and that
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: purpose only because over time, that thing is like that
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: sounded be going.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Please help me, you need to give me. It's giving God, Yeah,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: it's giving.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: sCOD it's giving scud waits scuddar twenty twenty five words
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: of yeah done. But yeah, when I saw that I
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: was like, Will, It's true, she's got a point.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: We've just never had a unique experience ever. No, and
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: that's okay.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: I love that. Our eleventh life lesson from twenty twenty
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: four also kind of relates to your last one in
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: a weird way, and it's that if you spray hair
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: spray on the collar of a white T shirt, it
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: stops it from getting makeup stains on it. Have you
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: tasted this? Yes?
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: And it works?
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Yes? Oh my god, this is going to change your life.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I know. Sal is probably the number one culprit for
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: getting makeup on clothes.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just like the dewy makeup you know. Yeah, it's
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: just a quick hac.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I love that. Definitely something that I will also start doing.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so good, so easy.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Our twelfth life lesson of twenty twenty five is less
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: is More And this has definitely been something especially that
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: I learned with skincare and again, never had a unique
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: experience in our entire lives because I think from multiple
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: creators and multiple people online, all I've been seeing is
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: how we all collectively fucked up our skin barrier from
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: using way too many products and way too many actives.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: I also don't necessarily think it's our fault. I think
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: the information that we're given with you know, brands. It's
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: really interesting to see because I think at the start
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: of this year and the year before so twenty twenty
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: three slash twenty twenty four, everything was about actives. It
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: was about salicylic acid and bh and aahs and how
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: it's going to give you baby skin you won't need boats.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Gave a Venkas clear your pa that bad?
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: That right, I love that soul.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's like use this acid and this acid
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: and this active and do that. And every brand was
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: bringing out products that had actives in it, right, So
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: we're like, fuck, yeah, give me that shit. Now all
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: of us have fucked up skin barriers, and guess what
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: brands are bringing out. It's all products to repair your
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: skin barrier. And I'm like, okay, so what meeting did
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: y'all have that It just kind of I don't really
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: there's no really solve for it. It's just something that annoyed me, basically,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: And something that I noticed is that sometimes it's really
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: important just to stick to what you're already doing. Un
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: less is more, because you know, I got so wrapped
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: up and We'd try so many products in this job,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: which is such a privilege, but it meant that I
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: was using so much stuff on my skin that I
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: just did not need to be using, and I completely
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: cooked my skin barrier. And it was only once I
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: went to a dermatologist, which you think, you know they're
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: going to sell you more. They're going to be like, no,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: use this and this and this, which one pisces me off,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: like stop doing that. I know people have like KPIs
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: they have to hit, but it ruins the experience, especially
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: after a massage, definitely. And they were like, just stop
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: using all of that, and they're like, what are you using?
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: And this is faciale in Bondi. They've got one in
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Neutral Bay and a couple other destinations. I could not
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: recommend them enough. They are amazing and they didn't try
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: to sell me a single thing. The dermato was like, Okay,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: what are you using, looked at what I was using
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: and they're like, cool, keep using these three and fuck
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: the rest off.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: And that's it. Just use that.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I don't use any actives on my skin anymore. I
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: use a cleanser at night, a cleansing balm, a cleanser
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: and moisturizer. In the morning, I put sunscreen on. That's
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: fucking it. Four products is my skin careage. It's and
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: my skin has never, ever, ever, ever been better, Like
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: to the point that I most days go without wearing
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: any foundation or anything I put on like a skin
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: tint and some concealer. And it's literally changed my entire life.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: And I just think that whole narrative is something that
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: like I'm trying to apply to more parts of my
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: life of less is more like my wardrobe, my hair,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: my entire life. That's so true, you know, like it
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: just really showed me how much we can overcomplicate things
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: just out of what we're told. Is amazing, and especially
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: in a world where they a new viral product, you know,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: every month, every week, every day, it is good to
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: kind of keep that in the back of your mind
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: of being like do I really need this? And I'm
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: also very conscious that we it's our job to kind
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: of discuss what's viral and what's trending and what's going on,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: but that that's also doesn't always mean that you need
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: to buy that, yeah, of course, And I think that's
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: a message that we've really tried to kind of lean
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: into this year being like this is like the vibe
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: because it's fun to talk about, but you don't actually
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: have to buy it.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. That's why it pays to see a professional
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: one hundred percent of a dermatologist and if you are
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: having skin concerns instead of getting into the bathroom and
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: acting like a mad scientist.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Or like watching multiple people and the like. I definitely
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: think there are amazing experts online. And that's not to
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: take away from that, but probably like a sub lesson
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: to that is like find an expert that you can
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: be consistent with, Like finding a dermatologist, a hairstylist, a beautician.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Whatever it is that you can be consistent with and
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: you genuinely trust is going to really really help you,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: like cut through the noise of what you need versus
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: what you actually need.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Next life lesson is that I am like every other girl. Yeah,
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: you know that trend years ago and I was like,
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: I'm not like other girls. We are all like every
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: girl and that's the best part and that's what makes
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: it so fun. Of course, we're all Every person is
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: unique and individual and has their own interests and experiences,
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: but we also share so much and how cool is that?
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, to have such a collective and community in women.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Especially in womanhood, Like we do have so many experiences
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: that we share together that are silly and goofy and
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: fun that just make life the best. And then there
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: are also things that we share that are hard, which
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: I think can bring us closer together. And rather than
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: having that whole narrative of oh, well, they're not a
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: girl's girl, or I'm not like other girls or pick
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: me girl or whatever, let's all celebrate the things that
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: we do have in common and build each other up
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: instead of competing against each other.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: I can't agree more. Okay, our fourteenth life lesson of
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four is simply trying to be better with
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: your money is half the battle. And if you're already
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: doing that, you're already winning. And I wanted to share
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: some signs that you're doing better financially than you think
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: you are, because it's very, very easy to get down
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: on ourselves about our financial situation. And I wanted to
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: share this list because I think if you can relate
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: to even one of these things, then that's such a win,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: and that's such an amazing thing. And if you can't
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: relate to any of them, but you even just want
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: to start trying for one of them. That's amazing. So
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: I don't want anyone to listen to this list and
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: like cool, I don't have any of that. I'm a failure,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: absolutely not, because just simply trying to get better with
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: your money is half the battle. So number one is
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: you have one thousand dollars saved. Forty five percent of
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Australians don't. Number two you've got no credit card debt.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Sixty eight percent of ozsie's do. Number three, you're investing
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: in the share market. Forty two percent of women don't.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Number four you have no car payment. The average new
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: payment is seven hundred and sixty dollars a month.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Well, I know. And number five you have a will.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, fifty two percent of ozsi's don't. So this was
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: according to the Ladies Finance Club. And I just love
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: this list because I think even if you have one
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: of these, you can feel so much better about yourself.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: And even if you have don't, you can pick one
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: and you can use that as your goal to move
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: forward into twenty twenty five so that you can start
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: feeling little bit stronger in your finances and the active
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: changes that you were putting in every day to move
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: towards having a better financial situation or literacy.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: Shit, I need to get a will. I know nice,
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: I like it. Our fifteenth life lesson is that if
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: your undies are looking worse for wear, throw them away.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: Why do we always keep them until the point where
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: they look like the Spider Man mask or a piece
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: of Swiss cheese? And the reason I learned this life
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: lesson is because I was wearing a pair of seamless
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: undies that I've had for years and years and years,
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: and They've slowly but surely started to connected the waistpan
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: on the side, and I was wearing them to a concert.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: All yeah, your embarrassing thing has happened, and they split.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: And they broke. And I wasn't wearing jeans, I wasn't
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: wearing shorts, wear sirt. I was wearing a mini slip
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: dress with nothing to keep the undies in, nothing to
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: keep the undies from showing. Because if you imagine that
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: you're wearing a pair of undies and they're held up
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: by hips in your legs, and because they're you know, together,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: if it comes unpart, it's basically like.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: George of the jungle, like like swinging.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Down and just hangs down by your side and there's nothing.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: I like had to hold my legs way do you
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: just take them off together? Well to get from the
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: middle of the concert then to the toilet. Yeah, yeah,
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: and then go and take them off and then you're
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: wearing no undies shoes. It was so hot, just was
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: not and then you're having to like walk up train
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: steps and stuff get out.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Like a slipskirt that's gonna blow around everyone.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: A good time? When did this happen a while ago?
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Now?
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: How could you saving it for a soul life lesson?
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: I got I love that that happened to you.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, good time. Fine.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Finally there's a naked story from Zau that ties into mine.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Stop wearing uncomfortable clothes nice.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: You're the only.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Person that knows what size you're wearing. You're the only
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: person that knows how it feels, and you're the only
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: person that knows how you feel. So whar what makes
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: you feel good and comfortable? And don't get caught up
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: on a number on a tag because no one else
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: can see it and no one else cares, and if
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: they do, that's a weird fucking vibe from them.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and also it means nothing. The number means it's nothing.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: It's made up, yes, literally made up. It's fake.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: But the feeling of comfort that you have or discomfort
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: is real. It's wild.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Like I shared this life lesson I think last year,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: but it was about how I got I got so
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: caught up in being a size that I used to
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: be and how if that changed then there was something
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: fairly like within me which just is so not true.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: And the second that I let go of that and
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: I actually just walk close that fit me and felt
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: nice and I didn't feel uncomfortable in them, Like my
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: whole quality of life, as silly as that sounds, just
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: completely improved.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Comfort is king exactly Number seventeen. Go see the Support
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Act because you never know this time in twelve months,
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: they may be the biggest pop star in the whole
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: world and it will be one of your biggest regrets.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: And I think a lot of people can relate to
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: this because earlier this year, Taylor Swift was here on
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: her errors tour supported by Sabrina Carpenter, and she was
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: already huge and had a massive following at the time.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: But I know for us personally, we were running late
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: from work we saw her. We missed out on half
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: of her set. What Yeah, because we were running late
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: from work and.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: I didn't even know that.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: That's one of my biggest regrets of the year, if
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: I have to have one, it's not that serious, it's
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: not that nonsense. Than we did. That's what matters, And
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: she was amazing, and if anything, I'm so glad that
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: we did get to see her, but I wish we
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: got to see the whole performance. And I just think
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: that it's a good reminder to go see the support act,
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: even if they're not going to end up being a
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: huge star. Like it's a great way to get introduced
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: to musicians and artists that you may not have seen otherwise,
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: and to show up and support them and maybe discover
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: something that you like, or get to see the biggest
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: pop star in the world without even having to pay
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: for a ticket for their own show.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Our eighteenth life lesson of twenty twenty four it's to
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: spend more time with your girlfriends, especially the ones that
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: make you laugh, and to prioritize new friendships just as
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: much as old ones. So this year, Soul and I
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: went to Europe and it was the best time. But
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: probably one of the biggest highlights was seeing our best
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: friend Helena, who is the speak is gremlin in the
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: world in the best way, in like in the worst way.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: The best thing is that she's so beautiful and just
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: looks like the epitome of an Irish princess that you
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: would expect, and then she has the personality of like
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: an Irish uncle.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: And she just makes us fucking laugh. And it maybe
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: took like a couple hours more of like planning for
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: this holiday to make it work, but it's so worth
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: it as well. I think this year we've just made
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: so many new friends and that just bring so much
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: joy to my life, especially one of them being Gema
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Spag who we work in the office with, who never
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: fucking fails to make us laugh with like her kookieness,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: like I just love it, And like Mattie McCrae, who
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: is also become like one of our best friends. And
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: even just like the other weekend, like I was like
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: feeling a bit mopey and I was like, oh, I
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: think I need some girl time, and I just messaged
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: a bunch of people that like I've never hung out
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: with one on one. It's always kind of been like
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: in a passing thing, yeah, and I was like.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: Do you want to come over? And then they're like, yeah,
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: And it just is something that has been an absolute
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: pleasure and highlight of my year was making new friendships
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: that have no requirement, no pressure, there's no three years
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: of history that means that we have to be friends.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: We're simply friends because we enjoy each other's company and
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: it's just been so fun.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: Next life lesson, Yes, and it's that there are sharks
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: in European waters as an australiand so dumb well I am.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: I'll put my hand up and admit to it. That's
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: why we are new splash. I don't think anybody's surprised.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: But the whole time that we were in Europe, when
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: we were swimming in Italy and whatnot, we would be like, oh,
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: it's just so nice being able to swim in really
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: deep ocean water and not have to worry about sharks
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: like you would in Australia. And long story short, there
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: are sharks in the Mediterranean. And we went on a
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: boat trip one day and Alex went home because she seasick,
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: and we were on our last stuff of the day.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: We stopped at a few really beautiful spots and went swimming,
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: and the last one was really really gorgeous, but the
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: water was like dark blue, almost black.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: The od doometer didn't even pick up what the bottom.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the right meter thing, but
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: we're gonna know.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: No domters a car. Isn't that the speed hold on.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: The thing that picks up the bottom of depation? Yeah?
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, whatever, the measure the tool that measures the depth
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: of the ocean, it couldn't even pick it up.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: And meanwhile, me and Maddie McCray just jumped in and
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: we're swimming around playing Mermaids and Maddie.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: Swims like twenty meters away because she needs to pee.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, and I'm just like playing Mermaids. And then
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: rob Al's boyfriend, who's still with us on the boat,
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: didn't hop in, and I just thought like, oh, it
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: was like the end of the day, Like we've just
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: dried off and we're about to go home, Like he
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: probably is just tired and doesn't want to come in.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: We're swimming around, and then at one point I like
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: looked down and I had an ear infection. At this
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: point of the trip, so I wasn't really supposed to
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: be putting my head under the water, so I just
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: put my face in with my ears out and like, look,
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: see if I could see any fish or whatever. And
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: I thought I would do that both, that's so scary. Well,
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: because I wasn't thinking.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: I was like, you this fucking water, ever, and You're like,
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: let me look into the depth of the abyss.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: I was thinking maybe i'd see a fish. You're a momaid,
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: not a shark. Anyway. I saw something, a flash of
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: something really far down. I don't know what it was.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: It could have been a fish, it could have been
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: something anyway, but I saw it. And then immediately I
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: was like, Maddie, I reckon, we should get in now.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: And then I didn't really think of it ever like
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: again after that until a few months later we were
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: all going out and Rob was like, I have to
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: tell you something, and then in an uber like on
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: the way to drinks or something, he told me that
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: the reason that he didn't get in is because the
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: oh Doomedo or whatever that was couldn't sense the bottom
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: of the ocean. And he was like, it felt sharky,
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: it felt and he said it felt sharky, and we
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: googled it and there are sharks in the Mediterranean, So yeah,
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: a good lesson.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: So I swam with sharks in Europe.
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: Nice. That's so. One of my taglines from the year
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: is swam the sharks in Europe. Nice.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Our twentieth life lesson for twenty twenty four and it's
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: this quote that I saw, and it said, feel sorry
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: for people who are mean, because if they can talk
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: horrible to other people, imagine how horrible they can talk
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: to themselves. If someone can speak so badly about someone
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: they don't know, they barely know, or they do know,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: imagine how they speak to themselves. That's just their own unhappiness,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: like leeching out like oil.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so true, and it has nothing to do with you.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: And the worst thing that you can do is get
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: stuck in that oil. Slip.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, in the scud, take a shot every time we
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: say scared. Scared. Next life lesson, switching gear is something
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: a little bit more deep and meaningful, and I guess
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: it does kind of relate to one of your previous
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: life lessons. It is to not take your friendships for
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: granted and your relationships with the people that you love
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: for granted, and that it's never too late to forgive
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: somebody or resolve things or try and work through something,
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: because nothing in life is certain, and you know, people
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: can come and go out of our lives, whether you
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: know that's a you know, moving into a different chapter
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: or literally if something happens to somebody that you love
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: and like, you're just never guaranteed that you'll be able
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: to have another conversation with somebody, And if you do
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: get an opportunity to do that, grab that opportunity and
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: try and resolve things with someone, or even if there
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: isn't a conflict, and you have an opportunity to show
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: somebody that you love them who maybe you haven't had
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: that conversation with in a while, show them that you
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: appreciate them. Just take those opportunities as much as you can,
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: because they're not always guaranteed, and there will be things
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: in life that will make you realize that, but you
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: don't have to wait for those bad things to happen
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: to realize it.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Our twenty second Life Lesson of twenty twenty four and
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: everything Shower heals all. Honestly, I don't know what it is.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know what black magic isn't it. But if
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: you're feeling down, if you're feeling flat, if you're feeling
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: if you're feeling scud, then and everything shower, quite literally,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: is like a reset button. I don't know what it is.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: It's a cosmic power that when you haven't everything shower
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: and you wash your hair and you moisturize and exfoliate
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: your body and you feel like clean. It's like the
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: world is your oyster and there's no problems anymore.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: They are you've washed them away.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you've shedded your skin. Maybe it's a physical act
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: of shedding, a cleansing and cleansing, I would say, and
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: everything shower and an ocean swim heel all honest, if
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: you are having a bad day, go for a swim
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: and have an everything shower and you'll be right as rain.
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: So true, so true. A twenty third life lesson of
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Getting to the end, and it's like,
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: you chicks are the best. And we've always known this,
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: but I think we're just reminded time and time again
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: that you chicks are so special and we're so lucky
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: to have you. And one moment that sticks out for
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: me that was a reminder and a life lesson of
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: this this year is that at our live show, our
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: management was helping give out the goodie bags and everything
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: and helping manage the cues and whatnot before the show,
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: and they came backstage before we were about to go
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: on and they were telling us that how it's so
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: interesting how different podcasters or content creators or whatever, all
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: of their audiences are so unique and different in their
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: own way. And the one word that they used to
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: describe you chicks was sweet, and how you were also
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: lovely and the way that you guys were like chatting
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: about how you were excited about the show or making
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: friends with each other or giggling with your friends, that
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: you all seemed so sweet, and how you're being so polite,
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: you know, getting your goodie bags and so patient and everything.
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: And yeah, I guess because you know, we are connected
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: with you chicks. We get to talk to you in
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: the DMS and hear from you, and we have always
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: felt connected with you. But the fact that we actually
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: got to see you chicks in one huge room all
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: together and really connect with you in person and got
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: to meet a few of you after the show, you
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: chicks are just the best, the fucking best.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay. Our twenty fourth life lesson of twenty twenty
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: four is that you are so much more capable than
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: what you think you are. When we started this podcast,
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: I don't think we ever imagined that it would grow
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: to what it is. And as two people who constantly
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: doubt themselves, but at least we have like each other,
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: it's really powerful to look back on everything that we've
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: achieved in the last year and in the last twelve months,
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: we've written and launched our first book, sold out, our
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: first live show, launched a small business, enrich in Life,
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: had a top three podcast, given away over twenty thousand
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: dollars worth of prizes, gone on our dream trip to Europe,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: and grown our audience to a collective of over one million.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: And I think my biggest life lesson this year is
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: just that I'm so proud of us.
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: Oh God, why do we always cry these fucking episodes,
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: And just being able to say one of those things,
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: I would have been so ecstatic and proud of us,
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: But to be able to say all of those is
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: just fucking.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: Scud blowing, you know, It's just it's fucking mind blowing.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: And we wouldn't be here without the incredible community that
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: we have supporting us, and our management and our therapists
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: and our friends and Rush, our producing credible fucking producer
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: who deals with us and has to make the cuts
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: every week on the podcast, and just so many people
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: that have truly made this year probably the best year
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: of our entire lives.
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: And I just I can't wait to live more life.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: Lessons and share them with the chicks every single fucking year.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: And I hope it never ends. I know we'll be
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: doing twenty eighty four eighty four listens from twenty eighty four.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: That'll be the whole show.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: We'll have to do that for every episode. If you
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: actually put your peels behind your tongue, you get double
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: when we bring it round. That's my left ess and no,
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: but truly and from like the deepest darkest points of
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: our hearts.
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: Thank you chicks for.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: Having us in your ear holes. We really really love
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: to be here.
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: We do can't wait to get back in the twenty
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: twenty five.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: I'm tongue in your ear right now, can you feel it?
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: That was me? Because we are going to be taking
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: a short break over the Christmas period just to get
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: some R and R.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but we'll have some episodes still going out that
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: are our top highlights from the year that if you've
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: already listened to them, they're filled with a bunch of
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: reminders for you to take into twenty twenty five. If
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: you haven't listened to them, then enjoy listening to that
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: for the first time. Yeah, exactly, everyone go read Phone
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: of Class. Yeah, that's the one you need.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Thanks, Chicks so much fun that these episodes are
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: always like one of our favorites and they're.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: Also favorite And we're really sorry for saying scuds so much.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: I think new Chicks will get around it if I
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: know anything about you law scuds.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: You know, like random from Chicks Discards. I'm down, down, done,
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: and that's what we'll leave you on. Thank you so much,
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: Chicks for having us in your eheals. We truly fucking
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  Speaker 1: love to be here. And shout out to MK made
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  Speaker 1: and Rosh for always making these episodes of two Bro
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  Speaker 1: Chicks happen so you in twenty twenty five. Chiggy Chicks,
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  Speaker 1: Love Yeah, Love Yah.