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Season of Decluttering · Nick and Kristen in the Podcast

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  Hello and welcome to Nick and Kristen in the podcast.
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  I'm Nick, that's Kristen and welcome to the podcast.
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  So we we used to be a morning radio team.
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  We're married, we have a daughter that's seven.
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  And now we're going to talk about just things that are going
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  on in our life so people can keep up with us after being let
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  go from our job and follow along our journey as we find somewhere
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  else to do stuff. Wow, that was eloquently said.
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  Yeah. Yeah, I'm a poet.
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  Oh. Boy.
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  So the first thing we want to talk about is the most
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  fascinating thing you can possibly talk about, which may
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  be the reason why we no longer have a job.
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  There's this big box that came with this tiny thing.
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  In it I know so I, I know everybody has a story about
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  this. I know it's so compelling,
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  right, but whatever it's visual. So I got this box from Amazon.
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  I ordered something and I was like, that seems like an awfully
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  large box for the thing that I ordered and I could shake it and
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  it like didn't shake and so I was like, well, OK, this is very
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  interesting. Opened it up.
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  I, I peered inside. Where is the?
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  Oh there it is. And I just want to show just for
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  scale. Jesus Christ.
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  Like, what are we doing? Amazon?
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  Yeah, what are we doing here? I'm not sure how the process
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  works. I know it's like a line and then
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  like things come down, you throw in.
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  Boxes, but like you, you put this in one of the book sleeves.
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  Like 1 of. The bags.
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  Or yeah, exactly. Like why did this facilitate the
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  entire box? Is it breakable?
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  No. No, I mean, I guess, I mean, I
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  suppose a little bit, but. Is it like, it's not bendy, it's
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  not closed, so maybe there's a rule and that's the smallest.
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  Box technically considered a tech item and so I wonder if
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  that's what gave it a box. But it's just lazy.
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  It's it's it hurts my eco friendly heart.
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  Yeah, well, make sure you recyclable.
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  I know I. Will recyclable.
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  But it's just like, I mean, sorry for all the people
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  listening on like Spotify. Or whatever.
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  It's a tiny, tiny box. Inside of it's a.
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  Very, very tiny box, but it just irritated me and I thought it
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  was kind of funny visual, so there you.
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  Go. We all have that story where we
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  get like, it was like this giant box.
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  Yeah, you're like, I didn't order.
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  Anything. And it was like all stuffed with
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  paper and stuff like that. Like it couldn't possibly move.
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  I'm like, it's all good guys. It's gonna be OK.
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  If you work at Amazon and you know how the rules are, I'd love
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  to hear it. I'd love.
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  To get the insight. I'd love to hear that as well.
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  Where? It's just like, Oh no, we have
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  to put it in that box. There's rules.
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  We can't put it in a bag because it's like fragile or it comes
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  from the certain bin or something.
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  Like that, it's even in a tinier item inside.
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  Yeah, is there a tiny boxes? Hair enough?
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  Yeah, it's like a pen pencil lead, right?
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  Yeah, it's pencil lead for my mechanical pencil.
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  So that's right. Get.
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  Get a. Load of this, it's even hard to
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  get out. So small.
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  Oh my God, is that all that's in the?
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  Box there's like 20 of them, yes.
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  So this was in this. I mean, technically that's about
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  the same proportion. Was in this.
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  This is essentially you can't even, you can't even see it.
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  There are definitely smaller things.
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  They probably should have put that in well.
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  Maybe somebody at Amazon's just having a a fun day, yeah.
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  Maybe the more they. Well, they should put it in a
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  big box. They should have give it you go
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  to the furthest extreme at that point.
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  Yeah, I know the giant like. ATV Box.
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  All right, man, now what's happening?
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  But I'm sure there should be God.
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  I don't know. I don't know what the rules are.
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  All right, if you know, explain. Please.
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  I had an interesting experience today because I've been trying
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  to get rid of all my books. We talked about this on the
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  podcast. I'm sick of looking at all the
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  clutter in my house, all these books that I was saving for like
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  20 years to give to Lily. And then I was like, I don't
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  want her reading this. And also, I don't know if she'd
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  even like this. Pick out her own books.
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  Yeah, I know there was a bunch of books under our spare bed
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  that you want to hold on to because you like the books.
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  Right. I did, yeah.
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  So like I went through that today and I was like OK, we can
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  get rid of a lot of these or whatever or they complete sets
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  that I had from the bedroom. And then I started looking at
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  the bookshelf and I realized that I had unlike 2 bookshelves,
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  all of the notes and all of the papers that I had printed out
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  from getting my masters. And I was like, why am I hanging
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  on to that? And I knew that I wanted to hang
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  on to it because it's like one day I might need something and
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  I'm like, no, I just like Google it like everyone else.
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  Like I'm not sitting there like thumbing through textbooks.
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  So year two I studied Gottman and so I've got to flap through
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  and then under the notes I stated what what was really
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  going on. OK, I get.
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  It it's like I'm not even remotely interested in what any
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  of those things are nowadays. And so it's like I just tossed
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  them all. And it felt really weird
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  because, first of all, well, these were very expensive notes.
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  Very expensive because. Because of how much of matches.
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  Degree cost. And so like, that's all the
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  knowledge that I got from it. I just was like, there you go,
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  trash can. And then you were like, you
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  should try to sell them. I'm like for.
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  What somebody might want to read your notes instead of having to
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  read a textbook? I just no, nobody's going to buy
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  my notes. And like all these papers that I
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  printed out, I was like looking at them and I was like, huh,
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  that's a good idea. Toss are you?
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  Getting like refreshers and you're.
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  Like, oh, because it's like, it's, it's one of those things
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  where it's like, I this was a very long winded story, but
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  there was a thing on the Internet where somebody was
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  taking a picture of themselves in a doctor's waiting room.
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  And they had like, their, the picture out of the the waiting
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  room door. Like they're in the room waiting
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  for the doctor. And the doctor's on the computer
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  and he can see that the doctor Googled his symptoms.
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  Yeah. And so he was like, oh, man,
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  like you always hate it when a doctor Googles your symptoms.
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  And a lot of people commented and they're like, at least the
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  doctor knows what to Google. Like he went to medical school
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  so that he can know what to Google.
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  That's a good. Point you're the one going to
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  WebMD and like making up crazy stuff like he's the one that's
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  like, OK, this is what exactly what I need to know.
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  Yes, he has signs of kind of herpospholates and we've got to
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  remove the. Exactly, like, OK, you don't
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  even know what that bone is called.
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  He does, all right. And so like, yeah, he's not an
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  encyclopedia. Like, and I, I felt that way
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  about myself today 'cause it's like there's been plenty of
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  times I've Googled something or I've used ChatGPT, but it's very
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  specific. Like I have a 10 year old
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  client. I don't by the way, this, I'm
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  just making all this up. Like I have a 10 year old client
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  who's suffering from anxiety and OCD symptoms of checking
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  compulsions create an intervention for me.
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  And it's like I don't have the time to read an entire textbook
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  on OCD right now. I know my kid has OCD.
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  Like I know I've done the assessment for it.
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  Like I know what kind of compulsions he has now spit out
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  an intervention I can do in the session.
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  And. Then you can, as a professional,
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  look over and see if it's legit. Yeah, then I can look and you
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  can correct chat. GBT and go, Oh no, that's not
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  what I wanted you to do like this, right?
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  This is going to cause this instead of this, and then you
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  have to type that back in. But I think we're all guilty of
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  using ChatGPT for our jobs. Right.
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  That's why I'm saying like, like, why am I hanging on to all
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  of these notes? I want to keep the textbooks
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  because they make me look smart. They do.
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  You got to put on your. Shelf.
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  They make me look people like, Oh my gosh, she's read so much
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  about this particular topic. The longer the word the better.
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  It's like, oh. Hypnotherapy.
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  I'm like, Oh yeah, let me thumb through this 800 page book about
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  this one specific thing. Look at all the things I
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  highlighted. Yeah, so I clearly read it.
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  It's hit highlighting. So it's highlighted.
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  Oh my gosh. Highlighting.
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  I was wondering. If you were, I was like, Holy
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  cow, what are we? I like that word better.
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  But anyways, I got rid of all of my notes.
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  I got rid of all the things in my binder.
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  I just chucked it. It was a very heavy bag.
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  It felt pretty good to get rid of him if I'm being honest.
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  Yeah, I've got to make a trip to the dump with all this stuff.
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  So yeah, I've got, I've got a box in the garage.
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  It's full of papers and magazines and things like that.
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  And I'm like, and I, I know I have to go through it at some
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  point. And now that I've reached the
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  point where we're we're what my mom did to me with Lily, we
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  keep. Everything.
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  Well, I went through a lot of it today.
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  Yeah, I kept the ones in the drawer.
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  Yeah. I kept like 5 things from her
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  kindergarten and a couple things from her first grade, and I was
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  just chucking everything. I was just chucking it all.
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  I kept a lot of the artwork because I just think it's cute.
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  And a couple samples of the writing and, like, every time a
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  teacher, like, did like, a little report card.
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  Yeah. Or a little evaluation.
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  I kept all that because that's cute.
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  Yeah. So.
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  Like little box when she gets. Older but her like math homework
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  like I'm not keeping that. Yeah, good for you.
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  Yeah, I understand that you're in math.
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  You are in college now. You probably don't want to see
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  your. Yeah, she doesn't want that.
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  She wants to look back at the pictures and and to be like, Oh
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  my gosh, I used to spell my name like this, you know, that's
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  that. Little stuff, it's true.
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  It's it's so hard to get rid of it.
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  I didn't think it would be. It wasn't today.
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  It wasn't today, Yeah. It's built up so much that now
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  it's like, I don't know, throw it away.
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  Well, and it's funny because I did it in front of her and
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  normally she's like, no, no. And I said, Lily, we are, we are
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  100% getting rid of 90% of this. And she was like, OK, yeah.
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  And she never looks at it. So I just put everything in a
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  pile and I was just like, I'm getting rid of everything.
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  And she's like, oh, can I try my Thanksgiving Turkey hat on one
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  last time? I was like do it because I'm
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  checking. It that's good.
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  She's getting good about it. She was like.
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  Terrible. I was like, good.
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  We're like eliminating the Nick family side hoarder tendencies.
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  Yeah. So this is, well, the damage is
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  where the hoarder comes from. So yeah, we're gonna keep her on
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  damaged. She'll be fine.
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  Yeah, but yeah, this is the summer of decluttering.
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  Yeah, I'm getting rid of everything, man.
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  Yeah. And as you were getting rid of
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  your books, I'm thinking about the books that I have, but I've
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  gone through a pretty good downsizing of my books.
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  All mine are just Star Wars and I've got like 2 shelves, maybe 2
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  little shelves of non Star Wars books.
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  And I think there's maybe three books in there that I'll want to
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  keep. Other than that are.
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  You getting rid of your Star Wars books?
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  I'm not getting rid of my. Why?
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  Because why? Because you want it to look good
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  on a shelf. No, I I've enjoyed the Star Wars
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  series and so like I will, I've already started here and there
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  rereading some of my. Favorites.
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  And so, yeah, I've reread a. Couple of them all right, as
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  long as you're rereading. Yeah, like I'll go back and I
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  read so many so fast that I don't really remember a lot of
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  it. So like at some point I'll go
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  read through it and reread again.
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  Because you're Mr. like, oh, it looks good on a shelf.
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  And it's like we're past that point.
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  I've I've gotten better about that.
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  I got downsized a lot and like now the now the perspective has
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  been given on life. I'm like, do I need 30
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  lightsabers right? And so are you going to get rid
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  of your lightsabers? I may start eliminating those at
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  some point. The hard thing is that they were
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  gifts and it's even harder for me to get rid of.
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  Yeah, from you and I like you and, and I know that they were
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  hard earned. So, but I, I think those will be
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  the last things I get rid of, but I think I'm definitely
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  reducing. Start selling your plasma first.
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  Jeez Louise, I'm. Definitely going to start
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  reducing and less things have become important now that I'm
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  like OK I my money situation is less now.
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  And so. It's giving me perspective.
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  So if anything, this whole restarting of a career and
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  beginning at 42 all over from scratch has just given me good
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  perspective. So lovely, good lessons learned.
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  Yes, exactly. So glad I'm learning this
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  lesson. I'm.
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  So happy that the universe decided to teach me to be
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  humble. Because like, it's not like you
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  had an ego before you. So I don't know how much more
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  humble we could have. Gotten I didn't spend enough
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  years poor that they they gave me like 5 years of like, hey,
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  what else do you want? Take all that away again.
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  So yeah. But yeah, it's fine.
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  We'll be fine. It's fine.
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  So by the way, Speaking of poor, thank you to our sponsor, our
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  sponsor, the Clark County Trash Pandas where community you have
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  to move it so I can read it. Passion and professional
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  basketball come together. We got a package today.
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  OK, so tickets go on sale for the Clark County Trash Pandas in
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  October. You could follow them on
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  Facebook. Really should get an Instagram
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  or TikTok at this point for more updates.
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  Is anyone still on Facebook? I check it occasionally.
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  Facebook is it's the it's at the end, thankfully.
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  I hope so 'cause it's just sort of a cesspool.
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  I do go to marketplace to sell my books.
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  All right, here he comes, the Clark County trash pandas.
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  It's a good shirt. It's a good shirt.
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  It's a good. Shirt.
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  Personally dropped off by the owner I know of the Clark County
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  trash pandas came to my house and everything.
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  I will say he got you one. Oh cool.
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  And it's blue. Oh.
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  Look at that guy that's. Nice.
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  Fancy go take your shirt off Put.
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  That on no, I'm not going come. On put it on, show me something.
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  All right, I will. I didn't notice until I just put
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  it on right now. But I know Brandon listens to
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  this podcast. He's one of the five people that
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  do and there is a dog fur or cat fur on this shirt.
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  So are these used? No, they're not used, but I
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  think they're at his house. It's a small operation that
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  Brandon's got going on. He's just starting.
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  And I noticed because I used to have a cat and there's fur and I
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  I haven't had a fur on my shirt in a long time.
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  So thanks, Brandon, thanks for reminding me.
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  I'm a Buddy Gilligan. But don't forget to it looks
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  big. That's cute, pretty big.
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  It's a good color. But it's a good color.
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  Yeah, Oh yeah. Take it off.
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  So yeah, the Clark County Trash Band is show your support.
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  They're gonna be a local basketball team here for the
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  basketball league. And it's gonna be fun, family
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  friendly, easy, cheap, and you can like go down and support
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  your team. Be a trash panda.
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  They're trying to name their dance team.
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  So I've been trying to go dance team.
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  Yeah, they're gonna have a dance like cheerleaders dance team or
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  whatever. And so I'm trying, they're gonna
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  like they're trying to name it. If you think of the Winter
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  Hawks, they have the Rosebuds. And so it's like, so I've been
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  trying to come up with a name for the little dance squad.
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  My. Gosh, the trash pandas.
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  Well, yeah, something Clark County.
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  Yeah, maybe. Or like the trash brigade or the
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  street sweepers. The sweepers, the sweeper
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  street, I don't know. The tasty morsels.
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  Pest control. That that the trash pandas
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  always want. There you go.
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  I don't know, that feels sexist. If you have an idea, drop it in
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  the comments. I'll send it over to Brandon,
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  say it was my. Idea you could like you could
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  name, Yeah, this is your team. That's pretty.
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  Cool to name the name if you're more creative than us and and
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  you want to name a trash band team, Dance team, yeah.
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  We might need to take a day off so you can pull it together Bud
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  I. Don't think so.
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  There's no day offs in free entertainment, but thank you for
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  Yeah, yeah. Thanks, guys.
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  Bye.