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July Favourites: Little Black Book, No More Maxxing & Elevated Dad Sneaker · Two Broke Chicks

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  Speaker 1: This podcast is recorded on gadagal Land Always was, Always
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  Speaker 2: I'm sal and I'm mean.
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  Speaker 1: And you're listening to to Road Chicks to show that
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  Speaker 1: she has life lessons and tips to help make you
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  Speaker 1: rich in life.
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  Speaker 3: And welcome to our July favorite.
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  Speaker 2: We're officially in less time to Christmas than it has
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  Speaker 2: been since the start of the year, and that is
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  Speaker 2: how I will be measuring the rest of the year.
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  Speaker 3: That is how we always measure time.
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  Speaker 1: It's not by minutes or hours or seconds, it's by
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  Speaker 1: the proximity to Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, literally, how many days until Christmas? They're officially twenty
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  Speaker 2: one fridays until Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: That's exciting.
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  Speaker 2: How good is that? One hundred and forty eight days?
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't sound as good. So twenty one fridays Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go people, Santa's coming in Sana very.
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  Speaker 1: Exciting as our July favorites like It's Christmas or July
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  Speaker 1: Christmas yep. But for any of you chicks who are
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  Speaker 1: new round these parts. In our July Favorites, we're sharing
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  Speaker 1: all of our favoritex from the month.
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  Speaker 3: What we've been shopping, listening to, reading, loving, Oh Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: live bluff.
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  Speaker 2: Love, Live, love Love.
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  Speaker 3: So what's your first favorite for July?
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  Speaker 2: My first favorite for Juaane is my new kindle holder.
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  Speaker 2: I have reached a new level of lazy and I'm
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  Speaker 2: happy to be here.
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  Speaker 3: Tell me about it. So you a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: People are probably seen these online. But it's essentially a
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  Speaker 2: thing that holds my kindle when I'm in bed and
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  Speaker 2: it has a little clicker on it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh so does it clip onto like your bedside table?
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  Speaker 2: So I bought one, didn't rate it. So which was
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  Speaker 2: that's the one that I clipped onto my bedside table
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  Speaker 2: because it came with this little swively arm that was
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  Speaker 2: just such a pain in the ass to use. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: not a huge fan of it. It kind of just
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  Speaker 2: like it would fall off. I also think like having
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  Speaker 2: those clamps on my bedside table. I was worried about
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  Speaker 2: it damaging the table. So the one that I love
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  Speaker 2: is actually a floor stand and it's so it's got
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  Speaker 2: so much better structure to it. It's a floor stand
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  Speaker 2: and you can really move it around, lean it over
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  Speaker 2: the bed, and I basically just don't have to hold
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  Speaker 2: the kindle. But the other part of it is like
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  Speaker 2: it has a little clicker thing on it. So I
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  Speaker 2: am just tucked into bed, dooner to the chin, little
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  Speaker 2: clicker under the blanket, and it's just sitting there and
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  Speaker 2: I'm just clicking and reading my book.
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  Speaker 4: I have never entered a flow state quite like it.
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  Speaker 4: And it was like thirty.
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  Speaker 2: Bucks on Amazon, literally so affordable and just so good.
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  Speaker 2: If you're not a huge reader, like, probably not worth
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  Speaker 2: the investment, because as well, like I do just whenever
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  Speaker 2: I get out of it.
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  Speaker 4: I just put it in the corner of my room
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  Speaker 4: and then when I go to bed, I put it back.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're not a huge reader, it'll probably piss
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  Speaker 2: you off having something in the corner of your room,
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  Speaker 2: or you'll just be like, I don't really use it, so,
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  Speaker 2: which is so fair enough. But it got me thinking
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  Speaker 2: about how much my kindle has saved me. So we
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  Speaker 2: did like a series online and it was like things
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  Speaker 2: to buy that save you thousands of dollars.
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  Speaker 4: So it's kind of like a double whammy.
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  Speaker 2: How we do your favorites. I find that we and
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  Speaker 2: I often think of what have I bought this month?
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  Speaker 2: What have I seen this month? Because naturally it's X
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  Speaker 2: month favorites. But I've started trying to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: I am incorporating things that I've had for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: That is still my favorite thing. Cue the jingle. It's
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  Speaker 2: just the one from last month that was really big,
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  Speaker 2: my kindlestand no, I'm not doing it. So if you
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  Speaker 2: were to buy two books per month, that cost annually
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  Speaker 2: comes to about four hundred.
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  Speaker 4: And eighty dollars for the year.
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  Speaker 2: Right, However, the cost of a Kindle is one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fifty nine dollars, and then I also pay for
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  Speaker 2: the Kindle Unlimited subscription, which is fourteen dollars per month.
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  Speaker 2: So for twenty twenty six, for one year of savings
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  Speaker 2: buying the device and the subscription, I would save one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty three dollars. But I've had my Kindle
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  Speaker 2: for like seven years, so over the cost of its lifetime,
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  Speaker 2: it then increases to savings of three hundred ish dollars
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  Speaker 2: per year. My Kindle has saved me seventeen hundred dollars. Yeah, whoa,
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  Speaker 2: My Kindle has saved me one thy seven hundred and
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  Speaker 2: thirteen dollars by having it for as long as I have.
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  Speaker 2: And give or take that number a little bit, because
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  Speaker 2: sometimes there's books that aren't included in the Kindle Unlimited subscription,
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  Speaker 2: and so those books I have bought, but they're always cheaper.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes if I really like like the book, I
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  Speaker 2: buy the physical book. Yeah. So like that number could
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  Speaker 2: probably be a little bit lower, maybe a little bit higher,
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  Speaker 2: depending on how much I haven't run the numbers on
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  Speaker 2: every single book as a general guide. As a general guide,
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  Speaker 2: it's definitely saved me money, like without a doubt in
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  Speaker 2: my mind, and it is just my favorite thing. Ever.
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  Speaker 4: We've just been in Europe this whole time, and I.
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  Speaker 2: Think about things.
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  Speaker 4: I put things on the scale of if I forgot
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  Speaker 4: it on a holiday, would I buy it? Yeah, and
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  Speaker 4: I would, so, like if I.
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  Speaker 2: Forgot my Kindle on like a month long holiday, I
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  Speaker 2: would have to buy it. It's the same thing as
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  Speaker 2: if I forgot my phone charger, Like it's not actually
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  Speaker 2: it's a negotia, it's a non negotiable.
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  Speaker 4: It must be there. I have to have my book,
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  Speaker 4: my block of Bucker.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we need the blocker bocker time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I completely agree with that. And what I
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  Speaker 1: do love about like a Kindle in comparison to some
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  Speaker 1: other tech items that you might be investing a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more money in.
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  Speaker 3: Is that they're very very very durable.
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  Speaker 2: It last a long time, waterproof really Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Whoa lay on like.
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  Speaker 2: A Lilah in the pool?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes you could.
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  Speaker 5: I like that.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what ones I like when those are
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  Speaker 2: like the ones that are like a little bean doughnut
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  Speaker 2: with the mesh in the middle and your butt really
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  Speaker 2: sinks down and hangs in it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I like that too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I could see.
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  Speaker 5: That for you.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: My first July favorite is an article that I read
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  Speaker 1: that was published on Pop Sugar by the writer Christine Thompson,
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  Speaker 1: and the headline was no more maxing.
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  Speaker 3: Why I'm minusing?
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  Speaker 2: I think I saw this, yes, yeah, yeah, but I
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  Speaker 2: didn't read it, so I'm excited to hear about.
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  Speaker 3: It, to hear all about it.
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  Speaker 1: So you know how like the concept of look looks
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  Speaker 1: maxine or fibermaxing, health maxing, longevity max sleep maxing, like
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  Speaker 1: everything's maxing at the moment, and you know some of
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  Speaker 1: these terms, like I don't.
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  Speaker 3: Know the looks maxing thing.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously that has very problematic roots, but.
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  Speaker 3: I do also think that it's kind of like a
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  Speaker 3: term that is now.
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  Speaker 1: Being just tacked onto everything, and I'm over it are
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  Speaker 1: you Yes, I just am like yeah, and I think
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  Speaker 1: you know we do like we.
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  Speaker 2: Love a glow up, we love a reset.
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  Speaker 1: We love an opportunity to look at life and be like,
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  Speaker 1: where can I optimize here and there?
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  Speaker 3: But I think that like a hack.
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  Speaker 4: I love a hack and a tip.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, something that's going to be optional.
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  Speaker 1: Here you go if you want to hear if you
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  Speaker 1: need yeah it might you need wing attack absolutely, yes, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: the wing attack tips of the wing attack hacks.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I want a book, whereas I feel like
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  Speaker 3: the maxing trend is like all or nothing. It's giving said, giving.
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  Speaker 2: You fucking huh and it's giving.
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  Speaker 4: Like you ugly lazy, stupid fuck.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I worked on this seven. If you're not
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  Speaker 2: up at four A and then you're losing money, you
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  Speaker 2: stupid fuck that. How did you get in?
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  Speaker 3: Was it who gave you a key? Did you get
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  Speaker 3: a key?
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  Speaker 4: You're unaware that you only piece.
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  Speaker 3: Of ship my grament you mom bought me this talk.
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  Speaker 3: I love fucking.
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  Speaker 2: Going this is my grandma did this for me.
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  Speaker 4: Like one thousand, like, hey, that is you are right.
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  Speaker 4: Don't talk to me like that. You need to talking
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  Speaker 4: to poractive boys.
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  Speaker 3: You're being passive.
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  Speaker 4: You're being passive aggressive? You fuck, that's an alphatone.
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  Speaker 2: What I just like, are you all right?
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  Speaker 4: Something happened to yourself against?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's the part that is all over the internet, right,
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  Speaker 1: I can do that for this whole episode.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm over it.
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  Speaker 1: And clearly this all three is too And you know
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  Speaker 1: she was talking about it, and I'll link the article
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  Speaker 1: on the show notes so you can read the whole
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  Speaker 1: thing if you were so inclined.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, she was.
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  Speaker 1: Saying that she agrees like it's kind of like a
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  Speaker 1: lot of pressure to feel like you're constantly optimizing and
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  Speaker 1: that your whole life is like a work in progress project.
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  Speaker 1: And instead of X maxing whatever it is, she's adopting
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  Speaker 1: a new philosophy, which is minusing.
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  Speaker 2: Which that's what that means.
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  Speaker 4: At the start of the episode.
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  Speaker 1: Needs Chad and basically neck is just as thick as
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  Speaker 1: his head.
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  Speaker 3: It's a trade trunk.
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  Speaker 2: It's dumb thumb. He's been next maxing, thumb maxing.
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  Speaker 4: Your thumbs are too weak to fuck.
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  Speaker 3: You give her thumbs off and they're.
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  Speaker 2: Like, loso dumbs up anymore?
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  Speaker 4: You thumb bitched?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So she's instead pose this new philosophy of minusing,
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  Speaker 1: which I definitely related to more and it's all about
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  Speaker 1: getting in touch with yourself and noticing the elements in
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  Speaker 1: your life that are genuinely improving it and then subtracting
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  Speaker 1: the things that aren't. So instead of like looking for
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  Speaker 1: ways to like add more and more into your life,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, what are the things that I'm doing that
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  Speaker 1: aren't working for me and I'm not enjoying and how
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  Speaker 1: can I do less of that?
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  Speaker 3: So she likens it to.
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  Speaker 1: Gardening, where you remove like the weeds and the things
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  Speaker 1: that you don't need in your life, and that gives
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  Speaker 1: space for the things that you actually like.
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  Speaker 2: To chads, yeah, weap the fucking chads out of your life.
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  Speaker 1: And Yeah, while maxing is a trending topic, the article
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  Speaker 1: just reminded me that having a healthy life isn't about
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  Speaker 1: having like maximum of anything.
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  Speaker 3: It's about balance.
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  Speaker 1: Like, instead of focusing all of your time on yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like protein maxing or look maxing or whatever, it is, like,
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  Speaker 1: let's just look at the things that we genuinely need
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  Speaker 1: in day to day life to feel happy and healthy
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  Speaker 1: and check in and just make sure they're all kind
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  Speaker 1: of being taken care of in a similar level.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that. It's like kind of like there's
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  Speaker 2: protein versions of everything now. Yeah, and that's the thing,
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  Speaker 2: Like this show makes me happier than a non protein meal,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like a vodka paca rigatony no protein.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're pastor maxing.
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  Speaker 4: I'm pastor maxing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm wine maxing.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm kissing maxing and I'm laughing maxing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, fuck off, Chad.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, any Chad's listening to this, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Or if like, your partner's name is Chad, Yeah, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Sure you have a lovely partner unless he's like the
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  Speaker 2: guy that broke in at the start.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, did you give.
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  Speaker 2: Him the key? No neck to?
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  Speaker 3: He just giraffe spite.
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  Speaker 2: That's how Chad broke down.
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  Speaker 3: Fullya.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, My next one is binoral beats, not beat troop.
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  Speaker 3: What's that? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: I think you're gonna like this, I know, be with me.
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  Speaker 2: If you haven't heard of them, here's the simple version.
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  Speaker 2: Binoral beats are an audio technique where two slightly different
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  Speaker 2: frequencies are played into each ear simultaneously, so your brain
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  Speaker 2: detects the difference between the two and essentially it sinks
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  Speaker 2: to it, I know. And so the process is called
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  Speaker 2: brainwave entertainment, and it's basically a life hack to lock
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  Speaker 2: in and focus. So depending on the freequency, you can
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  Speaker 2: nudge your brain into a deep state of focus. Relaxivity
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  Speaker 2: is not a word. I was joining two things, so
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  Speaker 2: you can kind of put your brain into like deeper
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  Speaker 2: states of focus, calm, creativity, or even sleep. So as
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  Speaker 2: someone here, I don't know if anyone would pick up
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  Speaker 2: on this, I'm not very good at focusing on one
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  Speaker 2: thing at a time. We have to have like three
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  Speaker 2: hours of best work, and I think every twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, ow, yeah, what's.
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  Speaker 4: Going on with it?
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  Speaker 2: Have you seen?
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  Speaker 4: And I was like, chop the fuck half. It's my
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  Speaker 4: tail that I like pop these on.
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  Speaker 2: And you've probably heard it every now and again when
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  Speaker 2: I would take my headphones off. But it basically helps
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  Speaker 2: you like drop into that like focused statement mode where
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  Speaker 2: you're like, wow, oh so much done. So I really
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  Speaker 2: like it because I find it really helpful. So for
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  Speaker 2: focus specifically, you want beta waves that are roughly fourteen
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  Speaker 2: to thirty hurts HZ. I've actually kind of made up
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  Speaker 2: that that's hurts but I'm assuming it is. So it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of good because it's not necessarily relying on like
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  Speaker 2: caffeine or like convincing yourself to sit down or literally
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  Speaker 2: like taping yourself to a chair, which I did once
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  Speaker 2: in high school. It didn't really work that well, but
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  Speaker 2: I've been using it for when I need to kind
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  Speaker 2: of get into deep work sessions and not be such
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  Speaker 2: like a squirrel.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not like a playlist of ambient noise.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, the best part of it is it's free,
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  Speaker 2: so you can go on YouTube or on Spotify and
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  Speaker 2: they have full playlists, and the playlist on Spotify has
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  Speaker 2: like different beats for different purposes, so you can have
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  Speaker 2: it for sleeping, you can have it for calm, you
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  Speaker 2: can have it for focus, and.
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  Speaker 4: It kind of distracts your brain from being like.
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  Speaker 2: It always, Yeah, my brain is in guitar mode all
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  Speaker 2: the time.
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  Speaker 1: My next July favorite is I don't know, I'm kind
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  Speaker 1: of embarrassed to admit it, but it's a backpack because
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  Speaker 1: I'm a notorious bag lady and I'm always carrying a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of shit and I've like caused serious nerve.
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  Speaker 3: Damage to my should seriously.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I've done this roundup of like everyday work
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  Speaker 1: handbags and brands that you can get good quality handbags
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  Speaker 1: from right, and then a lot of people were like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but I want.
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  Speaker 3: A backpack, and I was like, okay, good point.
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  Speaker 1: And then when I was also doing my own research
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  Speaker 1: before we went on our trip, I'd found this Australian
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  Speaker 1: brand called Ella and Earth and they do a lot
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  Speaker 1: of really beautiful handbags and backpacks, and the one that
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  Speaker 1: I got is the Odyssey Insulated bag, and you can
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  Speaker 1: get them in.
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  Speaker 3: Like a smaller or a larger size.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason that I like it is that you
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  Speaker 1: can wear it as a backpack, but also it has
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  Speaker 1: a shoulder strap, so you can wear it as a
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  Speaker 1: shoulder bag if you want to as well.
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  Speaker 3: It also has one of those straps on the back that.
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  Speaker 1: You can like slide onto your luggage, so if you
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  Speaker 1: want to take it as like you carry on when
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  Speaker 1: you're traveling.
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  Speaker 3: It is also insulated.
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  Speaker 1: As it says in the name, you're using it as
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  Speaker 1: a work handbag, you can take like your water bottle
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  Speaker 1: or your lunch and it's going to keep it cool.
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  Speaker 1: It has like secret pockets on the inside so that
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  Speaker 1: you can put your passport and stuff in there. It's
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  Speaker 1: just a really good, like multi purpose handbag that is
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  Speaker 1: pretty good quality, durable.
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  Speaker 3: And is the sort of bag that you would be
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  Speaker 3: able to use for work or if you're on a trip,
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  Speaker 3: which I love.
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  Speaker 5: Backpack, backpack, backpack, what's your next July favorite?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it's creating your little black book of favorite.
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  Speaker 4: It's not sexually you free.
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  Speaker 2: So basically I feel like we have this conversation a
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  Speaker 2: couple of times, but it's like, I like being able
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  Speaker 2: to go I know a guy, you know, And it's
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  Speaker 2: creating a collection of your fate things in terms of restaurants, services,
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  Speaker 2: you know, handy tradesmen, whatever, and like even beauty therapists
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  Speaker 2: whatever that is, and getting the people that you're like, yep.
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  Speaker 4: That's my person that does that. I like the idea
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  Speaker 4: of that.
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  Speaker 2: I like building that out and being like, cool, I
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  Speaker 2: need my hair done. Bang. If you don't have one
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  Speaker 2: of those, or if you're like, what the fuck are
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  Speaker 2: you talking about?
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  Speaker 4: You could just do it in your notesapp.
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  Speaker 2: But the reason I like it is because it saves
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  Speaker 2: you time, money or a headache. So time because you're
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  Speaker 2: not researching the same things over and over again. You
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: already know the restaurant, the electrician, the dry cleaner. Decision
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: is made in seconds, not hours. Money because panic buying
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: obviously is costing a lot of money. So the first
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: plumber who picks up the restaurant you booked out of
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: desperation almost always costs more. Like your little black book
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: full of people is who's pricing? You know about one,
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: You're already on the front foot, you know what it is.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: But two, I find when you are consistent with the
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: same people or services or restaurants, you create relationships with
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: these people that you kind of can like build rapport
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: and relationships that sometimes you know, you get good deals
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: and mates rates. And if people put their prices up,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: sometimes your price goes up too, which is fine. People
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: are allowed to price.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Themselves ever they want.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: But often I find that people are like, no, no, no,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: it's fine, just do the normal thing. Like if you're
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: an existing client or if you're.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: In a bit of a bind and you need like
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: a last minute thing, like they're probably more likely to
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: try and fit you.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: In yes, timing wise for themselves.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm not saying that in terms of
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: trying to get discounts for people that's not what I'm saying.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: And then obviously the headache because like bad experience or
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: expensive ways that don't show up on receipts, and just
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: trying to find someone can also be a bit of
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: a fucking headache and time consuming.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, not the vite.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: So how to build your little black book of favorites
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: is art with what you already know. Think back over
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: the last year, who showed up, who did the job,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: who left you thinking, Wow, I'd use them again, And
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: that's your foundation to write them down. Then organize it
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: by category, not alphabetically, so you want to open and
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: see restaurants and then go Italian, Greek, ti, whatever that is,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: and you can kind of run through that bars blah
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: blah blah, happy hour at this whatever. That is so
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: adding context, not just the details, so like why did
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: you like it?
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: What's it really good for?
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: I also find this so helpful because when friends even
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: just ask like where should we go for dinner?
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: Or does anyone know.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: A good hairdresser or whatever it is, you can be like, yeah,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: I know someone.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: And it's xyz.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Nothing gets me going more than being like Dell the
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: male sent you. Yeah, exactly, Like just being like, yeah, yeah,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: tell them I sent you street Cred, street Cred, street Cred.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: I know, okay, let me Yeah, I'll message them all.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: I'll get loved doing that. I know someone.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: Afraid someone. I'll get your booking doing.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So the other point is, don't you can't have
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: too many favorites, otherwise it's not a favorite anymore. So
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: obviously have you know, maybe you're number one, maybe some backups,
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: but create a one in one out eventually, like you're
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: allowed to find things.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: That work better for you.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: And if that's the case, you know, you can still
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: keep your favorite in there if you want, but you
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: can also swap things out. Otherwise you just end up
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: with a really long fucking list and you're in the
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: same thing where you're like, I don't know a guy,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: I just have.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: A list, keep it curated.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Then also, you know, use this wisely. Ask the
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: people you respect most where they go, ask around, like
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: you can. You don't have to create this all from
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: personal experience, Like you can ask friends, be like, do
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: you know anyone? What's this? What's that?
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Love word of mouth, rare.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Word of mouth is the best, and then just be
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: deliberate with who you're adding like, don't do it because
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I say this as me and.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Being like, yeah, I love the idea of.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: A little black bock gun.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah that I just like start adding to it just
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: for fucking fun.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: So like done.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, But it's like it's a process, it's you know,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: end results. So things I would add to my little
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: black book or what I'm adding to it. So home
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: and trades, like you know, a handyman, cleaners, pest control, plumbers, electricians.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Then health and body obviously a GP that you actually
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: trust and asks you the right questions makes you feel heard.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: But a dentist, a physio, an optometrist, all of those
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: you're also like, there needs to be trust there, Yeah,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: because so many of these, you know, you can also
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: kind of get scammed a little bit. Food and drink
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: my favorite, you know, your reliable weeknight spot, whereas your
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: favorite happy hour is what's your favorite table? I just
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: love going to places and knowing the name of.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: The person that works there and like speaking to them.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: We went to a restaurant last Friday, Robin I, and
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: there was no one there and they were like, oh,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: thanks for coming out tonight. Guys, like you know, winters,
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: not many people coming in, everyone just gets takeaway and
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: they were just the nicest and we ended up like
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: chatting with them and learning their names and it was
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: just really fun and really nice and like I just
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: love getting to know places like that. Then obviously the
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: glow up vibes, the hairstylists, the dermatologists, your nail girl,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: the nail girl, the botox, you know, like who are
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: the people the eyebrow person, not me, don't like me
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: near them. Then you can also go into like services
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: and admin like accountants, financial advisors, wellness massage, therapists you know,
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: yoga studios, therapists who resets you, and then convenience like mechanics, pharmacists.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: The list goes on to be honest, So it's good
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: to have that because especially when it comes to like
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: if it is a bet or for your own personal health,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: somebody who's not going to diminish what you're feeling is
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: gonna you know, like validate you and.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Then also like support you through whatever it is.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: So like my favorite thing this month has just been
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: having like.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: A little black book of people that especially like in
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: the lead up to going to Europe, Like obviously I'm
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: always like hair tan browns, whatever, nails, like whatever it is,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: and like being like cool off to go see my friends.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, the reunion.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the two weeks before going away on holiday is
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: the most expensive time in.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: A girl's life.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, literally, and the first day of that holiday is
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: the best she's ever looked.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: One thousand. Yeah, well I love it.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Do you have one more?
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: Fuck?
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: I got one more.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: It'll keep it short and sweet.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: So my final July favorite is a new elevated Dad sneaker.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Oh I'm like, oh, I was with you, I was there,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: you were there.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: I was supposed to be in the video.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: I think we all sing, m Yeah.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: So I've got a new new Dad's sneaker in the
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: rotation and it's the new balanced twenty four l It's
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: like a two thousands inspired version of their running style.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: But why I like it is because it has sneaker
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: proportions and maybe some of the other Dads like sneakers.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: A little bit less chunky.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, a little less chunky than some of the other
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Dad sneakers that I've been wearing.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: So I feel like it just looks a little bit
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: more like elevated and you can dress it up or
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: dress it down. But again, I feel like this is
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: another thing like take a shot every time we say Europe.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: But the reason that I got them is because I
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: needed a new.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Pair of sneakers that I would be able to wear
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: on some of those like twenty thousand step days.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: And I have worn.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Them on a couple of like ten thousand step days
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: and they've been really comfortable. No blisters, feel very supportive,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: my feet aren't hurting at the end of the day.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: And they look core.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Speaking of that little like address book thing that you're like, yeah,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: that feels good. The other thing that feels good is
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: when you would go to athleteses foot and they would
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: do the measuring thing on your foot with like the
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: little metal thing.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh that was good.
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: I was with so hot when she was buying them,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: and I was like literally had like my purse on
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: my shoulder and I was like, okay, cool, how they feel?
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: Okay, now go for the walk End store.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: But yeah, and at the time of recording, they're actually
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: on sale, so oh how good.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, keep an eye out because new.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Balance are always on sale here and there. Never buy
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: a sneaker full price, yeah, definitely, never buy a sneak.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Well that's wrap on our July favorites. What a chaotic episode.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks for having us in
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: the ear holes. We love to be here. By bye.