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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: What Connections Are You Grateful For? · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey everyone, Emily A Body popping in with five Minute
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  Speaker 1: Friday from Hurdle. This week, I am writing you one
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  Speaker 1: of my all time favorite New York stories. It is
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  Speaker 1: absolutely bizarre, and we are now at the point in
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  Speaker 1: quarantine where I'm digging into the archives. If you can
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  Speaker 1: also not believe what I'm about to tell you, I
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  Speaker 1: would love to hear about it over on social tag
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  Speaker 1: me hit me up at Hurdle podcast and also at
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  Speaker 1: Emily a Body And as always, as you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: here for you over email, It's Emily at Hurdle dot us.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll set the scene.
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  Speaker 1: It's like I want to say, four or five years ago,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm leaving Midtown Manhattan, the hod rooftop in Grand Central,
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  Speaker 1: waiting for the subway to arrive and go uptown. Standing
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  Speaker 1: on the platform, and I see a man on the
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  Speaker 1: opposite platform who's about to go downtown.
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  Speaker 2: We catch eyes. I think he's good looking. I keep
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  Speaker 2: going about my business.
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  Speaker 1: I look up again and I notice that he's still
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  Speaker 1: looking at me, and I keep going about my business.
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  Speaker 1: Then I get on my uptown train and I look
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  Speaker 1: back at him and we both laugh. And my train
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  Speaker 1: leaves and I get off the subway and I call
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  Speaker 1: my friend and I say to her, the weirdest thing
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  Speaker 1: just happens. You know, as New Yorkers, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: we are trained to not maintain eye contact with a
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  Speaker 1: single soul. But in this instance, I made eye contact
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  Speaker 1: with this person not once, not twice, but three times.
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  Speaker 1: I said, the weirdest thing happened to me at Grand Central,
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  Speaker 1: this guy.
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  Speaker 2: And this thing. And I explained it all to her.
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  Speaker 1: She said, you need to post that on misconnections. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, what are you talking about.
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  Speaker 2: She's like Craigslist miss connections.
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  Speaker 1: So for those of you that don't know, there is
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  Speaker 1: an entire board on Craigslist and dedicated to miss connections,
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  Speaker 1: people looking for other people that they might not know
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  Speaker 1: that have literally missed their opportunity to connect. And so
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  Speaker 1: I did it. I went on miss Connections. I posted
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  Speaker 1: and I said, if you were the man on the
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  Speaker 1: south platform at Grand Central at this time, and you
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  Speaker 1: could tell me what I was wearing, what I looked like,
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  Speaker 1: what my hair looked like, then maybe we were meant
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  Speaker 1: to meet. Never in a million years thinking anyone would
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  Speaker 1: answer this message. Within twenty four hours, I had a
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  Speaker 1: few creepy messages but I had the message in my
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  Speaker 1: email inbox. It was from him. I will not reveal
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  Speaker 1: his name. Let's call him Charlie. Charlie emails me and
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  Speaker 1: says it was me you wearing and this is correct,
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  Speaker 1: a black lace top holding a black clutch purse in
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  Speaker 1: your hand. You had beautiful curls. We smiled at each
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  Speaker 1: other twice before you got on the train, and then
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  Speaker 1: we laughed, and then you left. He continues on to say,
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  Speaker 1: I am happily married, but if you want to meet sometime,
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  Speaker 1: I work near Grand Central. It would be great to
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  Speaker 1: get a cup of coffee. Okay, guys, First of all,
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  Speaker 1: if a man tells you that he's happily married but
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  Speaker 1: he's also checking misconnections and wants to meet for a
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  Speaker 1: cup of coffee, I'm not all that sure that he's
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  Speaker 1: actually happily married. But I did have an appreciation that
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  Speaker 1: a he found the message, that he went looking for
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  Speaker 1: the message, and Jesus, that is just like some New
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  Speaker 1: York magic. So I wrote him and I said exactly
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  Speaker 1: that that I appreciated him for closing the loop, and
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  Speaker 1: then that was kind of magical in its own way,
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  Speaker 1: and I wished him the best of luck and we
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  Speaker 1: never spoke again.
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  Speaker 2: Never.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite stories. It is bizarre so
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  Speaker 1: that that connection actually happened. And so I know you're wondering,
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  Speaker 1: what how is Emly going to spend this What is
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  Speaker 1: this prompt going to be the prompt for this week?
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  Speaker 1: What is one connection that you are grateful for right now?
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  Speaker 1: Who is someone that you cannot imagine your life without
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  Speaker 1: during this time?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, quote unquote Charlie is not my soulmate, but it
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  Speaker 1: does make me laugh. It makes me appreciate this place
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  Speaker 1: I call home, and it makes me think about the
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  Speaker 1: connections I do have in real life and who I
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  Speaker 1: am so.
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  Speaker 2: So grateful for. I hope you enjoyed this little snippet
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  Speaker 2: of my New York City history highlights of the week.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not too sure if y'all follow Amanda Klutes on Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: She is an outrageous fitness instructor a former dancer. She's
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  Speaker 1: known for her jump rope workouts and she is going
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  Speaker 1: through it right now. Her husband, Nick Cardero is mega
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  Speaker 1: talented as well a Broadway star. The couple recently had
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  Speaker 1: first son, Elvis, and Nick is unfortunately in the hospital now.
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  Speaker 1: He's been in a coma after having a positive COVID
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  Speaker 1: diagnosis out in Los Angeles and has had since to
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  Speaker 1: have his leg amputated. Is just dealing with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of stuff and my heart so much so goes out
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  Speaker 1: to her and her family. Every night at six pm
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  Speaker 1: Eastern three pm Pacific, Amanda encourages her followers and everyone
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  Speaker 1: around the world to blast one of Nick's songs, live
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  Speaker 1: your Life out Loud, and sing and dance to it.
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  Speaker 1: So I, although not knowing Amanda personally, have been playing
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  Speaker 1: this song in his honor, dancing around, and I encourage
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  Speaker 1: all of you, wherever you might be, to do the same.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll put her information in the show notes so
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  Speaker 1: you can look her up and send your well wishes.
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  Speaker 1: Another highlight this week my good friend Nick Dio and
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  Speaker 1: my other friend Michael Chrenau sitting down for Churnow's podcast
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  Speaker 1: Born or Made. Nick is a talented soul. He's got
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  Speaker 1: so much good karma to put into the world, and
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  Speaker 1: I loved hearing his story about how he got a
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  Speaker 1: job that so many people would slay for at Vaynermedia,
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  Speaker 1: working with Gary Vee, and just his insight into going
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  Speaker 1: after what you want and the stories that he has
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  Speaker 1: to tell on the show. They're priceless, so I highly
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  Speaker 1: encourage everyone to go give that a listen. Another highlight
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  Speaker 1: of my week, I also made the most unbelievable buffalo
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  Speaker 1: cauliflower recipe from one of my all time favorite bloggers.
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  Speaker 1: She was literally one of the first ones I ever followed.
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  Speaker 1: Her name is Jessica Merchant. Her website is how Sweet Eats,
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  Speaker 1: and it is delicious and you have got to try it.
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  Speaker 1: And my last highlight of the week is my new
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  Speaker 1: pair of Pegs. I've been getting a ton of questions
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  Speaker 1: in the DMS asking me what I think about the
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  Speaker 1: new Nike Pegasus thirty seven, and I am really into
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  Speaker 1: the ride. Obviously I hadn't been running as much lately,
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  Speaker 1: but what I love about these is they feel more
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  Speaker 1: plush than my old pegs the last iteration. And that's
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  Speaker 1: because what they've done with this is brought their zoom
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  Speaker 1: air bag as they call it. Instead of being in
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  Speaker 1: the whole shoe, they put it in the forefoot and
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  Speaker 1: so it makes it feel more springy. It's also now
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  Speaker 1: twice as thick as it used to be, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: really just loving the toe off and how strong I
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  Speaker 1: feel when I'm running it up. Closing out this week's
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  Speaker 1: episode of Five Minute Friday with a quote that someone
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  Speaker 1: said to me the other day that life is an
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  Speaker 1: all logic.
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  Speaker 2: You have to make room for emotion too. Think on
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  Speaker 2: that one. Y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Have a great weekend at Emily A Body at Hurdle
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  Speaker 1: podcast Another Hurdle Conquered.
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  Speaker 2: Catch you next time.