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The Things We’ve Stopped Buying In Our 20s (& Beyond) · Two Broke Chicks

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  Speaker 2: Yeah and who else Pitball, Little John.
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  Speaker 2: Lastly exactly girls nine girls. Nicekay.
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  Speaker 1: We are chatting the things we've stopped buying in our
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  Speaker 1: twenties and beyond.
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  Speaker 2: To feel freer, lighter and whole again. Yeah, can make
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  Speaker 2: you hold again. But before we get.
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  Speaker 1: Into that, let's talk obsessions of the week. Sally Bally
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  Speaker 1: icon best friend and love of my life.
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  Speaker 2: What's your obsession?
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  Speaker 4: My obsession of the week is something that I'm approximately
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  Speaker 4: twenty years late on the bandwagon too, Okay, and it's
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  Speaker 4: one Tree Hill that discussed this.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's been my comfort TV show and I highly
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  Speaker 4: recommend if you've never watched it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure all of the seasons are on stand.
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  Speaker 4: It's one of those shows from the two thousands that has,
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  Speaker 4: you know, like twenty two episodes a season. Each episode
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  Speaker 4: is like forty million shit.
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  Speaker 3: It's good. Like you've got a lot of content to.
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  Speaker 2: Just Wae Nim, Nathan.
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  Speaker 1: Murray, neither of them. Oh they both suck, and Tim Brook.
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  Speaker 3: The girls aren't great either.
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  Speaker 2: I love Brook.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my obsession of the week is a new report
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  Speaker 1: that's come out from the Ordinary, So it's called the
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  Speaker 1: Periodic Fable.
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  Speaker 2: They said, if there's.
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  Speaker 1: One thing beauty industry knows how to make, it's make believe.
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  Speaker 1: And they have published the forty nine marketing terms Engineered.
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  Speaker 2: To obscure and overhype.
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  Speaker 1: So basically they've created this this periodic table called the
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  Speaker 1: Periodic Fable with a bunch of jargon that brands use
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  Speaker 1: to sell you things. It's amazing, it's literally free. It's
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  Speaker 1: on their website and I just love this level of
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  Speaker 1: transparency from brands.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to read out a couple of things that's
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  Speaker 1: on the Periodic Fable.
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  Speaker 2: So there's forty nine in.
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  Speaker 1: Total, and on it you can kind of move your
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  Speaker 1: mouse around and click for more details. So for things
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  Speaker 1: such as wrinkle erasing, pawless, toxin free, cruelty free, flawless,
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  Speaker 1: sulfate free, when you click on these as well, you
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  Speaker 1: can get more information. So, for example, if you click
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  Speaker 1: on pawless, it says if your paws disappeared, so would
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  Speaker 1: your sweat, hair and ability to regulate body temperature. So
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  Speaker 1: lab grade was another one and it says all cosmetics
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  Speaker 1: are technically lab grade. If they're not, you wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: able to sell them. It's so sassy.
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  Speaker 4: I love it because all of these terms are things
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  Speaker 4: that we take for granted when it comes to skincare
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  Speaker 4: and beauty marketing, and you probably wouldn't even blink an
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  Speaker 4: eye when you see something.
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  Speaker 3: Like lawless or flawless or wrinkle erasing or whatever these
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  Speaker 3: terms are.
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  Speaker 4: And this is just such a good resource and reminder
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  Speaker 4: that these are marketing terms and didn't know what to
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  Speaker 4: look out for when you are shopping.
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  Speaker 2: Another favorite that I had was clean.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the idea that certain types of beauty are
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  Speaker 1: unclean is unhelpful, untrue, and unregulated.
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  Speaker 2: Like there's so.
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  Speaker 1: Many that you can literally scroll through and have a read,
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  Speaker 1: and I think this is such a great thing to
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  Speaker 1: have in your back pocket.
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  Speaker 2: Oh another good one. I'm going to stop. There's just
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  Speaker 2: so many.
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  Speaker 1: Another good one is dermatologists recommended. A claim that a
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  Speaker 1: product is derm recommended doesn't automatically make it good. Check
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  Speaker 1: the facts and check the science. And I just really
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  Speaker 1: really loved seeing this from the brand. I think having
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  Speaker 1: this level of transparency around marketing terms that are designed
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  Speaker 1: to make you think something's.
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  Speaker 2: Better than it is. It's just really cool.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought it was a great obsession to have
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  Speaker 1: for this episode because we're talking about the things that
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  Speaker 1: we've stopped.
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  Speaker 2: Buying, and maybe the kool aid we've stopped drinking. What
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  Speaker 2: is the first thing you've stopped buying?
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  Speaker 4: I shadow palettes, eyeshadow palettes, especially the huge ones that
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  Speaker 4: have like twenty four different colors in them, in lots
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  Speaker 4: of different bright shades.
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  Speaker 3: Because this is.
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  Speaker 2: Something that I bought a lot in my twenties. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I was there. Yeah, that was your COVID panic purchase.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, the day that we went into lockdown and got
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  Speaker 1: sent back home from the office down, I went to
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  Speaker 1: Sepphor because that.
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  Speaker 2: Was like, I need to buy something, I need to
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  Speaker 2: feel in control.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and so I bought an eye shadow palette.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't use for two years because we didn't leave
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  Speaker 1: the house exactly and then it expired and what a
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  Speaker 1: waste of money.
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  Speaker 4: But I think if you're a makeup artist or you
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  Speaker 4: really love experiment with lots of different colors, then of
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  Speaker 4: course buy the eyeshadow palette. But I'm neither of those
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  Speaker 4: things or people.
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  Speaker 3: Every single time I.
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  Speaker 4: Buy an eyeshadow palette with lots of different colors in it,
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  Speaker 4: I end up using the same shade and that one
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  Speaker 4: hits pan and the rest.
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  Speaker 3: Go completely unused.
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  Speaker 4: Instead of buying eye shadow palettes that have like lots
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  Speaker 4: of different shades in them, I'll buy one that has
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  Speaker 4: like four shades in it, and then maybe I'll buy
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  Speaker 4: an individual or a colored eyeliner or something like an
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  Speaker 4: individual product. If I do think that I want to
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  Speaker 4: experiment with one particular color, and I think I also,
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  Speaker 4: as I've gotten older, realized which colors I prefer.
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  Speaker 2: Which you gravitate too?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my counter and this is obviously just each and
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  Speaker 1: each to their own personal press thing, right is I
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  Speaker 1: think I'm more guilty of all the neutrals. So it's
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  Speaker 1: like I would actually prefer to have one colorful palette.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I can dip into when I'm feeling fun
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  Speaker 1: and flirty and exciting, and then like, let's be real, girl,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna use the warm dark brown and then the
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  Speaker 1: warm tan brown. Yeah, probably just your bronze. Are you
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  Speaker 1: don't need to buy like four neutral palettes. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: what I'm guilty of. In my twenties that I was.
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  Speaker 2: Like oh when these buttery shades.
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  Speaker 1: Are brown, and these buttery shades are brown, and oh my.
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  Speaker 2: God, there's more buttery. Bitch, you've used your bronze or
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  Speaker 2: every single fucking time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I like the idea of curating singular eye shadows into
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  Speaker 1: like your own custom palette. Yeah, and more affordable brands
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  Speaker 1: are bringing out really good eye shadows that you can
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  Speaker 1: play and have fun with.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, you don't have to fork out on like
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  Speaker 4: a really expensive palette from somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, what's your first one?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, my first one? Supplements that you think are going
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  Speaker 1: to change your life, but you really just need to
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  Speaker 1: go for a walk and drink some water. And I
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  Speaker 1: came to this conclusion literally within the last like seventy
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  Speaker 1: two hours. Tell me, well, I texted you on the
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  Speaker 1: weekend and I was like, wow, look at these new vitamins.
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  Speaker 1: These look so cool, these new supplements, and it was
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  Speaker 1: like all these things.
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  Speaker 2: That it was supposed to help with, right, And.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of realized I was like, I am buying
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  Speaker 1: these supplements as if they're literally a magic bean that
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  Speaker 1: is going to fix all these things that really I
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  Speaker 1: just need to put in the work to do Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for example, going through a walk, getting a good night sleep,
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  Speaker 1: and drinking fucking water. I don't need to spend sixty
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  Speaker 1: dollars on one bottle of supplements that will last two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And I then started looking into it because we did
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  Speaker 1: an episode with lab Muff and Beauty and this was
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that she did kind of acknowledge
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  Speaker 1: it can be a lie, a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: waste of money. And so there was an article from
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, which I want to note that that is
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  Speaker 1: a little while ago, so these numbers are probably even higher.
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  Speaker 1: But it's estimated Australians spend almost two billion dollars on
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  Speaker 1: vitamins every year. But according to a comprehensive new study,
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  Speaker 1: they're mostly a waste of money.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So in the Journal of American College of Cardiology this week,
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  Speaker 1: an analysis of one hundred and seventy nine randomized controlled studies,
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  Speaker 1: which is the highest standard of medical research, found popular
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  Speaker 1: supplements like vitamin C and calcium are mostly useless unless.
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  Speaker 2: You have a specific deficiency of that vitamin. Yeah, that
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  Speaker 2: makes sense.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and like if you're not, you know, getting those
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  Speaker 4: things in your body through other mains as well, like
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  Speaker 4: if you're not getting enough sleeve, if you're not eating
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  Speaker 4: a well balanced nutritional diet, like if you're not going
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  Speaker 4: out into the sun and getting vitamin D. I think
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  Speaker 4: we think that vitamins and supplements are going to be yeah,
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  Speaker 4: like a magic pill that fixed all of our problems.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, And in this article it also says, contrary to
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  Speaker 1: popular belief, vitamin C probably won't help you get over
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  Speaker 1: your cold. A twenty thirteen review of twenty nine trials
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  Speaker 1: found it had no effect on the duration or severity
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  Speaker 1: of colds. In very large doses. It can increase the
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  Speaker 1: risk of painful kidney stones, which is kind of wild. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it is this idea that I'm like, yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: I've looked at it as in like, oh, I'll take
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  Speaker 1: these and my life will be changed. And the origin
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  Speaker 1: of vitamins and supplements dates back to the early twentieth
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  Speaker 1: century history Lesson lock In, when scientists like Casimir Funk,
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  Speaker 1: great name, a great name, or I don't know, future child,
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  Speaker 1: whoever you are, Casimir, your name is Casimi Funk. But
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  Speaker 1: he identified a group of essential nutrients that prevented deficiency
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  Speaker 1: diseases like scurvy and they were kind kind of primarily
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  Speaker 1: used by people like sailors or It's like we're talking
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  Speaker 1: twentieth century, whereas now in modern day, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: these deficiencies can be fixed or sold with a balanced diet.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly what you're saying.
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  Speaker 4: We have access to those things. We're not out on
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  Speaker 4: the open seas. I wish I was looking for spices.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I was literally in an enemy's to lovers
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  Speaker 1: pirate mermaid fantasy pop them my vitamin Sea pills.
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  Speaker 2: But we're not, and we can just have a carrot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 4: And obviously vitamins and supplements aren't bad, that's not Alwa's saying.
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  Speaker 1: But the mentality that they're going to fix everything is
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  Speaker 1: why I've stopped buying that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think as well.
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  Speaker 1: We go into it and we buy like a billion
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  Speaker 1: of them, we see them like half price, and we're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like I'm going to be the healthiest, wealthiest king.
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  Speaker 2: But it's not the case.
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  Speaker 1: But the reason I brought this up as well is
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily like if you want to take vitamin C
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  Speaker 1: and zinc and be twelve and three, be my guest.
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  Speaker 1: I do still take supplements, but I went to the
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  Speaker 1: doctor's got a blood test, found what I'm deficient in
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  Speaker 1: and take those supplements.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I was gonna say, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: that is the process to follow.
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  Speaker 1: But it's this modern rise of supplements that will fix
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  Speaker 1: all your problems that we've actually strayed from, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: the B twelve, the iron, the vitamin D and they're
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  Speaker 1: now energy focus metabolism, and there's also a higher focus
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  Speaker 1: on vitamins for your appearance like hair, skin, nails, And
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  Speaker 1: I think there's this transition that we're moving to that again.
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  Speaker 2: It's this magic.
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  Speaker 1: Little pill that will make your hair grow longer and
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  Speaker 1: your skin be glowing, and look, you'll be so fit
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  Speaker 1: and healthy because your metabolism will be up from vitamins like.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and like getting the diagnosis from TikTok as well,
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  Speaker 4: like if you have X y Z, you know, puffiness,
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  Speaker 4: this and that you need.
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  Speaker 2: These, go to your doctor. And that's the thing is,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying this she did not anyone that does that,
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  Speaker 2: because I'm so truly doing this. A week ago and
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  Speaker 2: I sat there and I was like, what am I doing?
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  Speaker 1: Why am I I was about to spend three hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars on like vitamins, and I was like, do you
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  Speaker 1: know what, I'm gonna go in and I'm gonna read
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  Speaker 1: the ingredients and I'm gonna do research. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: vitamins and supplements are all bad at all. I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: go to your GP, have a conversation with them and
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  Speaker 1: maybe think about why you want to buy certain supplements
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  Speaker 1: or vitamins and are you just buying it because you
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  Speaker 1: think you need to fix something about you that you
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  Speaker 1: really don't need to.
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  Speaker 3: That's you dropping the pill.
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  Speaker 1: And also they're huge and they're hard to swallow, and
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  Speaker 1: I hate them.
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  Speaker 3: She doesn't like to see.
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  Speaker 1: Literally the most horrible experience of my life. Do you
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  Speaker 1: know the worst thing is buying a tub of like
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars worth of vitamins or supplements.
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  Speaker 2: You pull it out and it's the size of a bullet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And you're like, not that I've ever seen a
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  Speaker 1: bullet in my entire life.
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  Speaker 2: But I've got move watched movies. I've watched movies. I'm cultured.
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  Speaker 2: Same thing, literally a horse bill. I haven't seen one
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  Speaker 2: of those either. But that's what people say. That's what
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  Speaker 2: they say around they say around the screen.
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  Speaker 1: This one I don't know if you'll agree or disagree
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  Speaker 1: with me on I think you will agree, and I
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  Speaker 1: also do kind of hate myself for this. But the
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  Speaker 1: thing I'm trying to stop buying is like the cool
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  Speaker 1: vintage item, really, so bear with me. There is like
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  Speaker 1: a tale of stories to go along.
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  Speaker 3: All of these things have asterisks.
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  Speaker 1: And it's basically like vintage shopping fomo, and like, let's
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  Speaker 1: be honest, the Internet has made like vintage shopping like
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  Speaker 1: a blood sport, you know, like the ninety dollars rare,
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  Speaker 1: like y two K graphic tea and like a panic
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  Speaker 1: bid on deepop at like one am because there's only
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  Speaker 1: one version of these really cool beaded shoes that oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, if I don't get them, someone else will, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And it's like kind of this scarcity mindset that I've
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  Speaker 1: fallen into that I think as well. I hope maybe
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  Speaker 1: people will relate to this of being like sometimes I
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  Speaker 1: buy the cool vintage item because I'm thinking of it
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  Speaker 1: as in, like, but it's so cool and there's only.
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  Speaker 2: One of it, and then I'll only have that one when.
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  Speaker 1: Really I already have like four leather jackets and I
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  Speaker 1: don't need another cool vintage leather jacket.
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  Speaker 2: Same thing with blazers, Like I'm like.
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  Speaker 1: Fuck, that blaze is so cool. It's vintage, You're not
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  Speaker 1: going to find anything else like it. But I already
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  Speaker 1: have all these other cool vintage plazers and it's like
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  Speaker 1: this fomo that I have with vintage shopping, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: but I must like I'm literally like a Pokemon trainer
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  Speaker 1: with like vintage jackets, being like I got to catch
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  Speaker 1: them all.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, no, I completely agree, and I definitely
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  Speaker 4: can relate to that feeling of fomo, whether it is
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  Speaker 4: online or like at a market or in a vintage shop,
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  Speaker 4: because you're like, I'll never be able to find this again.
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  Speaker 4: But I do think that's why it's so important to
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  Speaker 4: take stock of your wardrobe and the missing pieces that
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  Speaker 4: you have in there, because if you love a leather
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  Speaker 4: jacket but you already own five, like you need to
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  Speaker 4: admit to yourself that spot in my wardrobe is closed.
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  Speaker 3: And I've actually found that some.
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  Speaker 4: Of my most successful vintage shopping moments have been when I've.
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  Speaker 3: Gone in and been like, this is exactly what I
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  Speaker 3: and it's something you know very specific.
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  Speaker 4: I know exactly what I'm going to style it with,
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  Speaker 4: and I know the hole it's going to fill in
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  Speaker 4: my wardrobe.
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  Speaker 3: And for some reason, every time I've done that, I
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  Speaker 3: found it.
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  Speaker 4: You manifested it, which but also not compromising and getting
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  Speaker 4: something that ticks maybe like two out of three of
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  Speaker 4: the things that you want.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly what I was gonna say, because another thing
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  Speaker 1: that I think that the trap of vintage shopping, which
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  Speaker 1: I love vintage shopping. Saying this, and I obviously encourage
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  Speaker 1: people to thrift and shop secondhand more than anything. So
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  Speaker 1: if you're gonna buy something, buy vintage or buy a
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  Speaker 1: second hand. But I'm talking about my crippling addiction that
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: I have surrounding it. That I realized, like some of
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: my vintage finds just like weren't me. I was buying
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: someone else's nostalgia. I was buying all these kind of
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: different vintage esthetics because I was like, that's so cool,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: that's so rare, and I wanted to own this rare
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: piece of like fashion history that I was like, Okay,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: but just because it's cool doesn't need you have to
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: buy it. And I can post on deepop without having
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: to reinvest in demop.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: You know, yeah, it doesn't have to be like a
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: knee jerk reaction every single.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and so like what I'm trying to buy instead
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: is like the weird stuff I actually like and not
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: what's necessarily trending on Pinterest or just a piece of
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: clothing that I do genuinely love, like blazers all other jackets, Like,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: I just need to be like, yes, it's beautiful.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Someone's gonna really love that.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's gonna be really painful, but that's okay.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you can appreciate something for being cool and beautiful
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: and unique without having to buy it.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: I even feel a bit sick. It's not right. It's
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: not right. I love India shopping, but I'm like that,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: where are you gonna put it? Bitch?
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: All right?
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Should I move on to my next one?
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: Yes? Okay, new skincare dot dot dot until I've run
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: out of what I already have. In our job, we're
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: so so lucky that we do get sent and gifted skin.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Care products a lot.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: However, we are still just girls and we love to
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: buy new products, try new things. And you know, I
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: also do love strolling around a Sephora or chemist warehouse
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: or price line.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: I mean, like Ooh, what have we got here?
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: And just like picking up something new because I want
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: to try it, But then I would be left with,
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: you know, a bathroom cabinet that was full of like
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: half used products, and then I'm like, when did I
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: start using that one?
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Is that expired?
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: Like?
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: And then also you know, if I'm having like changes
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: in my skin, I don't even know yeah, which product.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Has contributed to it.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: So instead, this year, I've really committed to not even
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: opening other skin care products until I finished what I
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: already have to avoid that wastage and also save money.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: And I did see a study that said that millennials
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: in Australia spend twelve hundred dollars each year on new
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: skincare products, and sixty six of Australians between eighteen and
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: sixty five admitted to owning up to ten skincare products
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: that they don't use.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Wow, and skincare goes off quickly, Yeah, like skincare you're
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: looking between six months to twelve months max.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Maybe twenty four And.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: In this same study, fifty three percent of Australians only
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: use half of what they have, which amounts to two
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: billion dollars wasted in products well, yeah, and I feel
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: like I definitely was contributing to that.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's my commitment to myself. Oh I like that.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: My next thing I've stopped buying again, I'll lead with
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: my headline and then explain further. But the thing I
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: stopped buying is the dupe disclaimer. Obviously, on this channel
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: we chat dupes a lot. We discuss when there are
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: items that you know, serve the same purpose of a
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: higher priced item at the same quality. However, we've definitely
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: entered an era of dupe culture where I don't think
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: that's the case with every single thing that gets called
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: a jupe. Right, Sometimes it looks like a jupe, it
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: quacks like a jupe, but it's not a jep. You know,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: in my early twenties, I would definitely end up buying,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: you know, the dupe of an item, of a piece
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: of clothing, of like a beauty thing, and it wouldn't
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: end up being as good. I wouldn't have the same quality.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: So then I'd look for another jupe, and then I'd
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: look for it, and then I keep trying to find
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: something that match the quality of the thing, which then
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: I ended up spending the same amount I would have
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: done just to end up buying the item I wanted.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: And especially with that quality question, it's like it won't
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: last as long, like that's how long is that gonna
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: lie if it's not of the same quality. And so
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: whilst I'm not saying that like all dupes are bad,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: like last week, all the week before, we shared the
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: hatch alarm clock dupe and I'm obsessed with that, Like, yeah,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I love that product.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: But I think what my life lesson in this is is.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: To do more research, is to compare products yourself and
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: not just go off a TikTok, you know, like use
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: that as maybe the instigator. If you know that you
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: want a purchase and your FYP is like I got
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: you girl, take that as like an alert, and then
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: you can do further research. Look at fabric composition, look
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: at like specifications if it's like a tech item, look
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: at ingredients if it's a beauty item. Sometimes like the
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: more affordable option isn't more affordable in.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: The long run.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, chasing jupes has kind of turned into chasing a
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: bit of a dopamine here.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because it.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Also feels like you've scored a bargain, like you get
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: a bit of a superior like superiority complex because you
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: feel like you've cheated system. Yeah, but it just a
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: lot of the time it's encouraging you to buy something
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: that it didn't need. You're just gonna end up wanting
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: the original thing.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I also think there's a lot of misinformation now that
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: comes with jupes, like dupe has become a marketing term
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: similar to what we were talking about earlier with the
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: ordinary that it's like you see warehouses now saying like, oh,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: where the supplier of Lulu Lemon? No you're not, yeah,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Or I found a tank Air dupe on Ali Express,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: No you didn't. Again, I'm not trying to say don't
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: ever buy a more affordable option of something. Everyone is
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: in different kind of situations, especially with their finances, and
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: you have free will. I'm not the police, but that's
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: just something that I've been focusing on. I did put
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: a poll up on Instagram because I was interested to
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: see and I asked, are you likely to buy the
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: item you or the jupe?
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: And sixty two percent of people said the jupe.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: But that's a very open ended question.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: If I put the details of would you buy the
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: jupe if it wasn't the exact same quality, a lot
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: of people probably wouldn't have said yes, yeah, exactly. But
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I don't think that information is like always there when
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: discussing jupes.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: So that's my thing I've stopped buying.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I like that not all dupes were created equal exactly.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: All right, Should we get into the bro Chicks Hotline
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: to see what the chicks have stopped buying?
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Yep? All right, so news segment.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: We've now opened up the Chicks Hotline, so you can
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: send us your voice notes.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: They can be.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Anonymous, of course, on your thoughts for whatever we're topping
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: wherever we're talking. Oh, okay, okay, whatever we're talking this week,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: all right, so this one's anonymous.
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: Hi.
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: So, one thing I stopped buying is blind box. And
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: I'm not against like little treats, like they are so
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: fun and so cute, but you know how like when
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: you when you buy a blind box, you like, okay,
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: I want to get this one. I want to get
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: this one or this one, and then if you don't
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: get that one, like you get when you dislike, it's
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: just a waste. Right, So I only will buy a
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: blind box if I like every single design or option
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: that comes in that blind box, because otherwise you're just
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: going to be disappointed. But if you like all of them,
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: it's not a waste of money.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: So true.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: I really like that.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: So true. You've been burned by this recently.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: I literally was thinking that. This week we.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Were in Melbourne for the live show, and as a treat,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: we bought some blind boxes, and it was like, the
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: one I don't want. The one I don't want is eggplant,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: and you also bought one.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: For your sister.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you got eggplant, and we're all giggling, and
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I was like, no, that's the one you really didn't want.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Just open the other one, bad friend. I'll just open
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: the other one. We can buy another one for your
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: sister that you shouldn't.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Get, the one you really didn't want.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So you open the second one, lo, and behold,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: the bitch gets eggs again. Hi, Mais Pouline.
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: I've actually stopped buying and actually eating fantails because when
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: I was eleven, I ate a fantail after netfle training
• 26:26
  Speaker 7: and it ripped one of my teeth out and it
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: was disgusting in the sense that I was chewing those
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: fantail and then I choose something hard and it was
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: my tooth, and I've been traumatized ever since. So I
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: haven't had a fantail since.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, that is so completely fair. And I
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: also would apply that to Minty's milky choes.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: No, I love it s one.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: What happened too? Did they put it back in baby
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: like a lose one? Do you still lose teeth when
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: you're twelve years old?
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Surely some people will have baby tathe pretty late. Yeah, okay,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: last one.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: So I used to buy a lot of books as
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: a huge rado, but then I realized they was just
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: file like up taking a lot of space, giving me
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: anxiety about treading them, and I switched two libraries and
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: the books. If I really really really need to get
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: my hand on something, in'st of the library. In terms
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: of makeup, I love getting my makeup on, but I
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: realized that I was just over consuming thanks to all
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: the Instagram ads. You see, all the influencers promoting this
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: and that, And I looked at my makeup and I
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: was like, I don't need this much makeup. Nobody needs
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: this much makeup. I just have like two options or everything,
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: or one option for each and if it's something I love,
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: then I love using it no matter how many times
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: I don't get bored of it. So yeah, I've definitely
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: got down on mild.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: I stopped buying as many physical books because I would
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: look at books like they were trophies. Yeah, and I
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: was like, I want to have the big, beauty and
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: the beast library moment. But I'm also like, girl, you
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: live in an apartment that you're renting. Where are you
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: putting this magical library?
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: Exactly one day.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: I will buy a book if it's like a five
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: star read, you know, or small authors or indie authors
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: like I'll definitely try to support as much as they
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: can with that.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm I'm definitely ebook girl. You can go
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: to your library. Yeah you want the fan toower one. No,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: that was crazy. I'm never gonna look at a fantae
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: the same again.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: I'm going to be scared every single time.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Well that is a wrap. Woo.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: What a fun little episode. Thank you so much for
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: sending in your bro.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Cheeks hotline submissions, chickies.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: We love hearing from you, and what a fun episode.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Let us know in the comments for this episode.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: The things that you've stop buying because we want to more.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: And each week we'll share the hotline on our Instagram stories,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: so do keep an eye out for that. We'll also
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: make sure we have like a link in our bio
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: so you can always send one that way if you
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: would like.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: But Ilism love you, Love you, thanks for having us
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: in your ear holes. Bae have to be here by
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: chick Mabe