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Happy Hour #154: Marking the Passing of Time · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to Stuff
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  Speaker 1: I Never told you production of iHeartRadio and today welcome
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  Speaker 1: to another edition of a Happy Hour. As always, if
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  Speaker 1: you do choose to drink or whatever you're doing, please
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  Speaker 1: do so responsibly. Also, we're all sponsored by anything we've
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  Speaker 1: mentioned in here. If we don't say we're sponsored by,
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  Speaker 1: we're not currently sponsored by. So, Samantha, what are you
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  Speaker 1: slipping on?
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  Speaker 2: I am keeping it real wholesome because again I am
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  Speaker 2: older and a sleepier when it comes to adult beverages
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  Speaker 2: in doing a cranberriage in drelle.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that sounds nice, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: What about you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm just doing a light beer. I told Samantha, I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to free up some space in my fridge. It
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  Speaker 1: is very backed in there. It's kind of a whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: But I was gonna fly, But okay, it's a whole thing,
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing. To leave it at that, gotcha? Gotcha.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, this will be a shorter episode, I think, I hope,
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  Speaker 1: because I actually planned this before I knew this. But
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  Speaker 1: super producer Christina is going on vacation hopefully hopefully, and
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  Speaker 1: there are a lot of events happening in this next
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  Speaker 1: week a lot of events, so I thought we would
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  Speaker 1: just do kind of a rapid fire check in you
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  Speaker 1: have plans or not about them, don't worry, I'll we'll
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  Speaker 1: go through it about it.
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  Speaker 2: Do you see my face just getting real confused, like
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  Speaker 2: we're doing things. I know we're doing things on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll talk about it. Okay, Okay, we'll go through it.
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  Speaker 1: I did want to start before we get into that, though,
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  Speaker 1: with something that happened. I have a lot of friends
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  Speaker 1: who have birthdays around this time, and I took a
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  Speaker 1: good friend of mine, Katie, who's on the show Happy
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  Speaker 1: Blady Birkey. Yes, I took her to a nice sushi
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  Speaker 1: restaurant and we were waiting for this one very loud
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  Speaker 1: patron to leave, and it was interesting to see this
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  Speaker 1: in the wild. But he was like wildly and unapologetically
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  Speaker 1: asking where he can find some MILFs in Atlanta, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh my gosh, Oh my gosh. And
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  Speaker 1: then he was like, well, I also like redheads and
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  Speaker 1: my friend is redheaded. So I was like oh, and
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  Speaker 1: he was like clearly making everybody pretty uncomfortable. Didn't seem
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  Speaker 1: to pick up on it at all. So that was interesting.
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  Speaker 1: But then me and my friend were so embarrassed for
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  Speaker 1: him that we were trying to be like the best,
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  Speaker 1: the best people that have ever come to this restaurant,
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  Speaker 1: like we're not going to be annoying at all, or
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  Speaker 1: not gonna to the point I think we like made
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  Speaker 1: everybody was a little worried about us because we were
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  Speaker 1: so like, thank you, yes, oh sorry, I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, they're like you. But then I ended
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  Speaker 1: it by telling the chef because it was yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: get a sushi restaurant that sea urchins wear hats, and
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  Speaker 1: I think he thought I had lost my mind. So
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  Speaker 1: I ruined the whole thing. The final we were right
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  Speaker 1: at the finish. I just couldn't resist they wear hats.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I believe you, it's super.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody knew it would be you.
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  Speaker 1: Yes to see our savorite episode or also just looking
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  Speaker 1: up online it is really cute. So that was something
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  Speaker 1: that happened. I also told Samantha I was at a
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  Speaker 1: mingling event for work that I was very awkward at
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  Speaker 1: as well. So clearly still trying to figure out how
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  Speaker 1: to function in society after the fair enough. Yes, but
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  Speaker 1: one of the things, as you mentioned in this kind
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  Speaker 1: of round of events that are happening. Is Lunar New
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  Speaker 1: Year starts this Saturday, the tenth, February tenth, and we
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  Speaker 1: are going to hang out that day. Yes, your chance
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  Speaker 1: to be like nope.
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  Speaker 2: Let's me back it up.
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  Speaker 1: Just kidding, Yes, so what are you planning about that?
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  Speaker 2: So last year we ended up having a Lunar New
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  Speaker 2: Year dinner with that combined with the last of us
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  Speaker 2: watching It's where we had a lot of people for
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  Speaker 2: and we was really excited to celebrate Korean culture. And
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  Speaker 2: I made the Korean New Year's soup, which has the
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  Speaker 2: book book that is a circle shaped like coins, and
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  Speaker 2: I was very proud that I made that. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: planning to make that again, and then all the traditions
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  Speaker 2: with the noodles subject ja uh as well as bogo
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  Speaker 2: gee probably and of course kimchi and all the bonchons
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  Speaker 2: that I like to make to add to it, because
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of cultural superstitions with that. So we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna do that. I was thinking of doing a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of like the Chinese New Year tradition of getting
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  Speaker 2: in the red envelopes with two dollar bills, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't think that's gonna happen. Sorry, Okay, that's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of work. I think we would also trying to do
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of the Marti Gras by doing a
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  Speaker 2: king Cake. I would really like to do that because
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  Speaker 2: it follows very closely to that. So I was like,
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  Speaker 2: mim as well, come buying the two.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. That's also on my list because
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  Speaker 1: Marty Grass starts on the thirteenth. Correct, Yes, yes, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm very excited about this. I always love when your
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  Speaker 1: food and I appreciate it. My friends and I usually
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  Speaker 1: go get dim sums sometime during Lunar New Year. Oh yeah, yes,
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  Speaker 1: and they're yeah, their text me about it currently, So
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  Speaker 1: that's exciting. There is Marty Gras. I normally make a
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  Speaker 1: very easy version of gumbo during Marty Right, do you
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  Speaker 1: do anything as the King Cake?
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  Speaker 2: Like you're so, I've never done things for Marty Graus.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a thing that I have actually looked at
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  Speaker 2: as a celebratory thing, so we probably won't outside of
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  Speaker 2: I'm just doing that because that seems like a fun
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  Speaker 2: thing to do. Never done it. Last year you gave
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  Speaker 2: us a leftover king cake, which was rude. I'm just kidding.
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  Speaker 2: That was exciting a baby. The baby had already been done.
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  Speaker 1: I think the first person who had a piece got it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but then he left it. So I claimed it.
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  Speaker 2: And it's scary looking. That's all I had to.
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  Speaker 1: Take it is scary looking. Do you think that that
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  Speaker 1: the luck transfers in that way?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I feel like he at least forfeits
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  Speaker 2: it if it's given away, right.
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  Speaker 1: I would think so.
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  Speaker 2: But he was a little upset, and then we had
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  Speaker 2: it back and forth trying to try to steal it.
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  Speaker 2: I said, don't know where did he steal it?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we have to do some investigations.
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  Speaker 2: We might have to.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, so, Marti, gar usually happens during when all my
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  Speaker 1: friends are having their birthdays. So we that's a big
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  Speaker 1: tradition for us. As we get the kinkcake. I do
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  Speaker 1: the gumbo separately. But the cake is a big beet.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, so many of these are food based. I'm realizing
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  Speaker 1: because the next one is the Super Bowl. This who
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  Speaker 1: don't the Big Game? Don't see me? She don't really
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  Speaker 1: watch anymore. I used to watch it, but now I
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  Speaker 1: just eat the food. So chicken wings, chicheese.
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  Speaker 2: That's also almost like a chicken wings.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I used to do much more like I used
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  Speaker 1: to do, like like walk them only and all the dips.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you gotta have your dips.
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  Speaker 2: The what I know. Yeah, yeah, I think about a
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  Speaker 2: spicy buffalo chicken dip. Oh, yes, I want to think
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  Speaker 2: about that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's so good. I went to one once where
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  Speaker 1: there were like three versions of that a super Bowl party,
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  Speaker 1: and it was the best.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Also, on the thirteenth Gallantine's Day, which I feel like
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  Speaker 1: we used to Samantha and I we used to do
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  Speaker 1: Galentine's Day Valentine's Day together pretty regularly. Normally, if I
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  Speaker 1: am just by myself, then I like, maybe we'll make
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  Speaker 1: a stake on Valentine's Day and that's it. But I
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  Speaker 1: when I was a kid, my mom used to make
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  Speaker 1: me these really nice like flowers made of like tool paper,
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  Speaker 1: and so I have fond memories of Valentine's Day. But
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  Speaker 1: I really the steak is nice. It's like a nice
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  Speaker 1: excuses steak.
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  Speaker 2: We accidentally came together for Valentine's Day. I think we
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  Speaker 2: try to make it a tradition out of that because
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  Speaker 2: we were at the conference.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it wasn't purposeful, but right, which I still loved
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  Speaker 1: and I was very excited about So don't get me
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  Speaker 1: wrong about that.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, a lot of the things that we end
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  Speaker 2: up celebrating and ends up being tradition is up being
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  Speaker 2: I don't think about it, but you think about it,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like, yeah, we did do that, and then
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  Speaker 2: it becomes tradition because I'm not as sentimental because I
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  Speaker 2: don't think about that, because like I don't do many
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  Speaker 2: things for Valentine's Day. People send me gifts and I
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  Speaker 2: send it bag. I'm like, yeah, that's right, and then
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  Speaker 2: that's the end. But like I don't do much for
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  Speaker 2: Valentine's Day either. Last year it was the first time
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  Speaker 2: that my partner and I went to dinner. It is
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  Speaker 2: because I just wanted this one place for dinner and
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  Speaker 2: the like set menu looked amazing. So that was the
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  Speaker 2: end of that. But like, outside of that, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think I've ever celebrated. And because you were like, let's
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  Speaker 2: do it, was like yeah, because I don't do things
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  Speaker 2: on my own. Things like that, traditions are very odd
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  Speaker 2: to me.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's interesting because to me, like it's all
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  Speaker 1: it's like both I can see the sad part of it.
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  Speaker 1: And the happy part of it, because it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: sad that I'm like I can finally have a steak,
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  Speaker 1: but a steak, you know, is kind of a special
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  Speaker 1: occasion food. But it's also like I can finally go
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  Speaker 1: to this restaurant. Like if you want to go to
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  Speaker 1: a restaurant, you should go. It's it's interesting how many
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  Speaker 1: things I've built up into a lass. Finally my time
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  Speaker 1: to have this thing. Yeah, but it is also nice
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  Speaker 1: because it kind of makes it special because I am
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  Speaker 1: a very tradition like this is my pass time in
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  Speaker 1: this way, I have on my calendar like by grol
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  Speaker 1: tries for this, you know, on this day. Like I'm
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  Speaker 1: just very in that mindset. And I've talked before like
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  Speaker 1: dates are a big thing in my head, Like I'm
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  Speaker 1: like this state. I remember this state and the state.
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  Speaker 1: So it is interesting to me that you and I
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  Speaker 1: are very different.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not a bad thing at all. It was
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  Speaker 2: just like absolutely a thing like in my like I
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  Speaker 2: this is my least attachment thing, Like it has a
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  Speaker 2: lot to do with our childhoods that you thrived in
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  Speaker 2: adventure and imagination, and the part of that is like
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  Speaker 2: building in the traditions and the sentimentality as where I
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  Speaker 2: grew up in survival mood constantly of like I got
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  Speaker 2: a lie to get through this, and like I got
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  Speaker 2: to make up just to be like I definitely had
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  Speaker 2: a family. Yep, I knew that girl and I didn't
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  Speaker 2: and I didn't like I did that in the orphanage,
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  Speaker 2: but like coming out of that and then coming to
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  Speaker 2: the US where they also had traditions and it was
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  Speaker 2: very very heavily influenced with religion that I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what's happening. And also this didn't exist
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  Speaker 2: in Korea, so I did to exists here type of
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  Speaker 2: thing because being in an orphanage and you get and
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  Speaker 2: like like a lot of systems here, but you get
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  Speaker 2: like yelled at that's part of your birthday, brother, when
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  Speaker 2: maybe a cookie, Oh they didn't even celebrate your birthday
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  Speaker 2: because they didn't really know your birthday and the story.
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  Speaker 2: So stuff like that is just very much like huh
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  Speaker 2: and which of like I try to rev myself up
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  Speaker 2: in this inna mentality and then I get really disappointed
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  Speaker 2: when it doesn't meet the expectations of what I thought
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  Speaker 2: it was supposed to be. So I just gave up
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  Speaker 2: which is really sad in itself, but like, but when
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  Speaker 2: someone else does it for me, I am more excited
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  Speaker 2: about their excitement than anything else. So that's why I
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  Speaker 2: think i'd latch onto what you do. I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's wonderful. I love this. Let's do this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well it's funny too because so many of the things,
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  Speaker 1: like again going back to the like it's kind of said,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of happy, Like literally, I'll be happy if
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  Speaker 1: I have a stake amount as I say, like the
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  Speaker 1: literal by myself, like leave me be. It would be
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  Speaker 1: a great time. But it helps me. I think traditions
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  Speaker 1: for me help me feel like I'm passing time. Like
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  Speaker 1: it's such I feel like, okay, this is over now
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  Speaker 1: I move on to this. So this is this week
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  Speaker 1: is just a ton of them, like this whole coming week.
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  Speaker 1: But I would love to know listeners, like, if you
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  Speaker 1: have traditions, if you're celebrating any of this, if you're
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  Speaker 1: confused by it's.
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  Speaker 2: Like, what's wrong with you?
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