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Happy Hour #21: The Comfort of Routine · 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've never told you production of I Hiart Radio. Yes,
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Speaker 1: and welcome to another happy hour. Yes, it's actually Friday. Answer.
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Speaker 1: We record this, so we're doing this right, And it
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Speaker 1: is in the afternoon, so I feel a little appropriate
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Speaker 1: for this one. We always have to disclaim something also
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Speaker 1: with that as I always drink responsibly if you choose
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Speaker 1: to do so, be in an alcoholic or a non
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Speaker 1: alcoholic beverage. Yes, and yes, we have decided to make
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Speaker 1: this a special episode because I feel like you and
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Speaker 1: I brag a lot about our Sunday routines when we
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Speaker 1: used to get well, we still are because we're planning
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Speaker 1: to get together soon when we do the little routine
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Speaker 1: of your Star Wars watching party essentially, and you've named
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Speaker 1: it which way You've named it what Sunday Sunday Sunday
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Speaker 1: which has a whole has a whole backstory for sure,
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Speaker 1: and everybody in your world knows this backstory and have
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Speaker 1: been fighting over to participate with you, like we all
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Speaker 1: kind of trying to get our way in there. I
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Speaker 1: think I love it. It's become like an actual thing
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Speaker 1: instead of something I just started a couple of years back. Right,
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Speaker 1: So another disclaimer, we're not sponsored by anyone. Every time
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Speaker 1: we do an episode is typically it's because we've found
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Speaker 1: something that we love and are so excited by, and
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Speaker 1: it is centered around women in that industry, whether they
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Speaker 1: are the CEO, CEO of the creators, a brewmaster, whatever.
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Speaker 1: We love highlighting that and decided we want to uh
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Speaker 1: honk our own horns about the things that you and
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Speaker 1: I have created. So I was like, any today, We're
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Speaker 1: gonna do simple, which is we're going to talk about
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Speaker 1: our cocktails that we have created for this lovely new
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Speaker 1: tradition called Sunday Sunday Sunday. And because you are you,
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Speaker 1: everything's centered around Star Wars and must have Star Wars
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Speaker 1: puns because I am me. I'm like, I'm gonna make
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Speaker 1: ten different types of dreams and try to figure out
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Speaker 1: if I could actually be a mixologist because I want
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Speaker 1: to be so bad in my lifetime. So what have
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Speaker 1: you created today? Yes, so I have created It's called
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Speaker 1: the yub Nub, which is ewa kias just the official
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Speaker 1: language of the e walks for basically like Gay Triumph.
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Speaker 1: You probably saw it a lot. It gets passed around
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Speaker 1: when like uh. In the last election, when the announcement
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Speaker 1: finally came through, a lot of people were like yeb
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Speaker 1: nub uh. And it's the song that the Ewoks sing
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Speaker 1: at the end of Return of the Jedi, which George
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Speaker 1: Lucas later changed because he said it was too childish.
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Speaker 1: But I wanted to for that because the Ewoks live
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Speaker 1: on kind of a foresty moon. I created this drink,
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Speaker 1: which is gin and grape fruit juice. Fresh squeezed grapefruit
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Speaker 1: juice is the best tonic water and then some basil
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Speaker 1: leaves and pepper. And I want you know, shout out.
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Speaker 1: I know, Samantha, I think you're the person that introduced
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Speaker 1: me to this drink. But I was inspired by the
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Speaker 1: drink at a local restaurant, Wrecking Bar. Yes, because they
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Speaker 1: have a very similar drink. But it's it's a very nice,
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Speaker 1: like tart, refreshing light drink for the end of the
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Speaker 1: Return of the Jedi. Yes uh, and I think it's perfect.
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Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite drinks because A I love gen,
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Speaker 1: B I love basil, so those two things to me
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Speaker 1: cannot go wrong. And then you add the acid of
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Speaker 1: the grapefruit. Such a delight is one of my favorites
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Speaker 1: and you're doing it with the fresh squeeze. And by
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Speaker 1: the way, for the grapefruit, this Samantha dropped off the
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Speaker 1: grape fruit in my apartment. I'm like, look, we're doing this,
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Speaker 1: so you're gonna need a grape fruit. She's like, I
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Speaker 1: can do an altar. Was like, no, we have to
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Speaker 1: do this right home. Gonna allow it, which I had
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Speaker 1: to go for myself because I created what we are
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Speaker 1: calling the Tattooing Sunset because of course that's her like
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Speaker 1: favorite scene every time it comes on, and she just
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Speaker 1: sits there and stairs and we will share pictures of
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Speaker 1: these drinks and we will share our cocktail recipe um online,
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Speaker 1: so you will have this. But which any that means
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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to give a specific measurements, so hope, okay,
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Speaker 1: a dash of this. But my tattooing Sunset is I
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Speaker 1: muddle up about four berries. It's accord to how many
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Speaker 1: drinks you do, about four blackberries, rosemary, simple syrup, and
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Speaker 1: a squeeze of lemon juice into my shaker, and then
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Speaker 1: I add an ounce to an ounce and a half
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Speaker 1: gen half boozy. You want to be, it's up to you. Well,
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Speaker 1: you don't have to. You can do this without the
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Speaker 1: gin and our replace that. I'll tell you how in
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Speaker 1: a minute. And then you muddle it up and shake
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Speaker 1: it with ice you put it into I typically use
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Speaker 1: a flute. Annie has slowly tried to kill off all
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Speaker 1: of my flutes because she's slowly, one by one breaking them.
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Speaker 1: It has been a delight to watch. One time it
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Speaker 1: was just on the ground and she just stepped like
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Speaker 1: not even I don't think you. I thought you stepped
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Speaker 1: near it, and it just fell over right. Yeah. And
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Speaker 1: one time I was making the grape fruit. I was
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Speaker 1: squeezing the grape fruit and it just fell off a
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Speaker 1: counter that I wasn't even using soots everywhere. She bought
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Speaker 1: me a whole new set, and I'm like, I'm excited
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Speaker 1: for you to break these, but yes, I'll put it
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Speaker 1: in champagne foot and then I top it off and
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Speaker 1: and honestly, it's more champagne because it's gonna have like
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Speaker 1: probably a third of that is that cocktail mixture, and
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Speaker 1: then you fill it up with champagne and it comes
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Speaker 1: at to this beautiful pink purpleish color. That's why we
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Speaker 1: said tattooing sunset and then up the two little blackberries
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Speaker 1: and usually like a sprig of rosemary in there, but
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Speaker 1: the blackberries represent the two sons on tattooing, and yeah,
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Speaker 1: i'll put a little lime lemon wedge sometimes some real
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Speaker 1: fancy I'm gonna do that, but not all the time.
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Speaker 1: But that is the tattooing Sunset. And it inspired from
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Speaker 1: one of my other favorite drinks, which is a French
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Speaker 1: seventy five. So you take the original French seventy five
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Speaker 1: as some berries, some rosemary, and it's the light. Yes,
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Speaker 1: it's one of my favorites. So that is our drink
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Speaker 1: and mine again, tattooing Sunset. Man, should we trademark these?
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Speaker 1: I feel? I was so impressed because I was getting
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Speaker 1: text messages from Samantha and she was like, I want
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Speaker 1: to drink that represents like being tempted by the dark side,
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Speaker 1: but sting like it's so happy this was happening. I did.
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Speaker 1: It's a very artistic drink. I've tried to make it
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Speaker 1: and I could never make it as good as you.
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Speaker 1: So I'm like taking in this recipe and seeing where
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Speaker 1: I'm gone wrong. To be fair, you also are missing things,
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Speaker 1: which is why I have to drop things off to
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Speaker 1: you when I'm like, we're doing this recipe and you're like,
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Speaker 1: what kind of Like when we did um Hanky panky,
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Speaker 1: I knew you didn't have an orange, so I'm made
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Speaker 1: sure to get you an orange as well. But we
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Speaker 1: were celebrating these drinks and talking about these drinks specifically
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Speaker 1: because I thought it's necessary that we talk about routines
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Speaker 1: and why is import and the reason. If you don't
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Speaker 1: mind any can you tell you exactly why you did
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Speaker 1: Sunday Sunday Sunday and how it's become this absolutely So
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Speaker 1: Sunday Sunday Sunday started as something that was something that
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Speaker 1: I needed for comfort because I used to it used
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Speaker 1: to be called Sunday Runday Funday because I would do
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Speaker 1: my long runs on Sunday and I would always call
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Speaker 1: my mom on Sunday nights. And at the time that
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Speaker 1: was a very difficult thing for me to do because
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Speaker 1: my dad was dying. It was tragic phone call, like
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Speaker 1: a difficult phone call every time. So on Sunday I
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Speaker 1: would do this run and then I would make sure
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Speaker 1: to have plans like I would go with one friend hiking,
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Speaker 1: and I would go with another friend. I go see
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Speaker 1: a movie, I go to a restaurant. It was just
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Speaker 1: kind of just like day of really filling it with
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Speaker 1: activities and things that I really liked to prepare myself
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Speaker 1: for this difficult thing. And then I would usually stay
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Speaker 1: up really late and watch John Oliver. So it became
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Speaker 1: like this whole old day and I did it every Sunday.
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Speaker 1: And then from there quarantine pandemic happened and I can
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Speaker 1: no longer do all of these things that were associated
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Speaker 1: with it. And by then people have started getting in
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Speaker 1: on it, like they had started, you know, every Sunday.
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Speaker 1: I would hear from, you know, a group of friends,
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Speaker 1: like what are you doing for Sunday? Sunday Sunday, I'll
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Speaker 1: meet you for this part or this part or this part.
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Speaker 1: It was very low key like that, and it was
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Speaker 1: also I'm not a very spontaneous person often, but it
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Speaker 1: could be very spontaneous. So it was kind of a
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Speaker 1: nice break from the rest of my week. Like there
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Speaker 1: was the routine of it, but it could be like, oh,
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Speaker 1: let's go one time, we saw like three movies, right wild.
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Speaker 1: So then yeah, pandemic happened. And I can't remember the
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Speaker 1: specific reason. I think it was because I wanted to
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Speaker 1: get Mark cambl to treat at me, but I decided
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Speaker 1: I was going to watch the original trilogy Star Wars trilogy,
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Speaker 1: which is something that had always brought me comfort. And
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Speaker 1: even though I by no means watched them at the
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Speaker 1: rate I watched them, now, I can think of times
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Speaker 1: in my life where I was really stressed and I
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Speaker 1: watched those movies. I can remember them because I was
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Speaker 1: stressed and they just brought me so much comfort. And
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Speaker 1: I was telling people about, you know, like, yeah, I'm
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Speaker 1: just every Sunday, I'll be doing watching these movies. And
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Speaker 1: I would have virtual watch parties and people would drop
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Speaker 1: in whenever they wanted, and it was really cool because
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Speaker 1: it it was movies we've seen a lot for a
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Speaker 1: lot of us, and it was cool to have people
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Speaker 1: come in and still be really excited about it and
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Speaker 1: having that friendship and camaraderie over it, and it is
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Speaker 1: something that from their blossomed into UM. I was hanging
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Speaker 1: out a lot and creating cocktails and so much like discussions.
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Speaker 1: I've had wonderful discussions, and it is it does surprise
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Speaker 1: me how every time it is such a comfort and
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Speaker 1: like of relief, even if I am working on dungeons
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Speaker 1: and dragons are costuming lots in the background. It's just
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Speaker 1: like it makes me feel lighter, right, And you're not
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Speaker 1: the only one. According to one health site, they talk
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Speaker 1: about how that it does allow for a sense of
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Speaker 1: accomplishment and how important routine has been. As one says,
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Speaker 1: routines can be important anchors to maintain good mental health
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Speaker 1: and dealing with anxiety, especially during times like the pandemic.
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Speaker 1: They create a positive level of stress that keep us
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Speaker 1: focused and may help avoid some of the depression that
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Speaker 1: many people were feeling, especially during the time of a
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Speaker 1: pandemic and isolation. And I remember like knowing when you
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Speaker 1: would text me my media responses are you watching Star Wars?
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Speaker 1: And you're like, yes, I know that that's the thing,
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Speaker 1: And for myself that's something that I do as well,
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Speaker 1: not necessarily with Star Wars, of course, I got to
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Speaker 1: jump on the bandwagon. This was partially because you've been
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Speaker 1: pushing me to watch it for so long anyway that
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Speaker 1: I was like, well, I have nothing better to do,
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Speaker 1: so might as well. But it became a whole. But
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Speaker 1: it's become something that I started looking forward to. So
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Speaker 1: we may not do it every weekend, but every month
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Speaker 1: or so you would come over and we would have
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Speaker 1: a whole thing. But it was something that kept me active, like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: we were going to do this, but we have Hey,
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Speaker 1: I need to go grocery shopping and make sure we
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Speaker 1: have these items because these that are part of these
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Speaker 1: traditions and traditions as well make us feel safe because
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Speaker 1: that means there's a place of belonging. It means that
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Speaker 1: you have an importance to you because you're part of
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Speaker 1: something bigger than yourself, and that's kind of the tradition.
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Speaker 1: Of course, there's bad traditions as well. Um, we're not
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Speaker 1: necessarily talking about all of that. But I think what
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Speaker 1: I wanted to focus on, as much as we love
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Speaker 1: these times, that it was for part of your mental health.
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Speaker 1: It is for part of your anxiety. You lost something,
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Speaker 1: but you gain something. And now because we're quote unquote
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Speaker 1: normal times are back, not really um, and I'm still
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Speaker 1: waiting for the bottom to fall out and for us
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Speaker 1: to go back to the quarantine days. Honestly, I'm kind
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Speaker 1: of scared. But it's now becomes something that's because as
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Speaker 1: it was so it was such a help, it's sentimental.
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Speaker 1: Now it's kind of like, oh, this still feels good,
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Speaker 1: and I don't I still kind of want to hang
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Speaker 1: on to that. And there is that level, right yeah,
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Speaker 1: And there there's a bunch of hearts to that of
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Speaker 1: you know, especially like I'm a big proponent or a
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Speaker 1: believer that nostalgia can be great but it can go
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Speaker 1: terribly wrong. But it's also like it just it does
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Speaker 1: to me feel like kind of an old friend or
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Speaker 1: something I can be like, oh, yeah, I remember these
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Speaker 1: good times associated with it, and to have these conversations
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Speaker 1: aout like it's easier for me to complain about Darth
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Speaker 1: Vader's psychology just for one afternoon, to take my mind
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Speaker 1: off of like a pandemic and all of this dark stuff,
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Speaker 1: to be like he's a bad dad and everyone's like yes, no,
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Speaker 1: one's arguing that point. Yeah, and having those conversations and
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Speaker 1: it's something too where on Father's Day and the anniversary
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Speaker 1: of my dad's death, I now watched them because it
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Speaker 1: is we there are things that here in that movie
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Speaker 1: I can't not hear him say because he quoted it
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Speaker 1: all the time, and it does feel like, in a
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Speaker 1: very dark humor kind of way, like a bad day, right,
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Speaker 1: it is honestly, Yeah, but it does give me comfort
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Speaker 1: to know, like on days like that that could be tough,
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Speaker 1: I have this thing that I feel will provide me
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Speaker 1: some level, some semblance of safety and normalcy and happiness,
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Speaker 1: Like I get so happy. Yeah, I've seen him a
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Speaker 1: million times and like this part, I really do want
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Speaker 1: to do a live video. Just were you watching this
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Speaker 1: for the million time and your response as if it
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Speaker 1: Like I thought it was so funny because when we
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Speaker 1: first watched it and you were so into it and
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Speaker 1: your reactions were so into it them like how many
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Speaker 1: times have you watched this? What? No, but it's so
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Speaker 1: good that that's your response. Oh. I mean that's the
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Speaker 1: thing too, is you know how it ends, right, So
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Speaker 1: you don't have that, but I do get swept up
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Speaker 1: in this is so dramatic, right you do, and it's
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Speaker 1: it's and it's a delight to watch. I feel like
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Speaker 1: I'm watching it with you for the first time in general,
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Speaker 1: like you're watching it for the first time, watching you
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Speaker 1: enjoy it. But yeah, I think that's what we wanted
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Speaker 1: to talk about and why we're doing Happy hours in general,
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Speaker 1: why we did happy hours while we started Happy Hours
14:21
Speaker 1: and we kind of did it in late in the season,
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Speaker 1: obviously because it was finally coming to the point that
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Speaker 1: people are getting vaccinated, which, by the way, there's a
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Speaker 1: new statistic out those people who are actually being hospitalized
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Speaker 1: are the people who are not vaccinated, just in case
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Speaker 1: you'all need to know that. But the level of for me,
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Speaker 1: because I am also a person that needs I don't
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Speaker 1: do well with routine, like I'm not gonna do job
14:43
Speaker 1: type things, not in my wheelhouse. It's like, I don't
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Speaker 1: love that. But what I do love is the consistency
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Speaker 1: of something. So I will rewatch something to the point
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Speaker 1: that everybody else is so tired of me watching it
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Speaker 1: that they walk away, But there's a comfort and knowing
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Speaker 1: what's coming next and then I'm not going to be
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Speaker 1: tragically surprised. So we watched Lovecraft, my partner and I,
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Speaker 1: and I was really on edge and it took a
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Speaker 1: long time for us to get through and because there's
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Speaker 1: so much trauma in there, and there's so much history
15:12
Speaker 1: that's just so gross and dirty, and I hate it.
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Speaker 1: I hate it so much. But I finally got through it,
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Speaker 1: and it was to me, I think it was great,
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Speaker 1: So I was able to rewatch it knowing what's coming
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Speaker 1: up and to enjoy it instead of being anxious about
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Speaker 1: what's coming up. And I'm kind of like that in anything.
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Speaker 1: When I watched I comfort watch to nobody's business. That
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Speaker 1: was my coping mechanism while working my really hard jobs,
15:34
Speaker 1: while watching kids die while we're moving kids from homes
15:37
Speaker 1: or or trying to fight for kids to stay at
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Speaker 1: a home like that was my release because my life
15:42
Speaker 1: and my work was so unpredictable and so hard to
15:46
Speaker 1: deal with on a daily basis. Like my therapist at
15:48
Speaker 1: that time, I canna tell you, we could never get
15:50
Speaker 1: to the root of my trauma, my childhood trauma because
15:53
Speaker 1: before dealing with daily work related trauma, that never got
15:57
Speaker 1: and it was every time I went through a therapy session,
16:00
Speaker 1: I was out for the next three days because we
16:01
Speaker 1: could not process enough in that forty five minutes to
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Speaker 1: fifty minutes. I've finally gotten to the point because I'm
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Speaker 1: not in that field anymore that I could get past that.
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Speaker 1: But because of that, because of those vulnerabilities, and because
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Speaker 1: I would always constantly feel raw, emotionally raw, having things
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Speaker 1: like parks and wreck that I would watch on a
16:22
Speaker 1: consistent basis, I watched uh, dirty rock factor body and
16:27
Speaker 1: it's definitely problematic, scrubs, problematic, there's so many things. I
16:31
Speaker 1: was like, Oh my god, this is so sex in
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Speaker 1: the city, all of those things. But it was a
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Speaker 1: comfort because a I knew it was coming, It was
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Speaker 1: a routine, and it made me feel something other than
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Speaker 1: the horror of whatever was happening in that time, because
16:45
Speaker 1: I was able to connect on a different level and yeah,
16:47
Speaker 1: complain about this is so dumb or this is so hilarious. Oh,
16:50
Speaker 1: this is what exactly why I feel about this and
16:53
Speaker 1: being able to, as I have said before, a term
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Speaker 1: that my friend used to tell me in college babysit
16:59
Speaker 1: your brain. Just being able to remove yourself in a
17:02
Speaker 1: different manner. And I think that made a lot of
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Speaker 1: difference and how that is important and allow for that
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Speaker 1: that it's not anything about being lazy, it's not necessarily
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Speaker 1: about being um. And focus is literally about finding that
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Speaker 1: place that you just don't have to think, you don't
17:21
Speaker 1: have to worry about whatever. That is an allowance to
17:24
Speaker 1: give yourself that freedom. Yeah, And I think we've talked
17:28
Speaker 1: a lot about self care, and we've talked about how
17:30
Speaker 1: important it is for people. A lot of you listeners
17:32
Speaker 1: who are in like activism or in difficult jobs like
17:35
Speaker 1: you are, women and minorities just in general will have
17:39
Speaker 1: this onslaught of difficult things to deal with and how
17:42
Speaker 1: hard that can be to make space for that in
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Speaker 1: time for that. And there was a point where we
17:48
Speaker 1: were coming to the end of the pandemic quarantine, at
17:52
Speaker 1: least it seemed where I was like, and I know
17:55
Speaker 1: people have talked about this in public a lot, but
17:58
Speaker 1: I did have a moment of well, what did you
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Speaker 1: do in quarantine? And you watched Star Wars a lot,
18:04
Speaker 1: and I was like, don't feel bad about that, because
18:09
Speaker 1: you know, it was just something that I couldn't go
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Speaker 1: anywhere really, and uh, it did give me comfort even
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Speaker 1: if I wasn't like super paying attention to them. That's
18:20
Speaker 1: one of the nice things is that I can say
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Speaker 1: the lines, so it's I don't have to be like
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Speaker 1: watching it and I can be doing something else. But
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Speaker 1: just having it on gave me such a sense of comfort,
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Speaker 1: and it prevented my brain from like spinning out of oh,
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Speaker 1: you can't leave and do what Sunday. Sunday used to be.
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Speaker 1: The world is all of these issues that you feel
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Speaker 1: you can't control. So it just gave yeah, like babies
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Speaker 1: that my brain of like in the background. It occupied
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Speaker 1: it enough where I could do something else and not
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Speaker 1: feel like completely overwhelmed by everything right, And we talked
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Speaker 1: about this, and obviously in the U s as things
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Speaker 1: aren't slowly getting to normal. Have friends in Canada who
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Speaker 1: were talking about they're still in lockdown. They are still
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Speaker 1: in lockdown, and they're still trying to deal with it
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Speaker 1: in I feel so bad because I'm like, you did
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Speaker 1: everything right, and unfortunately you're being punished for that. You
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Speaker 1: actually went into lockdown and did it appropriately, but because
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Speaker 1: you are not high priority, because you've actually been able
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Speaker 1: to maintain a little bit of sensibility in this time.
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Speaker 1: And so therefore the hospitalization was not as bad as
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Speaker 1: compared to the US because of the US, much like
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Speaker 1: the Center of Georgia decided, hey, it's fine, everybody out
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Speaker 1: for themselves. They don't have access to the vaccine as
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Speaker 1: as we've had as fast. I know it's coming and
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Speaker 1: I know it's slow going, and therefore they're still in lockdown.
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Speaker 1: At least my friend does in UM Toronto. So she
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Speaker 1: was like, I'm about to lose it, And we had
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Speaker 1: a zoom conversation with her and my friend in England. Uh,
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Speaker 1: and we're all three very different places and where we are,
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Speaker 1: and all I can think is what I'm saying, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm about to go work out for the first time.
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Speaker 1: Her face is like, I'm gonna punch you. Like that's fair,
19:59
Speaker 1: but it's complete be fair. So we're talking about all
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Speaker 1: this and and and with that against this ability of
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Speaker 1: like it's okay to feel like all you've accomplished this,
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Speaker 1: I've watched this for the time in a row during
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Speaker 1: the pandemic, that's okay, and that's fine. And then you
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Speaker 1: have to do what you have to do to keep
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Speaker 1: yourself to that place where you are healthy. And unfortunately
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Speaker 1: that might have everything to do with finally just giving
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Speaker 1: up for a day. That's okay, there's nothing wrong with that.
20:29
Speaker 1: And when I say giving up, I mean deciding not
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Speaker 1: to clean the house that day, It's okay. Or if
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Speaker 1: you need to clean the house for the fiftieth time
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Speaker 1: that day, that's okay. Of course, there's always extremes, and
20:39
Speaker 1: you definitely need to care for your mental health and
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Speaker 1: listen to your own body when it tells you to stop,
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Speaker 1: or when it tells you to go or when it
20:46
Speaker 1: tells you it needs help, you need to be able
20:49
Speaker 1: to do all those things. But it's also good to
20:51
Speaker 1: know that there is routine, and routines look different and
20:55
Speaker 1: that's okay. And if it includes you having to try
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Speaker 1: to make your own cocktails or mocktails or whatever, that's
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Speaker 1: okay too. Yes, Yes, I've had some wonderful, wonderful Sunday
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Speaker 1: Sunday Sundays, a lot of them with you, Savanta. Thank
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Speaker 1: you for this journey, going along this journey with me,
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Speaker 1: It's been fun. I love all the cocktails you've created
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