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Happy Hour #55: Kasama Rum · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I'm welcome to Steph.
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  Speaker 1: I never told your protection of I heart radio. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and welcome to another edition of Happy Hour. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to echo in that one. I don't know why
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  Speaker 1: Christina I need an echo in this way. And just
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  Speaker 1: at the very top, well, you know how we say
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  Speaker 1: keep it together ish, meaning drink responsibly, however that applies
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  Speaker 1: to you, whatever way that applies to you, meaning if
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  Speaker 1: you don't need to be drinking, don't drink. If you
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  Speaker 1: don't need to be drinking caffee, don't drink that. If
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  Speaker 1: you don't need to be listening to this maybe not,
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  Speaker 1: don't don't do that either. Who knows. Just be responsible,
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  Speaker 1: do what is best for you. Two at the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the year, ISH, we're going to keep it like that. Also,
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  Speaker 1: just another reminder, the drinks, typically, unless we are noting it,
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  Speaker 1: are not sponsored by whomever we are talking about, So
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  Speaker 1: this rum is not our sponsor. And the room we
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  Speaker 1: are specifically talking about today is Cassama Rum, which is
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  Speaker 1: a Philippines based slash New York based rum founded by
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  Speaker 1: Alexandra Dorda, whose family is all about good spirits. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: her father is the founder of Belvedere Vodka. I think
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  Speaker 1: she is. I'm gonna understand Polish, and her mother is
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  Speaker 1: from the Philippines, so that is part of our heritage.
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  Speaker 1: So you can say this that this industry is a
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  Speaker 1: part of her heritage. Obviously. Cassama is the Filipino word
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  Speaker 1: for together. According to their site, I did see it
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  Speaker 1: also saying a companion, so like being together a friendship,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, and that was her intent to bring people
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  Speaker 1: together over good drinks, sunshine and good vibes. Go check
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  Speaker 1: out her side if you're questioning where I'm getting this,
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  Speaker 1: and the company describes the rum as quote distilled from
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  Speaker 1: a freshly pressed noble kine juice then aged in American
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  Speaker 1: oak barrels. Casama has all the flag verse of the tropics,
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  Speaker 1: sweet pineapple, a hint of vanilla, and just a pinch
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  Speaker 1: of sea salts and uh, just in case you're wondering
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  Speaker 1: any In an interview she did with Kitchen dot Com
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  Speaker 1: the k I t h N dot Com, she says
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  Speaker 1: about the rom quote the taste profile, it's very different
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  Speaker 1: from many other RUMs out there. The golden color is
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  Speaker 1: because it's an aged rum that lays for seven years
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  Speaker 1: in oak barrels. It's not heavily spiced, and it's not
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  Speaker 1: overly sweet, which many consumers expect RUM to be. Like,
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  Speaker 1: is very light, it's very simpable, and it has really
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  Speaker 1: beautiful tropical notes of pineapple and vanilla. And yeah, in
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  Speaker 1: that same innter of you, she talked about how she
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  Speaker 1: wanted her brand to be a little different and that
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  Speaker 1: typically we see and she's right that the brains we
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  Speaker 1: see are like, you know, pirates and going out to
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  Speaker 1: see and all these things that she wanted to keep
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  Speaker 1: it tropical and fun, and the bottle itself has some
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  Speaker 1: really beautiful colors. I really did like it a lot,
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  Speaker 1: very much jumped out in front of you, like, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I need this Rum. So Adi, did you take a sip?
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  Speaker 1: I did take a sip. As I said before on
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  Speaker 1: past episodes, I like to take one sip straight to
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  Speaker 1: get a feel for it, and then I usually make
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  Speaker 1: a drink with it. And I agree with what Alexandra said.
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  Speaker 1: It's very very simple. It is sweet, like it was
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  Speaker 1: sweet at the front, but it's not like overly sweets
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  Speaker 1: and I definitely picked up on that like kind of
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  Speaker 1: tropical vanilla thing. And I know we say this all
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  Speaker 1: the time. But it's true. Again, it was very smooth,
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  Speaker 1: like it didn't really have much of a burn right
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  Speaker 1: or anything. It just was like, oh yeah, kind of
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  Speaker 1: that I that was describes the emotion in my mouth.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of what happened, the sounds your mouth made.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I would definitely agree with that. He apparently
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  Speaker 1: really likes to do things with coconut water in the room,
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  Speaker 1: and I did see that in their recipes. So if
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  Speaker 1: y'all need some recipe ideas, they've got some amazing ones.
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  Speaker 1: And I definitely taste that coconut that at the ending
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  Speaker 1: with that vanilla, that very sweetness to it, but it
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  Speaker 1: has that little slight edge of the burn. But I
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  Speaker 1: think it's liquor, always liquor. But it's still smooth and
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  Speaker 1: definitely could be sipped over something. I could just put
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  Speaker 1: a pineapple, piece of pineapple in it. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: i'd be okay with it. Not too heavily oaky. Surprisingly
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  Speaker 1: I assumed it would be because it has satin seven
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  Speaker 1: years in American oak, but it doesn't have that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have that same bite that typical oak that I do taste.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's more so about sweet pineapple, sweet, tropic
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  Speaker 1: type of taste, and I do enjoy it. So good job, Alexandra. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we you and I were a little late to the game.
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  Speaker 1: We're like, oh no, we are still taking this pandemic
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  Speaker 1: very seriously and not going out often. So that includes
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  Speaker 1: me not go into grocery shopping. But for every once
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  Speaker 1: a week, you once three weeks. I know. So what
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  Speaker 1: did you have in your cabinet to make your drink?
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  Speaker 1: And what did you make? Uh? So, all I really
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  Speaker 1: add was I had some lime juice and the sparkling
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  Speaker 1: water and that's it delicious I did, and it's it's
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  Speaker 1: very refreshing and actually the rum flavor is pretty It
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  Speaker 1: shines in this. A lot of drinks I make can
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  Speaker 1: normally the liquor kind of fades to the background in
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  Speaker 1: one way or another, but this is nice. It's a
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  Speaker 1: nice like bright. I can still taste that kind of sweetness.
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  Speaker 1: So even though there's not much in this drink, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's got a lot going on. Yeah, I like it. No,
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  Speaker 1: that's one of the things that they talked about. Just
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  Speaker 1: putting some just lime and a little bit of juice
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  Speaker 1: is some sorts, and she does that a lot for me.
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  Speaker 1: I decided to create what I'm going to call Sam's
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  Speaker 1: Rum Creamsicle, which essentially has I squeezed two small mandarines
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  Speaker 1: little cutie's, yeah, and into my little glass, and then
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  Speaker 1: I added an nounce and a half of the rum.
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  Speaker 1: And then I took my bubble water. But I love
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  Speaker 1: the pineapple flavor. One bubbly water, and I put like
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  Speaker 1: a splash vat a good pour into it, and Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it tastes like a creamsickle. It's quite delightful, little sweeter,
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  Speaker 1: but had the acidity from the orange. So that is
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  Speaker 1: my now official drink that I'm going to call Sam's
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  Speaker 1: Rum Creamsickle. I love it. It feels like, once again,
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  Speaker 1: you're in your like coat that makes you look like
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  Speaker 1: an Arctic explorer, but you're drinking this like very very
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  Speaker 1: beach like trafical drink of your own creation. It's breaking
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  Speaker 1: me a lot of joy. You know. One of the
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  Speaker 1: things that she does talk about is branding, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that's something we need to think about often, even
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  Speaker 1: though I hate it. It It feels so cliche, especially in
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  Speaker 1: the industry. You and I are end because of what
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  Speaker 1: we've already been told where social influencers. I'm like, how
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand what are Yeah, so I'm very confused
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  Speaker 1: by this whole aspect of social influencers. I guess if
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  Speaker 1: we take it outside of social media and talk about
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  Speaker 1: it in a digital format, be sure. But I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's one of the things. So if you were to
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  Speaker 1: say what your brand was, can you describe to me
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  Speaker 1: your brand? Oh? My, I would say it is. It
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  Speaker 1: is what I hope is charming, awkwardness and endearing but
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  Speaker 1: sometimes intense passions and a lot of them nerd based, yes,
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  Speaker 1: like what's a good word for will not stop talking
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  Speaker 1: about things she loves until you away slowly passionate? Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: fashion it I think something in there. I think the
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  Speaker 1: awkward is definitely a part of it. But yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a good brand. You have a great
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  Speaker 1: brand because people recognize and know you're easy to shop for.
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  Speaker 1: Your easy and hard in that I get better ideas
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  Speaker 1: because you have so much love for so many things.
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  Speaker 1: But it's die hard that it's almost like this could
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  Speaker 1: go really really wrong. Because I do this to my
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  Speaker 1: other friend Dominique, who really is a big Auburn fan.
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  Speaker 1: She has a sorority, like she has all these things,
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  Speaker 1: so a little I focused in a little too hard
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  Speaker 1: on those is getting her catchy things to the point
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  Speaker 1: that my mother would do that to me, where I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I said, I liked it one time, and every year
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, I can never get rid of this. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't love it, but okay, But all that
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  Speaker 1: to say is you have so much love and when
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  Speaker 1: you love something, you love it with all of your
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  Speaker 1: heart and it's a really beautiful thing and you are
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  Speaker 1: a loyalist to it, but you're still compassionate and that
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  Speaker 1: you want to teach others. So you are a passionate
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  Speaker 1: die hard. I like it. Thank you. That's your brand.
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  Speaker 1: I think. Yeah. For me, I want to go with
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  Speaker 1: a lovable curmudgeon. I hope I'm lovable at least I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna say likable, endurable. It's getting little us and loves
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  Speaker 1: like I was getting. So I'm really struggling. And you
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  Speaker 1: and I have talked about this previously when we had
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  Speaker 1: episodes about being empathetic, and I'm not calling myself an impath.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not even going to go down that road, but
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  Speaker 1: empathetic that when others go through something, something in my
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  Speaker 1: life gets triggered. By it as well. So I have
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  Speaker 1: someone going through not a hard time, but a big change,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like I have taken that. And I
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  Speaker 1: didn't realize that until today, even though I've been just
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  Speaker 1: been swirling in my head for two weeks that that
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  Speaker 1: it was based from that because I feel for her
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  Speaker 1: and all of these things. It's affecting that portion of
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  Speaker 1: my life. Does that make sense, whether it's work related,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's relations ship, whether it's family, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: the that specific thing. But all that to say, it
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  Speaker 1: also makes me really irritable and just down. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what to do about that because there's nothing
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  Speaker 1: to really stop that from happening in my life. I
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  Speaker 1: can't block that I used to when I was so
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  Speaker 1: pessimistic that I wouldn't let anything close to me, that
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: I had a hard time attaching to anything. And I've
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  Speaker 1: talked about the fact that I'm pretty sure as a child,
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  Speaker 1: I could have been diagnosed with reactive attachment disorder. There's
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  Speaker 1: so many things to that, based on my relationships, based
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  Speaker 1: on my reactions, based on my mistrust, based on my manipulation,
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  Speaker 1: like all those things. So growing out of that, growing
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  Speaker 1: into an adult and finding more empathy, and as if
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  Speaker 1: I've gotten older, I'm like filling more of my emotions
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  Speaker 1: and I'm just letting it out a little more. But
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  Speaker 1: it's still hard to not be a curmudgeon. Like I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting into the forties and I'm like, yeah, I'm going
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: to be the witch that gets stuck in her rocking
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  Speaker 1: chair on the port screaming at the kids get off
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  Speaker 1: my lawn. And they had run a spread rumor said
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  Speaker 1: I eat children, and yes, that's what I'm really hoping
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  Speaker 1: for someone's long I don't know if his mind or not,
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  Speaker 1: who knows. Maybe I'll just be at the like a
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  Speaker 1: local community garden, streaming I kids. But like that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of the field that I've gone through. And as I
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  Speaker 1: get alert, like yeah, yeah, I'm gonna dig into that
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  Speaker 1: a little more because it's really hard for me to
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  Speaker 1: function outside of that. My anxieties, my depression, my all
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  Speaker 1: of that. I don't know. But I feel like people
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  Speaker 1: love me enough that they know that I'm loyal to them,
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  Speaker 1: so they find me lovable for the moment. I find
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  Speaker 1: you lovable always. Okay, Okay, I'm gonna go with it,
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  Speaker 1: Like I pause, because I'm like, I can be a
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  Speaker 1: really big downer. We all know it, which is also
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  Speaker 1: while they're like, I can't hang around people. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons we balanced each other out though,
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  Speaker 1: is because I it's hard for me to be a
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  Speaker 1: big down or even when you should be a big
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  Speaker 1: down er, you know, like it's hard for me to
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  Speaker 1: voice like negative things. So I think together I'm the
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  Speaker 1: Debbie downer. They're like, oh God, she coming, is she
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about this? That's when I'm like walking
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  Speaker 1: up the stairs whistling. Yeah. So I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: that's my brand or not, but I feel like I
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  Speaker 1: need to dig into it. I'm the one who makes
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  Speaker 1: the faces sarcastic one liners and then walk away and
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  Speaker 1: hope that that brought a little bit of a laugh,
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  Speaker 1: and then I'll move on before people catch on to
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  Speaker 1: be like, oh, she's not joking, she's just a jerk. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think that you're very You're very loyal, and you're
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  Speaker 1: very cary, and you're very I think you are awesome,
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  Speaker 1: extremely compassionate, and definitely very empathetic. But you like you
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  Speaker 1: you mean, you're saying you're such a down are and
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  Speaker 1: I know you say things that aren't happy but I
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  Speaker 1: feel like you've uplifted encourage people. I have my moments,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, I do play the Debbie down her pestle
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  Speaker 1: mist role well too, like I would be Daria. And
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: people love Daria, they say they do. They like the
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: idea of her, and then then reality they're like, wait,
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  Speaker 1: you're awful. Person felt the same way like Liz Lemon.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody really loved her for a minute and they're like,
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  Speaker 1: she's the ideal and then you really think about that
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  Speaker 1: type of person in your life seven you're like, maybe
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  Speaker 1: she's not. Maybe maybe not. Well, you know, you get
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  Speaker 1: those fictionalized characters. I think the point is that their
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: fiction and they're a little elevated. I could be wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Let's hope, Let's hope. Yeah. I think we should, you know,
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  Speaker 1: talk about how we are branded and what that looks
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  Speaker 1: like in our responsibility in that brand. I guess Christina
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  Speaker 1: and uh Annie and everybody involved in our show, we
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  Speaker 1: need to think about our brand a little more because
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: it has changed, like the different hosts, it has changed.
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  Speaker 1: Is it important? Not necessarily right now, but maybe it
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  Speaker 1: is something that we have to think about in the
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  Speaker 1: future as au as we navigate this really odd field. No, No,
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  Speaker 1: it's always important. I remember I have two points here.
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  Speaker 1: Uh One, I think we should return one day and
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  Speaker 1: talk about how toxic it can be for younger people,
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  Speaker 1: especially on social media, to think they have to build
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  Speaker 1: a brand on social media. Not necessarily toxic, but a
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  Speaker 1: lot of times it is. And that's something I really
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  Speaker 1: didn't have to worry about. I'm very grateful that I
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  Speaker 1: didn't at the time. Another is our friend and co
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: worker Lauren over from the Favorite podcast but a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of other stuff. She does a bunch of stuff. She
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  Speaker 1: said one time she was like preparing for some kind
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: of photo shoot and she's put on makeup and somebody
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  Speaker 1: there told her like this, it's gonna be for social
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  Speaker 1: media or whatever, and she kind of like immediately jokingly
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  Speaker 1: said it's for my brand. And how she feels such
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  Speaker 1: shade for that moment since this day because she's not
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  Speaker 1: sure the guy knew she was joking. It's hard making
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  Speaker 1: one off jokes and then you're like, wait, I'm in
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  Speaker 1: the field where people may take that seriously and or
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  Speaker 1: like if somebody doesn't know you, sometimes sense of humor
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  Speaker 1: can miss sometimes even if they yep, we're both like
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  Speaker 1: reach for our drinks well. Cheers to us finding a
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  Speaker 1: brand or defying all the brands if we want to,
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  Speaker 1: and drinking my cream sickle. Cheers and congratulations on the
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  Speaker 1: cocktail invention. It sounds lovely, it looks lovely too, nice
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  Speaker 1: color well, and cheers to you listeners. Thank you so
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: much for coming along this journey with us. As always,
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  Speaker 1: we would love to hear from you any cocktail recipes.
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  Speaker 1: You don't mind sharing any any recipes at all, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: are welcome. Oh yeah, they have some keep recipes. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, on the scientis because you can bake with
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  Speaker 1: realm Okay, okay, that's good to know. Well, you can
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