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Happy Hour #34: Bold City Brewing · 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'm there told to your production of iHeart Radio, and
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: welcome to another happy hour that we're actually doing on
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  Speaker 1: a Thursday, as it is released on a Thursday. Yes,
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: we are recording on a Thursday, and as you're listening,
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: it is a Thursday. Well actually no, we have no
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  Speaker 1: idea when you're listening. But if you're listening to any yes,
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  Speaker 1: As I said, it's just a reminder. The company that
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: we are talking about does not sponsor us. We discovered
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  Speaker 1: them and I didn't get a lot of detail, but
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  Speaker 1: because I was in Jacksonville, Florida, I was like, I
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  Speaker 1: need female run, female owned, female head of breweries. And
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  Speaker 1: we found one called a Bold City Brewing. And if
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  Speaker 1: you are drinking, drink response bleep no matter what you drink,
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  Speaker 1: because as we discussed last time, caffeine can mess with
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  Speaker 1: you too. As a reminder, yeah, Samantha recently kindly gave
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  Speaker 1: me these caffeine. They're not mint because they're not a mint,
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  Speaker 1: but like a tablets other ments technically like they're like
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  Speaker 1: the category of ments but not yeah right, um, And
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  Speaker 1: last night I could not sleep and I had my
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  Speaker 1: two cups of coffee because I'm a two cup cow.
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  Speaker 1: But around eleven, I was like, I'm going to need
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  Speaker 1: more than the two cups today, So I had on
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  Speaker 1: those mints. But I'm doing it all right. It was
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  Speaker 1: half a cup, okay, so two and a half. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't broach the three. I didn't go past that one, okay,
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  Speaker 1: but you were up still. Oh I feel it now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like wired. The next day, no, no, no no, eleven
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  Speaker 1: am today So okay, I thought you said yesterday you
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  Speaker 1: couldn't sleep, so last night you couldn't sleep. I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: make it a lot higher now, Okay, I've caught up
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  Speaker 1: the story. So if you're in caffeine's responsibly on that
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  Speaker 1: as well. But today we are featuring a Bold City
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  Speaker 1: Brewing which is located in Jacksonville, Florida. Apparently they have
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  Speaker 1: two locations and we only found the one in downtown.
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  Speaker 1: There's another one bartender very nice there. We got some
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  Speaker 1: little uh stickers, very nice. But the reason we are
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  Speaker 1: talking about them and featuring them, it is actually owned
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  Speaker 1: by a mother's son team, Susan and Brian Miller. Her
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  Speaker 1: son is the actual brewer who has been home brewing
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  Speaker 1: since early two thousands um. And when he kind of
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  Speaker 1: came up with the idea and sold her on it,
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  Speaker 1: she quit her day job and she became a creator
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  Speaker 1: with him. She became a fair supporter and handles the
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  Speaker 1: corporate and business side of the business, so she is
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  Speaker 1: the brains in that financial part of that. And when
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  Speaker 1: speaking about supporting her son, she stated that quote the
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  Speaker 1: risk didn't seem so big when she just considered the
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  Speaker 1: likelihood of his success, believing in what he could do.
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  Speaker 1: And he actually took her around to teach her about
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  Speaker 1: brewing as well as to go to a conference. She
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  Speaker 1: got really excited and came on board with this idea.
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  Speaker 1: And he said about his mother that he couldn't do
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  Speaker 1: this business without her and talking about her dedication and
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  Speaker 1: hard work between spending nights in the tap room, helping
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  Speaker 1: behind the bar, and her business savvy and helping to
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  Speaker 1: grow the business. And they are growing indeed, so we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to feature them. And yeah, they apparently worked really well.
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  Speaker 1: It's a whole family business, such a beautiful thing, right
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  Speaker 1: when they're functioning families. That's how I do it. But
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  Speaker 1: today we are drinking two different beers. I actually got
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  Speaker 1: three because I also got one of their main staples,
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  Speaker 1: which is a brown nail we had earlier last week,
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  Speaker 1: but we're not featuring them today. We are drinking two
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  Speaker 1: different ones, and mine is called Brian's a Beard des Guarde, which,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, um is a specialty beer. It's a
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  Speaker 1: seasonal beer and I don't know how much longer it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be around. And it is delightful. It is
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  Speaker 1: one of those doctor ales, but golden brown ish and
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  Speaker 1: it has a lot of like to me, brown sugar
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  Speaker 1: ish taste with that barley um multi for sure, and
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  Speaker 1: it is a delight I ate a corn dog with it, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: and it was great. She did. I was very happy,
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  Speaker 1: for very happy. I was very happy. I ate a
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  Speaker 1: turkey corn dog that feels very similar to me. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if it is, but it feels. It was
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  Speaker 1: against another avenue for me to eat more ketchup and mustard.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently I'm obsessed with sugary tomatoes and spicy mustard. I understand.
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  Speaker 1: I went through a period in college where I was
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  Speaker 1: just eating like essentially ketchup. I would disguise it in
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  Speaker 1: other ways, right, but I was really there for the ketchup,
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  Speaker 1: and I even went on the whole deep dive of like,
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  Speaker 1: why do we crave what we crave? Is there a
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  Speaker 1: probab what is the time? I'm like, what is my
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  Speaker 1: body saying to me? But back on this beer de God, which,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm saying it wrong, correct me? I guess? According
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  Speaker 1: to Untapped, these are the beer Notes was brewed in
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  Speaker 1: collaboration with Casque competition winner and home brewer Brian Nusk.
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  Speaker 1: I guess Brian Miller is going back to that home
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  Speaker 1: brewing route and his roots. It features a big malt
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  Speaker 1: presence with notes of caramel and toffee the sweetness along
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  Speaker 1: with a slightly fruit and citrus undertone from the cubic
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  Speaker 1: vas yeast. Yes, correct me on that too, which helps
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  Speaker 1: balance the high A b V and makes this beer
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  Speaker 1: easy to drink and perfect for the springtime weather. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: springtime weather. Meanwhile, I am drinking the Psychotic Probiotic, which
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  Speaker 1: is a barrel formentous sour and the beer notes from
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  Speaker 1: home Tapped are This is the fourth year of the
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  Speaker 1: Sour celera barrel project, a very tart and tropical, fruity
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  Speaker 1: golden sour. So I have been trying to detect what
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  Speaker 1: fruit I would think it is because it is very tart.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the type of tart where your mouth kind
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  Speaker 1: of puckers and waters. But I mean, I really enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: But I think that's one of the things I'm tasting
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  Speaker 1: was because I can tell it's very fruity. I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: tell which fruit, but if it's tropical, then there's kind
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  Speaker 1: of that heavier, almost multi sweetness, but it's it's still
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  Speaker 1: very refreshing and fruity, but maybe like a pineapple or
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  Speaker 1: something is going on. I'm not great at, as you know,
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  Speaker 1: describing taste. I did it that one time saying that
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  Speaker 1: you do a good job, so I don't think you
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  Speaker 1: can claim that anymore. I did it. I did it
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  Speaker 1: the one time, and I'm very impressed. But I I'm
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  Speaker 1: impressed with myself. Now you do a good job, because
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  Speaker 1: I think the thing when it comes to and why
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  Speaker 1: it's called probiotic, is that yogurts or leaning sound. It
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  Speaker 1: is not your typical so you've got that yeast that
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  Speaker 1: makes it a little more sour but bready, and it's
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily fruit, but you want to associate that with
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  Speaker 1: some kind of citrusy level. So is that and the
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  Speaker 1: kimbucha is that same level when you have something soured,
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  Speaker 1: when you have a kimchi, when you have anything perfermented,
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  Speaker 1: it tastes sour but not necessarily fruity, but we still
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  Speaker 1: associate that sour with fruity. So I think you're right.
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  Speaker 1: It may not be a natural fruit, which is why
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  Speaker 1: they can't or they don't describe it as a fruit either. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good point. It does. It does kind of
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  Speaker 1: remind me of like a yogurt or kob level. All right, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm into it in either case. It makes it almost
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  Speaker 1: effervescent as well, And I feel the same way about yogurts.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, why is this god? Like a tang pop? Almost?
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: What I want to talk about is this mother child
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  Speaker 1: will relationship because I was a little bit envious so
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  Speaker 1: they could have a business. And they did say at
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  Speaker 1: one point in one of their interviews it was a
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  Speaker 1: make or break. They knew there was going to harm
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  Speaker 1: their relationship or make it better, but they were able
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  Speaker 1: to communicate and they're good. And I thought about that too.
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  Speaker 1: It was like mother child relationships. You don't see many
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  Speaker 1: that are successful in adulthood and partnerships necessarily. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna talk about that, but I did have some personal
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  Speaker 1: questions for you, Annie, and because we are called stuff
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  Speaker 1: mom never told you. And I know this goes back
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  Speaker 1: to Kristen congress all definition of this not realizing it
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  Speaker 1: would carry unto now because yeah, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things where like not everybody has moms and not having
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  Speaker 1: mom is not a good thing necessarily, or maybe a
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  Speaker 1: great thing. Or maybe you have a mom who is open,
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  Speaker 1: or you don't want to be reminding that you have
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  Speaker 1: a mom, or you have two dads you know all
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  Speaker 1: of those things, or you were raised by a grandparents.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that was that conversation. But going back
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  Speaker 1: to our show, you do have a mom, as do
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  Speaker 1: I do. What is something sing that your mom didn't
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  Speaker 1: tell you that you wish she had. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to put into words, but it's essentially that it's
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  Speaker 1: okay to say no and like be okay with because
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  Speaker 1: she was really she was my biggest defender. She was
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  Speaker 1: somebody who's like my brothers would be making fun of
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  Speaker 1: me for my love of Star Wars even though that
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  Speaker 1: love of Star Wars, and she would like step in
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  Speaker 1: like no, nothing's wrong, like she likes this, nothing's wrong
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  Speaker 1: with her and been so she was always there to
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  Speaker 1: do those kinds of things. But I did observe her,
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  Speaker 1: and one of my favorite characteristics of her is she's
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  Speaker 1: very nice. But one of the I struggle was saying
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  Speaker 1: no to this day or knowing what I want to say.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't blame that on all on her at all,
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  Speaker 1: but I think like maybe a direct conversation about it
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  Speaker 1: would have helped. Because my mom, my family in general,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have great communication about things that aren't lighthearted, and
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  Speaker 1: so there were several instances where I would ask. I
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  Speaker 1: remember I asked once of my mom, like, what the
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  Speaker 1: hell is going on down here with my anatomy? She's like,
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you later. We never returned to that conversation.
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  Speaker 1: That could be for any number of reasons, but things
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  Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, I've thought about this a lot because
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  Speaker 1: it is the title of our show, and I guess
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: it's it's sort of hard to name one specific thing
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  Speaker 1: because it feels like what I'm saying is basically the
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  Speaker 1: patriarchy sucks. She could have told me that, but I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have understood it anyway. Really, right, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think I have a lot of complicated things with my
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  Speaker 1: mom and the things that she did do well, I
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  Speaker 1: kind of wish I could flip it, and I really
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  Speaker 1: wish she was able and I was able to tell
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  Speaker 1: her how great she was at some of these things.
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  Speaker 1: She's probably one of the most creative people I've ever
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  Speaker 1: met in my life. As well as when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to like arranging or organizing, she could have been the
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  Speaker 1: Southern Marie Condo, like the way she organizes, the way
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  Speaker 1: she was able to be so for well, she was
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  Speaker 1: a coupon mom before there were coupon moms. Like when
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  Speaker 1: it came down to how to save money, she is
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  Speaker 1: a genius in budgeting. But she would never recognize all
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  Speaker 1: of that, and she never taught me how to do
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  Speaker 1: that myself. She just knew she had to because she
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  Speaker 1: had four children. At one point in time, there was
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  Speaker 1: one income, and she was in charge of all of
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  Speaker 1: the bills and making sure it was done. So I
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  Speaker 1: really think that she had that. Of course, this came
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  Speaker 1: with a level of anxiety and constant doubt from her,
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  Speaker 1: but she did it, and I really wish that she
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  Speaker 1: was able to see that and that she could have
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  Speaker 1: taught that to me. Of course, it's my fault because
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  Speaker 1: we did have like a whole barrier because she wanted
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: to be best friends. And I'm not about parents at
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  Speaker 1: that point in time, because I still mistrusted parents and
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  Speaker 1: I'm still do to this day a little bit. And
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  Speaker 1: we've had back and forth conversations, but there's this whole
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  Speaker 1: level that I'm like, man, I really wish I could
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  Speaker 1: have learned that from you. And in that same round,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I really wish have taught you how
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  Speaker 1: amazing you were doing in doing these things, as well
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  Speaker 1: as that you're missing out because of the fear of
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: so many of these things, and because she was a
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  Speaker 1: genuinely like genius woman, but she's in her mind not educated,
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  Speaker 1: not smart enough in comparison to those who are educated,
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  Speaker 1: having self doubt that people actually liked her or wanted
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  Speaker 1: her to do it, and then also it was so
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  Speaker 1: scared that she was going to offend somebody that's her level,
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  Speaker 1: and seeing looking back and like, man, you do some
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  Speaker 1: amazing shop and I'm really sad that you don't see
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  Speaker 1: that you did some amazing show, like and if I
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: had been able to be as frugal and as aware
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  Speaker 1: as you are, and of course for her. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: it was survival. But I'm like, you have no idea
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  Speaker 1: how big of a talent that is today? And I
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: think about that a lot. What is something that she
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  Speaker 1: did tell you that you value even more today? There's
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  Speaker 1: one answer that comes to mind immediately, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why, but she once told me, and this is
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  Speaker 1: gonna sound kind of grim, especially when I just came
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  Speaker 1: from like she we only have arted conversations, and we
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  Speaker 1: only she told me once when I was like nine
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  Speaker 1: or ten, she said money doesn't buy happiness, but it
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  Speaker 1: makes it easier. And then she went on to tell
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  Speaker 1: me that I should question essentially the American dream. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And it was the first time I'd ever heard. Because
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: for people outside of the United States, you do not know,
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  Speaker 1: we get like bombarded with this. I think they understand now,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why they don't like Americans. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's true. But I mean, like, when from a
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  Speaker 1: young age we get like this, you could accomplish anything.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, you're just gonna set your mind to it.
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  Speaker 1: And my mom and I are very very open with
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  Speaker 1: each other now, and it's something I really value and
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  Speaker 1: were we all talk about all kinds of things, and
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  Speaker 1: it's meant in the world to me to hear her
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  Speaker 1: experiences and kind of having these adult conversations. But when
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  Speaker 1: I was a kid, that just really stuck out to me.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that that's especially I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: like it's it's wise, but it's not like you can't
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  Speaker 1: people don't know that. But as a child, was very
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  Speaker 1: stressed about money, and I think she knew that, and
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: it was she was trying to communicate to me, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, your your worries are valid, like you see
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  Speaker 1: this message in movies all the time, and that you
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  Speaker 1: don't need money to buy happiness. And I think that's true,
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  Speaker 1: but she was just like, you know, it does make
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  Speaker 1: it easier. It's stuck out with uh. And that was
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  Speaker 1: one of the first times where I was like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe mom's really stressed about stuff. That's real. That's real.
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  Speaker 1: I think for me, she made a comment without realizing
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  Speaker 1: she made a comment, which was about the fact that
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  Speaker 1: when I started traveling, which happened I started. I went
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  Speaker 1: to Puerto Rico for a summer in senior year. I
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: went to California right before my senior year for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks to hang out with our family in California.
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  Speaker 1: I had the best time they provided for us. I
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: didn't know what they were doing, but they bought us
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  Speaker 1: tickets to Universal. They bought us tickets to the game,
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  Speaker 1: like we didn't pay for any of that. And then
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  Speaker 1: when I went to Europe after college, she made a
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  Speaker 1: comment about how she never got to travel and I
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  Speaker 1: should be grateful, Like it was a little bit of jealousy,
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  Speaker 1: but I think it stuck with me and that as
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  Speaker 1: much as she loved her family and as much as
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  Speaker 1: she loved her life, and she does there there's nothing
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  Speaker 1: in her life. I think she would say she she
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  Speaker 1: would change ever, But it did seem interesting that she
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  Speaker 1: said that because she also had said to me kind
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  Speaker 1: of just saying, you know, after you have kids, things change.
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  Speaker 1: Was that in I think this was after my sister
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  Speaker 1: had a child, who was the first of the family
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  Speaker 1: to have a kid of my siblings, and she wasn't
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  Speaker 1: just trying to imply I don't have any regrets, but
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  Speaker 1: this is something I wish I was able to do.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I could do, and I think she was
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  Speaker 1: trying since then, but with her back pain, she can't
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  Speaker 1: travel as much. I think she's finally gotten to a
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  Speaker 1: point she can do a little more. She finally got
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  Speaker 1: to go to New York. I think she went to California.
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  Speaker 1: I'll have to go back, and I'm a bad daughter.
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  Speaker 1: This is a while ago and hazes of things, but
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  Speaker 1: like being able to actually travel. And and she talked
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  Speaker 1: about when I went to Italy how jealous she was
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  Speaker 1: that I had gone to Italy, and it was that
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  Speaker 1: was playful. The other comments about me going and was
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  Speaker 1: not as much, but it inspired like, Oh, I need
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  Speaker 1: to get the things I want done first. I need
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  Speaker 1: to be able to get to there. Need to be
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  Speaker 1: able to do these things before it's too late. Because
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  Speaker 1: there are moments I could feel like that. It is
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  Speaker 1: whether it is because you have children, it's more expensive,
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  Speaker 1: you get caught up in your work, like all of
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  Speaker 1: these things which you and I have talked about with
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  Speaker 1: trying to take vacation, it is hard. It's actually like
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  Speaker 1: coming back was successful, even though we had overprepared and
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: we worked out all for like through like a month
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: trying to make sure we caught up, but then when
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  Speaker 1: we came back there was so much to catch up on.
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  Speaker 1: It took us two weeks to get to hear. It
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  Speaker 1: was kind of that implication that you need to try
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  Speaker 1: when you can because you don't know what might stop
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  Speaker 1: you later that is unavoidable. Yeah, yeah, that's well. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about that a lot, about how we had
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  Speaker 1: these kind of perceptions our lives would be and then
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  Speaker 1: what they turned out to be. And that has been
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  Speaker 1: something I've seen with my mom as well. As she'll
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: when I'll ask her like, well, what is something you want?
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  Speaker 1: Like you've focused almost your whole life on what other
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  Speaker 1: people want, what is something you want? And she'll say
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  Speaker 1: kind of timidly to me, like I would like to travel.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: We can make this happen for you. We can do this.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: But it is kind of heartbreaking in this sense of
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: like she's never asked, had someone asked her that before,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: been asked, even asked herself that before, or you know,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: not not in a serious manner, perhaps not didn't entertain
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: in a serious way. I will say, for some reason,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: this really sticks out with me. But one time my
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: mom she kept a really detailed scrapbook. I don't even
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: know if that's a correct word, but it's like every
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: year you would update and like during her fourteenth year
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: of life or whatever. And I just remember she asked
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: me once, like, what is your favorite song? And I
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: told her it was P. O. D Sleeping Awake from
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: at the time the matrix reloaded, which is where I'd
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: heard it, not alive, and she just the fact that
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: she wrote it down, She asked me, and she wrote
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: it down as if it was important and it matters it.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: That's so sweet, you know what. My mother again, one
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  Speaker 1: of her talents is scrapbooking. When I say so, we
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: had a huge fire that burned a majority of stuff,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: and as a child, I didn't have many things to
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: begin with. My photos didn't start till I with seven,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: so I have no pictures of me being a baby,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: none of those things. Being adopted. Literally being taken with
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: a small backpack from a home at six five years
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: old to an orphan meant that I had nothing, and
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: my mother did her best to keep as much as
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: she could, and when it burned, she would find the
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: scraps that were burned around the edges, cut around it
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: and put it into my scrap book. And I'm very
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: grateful for that. I don't do photos. I am the
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: worst when it comes to things like this I have
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: not sentimental and I think it has everything to do
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: with that type of background. But my mother is queen.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you she should have had and she did
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: have a couple of businesses that she just stopped because
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: she got too busy with kids. That she should be
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: as successful as Marie Condo. Still in my mind now,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: with like getting older, I don't think she would ever
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: attempt it, but she should. And I will post up
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: a picture of my scrap book. I think we need
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: to pictures of our scrap book any because my mother
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: is queen. But it's a talent that I don't have
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: and I wish I did. I have several scrapbooks. One
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: is from my time in Australia, but the rest are
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: from I kid you not my experience loving Harry Potter
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: and Star Wars cutouts and pop up They're impressive. I
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: gotta say I want to see those as well. My
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: mother did quotes and she she even put in there
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: I don't. I think we talked about are weird phobias.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I have a really bad phobia about polka dots and
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the dots and especially misshaping dots um and she put
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: that in one of my pictures as as a thought bubble.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: And by the way, I watched suicide Squads and oh
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: my god, Anny, you didn't prepare me. The polka dot
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: guy the starfish was worse. I told you about the starfish.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: You didn't tell me had all of your dots and
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: like weird shapes on a skin, I was not ready.
• 21:09
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• 21:14
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• 21:17
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