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I Was Thinking turns 5! · I Was Thinking…

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  Hello, everybody. Beautiful people around the
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  world are. Are you shocked to hear my
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  voice? It's Simone.
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  And this is Lala. And welcome back to I was
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  thinking, yay, we've been gone for a while.
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  Hang on. Because I shouldn't say we're
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  like back back. This isn't really our like
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  return. We're kind of we're popping in
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  from the hiatus. I should say that yes, we still
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  want to break. Yeah.
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  Yes, but what are we celebrating?
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  La La. We're celebrating the 5th
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  anniversary of I was thinking. I cannot believe I have been
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  doing this for five years. And you could tell I'm doing
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  this still for fun because I'm not saying it hasn't gone
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  anywhere, but I mean, it's still like this podcast is very
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  underground. So it's like if you know, you
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  know, basically haven't really blown up.
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  But I also haven't really gotten cancelled.
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  So I guess it's also a good thing.
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  That is a good thing. Yeah.
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  I don't need any of that. So no good energy.
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  Good energy? Exactly.
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  Breaking the 4th wall. We already got our frustrations
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  of the world out before we started recording because this
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  is supposed to be a fun, happy time.
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  We also had some technical difficulties.
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  So we we go pray. Yeah, we can't.
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  Get through, get none. Exactly.
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  So thank God we didn't like actually start recording before
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  then because disaster. Yeah, very.
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  But it's all good. We're both here.
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  We're both here, we're both in good spirits.
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  It's a good thing to celebrate. It's something that should be
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  celebrated. Obviously, yes, it's still a fun
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  podcast, but that's, I think the best thing too, is that it's a
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  fun podcast to do. So it'd be different if we're
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  just constantly doing it and just pushing it out just
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  because, you know, we need to or whatever the case may be.
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  So it's still fun. Yeah, I mean, it would be
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  different if we like, you know, actually was getting paid
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  because that would give me some motivation and maybe I I could
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  quit my job. I don't know about you, but
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  yeah, you know, it's one of us probably would, I would and it
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  would be working. Yeah, exactly.
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  But it's it's all good. So yes, we are here.
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  So tell me how you feel about the podcast Lala, because I
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  mean, you obviously you haven't been here from the beginning,
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  but I shared it with you a while ago and then you ended up, you
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  know, joining the team. So I just wanted to, you know,
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  get your insights and your perspective on everything.
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  It's been a lot of fun, obviously, like, so I think it's
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  like with anything, right? So whenever you get interested
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  in something, whether it's doing podcasts, whether it's doing,
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  you know, singing, dancing, arts, anything of that sort,
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  you're like, Oh my God, that's so cool.
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  I want to do it. You know, you never see the
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  behind the scenes of what it takes to do anything, you know,
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  until you're actually knee deep into it.
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  Yeah. So that's been a really good,
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  like, challenge. And I think that's what's been
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  more fun for me, especially because I feel like this podcast
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  has also helped me express myself creatively.
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  I don't get that in my day-to-day like work and school.
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  So this was like, it's been fun. It's been fun.
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  It's been challenging. And I that's the biggest thing
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  for me. So yeah, I've been so happy.
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  I'm very happy that you allowed me to become a Co host and be a
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  part of this great thing that you're doing.
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  Umm, so thank you so much Simone of.
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  Course, I mean, more than anything, I'm just glad you
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  decided, you know, you wanted to be a Co host, step outside,
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  because at first you were just listening and then you also came
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  along and was helping me like do some, I don't remember if you're
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  helping me make the videos or like just do some things for
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  social media. Terrible at social media.
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  Yeah. And then when things were
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  happening where we weren't sure if we were going to continue,
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  you know, you jumped in. So I'm very appreciative for you
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  for that because I probably would have ended this a very
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  long time ago. You know, it's, it's weird doing
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  this because I never thought I would have the confidence to do
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  something like this. I all started when I was in
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  college and obviously the end of my college time during the
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  pandemic. And I think a lot of people, you
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  know, hop on doing the podcast or like it was either podcast or
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  YouTube because it's really the only thing people can do at the
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  moment. So I was just one of those
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  people, not only just like to jump on the bandwagon because
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  there was a point like for a while I was thinking like,
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  should I do YouTube? But I'm like, I don't really do
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  anything to like, how am I trying to say this to like
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  record visually, videos, visual. I'm not like I'm yeah, I'm not
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  like a makeup person, not really go out much.
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  So I'm like, what what a YouTube really look like.
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  And then since podcasts are blowing up, I was like, oh.
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  Maybe I can do a? Podcast and then I was thankful
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  at the time to have other people that wanted to do it with me and
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  help me behind the scenes too. So I'm grateful for everybody
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  that's been part of this experience.
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  We'll get into this a little later, but it's just really
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  funny. You can kind of like hear me
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  personally, my growth, because I started this when I was 23 and
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  I'm 28 now. And like you can even hear the
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  way I speak. Like I've definitely matured in
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  my speech, the way I talk about certain topics.
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  I've gotten definitely better at expressing myself.
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  So I'm pretty proud of myself for that.
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  And there's 2 examples we'll point out in a minute.
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  But yeah, it's just, it's really weird.
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  When I was listening back to some very old episodes, even my
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  voice has changed. I'm like, oh, so my voice has
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  gotten a little deeper because damn.
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  Like, I do sound like a child. I feel like I sound like a
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  child, no? So like, what has been like your
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  favorite like thing to do for the podcast?
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  Like what have you taken out of doing the podcast for the last
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  five years? As far as what do you mean by
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  what's my favorite? Like, Like what's my favorite
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  thing creating it? Yeah.
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  Like, what has been your favorite thing so far?
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  Has it been like? So I guess like I could give
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  like a few examples like has it been like being able to talk to
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  friends and breaking it down, being able to talk to people
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  like in the same interest? Has it been like the
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  creativeness in the background of it?
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  Has it grown anything for you personally?
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  I think, and I think I already said this, I think it grew my
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  confidence a lot. It helped me be able to
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  structure my thoughts of, you know, what I want to say to
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  people and how to come across that in person, especially too,
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  even though like we're not on video and you don't see us.
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  But I do think just talking more and expressing how I personally
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  move in the world and like things I consume and like media
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  and real life and sharing my opinions from my perspective in
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  a respectful way because we don't rage bait over here.
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  We're just being honest. I think that has helped it a
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  lot. And I feel like that's also
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  helped me. I mean, I don't want to say
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  humble, but it's just helped me put a lot of different things in
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  perspective and gives people who have able to turn this into a
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  career a lot of respect. So that's one thing.
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  And then I just enjoy doing it with my friends, especially as
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  I've gotten older, all my friends are expressed out now.
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  So especially at the very beginning, it, it was just a way
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  not only just to really do this, but like keep in communication
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  with my friends. So that's one thing I enjoyed.
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  And then like the small guests that we had to like I know
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  earlier episodes we had my brother and then his friend or
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  like again, our guests were mostly just friends of mine.
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  So I appreciate them for helping me.
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  And two, I just think it helped me stay creative and form a
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  hobby outside of work. Again, listening to this, I
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  didn't realize how much I complained about every job I
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  had, but that just shows like I'm still in a space where I
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  haven't really found. And I don't want to say purpose
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  because I don't like tying your purpose in life to a job job.
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  But like at the same time, it's like I'm still trying to figure
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  things out. And I think this podcast had
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  helped me have an outlet, still have a hobby, still find things
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  that I enjoy doing, like creating things, creating
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  artwork, drawing. It just came into a different
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  way. And now I found a love for like
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  editing. Haven't really touched video
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  editing that much. Well, I do now with our little
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  music Mondays. It's very simple, but I try and
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  then learning new ways to like try to edit audio.
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  I found out I've really enjoyed doing so just outside of like a
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  nine to five, still finding a way to like keep myself busy and
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  maintain peace and not always just like going to watch TV
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  afterwards. So.
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  Yeah, that's good. Yeah.
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  But yeah, it's it's been a journey and hopefully, you know,
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  we do come back and have many more journeys.
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  I would like to structure the podcast a little bit
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  differently, but it also just depends how that would be with
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  time and work. I expressed it in the little
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  mini episode of like explaining why we're going on a hiatus.
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  Work has just been a lot. You know, the world has just
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  been a lot right now. So hopefully we can try to
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  navigate those and come back with just as many fun episodes
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  or, you know, things like that, depending on how we want to
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  change this podcast, what we want to talk about, if it's
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  still about kpop, if it's still movie and TV reviews, if we find
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  something new, we want to talk about things like that.
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  And hopefully we can stop talking so much because we, I
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  appreciate the ones who do listen to us for two hours.
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  But I'm, I'm sure y'all need like a, I'm sure to give more
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  audience to, we need at least like an hour to an hour 30.
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  A lot of podcasts I listen to with the big audiences,
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  obviously they're willing to listen to them for two to three
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  hours. But for us, for right now, we
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  don't try our best to cut it down.
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  Hopefully, fingers crossed. I think we always end up saying
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  that, but. I know, but also that just shows
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  we have great chemistry because we can't stop talking.
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  So I would rather listen to someone who who has great
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  chemistry and always talking to people who have nothing to say
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  to each other. Plus also, I think both of us
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  have like square, like squirrel mentality and like we'll start
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  talking about a specific topic and then it just goes off from
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  there. So it's just like, not
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  necessarily we're all over the place because it all reconnects,
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  right? But yeah, and I mean, that's, I
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  think that's the average person. So you start thinking one thing
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  and you start going off to another.
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  So we have a lot of opinions, a lot of things that we like to
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  talk about. So I don't think there's
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  anything bad with it. We just need to hold it in a
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  little bit. Yeah, just try to minimize it.
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  So with that, all to say, we are going to be talking about
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  specific things. We figured it is the fifth
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  anniversary of the podcast. We would share with you guys our
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  top five favorite episodes throughout the whole podcast,
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  which was surprisingly challenging to do.
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  Only pick five. Yeah, I didn't realize how many
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  episodes I've had. I could have had more if we
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  didn't take so many frequent breaks.
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  So that's another thing too. There is a point, especially
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  when life started getting hard, where we would go like months
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  without an episode. So.
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  But it's OK, I think overall, you know, there's still good
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  amount of good content on this podcast.
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  So there is something for everyone on here so far.
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  So it's been it's been great, it's been fun and especially.
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  For a nerd community, hey, hey, hey, I'm a proud nerd, OK?
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  I know so. I don't see.
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  Yeah, I don't see that as a derogatory anymore.
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  I'm a proud nerd. We, you know, talked about K
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  Pop, obviously BTS. Honestly, I don't even know.
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  Talk shows, talk movie shows, a lot of Korean dramas.
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  Not as much anime as I thought we would at the beginning.
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  But if we come back, maybe we can change that.
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  Yeah. So before we go over our
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  favorite episodes, I also thought, I feel like I've done
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  this once, but I don't remember when it was.
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  But we can share the stats of like places that I have listened
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  to the podcast the most as well as the overall podcast top five
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  episodes. So I guess the ones that were
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  listened to the most going to say this now as I always prefix,
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  I am so sorry if I butcher Eddie names and places.
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  Try my best. English language sucks, you
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  know, and I don't know the pronunciation of a lot of these
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  places, so trying, but let's get started.
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  So we got the top five countries.
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  So #5 is India, and I'm assuming this is the top city.
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  I don't know how India is structured as far as like the
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  division of the country because like they don't, I don't think
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  they have like states like we do.
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  Anyway #5 you reference it as states just to make it easier,
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  because I say the same thing when it comes to Mexico.
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  OK, the best way for me to say it, it's like, OK, it's the
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  state of Guanajuato and then the city name is.
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  Because that's like the best way for us.
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  The fact that, you know, we're here in America is the way to
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  explain it, but. Because I don't Well then I
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  don't know if this is like a region or if this is a city.
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  So like, the top location is Hari, Haryana, and I think that
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  place has been in the top for a while because I know India used
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  to be, I think the second top country for the podcast.
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  Yeah. And so now it's #5 #4 is the
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  United Kingdom with the top place, England #3 is Germany
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  with the top place haste. And Germany is another one
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  that's been the top for a while #2 is Taiwan with Hey Chung
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  City. Hey, Chung.
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  Yeah. Thank you for listening to us.
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  And of course, number one is United States.
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  And since United States is so big, I have its own breakdown of
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  that for the top States and cities.
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  So for #5 we have Texas and top cities, Dallas.
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  Is that where the Cowboys are? Go Cowboys.
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  Yes, No. OK.
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  Yes, yes, sports. #4 is Washington state with the top
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  city of Seattle #3 is California with the top city Sacramento. 2
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  is Virginia with the top city Washington, and #1 is homegrown
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  Florida. Yeah, with the top city Orlando.
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  And they have been our number one since the beginning of this
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  podcast. So whoever has been listening to
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  us from Orlando, thank you so much.
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  Yes, that has actually never changed.
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  So our top has always been someone or someone's in Orlando
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  and Florida. And I've said before, I don't
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  live in Orlando. So it's it's not me, guys.
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  I'm not inflating the numbers, I promise.
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  So thank you so much for all of our listeners in here in the US
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  and all the other countries. So much love, much appreciation.
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  Yes and I still don't know how y'all find this podcast because
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  I didn't write it down but I know it also like breaks down
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  because there's like so many different stats.
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  Like I didn't do it by age and like gender because that's all
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  specifically Spotify. So the ones I wrote down were
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  other platforms that weren't Spotify.
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  Seems like a lot of people find us through Apple podcast,
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  Spotify and whatever web browser is.
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  I don't know what web browser is.
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  It's just a web browser, I'm wondering if they're just like
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  Googling. But Google used to have its own
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  podcast, and I think they got rid of that.
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  I think they got rid of Google Podcast.
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  Cuz like, I know I've done that where I've like been wanting to
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  like search for other podcasts and some.
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  So it's been a hit or miss for me at least.
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  OK. So personally, like whenever I'm
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  trying to look for a new podcast to listen to, I'll try to do it
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  like whether it's on the Apple podcast or Spotify.
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  And I sometimes don't like what the apps push to me of like, Oh,
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  you might be interested in like, no, I want something new,
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  something different. And sometimes the way that they
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  categorize the podcast, I don't like it either.
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  So like what I've done before is like go on Google and like
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  search podcast just randomly and just been like looking for
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  something specific. So maybe that's.
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  Do you listen to them through Google?
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  Because that's that show. It shows the platforms they
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  listen to us. So I don't know what web browser
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  they're using to listen to an episode.
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  That's what I mean, Yeah. It's not what they're using to
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  search for us. It's what they're using to
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  actually listen to an episode. That's interesting.
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  Yeah. It's just, it's literally just
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  it because it even breaks it down to like Amazon Alexa, like
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  I said, Google Podcasts and there's other like if you upload
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  to Apple podcast, it'll upload to other smaller podcasting
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  platforms as well. And I know we're also like on
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  iHeartRadio through what we use as anchor, but it got bought out
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  by Spotify, so now it's called Spotify for Podcasters.
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  So I, I, I to this day, I don't know what web browser is.
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  And I'm assuming that's for how a lot of maybe international
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  people. Listen to us.
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  I was just like they might not have access to certain things
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  so. I have no idea.
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  But however you find us, once again, thank you so much.
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  And I've always tried to make sure throughout episodes you'll
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  hear me saying thank you to people who listen to us.
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  Even if it's one person, 10 people, you know, we really
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  appreciate it. So I'm a go ahead and go over
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  the top five episodes of the overall podcast since we've been
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  doing this since 2020. So #5 is actually the TV review
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  that we did for the K drama The Glory and specifically Part 2.
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  It seems like is has more listens than Part 1 #4 is.
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  Can you guess my favorite twice song #3 is living in Florida, 2
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  is Can you guess my favorite Stray Kid song and #1 is Can you
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  guess my favorite black pink song?
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  A lot of K pop. A lot of K pop and no BTC
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  surprisingly. It's a very we.
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  Talk about BTC like all the time.
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  A lot. It's actually good.
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  It's a good, it's a good, it's a good mix.
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  Yeah, now I know the episode of the guessing game where we
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  specifically focus on like the first few projects of the wrap
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  line. I think that's like #6 or 7.
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  So it's up there. Just wasn't top five.
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  Yeah, gotcha, gotcha. Yes, yes.
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  We also obviously have a top like 5 episodes that we, again,
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  Simone did mention that we had a hard time picking out what
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  episodes we wanted each. But we did wanted to shout out a
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  few episodes that we didn't select as our top five, but we
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  still wanted to show some love to it.
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  So we were going to shout out on the episodes how we got into K
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  Pop. Let's take a trip to Singapore
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  and South Korea. So a big shout out to those two
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  because it is those two were on our list for both of us.
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  And surprisingly, yeah. But we also didn't want to do
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  the same episodes each. We each wanted to do something
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  different. So, but yeah, show some love to
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  those two episodes. Yes.
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  And those two episodes of what I was talking about earlier is
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  like you could tell. I've matured in my talking
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  because especially since the how we got into kpop, that was like
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  either, I think that was either third or fourth episode of doing
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  the podcast. So like it's messy, audio
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  doesn't sound the best. We were just trying to figure
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  out how to do it. But we were obviously explaining
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  how we got into K pop because I knew the future of the podcast.
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  We would be talking a lot of K pop and especially BTS.
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  And I know towards the end I had brought up like cultural
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  appropriation and K pop and man, the last like, think almost 30
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  minutes, I try to explain how my feelings of, you know, that
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  issue, which is a very divisive issue at Kpop.
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  And I could already tell like I I did such a terrible job.
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  I was almost kind of like, OK, I might have to skip like Simone,
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  what are you saying? What are you trying to say?
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  I tried, but it was I know because I didn't really know how
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  to say. I think there was some, like,
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  information that I miss said. I'm trying to remember the
• 20:57
  specific one because I took it off since my list.
• 21:00
  I think I had mentioned something about when Black Lives
• 21:03
  Matter started. Did I say we started in 2014?
• 21:07
  I think I said it started in 2014, but I had said Trayvon
• 21:09
  Martin, which isn't true because Trayvon Martin happened in 2012.
• 21:13
  Yes, Right. Yes.
• 21:16
  Yes. Because Trayvon Martin and Sandy
• 21:18
  Hook happened in the same year, which I think a lot of people
• 21:21
  forget. Yeah.
• 21:22
  Yeah. But his trial didn't happen
• 21:23
  until 2013. And boy, I remember that because
• 21:26
  I was actually out the country when that happened.
• 21:28
  And when we found out the verdict, it was a very
• 21:31
  interesting trip among the Americans.
• 21:33
  And since me, my dad and I think two other people were the only
• 21:37
  black people in that group compared to everyone else.
• 21:40
  So we were just like. And we were all from Florida.
• 21:43
  They're from Miami. So it's just like this.
• 21:46
  Oh, God, yeah. That was the time anyway.
• 21:50
  So yeah. And then compared to the Let's
• 21:52
  Take a Trip one where my friend Brianna would shout out to her,
• 21:57
  she's actually currently in China.
• 21:59
  Miss you, girl, I hope you're having a great time, especially
• 22:02
  not being here in the States. Anyway, we were going to talk
• 22:06
  about that anyway. We interviewed her on her trip
• 22:10
  when she went to Singapore and South Korea.
• 22:12
  And the 1st 40 minutes of that episode I had actually did
• 22:15
  another talk about cultural appropriation in K Pop because
• 22:18
  that's around the time Tayyang had put on that do rag.
• 22:21
  So I think I did a way better job at explaining my feelings on
• 22:26
  that than I did on how we got into K Pop.
• 22:29
  So just keep that in mind when you listen.
• 22:31
  Again, 23 year old brain compared to 27 year old brain.
• 22:37
  272627 Yeah, I'm around there. Yeah.
• 22:42
  Oh, it's just shown I've gotten that's what I meant by earlier.
• 22:45
  I've gotten better at talking in general, expressing my feelings,
• 22:49
  expressing complex topics, things like that.
• 22:53
  So. But they're both still really
• 22:55
  good episodes. So listen to both of them And if
• 22:58
  you want to cut those parts, like I said, how we got into K
• 23:00
  Pop, it's like the last 30 minutes and then let's take a
• 23:04
  trip to Singapore. It's the first 40 minutes.
• 23:06
  I still think it's good information, but I understand.
• 23:10
  I think it'd be something good for everyone to take a listen to
• 23:15
  it because you get to see the growth of someone and I think
• 23:19
  that's something that you get to see regardless.
• 23:22
  You get to see that with our K Pop fans, with, you know,
• 23:25
  artists, actors, actresses, you know, as you see them evolving,
• 23:31
  you do get to see how they evolve.
• 23:33
  So I think it's a good way to take a listen.
• 23:36
  So I recommend taking a listen to the full episodes, not just
• 23:38
  cutting off. Well, thank you, Lala.
• 23:40
  I appreciate that. You're welcome.
• 23:43
  You're very welcome. All right, we want to go ahead
• 23:47
  and talk about our favorite top five episodes.
• 23:50
  So Lala, you want to start with your #5?
• 23:53
  Yes. So I'll go ahead off with my #5
• 23:57
  being episode life as a college student.
• 24:02
  And in this description, just a quick description of the
• 24:05
  episode, it's Nafis and Simone talk about life in college after
• 24:10
  the pandemic and the pros and cons of going all online for
• 24:14
  school. The reason for my pick is as a
• 24:19
  college student myself currently, I understand the pros
• 24:23
  and cons. I am biased with liking online
• 24:27
  more only because I am a working adult and it has made it easier
• 24:33
  for me and really right now it's the only way for me to do.
• 24:35
  School. So, but I can see and understand
• 24:39
  the pros and cons of, you know, from going to campus, being on
• 24:44
  campus to all of a sudden having to be online.
• 24:47
  It's, you know, it's a big change when that happens.
• 24:51
  The biggest highlight off of our off of that episode is learning
• 24:56
  the degrees Nafisa and Simone took and then breaking down how
• 25:00
  each degree can take you on different paths.
• 25:04
  I'm not going to lie, I was surprised when I saw that on
• 25:07
  your list. It was a good thing to learn
• 25:09
  though from like both of you. And I think that's something,
• 25:12
  and I think that's the reason why I picked it is because you
• 25:16
  never know when a listener jumps in into the podcast and whether
• 25:20
  they go back. And so if they're wanting to
• 25:22
  learn a little bit more of like what you went to school for, a
• 25:27
  little bit of like the differences and things like
• 25:30
  that, like it's a good episode to take a listen to.
• 25:33
  I enjoyed it. Clearly, Yeah, that's true.
• 25:37
  I mean, again, a lot of these half the stuff I've said, I
• 25:41
  don't remember, but like, I also wasn't sure about that one
• 25:45
  because like, I wasn't sure if it was a little boring or like
• 25:48
  if people cared. So I am glad someone enjoyed it.
• 25:52
  And maybe like, other people in college can feel the same way
• 25:55
  too, obviously because it was during the pandemic.
• 25:58
  It's a little different than now, but still.
• 26:02
  No, it was good. It was a good episode.
• 26:04
  It was entertaining and again, you do walk away with like some
• 26:09
  new like understanding and information because obviously
• 26:12
  like both of you guys went into two different like career paths.
• 26:16
  So it's just it was nice to see. It was nice to hear.
• 26:20
  Thanks. So what is your fifth?
• 26:23
  Yes, so. We have that delay, don't we?
• 26:27
  No. We don't.
• 26:30
  No, I just cut you off. That's a little OK.
• 26:33
  Dear God, I can't. I'm so afraid we do.
• 26:35
  That's why I've been waiting and letting you talk.
• 26:38
  Jesus Christ. Fine, so remember.
• 26:41
  How I said so for anyone listening, remember how I said
• 26:45
  in the beginning the challenges of like doing a podcast and you
• 26:49
  never getting to see like the behind the scenes.
• 26:52
  If we do decide to leave at least this little clip here,
• 26:56
  technical difficulties, that's what happens, especially when
• 26:58
  you're living in two different states, so.
• 27:01
  In two different time zones I get.
• 27:03
  Well, if you make it fun, yeah, two different time zones.
• 27:07
  I might keep it in, it's fine. At least just that part.
• 27:11
  Yeah, OK, it's fine because I was going to reply to you about
• 27:17
  that and now I don't even remember what I was going to
• 27:20
  say. Just be honest.
• 27:22
  I had a rebuttal and I was like, damn it, what was I going to
• 27:25
  say? It's fine.
• 27:27
  It's oh, I remember now. See squirrel Brain I'm.
• 27:31
  So sorry. This is why we talked for two
• 27:34
  plus hours. I was just going to say this
• 27:36
  also shows for my degree and I've talked about on other
• 27:40
  episodes too, why I decided to do this podcast.
• 27:44
  I explained it earlier too. It's just as a person who wanted
• 27:47
  to get into the entertainment industry and even now the way
• 27:50
  things are going, like I don't know what that would look for me
• 27:52
  if I ever tried. I kind of feel like it's too
• 27:54
  late, but at least I can use this show as some type of
• 27:58
  creative outlook to still keep that interest.
• 28:01
  So we're going to move on. This is going to be so fun for
• 28:04
  me to edit. I'm so sorry.
• 28:08
  It's not your fault. Technology, it's supposed to
• 28:11
  help us, yet it hinders us. All right.
• 28:14
  OK. So thank.
• 28:15
  You all of your 5th. Yes, so for my 5th is actually
• 28:20
  another anniversary episode. It's actually what we did our
• 28:23
  happy one year anniversary titles, pretty much
• 28:26
  self-explanatory. Myself, Macy, the Feast and
• 28:31
  Brianna discuss what it's like doing the podcast for a year,
• 28:35
  especially during that year, because Brianna was helping us
• 28:37
  with the social media and obviously the Feast was my Co
• 28:41
  host and Macy was pretty much becoming a she was on her way to
• 28:46
  becoming a second Co host. Yes, I said that right.
• 28:50
  You know how it was at the very beginning compared to the time
• 28:54
  we started recording, getting used to hearing our own voices
• 28:57
  on the microphone, things like that.
• 28:59
  And then we also started to play, you know, a questionnaire
• 29:02
  that Macy found to get to know the host a little bit better,
• 29:05
  especially back at that time, which was in 2021.
• 29:08
  I mean, mainly reasons was just it was just a fond memory for
• 29:12
  me. Happy times to listening to us.
• 29:14
  A lot of laughs in that episode. So it brought back a lot of
• 29:17
  memories. And then some highlights on
• 29:19
  there was we gave a preview of one of the episodes I had on my
• 29:23
  list dealing with BTSI had learned that day there's
• 29:27
  apparently somewhere in mid Florida, a rodeo day in Florida.
• 29:31
  I completely forgot about that until I re listened to it.
• 29:35
  There was a part where we talked about places we want to travel.
• 29:38
  I do not want to travel to Dubai anymore.
• 29:40
  Got to got to give that update. Free Sudan, OK, we still free
• 29:45
  Palestine and free Sudan over here.
• 29:47
  And then another highlight was one of the questions Macy asked
• 29:51
  us was if we would rather go to the future or to the past.
• 29:54
  And me and Brianna burst out laughing because why would you
• 29:58
  ask two people, 2 black people, 2 black women?
• 30:02
  What if we want to go to the past in America?
• 30:06
  So no. And then I also just found it
• 30:10
  interesting, which kind of not sad, but sad in a way listening
• 30:15
  to it, especially towards the end where we talked about like
• 30:18
  our goals and I had brought up, I forgot what the question was,
• 30:21
  but like how I haven't really found my contentment or
• 30:24
  happiness yet. And I still kind of feel that
• 30:27
  way. But like, I'm still very happy
• 30:30
  when it comes to my friends because things that they brought
• 30:33
  up, like Macy brought up wanting to be in a relationship and
• 30:37
  she's been in a very loving relationship since then.
• 30:40
  And Brianna talked about travelling and like I mentioned
• 30:42
  earlier, she's in China. So I'm happy for them.
• 30:46
  They were able to achieve their goals.
• 30:48
  Still working on it. But you know, some of us got
• 30:52
  some manifestation powers within.
• 30:56
  It was a good one. It was a good listen to again,
• 30:59
  the happy memories. And I think that's like the big
• 31:02
  take away from all of this is like the connections of like
• 31:07
  happy moments, whether it was based on reminiscing and it
• 31:12
  taking you down depending on like what we were reminiscing
• 31:16
  about. Like you have that type of
• 31:18
  connection. Like obviously for me, a lot of
• 31:21
  it like has to do with the music.
• 31:24
  And so like listening to you guys talking about some of that
• 31:28
  stuff, it's like, Oh, I remember that.
• 31:30
  Like I remember, you know, where I was at at that point in my
• 31:34
  life and like what happy triggered memories that did for
• 31:39
  me. So but yes, at the end of the
• 31:42
  day it is, you know, again sad having to knock out some
• 31:48
  countries of will no longer want to visit anymore.
• 31:52
  So. It's just the way life is.
• 31:54
  I mean, you learn new information.
• 31:56
  That's also part of the growth, so.
• 31:58
  Pretty much, and obviously it's depending on what's going on in
• 32:01
  the world, but we're not going to, you know, stick to that.
• 32:05
  So we'll go on and move on to #4 And mine was thoughts and
• 32:11
  rambles. K pop highlights.
• 32:15
  Obviously the title itself is planatory.
• 32:19
  Simone and Macy talk about their favourites and what is being
• 32:22
  dropped in the month of May and the future in 2022.
• 32:28
  So that was a big. This ended up being my number 41
• 32:33
  because I learned some new music.
• 32:35
  Obviously I got a little bit of inside of like what you were
• 32:38
  listening to back then. So I got to listen to new music
• 32:42
  and to new artist. I guess I should say also that
• 32:47
  was around the time, no, because I became ARMY in like 20-20.
• 32:55
  But I at that time is when I was really diving deep into BTS and
• 33:02
  becoming like a full stand. So that to me was like a big
• 33:06
  like memory because I was all like, Oh yeah, that was around
• 33:10
  the time like they were doing the proof drop for BTS.
• 33:14
  By the way, I do agree with Simone back then that they
• 33:17
  should have done what they did to when they released B and had
• 33:23
  the photo cards of all 7 versus, you know, it was random.
• 33:27
  Cute because it was an anthology album of their career.
• 33:32
  Why would you not Add all seven of them and have a photo?
• 33:37
  I completely forgot about that too until you brought it up.
• 33:40
  Like why? Why wouldn't you do that?
• 33:43
  I still I still don't understand.
• 33:45
  Just Add all 7 and have at least a group.
• 33:47
  Or if you're going to do individuals have a group photo
• 33:50
  because this what they used to do back in the day.
• 33:52
  Exactly. My old albums of like Dark and
• 33:54
  Wild and oh are you late too? You would get a photo card of 1
• 33:59
  member and then a group photo card.
• 34:02
  Yeah, and. That's exactly what was it for
• 34:05
  me. And it was just like, Oh my God.
• 34:07
  Like, why couldn't they have done it?
• 34:08
  Especially because, like you said, it was an anthology album.
• 34:12
  Like it only made sense to include all 7 and do like, group
• 34:17
  photo cards. So yeah, I am.
• 34:20
  I was so upset about that, too. So it was, it was great.
• 34:23
  When I was listening to that, I was like, yeah.
• 34:27
  But yeah, obviously the highlights from that episode,
• 34:30
  it's congratulations to Macy for getting out of grooming training
• 34:35
  because that was a big, you know, congratulations at that
• 34:38
  point. At the beginning of that,
• 34:40
  another one was obviously got 7. We got somewhat of a comeback at
• 34:46
  that time too. And I do remember, I remember
• 34:49
  hearing that I wasn't fully into like got 7 and like I was
• 34:54
  listening to other K pop at that time, but it was very sparingly.
• 34:59
  Most of the the listen was BTS back then.
• 35:02
  So yeah, that was my #4 I did. That to you and also real quick,
• 35:07
  I think this episode, because you just said it gave you new
• 35:11
  music to listen to. I think we did this, if my
• 35:14
  memory is correct, because we were trying to do like what the
• 35:17
  groups that we played the game with, like where are they now?
• 35:21
  It was that type of episode. So I don't remember what group
• 35:24
  we ended with, but that's why we did that.
• 35:27
  I think. Was it all the way up to Monsta
• 35:30
  XI? Don't remember.
• 35:31
  But the highlight was supposed to be like, oh, from the game,
• 35:35
  these are the groups we did and from that point, like where are
• 35:38
  they now type thing or what are they doing now?
• 35:42
  Yeah. So it's a good episode to listen
• 35:43
  to, especially like If you don't know what type of other kpop
• 35:47
  groups you want to listen to and maybe you want to find something
• 35:50
  new. I think this podcast itself
• 35:54
  expands pretty much. You know, yes, we do talk a lot
• 35:57
  about BTS, but we do talk about a lot of other groups as well.
• 36:01
  We do and we forgot to mention this in our shout out because
• 36:04
  there was another set of episodes we didn't choose, which
• 36:08
  was US playing the game. And unfortunately that's because
• 36:12
  of good old copyright and I had to make changes.
• 36:16
  I've mentioned this before. If you want to listen to my
• 36:19
  original edit with the music, for some reason they are still
• 36:22
  available on YouTube. So I know there's no like video
• 36:26
  visuals, but you can still listen on YouTube.
• 36:29
  But yeah, because I've, I've would have chosen in some of the
• 36:32
  episodes of the game if I don't have to take out the music,
• 36:35
  which sucks because I spent so much time on those episodes, so
• 36:39
  many sleepless nights. And I remember there were times
• 36:42
  because the files were so big, I had to like, send them to Macy.
• 36:46
  I had to make her download the editing software I used so she
• 36:50
  can download the episode for me and send it to me through
• 36:55
  e-mail. It's Yeah, that's what we meant
• 36:57
  by behind the scenes. There's many times my laptop
• 37:00
  almost came close to crashing out because it would not upload
• 37:04
  an episode because files were too big.
• 37:07
  All right, well, so let's go on to my #4 which was an earlier
• 37:11
  episode back in 2020 called Concerts New York and BTS love
• 37:16
  yourself experience. So with that one, me and Macy
• 37:21
  and I believe that was her because I think we if I'm
• 37:25
  remembering correctly, I think I went to go visit Macy and you
• 37:28
  can tell by the audio and that was before I bought myself a
• 37:31
  professional mic. So the how we got into K pop and
• 37:34
  this one we recorded around the same time, either on that same
• 37:38
  day or like within the time frame I was visiting her.
• 37:43
  But anyway, so we basically start off by talking about like
• 37:46
  our concert and music history from artists we listen to all
• 37:49
  the way from like childhood we can remember up to us getting
• 37:53
  into BTS and seeing them for the first time in New York when they
• 37:57
  did their Speak Yourself Stadium Series in 2019.
• 38:00
  And that was both of our first time seeing them because we
• 38:04
  didn't get into them until 2018. We got into them earlier 2018
• 38:08
  and I got into them later 2018. And not only did we see BTS
• 38:14
  during their actual concert, we got tickets.
• 38:17
  Well, I got tickets through Good Morning America to see them
• 38:21
  promote and perform Boy With Love.
• 38:24
  So we also talk about our experience seeing an artist
• 38:28
  through like a television program like that.
• 38:30
  And then we also did talk about COVID at the time affecting
• 38:33
  concerts because we recorded it again in 2020, but we were
• 38:37
  reminiscing about seeing them in 2019.
• 38:40
  So you get comparisons of like concerts back then and then
• 38:43
  concerts during COVID, our overall trip to New York as
• 38:47
  well. And again, kind of the same as
• 38:49
  #5 it's just a happy memory for me.
• 38:51
  But not only that, it was like kind of one of the happiest
• 38:54
  times in my life and remembering just a lot of things I did as my
• 38:59
  first as K Pop fan that I will never do again, not at my big
• 39:02
  age. And you'll understand what you
• 39:05
  listen to the episode. There's a lot of things that we
• 39:07
  both did I will never do again. And I know I'm like, I'll never
• 39:11
  do it again. And then I do it.
• 39:12
  No, I'm not I'm not. I'm way too old for this.
• 39:15
  Way too old, but anyway some of the highlights were I forgot
• 39:20
  that I did mention T Pain who is an artist I've always liked as a
• 39:24
  child. Liked it.
• 39:25
  Instagram post of mine when back in high school I made a dance to
• 39:29
  one of his songs. I remember when J Hope waved me
• 39:32
  during good boarding America. The difference of buying tickets
• 39:35
  on Ticketmaster compared to now especially.
• 39:39
  Dear Lord, I forgot I had also deemed Yungi back then the
• 39:43
  captain of the BTS twerk team the way light sticks function.
• 39:49
  And I am still to this day because we talked about the
• 39:54
  virtual concert of Map of the Soul One.
• 39:56
  I am waiting for them to put the Black Swan Orchestra version on
• 40:00
  streaming. Why is it not on streaming?
• 40:03
  Why is it not on Spotify or Apple Music?
• 40:05
  Five years later, I am so, so hype.
• 40:08
  Big hit complete on Trixia. Delete on featuring.
• 40:13
  See let's pretend that never happened.
• 40:15
  Most of the fand that pretend that song does not exist and
• 40:17
  replace it with Black Swan Orchestra version.
• 40:20
  I am so upset it's only available on YouTube through a
• 40:23
  music video. You're going to give me a
• 40:24
  masterpiece like that and you won't have it on streaming.
• 40:28
  It's the same with Dang. Why is Dang still not on
• 40:31
  streaming? And you know that you can listen
• 40:34
  to Dang on the freaking what is it Rhythm Hive game Yes, like
• 40:42
  you complete streaming. I know.
• 40:45
  Make it make sense to me. Make it make sense.
• 40:48
  That I till this day that we're always going to have beef with
• 40:52
  that I it will forever be beef with you until you release this
• 40:57
  stuff for us and we've been banging for Dang since 2018.
• 41:01
  Yes, I. Remember getting into the
• 41:02
  fandom? They're begging them to put Dang
• 41:04
  on Spotify. It's been seven years.
• 41:09
  Let's get on it. We know you guys have it.
• 41:12
  Let's go. I thought they were going to
• 41:14
  release it when they were in the military.
• 41:16
  That would have been such a great thing to do was to release
• 41:20
  all this music like they. You know what, It's fine.
• 41:22
  It's fine. But they were releasing other
• 41:24
  members singles that they did, so I thought this was going to
• 41:27
  be one of them and it wasn't. What's going on?
• 41:30
  Y'all got the clearance for Yungi for August D What's going
• 41:34
  on, What happened? I don't know, I don't know.
• 41:37
  Who knows? All right, so let's go on to our
• 41:42
  number 3. So my number 3 is a TV review,
• 41:46
  the Glory Part 2, which is ironic.
• 41:49
  The fact that, you know, it's also on our top like most listen
• 41:53
  videos for episodes, I should say yeah, episodes.
• 41:58
  So obviously for the description, the title itself is
• 42:01
  explanatory. I will say I will put a
• 42:05
  disclaimer here. If you have not watched the
• 42:07
  Glory, do watch it before going and listening to the episodes of
• 42:12
  The Glory Part 1 and 2. If you don't mind having
• 42:16
  spoilers, then go ahead, take a listen because there are
• 42:20
  spoilers. They do breakdown the entire two
• 42:24
  parts of the Glory, Simone and the Feast and Macy talk about
• 42:30
  the show from episodes 9 to the last episode 16.
• 42:35
  Disclaimer I did not know so I didn't watch this show when it
• 42:42
  was aired like when they were live releasing it.
• 42:46
  I watched it once it was fully available.
• 42:49
  So like I binge watched it right?
• 42:52
  So I didn't know that they did like 2 parts.
• 42:57
  They released the first like 8 episodes and I think like late
• 43:02
  December or something like that. And then it's a new thing
• 43:06
  because I know Netflix is starting to do that now with a
• 43:07
  lot of their shows. So they'll like release half of
• 43:10
  the show and then months later they'll release the other one.
• 43:12
  I have a feeling that started with the glory, surprisingly so,
• 43:17
  yeah. They broke it up, yeah.
• 43:19
  So to this day, I still think of the show so obviously to me,
• 43:24
  like this was, you know, a really good episode to listen to
• 43:27
  to both of them. But I decided to obviously take
• 43:30
  part too because it was more towards the end.
• 43:33
  And just in case I ended up saying anything, any spoilers, I
• 43:37
  just wanted to go ahead and pick that one.
• 43:38
  So yeah, hearing Simona Nepheson and Macy's theories and
• 43:44
  observations were very entertaining.
• 43:46
  So do take a listen to the episodes.
• 43:49
  They're really fun there. There was a little bit of a
• 43:54
  complaint on Part 2, which is how I knew that they split up
• 43:57
  part, you know, they split up the the two parts because the
• 44:02
  Feast does ask like if it was something good, if it was a good
• 44:08
  thing for them to do a Part 1 and Part 2, so.
• 44:12
  Entertaining episode. Thank you.
• 44:14
  I'm also proud of myself because I feel like especially for a TV
• 44:18
  review, that's the one. I was so into the glory when it
• 44:21
  came out and I did so much research.
• 44:24
  I went as far as trying to research how divorce went and
• 44:27
  custody battles went between children in Korea.
• 44:30
  I've looked up like color blindness and the differences
• 44:34
  between color blindness. Like, I did my research on that
• 44:37
  one and that's why they're almost like 3 hours long.
• 44:40
  I think they're one of the longest episodes we have.
• 44:42
  But aside from the show, I am proud of myself.
• 44:45
  Like I put a lot of work into those two episodes.
• 44:49
  And yeah, great television. Haven't really been able to find
• 44:53
  AK drama like that since. I know.
• 44:57
  Same here. Until then, Yeah.
• 45:00
  Until then. All right, so for your number #3
• 45:05
  I have another older 1. You know, as someone who said I
• 45:09
  wasn't going to listen to the old episodes out of cringe, I
• 45:11
  end up picking a lot of the older episodes.
• 45:14
  But this one actually truly is one of my favorites.
• 45:16
  And This is why I picked it for three.
• 45:18
  So it's called is life better in your 20s, I think, versus your
• 45:22
  30s. And this was actually during a
• 45:25
  vacation time. I had I think really early
• 45:29
  November because I remember we didn't start like posting
• 45:34
  episodes for the podcast yet, but we were pre recording a lot.
• 45:38
  And even when I was on vacation with them, I do remember I was
• 45:42
  at the time our very first picture like profile cover for
• 45:47
  the podcast I had hand. So I was working on that during
• 45:51
  the vacation. It was just one of the things to
• 45:52
  give us like out of the house during COVID time.
• 45:55
  But we are mostly, you know, in the House of just the a lot of
• 46:00
  us. I don't remember how much how
• 46:01
  many people there were. It's me, my brother Frankie,
• 46:04
  Matt, Rebecca, Ella. It was a lot of us anyway, So
• 46:10
  yes, I was on vacation with them.
• 46:13
  So I was with my brother. If you heard me mumbling his
• 46:17
  husband Frankie, his best friend Matt which I just called them
• 46:21
  all my family but I'm not related to blood by Matt,
• 46:26
  Rebecca and Michaela. Matt and my brother have been
• 46:29
  best friends literally since 5th grade so I pretty much grew up
• 46:33
  with them and Rebecca is Matt's wife.
• 46:36
  But again they've been together for a really long time.
• 46:38
  They were high school sweethearts.
• 46:39
  Shout out because we actually do have an episode with Matt and
• 46:42
  Rebecca. I forget what is titled, but it
• 46:44
  was a Valentine episode and I really appreciate them coming on
• 46:48
  again and talking about like their relationship and like the
• 46:51
  differences of like them being so young and high school
• 46:55
  sweethearts to compare to. Like if they were never high
• 46:57
  school sweethearts, getting real about marriage and having kids
• 47:01
  so young, so things like that. But they were on.
• 47:05
  And I believe Rebecca, she used to be a social worker.
• 47:09
  I'm not sure if she's a therapist now, but I really
• 47:12
  enjoyed that because besides the chaos of all of us towards the
• 47:17
  end, especially, they give really great advice and also to
• 47:21
  re listening to it at the age I'm at now 28, like I can
• 47:25
  understand their advice a lot more than I did back then.
• 47:29
  I'm like listening to them speak and I'm like, oh, you know what?
• 47:32
  Like I, I see it better now that I'm closer to my 30s than back
• 47:37
  then when I was early 20s. So if you are obviously in your
• 47:43
  20s, whether it's early 20s, late 20s or early 30s, I think
• 47:47
  you'll to understand the comparisons of where your life
• 47:50
  may have been back then to where it is now.
• 47:52
  I'm getting some really good advice, especially if you are on
• 47:54
  the younger side. So some highlights from that is
• 47:57
  I forgot during that time, my brother and Frankie had given me
• 48:01
  a nickname during the trip. So I have my own AI name called
• 48:04
  SIM One and they kept doing a robot voice too.
• 48:08
  I relate to Matt now, especially when you talked about your body
• 48:12
  starts to hurt when you're in your 30s.
• 48:14
  I'm not even 30 yet. Obviously I got a chronic
• 48:17
  illness. I've talked about it before, but
• 48:19
  I feel it. I feel it in my 30s and I still
• 48:24
  busted out laughing when Matt had talked about when he had
• 48:28
  sneezed. One time he threw out his neck.
• 48:30
  That is still hilarious to me. I'm sorry to be loud, forget
• 48:32
  you're paid. But I'm also sorry to my brother
• 48:36
  for teasing him about reading webtoons and web comics and not
• 48:41
  saying, oh, they're not real books because I am a person who
• 48:44
  reads webtoons and web comics and those are technically my
• 48:47
  books. OK.
• 48:48
  It's like the whole our audio books considered real books.
• 48:52
  So I apologize. I apologize, Ed.
• 48:56
  And yeah, like I've mentioned a little bit earlier, I really
• 48:58
  enjoyed Matt, Rebecca and Michaela's perspective of their
• 49:01
  early 20s because they had kids so young.
• 49:04
  Like Rebecca talks about, she had her first daughter when she
• 49:08
  was 21, so. The last 30 minutes is
• 49:11
  definitely the best when it comes to like giving just life
• 49:14
  advice and it's always interesting to see in and I
• 49:18
  think it's really great, which I know therapists like advice it a
• 49:23
  lot of like keeping a journal. And so like if you do anything
• 49:27
  like that, whether it's keeping a journal, whether it's keeping
• 49:30
  your artwork because you draw, whether I know some people don't
• 49:34
  have the confidence of like doing a podcast, but like you
• 49:38
  could always do like voice memos of yourself when you're younger.
• 49:42
  And then taking back and like going back and like reading your
• 49:46
  stuff, looking at your artwork, listening to your voicemails,
• 49:48
  you get to like see the difference and understand like
• 49:52
  how much growth there is. And then especially like, if
• 49:55
  you're sitting down with like people that are older and
• 49:58
  hearing their advice, like when you're younger, you're like, Oh
• 50:02
  yeah, you know, OK, sure, whatever, you're just older and
• 50:05
  everything like that. But once you get to their age,
• 50:07
  like you're like, oh, damn. Yeah.
• 50:09
  Like, exactly. This is real.
• 50:12
  This shit is real. So yeah, it was.
• 50:17
  It's a good episode to take a listen to, especially again, if
• 50:20
  you're you're in your 20s and you want a little bit of advice
• 50:24
  to getting into your 30s. It is true your body does start
• 50:28
  hurting a lot more. I would like to say like once
• 50:31
  you're 2525 and on, it just kind of just goes spear downhill.
• 50:40
  All right, so on to my #2 my number 2 was thoughts on
• 50:45
  rambles. Is Lala surviving the K pop
• 50:47
  madness? Obviously in this episode both
• 50:52
  Simone and I talk K pop and the madness of being in multi stand.
• 50:56
  Also catching up with y'all how we were doing back in May.
• 51:02
  What is time? Because hello we're in November
• 51:06
  and Thanksgiving is around the corner.
• 51:08
  Like Oh no that's just crazy to me.
• 51:12
  How much? Time is an illusion.
• 51:16
  It's an illusion and if you bonus points if you know what
• 51:20
  that's referencing to what TV show that means you got to
• 51:23
  listen back to episodes there you.
• 51:26
  Go. You got some homework to do.
• 51:29
  All right, So for the reason I picked this, so much was going
• 51:33
  on everywhere and like everyone and their mothers were going on
• 51:40
  tour this past summer, which was freaking insane.
• 51:43
  And I'm not even talking just like K Pop.
• 51:45
  I'm also talking like with the Western artists that were going
• 51:48
  on tour. So that was a lot of craziness
• 51:51
  going on. The highlight for me for this
• 51:53
  episode was the craziness of how many artists K Pop and Western
• 51:59
  went on tour this past summer, how expensive tickets have
• 52:03
  gotten, and how shows like Beyoncé didn't do so well in
• 52:07
  sales. As well as trying to predict
• 52:10
  what Jin was going to do for his tour.
• 52:13
  That I think was the most fun part was like us trying to
• 52:17
  predict what Jin was going to do.
• 52:19
  And I know funny thing is that Simone, you ended up saying how
• 52:24
  you were hoping that Jin would play some games with us because
• 52:28
  we kind of figured, oh, he's going to do something like with
• 52:31
  music and comedy and how you're like, I hope he plays like a
• 52:34
  game or two. So my question to you is what is
• 52:39
  you think now that you have gone and signed Jin?
• 52:43
  Twice. I mean wishful thinking.
• 52:46
  Maybe that just means someone from hype is listening to us.
• 52:51
  Hey, you never know. Maybe, maybe.
• 52:55
  No, I'm joking. I think that just means I study
• 52:58
  patterns and I don't know, maybe me and Jen share the same brain
• 53:02
  cell. I really don't know, but I'm
• 53:04
  just happy that I guess that. I mean, I wasn't sure how he was
• 53:07
  going to do it with obviously an arena full of people, but they
• 53:11
  planned that really well. So everyone was involved.
• 53:15
  So I'm glad that was able to happen.
• 53:17
  And of course, you can listen to my experience seeing Jen because
• 53:21
  we have an episode on that and Gina was on there as well.
• 53:25
  And I just wanted to point out something when you talk about
• 53:27
  like Beyoncé and not even just her, but like with K Pop artists
• 53:33
  and other Western artists, we're also getting into this weird
• 53:36
  thing where like when the initial sale goes on.
• 53:40
  And then there's also been arguments between like pre sales
• 53:42
  and general sales. Because I know with Beyoncé fans
• 53:45
  were complaining that it seemed like pre sale was more expensive
• 53:48
  than regular sale, which is wild because usually your most
• 53:51
  dedicated fans sign up for the pre sales.
• 53:54
  But anyway, we got into this thing with like you mentioned,
• 53:58
  it wasn't selling well, but where you see videos of the
• 54:03
  actual concerts, obviously they're filled.
• 54:05
  So it's like either people are waiting last minute like or day
• 54:11
  of to buy tickets or because you can even really buy resell
• 54:16
  anymore because they're just as astronomically expensive as the
• 54:19
  regular ticket sales. But we're either having people
• 54:23
  wait until the last minute or unfortunately we're having a lot
• 54:27
  of shows get cancelled. I know there's been a couple K
• 54:30
  pop artists who are still currently touring even now in
• 54:33
  the month of November and they had to cancel some shows.
• 54:36
  Juana was supposed to come over and do AUS tour but he had to
• 54:41
  cancel it. Although I'm hearing that's
• 54:43
  because of the touring company he was doing it with.
• 54:47
  But still, there are other like smaller artists who were coming
• 54:50
  over to tour and they had to like cup cancel a couple dates
• 54:53
  because they weren't selling. Like I know Ryze from SM had to
• 54:56
  cancel their Atlanta show because it just wasn't selling
• 55:00
  out. I actually bought tickets to go
• 55:02
  see Twice for next year and the date that I bought it for
• 55:07
  because they're coming to Orlando, it pretty much sold
• 55:10
  out. I think there's one or a few
• 55:11
  tickets, but they ended up adding a second date and that's
• 55:13
  not selling. Another thing too people were
• 55:15
  complaining about is that they made a lot of the lower bowl
• 55:19
  VIP. So there's like a ton of VIP
• 55:22
  left for a lot of stops for Twice.
• 55:24
  And of course, just like, yeah, like there's more open seats
• 55:28
  lower and on the floor than there is.
• 55:30
  And like Nosebleed, which is usually the opposite.
• 55:34
  I know that there was like an episode.
• 55:35
  I think that you and I had gone into a little bit of detail of
• 55:39
  like like what some of the K pop artists are having to deal with,
• 55:42
  like with the whole visas, obviously the visa prices went
• 55:46
  up and obviously certain regulations and everything like
• 55:50
  that in order for them to get their visas.
• 55:52
  Like the fact that I was supposed to be I was supposed to
• 55:55
  see card last year, they postponed it to the beginning of
• 56:01
  this year and then they ended up canceling the show because of
• 56:05
  visa issues, because of, you know, the issues that they were
• 56:08
  having getting their visa. So it's just it's crazy.
• 56:12
  It's a crazy time. It's a crazy thing to see.
• 56:15
  And again, it's not just affecting K pop because like, as
• 56:19
  you know, we've talked about, we have Beyoncé here who in the
• 56:23
  start of her tour, it didn't look like sales did very good.
• 56:27
  But you are right because like obviously there's a lot of
• 56:30
  things that are affecting people not going to shows.
• 56:33
  So like this year, I was a little bummed out that I didn't
• 56:36
  get to go see 17 cuz they just finished their tour here in the
• 56:41
  US. There they were another group
• 56:44
  that didn't fully sell out every, every show.
• 56:47
  I think there was there. I think there was like 2.
• 56:50
  I think like Texas did pretty good.
• 56:53
  Like on sales, LA, obviously LA I'm not surprised about cuz
• 56:57
  obviously it's always like the main hit, the main place that
• 57:00
  they hit. But also the other thing that a
• 57:03
  lot of people need to consider, well, the artists need to
• 57:05
  consider and the companies need to consider is that right now in
• 57:08
  the US, like it's hard, not just with economy is also like the
• 57:16
  flights that are getting cancelled.
• 57:17
  We talked about this earlier, you and I, and how flights are
• 57:21
  getting cancelled because of the whole shutdown of the government
• 57:24
  right now. And like, so 17 didn't come to
• 57:28
  Chicago for this tour that they just did.
• 57:31
  So I would have had to have flown to a stop.
• 57:34
  And so like to all of a sudden you pay for a ticket, then you
• 57:38
  go ahead and pay for your hotel and your flight, and then it
• 57:42
  turns out that you go to the airport and your flight is
• 57:44
  cancelled. Like that's just money that
• 57:46
  you're constantly losing. So it's kind of one of those
• 57:48
  things where like you're a lot of people are mindful and then
• 57:52
  obviously it's a scary world. We don't know what's going to
• 57:55
  happen. And you know, there's a lot of
• 57:57
  layoffs going on across the board.
• 57:59
  A lot of people that are just leaving their jobs as well.
• 58:02
  So it's like one of those things are like everyone's trying to be
• 58:05
  smart about their finances right now.
• 58:08
  So I don't know, I feel like we might not see that many K Pop
• 58:13
  artists next year for at least not as much as we seen this
• 58:20
  year. Try to come here and tour.
• 58:22
  Yeah. And I feel like we talked about
• 58:24
  that like that's why all the artists were trying to cram to
• 58:27
  tour this year was because of that.
• 58:30
  I mean back when we talked about it early this year was just
• 58:34
  because of Visa. Now, we got a whole set of
• 58:36
  issues that you just brought up. And I know like, because also we
• 58:41
  are of course Army. So we all joke because BTS is
• 58:44
  coming back next year if they've explicitly said that March of
• 58:49
  2026. And even with that, I'm kind of
• 58:51
  worried. I mean, they did kind of already
• 58:54
  hint they have a tour planned out of where they may go.
• 58:57
  And they said a majority of that are US stops.
• 59:01
  But like as far as right now of this recording, I don't know
• 59:04
  what that's going to look like. And I don't even know what it's
• 59:06
  going to look like for us, especially those who have been
• 59:09
  waiting since military, if we can go depending on where they
• 59:13
  go, depending how the economy works.
• 59:16
  Yeah, I know for me, I'm a little bumped out.
• 59:19
  I've been, I've been coming to terms where I might actually
• 59:22
  have to miss out their first tour cuz like, and I keep
• 59:26
  telling you that that's not going to happen.
• 59:27
  Even if I have to drag, we will find a way.
• 59:31
  But no, I know you miss it. No, I know, I know.
• 59:34
  But at the end of the day, we have to be realistic too.
• 59:37
  So we do. Obviously, I don't know what's
• 59:40
  going to happen, especially with with my job, unfortunately, not
• 59:44
  necessarily that I work with the government, but we do a lot of
• 59:47
  projects with the government and there was some stuff that got
• 59:50
  shut down. So right now there's a bit of
• 59:52
  concern there right now. So trying to keep my head up,
• 59:55
  think positive and all that. So we'll see.
• 59:58
  We'll see what happens, I mean. It's OK.
• 1:00:01
  Like, it's not it's not gonna be the end of the world if I don't
• 1:00:03
  make it to this month. Tour and I we.
• 1:00:06
  Can be realistic, but we can also be.
• 1:00:09
  Hopeful. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes we
• 1:00:12
  can. Which is something we need to
• 1:00:14
  hold onto in these trying times. Yeah, you're right about that.
• 1:00:19
  Yes, so let's go ahead and move on.
• 1:00:23
  Yeah, and talk about my second favorite episode.
• 1:00:27
  So this actually wasn't on my list, and I'm kind of glad I
• 1:00:31
  added it last minute and changed out the ones that we gave out.
• 1:00:35
  Shout outs to because looking listening back, I was like,
• 1:00:39
  damn, I did a really good job on this episode.
• 1:00:42
  Kind of like how I talked about with the Glory.
• 1:00:44
  That is the episode I did a lot of research on.
• 1:00:47
  I feel like this one was the same as doing research.
• 1:00:52
  And this one is actually titled Inside Army's Brain.
• 1:00:56
  So it's three parts. And once again, I have to thank
• 1:01:02
  the Lord for Shay, Gina and Jen who are the guest on that
• 1:01:06
  episode. Met them through TikTok and
• 1:01:09
  being so not only flexible but understanding because we
• 1:01:12
  literally recorded that whole day for six hours.
• 1:01:16
  Longest time I've recorded an episode kind of like how me and
• 1:01:19
  Lala were. Once we get talking we get
• 1:01:21
  talking. But I'm proud of myself for that
• 1:01:24
  episode because not only did I did a lot of research on
• 1:01:28
  everything that we talked about, but I just feel like damn I'm a
• 1:01:31
  pretty good host. Like if we actually start having
• 1:01:33
  like actual guests, not our friends, which they are our
• 1:01:36
  friends, but like you, you know what I mean?
• 1:01:39
  I'm like, I can actually, you know, handle being a host,
• 1:01:44
  giving my opinions, moving the conversation along.
• 1:01:48
  I did a pretty good job. I felt so professionalistic back
• 1:01:51
  to that. So I chose.
• 1:01:54
  It's technically Part 3, but the reason for that episode was
• 1:01:59
  because we were reviewing Nam June's album Right Place, Wrong
• 1:02:02
  Person. So it's like technically Right
• 1:02:05
  Place, Wrong Person, Part 2 of the review of the album where we
• 1:02:09
  go from what songs from the songs lost until the last song
• 1:02:13
  on that album come Back to me. As well as talking about the
• 1:02:16
  music videos that came along with that album.
• 1:02:19
  We also, you know, broke down lyrics, shared our
• 1:02:21
  interpretation of each song. And I just feel like it was just
• 1:02:24
  a really good, mature, honest discussion about like, not only
• 1:02:28
  BTS but just like, the K pop industry as a whole,
• 1:02:31
  specifically since we're talking about the member Namju in his
• 1:02:34
  place and all of that. And just like, trying to change
• 1:02:39
  the stereotypes we have with K pop in the industry and idols as
• 1:02:44
  well as, you know, like, trying to talk about our complicated
• 1:02:47
  relationship as fans between, like, artists and fans and how
• 1:02:50
  we navigate that, especially since this is a genre where it
• 1:02:54
  feeds so much on, like, parasocialism.
• 1:02:57
  So yeah, I really do enjoy that. Again, I thank those 3 for being
• 1:03:04
  guests. We've had Gina come back many
• 1:03:05
  times. Shay, if you're listening to
• 1:03:07
  this, you know, come back anytime, especially if we do a
• 1:03:10
  music review. Gave very great commentary on
• 1:03:16
  that. In my highlights, we're mainly
• 1:03:19
  like talking about the music videos.
• 1:03:22
  So like the Lost and Come Back to Me music video.
• 1:03:25
  That's why I chose the second-half of us talking about
• 1:03:27
  the actual album. And of course, we got a little
• 1:03:31
  emotional discussing all of this and also kind of ended it with
• 1:03:35
  like a heartfelt and tearful letter to like, Nam June.
• 1:03:39
  And like, you know, how thankful, how thankful we are
• 1:03:42
  for the artist that he is and the artist that he has grown
• 1:03:45
  into. It was a really good episode and
• 1:03:48
  I really do like hope that people do listen to the song
• 1:03:51
  because you will get, you know, obviously besides the good
• 1:03:55
  entertainment, I think you will get to see like different
• 1:03:58
  insides of different fans. You know, at the end, like,
• 1:04:02
  yeah, there were some stuff that you guys obviously agreed on,
• 1:04:06
  right? But listening to different
• 1:04:08
  people's takes, especially like depending on like how level of
• 1:04:13
  of interest they have in the music itself.
• 1:04:16
  Like Shay, obviously we know she's a big music person.
• 1:04:19
  Like she out musics me. Obviously right now she's having
• 1:04:24
  a lot, a lot of fun being a DJ on her Spotify.
• 1:04:27
  So I see that she keeps posting all her videos.
• 1:04:32
  Yes, of all the transitions she's doing.
• 1:04:35
  Yeah, she's having a lot of fun with that.
• 1:04:38
  She goes MIAA lot now. So it's a little like, OK,
• 1:04:41
  either you're reading or you're just making music.
• 1:04:45
  So yeah, I think that was a really good very long.
• 1:04:48
  I still remember when you told me it was like a six hour.
• 1:04:52
  I was like, what? And even Shay, she's not like,
• 1:04:55
  my God, that was the longest I have ever talked before.
• 1:05:00
  I don't know why she said that because when we she used to be
• 1:05:03
  on TikTok she also used to do like all these lives.
• 1:05:06
  I mean especially Jen and Gina, they used to be on like 8 hours
• 1:05:10
  and Shea would pop in and out but still.
• 1:05:12
  Yeah, but that's why like she would pop in and out though.
• 1:05:16
  Like she never sat. She never sat and like did more
• 1:05:19
  than what, maybe 2 hours? I think the only time that she
• 1:05:23
  ever did like a very Long live was when we were waiting for the
• 1:05:28
  blackout of TikTok. OK, that makes sense.
• 1:05:32
  And that was after recording that episode, yeah.
• 1:05:37
  Yeah, so good, good. So yeah, it's a good one.
• 1:05:41
  It's a good one. Again, like I said, it's three
• 1:05:44
  parts. And I also, if no one noticed, I
• 1:05:47
  named it Inside Army's brain because I think in the lost
• 1:05:50
  music video or we had said it out loud, like it looks like
• 1:05:54
  it's in what it looks like to be at Nom June's brain.
• 1:05:58
  I think some of the merch even said that too.
• 1:06:00
  So it was kind of like a play on on that because the first part
• 1:06:04
  is when we actually talked about Jen getting released from the
• 1:06:07
  military and him holding. Actually, I don't think when the
• 1:06:11
  time we recorded it, I don't think he had held his festa yet,
• 1:06:14
  but we talked about he was going to hold the solo festa like
• 1:06:18
  literally 12 hours after he got discharged.
• 1:06:21
  And then the second part is the first half of the actual album
• 1:06:26
  and then the part I picked. So if you can listen to all
• 1:06:31
  three, spread out your time, they're about two hours each.
• 1:06:34
  Like I said, six hours. So evenly distributed.
• 1:06:38
  I'm please do. But I do think that's one of the
• 1:06:40
  ones that's worth a listen. I'm yeah, I'm still proud of
• 1:06:43
  myself for that. And you should.
• 1:06:45
  I don't know why you sell yourself short girl, because
• 1:06:48
  you. Listen, I'm still, that's still
• 1:06:50
  part of my growth I'm working on, OK.
• 1:06:52
  Well, as long as you keep working.
• 1:06:54
  On it, yeah. I also didn't realize how like
• 1:06:57
  self deprecating I am. You can hear it a lot when I was
• 1:07:01
  listening through from early on, even sometimes now.
• 1:07:04
  I do think I've gotten a little better.
• 1:07:06
  But yeah, still working on it guys.
• 1:07:11
  As long as you keep doing that. All right, so now to my number
• 1:07:17
  one favorite episode. You did better on that.
• 1:07:23
  I could roll my arms, but I can't do that very well.
• 1:07:26
  Say you should be the ones who roll your tongue.
• 1:07:28
  You. Hispanic.
• 1:07:30
  We can't talk about that. Anyways, so my #1 is on the
• 1:07:37
  stage. Oakland edition.
• 1:07:40
  This is where Simone, Gina and Nay talk about their experience
• 1:07:45
  of seeing Hobie at Oakland, favorite outfits, songs, and
• 1:07:48
  what they enjoyed the most of the show.
• 1:07:52
  The reason I picked this This episode was so funny to me and a
• 1:07:56
  very happy memory to since I saw Holby in Chicago so again
• 1:08:01
  unlocking other memories. I unfortunately was sick that
• 1:08:05
  day and I wasn't able to be a part of the episode itself, but
• 1:08:11
  it's a really fun lesson and. Yeah, I rolled my arm.
• 1:08:17
  I rolled my eyes so much when I saw why you picked this, and I
• 1:08:21
  should have known. I should have known.
• 1:08:26
  So the highlights of this episode and the reason why this
• 1:08:30
  is my number one is Simone getting attacked by the confetti
• 1:08:36
  will always be top tier and you could actually hear it in the
• 1:08:40
  episode. Y'all just love to listen to my
• 1:08:46
  pain. I don't think I put a clip in
• 1:08:48
  the actual audio episode but we shared it on social media.
• 1:08:52
  I showed the video of me recording, we explain it.
• 1:08:56
  But yes, if you go on our social media, whether it's TikTok,
• 1:08:58
  Instagram, there is a video of us explaining it.
• 1:09:01
  And I put the actual section of when it happened because you
• 1:09:04
  can't see me get attacked by the confetti.
• 1:09:07
  But I was recording Hobie at the time.
• 1:09:09
  But you hear me scream and that's why it makes Lala laugh,
• 1:09:13
  yes? And of course, obviously Gina
• 1:09:15
  and Ney, because they were there to witness it and I was in the
• 1:09:18
  middle of them. They got nothing.
• 1:09:20
  I was the only one. I don't understand how that
• 1:09:23
  physics happened to this day. It got so dark.
• 1:09:30
  My world felt like it ended and all you hear is Hobie singing
• 1:09:34
  Just Dance in the background like a freaking nightmare.
• 1:09:40
  I'm totally over it. I'm totally over it.
• 1:09:43
  No, you're not. But you know what's?
• 1:09:45
  So this is the other thing too, is like off of the video because
• 1:09:49
  like obviously you showed us the video of you recording Hobie.
• 1:09:52
  Your hands don't move, you are as steady as a freaking stand
• 1:09:59
  while you are mid screaming and getting attacked by this
• 1:10:04
  confetti. Your arms don't don't don't
• 1:10:06
  move. They don't shake nothing.
• 1:10:08
  It's like pure perfect recording that you're doing.
• 1:10:11
  You're so locked in that you would rather get attacked by
• 1:10:15
  confetti before moving the camera and like trying to save
• 1:10:21
  yourself. If that is not dedication of an
• 1:10:25
  army, I don't know what else would be.
• 1:10:28
  I, I think I was just in shock because I didn't know what was
• 1:10:31
  going on. And obviously to Gina and they
• 1:10:34
  were actually in the middle of ripping it off of me while I was
• 1:10:38
  still recording. So I don't, I don't, I don't
• 1:10:41
  know. Again, the only thing I'm just
• 1:10:43
  happy about that whole instance is that no one on that stage saw
• 1:10:46
  me. No, I didn't mess up anyone's
• 1:10:48
  flow. No one saw me.
• 1:10:51
  I'm good. Now, if it was all seven of
• 1:10:53
  them, that would have been different.
• 1:10:54
  But because we know Hobie is a professional, I'm fine.
• 1:10:58
  I'm good. You know damn well if it was all
• 1:11:01
  seven of them, one of them, if not more, would have seen that
• 1:11:05
  and would have pointed out and like laughed and said something
• 1:11:08
  if they had a break. Yes.
• 1:11:10
  So there you go. There's my number one.
• 1:11:12
  Just happy that didn't happen. Well, my #1 Oxel does have to
• 1:11:17
  deal with BTS, but it is all seven members.
• 1:11:22
  So for my final one, I had actually chosen BTS permission
• 1:11:27
  to dance La Experience. So that's when me and Brianna
• 1:11:32
  got together. Now in the recording, I kept
• 1:11:35
  saying like they were supposed to be a Part 2 because my friend
• 1:11:38
  that I went with, Precious and her sister were supposed to
• 1:11:41
  record with me, but things happened so they couldn't.
• 1:11:44
  But I'm glad we were able to talk about pretty much
• 1:11:47
  everything in this episode where we saw BTS's return to concerts
• 1:11:51
  permission to dance after restrictions from COVID.
• 1:11:55
  When they started, you know, lifting, obviously COVID was
• 1:11:57
  still going around, but restrictions were lifting to
• 1:12:00
  where we can have events like this and we went to Los Angeles
• 1:12:05
  to go see them. I feel like I chose this as my
• 1:12:08
  #1 because honestly, every time I think about any episode in
• 1:12:12
  this podcast, I always come to this one.
• 1:12:14
  I feel like I can remember that recording verbatim.
• 1:12:18
  I remember pretty much everything we talked about.
• 1:12:21
  It still makes me laugh. So this is 1 I always come back
• 1:12:24
  to even like if I'm a little sad, it just cheers me up.
• 1:12:28
  And it's just also probably 1 of the happiest times after COVID
• 1:12:33
  in my life. So it's fun to remember those as
• 1:12:36
  well. And I also do get a little
• 1:12:39
  embarrassed because this is the episode where I think we both
• 1:12:42
  kept talking about if they possibly were going to go on
• 1:12:44
  tour, not realizing that military enlistment was ahead of
• 1:12:48
  us. Thankfully we're behind that
• 1:12:50
  now. But I do think you hear me be
• 1:12:52
  like, oh, they're going on tour, They're going on tour.
• 1:12:55
  So the highlights of that is US cussing out Ticketmaster and
• 1:12:59
  Sofi Stadium. And we did talk about the
• 1:13:02
  difference of us especially. Yeah, both of us because we both
• 1:13:06
  actually saw BTS during Speaker yourself at MetLife.
• 1:13:08
  That was before we knew each other, but we went at the same
• 1:13:11
  time difference of buying tickets then to buying tickets
• 1:13:15
  during permission to dance and how it's crazy how that has even
• 1:13:18
  changed to buying tickets now. It's just like and it's just
• 1:13:22
  like it's been a short span. It's only been like a sick a
• 1:13:26
  year span, which is wild. But anyway, because both them
• 1:13:31
  out, especially Sofi because Sofi was actually just built
• 1:13:34
  around that time too. So it was a fairly like new
• 1:13:37
  stadium as well. And the handling of that
• 1:13:40
  celebrating Jin's birthday. And also he had released Super
• 1:13:44
  Tuna around that time, the day after his birthday, freaking out
• 1:13:49
  about them opening their Instagram accounts, which is
• 1:13:52
  funny because we not only talked about their Instagram handles,
• 1:13:55
  but it's just when we were talking about the concert and
• 1:13:59
  like talking about seeing parts of skin to where like they're
• 1:14:02
  all basically naked now. All of them except for, I mean,
• 1:14:07
  Jit. Listen, Jin did get a little
• 1:14:08
  brave during his tour and I'm proud of him.
• 1:14:11
  So. And then there is a part where
• 1:14:15
  if you're listening now, you'll hear it first hand, but in the
• 1:14:20
  recording, and I'll post it on social media, I'll embarrass
• 1:14:23
  myself. I had mispronounced hip hop file
• 1:14:27
  and I have been mispronouncing it this whole time.
• 1:14:30
  I don't know if I ever told you what I used to call it.
• 1:14:32
  La La if you didn't listen to this episode.
• 1:14:36
  What did you used to call it? I used to call it hip hop filet.
• 1:14:42
  I knew, see. Don't ask me why.
• 1:14:48
  Oh my God. Don't ask me why I apparently
• 1:14:51
  don't know my own language and I was like, I thought it was like,
• 1:14:55
  you know, they're trying to do hip hop.
• 1:14:58
  But before I obviously did a deep dive of BTS.
• 1:15:01
  So like maybe they are trying to imitating so they don't really
• 1:15:03
  know and it's like I don't know as far as like their English
• 1:15:07
  again, this was way before I even got into BTS and I just
• 1:15:09
  never tried to correct myself later on and even in the game
• 1:15:13
  too, I think you hear me Axe Macy, like how do you pronounce
• 1:15:16
  this? Because I say filet, I'm like,
• 1:15:19
  is this file? So yes, it is file, but for the
• 1:15:22
  longest time I was calling it hip hop filet.
• 1:15:25
  And I think Brianna made a joke about like how I'm hungry or
• 1:15:28
  something, I need to go get food.
• 1:15:32
  So yeah, I'll own up to that because now I can laugh about
• 1:15:36
  it. But yes.
• 1:15:38
  That is funny. That would be a perfect clip for
• 1:15:41
  the socials. I plan to put it on there when
• 1:15:44
  we get to it during our throwback Thursdays.
• 1:15:46
  But yeah, if you if you listening to this, you hear it
• 1:15:49
  here first if you didn't listen to the original episode.
• 1:15:52
  But obviously it's it's funnier when you listen to the original
• 1:15:55
  episode because I try to pretend I didn't say it at first when
• 1:15:58
  she asked me what did I say? So yeah, I just don't know
• 1:16:03
  English guys, it's fine. Listen, English is a very hard
• 1:16:07
  language, so. It is.
• 1:16:10
  It's a stupid language, it is. It very much is.
• 1:16:16
  All right. Well, that's it.
• 1:16:19
  That is our top fives. Awesome.
• 1:16:25
  For five years. Yeah.
• 1:16:27
  I'm very happy that we picked a lot of like, older episodes.
• 1:16:32
  Me too. And that's what.
• 1:16:33
  I was trying to do so. Like, I thought it was going to
• 1:16:36
  be a little bit harder, but it was some parts were a little
• 1:16:40
  easy. Like I already had known what my
• 1:16:43
  number one was. And a couple of them were
• 1:16:46
  already kind of like staples. Like, Oh yeah, I want to talk
• 1:16:49
  about this. So, yeah, guys, it's, it's been
• 1:16:53
  five years as I was thinking. I mean, if we have the time and
• 1:16:57
  we still want to do this, hopefully we bring you a few
• 1:17:01
  more years. Don't know what the structure
• 1:17:03
  will look like in the future, but we're hoping you know good
• 1:17:08
  things. We'll figure it out, We'll talk.
• 1:17:11
  But yeah, as always, thank you for listening to us.
• 1:17:15
  We really appreciate it. Without even just one listener,
• 1:17:18
  I don't think I would have been doing this for five years
• 1:17:20
  either. Yeah.
• 1:17:22
  I'm happy. I'm happy you stuck it out for
• 1:17:25
  as long as you do, so I'm very proud of you.
• 1:17:29
  It's very nice to see your growth.
• 1:17:32
  I don't know if we'll come back and do another episode before
• 1:17:35
  the end of 2025 in case we don't Happy New Year, even though that
• 1:17:41
  sounds weird to say. We will survive 2026.
• 1:17:45
  But yeah, when we do come back, I promise it's going to be
• 1:17:49
  bigger, better, less talking, more professional, all that good
• 1:17:53
  stuff. I don't know if you really want
• 1:17:56
  to promise about the less talking.
• 1:17:58
  OK, while I was there anything you wanted to say before we
• 1:18:01
  officially leave I. No, thank you to everyone that
• 1:18:06
  you know has listened to us. Hopefully we brought some form
• 1:18:11
  of entertainment, some form of happiness to you.
• 1:18:14
  Please, by all means, take care of yourself, take care of your
• 1:18:17
  loved ones. Keep you know, whoever, family,
• 1:18:22
  friends right now. Obviously it's it's still a
• 1:18:25
  little tough out there. So lean on those that you depend
• 1:18:30
  on and can trust on. And once again, thank you.
• 1:18:34
  We will be back and like Simone says, we will most likely it's
• 1:18:39
  it'll be a lot better. We'll try to tame the Yappin,
• 1:18:43
  but. We'll try to tame it, but no
• 1:18:47
  promises. No promises so.
• 1:18:50
  Listen, we just get along really well.
• 1:18:53
  It's an earth sign thing. Also, I meant to mention like
• 1:18:55
  the permission to dance one that's also a long episode cuz
• 1:19:00
  me and Brianna. Yeah, but I also think it's an
• 1:19:03
  earth sign thing because we we both tauruses.
• 1:19:05
  She's April, I may. So when you get when you get
• 1:19:09
  earth signs that click. We just chatted up.
• 1:19:12
  People think we're quiet, but we're really not.
• 1:19:15
  No, you just have to get us on a good time and the topics have to
• 1:19:19
  be good. Yeah, but also we just get
• 1:19:23
  along. We do, I think.
• 1:19:25
  We do, and as long as you guys get entertainment from us, I
• 1:19:28
  don't think that should change. All righty.
• 1:19:32
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• 1:19:36
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• 1:19:40
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• 1:19:49
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• 1:19:53
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• 1:19:55
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• 1:19:58
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• 1:20:28
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• 1:20:30
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• 1:20:32
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• 1:20:34
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• 1:20:44
  You. Yes, it did.
• 1:20:51
  It's OK. I don't know why.
• 1:20:52
  OK. Anyway, yes.
• 1:20:54
  So I think that's everything I say.
• 1:20:56
  Yes, yes. It's been a long time since we
• 1:20:58
  recorded guys. That's OK.
• 1:21:01
  It'll get better, but it will. So I have been Simone.
• 1:21:05
  I've been lala. Lala, yes, and we will see you
• 1:21:09
  next time. Bye bye.