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Happy Hour #132: And Many More · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Sandy and samanthaome stuff. I'll never told
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  Speaker 1: your protection of iHeartRadio and welcome to another edition of
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  Speaker 1: Happy Hour, my birthday edition of Happy Hour. Oh yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's coming up as this comes out. As always, drink
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  Speaker 1: responsibly if you choose to do so, Samantha, are you
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  Speaker 1: sipping on anything? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Water?
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  Speaker 1: Water? Mm hmm, I've got warm box red wine water.
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  Speaker 3: Warm does take two because I already did that once,
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  Speaker 3: but I feel like I need to do it again.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, it's every time, every time because it.
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  Speaker 2: With warm instead of said what I develop it, you
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  Speaker 2: mixed it up a little bit. And I'm real, real tired.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go. Yes, And part of the reason I imagine you're
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  Speaker 1: tired is because we do have a lot of travel
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  Speaker 1: coming up. As this one comes out, we're flying back
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  Speaker 1: from Podcast Movement in DC. We will be there. I
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  Speaker 1: guess I could. I could plug it, but it's too late.
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  Speaker 1: If you saw us there, I hope it was a
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  Speaker 1: pleasant interaction. Yes, too late, Yeah, but if you saw
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  Speaker 1: us there, I hope it was nice. And thank you
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  Speaker 1: if you came to our panel. Also. Then I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to Dragon Con. I'm going home for my mom's birthday,
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  Speaker 1: potentially going to Seattle with Samantha for her birthday.
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  Speaker 2: No tell them why?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you said you asked me to dog sit peaches,
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  Speaker 1: and I said, of course. And then you told me
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  Speaker 1: you were going to Seattle, and I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: the last of Us days.
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  Speaker 2: It was reenactment because it scared scared me was and
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  Speaker 2: I said, oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: She goes it's the last of Us day. She whispers
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  Speaker 3: it because she realized she just got really excited.
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  Speaker 2: I got scared, so she whispered it to me.
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  Speaker 3: And then I was like, I always forget this, even
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  Speaker 3: though I don't know how, because every time I say
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  Speaker 3: my birthday is immediately followed by it's a loss of
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  Speaker 3: us thing. And with that completely forgetting that, oh yeah, Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: So she got very excited.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, oh, that you should come, because of
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  Speaker 3: course I didn't love traveling with any anyway, so but
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  Speaker 3: completely forgot this was a thing. Well, I just didn't
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  Speaker 3: think you would be interested at all, and then you
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  Speaker 3: were like last of Us.
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  Speaker 1: It was very comical because when you first asked, I said,
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  Speaker 1: of course, yeah. I I'll just watch a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the Last of Us and I'll play the Last Bus too.
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  Speaker 1: With Peaches while you're gone. And then you said you're
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  Speaker 1: going to Seattle and I was like, what buttrail, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: so there is that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and now I'm very excited that you are probably coming.
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  Speaker 1: Probably yes, I feel bad. I don't want to oh,
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  Speaker 1: which I feel like.
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  Speaker 3: I am also very straightforward enough, especially with you, that
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  Speaker 3: I would tell.
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  Speaker 1: You you can't go, I hope, so, which.
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  Speaker 2: Is also I was like, you can come. Towards the
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  Speaker 2: end of it, yeah, I was like.
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  Speaker 1: I just want that Seattle part exactly. So listeners are
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  Speaker 1: hearing Settle tell us what to do, tell us where
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  Speaker 1: to eat. But my birthday is happening in between all
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  Speaker 1: of that, and I'm a little stressed about it. We
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  Speaker 1: are trying to get a lot done and people keep
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  Speaker 1: asking me about my birthday and wanting to hang out.
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  Speaker 1: It's on Saturday this year, and so you know it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a Saturday times. Yeah. Yeah, And I think that's too.
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  Speaker 1: But people are like, well, what if we do this after?
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  Speaker 1: What if we do this before? Which is great and
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about this more in a second.
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  Speaker 1: That is a fantastic problem to have. But the problem is,
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  Speaker 1: in part we're getting back from DC kind of late Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: the twenty second. My birthday's the twenty fourth, So I'm
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  Speaker 1: just not entirely sure how much energy I'm going to have,
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  Speaker 1: and so I feel like I can't give a firm answer. Originally,
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  Speaker 1: what I was saying was I'm probably just gonna hang
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  Speaker 1: out and like chill and watch Star Wars or play
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  Speaker 1: the Last Night or what a like favorite things. But
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  Speaker 1: that's not always. I get it. People want to celebrate you,
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  Speaker 1: and that again is a lovely, wonderful problem to have.
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  Speaker 1: It's not even a problem, it's a great thing. It's
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  Speaker 1: just that the timing is not great. I guess it
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  Speaker 1: is the issue. And I, as we're trying to get
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  Speaker 1: ahead a week ahead so we can cover while we're
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  Speaker 1: at podcast movements, I was trying to think about my
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  Speaker 1: birthday topic for this happy hour, what I do my
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  Speaker 1: long lost Luke Skywalker thoughts from last year's botch session
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  Speaker 1: where I had to re record everything. Oh after my
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  Speaker 1: system crash. Ooh that was crazy. That was awful. That
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  Speaker 1: was awful. And by the way, I know I've mentioned
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  Speaker 1: it several times, perhaps too much in detail, my recording
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  Speaker 1: studio closet during August is hot. I believe that day
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  Speaker 1: where I lost everything. For my birthday, we recorded eight
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  Speaker 1: episodes and I had to do them again, and I
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  Speaker 1: had been in there the whole time and had to
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  Speaker 1: do it again, but I made I was so bummed
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  Speaker 1: that some of my Luke Skywalker thoughts got erased. I
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  Speaker 1: wrote them in an outline that I have not come
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  Speaker 1: back to yet. But I'm going to do that another day,
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  Speaker 1: another day. But I really wanted to do something happy,
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  Speaker 1: and this is probably gonna be a shorter one. And
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  Speaker 1: everything I was thinking of was kind of making me sad.
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  Speaker 1: And so with all of this, like finding myself more
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  Speaker 1: stressed about hanging out with people than not, I was
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  Speaker 1: feeling bad about that because I'm so lucky to have that,
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  Speaker 1: and I was just thinking about all of these. My
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  Speaker 1: birthday used to be such a big production and that
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  Speaker 1: was a part on me, and I think now I'm
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  Speaker 1: just sort of I got Dragon Con coming up, and
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  Speaker 1: that's taken over my birthday pretty much. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that some friends of mine I'm seeing like the other
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  Speaker 1: ways that they show their love, which I kind of don't,
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  Speaker 1: and it's sort of a strange, not even a disconnect,
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  Speaker 1: it's just like now I feel that I don't get
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  Speaker 1: you a gift, but some people like the gifts is
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  Speaker 1: really important to me. I'm much more if I see
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  Speaker 1: a gift that I know you love. That's what I'm
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  Speaker 1: more about. Food. That food is one that I do
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  Speaker 1: have like a list of foods I try to get
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  Speaker 1: around my birthday every year, but you know I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna eat the cake probably, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: those kinds of things I do like the you know, hey, happy,
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  Speaker 1: like just recognition, that's right, right, I like that. And
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  Speaker 1: then kind of because it's a Saturday, feeling the pressure
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  Speaker 1: to throw a party or feeling the pressure to like
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  Speaker 1: do something or host people. But again it's like, if
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  Speaker 1: that's not what you want to do, then you shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have to do it, right, And going back and forth
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  Speaker 1: in my head about is this selfish or is it normal?
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  Speaker 1: I think people just have different different ways of they
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  Speaker 1: like celebrating, and that can change from your to year.
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  Speaker 1: I used to love like the big thing, and I
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  Speaker 1: still do. If I'm a surprise party. Last year, when
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  Speaker 1: I didn't realize a suppress party for me, it turned
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  Speaker 1: out great. I thought I wouldn't like it, but it
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  Speaker 1: turned out great. I didn't know it was for me,
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  Speaker 1: and I was stressed, and then it was for me
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  Speaker 1: and it was lovely. Maybe that makes me a horrible
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  Speaker 1: person with that, I did want to just do kind
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  Speaker 1: of a warm thanks uh two people in my life.
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  Speaker 1: And I was telling Samantha before this, Oh, but I
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  Speaker 1: get all teary just because it's happy. It's happy tears.
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  Speaker 1: So I wanted to just think, go through some things
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  Speaker 1: I have to my friends who have come out for
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  Speaker 1: me and supported all kinds of things that I've done,
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of shenanigans. I wanted to do skating rink
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  Speaker 1: parties and SpongeBob tropical parties, my sixteenth birthday where we
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  Speaker 1: had a pillow fight and watched Predator. Of course, a
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  Speaker 1: Green Day concert, messy top golf, Billiard's bowling party I
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  Speaker 1: did once, my nerd party, which was also pretty busy,
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  Speaker 1: My sad soup weekeed with Samantha pretty musted. And I
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  Speaker 1: love all of my karaoke nights. All the people who've
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  Speaker 1: gotten me thoughtful gifts, who went out of their way
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that I got them, like even traveling
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  Speaker 1: very far to give them to me. All the people
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  Speaker 1: who have checked in who have taken me out for
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  Speaker 1: drinks and for food, even just bringing me, Like I
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  Speaker 1: have fond memories of someone just bringing me a donut
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  Speaker 1: on my birthday, or somebody who bought me a light
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  Speaker 1: beer I'm known to drink and sat with me outside
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  Speaker 1: on the steps and we just talked, Like those things.
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  Speaker 1: I really appreciate those things, and did the people who
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  Speaker 1: have really taken the time to get to know me
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  Speaker 1: and be like, you know what she would like, it's this,
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  Speaker 1: I love it, and yeah this I may. I am
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  Speaker 1: talking about my birthday, but it doesn't just have to
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  Speaker 1: be birthday. Thanks, it's all the time people who are like,
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  Speaker 1: are caring and know you and check in on you
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  Speaker 1: and do those small things are big things that just
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  Speaker 1: can be so meaningful. And then also all the friends
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  Speaker 1: of my life who I met and were so important
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  Speaker 1: to me at critical times because I can be kind
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  Speaker 1: of clingy and I want to stay friends forever, Like
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  Speaker 1: I just want to stay friends forever, and I will
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  Speaker 1: fight like hell to stay friends forever. But sometimes it's
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  Speaker 1: just not meant to be. Sometimes it just fades off.
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  Speaker 1: That's just how it goes. That doesn't mean our friendship
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  Speaker 1: wasn't important to me and didn't change me. But I yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think those people too. Thanks to my mom, who
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  Speaker 1: goes out of her way to make it special and
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  Speaker 1: write me cards that I always keep, who facilitated all
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  Speaker 1: my birthday parties when she could again let me just
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  Speaker 1: watch Predator. Okay, my sixteenth.
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  Speaker 2: Birthday plasticks out to you.
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  Speaker 1: Of course it does, because I had a group of
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  Speaker 1: like fifteen people in front of my small TV in
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  Speaker 1: my room, sitting on the floor watching Predator. That's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Girls get scared.
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  Speaker 1: See some people left. I don't know if they were scared.
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  Speaker 1: I just didn't want to be there anymore. I did
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  Speaker 1: have one girl too, and I appreciate this, but she
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  Speaker 1: kept shushing everybody who was talking during it, and so
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  Speaker 1: it became a more like intense atmosphere than I was
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  Speaker 1: really intending. I thought we could like kind of joke
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  Speaker 1: around and talk about it, but it.
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  Speaker 3: Was like all of those people who get real serious
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  Speaker 3: about the movie watching.
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  Speaker 1: I think she thought I was real serious about it
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  Speaker 1: though she was doing me. Yeah, I think so, It
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  Speaker 1: was not on her. That's nice. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks to
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  Speaker 1: my dad, who I do miss, and he also helped
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  Speaker 1: some of these birthdays and two the Spiny team who
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  Speaker 1: I am so fortunate to work with, Christina and Maya
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  Speaker 1: and Joey and of course Samantha, who is one of
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  Speaker 1: my best friends who has made some of these birthdays
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  Speaker 1: so special.
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  Speaker 3: And I was not at the sixteenth birthday party, probably scared,
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  Speaker 3: to be honest, So that'd be really awkward for me
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  Speaker 3: to show up to your birthday party while I'm like
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  Speaker 3: graduating college.
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  Speaker 1: Hey kids, I mean here, and you're the one that's like,
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  Speaker 1: this is too scary for me. I gotta get out
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  Speaker 1: of here. I love Jesus too much. I gotta go
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  Speaker 1: fair fair enough. But yes, you've made some wonderful memories
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  Speaker 1: for me, and thank you so much for that. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you to Eves and Bridget and Kristen and Caroline, Dylan
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  Speaker 1: and Andrew are past producers, because I would not be
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  Speaker 1: on the show without all of you, and my cost
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  Speaker 1: on save or Lauren because I had never hosted before
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  Speaker 1: and she was really patient with me and also has
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  Speaker 1: had a hand on some of my fonder birthdays. And
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  Speaker 1: or just every every day when you're reminded somebody cares
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  Speaker 1: about you, and it's just a nice reminder. And to
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  Speaker 1: the listeners, I cannot express enough how terrified I was
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  Speaker 1: to take on this show, and you've all been so
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  Speaker 1: welcoming and warm and patient even when I got something wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like the first time I started getting social
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  Speaker 1: media messages or emails, I would have like a panic
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  Speaker 1: attack every time. And it was just so nice then
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  Speaker 1: that so many of them were kind. They were kind,
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  Speaker 1: and I really really appreciate that. And we always love
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  Speaker 1: hearing from you and the time you take to share
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  Speaker 1: stories or give us ideas or just listen to us.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, And of course yes to the fandoms and
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  Speaker 1: the fan fiction that have gotten me through some tough times. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and have made some birthdays pretty spectacular. I've had some
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  Speaker 1: pretty good fandom based birthdays at a Star Wars one,
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  Speaker 1: the SpongeBob one that was a good one. I had
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  Speaker 1: a few. I've had a few. I would say the
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  Speaker 1: Sad Soup one was the last of us, pretty pretty
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  Speaker 1: heavily last of us based.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you had my partner play, so y'all can watch
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  Speaker 3: and cry about it.
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  Speaker 1: I have that ado you do. You were bringing out
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  Speaker 1: like the birthday pie and I was crying a debate
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  Speaker 1: about this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure it's happened twice now it has it is.
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  Speaker 3: I think I'll always get you pie, don't I.
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  Speaker 1: I love well, you know, I love pie way more
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  Speaker 1: than cake. I'm way more likely to try pie.
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  Speaker 3: Than I because the original one of our original that
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  Speaker 3: was cheesecake, and that might have been for my birthday.
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  Speaker 1: That was your birthday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we also did the last of us and you
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  Speaker 2: were crying in the cheesecake.
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  Speaker 1: Crying in the cheesecake sounds like like a little modifying
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  Speaker 1: and I want that on a pillow that is that
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  Speaker 1: feels appropriate.
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  Speaker 2: Just let me cry my cheesecake.
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  Speaker 1: Just let me cry my cheesecake. Yeah. So just from
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of my heart, very warm thank you. On
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  Speaker 1: his birthday. I had a friend who used to do
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  Speaker 1: this where on his birthday he would like give other
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  Speaker 1: people gifts. They were small, but it was really sweet,
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  Speaker 1: and so I was just thinking about that, and I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate all of you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we all love you and enjoy those times together,
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  Speaker 2: and we're glad you here. You're one of the whites
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  Speaker 2: who have helped me in this podcast journey and brought
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  Speaker 2: me on to this podcast journey. So we're I'm more
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  Speaker 2: than grateful, obviously, and we love you and you are
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  Speaker 2: worth celebrating.
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  Speaker 1: Oh just as a reminder, yay, Thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: and here's to our travels. May they go well well. Listeners, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much for listening. If you would like
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  Speaker 1: always too, our super produced Christina, our executive producer Ma
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  Speaker 1: and your contry Joey. Thank you and thanks to you
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