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From Newsrooms to Narratives: Brooke Galligan’s Journey in Digital Storytelling · Story Scaling

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  Speaker 1: We are podcastvideoscom.
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  Speaker 1: Our goal is to educate, enlighten, engage and entertain.
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  Speaker 1: We believe in the power of love and transformation through storytelling.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, friends and family, I am Bang and we are back with another episode of Story Scaling.
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  Speaker 1: I am here with a special Meet the Team series.
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  Speaker 2: Today we have special Meet the Team series.
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  Speaker 2: Today we have Brooke Galligan.
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  Speaker 2: I am the director of Studio Innovations here at podcastvideoscom, so it's been kind of fun to be here.
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  Speaker 1: Brooke welcome.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: You have been here for how long?
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  Speaker 2: I've been here.
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  Speaker 2: This is four weeks so.
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  Speaker 2: I've made it an entire month.
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  Speaker 1: Does it feel longer or shorter than four weeks?
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  Speaker 1: It?
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  Speaker 2: does feel like it's.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't feel like a long time, but I feel like we've accomplished a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We've gotten a lot done in like four weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I agree.
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  Speaker 1: I think, because of the work that we've been able to accomplish, it feels like you've been here longer than four weeks, like this is just now me realizing like, oh wow, you've only been here a month.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, one month, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I got here, so 10 years ago I walked into White Spider and started working with Eric Howerton back then.
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  Speaker 2: I stayed with White Spider for 10 years and just recently I've moved over from there over here to podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Right on, yeah, so.
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  Speaker 1: So, before White Spider, we're going to go back a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what did you?
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  Speaker 1: What did you think you would be doing?
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  Speaker 1: Is are you living the dream right now with studio innovations?
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  Speaker 1: Or, like, say, when you were in school, what did you think you would be doing at this?
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  Speaker 2: I went to school to be a photojournalist, okay.
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  Speaker 2: So I wanted to be a newspaper photographer and I wanted to work at a national newspaper like the washington post or new york times and and do photography and like tell people's stories.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not that far off because we're still storytelling.
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  Speaker 2: It's still what I get to do and I really enjoy doing that.
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  Speaker 2: But as far as like the photography portion of it, no, I don't really do the photography anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I once heard you say you wanted to do war photography.
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  Speaker 1: I did.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to go to war zones.
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  Speaker 2: I thought that'd be really fun.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to travel to war zones.
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  Speaker 2: I thought that'd be really fun.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to travel to war zones and just get you know, just capture, just be in the action and just kind of see what was going on and like, see it firsthand and capture it with my photography.
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  Speaker 1: Like this, you can tell the world the stuff we see in books, like people.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you want it to be.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to do that I'm like, hey, you take your picture.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I did.
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  Speaker 2: I know I was like I would have thought that would be so exciting.
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  Speaker 2: It's intense, it is, and my mom is so happy that I'm doing this now and not war photography.
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  Speaker 1: Me too actually yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So you actually did work at the paper for a while.
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  Speaker 2: I worked at the Northwest Arkansas Times, which is a local newspaper here in Northwest Arkansas, and I worked there for about seven years, so I moved here in 2003.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what I did.
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  Speaker 1: I was a daily newspaper photographer.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, was that like it was a new paper every day?
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, right.
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  Speaker 1: So was that like stressful?
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  Speaker 1: Was it a lot of pressure?
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  Speaker 2: It was a lot of stress when you were there because, you had to like get all the stuff, and it could sometimes be a long day.
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  Speaker 2: Because you had to like get all the stuff and um, and it could sometimes be a long day because you had to finish what you were doing, uh, before you could leave, because it was a daily newspaper.
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  Speaker 2: But you knew, once you left work you didn't have to go back, so it was kind of nice like you do the work, you get your work done and then you leave, and then you didn't have to think about it until you came back the next day yeah so it wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you didn't take your work home with you, you didn't.
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  Speaker 2: You know, um, you didn't.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't have to worry about it once.
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  Speaker 2: Once you, once you left, which was nice right different than, uh, you know like different, like typical corporate jobs, where you know you, you, you can stop at a project and then pick it back up the next day.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, it would.
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  Speaker 2: You basically had to get all your photos in and then you, um, and then, once you're done, you're like all right, I'm out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I imagine like some holiday work probably.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I worked.
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  Speaker 2: I was always.
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  Speaker 2: I was the single young person in my 20s, so I always worked every Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: So I didn't see my parents on Christmas for eight, seven years.
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  Speaker 1: What.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I worked every Christmas and then I worked.
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  Speaker 2: I worked a lot of.
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  Speaker 1: So that was nice because I was the young one, but not my chocolate and fuzzy socks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, there was no, it was work.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, dang, like your drive.
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  Speaker 2: Christmas Day you just drive around looking for people that are playing with their Christmas toys, like in the driveway.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So it was a really cold Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: It was rough.
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  Speaker 2: I spent a lot of my Thanksgivings and interview people and find stories and and then they would always feed us.
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  Speaker 2: So my Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners was usually at the Salvation Army.
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  Speaker 1: Right on, yeah, so tell me about you.
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  Speaker 1: You brought up a good point.
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  Speaker 1: You know you were storytelling back then through the newspaper.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Fast forward.
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  Speaker 1: You left the paper when 2009.
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  Speaker 1: So what?
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  Speaker 1: Fast forward roughly 15 or so years later.
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  Speaker 1: Now, things have.
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  Speaker 1: The paper is obviously still around, yeah, but now people tell stories more digitally and online.
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  Speaker 1: And so what are what are some of the?
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  Speaker 1: The similarities, I guess, and how things used to operate then and how you went about it, and some of the differences in how we communicate and share those stories now in your experience.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, in my experience it's just broader.
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  Speaker 2: It's like you, it's everywhere and it's so specialized.
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  Speaker 2: Like you know, we covered all of like Northwest Arkansas, and so you know, and it didn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: Like we weren't allowed to talk about, like our political views we weren't allowed to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: You know just kind of we had to be really neutral.
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  Speaker 2: Like you weren't allowed to talk about your stance on political issues or big issues like that.
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  Speaker 2: You weren't really allowed to talk about any of that because you had to remain neutral, and so everybody would trust you as a neutral source.
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  Speaker 2: You're just stating the facts and you're telling the story, and so I feel like it's very different now, because you can really go out there and have a polarized view, but you're really only talking to the audience that agrees with you, instead of just trying to talk to everybody, and so I think that's one of the main differences.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even think about it like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we weren't allowed to have political signs in our yard.
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  Speaker 2: We weren't.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you had to stay neutral but that makes sense to me, though, because the second that you sway one way or another, now you kind of alienate yourself from a whole entire entire, yeah, yeah, okay right on, yeah um.
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  Speaker 1: What do you do for fun?
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  Speaker 2: I do for fun.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we have a farm okay and this is the part where, if eric hears this, he's rolling his eyes right now I talk about my, my farm all the time.
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  Speaker 1: But we started a farm in like 2016.
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  Speaker 2: And so, but we live, so we live on 17 acres in West Fork, arkansas, and we basically have, we grow vegetables and so we have.
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  Speaker 2: You know a bunch of.
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  Speaker 2: You know we have greenhouses and then a bunch of land and we'll grow.
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  Speaker 2: You know tomatoes and sweet potatoes and you know lots of sweet potatoes and, uh, you know lots of carrots and beets and other root crops and peppers and so but that's what we do and that's uh, we spend a lot of time doing that, um, that's why I do a lot on the weekends.
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  Speaker 2: Um, I also, um, I love puzzles, so in the winter, I'll like, I'll, I'll, I'll sit in with some puzzles.
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  Speaker 2: We got a new, uh, we got a puppy in 2020 and, uh, the first thing that she did was chase the cat and the cat and they would just knock my puzzles off.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't do as many now, but I, like, I love puzzles yeah and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: And then, yeah, I also do photography just on the side, like I enjoy that and then, hanging out with the family yeah, what can you learn from gardening?
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  Speaker 1: like what's, what's a lesson that a person can learn from gardening?
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  Speaker 1: Because I also knew you had a garden, but I had no idea that you started in 2016 yeah like that's a long time it was a long time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I what I learned from the gardening so much is there's a lot that goes into dirt, like it's there, there's a lot that goes in in into it, and so, like my husband will talk about dirt and for like hours and I'm like wow yeah, it's like dirt because I imagine, like the soil has to be a certain temperature or have certain minerals in it, like all these different things, and like to prepare it, you have to like.
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  Speaker 2: So if you grow like a certain vegetable on it, you have to like rust it, or you have to grow something else to put the other, because, like they have minerals in it.
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  Speaker 2: You know that the the other ones took out of the dirt and so and then there's, like you know, you have to kill all the weeds and you have to like.
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  Speaker 2: You know we have like blankets that we put over it, like heat blankets or whatever, and it's just crazy, like there's just a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: You know he tries to do no-till.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I guess soil management I don't even know what it's called, but yeah, so it's like I was just really surprised at how much goes into like dirt yeah, yeah, okay goes into like dirt yeah, yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're going to switch into a segment called overrated or underrated.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to say a word or a phrase.
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  Speaker 1: All right, and all you have to do is tell me if this is overrated or underrated.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Cereal Overrated.
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  Speaker 1: Overrated, overrated.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like cereal.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm not a fan, I don't drink a lot of milk so I don't like cereal.
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  Speaker 1: Cereal.
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  Speaker 2: Overrated.
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  Speaker 2: Overrated Coffee Overrated.
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  Speaker 2: I don't drink coffee, I drink tea.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, underrated, I'm a tea drinker Tea is underrated.
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  Speaker 2: Tea is underrated.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a tea drinker Okay C they put way too much money into sports.
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  Speaker 1: Cereal coffee.
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  Speaker 1: Everything is overrated, okay.
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  Speaker 2: I love sports.
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  Speaker 2: They put way too much money into sports, Like they need to put more money into the arts.
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  Speaker 1: You heard?
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  Speaker 2: it here first.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, christmas.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's people get really excited about Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: So is it overrated or underrated?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, overrated.
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  Speaker 2: Christmas is overrated.
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  Speaker 2: I do people get so excited about it?
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  Speaker 2: And then, yeah, I worked Christmases for like 7 years so it's really overrated.
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  Speaker 2: It's overrated you can go celebrate with your family at any time.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to do all the pizzazz we did when I had my son, though, because I never decorated for Christmas because I was never there.
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  Speaker 2: And so when we had my son, though, because, like, I never decorated for Christmas because I was never there, and so when we had my son, like my mom, like she was, like are you going to decorate for Christmas for your baby?
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  Speaker 2: And I was like yes, so we had to start like making a big deal about Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: And so we did.
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  Speaker 2: We tried to, like you know, create the traditions and things like that, and now um and so, like now, now, but now he's like 12.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm like, I'm like, okay, we can really start dialing it back to the Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: I want, instead of like everything you know, christmas decorations everywhere and huge presents and things like that?
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  Speaker 2: Um, we definitely.
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  Speaker 2: When we give presents, we give, uh, we like to give experiences and not stuff Totally.
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  Speaker 2: Because we have a lot of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard someone say my mom was kind of similar.
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  Speaker 1: Once we got about 12, actually, we actually stopped getting a plethora of gifts and it was more so like very intentional something to read, something you need and something that you want.
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  Speaker 1: So literally probably two to three things, and then we would adopt a need and something that you want.
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  Speaker 1: So literally probably two to three things, and then we would adopt a family and, you know, support that family.
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  Speaker 1: So what's your favorite holiday?
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  Speaker 2: just curious my favorite holiday.
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  Speaker 2: I always have fun on memorial day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I was, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like I'm not a holiday.
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  Speaker 2: I I mean I enjoy having time off work and spending time with families.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think memorial day, fourth of July, it's always fun.
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  Speaker 2: They grow it Because it's summer, you're out doing some fun stuff and Memorial Day is like the beginning of summer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And so I've always liked those ones.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so to recap, cereal's overrated, christmas is overrated, sports are overrated and coffee's overrated.
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  Speaker 1: Last thing, television.
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  Speaker 2: Over or underrated I would go underrated.
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  Speaker 2: Tv TV, I like TV, I like TV shows.
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  Speaker 2: Like people, like you know people there's, like people that love to read and then I love to watch, I like to see the stories visually, you know, even though I know when you read, you like visualize it For sure, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Visually, you know, even though I know when you read you like visualize it, you know, but like you know.
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  Speaker 2: But I think TV does get a bad rap, you know, for you know, people are like it rots your brain.
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  Speaker 2: So, but I do really enjoy it, especially when you, when you can find like a really a really good show, you know, and then also like local news is another one.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I love seeing the local news on the on on on the TV.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to say underrated.
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  Speaker 1: Okay cool, we got one, we got one TV.
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  Speaker 1: What else do we need to know about Brooke?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think I told it all.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm a cat person.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I like cats.
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  Speaker 1: How many do you have?
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  Speaker 2: I just have one.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: We have one cat and one dog.
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  Speaker 1: Cat, favorite animal.
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  Speaker 1: Would you go that far?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I really did like cats.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, when I was a kid I thought deer were really cute for some reason.
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  Speaker 2: But now that I live on a farm, we don't like deer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet, get in the garden and eat stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Well, look, that's what I got.
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  Speaker 1: Brooke, I appreciate your time.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to learn more about Brooke, come to the studio and meet her yourself.
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  Speaker 1: She's great.
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  Speaker 2: See you next time.