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Things We Think Are A Cult (De-Influencing You) · Two Broke Chicks

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  Speaker 1: This podcast is recorded on gaddigal Land Always was, always
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  Speaker 1: two Broat Chicks, the show that shares tips, tig life
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  Speaker 1: lessons and tips to make you rich in life.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: I've only been saying it every week for the last
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  Speaker 3: seven billion years of my life, literally, and I will
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  Speaker 3: be saying it for the next ten thousand years too.
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  Speaker 2: How are you, Sally Bally Good Friday's chilly autumn morning.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited. The crisp has come. It has the crisp
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  Speaker 2: has come.
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  Speaker 3: Well, today we have a spicy little number that I
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  Speaker 3: am so excited to get into and we are going
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  Speaker 3: to be deinfluencing you with the things we think are
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  Speaker 3: a cult yep, yep. So we decided to do this
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  Speaker 3: because it's been a bit of a trending topic and
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  Speaker 3: just a fun, little, fun little gas bag on the web,
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  Speaker 3: on the world Wide Web, and we wanted to add
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  Speaker 3: our little things that we think are cult and we
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  Speaker 3: don't know what each other has brought to the table,
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  Speaker 3: but I am ever so excited to get into it.
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  Speaker 2: Before we do. What are you obsessed with this week?
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  Speaker 2: This week I'm obsessed with the butterfly effect trend. That's
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  Speaker 2: all over TikTok. Are you also obsessed? Yes, so if
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  Speaker 2: you haven't seen it. Essentially, the butterfly effect trend points
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  Speaker 2: out how one moment in your life has a domino
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  Speaker 2: effect on so many different things, and that maybe if
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  Speaker 2: you didn't go into that coffee shop one day, you
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  Speaker 2: would have never met the love of your life like
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  Speaker 2: three months later.
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  Speaker 3: But do you have a butterfly effect moment you mind?
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  Speaker 3: We've spoken about it a couple times. But starting our
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  Speaker 3: old job, Like if I didn't start that job as
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  Speaker 3: a shopping journalist, I wouldn't have met you, so like
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  Speaker 3: this we wouldn't even be here, Like this whole podcast
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't be in existence. I wouldn't have met someone that
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  Speaker 3: I previously dated, which was why I ended up moving
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  Speaker 3: to Bondi, which is how I met like majority of
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  Speaker 3: my best friends now, which is also how I met Rob,
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  Speaker 3: my now partner. Yeah, like or like every single thing
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  Speaker 3: in my life wouldn't exist if it wasn't for like
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  Speaker 3: taking that job, which is like crazy, like I can
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  Speaker 3: literally track so much shit back to it that like
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  Speaker 3: as much as there was you know, some less than
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  Speaker 3: ideal times at that job.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so thankful.
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  Speaker 3: The positives outweigh and the narrative and the kind of
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  Speaker 3: journey that it ended up with.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, what about you. I have one that's like
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  Speaker 2: pretty random. When I was in high school, like probably
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  Speaker 2: when I was like a year eight or something, I
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  Speaker 2: remember A Current Affair did this big expose on emo
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  Speaker 2: culture and how it was really like damaging for the
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  Speaker 2: youth and all of the negative impacts that emo music
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  Speaker 2: was having on the young people of Australia at the times.
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  Speaker 2: And I wrote this big grant about it on MySpace,
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  Speaker 2: and I think I like started a petition for people
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  Speaker 2: to like boycott a Current Affair and like send these
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  Speaker 2: letters into them and was talking about the importance of
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  Speaker 2: the community and blah blah. And I actually had a
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  Speaker 2: few people find me on MySpace through that, who I've
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  Speaker 2: ended up being friends with still like eighteen years later,
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  Speaker 2: have been to their weddings, They've traveled from Brisbane to
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  Speaker 2: like come to shows with me, Like we're still great
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  Speaker 2: friends to this day. Have matching tattoos with some of them.
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  Speaker 2: Like imagine if I never posted or I never saw
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  Speaker 2: that A Current Affair spot. But yeah, I think that
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  Speaker 2: trend's really cute. It is cute. I love it.
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  Speaker 3: I saw one of those like, what do you mean
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  Speaker 3: if we didn't both go to the gym at the
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  Speaker 3: same time?
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, that could never be.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, my obsession of the week is a study
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  Speaker 3: that I saw, and it's the habits that.
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  Speaker 2: Make you a millionaire. I'm listening. Do you have a
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  Speaker 2: note pad, pen and paper?
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  Speaker 1: Done?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: So a study says that making your bed every day
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  Speaker 3: makes you two hundred and six percent more likely to
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  Speaker 3: become a millionaire.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, I'm on my way literally.
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  Speaker 3: Other common millionaire habits include reading for thirty minutes a day,
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  Speaker 3: waking up three hours before work, failed that one, writing
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  Speaker 3: to do lists, controlling emotions.
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  Speaker 2: Bomb bomb well, We're to be broke? Well whereut? And
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  Speaker 2: being friendly to others.
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  Speaker 3: So this study came from Randall Bell, who found that
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  Speaker 3: small daily routine such as making your bed every morning,
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  Speaker 3: increase the likelihood of financial success by two hundred and
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  Speaker 3: six percent. Avoiding negative habits like gossiping at work is
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  Speaker 3: just as crucial as building good habits. Researchers suggest starting
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  Speaker 3: with one or two habits at a time to create
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  Speaker 3: lasting meaningful changes that can lead to financial prosperity.
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  Speaker 2: How good is that that adds up? Because it's basically
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  Speaker 2: discipline and people skills. Yes, well there you go, chicks.
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  Speaker 3: Are you going to start waking up three hours before work?
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  Speaker 3: Can we start a couple of hours later?
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  Speaker 2: I can't start at my hand?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: No more? Nine am whip? Okay? Should we get into
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  Speaker 2: our things we think are a cult? All's to do it.
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  Speaker 3: I think you know what's coming. But things that I
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  Speaker 3: think are a cult la Boo boos and study angels.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely, and slate blind boxers in general.
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  Speaker 3: Literally, I've done some little Tapa Tapa tapa research and
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  Speaker 3: I've also seen a few people say this and I
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  Speaker 3: have to agree.
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  Speaker 2: And for a very long time I didn't get it.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, well, one.
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  Speaker 3: Of these weird little babies, Yeah, what are the weird little.
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  Speaker 2: Freaky little things?
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  Speaker 3: And if you haven't seen La Boo boos, which like
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  Speaker 3: check your WiFi, But they're these freaky little doll trinkets
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  Speaker 3: and they're basically like the new girlipop market toy thing
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  Speaker 3: obsession session sours educating me earlier this week about the
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  Speaker 3: fake market that also surrounds it, because there's Laboo Boo,
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  Speaker 3: which is the original, and then Laffufoo Lafufoo Yeah, which are.
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  Speaker 2: The fake ones. And these have been booming.
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  Speaker 3: They've been around for a couple of years, but in
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty four they started taking off and now they
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  Speaker 3: are like the it girl trinket toy. There is over
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  Speaker 3: one point two million posts under Labuobu on TikTok Wow,
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  Speaker 3: which is like when you think about that just in general,
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  Speaker 3: and that majority of those would be unboxings, you can
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  Speaker 3: start to kind of get an idea of how much revenue.
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  Speaker 2: This cult is bringing in. Yeah, and that's just the
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  Speaker 2: people who are posting to all the people who were
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  Speaker 2: just doing it in the privacy of their own homes. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I will be honest with you.
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  Speaker 3: I did try to get some for us to unbox
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  Speaker 3: on this episode and it was impossible.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was impossible.
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  Speaker 3: There was like lines of two hundred plus people trying
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  Speaker 3: to get them, and I was like, oh my.
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  Speaker 2: God, this is not worth it to me.
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  Speaker 3: But the Labubu the Monster's Big inter Energy series released
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  Speaker 3: last week and completely sold out worldwide.
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  Speaker 2: It is now the number one.
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  Speaker 3: Collectible's release ever on a resale platform. Stock X with
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  Speaker 3: an average resale price of two hundred and.
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  Speaker 2: Eight dollars USD.
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  Speaker 3: What an average which is a twenty four percent premium
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  Speaker 3: compared to the original price, which is one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: sixty a USD. That's still so expensive, I know.
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  Speaker 2: Is that for a singular labuo boo. I think it's for.
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  Speaker 3: The box potential box with the six pack or something. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that was from a Vogue Business article. So also according
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  Speaker 3: to Variety, labooboos are being resold online for up to
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  Speaker 3: seven hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Seven hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 3: And this is where and why I think it is cold,
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  Speaker 3: because that is wild to me. The fact that as well,
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  Speaker 3: we've seen the trend cycle at Plate here like Sonny
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  Speaker 3: angels were like the trinket, they were the trending trinket
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  Speaker 3: and then so many people have them. We had our
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  Speaker 3: dopamine here and they're definitely still trending. They're not done,
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  Speaker 3: you know, But now it's the labooboo, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: in six months or less we'll probably see another one
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  Speaker 3: that investing seven hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 2: If you love them, if you.
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  Speaker 3: Love lea booboo, and if you think you're going to
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  Speaker 3: love your labooboo forever, and it's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: little toy, and you want to spend seven hundred dollars,
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  Speaker 3: and you've got that disposable income, go for it.
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  Speaker 2: Love that for you.
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  Speaker 3: But spending hundreds of dollars on like a trinket that's
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  Speaker 3: just trending for the moment, that's not necessarily the most
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  Speaker 3: financially savvy choice. Absolutely, However, it does kind of come
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  Speaker 3: into this thing that we're seeing.
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  Speaker 2: At the moment.
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  Speaker 3: And I do believe that it's like a result of
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  Speaker 3: the toxic news cycle and burnout, and it's the rise
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  Speaker 3: of like kidult trends and the healing of your inner child.
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  Speaker 3: So the Australian blind box market, how much do you
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  Speaker 3: think it's worth?
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  Speaker 2: Hmmmmm, stab in the dark, I'll say one hundred million dollars. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: The Australian blind box market is estimated to be one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and seventy million in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: That's almost double what I thought in one year. And
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  Speaker 2: I do think it's.
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  Speaker 3: Also comes into it this like gambling element app so
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  Speaker 3: loot ly right.
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  Speaker 2: It's given cold definitely, it's giving devout following and like
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  Speaker 2: pouring your money into something that you don't necessarily know
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  Speaker 2: what the outcome is, right, and that's where you get
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  Speaker 2: the dover Maain hair and potentially with the goal of
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  Speaker 2: getting a high value back of being like I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to pay thirty dollars to get this La Bubu, but
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  Speaker 2: it could be worth seven hundred. Who knows who is
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  Speaker 2: spending seven hundred? The police report? Why not? Why not? Fully?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what I realized their original blind box
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  Speaker 2: experience was chocolate Yowie's and Kinder Surprise eggs are.
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  Speaker 3: Literally, yeah, yeah, that's what I want to be the
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  Speaker 3: next trending trinket.
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  Speaker 2: Going back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got a yowe Easter egg and when I
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  Speaker 3: was opening it, I really.
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  Speaker 2: Was like geting excited and being like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: I wonder what I'll get. And then I was like,
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  Speaker 2: holy shit, this is my Laboo boo, this is my
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  Speaker 2: life gambling. It's Yowie.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if we're gonna look at the forms of gambling,
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  Speaker 3: I do believe sunny Angels and La Boo boos to
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  Speaker 3: be the healthier choice.
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  Speaker 2: And it is fun.
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  Speaker 3: It's so fun unboxing a sunny Angel and La Boo
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  Speaker 3: boos and like all that stuff that I'm like absolutely
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  Speaker 3: not aiding on it because it does come into this notion.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm also going to throw jelly cats into this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so like sunny angels, jelly cats, la Boo boo
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  Speaker 3: dolls are all a part of this shopping trend that
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  Speaker 3: I think is about healing your inner child. And it's
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  Speaker 3: not just because they're cute, but it's helping adults like
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  Speaker 3: reconnect with a part of themselves that they didn't realize
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  Speaker 3: needed a bit of attention, and it is like the
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  Speaker 3: inner child, the softness as well as why I think
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  Speaker 3: women are so tied into it is because it's like
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  Speaker 3: when you were younger and you actually wouldn't know what.
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  Speaker 2: Gift you were getting.
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  Speaker 3: You wouldn't know what present you were getting for Christmas
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  Speaker 3: or your birthday, whereas now it's a little bit different
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  Speaker 3: and be like.
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  Speaker 2: Well what do you want for your Birthday'll be like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I like these earrings.
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  Speaker 3: And you don't really get that element of surprise anymore
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  Speaker 3: as you get older, and opening a blind box just
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  Speaker 3: taps into the long lost feeling of surprise and joy
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  Speaker 3: or like the Cereal box toy, all the kinder surprise,
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  Speaker 3: like exactly what that is? And collecting jelly Cats and
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  Speaker 3: Sunny Angels is like a bit of a hobby now,
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  Speaker 3: but it's also very soothing and a way to reclaim playfulness,
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  Speaker 3: which I think there's no harm in that. It's just
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  Speaker 3: it's just a slippery slope. So I also just want
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  Speaker 3: to finish it that as much as I think it's
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  Speaker 3: a cult, if you have been impulse buying like jelly
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  Speaker 3: cats or Sunny Angels or trading mystery toys, you're not
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  Speaker 3: regressing your healing and you're having fun. So I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: pop off, Yeah, just don't buy one for seven hundred
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  Speaker 3: dollars please.
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  Speaker 2: I hate the thing that I think is a cult
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  Speaker 2: is the Jelina fandom, and I'm talking the Justin Bieber
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  Speaker 2: and Selena Gomez fandom. Oh my god, they broke up
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  Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen, and we're still talking about it as
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  Speaker 2: if they're a couple and they're star cross lovers and
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  Speaker 2: they're going to end up together. Like just as recently
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  Speaker 2: as maybe a month ago, there was a seven part
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  Speaker 2: documentary released on TikTok tracking Hailey Bieber and Selena Gomez's
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  Speaker 2: like timelines over the years and how Hailey Bieber has
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  Speaker 2: allegedly been copying Selena.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I think I saw this and it was like
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  Speaker 3: Selena Gomez wore a white tank in twenty and fifteen,
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  Speaker 3: and now Hailey Bieber's wearing a white tank in twenty
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  Speaker 3: and seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: Again, guys, I also am wearing a white tank. Oh
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  Speaker 2: my god, she's after Dustin. I'm copying Selena. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and like tracking Hailey Bieber's alleged obsession with Justin Bieber
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  Speaker 2: and how her relationship with him was a part of
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  Speaker 2: this like decade long master plan. Keep in mind, like
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  Speaker 2: I said, they broke up in twenty eighteen, they were
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  Speaker 2: also on and off for a long time prior to that.
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  Speaker 2: Since then, Justin and Hailey got married in twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: they've had a baby, and Selena Gomez is engaged to
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  Speaker 2: Benny Blanco. But we're still getting like documentaries and conspiracy theories,
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  Speaker 2: and anytime Hayley does anything or Selena does anything, that's
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  Speaker 2: the automatic reaction like how can we tie this together?
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  Speaker 2: And I think that, you know, every good cult needs
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  Speaker 2: some charismatic cult leaders, and Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez
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  Speaker 2: definitely tick those boxes. And also like an emotional devotion
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  Speaker 2: that people are really really invested. It was like people
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  Speaker 2: felt like they were part of that relationship as well,
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  Speaker 2: and they still do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, when they broke up, people felt like they got
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  Speaker 3: broken up with It's.
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  Speaker 2: Been almost ten years, what is going on.
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  Speaker 3: It's just really sad that like Justin Bieber still continuously
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  Speaker 3: has to make statements defending his wife and his child,
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  Speaker 3: and that like Hailey Beaber is a stronger woman than
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  Speaker 3: I am, because like it is relentless and the bullying
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  Speaker 3: and shit talking that she has to cop as well
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  Speaker 3: as like Selena Gomez, like both those women, Yeah cop
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  Speaker 3: way more.
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  Speaker 2: Like negative attention than is needed.
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  Speaker 3: That Like some people need some more group chats, right,
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  Speaker 3: some people need to have more group chats with their
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  Speaker 3: friends and discuss there and then move on.
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  Speaker 2: I completely agree. Yeah, because they were dating when they
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  Speaker 2: were teenagers. Do you know what I think?
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  Speaker 3: Though, I don't think they'll like unfortunately, and this is
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  Speaker 3: probably a very pessimistic approach, I don't think they will
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  Speaker 3: ever outgrow this narrative. I think it will be the
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  Speaker 3: like modern day in Asterix Brad Angelina and Jennifer Aniston. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: narrative that like.
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  Speaker 2: Still to this day, people are like Team ten, Team
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  Speaker 2: age yeah, it's still something that people romanticized twenty years
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  Speaker 2: like yeah, and feel passionate about. I'm just like, I
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  Speaker 2: wonder if like either Selena or Justin ever came out
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  Speaker 2: and just said it and weren't talking and what like,
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  Speaker 2: we're like, it's over, stops saying this. It's like no,
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  Speaker 2: but not in smoke and mirrors, because they'll be like,
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  Speaker 2: they'll talk about it in sort of like roundabout terms.
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  Speaker 2: But if they were, like Justin and I broke up
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  Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen, I've moved on, we don't talk. I
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  Speaker 2: have no feelings for him, and they just said something. No,
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  Speaker 2: you're right, I've just fact checked yeah, because I'm But
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  Speaker 2: also part of me, which the conspiracy theorist in me,
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  Speaker 2: is like, do they not say anything so that people
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  Speaker 2: keep so people keep talking? I actually wouldn't just spur
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  Speaker 2: more hate.
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  Speaker 3: I just I can't imagine what it would be like
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  Speaker 3: continuously associated to an X I dated ten years ago.
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  Speaker 3: I need everyone to think about who they dated ten
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  Speaker 3: years ago and think about whether or not you still
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  Speaker 3: want to be associated to that person. Second, bet you
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  Speaker 3: you don't want to, and you post a TikTok about
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  Speaker 3: your eyebrows and then that all of a sudden, you're
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  Speaker 3: just taken off the tails you want, just to be exactly.
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  Speaker 2: It's a s no.
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  Speaker 3: The comparison of the I think we've spoken about it
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  Speaker 3: a few times on the pod, but it's just it's wild.
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  Speaker 3: And I really can't think of any other younger celebrity
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  Speaker 3: couple that has gone through the same kind of scrutiny
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  Speaker 3: and spotlight as those two.
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  Speaker 2: Not in the same with the same fierceness. I would
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  Speaker 2: say that one another example that comes to mind for me,
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  Speaker 2: and they never even dated, is Paul Mescal and Daisy
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  Speaker 2: Edgar Jones, but.
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  Speaker 3: That doesn't the same hatred, same level. But in terms
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  Speaker 3: of that is just a shipping. That's like I still
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  Speaker 3: think there's a cult like following for that, like following
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  Speaker 3: for poor Mescal and guess what, we're fucking in a bit,
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  Speaker 3: who's the leader, We're the president.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. My next thing that I think is a cult.
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  Speaker 3: I feel very passionately about this is car giveaways on TikTok.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's giving cult.
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  Speaker 3: It's giving scam and mansion giveaways to what the fuck?
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  Speaker 3: I genuinely hand on heart and begging someone who has
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: won a car giveaway or cash giveaway or mansion giveaway
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: on TikTok, raise your hand, let yourself be known to
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: the court, because you don't like they're Genuinely, I've never
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: seen anyone post about winning them. And that's not to
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: say they don't because legally, I'm like, surely someone's got
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: to win it, but I just find the narrative around
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: them and like they're just slimy to me. It's so
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: slimmy because it's this lottery of being like, someone's.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Got to win it today, could it be you?
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, so, if you haven't seen these, let
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: me give a little bit of context. But basically, they're
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: these social media giveaways that are considered a lottery giveaway
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: because you have to invest your money in order to
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: go into the running. So this would either look like
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: literally buying a ticket, which.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: One time I nearly did. It was like a Suzuki
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Jimney and it was like ten years ago, and I
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: was like, what am I doing? There's a low point,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: there's a low point in.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: The life, and or you have to spend a certain
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: amount of money with that brand.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, there's two ways to look at it.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: If you already shop with that brand, and you're already
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: going to buy something and that puts you in the
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: running pop off. You're already getting something in exchange for
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: the money that you're putting in. I don't think that's
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: a scam. So, like, for example, I think White Fox
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: do them all the time, which you know, Whitefog is
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: a people have critiques, yes, and some incredibly valid, right,
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: They're just a brand that I know does a lot
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: of like car giveaways, right, and so if you spend
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: fifty dollars, you get your dress, but you also go
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: on the running and like you got a dress for
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: fifty dollars. So I'm like, that's not giving scam. But
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: the like cargiveaways that it's like, do you want twenty
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: five thousand dollars casual this twenty sixty four range row
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: for a car And I'm like what and.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: They're like we it's got to go within twenty four
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: hours quick.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: And then you go to the site and it's like
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: the the ticket's like forty dollars, yeah, And all that
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: does is put you in the running, yeah, and you
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: don't get anything else, And I'm like that's crazy.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just what's kind of sad.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: It's really sad, and I think it's also preying on
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: vulnerable people online who don't understand like what the regulations
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: are and that the chances are incredibly limited. Like we
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: obviously have a bit more education around gambling in terms
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: of pokerm machines and casinos that like, people go into
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: that most of the.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Time knowing that, like it's a chance game.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Whereas with these giveaways, it doesn't necessarily feel like that's
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: the attitude towards them.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: It's like, oh, this person is so lovely, this person
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: is so nice.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: They're giving away a car, what a beautiful of course,
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: let me buy it, No bitch. They're making millions off
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: people literally just giving them money.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Well, it's not a charity like cult yeah, it's not
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: a charity. It's cap yeah. And there's always like one
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: person front facing again the cult leader that I think
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: is like this charismatic personality being like do you want
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: to win? Blah blah, and like you said, putting the
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: time pressure on. It's like emotional manipulation. It's culty, yeah,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: and please just never do it. I just want to know, Like,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: like you said, somebody shout off in the comments on
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Spotify and let us know if you or anybody has
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: ever won one of these, because I reckon, we're not
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: going to get a single car, terrifying me.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: And every time I see one come up, I like
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: block it, or Mark is not interested, or I watch
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: it and I click the link so I use their
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: marketing spend. I'm like, it's like probably like one cent
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: in their entire marketing badget.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: But I'm like, eh, I mean stick it to the man. Okay.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: My next cult is kind of related to that one
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: in a way, and it's wellness MLMs. Oh you know
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: when you get an Instagram DM request from somebody that
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: you went to high school with that you haven't spoken
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: to in twelve years, and it's like high lovely, not that.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: And it's always like some sort of wellness training course,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: maybe a nutrition course or like something to make passive
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: income from home. Do you know what it is?
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Do you know what the biggest cult in the wellness
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: space is fucking greens powder.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Fucking Greens powder. Every time a video.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Comes up on my TikTok and it's like this literally
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: gave me the glow up of the century, this one
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: product that literally changed my life. They're going off for
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: five minutes and then bang the toumbs of the table
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: and it's a fucking greens powder. And that's not to
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: say that all greens Powder is a bad or a cult,
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: but I swear there's this one model.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: And they're all affiliates.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: It's all a pyramid scheme, and it's like you go
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: on and it's like they will not tell you where
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: it's from. You have to click the link in the
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: bio because that's how they track their affiliate revenue, like
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: they will in the comments. If someone's never telling you
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: the name of something and they're never telling you the brand,
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: and all they respond to a product recommendation is the
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: link is in my bio. The link is in my bio. Yep,
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: it's just in my bio. That's an affiliate link. There
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: is no chance it's not because they want you're going
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: straight Google and typing it in because they can't track that.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Greens powders man, Yeah, definitely, And again I think it's
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: like it's pretty sad, like especially the ones where you
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: have to purchase the product and then you're selling it,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: or you have to purchase the training program and then
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: you're selling it. So people like kicking Kathy King when
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: she purchases all the lingerie. Yes, like the old school
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: ones are like tup aware avon lingerie parties like sex
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: toy parties back in the day as well. That one
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: sounds fun, Yeah.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: I mean maybe you're getting you're getting something out of that. Yeah,
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: that's different bank pep back.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: But the modern day one is yeah, like the wellness powders,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: the training courses on how to learn how to invest
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: from home or start your own gods, the business ones,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, their business is you paying them? Yeah,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: and that's how it started a business. Their business is
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: tricking you. Yeah. And it's obviously so frustrating when you
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: see these videos and you're like, leave me alone. But
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: also part of me feels so sad because the people
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: who are involved in this shit a lot of the
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: time have been manipulated. Yes, which again is where the
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: cult like, because you're if you're putting a lot of
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: money down to get into this scheme and thinking, great,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: this is going to be an amazing opportunity for make
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: a passive income, which I think for a lot of people,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: especially young women who are mothers and are trying to
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: figure out how to work out like a work life
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: balance and work from home. You're putting a lot of
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: money down and then you're having to like market this
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: thing to try and get your affiliate or pay back,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: you know, get revenue on the money that you've put down.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Like anytime I see call outs online being like we're
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: looking for people who want to work from home and
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: have their own business and just social media, like if
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: you want to create content away from home a little
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, but what.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Is it exactly? But what is it? Yeah, tell me
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: what it is. If it seems too good to be true,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: it very likely is it? Probably is? Yeah?
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Agreed?
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Agreed.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: I really want to say that doesn't mean all greens
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Powders are a cult, no, but there.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Is a certain one that I'm like cult. Yeah, it's
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: fucking weird. Okay.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: My next cult, which I am a very proud member of,
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: might I add is the Kmart cult.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, bitch with a CAUs.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Literally I love this cult, slay, I love every member
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: of it. But there is a certain level the Kmart
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: cult is like also the girl is at nine pm
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: in their pajamas that are like, let's got a kmar Yes,
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: go off, But I was reading an article and this
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: is also why Kmart is a cult. And it's that
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: eighty eight percent of Australian households purchase from Kmart annually.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: According to Yahoo Finance, eighty eight percent of Australian households have.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Bought something from Kmart in the year. Yeah, that's it,
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: check out. I'm like, what are the other twelve percent doing? It?
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Must not be a cam I in their suburb or something.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: But came Art's resurgence is very likely attributed to the
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: private label brand Ancho, which now accounts for approximately eighty
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: five percent of the retailer's range.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: That makes sense, yep, with the rise of their popularity
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: as well, because like all of our favorite products I
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: feel like from Kmart are the Ancho products.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And you can really see it in the virality
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: of for example, their fashion at the moment, like the
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: pajamas from Kmart a going viral. I would say, literally
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: every single month. I think Camart really listens to what
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: users need, yeah, and try to create that even in
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: terms of like tech tools you know. Yeah, I was
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: going to say, with the km Art tech I find
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: that it solves problems I didn't actually know I had
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: I could actually say that with every single products from
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: came up, being like.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: I need this. Yeah, no I did, and like a
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: lot of the time, it genuinely my life for the better.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: And this is obviously not an ad I was once.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, but that's why we're in the cult.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: I think as well, the cult we have to address that.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: Like cult nature is that you go into km up
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: for one thing and you walk out with seven and
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: you're like fuck, the store.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Is designed with that exact thing in mind, seriously.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: And I also do think that Kmut's rise to cult
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: has also been a result of the severe cost of
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: living crisis and the fact that people cannot afford to
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: be shopping elsewhere, and that they've moved into a space
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: of being able to bring pieces that people want to
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: wear and want to buy. Because I'll be so real,
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: when we were going, Okama did not have cool clothes.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: No, no, like Cama did not have cool clothes even
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: when I was a little girl, Like, oh my god,
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: that's so nice.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Like they've lifted their game to be able to
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: give Australians affordable items, which I think is amazing.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: And I think that is definitely how they have he
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: hath Risen baby like and also the accessibility for people,
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: like you really can throw a stone and hit three kmarts,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: like they're pretty much everywhere, which if you want to
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: go in and try on clothes, and because they do
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: offer like great size inclusivity, like that's something that's going
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: to get a lot of people in the store as well.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: And then yeah, I'm going to pick up some socks
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: and some new pj's on the way. And the kmart
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: run is a rite of passage.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: It's an Australian right of passage and I actually think
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: it should be on the citizenship test. Citizen, you should
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: have to do a kmart run, a super quick one
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: to kind of also keep on the brain trends of
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: what I think is a cult? Do you want to
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: take one?
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Guess what Mecca? Oh definitely is a cult. Yes, Slay
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: go off for that. If you're a Mecca girl, you
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: are a ride or die. There are like two people
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: that shop at Mecca.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: There are people that are like, yeah, I like this product,
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: they go in and they get it, and then there
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: are the people that are like, bleed pink.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: I love Mecca.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: Mecca is the best, and like, if you give one
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: piece of constructive criticism to the Mecca model.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: They are they are like for Narnia.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: On a horse riding through the TikTok comments we ride
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: at being like we ride at dawn for Mecca and
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: go off. But I think this is a cult because
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: that's what like if people are like absolutely don't want
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: to hear a single critique. And I saw this TikTok
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: from a creator, which I was like, this absolutely communicates
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: its the cult. Now this also isn't shade from us
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: to Mecca.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: We both shop there.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: We also both think their structure of like redeemable product
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: services is absolutely amazing. Do I think there's been some
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: valid critique in the last twelve months.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: I think their like business model of spend versus return
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: with no sales has absolutely been a valid topic of conversation.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that when you compare it to Sephora, it is
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: a bit lacking.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: But there was a TikTok posted by Harriet Ring. It
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: has eleven thousand likes and it says it's that time
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: of bi monthly hellscape of Meca beauty Loot review videos
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: from the driver's seat as I'm gas lit into being
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: grateful for another lanner lips or solisionaio sample after spending
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: hundreds year after year.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: And as a reminder, to get the beauty Loop boxes,
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: you have to spend a minimum of three hundred dollars
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: to get level one.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Then you have to spend a minimum of six hundred
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: dollars in a year to get level two.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: To get level three you have to spend a minimum
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: of one thousand, two hundred dollars, and to get level
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: four you have to spend a minimum of three thousand,
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: five hundred.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: And then there is also.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: The Secret Mecca Beauty Circle or Magic Circle, which is
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: rumored to be like ten thousand dollars upwards.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Cult Colt Colts, bitch Colt, you gotta something called magic circle? Yes,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: and not have me raising my little eyebry saying cult.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: We did also ask the chicks to send in what
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: they think is a cult. So let's run through quick fire. Okay, okay,
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: easily one of the most popular marcher. Yes, run clubs.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: For one cult, Well, I want horny Colt.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Horny Colts. Run clubs are a horny Colt and I
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: like that for them.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're charismatic leader, your libido CrossFit. Yes, And
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: on that note, High Rocks forty five was another one cult,
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: all of those okay Taylor Swift fans, and that was
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: senting quite a few times.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: But also a few people were like, and I'm a
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: proud member. Yeah, I like that cult. I like that cult.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: I think it's harmless.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: Okay, having a small dog, they said.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: I have small dogs. Do you know what it's a cult?
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: French bulldogs, no sausage dogs. Yes.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: People that have a sausage dog make it their whole
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: personality that they have a sausage dog.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: And I love it. Yeah, I would say that goes
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: for French bulldog, sausage dog, Pomeranian. Now someone has said
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: this and I've taken it as a personal attack. Booktoc. Yes,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: that's a couple of times. That's a cult. BookTok is
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: a cult, and I am also a proud member. It's
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: say I love it.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Things that are a cult, emotional support water bottle girls, Yeah,
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: like Frank Green.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Stanley cups cult.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: Yet someone said Glassons employees, I need the tea.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Do you know what's a cult? Cookeye? Yeah, as a cult,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: and I'm scared of it. I only like going in there.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: It's scary. That's a humiliation ritual, is it not.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Fuck?
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: That was so rare, it was so real.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: Okay, well that is a wrap episode of two broad Chicks.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Please tell us in the comments of what you think
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: is a cult because it's so fun and again this.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Is just a silly, goofy girl episode.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: Please take it with a grain of salt and yeah,
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: love cults.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and honestly, Two Broke Chicks is also a cult. Yes,
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: bro chicks cult.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: Yepd the proa chicks cult.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: All right, thank you so much for having us in
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: your ear holes.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: We love to be here, and thank you to m
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: K Made for making this episode of Two Brea Chicks happen.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: By jiggy Back