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Happy Hour #171: We're Halfway There · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to stuff I never told your production by her radio.
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  Speaker 3: And welcome to another edition of Happy Hour. We're doing
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  Speaker 3: an AM addition, so just a peek behind the curtain.
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  Speaker 3: But if you are not doing the AM edition of
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  Speaker 1: We would love to work with.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, Annie, are you slipping on something on this AM
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  Speaker 3: recording times?
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  Speaker 2: No, I just coffee.
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  Speaker 1: Just you know what that is? Sound something that's just delightful?
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  Speaker 2: Is it takes me forever to drink coffee?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's kind of become a thing where I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: I don't drink it as often as I used to anymore,
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  Speaker 4: because like I've have been drinking this for two hours.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I drink mine.
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  Speaker 1: Very fast, is the problem.
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  Speaker 3: But I only can do one cup apparently because I
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  Speaker 3: do it very strong and then add things to with it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, anyway, I am drinking all some bubbly water,
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  Speaker 3: because again, we're trying to get through the day.
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  Speaker 1: Am I right? Am I right?
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, And I thought for this happy hour because
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  Speaker 3: we have hit June officially, that means we are halfway
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  Speaker 3: through the year of twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Celebrate those small victories. We made it halfway through one year.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, So I thought we do a quick review and
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  Speaker 3: do a check in, check in with y'all, check in
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  Speaker 3: with everybody all around us.
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  Speaker 1: But Annie, how has this year been going?
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  Speaker 3: Tell me some of the good things and some of
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  Speaker 3: the struggles.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, well, obviously there's been a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: Difficulties.
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  Speaker 4: We're just getting through the day is the thing that
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  Speaker 4: you have to focus on because of our politics in
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  Speaker 4: the world we live in. So that hasn't been great.
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  Speaker 4: I did love the Last of Us Season two came out.
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  Speaker 4: That was really fun and we got to hang.
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  Speaker 2: Out and do that.
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  Speaker 4: And I feel like I've seen a lot of my
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  Speaker 4: friends this year, which is it's a wonderful thing. But
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  Speaker 4: it's also like I'm still building up that social battery
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  Speaker 4: that got killed during the pandemic. So I'm really tired.
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  Speaker 4: But it's a great it's a wonderful thing. I need
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  Speaker 4: to build it back up. But it also is impacting
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  Speaker 4: my fan fiction, which is so good because now I'm
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  Speaker 4: way behind. I haven't published anything since March.
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  Speaker 2: March. Oh no, this is terrible. I used to publish
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  Speaker 2: once a week.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I remember you were very bound to it too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, but I'm also going to find a doctor.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to the doctor, okay, because I had a
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  Speaker 4: panic attack and it was really bad, so I'm okay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a progress that you're actually admitting that you
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  Speaker 3: need a doctor, which you're usually like very dismissed above, like, eh,
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  Speaker 3: maybe I do, but.
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  Speaker 1: But now you've got some determination.
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  Speaker 2: I usually just go to urgent care. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: need a doctor.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, our insurance system is not great, and I feel
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  Speaker 3: like change you can't really have a primary care physician
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  Speaker 3: because they leave or they're no longer in your network.
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  Speaker 3: But that's okay, that's another different conversation. Yeah, I will
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  Speaker 3: also find a doctor because I have hit all the
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  Speaker 3: aches and pains. I don't know if like technically this
• 3:56
  Speaker 3: would be midlife crisis a year. I think for me,
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  Speaker 3: this is about that time. Not because I'm saying I
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  Speaker 3: have one. I'm just saying that because in general timeframes,
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  Speaker 3: my birthdays coming up and it's hit the like five
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  Speaker 3: mid forties, y'all, and everything hurts. I think I'm complained
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  Speaker 3: about this repeatedly, but like the aching has been new again.
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  Speaker 3: Some of these things I'm wondering because I've seen a
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  Speaker 3: lot of videos telling me it could be perimenopause, and I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Like, is it.
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  Speaker 3: Someone just needs to tell me. Miked of Coologist was like, eh, maybe,
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  Speaker 3: or it just might be life, and I was like, well,
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  Speaker 3: just so fair enough, fair enough. But yeah, this year
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  Speaker 3: has been a lot of things happening. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: watching when I'm watching other friends going through things and
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  Speaker 3: or going through good things like getting to celebrate with
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  Speaker 3: everybody is an amazing time finding like the small moments.
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  Speaker 3: I really built a great community in my like Zoomba Cruise,
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  Speaker 3: Slash Workout Cruise, and I've made amazing, amazing people and
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  Speaker 3: I just keep being thankful for that. Like I'm not
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  Speaker 3: a social butterfly. We know this, but I also have
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  Speaker 3: a very strong core of friends that I might not
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  Speaker 3: see every day, as in fact, it might be months
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  Speaker 3: before I see you, but the way we connect that
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  Speaker 3: every time I see them, it feels so good and
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  Speaker 3: it feels like home, Like I just really feel like
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  Speaker 3: it's one of those things that keep me going. And like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I don't have as many friends as I did in college.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have as many friends as I did in
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  Speaker 3: high school. But that's okay because the friends that I've got,
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  Speaker 3: we've gone through so much together that when we do
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  Speaker 3: see each other is a celebration. And again, it feels
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  Speaker 3: like coming home. It's nice. I've had to do a
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  Speaker 3: lot of adult things recently, and I figured out I
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  Speaker 3: really need to figure out how to mow my lawn. Anie,
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  Speaker 3: this is a failing that I have. My partner had
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  Speaker 3: to be gone for a little while and my yard
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  Speaker 3: looked real rough, and I have never in my forty
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  Speaker 3: five years have I ever mowed the lawn for use
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  Speaker 3: the law and nowhere any of the such. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: a little wary of that because you know, there are
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  Speaker 3: too many horror movies where you lose limbs.
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  Speaker 1: With those things.
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  Speaker 3: And I am super kletzy, like standing up is a
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  Speaker 3: challenge half the time for me. So I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: but I know I need to try. I want to
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  Speaker 3: be self sufficient, but I'm not very self sufficient. But
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  Speaker 3: I have money to give to other people to come
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  Speaker 3: to it for me. But that feels like a chore
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  Speaker 3: because I'm like, I also don't want to be taken
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  Speaker 3: advantage of. I also don't want to take advantage of others.
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  Speaker 3: Are they actually going to do this or are they not?
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to pay a monthly fee of two
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  Speaker 3: hundred and fifty dollars.
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  Speaker 1: That's ridiculous. That's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: And there's not that many teenagers around this area, which
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  Speaker 3: is unfortunate for me that I could pay fifty dollars
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  Speaker 3: like mow a small, small loan lawn. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I see all these really cute, go like feel good
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  Speaker 3: stories of the kids trying to do that, and there's
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  Speaker 3: not any around here.
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  Speaker 1: We're an older crew of people or a childless crew
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  Speaker 1: of people.
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  Speaker 2: Hmmm, oh well, so that's how it is.
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  Speaker 1: That's how it goes.
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  Speaker 3: So maybe that's I guess that's part of the regret
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  Speaker 3: of not having children to make them do chores.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, no, it's not okay, but yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So it's been an interesting year and reflecting like aging.
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  Speaker 3: I think we've talked about that a lot, just like
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  Speaker 3: aging in general, and watching other people age and how
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  Speaker 3: we deal with this being still childless and watching our
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  Speaker 3: environment change but not change. I've had this conversation a
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  Speaker 3: lot with myself and TikTok because these videos come up
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  Speaker 3: for me, like there are conversations between people who chose
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  Speaker 3: to be childless, people who cannot have children, and those
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  Speaker 3: who did choose having children, and the honest conversation has
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  Speaker 3: been really refreshing. There's also been a woman recently that
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  Speaker 3: I saw her talking about some of the regrets, and
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  Speaker 3: she's my age, and she's like, some of them, here's
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  Speaker 3: some of my truths, and some of them being the
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  Speaker 3: same things that I'm like, No, I'm very happy being childless,
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  Speaker 3: but there's still a small part of me that's like,
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  Speaker 3: am I going.
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  Speaker 1: To regret this later?
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  Speaker 3: Like there's still parts of that in my mind that
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  Speaker 3: I've talked about many times. There's still parts of me
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  Speaker 3: talking about like, but I still don't feel like I'm
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  Speaker 3: in my age.
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  Speaker 1: Because I don't have these things.
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  Speaker 3: There are things that I'm like, I feel like I've
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  Speaker 3: missed these marks and so am I truly an adult?
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  Speaker 3: But at the same time, I feel like I've adulted
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  Speaker 3: way more in the past two years, three years than
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  Speaker 3: I have in the past twenty, which is when I
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  Speaker 3: was supposed to be an adult, right, It is quite.
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  Speaker 1: An interesting conversation.
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  Speaker 3: And then also like reflecting back when I see like
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  Speaker 3: twenty year olds now and I love you twenty year olds,
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  Speaker 3: y'all are amazing, but like really understanding, Oh yeah, you
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  Speaker 3: really don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I did not know.
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  Speaker 3: I really thought I was so wise and make these
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  Speaker 3: decisions and I was so adult. And then coming into
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  Speaker 3: like being forty five still not feeling adults such a
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  Speaker 3: weird place.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 4: It is I still feel like I'm a I wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: say child, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have that.
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  Speaker 4: When someone is like, oh, you're an adult, I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I guess, I guess.
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  Speaker 3: So I feel like when I'm hanging out with twenty
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  Speaker 3: year olds, my nieces, my like the friends that I
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  Speaker 3: make in Zoomba, they're all younger, like early thirties, late twenties,
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  Speaker 3: mid thirties. Like they to me, I'm like, oh, I
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  Speaker 3: was like babysitting you essentially, or I was in college
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  Speaker 3: when you were born, or all of these thought processes.
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  Speaker 3: And in my mind, though we have similar personalities, we
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  Speaker 3: have similar schedules. So therefore, what has changed outside of
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  Speaker 3: the eggs and pains and the saggy.
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  Speaker 1: Face like.
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  Speaker 3: And all of those very physical but like emotionally mentally,
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  Speaker 3: all of this, like, it doesn't feel like outside of
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  Speaker 3: what I've seen and what I've learned, like the life
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  Speaker 3: lessons that I've learned, is that I'm like, Oh, they
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  Speaker 3: come up on you so gradually that you don't realize
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  Speaker 3: has happened.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Yeah, it's one of those things that you
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  Speaker 4: kind of you know it's going to happen one day,
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  Speaker 4: but then you keep telling yourself, no, not, I'm too
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  Speaker 4: young for that, and then you look at your face
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  Speaker 4: in the morning You're like, oh, no, it's happening.
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  Speaker 1: I do that often that I just sit there. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh, no, does that me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad to know that people my age or people
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  Speaker 3: close to my age also feel this. It's like it's
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  Speaker 3: still twenty like early two thousands, twenty tens. Maybe when
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  Speaker 3: I hear twenty twenty five, it feels foreign. That seems
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  Speaker 3: more unfamiliar than anything else, I guess, because you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's less likely we've not been in this time frame
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  Speaker 3: as much as we've had in the past timeframes.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's getting too deep now.
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  Speaker 3: But recognizing all of that and seeing all of this
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  Speaker 3: has been new adventure, Like twenty twenty five, coming back
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  Speaker 3: from the lessons that we were learned from twenty sixteen,
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  Speaker 3: not realizing that we haven't learned them.
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  Speaker 1: Like it's it's.
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  Speaker 3: Both alarming but kind of reassuring in that is like
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  Speaker 3: we survived it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now, of course we're still in battle mode. In so
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  Speaker 3: many ways, I have become more resistant, you know, in
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  Speaker 3: so many ways. I have also become a lot more
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  Speaker 3: cynical and less trusting.
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  Speaker 1: I missed the days where I trusted people.
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  Speaker 3: But also realizing AI is full on and some of
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  Speaker 3: the things that I have to sit there and question
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  Speaker 3: is this real?
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  Speaker 1: Is this not real?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Our generation is weird because we definitely came upon not
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  Speaker 3: having internet, not having mobile devices like cell phones and such,
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  Speaker 3: and then coming into learning all of that and then
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  Speaker 3: now growing with it in such a way, but remembering
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  Speaker 3: the days before.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it was a huge spike in technology, and
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  Speaker 4: we also got the nineties was when we got cable news.
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  Speaker 2: So before that I was too young to really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: But you didn't have that, like, oh god, I know
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  Speaker 4: what is happening everywhere all.
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  Speaker 2: The time, and now it's like everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: But it is interesting having remember a time when there
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  Speaker 4: was no internet and if you had it, when you
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  Speaker 4: did get it, it was so slow and if somebody
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  Speaker 4: answered the phone, too bad. Yep, that's it too now
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  Speaker 4: having Yeah, is this ai?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, like having so many things in trying to track
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  Speaker 3: so I don't feel like I'm being fooled and I'm
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  Speaker 3: just spreading misinformation because I also don't want to be
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  Speaker 3: a part of that. Yeah, twenty twenty five is weird.
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  Speaker 4: It's also annoying because twenty twenty five is so weird
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  Speaker 4: that a lot of times I'm like, that couldn't be true.
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  Speaker 2: That sounds wild, right, but it could be. I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: it could be a thing.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, twenty twenty five is the year that a
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  Speaker 3: woman uses racial slurs as a child and gets half
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  Speaker 3: a million dollars and people are outright supporting her with
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  Speaker 3: no qualms, saying that yeah, white people woo like this.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty two like proudly I missed the days. I guess,
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  Speaker 3: like it's both the things that I'm glad to see.
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  Speaker 3: Who is whom, But I feel like I also miss
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  Speaker 3: the days. I'm like, you should also be ashamed, right,
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  Speaker 3: you should also ashamed.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time.
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  Speaker 3: Again I have seen them any of like amazing individuals.
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  Speaker 3: Again I talk about the younger generations who are doing
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  Speaker 3: some amazing things, the younger generations who also are bringing
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  Speaker 3: back the trends of old, the gen X, early millennials,
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  Speaker 3: late millennials, whatever. Who we are where they think we're
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: the quote where it is cringe, but they're already out
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  Speaker 3: of style.
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  Speaker 1: According to so many of the neo generations. It's a weird.
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  Speaker 3: It's a weird place to be where I feel that
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  Speaker 3: old when I'm like you kids, right, just.
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  Speaker 2: You wait, just you wait.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, honestly, I still wouldn't want to be
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  Speaker 1: that age. I love y'all.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I feel like I don't know we meant to do.
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  Speaker 4: We're working on an episode on regret, Like when I
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  Speaker 4: look back the things I regret, like that felt like
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  Speaker 4: such an unstable time for me, and this doesn't feel
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  Speaker 4: like all that stable. But if that, like looking back
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  Speaker 4: fills and I didn't have all of the right social
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  Speaker 4: media and technology and all of that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and also.
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  Speaker 4: The world was on fire then, but it's like real
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  Speaker 4: in your face about it now. Yeah, So yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: don't wish I was that age right now either.
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  Speaker 3: There's so many things and yeah, we are talking to
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  Speaker 3: doing the episode on regret and gender and honestly generations,
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  Speaker 3: Like there's a lot of conversations in different generations. And
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  Speaker 3: I guess, like, if I try to think about my thirties,
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  Speaker 3: I loved my thirties, I will say that. And I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if that's just the time where you feel
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  Speaker 3: the most like growing into yourself and you realize how
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  Speaker 3: silly and you start shedding the baggage a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: And what I mean by baggage is bad friendships.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that really.
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  Speaker 3: Really like are some of the things that I'm like, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I really wish I could go back and had more confidence.
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  Speaker 3: I don't change because it did help me make U
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  Speaker 3: become a lot more confident in like my personality and
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  Speaker 3: my growth. But in looking back and understanding you.
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  Speaker 1: Don't have to like everyone.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone doesn't have to like you, and not everybody meshes
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  Speaker 3: and that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: And there are people who you should not be around
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  Speaker 1: and they are not good for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, And just like the.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of internalized whatever misogyny, you grow up and you
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  Speaker 4: kind of confront that.
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  Speaker 2: But I will say, you know, like.
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  Speaker 4: At least when it comes to LGBTQ stuff, there has
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  Speaker 4: been a lot of progress. That's so there's ups and downs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and twenty twenty five has been.
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  Speaker 1: A long process.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like we've been in twenty twenty five for
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  Speaker 3: about twenty years now because so constantly back and forth,
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  Speaker 3: so many, so many battles, so many losses, so many wins.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot happening. But we're halfway through this year. Congratulations,
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  Speaker 3: and we are still here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Proud of you, Proud of us.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, proud of all of you listeners, proud of us.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for listening and being part of our community
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: because I'm sure as you know, even as a listener,
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: sometimes it can get difficult with the topics we cover.
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  Speaker 4: But we're still going to cover them, of course, but
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  Speaker 4: that is sometimes like very exhausting. Yes, but we've gotten
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  Speaker 4: through this half. We'll get to the next half.
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  Speaker 2: Listeners. If you have any.
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  Speaker 4: Victories our thoughts about your twenty twenty five so far,
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  Speaker 4: please let us know. You can email us at Hello
• 17:51
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• 17:56
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• 17:58
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