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October Favourites: ACOTAR 6, Dopamine Chart and Sustainable Swimwear · Two Broke Chicks

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  Speaker 1: This podcast is recorded on Gadigal land. Always was, always
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  Speaker 1: will be Aboriginal land.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, cheeks. I'm Sal.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm Al.
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  Speaker 2: And this is Two Broke Cheeks, the show that shares
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  Speaker 2: life lessons and tips to help make you rich in life.
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  Speaker 2: And welcome back to another monthly podcast.
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  Speaker 1: How is it October?
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  Speaker 2: We say that every month.
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  Speaker 1: Every single month. But like it's basically it's Christmas now.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: It's Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: It's festive season.
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  Speaker 1: If you think I'm not waking up on the 1st
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  Speaker 1: of November to a Christmas tree in my living room,
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  Speaker 1: you're wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I want to know what everybody thinks. When is the
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  Speaker 2: right time to put up your Christmas tree? Let us know.
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  Speaker 1: 1st of November.
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  Speaker 2: Such a divisive thing. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I see. The thing is, and I know you're a
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  Speaker 1: 1st of December person. It's December, ride or die. Last
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  Speaker 1: year you went a little bit earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I did mid-November last year or something.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. But I'm like 25 days with a Christmas tree
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  Speaker 1: isn't enough for me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I need more.
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  Speaker 1: I need it for longer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's too short. I think the 15th of November is
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  Speaker 1: the perfect time to put up your Christmas tree.
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  Speaker 2: I think so too.
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  Speaker 1: Like it's just a little bit over a month.
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  Speaker 2: Because do you know why I don't like putting it
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  Speaker 2: up too early? Why? It's because it needs to have.
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  Speaker 1: Presents under it.
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  Speaker 2: Lots of presents under it. Like it can't even just
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  Speaker 2: have three. It needs to be like the whole base
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  Speaker 2: of the tree needs to be covered with gifts. So
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  Speaker 2: if I don't have that, it feels really yuck to me.
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  Speaker 2: So I need to have, you know, enough presents ready
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  Speaker 2: to go.
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  Speaker 1: It's a whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: I think September.
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  Speaker 1: Is wild yeah i love it though do you know
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  Speaker 1: i saw a study that could be absolute bullshit so
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  Speaker 1: it's a bit trust me bro that people that put
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  Speaker 1: up their christmas tree early are happier yeah let me
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  Speaker 1: fact check this right now but i saw a thing
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  Speaker 1: is like people that put up their christmas tree bear
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  Speaker 1: with me everyone okay yeah so according to psychologists putting
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  Speaker 1: up your christmas decorations earlier gives you a dopamine hit
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  Speaker 1: and might make you happier which is amazing and it
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  Speaker 1: also apparently makes you not only makes you happier but
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  Speaker 1: makes you appear more friendly and approachable To your neighbours.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So you're just bringing the holly jolly vibes all round.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Spreading the Christmas cheer. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It also taps into feelings of nostalgia that can help
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  Speaker 1: us find meaning in life, deepen our social bonds and
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  Speaker 1: even soothe collective anxiety.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: So if that's not a sign to put your Christmas
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  Speaker 1: tree up early.
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  Speaker 2: It's science. Put it up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Put that bitch up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Get that bitch up.
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  Speaker 1: Get that bitch up. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Agreed.
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  Speaker 1: I love– if you were naming your Christmas tree, what
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  Speaker 1: would you name it?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God, Kevin.
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  Speaker 1: That is the best name for a Christmas tree I've
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  Speaker 1: ever heard.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's yours?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no, I don't feel like I can even go
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  Speaker 1: after that. Maybe like Louie.
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  Speaker 2: Love that.
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  Speaker 1: But I really like Kevin. Maybe I'll steal that.
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  Speaker 2: Kevin. Kevin.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin. Okay, anyway, getting into our monthly favourites of the episode.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. What's your first one?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I'll kick us off.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Mine, I think everyone probably saw this one coming, but
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  Speaker 1: it is the ACOTAR 6 launch. But I've actually got
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of tea to go alongside this.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, hit me.
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  Speaker 1: So look in. Obviously ACOTAR 6 launched on the 27th
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  Speaker 1: of October and this is probably the biggest book launch
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  Speaker 1: of the year. There have been so many collaborations, news posts,
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  Speaker 1: theories all over my For You page. And this book
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  Speaker 1: has probably been one of the most awaited books ever,
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  Speaker 1: like as someone who runs like a book talk page
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Like this is the book. Yeah, it's the one with
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  Speaker 2: the most hype. Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: But something happened with this book launch where it just
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  Speaker 1: fucking fell off the rails. And for such a like
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  Speaker 1: huge launch, it has gone pretty haywire that people are
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  Speaker 1: theorizing that there's a leak at the publisher. So this has, like,
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  Speaker 1: been on TikTok and it's completely unconfirmed, obviously. Yeah. But
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  Speaker 1: ACOTAR 6 was showing up in, like, bookstores before, like,
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  Speaker 1: a week before the launch. Ooh.
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  Speaker 2: Which is wild. Like, stock had been put out on
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  Speaker 2: the shelves at, like, a Target or something. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And then people were buying it and posting it on
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  Speaker 1: social media, which is so wrong. Like, I really, really
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  Speaker 1: feel for Sarah J Maas who, like, has you know
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  Speaker 1: taken a lot of time to write this book there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on her you know it's a
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  Speaker 1: very demanding demanding kind of role that she's in because
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  Speaker 1: everyone's like where's the book where's the book where's the
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  Speaker 1: book and it's scary to put yourself out there creatively
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  Speaker 1: so I like props to her you know like it's
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  Speaker 1: really scary to do that especially with something like art
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  Speaker 1: and books which is so subjective you'll get people that
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  Speaker 1: really love it you'll get people that really hate it
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  Speaker 1: neither of those people are wrong or right but I
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  Speaker 1: think how you express that has that answer.
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  Speaker 2: There is a nicer way to do it. Exactly. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Um, like you don't have to love a book, but
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  Speaker 1: you can also, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about it with your friends. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Or just like, anyway, I could go down that rabbit hole.
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  Speaker 1: So basically this book was showing up on shelves before
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  Speaker 1: the launch, which is wild that I saw a TikTok
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  Speaker 1: and people were saying, um, that they reckon there's some
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  Speaker 1: tea going on with her and the publisher. And maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's also why She's putting out two books so close
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  Speaker 1: together because she wants to get like her contract done
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  Speaker 1: quicker and that apparently the dedication, I haven't seen it yet,
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  Speaker 1: I can't confirm this, is to an IP lawyer. And
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  Speaker 1: it says, thank you for getting my worlds back. Ooh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So people are kind of being like, is there drama
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  Speaker 1: between Sarah J Maas and her publisher?
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  Speaker 2: Ooh.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know.
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  Speaker 2: That would be such a shame.
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  Speaker 1: It would be.
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  Speaker 2: Because it's something that should be so special and exciting. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then it, you know, sounds like such a stressful experience.
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  Speaker 2: But also for the fandom as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if people are finding books on, you know, the–
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  Speaker 2: like at a target. Yeah. And then, you know, posting
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  Speaker 2: spoilers and stuff. And it's like, you know, with TikTok
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  Speaker 2: if you've been– or whatever, if you've been engaging with
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  Speaker 2: things around the launch and the release of the books,
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  Speaker 2: then that's going to show up on your FYP. And
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  Speaker 2: you're like, I didn't even– Get a choice in having
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  Speaker 2: this spoiled for me.
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  Speaker 1: And that's kind of the thing that I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: talk about in this obsession is that it can feel
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  Speaker 1: like there is this pace to getting a book and
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  Speaker 1: reading it as quickly as you can so that it, one,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't get spoiled for you, two, that you can feel
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  Speaker 1: like you're included in the conversation and you don't actually
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  Speaker 1: sit and enjoy it for what it is. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that's like the one thing that I want to
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  Speaker 1: remind people is like you only get to read a
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  Speaker 1: book for the first time once.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like the best feeling ever.
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  Speaker 1: And it's the best feeling ever. So really like lean
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  Speaker 1: in and enjoy it and don't rush yourself. And if,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you do want to make content, just wait
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  Speaker 1: a week at least. Put a big fat spoiler warning
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  Speaker 1: on all of it. A little bit of etiquette goes
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  Speaker 1: a long way. I'm sure 99% of the people listening
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  Speaker 1: to this also are already there. But I'm obsessed. I
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  Speaker 1: think this is like one of the most exciting book
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  Speaker 1: launches that we'll have I probably by the time, I
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  Speaker 1: also want to preface, by the time that we were
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  Speaker 1: recording this, it wasn't out yet and I haven't read
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  Speaker 1: it yet. So I don't know if I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: absolutely love it. I don't know if it's not going
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  Speaker 1: to be one of my favourites. I'm very jittered.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like very excited. I have no idea what to expect.
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  Speaker 1: I think some of the theories have been amazing.
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  Speaker 2: What are the expectations in the community? Is it high
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  Speaker 2: hopes or are people nervous? Yeah. Or is it mixed?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's mixed. I'm nervous and excited and I
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  Speaker 1: don't think my brain knows which one we are, maybe
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  Speaker 1: a bit of both.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. We always say as well we go into things
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  Speaker 2: with the expectation that we're going to love it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but like I want to like it.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to like it. Go into things like
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  Speaker 2: that with the perspective that you're going to enjoy it
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  Speaker 2: rather than with a critical lens if you can. I agree.
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  Speaker 1: But my obsession, my part two of this obsession is
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  Speaker 1: or monthly favourites, if you will, is that this book is,
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  Speaker 1: I think, roughly 300 pages.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of the shorter books in the series. So
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  Speaker 1: by the time this episode comes out, I reckon a
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  Speaker 1: vast majority of people have already finished it. So I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to wrap this with three books to cure your
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  Speaker 1: Akitasics hangover. Love that. Yeah. Okay, so number one, Spark
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  Speaker 1: of the Everflame by Penn Cole. This is now a
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  Speaker 1: completed series. The last book in the series is 900 pages.
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  Speaker 1: Lock in. I read this in Europe last year and
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  Speaker 1: I was in gulf. It has enemies to lovers, slow burn, yearning.
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  Speaker 1: It takes like so many books to, you know. And
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  Speaker 1: so outside of that. The story is about a mortal
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  Speaker 1: healer who is thrown into the world of magical royalty and, like,
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  Speaker 1: court-styled realms. So, like, if you love how we have, like,
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  Speaker 1: the night court and the day court and all that
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: stuff in Akatar, you'll really like the way that this
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  Speaker 1: world is built because they have, like, the different realms
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  Speaker 1: or courts and those different realms have, like, different powers.
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  Speaker 1: It's giving very kind of Akatar vibes and it also
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  Speaker 1: just has those, like, enemies to lovers, hidden powers, different
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  Speaker 1: gods and, like, the painful slow burn that you just
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  Speaker 1: really like. And, like, also the, you know, the first
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  Speaker 1: love interest isn't the main love interest.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, spoiler.
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  Speaker 1: And you're, like, it's kind of written on the wall
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  Speaker 1: when you read it. It's not a major spoiler.
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  Speaker 2: Is he, like, a perfect on paper kind of guy?
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  Speaker 1: No, he's just, like, he's the first boyfriend and then
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  Speaker 1: there's the big scary tall duck. The bad pancake. And you're, like.
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  Speaker 1: Let's fuck that one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted him dead to one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The one that's six foot seven and like completely non-existent
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  Speaker 1: in real life. Bang.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yep.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, the next one is The Serpent and the Wings
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  Speaker 1: of the Night by Carissa Broadbent. So this is kind
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  Speaker 1: of like The Hunger Games meets vampires. No children die.
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  Speaker 1: They're all old.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: There's like a human girl. It's all human girl falls
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  Speaker 1: into fantasy world. You know what? If it ain't broke,
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  Speaker 1: don't fix it. Yeah, exactly. If it's guilty to love it,
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  Speaker 1: lock me up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So she enters like a deadly tournament and is forced
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  Speaker 1: to team up with a dangerously attractive vampire rival. It's
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  Speaker 1: got like trials, forbidden romance, betrayal, but her father is
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  Speaker 1: like the king of the vampires.
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  Speaker 2: Love that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But, Daddy, I love him. Yeah, it's giving enemies to
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  Speaker 1: lovers to enemies again.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Which I love that. Because, like, when you're reading enemies
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  Speaker 1: to lovers, you're like, let's go. Like, when are we
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  Speaker 1: getting to the who did this to you? One bed.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same shit every time and I eat it up.
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  Speaker 1: But then sometimes when they're lovers, I'm like, hmm. A
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  Speaker 1: bit bored. If we get to lovers too quickly, but
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  Speaker 1: I want to get to lovers. So then when they
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  Speaker 1: go back to enemies, I'm like, yes, we are on.
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  Speaker 1: Because then they hate them even more.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because they're more invested.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but then they still want to, but they can't,
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  Speaker 1: but they will. Okay, speaking of enemies to lovers to
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  Speaker 1: enemies again is Starside by Alex Astar. This is probably
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  Speaker 1: my favourite read of 2026 so far. We've got two
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  Speaker 1: more months left, but this is the one that was–
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  Speaker 1: quite literally the most delicious read. It's definitely got mixed reviews.
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  Speaker 1: So like I wouldn't say, but every book does.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's essentially where the main character enters a competition to
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  Speaker 1: reach the realm of the immortal gods, but she's not
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  Speaker 1: actually there for the magic or the prize. She's there
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  Speaker 1: to kill the gods who murdered her family.
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  Speaker 2: So she's there for revenge. Love that.
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  Speaker 1: And there is, A slow burn, there is an enemies
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  Speaker 1: to lovers, which results in a 15-page spicy scene.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: And I've recommended this book to my mother and she
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  Speaker 1: also enjoyed it. All of these I would say you've
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  Speaker 1: got your spice in there, you've got your fantasy, you've
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  Speaker 1: got the different worlds and the realms and the trials
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  Speaker 1: that you have like in the first ACOTAR book that
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  Speaker 1: I would highly recommend all three of those. Love it.
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  Speaker 2: I love. TBR.
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  Speaker 1: I love, love, love. Yeah, there's so many books on
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  Speaker 1: my TBR at the moment that it's insane. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so that's my first favourite, even though I kind of
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  Speaker 1: cheated and there's like four in there.
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  Speaker 2: That's okay. I'm excited to hear what everybody thinks for
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  Speaker 2: Lives Up to the Hype. I'm sure it will.
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  Speaker 1: The Serpent and the Wings of the Night is also
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  Speaker 1: a completed series.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good. So you're not going to have to wait.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then the next book in Star Side comes
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  Speaker 1: out on April 20th. Oh, a day after your birthday.
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  Speaker 2: What a lovely little birthday gift.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I agree.
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  Speaker 2: Cute.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. What's your first monthly obsession?
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  Speaker 2: My first monthly favourite of October is a big bus-friendly
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  Speaker 2: swimwear brand.
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  Speaker 1: And it's... Tickle Bitty.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, for the tickle bitty girlies.
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  Speaker 1: Good timing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, out there, just in time for summer. But it's
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: Junk London Swimwear. Oh. Have you heard of this?
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  Speaker 1: No, I haven't.
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  Speaker 2: Or tried it? So I'd actually seen this brand like
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  Speaker 2: all over Instagram, I think because of targeted ads.
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  Speaker 1: I like it when a targeted ad does the job.
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  Speaker 2: Actually does.
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  Speaker 1: Like thank you for showing me something that I actually
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  Speaker 1: want to buy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. And depending on the style, their sizes range
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  Speaker 2: between like a 6 to 18 to 20. Obviously would
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  Speaker 2: love to see even more size ranges in there. Hopefully
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  Speaker 2: that's something that they'll be rolling out soon. And then
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  Speaker 2: the cup sizes are suitable from a size A to
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  Speaker 2: a size J. depending on the style that you get.
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  Speaker 2: And the cool thing about it is that, say, they
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  Speaker 2: have like a triangle bikini top, but it has this
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  Speaker 1: like the patterns are really cute. And then they have
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  Speaker 1: really nice solid colors as well of like baby blue,
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  Speaker 1: chocolate brown, cherry red. Yeah. Staunt. And then your blacks
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  Speaker 1: and whites.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like really cute kind of nostalgic vibes, but then
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  Speaker 2: also some more modern styles too, depending on what you like.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, if you are interested in having a look,
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  Speaker 2: it's always tricky buying swimwear or bras or underwear really,
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  Speaker 2: especially when you're shopping online. But I just DM'd them
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  Speaker 2: and was like, hey, like I'm usually, I'm looking at
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  Speaker 2: the size guide. I'm usually this size and I do
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  Speaker 2: typically like my bikinis to be very supportive. I like
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  Speaker 2: that you can like give it a go but we
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  Speaker 2: would recommend this.
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  Speaker 1: I also love their one pieces as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, really cute. But yeah, so I got the Lily
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  Speaker 2: Underwire top and then the Jasmine Brief which is like
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  Speaker 2: a little boy leg short. Cute.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: And you've been wanting one of those for ages.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, in the espresso colour which is like the chalky
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: brown and And I haven't worn it swimming yet because
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: it hasn't been quite warm enough, but I've tried it
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: on and it feels, like, really supportive, no, like, spillage,
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: good coverage, and it's cute, which I think is often
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: the thing that doesn't happen. Like, that kind of cute
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: and supportive doesn't usually fit in the same Venn diagram
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: when you're looking for big bus swimwear or bras. Yeah. So, yeah,
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: very excited to try them out. Also, they're all made
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: from recycled materials. So they're made from something called Reprieve,
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: which is made from ocean-bound plastic that's collected from areas
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: within a 50K radius of the coastline that doesn't have, like,
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: a formal waste recycling system, so would have probably been
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: destined to go in landfill or in the ocean. And
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: then they also use something called Econil, which is 100%
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: regenerated nylon that's made from discarded materials like fishing nets
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: and plastic.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: That's found in the ocean.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: So I was like, that's so cool. I think that
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: that's where it first caught my eye. when I saw
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: the targeted ads. But yeah, so cute. Also, we've worked
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: with them before, but Rack Swim as well is amazing
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: for like an Australian big bus friendly swimwear brand. And
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: they've also started rolling out like the little boy shorts
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: and also like tankinis.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Which I saw, I was like, damn it. I really
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: wanted like the black tankini top. but they've sold out.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: So I signed up for like the remind me when.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: It comes back in. Put it on your Chrissy Wish list.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, please. I really hope that they do
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: a restock because they're also incredible quality and very supportive if, yeah,
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: you're a big busted chickie.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: Love it.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Okay, my next monthly favourite is a dopamine chart.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: So I saw this like viral post online that had
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: this in the green screen. It was like this dopamine chart.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: that is an infographic on the rise of dopamine culture.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: And it was like basically talking about how dopamine culture
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: is robbing us of the simple pleasures in life. So
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: it kind of breaks down this infographic from cultural critic
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Ted Gioa. I'm going to go ahead. Apologies if I've
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: butchered that pronunciation. And it's basically how human activities across
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: like seven different categories have transitioned from deep slow and
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: physical engagement into fast digital and hyper-focused processed loops designed
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: for instant gratification. So it has like on the left side,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: I'll show you so you can kind of get the.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the visual. The visual.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Okay. So essentially it's like a flow chart across like athletics, journalism, video, music, images,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: communication and relationships and how slow traditional culture has kind
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: of slowly become... the dopamine culture so for example rather
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: than watching a film or a tv show we now
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: watch like reels or tiktoks yeah like i don't know
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: about you but i've like one of my friends who
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: i would we would watch movies growing up all the
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: time like and she was like i can't watch a
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: movie now because i just don't feel like i have
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: the attention span for it she's like it's so bad
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: like i just watch TikToks all the time. Like I
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: don't watch movies.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Or like if you are watching a movie, you are
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: looking at your phone half the time.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Or like writing someone a letter, like a handwritten letter
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: then is now a text or a voice note. Yeah. Or,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: you know, listening to an album from start to finish
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: is listening to trending audios. Like and how that's kind
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: of basically turned into like even newspapers or magazines is
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: now like clickbait.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: So this creator was kind of talking about how they
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: started doing the things on the left side, which was
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: playing a sport, reading physical media, watching a film or
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: a TV show, listening to albums, viewing a gallery or
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: like a museum, handwriting letters, and then like actual courtship
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: of like relationships and spending time with friends and in
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: relationships more intentionally and how like when they'd started doing
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: these things on the left side and I'll pop a
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: link to this like chart in the show notes, but,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: basically when they started trying to do these things they
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: felt themselves starting to wake up and that was something
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: that like really locked this in for me because I
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: was like I feel like energy is something that we're
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: all lacking a little bit yeah at least like Speaking
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: from my own experience.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: The zest for life.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: The zest or, like, the excitement and the, like, the
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: pace is so focused on doing the next thing or, like,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: feeling like it's a bit of a drag, like you're
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: being dragged along in life rather than being, like, eyes bright. Yeah.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: You know? Eyes bright, bushy-tailed. Eyes bright and bushy-tailed is, like,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: the vibes and the vibes only. So I thought that
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: was such a good thing to, like, maybe– basically give
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: you a list of your like dopamine menu on a
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: budget that's like good quality dopamine versus bad quality dopamine.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Because essentially what I'm talking about there is there's like dopamine.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Dopamine is like the thing in your brain that like
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: makes you happy. It's like, whoa, I completed something. I
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: love what I'm doing. It gives you that perk, right?
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: That things that are considered bad quality dopamines are things
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: that give you a really quick hit But you need
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: it more often, which is why, you know, things like
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: social media algorithms and TikTok becomes addictive.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Even like online shopping, for example. Like that's why you'll
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: buy something online, you'll get it, and then you'll be like, well,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I need another. Yeah. Which I've been there.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Totally.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I remember seeing this article about a woman who got
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: addicted to buying bunnies. And I was like, Sally.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: That's you.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I see your future and it is bright.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: She was taking care of them. The setup for them.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: The hutch. There's that lady on Instagram who has like
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the cat sanctuary and it's like her whole backyard is
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: like a cat jungle.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: The best. What's it like to be living my dream? Honestly,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: that would be my dream. I would love.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: To just go and hang out with her.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Same.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: I want every single cat to ever exist to be mine.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: But, yeah, versus like the bad quality dopamine versus the
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: good quality dopamine, which is like, yes, it might be
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: a little bit of a bigger task, like going for
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: a walk outside or, you know, spending time with a
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: friend for two hours versus like sending them a short text.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: But the amount of joy that you get from that
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: is such a higher quality.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: And will have a longer lasting impact. Yeah.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: And so like this kind of list, I basically was like,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: I'm going to use this as my like cheat sheet
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: to try and prioritize some of those maybe higher effort,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: but better happiness tasks in my month i love that.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: I want to wake up too honestly wake me up
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: no damn yeah i love that i'm like i feel
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: like we need to bring back christmas cards we need
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: to Yes. I've had enough, everyone.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: And putting a candy cane on the front with a
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: little bit of tape.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Yes. Do you know what I want back?
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes, yes, yes. Let's do that this year.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: I think we should.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: We'll have a Christmas card writing night.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Perfect.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: And we'll get all the, like, we'll go to the
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: reject shop. We'll get a bunch of Christmas card packs
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: with a little bit of glitter on the front.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Yep. Very important. Yep.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: And we'll write Christmas cards.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: We'll get candy canes.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: We should.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Not the little ones. Big ones only.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Let's get Christmas photos taken. We can get copies made at, like,
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Kmart or Officeworks and then to all of our, like,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: friends we'll give them Christmas cards. Yeah. With, like, a
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: personalised note. I feel invigorated.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm obsessed.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, perfect. I can't wait.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, and the day that you take your Christmas cards
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: to school in the little, like, Woolies bag or your
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Supre bag and you're like, Line up.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: You felt like a fucking god among men.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I was going to get one.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Also on Easter when you would bring in like the
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Easter choccy and you'd like put an Easter choccy on
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: everybody's desk or like your birthday and your mum brought
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: in a cake and cupcakes.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Or the athletics carnival and your mum would buy you
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: lollies for it.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Or the excursion. What do I get? A popper? One
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: day of the year I'm allowed a popper.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: One day of the year?
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my mum wasn't really into like buying the, like
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I'd get the blue like so good.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Oh, the one that with the pop. Yes, yes, yes.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, not like the juice, not the juice with the thing.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: But the little or like I'd get like a blue
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: or a raspberry. What the fuck was in that? Honestly.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Who knows? The best.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: That and like some Dunkaroos. I'd be like. This is
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: just the best fucking day ever. Not only did I
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: get to go to the Maritime Museum.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: What was that little pack that you had like crackers
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: and cheese and then M & M' s?
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, I know what you're talking about. It wasn't like
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Lunchables but like it was something like that. It was
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: like a little full pack.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: And you got M & M' s in it and I
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: was just. We should get those.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: For the office. Yeah, love that. Big girl money. Anyway. Yeah,
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: snack plate. I've got the dopamine. The original snack plate.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: I've got the dopamine already.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God, I'm so excited.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Okay, I love it.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, put it on some, like, Friends Christmas episodes and
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: write some Christmas cards.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: I'm going to be sick.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I'm going to throw up.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: I'm so excited. My next October favourite is a TV
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: show recommendation and it's an oldie but a goodie. It's
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: You Can't Ask That.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, I haven't heard of this.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Okay, so this is an ABC show. interview-style show that
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: basically aims to break down stereotypes by giving people basically
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: the opportunity to get the answers to questions that they
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: might be too afraid to ask. Oh, wow. Yeah. So
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: it was with like all different groups of people. So,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: for example, like one episode might be with people who
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: are experiencing homelessness. Yeah. Or another episode might be with
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Indigenous Australians. Another one might be with refugees. Yeah. There
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: was one with reality TV contestants.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, where they basically would like spill the tea on
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: what the experience was really like. But I guess the
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: whole point of the show is to give people that
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: opportunity to actually hear from people in those different communities
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: or in those different situations and get the answers to
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: the questions that might be like rude to ask or
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: insensitive to ask or even just like you feel a
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: bit awkward or embarrassed or ignorant. And I think it's
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: such a good show to like, educate yourself in a
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: space that feels safe and also have people who are
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: actually living those experiences tell you what it's really like
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: yeah um and it's it was on I think for
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: like eight seasons or something wow and then it's been
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: on a hiatus for the last couple of years but
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: I did see that earlier this year I think in
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: March it's gone back into production and With plans for
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: it to kick off again, which is so cool. But
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: the reason that it popped up again for me, because
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: I think I'd seen it on like free to air
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: TV back in the day, but they've started publishing all
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: of the episodes for free on YouTube. So you can
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: watch them all on YouTube. They also have like a TikTok,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: like the ABC TikTok post, lots of clips from it
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: as well. And it's so, so good. It's such a
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: good show. It's also like, you know, it's often a
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: bit like of a tearjerker but there's like it's funny.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: It's like so– it just like helps me believe in
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: humanity again. Aww. So, yeah, you can watch it on ABC.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: How long are the episodes?
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: I think they're like maybe 30 minutes or something. But, yeah,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: it's such a good show. So I definitely recommend it.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Brushing up, watching if you've, you know, either if you've
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: watched it before, watch it again and get ready for
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: the new season. Ah.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Great rec.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: My final monthly favourite is the best $ 8 I've ever
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: spent on an acupuncture pen.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: So don't worry, it's not actually a needle. But the
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: pen is like... It's basically this little pressure point tool
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: that you can use to massage like targeted areas. So
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: if you have, if you clench your jaw or have TMJ,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: this is like a lifesaver. I saw someone on TikTok
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: like talking about it and I was like, influence. Yeah.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: So some versions use like electrical pulses if you want,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: but mine's just like little metal pen and it's basically
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: got like a little metal ball on the end of
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: it and you just use it to just get iris.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Like I don't know, did your, this is such a
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: nostalgic episode and this is so neat. Did your mum
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: ever have those like bathroom animals that was like a
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: turtle and like a dolphin but it was like a
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: massage thing? Did you?
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Did you? Did you?
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: Did you?
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Did you? Yes.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Oh my god you just unlocked a memory for me
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: that i have not i'm literally shaking that i have
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: not thought about in maybe 20.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Years that's it i had the turtle For the chicks listening, it's.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Like this little plastic animal and the one that, yeah,
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: that I had was a turtle.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we had a turtle and a dolphin.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: And you would basically like you could rub it on
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: like your head and your jaw.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Or like your shoulder. And your shoulder and your neck.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: And it was like a little massage-y thing. Yes. And
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: I have not thought about that little fucker in like
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: maybe 20 years and years.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: I'm going to buy one. Firstly.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Where's the dolphin?
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: And they were so cute. Yeah, and there was a dolphin.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and we had them like in, oh, my God,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: this is the exact one I had.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Yes. Holy shit.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: So the pen is kind of like the modern day
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: version of that. I'm going to get the turtle Yes.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. We have to buy them.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Yes. We should get them for the office, I feel.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: 1,000%. And, like, oh, my God, it's like $ 18.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Worth it.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Worth it. Overpriced but worth it.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God, nuts. Worth it for the nostalgia alone.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Holy shit.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Okay, so the pen is like a modern.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Version of that. I was really scared I was going
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: to be like alone in that. No, and I fully
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: did not.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: You just like, my brain literally went, I was imagining
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: like in High Five when Jubjub is like in the
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: wall and she's like going through the cabinets and that
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: was my brain being like tick, And then I opened
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: it and Jar.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Jar was there. And you just saw the turtle. And
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Jar Jar was holding the turtle.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he was like, here you go, friend.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: That little thing got me through a lot.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: He raised me.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: That and also the massager that's like the claw on
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: the end of a stick and you put that on
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: top of your head.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: That's like inappropriate, that thing.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: The feeling. It's orgasmic. It's like.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Not to be done in public. It's a private spiritual.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: When somebody does it on you.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: The noise that comes out of me is inappropriate.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: It's giving parallel play.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: It's giving hoya. Yeah, it is. It's giving fuck.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: It's going fuck.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: It's going fuck.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So anyway, if anyone remembers those turtles, please validate
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: us in the comments. I can't believe we've never spoken
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: about that. After 10 years of friendship, there's still new things.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: For us to talk about every day.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I love moments like that. There's still new things for
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: us to talk about every single day.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Honestly.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Anyway, back to my acupuncture pen. So people use these
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: tools for like jaw tension, tight muscles and facial massages.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: But it's just, it's so funny how like it literally
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: just gets in there and it feels so good. Like,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: and there's obviously so much science behind like acupuncture and
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  Speaker 1: pressure points. And obviously like, there may be like other
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: things going on. So like it don't automatically think this
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  Speaker 1: is going to fix everything. If you obviously have pain,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: go see a doctor. Exactly. But like a systemic review
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  Speaker 1: of acupuncture and acupressure studies found that it also helps
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  Speaker 1: reduce anxiety, which I think a lot of people who
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: clench their jaw it's like a stress thing it's.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Like yeah um and it tells your brain that like
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: you're stressed yes that's like why they tell you to
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: unclench your jaw yeah so it can help with drop
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: your eyebrows that whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: So it can help with like headaches muscular pain like
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: I'm constantly cracking my jaw yeah I can probably do
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: it right now I don't know if that came through
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: there we go yeah like i could do that like
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: you could rip off your jaw if you could do
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: any i could detach my jaw smack it against a
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: wall and put it back on i would pay for
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: that i would pay i reckon a thousand dollars yeah
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: if someone right now said i can take that off
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: smack it against the wall and put it back on
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: i'd be like how much love that how much you
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: want do you know what i would love to be
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: able to do Your eyeballs in a glass of water.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, in a glass of icy water. Also when I
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: have a headache, I would love to be able to
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: like cut my head open and like just get.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: A little bit of like pressure relief.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: The other one I would like is if someone like
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: ripped out my spine and like cracked it like a
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: whip and then put it back in.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Love that too. Yeah. Yeah.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: We all just like need to be like cracked open.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: You're still thinking about the turtle, aren't you?
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway. Love that.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: But, yeah, so I just got it on Amazon. Link
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  Speaker 1: it in the show notes. Does the job.
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  Speaker 2: Bob's your uncle.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Bob's your uncle.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Into it.
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  Speaker 1: I hope they'll come back here with no cracky jaw.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Into it. No cracky jaw.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: No cracky jaw.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Okay, my final... monthly favourite. I'm going to keep it
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: short and sweet but it was a Substack article that
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: I read from Sentimental Being and the headline is everything
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: is a win when the goal is to experience.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Oh I've seen this and I'm obsessed.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: I thought you would have because this has 72,333 likes
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: on Substack. It was published in March earlier this year
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: so it's been around for about six months and clearly
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: has struck a nerve with people. And I'll put the
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: link in the show notes so that you chicks can
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: read it. So I won't give too much away so
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: you can actually enjoy it. But it was just such
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: a refreshing read about how life is to be lived
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  Speaker 2: for the experiences, not for like a result or to
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  Speaker 2: be productive and that you can really see any, like
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: almost any experience as, you know, some sort of positive
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: if you look at it as like, what am I
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: taking away from it? And the thing that inspired her
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: to write this article was she was in her kitchen
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: cutting an orange and she had like a little cut
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: on her finger and she felt like that really sharp
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: acidic pain in her finger. And she was like, holy fuck,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: I'm alive. And I was like, whoa, how many experiences
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: do we have like that where we have like a visceral,
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: physical pain? you know, maybe even like emotional reaction to
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: something and we just take it for granted and it's
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: like that's a sign of being alive. So, yeah, I'm
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: going to, like I said, I don't want to harp
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: on about it too much because I want you to
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: be able to read it and like actually take it in.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: But definitely recommend, especially if you're getting to, you know,
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: this latter part of the year and you're feeling a
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: little bit like exhausted and kind of like you were
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: saying about the dopamine chart.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Wakey, wakey.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, wakey, wakey, hands off snakey.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Wakey, wakey, hands off snakey, yeah.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: As we always say and I've always said that.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: I remember the first time I said that to you
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: and you were like, that's disgusting.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: What a fucking prude.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: You were like, I hate that. And now you love it.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: And now I love it.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: And now you love it. It reminds me of a
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: picture I took when we went to this like retreat
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: last week to go for like a little road trip
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: and it was like this retreat that we were like
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: no out of city it was literally like 20 minutes
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: from the hills i was like jesus alex also monthly
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: favorite also monthly favorite billabong retreat but there was in
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: the spa there was like a sign and it said
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: there are only two ways to live your life one
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: is as though nothing is a miracle the other is
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: though everything is albert einstein.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah they don't call him a genius.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: For nothing yeah he was on to something he was
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: good on good on albert But, yeah, and I, like,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: feel like that kind of ties in.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: It does. Yeah.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Good practice in, like, gratitude.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Absolutely. And on that note, it's another episode done
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: and dusterooned. Thanks for having us in Earholes. We'd love
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: to be here.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: We'd love to be here, chicks.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Bye. Later. Later.