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He Welcome to Buns and Banter,
a podcast by work Busties for work Busties.

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Hey. I'm Lauren and I'm Ali. We're both morning show hosts for

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iHeartMedia. We're both millennials, and
we're both trying to figure out how to

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build the live speed dream about dating, marriage, career, career, and

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being a mom, how to get
through a week without crying. Welcome to

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Buns and Banter. We're glad you're
here. Have a great day. Oh

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my gosh, you came like blasting
in here in a great way, in

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a super excited way. And I
really want to know why I am so

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much for us to talk about today. You printed notes. I have notes

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printed and one of these I am
so excited to get your feedback on.

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And the other one do you see? Oh I thought we got rid of

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that in Miss Again. We did, but there are still twenty one states.

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Okay, So what do you want
to start with? Do you want

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to start with the tampon tax?
Yes? Because I am outraged. I

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also just like anytime that there might
be a man listening and we say tampon,

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they're like ooohoo, So yes,
please, Yes, there is a

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new tax refund coming. For decades, people who use tampons have been fighting

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against taxes on tampons and other feminine
hygiene products, and now they've been joined

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by a slew of company who make
them. Nice. So this is actually

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the companies. A few companies that
make feminine hygiene products have come together and

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they have said, hey, we
think the tampon tax is bullshit. We

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don't think that you guys should get
taxed on stuff that you literally have to

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use every single month. Because ain't
nobody out here wanting to free bleed.

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Sorry, no, there's not graphic. We don't. Yeah, So they

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have come together to form the Tampon
Tax Coalition. Oh my gosh, a

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lot of states, Michigan, where
we are included in this, has banned

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gotten rid of it, has gotten
rid of it. Governor Whitmer, our

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governor here in Michigan, signed a
bill repealing the tampon tax back in twenty

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twenty one, and it was like
supported on both sides. It was bipartisan.

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And this says that in Michigan,
it saves families from paying taxes on

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up to forty eight hundred dollars of
spending over the course of a lifetime.

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So that's wow, like five grand
that you spend over a lifetime just on

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being a woman having a period and
buying feminine hygiene products. Meanwhile, I

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think the whole thing here is that
not to put this like, I don't

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ever want to pit men against women, but I think the thing is here,

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things like rogane and viagra, which
are used primarily by men. Hold

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up, they are not taxed.
Rogaine isn't taxed. Men trying to look

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younger by painting their hair isn't taxed. Are you kidding? I did not

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know that they are considered medical necessities. Oh no, I'm sorry. I'm

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thinking of just for men. Roguan
grows it right, yes, still stand

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by it. They don't get taxed
for that. And I do know there

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are a lot of women that I
have seen on social media that are now

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using rogain because like it grow your
it'll grow your eyebrows back. Yeah,

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I had no idea, So they're
not. So twenty one states in the

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US are still taxing period products because
they're non essential goods. That's how they're

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classified. Meanwhile, products like rogan
and viagra are considered medical necessities, so

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this tampon tax coalition. I've come
together to basically say this is bullshit.

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We're collectively taking a stand against the
tax or the tampon tex August of twenty

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twenty three. The coalition was built
to expand impacts. So if you are

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buying from participating brands August, Cora, Diva, here we Flow the Honeypot,

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here, Lola Salt or Rayel Rayale, I'm not exactly sure how to

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rail. They'll reimburse you for any
tampon tax that you pay. That's nice,

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but just these companies. So here's
the deal. You gotta sign up

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with your phone number on tampon tax
Let me get the let me get make

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sure I get the website correct.
This is I'm glad we have a video

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component because if you could see my
eyes rolling out of my head right now.

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With the row game Tampon taxback dot
com. You just have to like

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put your phone number in. You
do have to submit receipts for the purchases

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of the participating brands, which again
are August and Cora on the Honeypot and

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Lola and whatever. Yeah, but
then you'll get a refund back in forty

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eight hours or whatever tax you for
forty eight hours too. Yeah, leave

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it to women to be on top
and timely. That's insane. I thought

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that was amazing. That's really cool. I'm so sorry. I'm just still

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gobsmacked by the rogain thing. I
knew the viagra thing. I did not

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know growing hair is considered essential while
something that keeps my clothes and those around

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me clean is not. You know, I don't even. I don't.

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I'm not like super familiar with what
is taxed and what's not tax Like,

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I guess I didn't realize that things
like viagra or things like rogaine, like

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we're not. I knew viagra wasn't
well because like you have to have a

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prescription for those things. It's not
like you can buy. Do you have

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to have rogain? You can buy
over the counter, can't you? Yes?

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Is viiagraph prescription though it's not OTC. I don't know, so we

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don't need it. No, I'm
just but no, I don't. I

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don't know. That's that's a good
point. But I I did know that

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they were not taxed, and it's
just been like driving this force where it's

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like what what Because when you talk
inflation, especially, I mean if you've

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seen the price of some of the
feminine hygiene products lately. Oh yeah it

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is, Oh, it is up
a lot, and then you put that

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tax on there. It's like,
I don't know, Maybe I do move

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to a commune for one week every
month and join my fellow sisterhood and we

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just bask in our glory. Yeah, because it ain't cheap. So if

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if we call you and ask you
to pick us up a box of tampons

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or pads or pantyliners or whatever,
and you choose that opportunity to gripe about

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these this is your stuff, you
need to pay for it, that would

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be that I would advise you just
pick it up and don't say a word.

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Can I tell your relationship red flag? Because Chris has never done that.

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He's never picked up you never said
no, Okay, because I had?

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I did. I dated a guy
once and we were together for a

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decent amount of time and he was
so weird and actually rude about it,

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and I'm like, if you can't
handle this, there is absolutely no way

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you can handle what's going to be
thrown to us. And if you don't,

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you can't hit me at my worst, at my thickest, at my

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raddest you do not deserve me at
my best. I agree, And Chris

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is number He's he does have to
FaceTime me. He'll FaceTime me in the

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mire and be like, there's just
a lot of boxes and sizes here,

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baby, right. I appreciate that. Thank you. Yes, And you've

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got to get your brand and you've
got to get your size and you've got

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it. There's just there's a lot
that goes into it. So anyways,

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that got my click this week online. I like that. I thought that

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that was very very cool and I
would like to applaud these brands August Cora

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Diva, here we float the Honeypot, Lola Salt, and rael are Ael

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for coming together to form the Tampon
Text Coalition. Three cheers, whoop,

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woop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop. hYP Hey peay love it.

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Yeah, that's a good click.
Oh my god. And I just

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love that you printed things off.
Yeah, I'm still I'm still working off

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of the Instagram. Because I saw
this, I actually wanted to talk to

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you about maybe the differences in our
lives outside of work. Yeah, so

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because we talk a lot about this, what Ali and I really love about

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hanging out and especially doing this together. Is that all of these things we

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talk about lots of times will agree
and then lots of times it's not that

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we disagree. We just have such
different life spaces that we're in that it's

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an interesting conversation. Yeah, and
so I follow Mel Robbins. I think

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we're both big fans. I love
her motivational speaker, author, podcaster.

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She has just I think, really
really great advice about a lot of things.

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And she has talked a lot about
her hashtag do it anyway, Oh,

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big bang, big band, And
usually I put that into more of

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a professional scope, but this past
week, I'm going to Vegas in a

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couple of weeks. Yeah, and
I want to feel good. You know,

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I'm going to be wearing dresses and
bathing suits and I'm going to be

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in warmer weather again. And so
I started, I started like trying to

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run ough and it looks as terrible
as it feels. I mean, I

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am just I will never be a
bit fluencer because I just I look like

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a broken windmill when I run.
My legs stick out, I've got weird

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knees. It's not good. But
it was the other night, it was

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raining, it was cold, it
was dusk, and I thought, you

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know what, Mel Robbins says,
do it anyway, because she has a

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whole series about how, you know, I don't want to go to the

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gym, but I do it anyway
because at the end of it, I

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feel good. It's not about fixing
my rolls or fixing anything about me.

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So I went and I walked like
three quarters of it, and then I

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ran a quarter of it and I
did feel really good about it. You

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did, I did? I got
done, and I said, you know

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what, that actually was a very
solid moment of self care for me.

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But being in a marriage and a
family with kids, I feel guilty that

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my self care comes at the expense
of someone else. So in order for

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me to do that, I had
to make sure that Chris was down with

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cleaning up, dinner, doing bath, bedtime, books, homework, all

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of it. Yeah, for me
to go and do that, And I

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feel sometimes I feel like I missed
the opportunity to build these habits when I

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wasn't married or a mom, because
I feel like I had more time back

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then, like I had more spontaneity
where I could be like, oh,

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I'm going to go run because it
does make me feel better and it's great

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for my mental health, versus can
I go run because I know that it's

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been a super crazy day and you've
done a ton and then I'm leaving you

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with all this stuff, which he'd
be the first one to be like,

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no, go do it. You
do, Like, I can tell that

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you are in a much better mood
when you come back. But then I

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slip into that guilt. Right.
Do you have that at all in your

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single life right now? Yes,
because and this is something that we have

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talked about before, you did not
have more time when you were single.

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I do not have more time as
a single person as opposed to someone in

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a relationship or with kids. We
all have the same twenty four hours in

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a day, so like it it's
a it's a little bit triggering for me

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when people who are in relationships and
have kids and have relief full they're like,

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oh, you have way more time
than me, or like even people

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who talk about our jobs, we
get out a lot earlier than people do

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from there nine to five, yeah, Like we're out half the time when

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they're going to lunch where we work
afod to noon yeah, and there they're

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saying like, oh my gosh,
you have so much more time in your

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day. No, I don't.
I don't have more time in my day.

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I have the same twenty four hours
that you have. Right, it's

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just a different allocation of time structured
do you have? You have priorities or

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things that you choose to prayrioritize your
kids. It's a good priority, right,

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mostly, right, Like keeping them
alive is a huge priority, whereas

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like someone like me who's single.
I mean, I like, my priorities

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are different. I don't have two
huge priorities that come before my every need

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you do. But I totally understand
and relate to the guilt that you feel

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because it's just it's other things that
should be made a priority that I'm not

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making a priority. So it's just
not kids, right, So you still

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feel like there are moments where you're
pouring from an empty cup because you are

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not always putting yourself as a priority. Yeah, okay, one hundred percent.

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One hundred percent. Like there are
times where, for example, we've

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got like six events in a day
that we've got to do after our regular

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on air stuff. Yeah, and
it's like, well, I'm not working

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out today, I'm not going for
a walk today. I'm barely even feeding

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myself today because I don't have time, nor is that my priority today.

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My priority is not me today.
My priority is my job and my clients

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and my performance. It's interesting.
It's interesting because I being friends with you

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and talking through these things I think
has definitely changed a lot of the unfair

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perspective I had to people that didn't
have as much quote unquote you know as

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I feel like sometimes I do,
you know, like, well, I've

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got my two kids that I have
to like, feed, clothe, take

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to school, and then I have
like my husband, who I need to

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make sure that there's time for to
work on our relationship and make sure we're

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fulfilling each other's needs on top of
this professional side of things and this work

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life balance is just not an actual
thing for anybody, despite the fact that

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we still love to say that term. Yeah, but it's it is still

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similar for you and I don't I
don't want to be diminishing of you having

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kids or saying like, no,
we do have the same amount of hours

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in the day. You don't have
an excuse as to why you're not working

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out. That's not what I mean. I just mean, like it when

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people will come to me, or
to single people in general, and they'll

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say things like, oh, well, so and so they've got to get

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to their kids baseball games, So
can you pick up this extra project at

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work? We have talked about that, or like, oh, well,

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they can't make this event because you
know, they have to go out of

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I also have a family. I
also have a family. I just don't

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have children that came out of my
body. I have nieces and nephews.

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I want to go to their soccer
games and their recitals and their stuff.

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And it's like, oh, well, you know you don't have kids,

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so yeah, and it's like such
a I just don't And I don't know.

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I realize that they that is your
priority and it should be, and

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people with kids they have to balance
things differently. I just don't feel like

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I should pick up the slack.
I'm more than happy to be a team

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player and to like help someone out
and do them a favor, but there

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are also going to be times where
like I need help and like I need

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favors to Now you extend the favor
to me. And did you know?

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Did you know that men who have
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higher earners than women who have families
and children, because it's a it's a

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view that oh, well, he's
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for them. But when it's talking
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children, it's used in the exact
opposite way, and it's well, they're

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not going to be able to perform
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on with their families and their kids. I cannot remember what study I will.

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I will find that study so I
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know that, Bata, I know
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before, and that to me,
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a lot. It says a lot
the minute a man has as a wife

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and has kids, all of a
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a promotion or whatever. He's still
it's still the provider stigma, right,

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It's the provider stigma, and we
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love I love that statement made where
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you don't have a family and parent, like you don't have a job,

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and it goes I feel like it
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where and you're supposed to and you're
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with no you know what I mean, Like, I just don't. I

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don't know if it's because I'm getting
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and hotter, but like my entire
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to be in college I'd work out
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working out a ton, and just
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four or five years, I mean, the pandemic really just I was like,

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quit the gym, quit everything,
and just we're going to take a

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hard reset and just try to figure
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feel like working out is how I
know it's really good for you. You

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should move your body. It's so
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health. But I was just approaching
it in the wrong way. M See.

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I will tell you that. I
think a great solution to maybe not

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feeling as guilty about leaving my husband
with stuff so I can go and even

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like take a walk around the neighborhood
is doing it after my kids go to

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bed. Because when I got home
after that first run, my son asked

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me if I was having a heart
attack. Oh, he does, he

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know how funny he is. He
was so concerned because I was like,

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he wants to give me and he
goes, mom, are you okay?

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Are you having a And you know, he like takes a pause because he's

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trying to find the words of something
he's clearly just learned about for the very

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first time, and he goes a
heart attack. Now I'm just wickedly out

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of shape and trying to snatch myself
back in two weeks. So that might

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be the solution. So what is
it about leaving to go like work out

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or take a walk or whatever,
Like, what is it about that that

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makes you feel guilty for leaving them? Because I leave everything with Chris,

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especially in the evening when things can
just be really chaotic, like the kids

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are in their witching hour. We're
trying to get like, he just cooked

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dinner because he is our cook.
I don't do much of the domestic stuff

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at all. We talked about that. So he's just gotten done, like

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cooking all this dinner. Now he's
got to like clean up dinner, and

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then he's got to like wrangle the
kids and make sure that they get a

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shower and a bath and the bags
are packed and then get bedtime. It's

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just still there at that age where
it's not a super flawless routine. Right.

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Every night is different, And so
I feel bad going out, you

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know, with my headphones on and
listening to my music or a podcast and

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being by myself. That it's not
fair because then he doesn't. I don't

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know how I reciprocate that for him. Well, what does he say about

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it? He's fine with it because
he's stupid Chris that is laid back and

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great. I'm the only one that's
giving myself this own thing. But I

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also know how to get rid of
it, because I still feel like I

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should be giving more or not allowing
him, but giving him like a time

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to go and do things. I
guess I don't know. Yeah, but

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by whose definition? Probably mine your
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like he does have that time,
Like, yeah, I shouldn't give a

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shit and do me. I mean, I just I think it's like just

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built in to certain people I identify
as a people pleaser. And yeah,

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like even my mom has more recently
been like stop worrying about everyone else and

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just do something for you or like
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this way. I like, don't
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I don't. I am so affing
anxious. It's the worst. Did

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you see my tweet the other day? We've had like all of these We've

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gotten really close on a couple of
houses that we've been looking at. Yeah,

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which is a terrifying move, but
like Chris will just go I think

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it's really exciting. And I snapped
back at him the other day and I

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was like, well, you've been
married to me for eight years, so

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you know that I walk a very
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So just y'all, like, I
don't. I don't have like other

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ways to operate. I'm either really
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or I'm just like, well,
the world is coming to an end

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and I'm going to be stuck with
a mortgage, right, And then it's

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like the anxiety that like I know
that I'm anxious, so then other people

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obviously know that I'm anxious too,
And I not only could I not solve

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this problem for you, but like
I also can't solve it for me,

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and now I'm a burden on myself
and I'm a burden on you. This

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is so fitting as my TikTok for
you page has really changed up in the

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last week or so to like people
pleaser and burden type tiktoks. It's also

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the time of year, like I
do feel like this is a very seasonal

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plight for me as well. Good
word seasonal plight, seasonal. Oh my

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god, that's perfectly said, just
the seasonal anxi entering the season of the

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plight. Yes, you thought it
was the season of the Witch. Absolutely

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not no plight. Mm okay.
That was actually very helpful to talk to

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you about, was it? Because
I don't feel like I was helpful at

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all, So you really were.
You were very, very very helpful,

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So thank you for that. But
now we have to work into spooky season

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for a minute. Oh, because
I think it's worth pointing out that we're

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recording this on Friday the thirteenth,
right, I got speaking of There are

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times when Chris will call me out
and be like, God, you're so

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fucking weird, and I don't understand
where I come from. So we've been

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house hunting. Yes, yes,
we found this house that we really enjoyed,

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not the one I showed you,
a different one, okay. And

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you look back at the history and
you see that it was on the market,

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it was being sold in twenty eighteen, and then it was back on

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the market again in like mid twenty
twenty, and then they tried to sell

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it again in twenty twenty one,
and then it's back on the market again.

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Does that raise any red flags to
you? No, okay, because

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I think that means it's haunted,
of course, naturally. Right. We

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looked at this house and I'm like, Chris, I don't know, man

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like any other any other information or
data to support this. I'm I'm I

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want to believe it with you,
right. You don't want to take Chris's

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side where he's like that's slightly irrational, and I was like, well,

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rationalize this. I've watched enough shows
of people that buy these buy houses like

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this, and then it turns out
it's because there's a casper there and it's

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not always a friendly ghost. Did
you tour the house? Oh? Yeah

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you did. There's not like weird
doors with locks, on the outside.

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There is a weird crawl space in
the basement that I have no evidence to

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back this, but look like a
portal to Hell. And I was like,

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I don't think i'll buy this house. Our friend Candice tours around Michigan.

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She does the ghost tours in Grand
Rapids. She always says people are

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way more sensitive to this type of
stuff, like the supernatural. Yes,

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I would say yes. Then,
although our ghosts supernatural, I think they're

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considered supernatural, are they think?
Yeah, okay, yeah, I don't

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know how any of that works,
but she always says you're way more sensitive

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than you think you are, and
sometimes you just you don't realize how it

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affects you until someone like actually points
out like portal to Hell. Yeah,

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so you having the portal to Hell. Feeling thank you so much. I

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will be playing this back for Chris, So I really appreciate you anytime,

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because I'm like, top three deal
breakers for me like district, safety of

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the neighborhood, Poulter haunted, and
I think that's completely fair. Yeah,

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there was. I just read something
online. I can't remember how many people.

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It was less than half, but
it was. I want to say

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it was like close to forty percent, like close to forty percent of people

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have had some sort of experience with
like a ghost. Wow, that actually

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seems high. See, Oh it's
gonna happen. I'm gonna find a great

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house, I'm gonna live there,
and then all of a sudden, someth's

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gonna be tickleing my feet at night. Its ghosts. So I think I'm

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just being careful. I'm being a
good mom. Can't move my family into

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a house with ghosts, you.
I can't crag Tea Nelson this. So

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sometimes in the middle of the night, this is like my favorite thing that

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Fran does. She'll just like wake
up and be barking at the ceiling and

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I'm like, I know there's a
ghost up there. I know it felt

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like that. It's it's so scary. Yes, it's so scary, but

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like your dogs don't do anything weird
or nothing's ever house now. But we've

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never taken that's a good I don't
know if you could. We've never taken

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them to showings like when we're touring
a house, and I should because animals

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always know animals and kids like the
mail is thinner for animals and kids.

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Was that last episode of the episode
before we said the same thing. You're

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like, man, creepy kids,
creepy pets. They always know, they

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always know, So that's what you
have to do. Oh God, Will

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would be a terrible ghost hunter,
though. He'd get so distracted by something

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he'd be like, Wow, Mom, look this room would fit all my

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legos and completely miss the fact there
was like a ghost family in the corner.

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It's up to me. You're don't
have to keep him on track.

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Yeah, but no. The only
thing I think that's more irrational than you're

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haunted house theory, I think is
the real estate market itself. Oh,

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that probably explains twenty eighteen, twenty
twenty one. That's fair. You gotta

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love an eight percent interest rate.
God, I'd take a ghost if I

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could make him an income part of
the property. Are you ready for the

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next yees? Okay, maybe I'm
just a triggered individual. I think weddings

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cause people to lose their efing minds. I don't know. I don't know

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what it is about a wedding.
I don't know about two people coming together

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to proclaim their love for one another
till death do they part? I don't

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know what about that just causes people
to go in san racist sanity. This

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was something that I read online.
Someone wrote in this is like an advice

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column. Okay, and this this
person, We're gonna call them too old

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for nonsense. That's what they That's
what they wanted to be addressed. The

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letters that you normally get about weddings
sometimes amaze me and also make me laugh.

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I am invited to a wedding this
month. The wedding is being held

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in the couple's backyard, and the
invitation says formal. So I'm assuming everyone

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I'll be dressed up. The guests
will be seated on hay bails covered with

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a white cloth. When I questioned
this, when I when I questioned this,

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I was told, quote, oh, hay baiales are the latest thing

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for weddings. The bride is in
her fifties. I don't know why that

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matters. Yeah, so most of
the guests will be fifty years old and

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up. Can't you just see us
all sitting on hay bails wearing formal attire.

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It's going to be interesting. Signed
too old for nonsense? I e.

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You have lost your damn mind.
These people are paying for a huge

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party. Yeah, you're gonna put
on a nice dress and look good and

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go eat and drink for free on
their dime, and you're bitching about a

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white cloth over some stand. I
don't think any thing that you have in

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your closet too old for nonsense,
cannot withstand sitting on a hay bale covered

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in white cloth for twenty minutes.
I do like a good back on a

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chair, though, so that would
be that would be my complaint. I

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know I don't have the back of
the twenty one year old schmidty anymore.

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I totally get that, but like
I just what what? And then the

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response really quick? Do you know
who this woman is? Though she's launching

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this huge complaint? Can't handle it? Da da da Someone that shops off

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registry and makes you like a birdhouse. That's the wedding guest she is.

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She didn't even follow the rules.
Not there's something wrong with birdhouses, but

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there's a reason they have registries.
Yes, spoken from someone that got six

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birdhouses. I just think like it's
their wedding. Yeah, it's their wedding.

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If the hay bales are really like
that much of an issue for your

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outfit, does I don't have to
go like you don't have to go number

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one. But also if it's cash
well enough to where they're having hay bails

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covered in a white cloth. The
invitation does say formal, so like they'd

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like you to dress up, But
I also think since it's at their it's

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in their backyard, I feel like
you could probably just stand in the back

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or like off to the side if
you if you don't want to sit on

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the hay bail, like writing in
on the internet and like questioning this,

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can't you just see too old for
nonsense calling the bride and being like the

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invitation says formal, but we're sitting
on hay bails, yeah, or so

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I say that were sitting on hay
bales even though it's formal, I assume

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you will have a few chairs there
for some of us to use. I

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just the slight suggestions was always my
favorite part of the wedding, not not

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hey, how's wedding planning? Are
you like super stressed out? Hey,

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I'm so sorry. Everything's like two
to three times more expensive right now in

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the time where you're you happen to
be getting married, But I'm actually worried

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about my outfit at your wedding.
Hay bails too well. Plus if it

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is a fifty and up crew,
and I'm not saying this to be like,

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there's probably a few jazzy scooters that
will be there. It's dress and

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that I just there you go.
I can't. And the response was like

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even better. These weddings are starting
to seem as artificial as drive through Las

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Vegas Chapel. I love talking about
weddings with you. You this could be

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another hotel right into me if you
are a bride or a groom and you

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are getting married and someone is being
absolutely insane. Actually no, this is

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my new business. Yeah, telling
your guests to shut them up. You

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can come and shut up or you
cannot come. It's not your asle Alley,

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I love it. It's just like
it's their wedding. They're paying for

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it. If you don't agree with
it, don't go. Don't go at

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this this to me and I'm I
feel like I'm a reasonable person agreed.

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So like an unreasonable demand at a
wedding, like hey, you have to

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buy adult chain and gabana dress and
then you have to come to my wedding

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and you have to sit in a
pile of mud and it's in the mikonos.

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I don't think buy your plane ticket. Yeah, I think that that's

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unreasonable. I think too old for
nonsense. May have had a leg to

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stand on if they were demanding she
buy adult chain and gabana and then sit

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in that in a pile of mud. But like you're gonna you're gonna buy

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You're gonna wear pants, You're gonna
buy a dress from Amazon. It's gonna

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be forty dollars, you're gonna get
two days shipping, and then you're gonna

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go sit on the hay bail and
turn your nose up at it because how

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dare how dare they ask you to
dress formally and then sit on a hay

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bale. Just to bring this back
around real quick, I will never fuck

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with you as a ghosts. I
appreciate that, because I will come back

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and I will haunt your relatives for
you. If you're a bride and groom.

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That's also a service guarantee of not
your ile alley, your isle alley.

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I'm for the people,