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It's the Minnesota Goodbye the Fallon and
Jenny version today. Dave's on vacation.

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He'll be back on Monday and I'll
be gone, so you know it's a

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block flop blop. Yeah, this
one. I'm not going to read the

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full one, not because it's too
long, but because it's like recommendations for

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me to Olympic National Park. That's
where I'm going on Saturday. But I

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did want to read this because I
thought it was nice. Hello Jenny in

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the morning Zoo or Fallon in the
Funny Farm question mark right, and the

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Dopeds. That zinger is hilarious in
my head because I'm still rolling my eyes

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at that one. Lady, we
all know who I'm referring to. That's

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you have. Jenny hasn't been a
part of the podcast, okay. So

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it's like an email about someone annoyed
with dreg talking about smoking weeds so openly.

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Okay, she says, you can
say my name, So let's give

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you a little shout out here,
Katie. This might get long because I'm

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excited, but I understand if you
need to condense for sanity reasons. I

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grew up in the Twin Cities.
I currently live in Olympia, Washington.

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When I heard Fallon was going to
visit Olympic National Park, I squeaked with

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excitement. Dude, it's magical.
The trees are humongous, and there's so

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much natural beauty here. I've been
living here for a couple of years and

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it's one of the best things I've
ever done for my mental health. So

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far, I've noticed a few things
about being here. So she goes on

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to talk about the driving, the
weather, the food differences in National Park

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things, and she sent some photos
and I am just so thankful. So

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Katie, I appreciate it. She
said, I'm down for some iced coffee

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if you have time. I don't
know if I'll have time. I'm going

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to be very you know, in
with the full family, so we'll see

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how that goes. Yeah, Fallon
and I when we take trips, we

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don't do like specific itineraries, but
we definitely have an itinerary of the things

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we want to do. And then
there's built in Instagram scrolling time in my

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opinion or TikTok scrolling time like the
time where you decompress from the activities and

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as usually at the end of the
day because in state parks. I have

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found that it's pretty much rarely ever
there's Yeah, so this is what I

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have for my itinerary. Yeah,
what do you got? Okay, there

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are like so Olympic National Park is
weird. You have to like kind of

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go through everything to get to it
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home. Yep, it's a very
weird park. So um day one,

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I like one day family park Day
one. I picked things that are easy

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for full families, kids and older
fellas and ladies. Yep. So I

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have Hurricane Hill, which is three
point two miles okay, sold Duck Falls,

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Mary Mayor Falls, and possibly Madison
Falls. Those are all near us.

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The farthest away from a stay,
I have the rainforest, a hole

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like it's called hole in the Walletic
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I have extra days to visit Cape
Flattery. So Cape Flattery is the farthest

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west point of the country. So
when you're going to all of these,

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are you like going to be retracking
some of these things you're already seen?

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Like when you're going to that far
one, are you like going the same

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way you've already gone to see a
few times? Yes, okay. And

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then there's one other one that I
want to do, and that's the big

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crazy one for me. It's like
a moderate seven and a half mile and

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it's to a place called Lena Lakes, and that one's not as popular,

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and that one I won't be retracing
any steps to get too. We'll see

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if we make it to that one. I hope so, because it's like

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one of the first tiktoks I saw
where you can tell they overly did the

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you know, saturation and contrast on
the video to make it look even more

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green and magical. But it's very
pretty. So anyway, Katie, I

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have your email saved, and I
am so thankful you sent that to me,

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so thank you. I gotta say
that one thing I aspire to do

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is like if I travel, I
try my absolute best to not filter nature

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pictures because I think, like,
yeah, you love following these people on

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Instagram that have these beautiful videos and
reels and they're so beautiful and everything,

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but it's like so much stuff is
filtered and that's not a reality, and

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like it's usually so beautiful in person
no matter what, and so I get

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like, straight, you can never
capture in a video like how beautiful it

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is in person? But I agree. It's like you get there and I'm

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like, wow, did I just
feel like a really overcast, crappy day?

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And it's like, no, it's
because they took this downloaded it on

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a computer. And I'm like the
type of person that I'll show Andrew something.

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He's like, that's edited, Jenny, And I'm like, what,

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like it like breaks my heart out
the time? I was like, what

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do you mean? Fantasy? All
right? This next one says please don't

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say my name. It's a long
email, and that is fine. I'm

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okay with that. I can read
it for you. The last couple of

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days on the podcast, there have
been write ins about weed and finances that

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vaguely loop around politics. I'm all
about finance, so I'm not here to

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talk drugs or take sides as much
as i am to throw out some historical

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statistics in general logistics. Again,
again, it's a lot, but it's

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a complicated topic. Why not let's
dive into it. Yeah, let's hear

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it. Regardless of the salary,
people are needed for every type of job

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to keep this country running. Someone
has to pick up garbage, deliver your

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mail, take your vitals at the
hospital, or teach your children. Some

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jobs are careers out of necessity,
and there are people who grew up not

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being pressured to go to college or
even have the funds, and don't make

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a fuss with the life they've been
given. I'd like to think most people

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take up a career because they're passionate
about it. Financial stability is great,

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but it's a luxury, and you
can't fault people for accepting mountains of debt

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for poor pay when the job they
are passionate about needs a degree. Regardless,

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it's not the teacher's fault they get
paid shit, nor is it their

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fault that they had to pay one
hundred thousand dollars for a degree. They

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needed a degree to teach and a
master's if they want to make more money.

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The caveat to all this is having
to pay the loans back and to

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an institution with no competition, so
they can pay pretty so they can pretty

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much charge you whatever they want.
Sure, you could choose a less expensive

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college, or pick a different career, or have the opportunity for scholarships.

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But why blame the student when the
real issue is the system and the question

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people should be asking is why does
the system allow this to happen? Let

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me explain in regards to millennials parents. Sure they were told to go to

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college, but their college was much
cheaper even when you oculate inflation. According

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to Forbes, the average annual cost
in nineteen eighty was ten thousand dollars in

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today's money. They could get a
summer job and pay for an entire year

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of school. A wedding in nineteen
eighty cost ten thousand dollars in today's money.

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Specifically, for Minneapolis, the average
price of a home in nineteen eighty

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was sixty four thousand, seven hundred
dollars or two hundred and fifty three thousand

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dollars in today's Sorry I had an
email come in one overtop of this,

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Okay, two hundred and fifty three
thousand in today's money for a house,

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the median household income was twenty three
thousand or eighty five thousand today. The

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meeting household income in Minneapolis in twenty
twenty three is seventy thousand. So not

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only have prices increased and exponential and
at exponential rates, but the income in

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the last forty years has stayed the
same and the Federal Reserve would have people

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believe the wage hikes are part of
the reason for inflation to get higher in

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the first place. We are playing
a game most aren't even aware of,

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in which we will never catch up
to and that is sickening to more paragraphs

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just you know. Yeah, this
isn't about left or right because quite frankly,

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they're all corrupt and we all know
it. Those right in the country

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are being legally bribed by corporate companies
to either pass certain bills or not aka

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lobbying, and some of the same
people that believed in trickle down economics in

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the eighties are still in office.
I am so sick of people picking fights

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over trivial issues when the economy is
collapsing from out of control government spending and

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corporate bailouts. Social Security will not
exist when I'm sixty five because they never

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intended it to last that long.
Wealth in the world is now out of

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balance, and not because those people
worked harder. Wealth isn't everything, but

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it becomes a lot more important when
the leaders of the world are fucking you

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over. It's not about giving people
money that didn't earn it. It's about

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giving people enough money so they can
simply live and realizing that if those standards

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aren't already in place, then there's
a problem. So don't blame the teacher

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for wanting to be a teacher.
Blame the institution that they decided they weren't

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worth a livable wage or an affordable
healthcare. Clop clop, clop, clop

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clap. There's one more paragraph.
I am aware I left out a lot

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of what ifs, like race disparity, race disparity, recessions, mental health,

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and other worldly problems of the last
forty years. But if I included

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them all, this would be a
thesis, not an email, and my

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point would remain the same. We're
not always in agreement with each other,

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but we're all being fucked over in
the same way. It's not an overnight

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fix, and I certainly don't have
the answer, but I know bitching at

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each other for their personal choices is
not going to change anything. They're doing

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the best they can, same as
you. So show some compassion, some

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grace, and except that not everyone
has the same story as you. In

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the end, what matters is what
helps everyone in some form or the other,

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not just to select few. It's
not socialism it's just kindness. I'd

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be really surprised if you read this, so thank you, I suppose if

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you do. I think that that
was very well written. Yep. And

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it is always interesting to find the
actual correlation between the price of tuition back

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in the day into what it would
be today and then like the cost of

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how and stuff like that. That's
always very interesting because I think sometimes people

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don't fully understand the inflation aspect of
it, and so like they think,

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like, you know, someone making
thirty thousand dollars in nineteen eighty, like

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that was good money. So then
they think, oh, well, you're

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making how much I made in nineteen
eighty What do you mean you don't make

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good money. That's how much I
made when I was like twenty three years

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old, And like that's not always
brought into the fact that thirty thousand doesn't

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get you very far nowadays. You
know, that argument is very frustrating.

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And I think we've had these discussions
before on the podcast on like what like

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like deserving quote unquote deserving a livable
wage and whether you deserve it or not.

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And I've said, if you work
full time, I do believe you

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do because in my point has always
been kind of what she said. We

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need people who are doing this,
that and this and that. Maybe you

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don't want to do it, but
we need someone to do it right.

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So if everyone said I'm not doing
that because blah blah blah. So anyway,

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I think I thought it was a
really well written email, and I

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really appreciate you writing and I'm glad
we got to read it, so thank

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you. We don't have a ton
of emails today. Those are the two

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main ones I got, so feel
free to email Ryan Show at KDWB dot

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com. And this is going to
be the shortest podcast maybe unless you had

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anything else you wanted to add today. Jenny, No, but if anyone

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I'm thinking about doing one thing and
I don't know, like listen, I

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don't have a good eye for design, like interior design, I should say

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specifically. And so I've been in
the middle of painting our half story,

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which is where our main bedroom is, and I am struggling because I painted

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it white because I just could not
grasp what was going to look good in

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there, because it is a decently
the large room and I couldn't pick just

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one color. And if I painted
it one color and I hated it right

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after, I would be so devastated. So I'm thinking about doing like some

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color blocking on walls, or like
putting a mirror up and kind of just

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like painting that specific area around the
mirror to kind of give it some pop

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and stuff. And so I'm wondering, like I kind of want to do

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the thing on TikTok where I'm like, all right, somebody helped me yea

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and post like a video on my
room and then have like hopefully someone pick

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it up where they have that design. But if you happen like this kind

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of a like I'm asking for help
right now, if you happen to know

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anything about interior design, you want
to reach out to me, holler at

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your girl. I'm not made of
money, so I don't know that I'm

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gonna be paying anyone a ton of
money to help me, but I'd appreciate

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any help or any suggestions someone might
have. I think that's great. I

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mean, there may be someone who's
just starting out and they need like to

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build a portfolio, yeah, portfolio
or something. All right, that's it.

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Have a great day. Thanks for
listening to the Minnesota Go bye,