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Welcome to our little show.
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There are some things that you should know.
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We've practiced what we're gonna say, but it will go wrong anyway.
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We've got the facts, we've got the charts, just not the social graces parts.
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So settle in and press that play and let awkward lead the way.
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It's the Certifiably Awkward Podcast.
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It's the Certifiably Awkward Podcast.
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Welcome back to Certifiably Awkward.
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I am one of your hosts, Amy.
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I'm Gabriella, and I'm Lena.
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One of the things that has been on my mind this week is proper use of grammar and the pronunciation of words, the proper pronunciation of words.
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And we were just sitting here having a conversation about all the words that when people say them wrong, and by wrong I mean socially acceptable way to say things.
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And per the dictionary, when they say them, it it grates on your nerves.
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So uh one of the things that drives me nuts is when someone says library.
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Oh my gosh.
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Library.
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Yes.
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I feel like a kindergartner is saying that when they, you know, because it's hard to get that other R in there.
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But library.
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These are like grown adults saying library.
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Library.
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Go to the library.
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Are there any words that drive you two nuts?
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One that drives me nuts is when people want to squash the warrant and squash the warrant.
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It's a phrase, right?
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Like, yeah, we we all work in the court system.
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We're uh attached to it, and people say that all the time.
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I need to get my warrant squashed.
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Instead of quash.
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This visual comes to your mind, doesn't it?
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Of taking a piece of paper and going, okay, now that you've appeared, we shall squash it.
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I'm gonna crumple it all out.
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I'm gonna crumple it up, I'm gonna throw it on the floor and just twist my foot on it and squash it.
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But the correct word is what now, Gabriella?
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Quash.
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Quash.
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Quash a warrant.
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So public service announcement, everyone.
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If you need to get your warrant taken care of, you are not squashing it.
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You are quashing it.
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That's true.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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I mean, we're always here to get public service announcements.
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I told you last week we're an informational podcast.
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We are educational.
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Another one, when someone's talking about a very specific information, a piece of information, they say Pacific.
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Oh, I hate that.
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Pacific.
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Uh, this is a very Pacific situation, you guys, that I have here.
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I Pacifically can't stand when people talk about Pacific situations.
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In the Northwest, no less.
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In the Pacific Northwest, no less.
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It is specific.
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I got one.
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You got one.
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What is it?
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Mischievous.
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Mischievous.
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How's is that the incorrect pronunciation or the correct pronunciation?
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Mischievous, I believe, is the incorrect pronunciation.
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Am I wrong?
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No, I think you are.
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I think you you are correct.
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No, you are wrong.
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No, you are correct.
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You are wrong.
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I after the V.
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Right.
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It's mischievous.
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Mischievous, but you're right.
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People, I mean, nine times out of ten say mischievous.
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They're so mischievous.
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I think it sounds better.
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Do you?
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Mischievous?
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It sounds more mischievous.
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Yeah.
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Mischievous sounds more mischievous.
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It does.
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It does.
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I'm gonna say that.
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Oh, and you know another one?
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Yeah.
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I hear a lot, I heard a lot because I used to be a barista espresso.
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Oh yes.
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It's espresso.
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There's no exposure.
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I want an express.
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It's espresso because it's quick, right?
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Expresso.
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Give it to me expressly.
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No, yeah, that's how you piss me off.
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Wow.
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I didn't know it was so easy to piss Lena on.
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I'm serious about my coffee, folks.
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I guess.
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I was just trying to trying to think of a way, and my mind would completely blank on how to use the next word in a sentence in relation to pissing you off, but um, supposedly.
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Oh no.
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Dear listeners, it's supposedly.
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Yeah.
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B is the worst alphabet.
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Is the worst letter in the alphabet?
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The letter in the alphabet.
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B is the absolute worst alphabet.
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Letter.
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Letter in the bell alphabet.
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Why is it the worst letter in the alphabet, Lena?
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It just sounds bad.
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B?
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B.
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Bad.
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B sounds bad.
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Bad.
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Hmm.
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I didn't know that.
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I don't like it.
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Um.
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Personal opinion.
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I think we have successfully come to the end of it later.
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No, no, no.
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I knew someone who said that instead of success, it was success.
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Success.
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Like the two C's were made it a soft S sound.
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Success.
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Well, I will say that I say the word oven incorrectly.
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At home, I always have said oven.
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My mom said oven.
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So I say that wrong.
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So people always, when I well, in the kitchen or something and they say that, then they're like, they're always like, what did you say?
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Put it in the oven.
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Put it in the oven, please.
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Or take it out of the oven.
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I will say that every I that's I I give it maybe a specially way to people whose language is not English.
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Their first language is not English.
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That's me, that's me.
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That's me not.
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That's me.
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Lina, that's me.
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That's me.
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I get forgiven for everything I say wrong.
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I'm amazing and I'm perfect.
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But Gabriela, you too, you spoke a Spanish as a child.
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So yeah, you're hearing different.
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But I'm talking about people like myself who were only ever spoke English in their homes and are still speaking it incorrectly.
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But I'm being um intolerant.
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No, but no, but I think you can always laugh like when people say Washington and they've been here their whole life and it's and there's no R in Washington folks.
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Or Oregon.
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Or Oregon.
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But that's usually not people from Oregon.
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That's people who move here or talk about Oregon.
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They say Oregon.
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Yeah, I don't say that.
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You never did?
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You never called it Oregon.
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That's weird.
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It just sounds weird.
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How about Salmon?
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Salmon.
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See, in my head, salmon can't be salmon because when I say it in Japanese, there is no L.
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It's salmon.
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And it's salmon.
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It's not salmon.
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You know what I mean?
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Well, there is no L found in uh the English language either in that word.
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It's salmon.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Have you seen, I don't know if any of you watched the um the show King of the Hill.
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No.
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It's an animated uh cartoon for not for children.
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And um it's you know, like this little rural pick town.
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And uh they're talking about the hipsters moving in, and one of the hipsters took over the um local taco shop.
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And this uh Hispanic individual comes up to Hank and says, Hank, they put salmon in my tacos, Hank! Salmon!
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Salmon!
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I've always loved that.
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So whenever I see fish tacos anywhere, I say, they're putting salmon in the tacos! Salmon!
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What about that what about epitome?
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I mean, that's the correct way of saying it's epitome.
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That was the correct way of saying it.
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But on Love Island recently they said Epitome.
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Epitome.
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One of the characters.
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No, I guess they're not characters, they're real life people.
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One of the characters.
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Well, I mean, one could argue that they're characters, right?
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They're playing characters, but yeah, he said epitome.
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And I couldn't help but think, was he reading it off or something?
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That's what I thought too.
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Who has ever used that word as say epitome?
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Epitome.
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Epitome, yeah.
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Uh Gabriella.
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One of the words that people mispronounce a lot is your name.
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Oh my goodness.
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Oh my god, all the time.
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Do they?
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And people don't even know.
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No, but you mean they don't know?
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They don't know that they're not.
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Because I mean they they think that they look at your name and they think, oh, I know how to pronounce Gabriela.
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Yeah.
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But they don't.
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I mean, I get Gabriel.
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I mean, there's an A at the end of my name, but they're reading it.
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It's a silent A.
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Okay.
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It's just there for looks.
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Or Gabrielle.
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Gabrielle with a soft A.
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That one really gets you.
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You don't like that soft.
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Well, I don't, I mean, and it doesn't have an A at the end either.
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So Gabrielle, Gabriel, um, Gabriella.
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Gabriella.
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Gabriella.
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Who in the world?
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Yeah, I've heard that one quite a bit.
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Oh.
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Gabby.
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Yeah.
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I'm not a big fan of Gabby.
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Don't call her Gabby.
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It's really.
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Do you not like Gabby because it insinuates that you're Gabby?
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No, I think it's just well, to pronounce my name, it's Gabriella.
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Yeah.
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Right?
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So I don't know if it just doesn't sound right.
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Like as a nickname, you always want to have it shorten your name of something.
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So but I don't know if Gabby just doesn't, I feel doesn't fit me.
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I don't know.
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Maybe it's just me.
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Or my mom has ingrained it in my head that Right.
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Your mom did not like Gabriela.
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I remember that.
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I remember that.
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Say it three times.
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Three times.
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If you ever shortened your name, your mom was like, um.
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Her name is so beautiful.
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Yeah.
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Gabriella.
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It is, but none of us can pronounce it like that.
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So Gabriella.
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Yeah.
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I don't have any nicknames.
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It's really hard to shorten Amy.
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That is true.
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I do remember in high school there was a couple of friends that would scream my name in the in the song format.
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Like I can't remember the name of the song, but it's Gabriella.
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You know, like they would scream that in the middle of the hallway.
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But that was always fun.
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To hear my name screamed.
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Lena, do you have any names?
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I just want to shorten Lena.
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You don't.
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Yeah, see.
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Yeah, you don't really shorten it.
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I mean yours three letters, mine's four letters.
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I don't think it could get any shorter than that.
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But um some of my friends call me Lena Beana.
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Lena Bean.
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Make it longer.
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Yeah, like that.
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I remember one person in elementary school uh called me Aim the toothpaste.
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Yeah.
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Because Aim, I guess.
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Yeah, because Aim is a type of toothpaste.
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So not a very creative name, and thankfully it did not stick.
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Is it type of toothpaste?
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Yeah.
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AIM, yeah.
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Next time you're at the store, look, it's aim.
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There's aim toothpaste.
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I'll only look for Colgate.
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Oh.
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Not sponsored.
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Aim the toothpaste.
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If you'd like to sponsor it, please reach out.
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Yeah, we're looking for sponsors,
guys.
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I will happily take on that nickname for a sponsorship.
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I'll go by whatever you want to call me.
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I just think that's really funny that your names are both like short and they make your name longer than it's not.
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And then mine they try and like make it shorter.
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Yeah.
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I mean I go by G, which can't get much shorter than that.
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That's true.
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For those who can't pronounce your name correctly.
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Yeah, I'd rather be called G.
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I feel like G is a cool letter though.
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You know, opposed to B.
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Yeah.
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B is the worst letter in the alphabet, and A is or G is pretty damn cool.
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I'm gonna say, like, if you call someone G, that sounds cool, but then you wouldn't call me like, hey, L.
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You know, it doesn't sound like a cool short letter.
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Unless your name is L.
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Like, uh, isn't that the main character in um Legally Blonde?
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Legally Blonde, that's the one I was thinking of.
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Yeah, but E-L-L-E, right, not just the letter L.
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Well shit.
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So Well shit.
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You're right.
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You're right.
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That actually is a pretty cool name.
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But not just back.
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I love that movie.
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I literally just watched that movie weeks last week.
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I love that.
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But it's funny how you don't think about that one.
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Like you don't think about that because you were just thinking on the specific letter, not the not the name.
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That's hilarious.
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I will take on any nickname.
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I uh dated a guy who called me Ami.
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I'm like, I'll take that anytime.
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That's cute.
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Yeah.
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Accents are a wonderful thing when you grow up not having one or hearing one.
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So only accents I heard as a kid was your family, your mom's.
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So I'm sorry.
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I loved it, you know.
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Um, I grew up across the street from Carilla, and her grandmother lived with her and who spoke very little, if any, English.
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And so I could not communicate with her very well, but she was a wonderful woman and provided us all sorts of delicious food.
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She did.
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And yeah, I heard the Spanish language a lot, but never picked it up.
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So nope.
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No, it didn't happen.
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It didn't happen.
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She chose French in high school.
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Um why?
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I did.
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Well, okay, so at our high school there was only two languages offered French and Spanish.
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And German.
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Well, okay, I meant excuse me.
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I think I meant middle school.
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I started language in middle school.
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It was French or Spanish.
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That's correct.
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Um, I mean, who's gonna switch once you get to high school after you started a language?
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But I mean, I could have, I should have.
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You're right, because I do not use French.
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But um, I don't know, I I thought French sounded it's the love language.
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It sounded fancy.
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I don't know.
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I just I don't know, I liked it.
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And then I took it 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, and then freshman year at college, too.
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So I took seven years of French.
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So you're like a pro.
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Oh yeah, I know nothing.
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Oh yeah, I know nothing.
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I know nothing.
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Because I'm now 50 and it's all gone.
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Because where where would one use French, right?
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In the Pacific Northwest.
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So in the specific in the specific northwest.
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Um one would not use the language of Francais.
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So I want to learn Spanish.
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I think if I could choose a language to learn, I would choose Spanish.
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Spanish and Chinese.
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Gabriella and I used to write notes back and forth in high school.
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I would write in French and she would write in Spanish, and we could almost understand each other because the languages are so similar.
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Wow.
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They're pronounced obviously differently, but spelling, like reading it, yeah, you can figure it out most of the words.
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So yeah.
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I forgot that we did that.
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We did, yeah.
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You guys are so cool.
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We were pretty clever.
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I mean passing notes in another language, two other languages, nobody would be able to read those.
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You know.
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We were cool, Lena.
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Do you think I would have been your friend if I was in high school with you guys?
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Of course.
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Um, Lena, you would.
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Oh, the hesitation.
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You're pretty damn.
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They're too cool for me.
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Um, I said yes, of course.
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She did say that right away, and I was just teasing you because that is what I do.
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Um, Lena, what's your name spelled backwards?
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She almost spit out her drink, I didn't.
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She did because she mentioned this before we started recording, and I told her she needed to share it, but alas, she has not shared, so I will ask her about it again soon.
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Lena, what is what is your nickname if one were to spell it backwards?
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Um so my name spelled is L-E-N-A.
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Backwards is A-N-E-L, which technically it's spelled wrong.
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You're right, you're right.
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But it's anal.
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An L.
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We'll say Anel.
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An L.
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Annel, that's better.
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Because no one wants the nickname of anal.
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I learned that in middle school when it would be the you know, the most fun time to learn that.
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Yeah, I I think I had more nicknames related to my last name than I did my first name.
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That's true.
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Yeah, so yeah.
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Yeah.
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Well, thankfully I didn't know what that was when I learned.
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When people told me, yeah, when people told me, oh, your your name backwards spells something bad, and I'm like, oh cool.
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I didn't know what it was.
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So you're like, what kind of lives were they living that they knew what anal was at that age?
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Hey, I don't know.
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I'm pure and perfect, so pure and perfect.
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Mom and dad, are you listening?
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She's still pure and perfect.
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Pure and perfect.
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So Lena uh has some what are we calling them?
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Advice?
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People asking for advice or things.
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Some awkward situations.
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Um not necessarily awkward situations, but you know, with all the life experiences we have combined.
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Um, together we are 229, 28 years old.
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I'm almost 50.
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Oh, that's right.
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Oh, sorry.
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I'm 28 there.
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Thank you.
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I am the eldest and I'm okay with that.
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I am older and wiser, you guys.
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So let me let me provide some advice to those people because I have lived a life, Lena.
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I haven't.
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No, no, she she really hasn't.
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Apparently.
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I just want to say that Gabriela is always giv is always on the daily giving me dating advice.
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Now I want you all to know she has not dated in 30 years.
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Years.
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That's true.
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When she was a child.
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Some of it's good.
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And she gives me dating advice.
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Some of it's good because I trust you blindly.
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But some of it's good.
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Some of it, some of it is good.
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Some of it, some of it, some of it is not so good.
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Some of it is not so good, and I say, I will say, this isn't probably the best advice.
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I don't have a clue what I'm talking about, but this is what I would do.
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Don't discourage people that are trying to get people to send us questions to give advice on.
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Also, coming from the woman who says if anything were to ever happen to her husband or she were to get divorced, she would never date anyone.
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I don't think I would.
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Because I don't think I can handle this.
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I don't think I can handle the world of dating in today's support.
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If we were on video right now, you would all see just she she she put her hand up and waved in my general direction and she said, I don't think I can handle all of this.
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I don't think so, because honestly, dating, from what I hear from my friends who are dating, dating today sounds like a nightmare.
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Well, and I don't know.
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I mean, I think part of it might be because it's dating today, but part of it also is dating in general?
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--> 00:18:24.640
In general, and as a woman of my age, in the second half of your life, right?
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Yeah.
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I mean, that's just, well, I should say second half, like I'm gonna live someone.
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You are, you're gonna live until you're a hundred.
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Lord help me.
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But I'm still dating at ABS.
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I might, I mean, just might need to stop taking Gabriela's advice at that point.
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But by that point, Pachel probably have some cool updates.
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At that point, they will create me a boyfriend.
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AI.
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I will have an AI boyfriend that I can upload into a robot of some sorts.
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I I prefer robot versus the wicker, like that movie The Wicker Man.
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Like a hologram?
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Like a hologram?
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Yeah.
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Oh no, the hologram can't touch you.
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You need to kiss somebody.
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Sorry.
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Somebody, something.
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Sorry.
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Alright, Lena, who needs advice from this?
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Alrighty.
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Um, okay, so I have three stories.
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I'm gonna start with the first one.
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It says, Women, would it be creepy to do this?
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Yes.
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So if you have to ask them, probably yes.
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Sorry.
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So he says, 27 male here.
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Um, I I have some bad bad anxiety.
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I want to start dating, but I have no idea how to approach women.
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I'm always nervous that I'm bothering them.
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I'm trying to put myself out there more.
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What I'm planning to do is go to an ice cream place I like, and if there's a woman ahead of me in line, try to strike up a conversation and maybe pay for her ice cream.
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I'm not trying to get laid or even get her number.
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Just talking and maybe paying for ice cream, but I hate to ruin her night like, ugh, I wanted a milkshake and this weirdo bugged me.
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Would I be creepy?
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Before anyone says anything, his uh ug, I wanted a milkshake and this weirdo bugged me, is 1000% what I always think.
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Whenever anyone talks to me.
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If I'm out and like even if it's not like a guy, just like somebody talks to me, I'm like, I just wanted ice cream.
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Okay.
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First of all, I that is not what my reaction would be when people talk to me.
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I on I've never had a random stranger offer to buy me anything.
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Um, but I want to know why he is going to an ice cream shop.
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That was my thought.
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That's my thought too.
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Because I, I don't know how old this person is, but I, as a single woman at 50, probably not going to the ice cream shop.
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Yeah, he said he was 27.
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Okay, he's 27.
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So, Lena, are you going to the ice cream shop frequently by yourself?
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Just to if you're at the ice cream shop.
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Not by myself, but I'll go with my friend pretty often.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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This is a thing people are doing.
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Amy, this is why.
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You need to go to the ice cream shop.
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Go to the ice cream shop.
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It isn't.
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I'm the everybody my age at the ice cream shop is taking their kids or their grandkids to get ice cream because I'm at the age where people either still have kids or they have grandkids.
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That's true.
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And I'm just not going to the ice cream shop.
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I didn't realize that was a weird thing.
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It is a weird thing at my age because there are people who had children in their late 30s, sometimes even 40s, especially men.
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Yeah.
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And yet there are also people who are having grandkids.
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I know lots of people my age or younger that have grandkids already.
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But like, wouldn't you go on like a date to an ice cream shop?
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I would, but then no man's gonna approach me.
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Well, yeah.
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Because I'm just a man.
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I mean, they might.
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I mean, bring it off.
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The more the merrier.
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But um, yeah, so that's my number one question is the ice cream shop.
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But I don't know, something like I mean if I'm all alone and someone goes, I'd love to buy your milkshake.
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I would be like Elliot.
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I would maybe say, yeah, that's why I bring it to the yard.
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Exactly.
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That's what I was thinking of.
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Uh yeah, no, I don't think it would be creepy.
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What would be a more appropriate place in your mind?
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Besides like a bar, because that's too cliche.
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It's too basic.
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Taco stand.
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Grocery store.
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By my sale.
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Like the 10 and under grocery, like you self-scan.
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You don't want them to buy your cart full of groceries for the colour.
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I mean, a wire for that, but like, oh my gosh, can you imagine?
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You got 10 bottles of wine in there.
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Um, I don't know what would be more appropriate.
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I guess it's just honestly so odd for people to approach you in public like that anymore.
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Maybe at a coffee shop.
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I could see someone buy me a coffee.
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Oh coffee shop.
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That's a good one.
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That's a very good one.
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That's a really good country.
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Here I am talking about taco stands, and you're talking about coffee, but you don't even drink coffee.
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So yeah, they could buy your chai.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, miss, I don't like coffee in the coffee shop.
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It's funny because off so off topic, I know I do this a lot, ladies.
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I'm sorry.
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But um, someone the other day, we were I I suggested that we go out, not a date, just a friend, to this new bakery and coffee shop, and they're like, Oh, can we go to a restaurant instead?
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I don't like coffee.
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I'm like, do you not know that they sell things other than coffee at coffee shops?
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Seriously.
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I just thought that was like okay.
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Maybe they don't like tea either.
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But I mean, there's water.
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There's always water.
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Something though.
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I mean, I feel like it's a different kind of plan.
00:23:39.839 --> 00:23:46.079
When you're trying to plan some with something with someone where you're going to get a coffee shop, shop versus a restaurant restaurant.
00:23:46.160 --> 00:23:48.799
Yeah, it's like a drink versus a meal.
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It's a difference in time that you're spending together and like the atmosphere.
00:23:54.240 --> 00:23:56.400
It's just a whole different kind of plan, I feel like.
00:23:56.799 --> 00:23:59.920
It is because coffee shop, you go, you order at the counter, you both pay separately.
00:24:03.279 --> 00:24:04.960
Easier to get in and not for me.
00:24:05.039 --> 00:24:10.079
I swear I'm at that coffee shop for like hours on end, and I'm like, Well, when you want to be, but it's easier to leave.
00:24:10.319 --> 00:24:10.640
I guess.
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Whereas a restaurant, you're stuck waiting for waitresses and checking out and all that kind of stuff.
00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:18.480
Yeah, I completely agree with you.
00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:18.960
Yeah.
00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:21.839
But um, but good answer to his uh taste.
00:24:22.160 --> 00:24:22.400
Thank you.
00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:24.960
Would you think it was weird if he offered to buy your coffee?
00:24:25.279 --> 00:24:25.759
Not at all.
00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:27.680
I mean, Lena just doesn't like people talking to her.
00:24:27.920 --> 00:24:28.240
That's true.
00:24:28.480 --> 00:24:31.279
I still would be like, why is he talking to me?
00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:36.319
So it literally I'd be scared to come up and talk to you, Lena.
00:24:36.559 --> 00:24:38.319
Yeah, that's why I'm single.
00:24:38.720 --> 00:24:42.160
You have you would have that like look of like you don't want to be disturbed.
00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:47.759
Maybe even like I feel like you would be in a sweatshirt with your hoodie up and like not wanting to talk to anybody.
00:24:47.920 --> 00:24:50.960
So if anybody did come up to you, you've got your hoodie up right now, you guys.
00:24:51.279 --> 00:24:51.920
Yeah, exactly.
00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:57.279
So if someone were to come up to you like and say offer, I would be like, well, obviously, she doesn't want to be talked to.
00:24:57.359 --> 00:24:58.799
Look at the way she's got her hoodie up.
00:24:58.880 --> 00:25:02.319
Like, there's some social cues that you would need to like pay attention to.
00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:04.160
For those who pick up on social cues.
00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:04.880
That is true.
00:25:05.039 --> 00:25:16.000
But if you're just standing around looking around and you know, seeing who's around the the coffee shop or something, then that would be someone I would be more apt to go talk to.
00:25:16.160 --> 00:25:16.799
Yeah.
00:25:17.920 --> 00:25:22.480
But what if I'm looking around and I'm not sure what you're doing.
00:25:22.640 --> 00:25:23.839
If you're still intact.
00:25:24.319 --> 00:25:32.240
If you right now are sitting somewhere looking around and you have your hoodie up like that, and you're looking around, I'm looking at you going, is she on something?
00:25:32.799 --> 00:25:33.200
100%.
00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:36.319
She's like looking around to see who's here, what's going on?
00:25:36.559 --> 00:25:36.960
Yeah, with her.
00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:38.480
Are they off looking for her?
00:25:38.640 --> 00:25:39.599
Is that drug dealing?
00:25:39.920 --> 00:25:41.039
What crime did she just commit?
00:25:41.119 --> 00:25:41.920
Is what I'm looking at.
00:25:42.160 --> 00:25:43.200
She about her on the channel.
00:25:43.599 --> 00:25:46.079
Some sort of uh she's got her laptop on the counter there.
00:25:46.240 --> 00:25:49.599
She's some sort of uh hacker terrorist.
00:25:51.599 --> 00:25:53.039
That's what Lima looks like, guys.
00:25:53.119 --> 00:25:53.680
Just so you know.
00:25:53.920 --> 00:25:56.960
She looks nothing like her little animated character on the YouTube page.
00:25:57.119 --> 00:26:00.799
So if you want to see a real picture, you can go to our website.
00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:02.000
It is on there.
00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:05.039
Certifiably awkward.com.
00:26:05.920 --> 00:26:08.079
I have to throw that in there a public service announcement.
00:26:08.319 --> 00:26:09.680
If you need a visual.
00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:16.640
It'll be my year-end goal to look more friendly.
00:26:16.880 --> 00:26:18.400
Well, okay, so September.
00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:19.119
I haven't done it yet.
00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:20.480
September is almost over.
00:26:20.640 --> 00:26:23.039
And September is sit up for women.
00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:25.279
Single women, sit at a bar September.
00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:31.279
You're supposed to go to a bar, sit by myself, go to a restaurant, sit by yourself, that's crazy, pants.
00:26:31.599 --> 00:26:34.160
Put your phone down and talk to people.
00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:36.799
And like can you do it?
00:26:37.119 --> 00:26:38.000
Look at people.
00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:38.799
Uh-huh.
00:26:39.440 --> 00:26:40.079
Yeah.
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Yeah.
00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:46.880
Like eye contact, actual conversations, initiate conversations.
00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:47.839
Can you do it, Lena?
00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:48.480
Oh no.
00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:49.920
Initiate is crazy.
00:26:50.720 --> 00:26:54.799
So Lena would be sitting at the bar, getting the drink, drinking it and out.
00:26:55.920 --> 00:26:57.359
She'd only talk to the bartender.
00:26:57.440 --> 00:26:58.079
She'd get a drink to the city.
00:26:58.160 --> 00:26:58.880
She's just gonna turn around.
00:26:58.960 --> 00:27:00.319
I would talk to the bartender.
00:27:02.720 --> 00:27:04.240
Oh, that's awesome.
00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:08.000
I just have to get a few drinks in me, and then I'm more talking friendly.
00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:10.720
Talk to the bartender more, get a few more drinks.
00:27:10.960 --> 00:27:12.799
But here's here's Lena's problem.
00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:15.279
She makes herself unapproachable by wearing her hoodie.
00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:15.759
Exactly.
00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:17.279
And giving resting bitch face.
00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:17.759
Exactly.
00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:19.440
But then she also won't talk to anybody.
00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:20.079
I know.
00:27:20.160 --> 00:27:20.319
Yeah.
00:27:20.480 --> 00:27:23.279
You're not gonna date unless you let me start swiping for you again.
00:27:23.599 --> 00:27:26.000
Well, that didn't go well last time.
00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:27.680
Give me another chance.
00:27:27.920 --> 00:27:31.200
Yeah, I mean that was just the first opportunity that we had.
00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:35.119
Alright, read another uh advice request to us.
00:27:35.680 --> 00:27:40.000
Um I'll do one that's not dating related.
00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:40.559
Okay.
00:27:41.119 --> 00:27:42.480
This one's for you, Gabriella.
00:27:44.240 --> 00:27:45.200
This is a girl.
00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:48.079
She said, I don't have friends to do stuff with.
00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:51.440
She's 24, turning 25 this Thursday.
00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:56.559
She has some friends, but she feels like I just I need to start over with the the she.
00:27:57.119 --> 00:28:01.680
She says, I have some friends, but I feel like I have a bunch of separate friends, not like a group.
00:28:01.920 --> 00:28:04.079
I guess I would like to have more friends in general.
00:28:05.440 --> 00:28:07.119
I know I could do more on my end.
00:28:07.279 --> 00:28:08.720
Checking in, making plans.
00:28:08.799 --> 00:28:16.319
I can be outgoing and a good conversationalist, but I think it's only first encounters, and then after that, it's kind of hard for me to keep up.
00:28:16.559 --> 00:28:19.599
What can I do to make more friends and more genuine connections?
00:28:21.039 --> 00:28:23.200
Well, it sounds like she has friends already.
00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:28.960
She just isn't good at bringing them together and or making plans.
00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:42.640
So I guess my suggestion would be to like once a month host an event or just schedule something like hey, I'm let's go to and pick a bar, pick a location, and pick a something, invite them all and see who comes.
00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:47.039
I mean, I don't also know how many people were talking here, but or she could host like something at her house.
00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:49.200
You're giving me a weird little thing.
00:28:49.359 --> 00:28:50.880
No, I'm just thinking, I'm just thinking.
00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:58.240
I think she was asking, like, she has friends, but they're all like sp how I understood it is like they're specific.
00:28:58.319 --> 00:28:59.039
Like maybe she does yoga.
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Specific?
00:28:59.839 --> 00:29:00.000
Yeah.
00:29:01.920 --> 00:29:02.559
Yes.
00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:12.240
Like maybe they have she has friends that only do like yoga or they do crafting or they do something that she doesn't high have a versatile friend that's like like a bestie.
00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:17.279
That's how I interpreted it, but um I'm not sure.
00:29:17.599 --> 00:29:24.000
I guess you would just continue to like do stuff, maybe try and do stuff like you said, try and do something outside of that.
00:29:24.400 --> 00:29:34.480
Yeah, I was gonna say I would interpret it as like she's got all these friends from different arenas in her life, but they don't all like like she's not doing
anything with like I only do yoga with this person and this person here, and this person and that.
00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:53.440
Um I also will say, as a socially anxious person myself, sometimes when I have friends from different groups or different activities, different parts of my life, it feels really weird to bring them together in one social setting.
00:29:53.839 --> 00:30:03.039
It does 100% like I don't a part of me would feel like I have to entertain everybody at once, I don't really know how to do that.
00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:04.319
What if people don't get along?
00:30:04.480 --> 00:30:06.640
What if somebody feels like neglected?
00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:09.279
You know, it's a lot to have to worry about.
00:30:09.599 --> 00:30:16.000
So I guess in a sense, it would be easier to just find a big group of friends in one single setting.
00:30:16.559 --> 00:30:23.279
But if you don't have that, then how do you figure out the bringing people together and making a big group of friends?
00:30:23.359 --> 00:30:25.599
You know, I think I think that's hard to do as an adult.
00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:27.440
It is, it's very hard to do as a adult.
00:30:27.680 --> 00:30:31.039
Making friends as an adult is very difficult.
00:30:31.599 --> 00:30:32.720
I would agree.
00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:35.279
I disagree.
00:30:36.079 --> 00:30:38.799
Well, okay, you make friends very easily.
00:30:39.200 --> 00:30:45.759
I think if I were to like transplant myself, like if I were to move to Maine, Portland, Maine, and I don't know a single soul.
00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:48.160
Uh putting yourself out is hard.
00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:49.119
Absolutely.
00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:51.599
Like doesn't I would totally do that.
00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:53.279
Why Portland, Maine?
00:30:53.519 --> 00:30:55.440
Because it's just some random place that I've never been to.
00:30:56.319 --> 00:30:57.519
Out of all the places in the world.
00:30:57.759 --> 00:30:59.119
Portland, Oregon, Portland, Maine.
00:30:59.599 --> 00:31:01.119
Just something like I I've never been there.
00:31:01.519 --> 00:31:03.680
Yeah, I've never been there in my life, so why not?
00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:04.640
Like, I'm totally going to be.
00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:07.519
A Pacific?
00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:08.480
A Pacific reason.
00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:09.519
Pacific reason.
00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:18.079
Um, but I mean it would be hard because you don't obviously know anybody, they don't know any of your history but or what you were like growing up or anything like that.
00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:23.359
But that's kind of a nice thing too, because nobody knows you can like reinvent yourself.
00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:23.759
Yeah.
00:31:23.920 --> 00:31:30.079
And being able to put yourself out there is obviously hard to do, but you do that because you want to connect with somebody.
00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:30.559
Yeah.
00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:30.960
Yeah.
00:31:31.200 --> 00:31:41.759
I I just feel like it's not as difficult because I am used to putting myself out there, and I've made a lot of friends in the last few years putting myself out there in the dating world, right?
00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:47.599
Um, both and I've made both women and men friends that way because of the speed dating events.
00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:48.960
I talked to all the ladies too.
00:31:49.119 --> 00:31:49.519
Oh yeah.
00:31:49.759 --> 00:31:52.559
So yeah, you I still gotta try that one day.
00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:53.440
You do.
00:31:56.720 --> 00:31:57.200
We should go together.
00:31:57.279 --> 00:31:58.720
Our age groups aren't the same though.
00:31:58.799 --> 00:32:00.720
We'd have to find one where it was a very wise.
00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:03.920
I'd be like over the age gap and she'd be under the age gap.
00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:04.960
But yeah, it's okay.
00:32:05.200 --> 00:32:05.920
It's okay.
00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:08.480
Everybody like and we I'd go to the younger ones, right?
00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:10.160
Because you know, I could be a cougar too.
00:32:10.240 --> 00:32:12.960
And uh and they'd be like, Who is this old lady?
00:32:13.119 --> 00:32:14.480
And why is she here?
00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:16.960
I'm here to hook you up with my friend Lena.
00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:20.720
Or I can go to like an older one.
00:32:20.960 --> 00:32:21.680
Oh, that's true.
00:32:23.599 --> 00:32:24.160
How old?
00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:24.960
Yeah, right.
00:32:25.119 --> 00:32:27.599
Yeah, because you're 29.
00:32:27.920 --> 00:32:34.880
Yeah, yeah, um, but yeah, I mean, absolutely you have to put yourself out there, but yeah, it's worth it, in my opinion.
00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:35.519
100%.
00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:37.119
Yeah, but you just have to do it.
00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:38.000
Yeah, I would agree with that.
00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:53.839
And I think that is like the hardest part for people as adults, is because you don't have that nucleus of like friends that knew you all along and know how you act and react to certain things, and so having to do that from scratch is really hard to do for a lot of people.
00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:55.680
I also think it's exhausting sometimes.
00:32:57.920 --> 00:33:08.880
And just having friends and maintaining friends in general, because I am the person in uh in my like work friend group, I am the one who has to organize everything.
00:33:09.039 --> 00:33:18.400
If I don't plan something, like it never happens, and and it's it's exhausting sometimes being the only one doing that, and then you kind of stop doing it, and then you realize no one else is gonna do it.
00:33:18.720 --> 00:33:21.440
So do you want to see these people or not?
00:33:21.839 --> 00:33:22.960
You gotta make that decision.
00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:24.160
Sometimes I don't feel like it.
00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:47.519
So yeah, because I realize growing up that like I mean, when you're in school and you're you know young, it's very easy to make friends make friends, meet new
people because you're in school, you're with the same people all the time, like you just become friends with the people you see every day, and then all of a sudden you get thrown into the adult world, and you realize oh, it's not like that when you're an adult.
00:33:47.839 --> 00:33:49.680
Unless it's work friends and sometimes, yeah.
00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:50.640
Exactly.
00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:59.440
And I guess I realized kind of early on in adulthood that oh, a lot of my friends that I have are people that I've met through other friends.
00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:05.759
So once I moved here, because I moved here about five years ago, and I knew nobody, not a single soul.
00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:08.079
And so I kind of she did that.
00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:10.159
She she transplanted to Portland, Maine.
00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:12.719
Yeah, to Portland, yeah, to Portland, Maine.
00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:14.239
My own version of Portland Maine.
00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:15.039
Exactly.
00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:21.119
And I had to kind of build that up from scratch, and it's it was difficult.
00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:25.920
Like I finally, five years later now, feel comfortable where I'm at.
00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:37.840
I like I love my friends, I feel like I have a good group of friends, but it took a little while to find my people and like realize who was for me and who wasn't.
00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:40.480
And I mean, I tried all the different things.
00:34:40.559 --> 00:34:42.159
I've tried Bumble BFF.
00:34:42.880 --> 00:34:43.760
I've never done that.
00:34:44.239 --> 00:34:46.320
It's it's interesting.
00:34:46.559 --> 00:34:47.920
None of them stuck.
00:34:48.719 --> 00:34:52.320
Um but it's a good you know, experience.
00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:55.119
Yeah, you just kind of have to put yourself out there, I think.
00:34:59.039 --> 00:35:00.000
Any more words?
00:35:00.239 --> 00:35:01.760
Um, I have one left.
00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:06.000
Oh, okay.
00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:07.679
Okay.
00:35:08.079 --> 00:35:11.199
What does it mean when a guy high-fives you at a bar?
00:35:12.239 --> 00:35:20.559
She says, I have experienced this on a I have experienced this on a few different occasions while out at the bars.
00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:26.480
I'll just be standing there and a guy passing by will put his hand up initiating a high five.
00:35:26.800 --> 00:35:30.639
They will rarely ever say anything but smile before walking off.
00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:34.239
It's very strange, and this has happened to me a few times now.
00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:36.880
Has anyone else experienced this?
00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:39.119
I'm trying to understand the point of it.
00:35:39.679 --> 00:35:43.119
I chose this one because it sounds like something that would happen to you, Damiana.
00:35:44.079 --> 00:35:44.639
Thanks.
00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:52.559
Uh I have been I've given high fives at a bar, but I just keep on walking.
00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:57.840
Like I don't like stop
and like what if somebody just like comes up to you and high-fives you.
00:35:58.159 --> 00:36:05.119
I think it's just like a hey, and I just was like, hey, and just keep on walking, but I don't ever initiate a conversation with them.
00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:20.559
But like if I'm just talking with my friends, it's usually like we're passing by each other, like and you like no interact, no interaction, it's just like one's going one way, I'm going, like, we're going opposite directions, and it's like, hey, high five, and I'm like, hey, whatever, right?
00:36:20.719 --> 00:36:25.840
But never when I'm with my friends, would has someone come up to me and given me a high five.
00:36:26.079 --> 00:36:27.119
You're so nice.
00:36:27.360 --> 00:36:31.519
If somebody came up to me to give you a high five, we'd be like, Don't fucking touch me.
00:36:34.079 --> 00:36:36.400
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Lena.
00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:38.800
Do not approach her in public.
00:36:39.039 --> 00:36:44.159
If the resting bitch face and the hoodie are not enough, don't worry, she will tell you.
00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:45.039
Don't touch her.
00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:46.159
Don't touch me.
00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:47.679
Don't touch Lena.
00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:51.840
I have never been high-fived, but um, I could see it happening.
00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:54.480
But yeah, I know you don't know that I would ever do it.
00:36:54.559 --> 00:37:05.119
My the first thing that came to mind was kind of wondering to know how old she was because I'm like, is it sort of a like, you know, frat guy thing in a bar going, hey, how many women can you get to high five you or something like that?
00:37:05.440 --> 00:37:06.400
But I don't know.
00:37:06.559 --> 00:37:09.199
Um, that was just what immediately came to mind.
00:37:09.280 --> 00:37:10.800
But I I don't know.
00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:14.239
Maybe they just, you know, want to touch you.
00:37:14.880 --> 00:37:16.239
Yeah, don't you can't touch me.
00:37:16.320 --> 00:37:17.599
I don't think just your hand.
00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:20.400
I was just gonna say, I don't think I don't know where that hand's been.
00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:24.559
Right, but I mean, I carry hand sanitizer.
00:37:24.800 --> 00:37:26.559
We're humans, they don't know where my hands been.
00:37:26.719 --> 00:37:28.559
Humans need contact, Lena.
00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:30.639
Human contact, hi five me, Lena.
00:37:32.159 --> 00:37:34.719
Um she's like, that's it for the day.
00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:36.719
I've had enough human contact now.
00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:38.000
I'm tapped out.
00:37:38.239 --> 00:37:39.280
All tapped out.
00:37:39.519 --> 00:37:43.199
Yeah, I don't know if there's like anything that there's any hidden meaning behind it.
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I'm like, I don't know.
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But isn't it weird that it's happened to her multiple times?
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Maybe she just has that kind of energy, like she
looks like a fun person.
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A high five.
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Yeah, yeah.
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But is she like sitting at a bar drinking and then like like come up to her, tap her and be like, hi five?
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Or is she like walking or playing pool and they're like, oh hey, hi.
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Like there's different, like I think it'd be more weird.
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That's the context.
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Yeah, I think it'd be more weird if you were like out with your group of friends having a conversation like we're doing, and someone comes, taps me on the shoulder and be like, hi five.
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That'd be weird.
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I'd be like, right, right.
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Don't tap me on the shoulder.
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Yeah, that's don't don't touch me on the shoulder.
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What is a personal space, people?
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I don't care if you can touch me.
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I just can't.
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Why are people touching each other?
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I hardly call human contact in kindergarten.
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We learn to keep our hands and feet to ourselves.
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I hardly think like tapping someone on the shoulder is like invasion of space.
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Yeah, like I think I you can do arm's length and tap someone on the shoulder.
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I mean, it's not like it's not like you remember when you were in elementary school and the boys would snap your bra.
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Like, that's invasion of space.
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That didn't happen to you.
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Oh, that was such a thing at my my elementary school.
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Boys were getting in trouble, let me tell you.
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Boys used to pants each other.
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No, pantsing, that's not okay.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, one on the board.
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I don't need to see that.
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Only one?
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Yeah, because he pulled all the layers down.
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Oh, that happened once to us.
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That was in high school.
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Oh my god! Different situation.
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We won't talk about that one.
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Maybe on another episode.
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On another episode, maybe.
00:39:28.239 --> 00:39:34.880
Gabriela's uh Gabriella and Amy's adventures senior year at high school were quite interesting.
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One of the fru one of the very few times I ever had to talk to a principal.
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So goodness.
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Well, thank you, Lena.
00:39:46.639 --> 00:39:51.519
And uh listeners, if you would like our advice on anything, please reach out to us.
00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:53.440
Gavrilla gives the best dating advice.
00:39:53.599 --> 00:39:54.719
She is dying.
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She is dying to help you with your situation.
00:39:58.960 --> 00:40:02.639
Um actually, I think Amy's wanting to get dating advice.
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I will commiserate with all of y'all because I'm sure we all have the same stories, similar situations, both men and women, because dating out here is tough, peoples.
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If you're out there putting yourself out there, bless you.
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Kudos to you.
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And folks, if anyone touches you, remember, tell them to stop fucking touching you.
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Or not.
00:40:27.519 --> 00:40:29.039
Um, Amy says, or not.
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Um so yes, certifiably awkward.com is our website.
00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:40.960
You can contact us through there or our social media, Instagram or Facebook, Certifiably Awkward.
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And uh yeah, we will see you next time.
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Bye.
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Bye.