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Join us this week where we dive into estate planning for blended families! In Texas, without a clear Will, assets like your home could end up divided in ways you didn’t expect, leading to potential family conflicts.

We’ll explore common issues like assets being split between stepchildren and surviving spouses, and share real-life stories from unexpected heirs to surprises in probate. We'll also discuss essential tools such as premarital agreements and trusts that help keep things clear and fair for everyone involved. 

Plus, don’t miss Sam and Sara’s segment: "Things You Shouldn't Blend"—a reminder that some things, just like family matters, require careful mixing.

Tune in to find out how to create an estate plan that handles the unique challenges of a blended family and keeps everyone’s peace of mind.

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Introduction to Wills and Estate Planning

00:00:03
Speaker
Welcome to another episode of One of Us Knows What They're Talking About. Another one is you. I'm Lori Burch, your host. Join us as we discuss and unpack wills, trust, estate planning, and probate law in a way that's actually informative, interesting, and well, hopefully entertaining. Because if you don't have a will, the state of Texas has one for you. Let's dive in.

Understanding Blended Families

00:00:40
Speaker
We're going to talk ah about, I haven't looked at Sam and Sarah's list. I don't want to. and I wouldn't. It's better if I don't. ah state planning ah Estate planning, planning for blended families. who What are what are blended families? It's when you take, um man, no, I'm not going to say that. Let's be very delicate. and He has to say it.
00:01:13
Speaker
Blended families. Well, Sarah's recording, I won't say it anyway. Okay, good. Because you can't trust her to edit it out. Oh, God, no, I don't want this to be recorded anywhere. um But blended families is when you take um people who have been in sometimes prior marriages, sometimes just prior relationships, and they come with, I don't know, other people and kids, and they just kind of squish them together. I'm a blended family.
00:01:44
Speaker
You're a blended family? Yeah. i'm the I'm the only pure child between my parents. Pure? Wow. I knew this would come up. Put this down. Pure. Pure. Are you purebred? Okay. Yeah. Are you Nazi Germany? Jeez, Sam.
00:02:08
Speaker
ah Oh, but my, um, my parents had a kid each before me and then got married. Well, they got married after I was born, but. who So I'm also an addict. I'm a wind fuck out of it. Geez, Sam, you're just like calling out your family. I, so I sit it over Christ at Christmas and my mom was like, yeah, you're a bastard. Fair.
00:02:36
Speaker
but Wait, I need to remember isn't like one of them technically your cousin. your No, they're technically cousin. Oh your sister Oh, yeah Sorry, you're hearing this. That's mom. But yeah, like Tony my sister on my dad's side No, my sister on my mom's side her dad has a twin that twin is had children with the mother of my other sisters. Mother, me too. We're gonna need to sugar pocket this out for Sarah. Yeah, I had to do it. I'm trying to draw the door. I had to do a diagram last time for you guys. You did, because it was necessary. But they're cousins. yeah So they're half siblings and also cousins. They're not siblings they're siblings through me.
00:03:29
Speaker
They're step-siblings. Oh, because you're the great uniter, Sayama. There are siblings to your parents, not you. You had nothing to do with that. Okay, they're step-siblings and also cousins.

Estate Planning for Blended Families

00:03:42
Speaker
Yes. So sorry to my family for this. It's fine. ah So not to be outdone, but I do ah do need to share a little bit of a blended family story. So my father has you know, been married and divorced a handful of times. And so the wife after my mom, no, the wife after the wife after my mom. Yes, she, ah she, when they started dating or hanging out, she had a three year old. And so she started referring to her mom's new friend as Uncle Lauren.
00:04:28
Speaker
And which I think that's kind of a strange thing just to refer to non-relative adults as uncle or aunt, but that's and that that's actually not the thrust of my story. So uncle Lauren, and then they decided to be more serious and open about their relationship and they got engaged to be married. And so my father was going to become her father and her mother was just very,
00:04:56
Speaker
ah Open about letting her daughter just explore ah How she wanted to express her feelings and everything and so we went through a really fun transition period Where she called my father? Uncle daddy Mm-hmm. Oh and Which I I'm fine with behind closed doors, but it was said way too much in public. much in yeah i think That's the piece of it. Whenever it gets to other people, it's like, I'm sorry, do we need to call? Cause when you, when you know, the context is kind of sweet, right? But when you hear this out in public,
00:05:48
Speaker
Uncle Daddy, I don't know that you really know what to make of that. And I think the true story is probably the last thing you would think of. Yeah, yeah. Sarah, do you have any blended family stories?
00:06:08
Speaker
No, I, I am part of a blended family, but it's not. There's no drama, there's no Sarah, I'm sorry, but the fact that everybody shows up for the holidays, no matter what, is a little odd. Even if you're like remarried to somebody else and you bring along your, it's a little odd. They do it, they did it in my family too.
00:06:35
Speaker
A little odd. They do what? Sarah. Okay. So, but blended families are, that does bring a definite wrinkle to estate planning when when it comes to planning in Texas specifically. And um so when we talk about some of the demographics of people who are most in need of making sure that they have a solid estate plan, we usually say blended families are one of the highest on that list.
00:07:07
Speaker
and one of the reasons is because of

Scenarios in Blended Family Planning

00:07:12
Speaker
how it interplays with community property being a community property state and so a scenario that I'll run through is let's just use a house because people's homes are something that that are sometimes people's greatest if not most emotional asset that they have so if you let Let me just run through this scenario. Let's say we have a hypothetical couple named Joe and Sarah. Sorry, Sarah, but this is what I'm used to giving the example for. And it's actually not a hypothetical couple. i mean So Joe was married before, had two kids, got divorced, met Sarah, Sarah with an H, we'll just say that. Yeah, ah met Sarah.
00:08:03
Speaker
Got married, bought a house, Joe's driving home one day on the tollway, gets in a car accident, passes away, no will. Who owns the house? It's complicated.
00:08:17
Speaker
I mean, it's complicated, but it is a clear answer. Do I need to be concerned that nobody knows the answer? Oh, I thought you were just being like, who owns the house? And you were going to keep going. I'm just curious, like in that scenario,
00:08:32
Speaker
Does anybody know?
00:08:37
Speaker
Excellent. Okay. Well, Sarah looks like she was going to answer. Hold on. No. Take a stab, Sarah. um Sarah's the one who needs to know that answer the least. I've seen the video before. Oh, great. Great. Remember? Okay.
00:09:03
Speaker
So like this is painful. So like let me take yeah my misery. And so the fact that Joe has children from another marriage triggers community property, uh, state laws in Texas, where those children would actually inherit his half of the community property. Sarah would retain hers.
00:09:23
Speaker
And then what gets extra fun is let's say the kids are underage and you can't inherit money or property outright if you're underage. So Joe's got to or the court has to appoint someone to oversee the kids inheritance. Who do you think a judge would likely select?
00:09:43
Speaker
Their other parent. Their other parent, their mom. So essentially, joe ah Sarah ends up managing her home with her deceased husband's ex-wife. So it's one illustration of the fun.
00:10:01
Speaker
of the blended family situation. And I'll go a step further and something that I don't think you learn in law school, I've learned it the hard way with having the the fact pattern play out with actual cases. But when somebody gives a child up for adoption,
00:10:21
Speaker
or severs their parental rights. That's actually only severing the rights that the parent has to the child, but not necessarily airship rights of the child to the parent. And so if you have one of these situations where um someone passes away without a plan,
00:10:44
Speaker
then these children will be considered heirs of the deceased person. And it can trigger all the things of ah bank accounts asset other assets homes and all of that actually going not to a surviving spouse but being shared with other others and Speaking of the Sam situation in your case There is a child of the marriage. So let's say Joe and Sarah had a child together and Then same scenario he dies without a will and
00:11:23
Speaker
Who owns the house then? Does that change anything? Well, not Sarah. Sam's still his child, so. So because there's still children from a different relationship or outside the marriage, his half gets divided among all his children. So that would include a child that Joe and Sarah had together, as well as the two other children. Whoo.
00:11:53
Speaker
its just It's just wild and wacky stuff. um The other thing is that when you have um adult stepchildren and part of the, you know, yeah the bottom line, I mean, the answer to all of this stuff is to get a plan in place and get it done the right way with a knowledgeable law firm that knows how to guide you because you don't want to be in these situations when,
00:12:22
Speaker
when it's too late and or when emotions are at a high. And so it happens with adult stepchildren quite often as they do have more leverage than some another family member when it comes to is someone in the hospital. Are there medical decisions that need to be made? um We already talked about inheritance, but what about if you have Alzheimer's or dementia and there needs to be a guardian appointed?
00:12:51
Speaker
adult children are are almost considered on an equal playing field as a spouse, and that can just lead to a lot of confusion, a lot of battles, and so forth. In fact, there was a time quite some time ago that the Collin County probate judge told me that the number one probate contest in his court is stepchildren and their step-parent. He said that is the number one reason for fighting in his court because it's
00:13:29
Speaker
It's messy. It can be messy. The other thing that sometimes people have to think about, especially since it is a community property state, is how do they want to treat the kids? Because, you know, anybody can do what they want, right? the I often say in client meetings, it's Burger King, have it your way.
00:13:48
Speaker
But typically, a married couple with children will say, if I die, I want everything to my spouse, vice versa. If we both pass, then equally to our kids. And you know if they're underage, then it can go into a trust. Here's the trustees. But they' if they're adults or of age, then it just equally goes to them. I mean, that's kind of the bread and butter standard. And even if that's your plan, and even if that's the default laws of Texas, that the cost and time to get there,
00:14:17
Speaker
is is really ridiculous, frankly, that if you just have a proper plan in place, you can get to the same conclusion Texas would get for you, but you can get there much more quickly and efficiently and less expensively by having a plan in place. So that's the most common thing. But what do we do when we have children from a

Strategies for Equitable Outcomes

00:14:41
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previous relationship or marriage? Do we still want to treat them all equally?
00:14:49
Speaker
do What if there's a huge age disparity? Let's say you get remarried a little bit later, you already have adult kids, but then you get remarried, and now you've got young kids. and The fact of the matter is is, these older kids are launched or maybe they're already in college. and If something happened to you and your spouse, the little ones are much more reliant on having these adults who are no longer there to be taking care of them. so Do you decide to allocate more money, more assets? like how do you account for that scenario. How do you account for this scenario where if you have children just from your marriage, but then there's children outside that marriage, you know, in theory, and trust me, this doesn't always work out that way, but in theory, those kids have a whole nother parent to rely on if if you you and your spouse die. But if you and your spouse die, the kids you have together only have you to rely on.
00:15:48
Speaker
And so what actually makes the most sense of how how to plan in for that? And then we have another scenario that we see quite often where ah people get remarried later in life. Maybe they've been widowed or or whatnot, and they are getting married for the love and companionship that marriage brings.
00:16:09
Speaker
and but but not for any sort of financial need so they want to make sure that if they pass away that that whatever's there goes theirs goes to their kids uh and then that can be a little a little nuanced so this is actually where pre-marital or post-marital agreements can be quite quite helpful as unromantic as people think they are. They think this is only in contemplation of a marriage dissolving, but it actually can help with an estate planning pleat piece to make sure that we've made very clear whose assets and what portion of assets belong to each person and how would those then be distributed upon death.
00:16:54
Speaker
and there's lots of strategies we can employ and sometimes it does it does add complexity. I mean we have situations where you do a premarital agreement and then they have each have their own trusts for their own separate assets and then they have a joint trust for any joint assets and that can sound really complicated and convoluted but
00:17:21
Speaker
not if, but when the time comes, it actually can streamline the distribution of what you have, whether it's homes, bank accounts, life insurance, retirement, much more easily. I mean, there's other strategies. none None of this is, you know, one size fits all. I mean, maybe it's just retirement accounts or life insurance that you can control through a beneficiary that you want to go to your kids rather than your spouse. But

Challenges and Personalized Advice

00:17:45
Speaker
it's all things that are on the table that people really need to consider. And one of the tools because I know that the three of you are just chomping at the bit to chime in here and talk about it. But one of the tools you could employ is you could instead of just dividing everything equally, if you've got ah his hers and ours situation,
00:18:11
Speaker
is put it into a pooled trust upon your death, meaning it's one one lumps you know the the the assets are still controlled in one trust. and then you can so so that different needs are taken care of so it doesn't have to be equal distribution and let's say you do that until the youngest maybe turns 25 So then you're then the thought is they're all launched. They're all good to go So the youngest is 25 now cash it out and then everything that's left is treated equally And then finally, and this isn't specific to a blended family situation, although it does come up there, is if each spouse has a different idea of who they want their assets to go to,
00:18:56
Speaker
Sometimes it's a matter of, well, do you say spouse one, you have 50%. So you say where your 50% goes and spouse two, you have your 50%. You get to say where your 50% goes. So let's say spouse one has one child and spouse two has two children.
00:19:15
Speaker
So 50% would be divided among two children, whereas 50% for the spouse one would go to one child. So it's not equal, but is it equal? Is it equal from the parents? So some some couples like that scenario. Other couples like the scenario where you have two, I have one divided equally among all three of them. So each one gets a third.
00:19:35
Speaker
Are you all following me? Yeah, but I have a question. So let's i say die that it is a blended family and then i I feel that like you know we we settle on what we want, but then my spouse dies and I decide I can change everything. Can I do that? I mean, usually yes, depending on how you have things set up, there's ways to prevent that from happening, but you have to decide between ease and accessibility versus control. And some people will choose the um
00:20:12
Speaker
honor system with their surviving spouse. It's really the honor system. Whenever they start talking about it, you're like, Oh, yeah. ah but for You know what, I, I'm not here. Like ah the clients that come to us, we don't know them personally. We just need to present all the options and scenarios, particularly worst case scenarios. And then it's always the client's job to decide what they want to do.
00:20:37
Speaker
And so if they say that they absolutely trust their surviving spouse to make sure that they won't cut out their kids, then I'm going to trust them because I think that all three of you would agree.
00:20:51
Speaker
that if I told Kimberly that if something happens to her first, I will make sure that the two older kids are not cut out. I think all three of you, knowing us, would be like, we would take that to the bank. There is that there is no doubt in our minds that Lori would do that.
00:21:10
Speaker
So I'm not gonna play that position of, no, you gotta do it this way, you gotta do it that way. I present the scenarios, we present worst case, best case, and then we have to rely on our clients making their own informed choices, informed choices. The other part is sometimes it's, I love this expression. Sarah, can you find a better expression that gets across the same idea as lesser of two evils?
00:21:41
Speaker
There's got to be something. There's got to be something. Well, she's so good with the words. Right. She's a word smith, if you will.
00:21:54
Speaker
There's just got to be something better. But but basically it the solutions do make things more complicated. It takes control away from surviving spouses. It involves other people, whether it's trust companies or ah third parties or family members. And so it's it's not always pretty. There can also be tax consequences involved with it. But again, you've got to decide what your' what the priorities are because there's there's pros and cons. There's no there's no magic wand. What are we giggling about? How do you feel about best of a bunch of of a bad bunch? Best of a bad bunch? I'm laughing at
00:22:36
Speaker
ah Mine's very similar, the better of two bad options. that will That actually sounds like, if I said, Sarah, can you define lesser of two evils? That actually sounds like the definition you would give to me. It's just kind of re- use some synonyms and reorder the words. That's how Sarah defines things. How about at least a tremendous option?
00:23:05
Speaker
The more tolerable choice. Oh, oh, OK. I like that. The more tolerable. Oh, Sarah but in in that one. Okay. About. You need to put this in our channel among. un Wait, Cynthia, you got to start over. I got to hear the whole thing. Most favorable among undesirable choices.
00:23:32
Speaker
ah It's wordy. It is wordy. The less are bad but lesser bad. million words whenever two will do. Lesser bad. That's what Grammarly would make you do.
00:23:53
Speaker
yeah Because Grammarly makes you know takes away all the fluff and eloquence of sentences and words and just like breaks it down to the bare bones. And I'm sorry, I think sometimes you do need to say in order to. Yeah. Right. As well as. Take that Grammarly. Yeah. What was yours again, Sarah? I want to revisit it. Yeah, I want to revisit it.
00:24:24
Speaker
i It's either the more tolerable choice or the better of two bad options No, I the more tolerable choice. Yeah, okay tolerable choice anyway, is the fan on in your office?
00:24:40
Speaker
Yes. It's really hot in here. Okay. My half office is like a sauna. The other half of the office is like a freezer. Yeah. Like a meat locker. We have like in Marcel's office, we have the heat turned all the way and we have for like two days and you can't even tell. I get so freezing, but the neighbors can't get it. They don't, they don't have anything to complain to me. Well, they have somebody else. We know their name yet.
00:25:08
Speaker
I do. I have to search in my emails to find it. It's not Eddie. Hi, Eddie. Hi, Eddie. No longer with us.

Probate Stories: Unexpected Heirs

00:25:20
Speaker
OK, so anyway, there's there's lots of considerations when it comes to blended families, and perhaps you should try to not have unintended children and or If you have children with your spouse, try not to divorce them because I can tell you from a legal standpoint, it gets very messy. But Lori, I have a very serious question that has absolutely never come up. What if you don't know that you have a child out there? What if you don't know?
00:25:54
Speaker
Do you remember that one client, and we can say this stuff because we don't say names, the one client that really wanted to add that clause in there about no other children, even if children ever claim to be my children, I am hereby excluding them. yeah And why we we were inquiring, well, are is there a concern or something? No, no, just in case. You never know. There's a concern there.
00:26:25
Speaker
Well, and I, I think this is probably a good opportunity to mention our threesome baby. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. So, Cynthia, why don't you regale us with a very real life story, probate story that we experienced? Okay, so we had this person who passed away, they didn't have a will, they at the point had partner, you know, passed away, nothing. So we file things with the court as we're supposed to, we're going through the process of having to wait our periods, the applications, we get to the hearing.
00:27:05
Speaker
At the hearing, we're going through, and there is somebody who chimes in and says, well, I'm the decedent's child. And we're like, wait, hold up, we need to back up. What do you mean you're the decedent's child? And they're like, yeah, in open court, this is how we found out. Apparently, they knew that they were the result of a thresome.
00:27:31
Speaker
when our decedent was much younger with the people who are on the birth certificate for this person. And like that's how we found out in open court. It was real great. yeah And the client is just like, what do we do now? So the court, they like have to do their due diligence, people.
00:27:58
Speaker
It's not like they can just like take them at their word or they can just like, okay, cool. Let's just add this in. It's like, no, that holds the process. You have to do, like the court will shoot like paternity testing. They will do research. They will have somebody look into their background. If you don't have things planned out, the courts got to stop everything. That was real. Sarah seems to have a thought. Did the person know of this child?
00:28:27
Speaker
The decedent? Yeah, did they know this child existed? I can't remember. And I don't remember what we were told by the client. Yeah, it's been a while. to see it in a while This was a while. This was maybe like a 2021 ish early 2022 hearing. So it's been a hot minute. But you know,
00:28:53
Speaker
The other members of that endeavor, they're like, Oh, it's our child. Well, endeavor. i I'll give you another real life probate story that has to do with children from different people.
00:29:08
Speaker
And I may have told this one before, but it was one where there was no will. Of course, it's, you know, these stories come when there is no plan, right? So no will. So we had to do what's called a determination of airship, which is where ah the court appoints an attorney at Lydom and they have to research who the person was married to, what kids they have, and then they'll submit a report saying, yes, we the these are the children, or this is a surviving spouse, or these are the heirs. And then Texas defines you know who gets what and what percentage is and all of that. So this seemed to be a pretty straightforward matter because it was
00:29:49
Speaker
um adult children, there were like four of them. And our client was one of them who was in Texas that was leading the charge. And there, I can't remember where those mother or father passed away, but we'll just say it was father had passed away, everything was was buttoned up, no problem there. So when mom passed away, she died without a will. And we had to do a determination of airship. So we thought this would be easy peasy.
00:30:14
Speaker
File it with the court, four kids, no problem. it's going to get They were of the marriage, no children from a previous marriage, and let's divide things equally to to the four. And so everything's going smoothly, everything like that. And then I'm sitting at work and I get an email from the attorney I'd like them saying, hey, I think there's four other children.
00:30:38
Speaker
but And I'm like, what? No, because this was just so slam dunk. Like there is no way, no way. And so I call our client up and I'm like laughing. I'm like, dude, you will never believe what the ad line have said. He said that he thinks your parents had four other kids. And it's silence on the phone. And then I hear a deep breath. He's like, oh boy.
00:31:10
Speaker
Like what? So it ends up that ah the ad litem looked up the obituary. And the obituary had listed eight kids. So my client said, look, when we were younger, my and uncle passed away. And we took in their four kids and my parents helped raise them. But they were um Is that cousins? I don't know. Cousins. They were, you know, cousin cousin step-siblings, right, Sam? Anyway, and, but he was like, but they were never adopted, nothing like that. And so I get back to the ad litem, tell them this is the situation. They're like, okay, great. Well, i'll I'll just, I need their contact information. I'm going to talk to each one of them just to confirm they weren't adopted. Great. Okay. Crisis averted, right?
00:32:08
Speaker
No, because then what comes out is three of them were like, oh, yes, that was a situation. No problem. No, we weren't adopted, blah, blah, blah. But then the fourth one was like, well, wait a minute. I thought we were adopted. And then how do you prove the absence of something?
00:32:30
Speaker
You know, like when your package doesn't get delivered and Amazon will say, can you take a picture of your problem? And it's like, what are you, do I have to take it? And I just dealt with a company. It's a great company. So I'm not going to mention the name, but it's, it's, it's an electric toothbrush company for the kids. And it's really, really great. But one of them that we got.
00:32:48
Speaker
wasn't holding a charge. and it We just got it in the last few months. so I messaged the company. I said, hey, we got this this one, order number, blah, blah, blah. and It's not keeping a charge. and so I know this is just standard procedure. like there i mean It's probably just a bot that's responding to me at this point. They're like, can you send us a video of the problem?
00:33:08
Speaker
And I'm thinking, how do I send a video of a toothbrush not keeping its charge? like do i Do I do a time lapse video where I like set up my camera and start it and then just let it you know run out of battery after two hours instead of the two weeks it should last? to think Is that what they need? So you know I essentially responded with that answer, by the way. um And we got the new toothbrush yesterday. so um Which is why come to birch law we will we will wear people down Yeah That could be another hey Sarah that could be another Billboard tro on Yeah, we will wear the people down Speaking of billboards you might want to edit this out. I don't know but there is this firm in San Antonio
00:34:00
Speaker
um called, oh no, now I'm forgetting it. it's um I'm gonna be wrong about this, but it's something like fight and win, but it's like so it's not fight, it's like chase or something, but it's spelled differently and win is the N-G-U-Y-E-N. Oh, okay.
00:34:21
Speaker
Okay, so that's the name of the firm. Gosh, I wish I could remember the name of the first lawyer. I guess billboards don't work. Anyway, they have two consecutive billboards that say, you know, we fight you win, but it has the spelling of their last names. Push and win. Push, push, push, push. Nice. And how's push spelled? P-U-S-C-H.
00:34:50
Speaker
right so it says we push and then the very next one says you win nice yeah birch doesn't really have that kind of yeah no but we will wear you down but Anyway, back to my story. Um, the funny thing was, is all the siblings got in on it and they're basically like, you dip, we were not adopted. And so he was like, okay, fine, fine. We weren't adopted. So we were able to proceed after that, but you know, this this is just what could happen. I, you know, that's a form of a blended family. Is it not?

Humorous Take on Blending and Conclusion

00:35:33
Speaker
yeah So it's good to have these things all put out. So you and Sam just posted, I guess, is that their website? Yeah, that's her website. OK, so it's not but it's not showing the actual spelling of their names or let me make it bigger. It has it at the top. It's very small. The billboards really drive home the point or else I wouldn't have even thought about it. So the the billboards make the last name very clear.
00:36:05
Speaker
Anyway, it's clever. I guess I'll need to find some attorneys with more interesting last names. We don't, you group all a Christian.
00:36:24
Speaker
ah who Don't turn us away. Oh, Louis, that one's good. We're Shruti for you.
00:36:36
Speaker
Sarah, you might, you may or may not edit this part out. I really don't care. But you cut this part out so that Duncan heads.
00:36:50
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. so I'm gonna do a soft no on that. I could do this all day. I'm aware.
00:37:07
Speaker
OK, so before before we conclude this episode. I would be remiss if I skipped over the Sam and Sarah segment.
00:37:21
Speaker
and right hey smith and and sarah second Yeah. And so the topic was blended families today. The Sam and Sarah, what did that mean to you? And what did you decide to share with us? What it meant to us, we decided to go. with Wow. With so things not blend in a blender. What? Things you should not blend. Yeah. Okay. All right. Okay. Uh, so the first one, a beehive.
00:37:56
Speaker
Okay. Number two, your will. Number three, a live grenade. Number four, feedback from your boss from your review.
00:38:11
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Number five, grandma's figurines, specifically the porcelain ones. but ah Number six. number the number This is so stupid. Number six, the cast from Queer Eye. Free Bobby or post Bobby?
00:38:32
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free, because I don't care about Post Bobby. Wait, is this the OG Queer Eye or is this the new ripoff version? Okay, don't touch, don't touch the old one. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. ah Number seven, hot dogs and ice cream. ah Number eight, anything with fire. And finally, number nine, your family members thesis that they spent years working on.
00:39:01
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Where do you all actually come up with this stuff?
00:39:07
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Oh. Yeah. Can y'all go back to looking on Reddit? ah vo ah and we and That is a burn. That is where we got most of our, that like the signs, oh wait, no, I think that was actually Google wasn't it? I found them on Pinterest. Yeah.
00:39:26
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Yeah, we know we tried. We're so tired today. What? Why are you tired today? I don't know. I don't know. OK. But anyway, lots of lots of good things to blend, lots of bad things to blend. But the most important thing is to have a plan if you are blended. That you don't put it a blender.
00:39:49
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00:40:34
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much better. Yeah I thought that had a lot of energy.