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Top 3 Things I Did During Our Hiatus
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What have we been up to in the 9 months when we weren't recording? Find out what we did with our gestation period that could've grown a full human baby. Broached topics: Podcast Edging, Everything's On the Table, Wittle Whittlers, Bird Straws, Worker Bees Want Work, Mara's Pet Dead Desk Fly, Where is Prairie Du Chein?, WE SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN ECON DEGREES, daily sleepovers, and Cara's Big Headstand of 2024!
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Introduction and Mini Episode Release
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everybody. We meant to release this mini episode as a primer for our April Fools episode, but decided to release it now instead. So if it sounds out of order, that's why.
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He just wants to play his music again. Oh, this is good. Okay, I'm going to... Yeah. Make your movements now. Oh, shit. I'm, like, picturing a horse. That's a lot better than the first one you did.
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Thanks. thought that Hey, this is the first time we're doing this. This is not take two, three, or a hundred. This is take
New Era of 'My Top Everything 2.0'
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one. Welcome to My Top Everything. I'm Marian.
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I'm Cara. Oh, Mara coming in hot. It's a new era. my Top Everything 2.0. There is no rules. Everything's on the table. Nothing's off the table.
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Literally. Everything's on the table because we're in the same room. Yeah. But what were the rules... before no interrupting and that's out yeah interrupt all you want and well cara usually mary and but you so that was one of the rules i guess that you and i weren't really aware of just make just me keeping track the whole time yeah ah ah Welcome, everybody.
Return from Hiatus and Bonus Episode Teaser
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I'm sure you've been waiting so long for this moment. We're so glad to be back after a short hiatus of nine months. Yeah. ah Yeah.
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Yeah. ah So this is just a little bonus episode to get you teased, get you...
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Oh God. Take one.
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I had to reference. Yeah. but yeah Marion referenced edging. No, not Marion. It was Kara. Yeah. It was Marion.
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Guys, we all know it was me Yeah. yeah There's only one person who really yeah cares about edging here.
Top Three Experiences Discussion
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Our topic today is the top three things we've done since we last recorded, which Kara just found out was June 10th, 2024. Point to Kara for going back and finding that date. Point to Mara for finding my microphone.
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she once again keeps her um title as... Oh, damn. Okay, cool. yeah. I guess if you need to feel it somewhere, you're going to do it. Damn.
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Um...
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I was going to say your title as like king of finding things. St. Anthony. Yeah. That's joke. I thought travel. No, St. Anthony is the patron saint of finding things.
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Oh, St. Christopher's travel. Really? Really? That's a weird thing. It's St. Christopher's travel because ex had a little necklace, but his name was Chris as well. So it was like whole thing. There's a whole patron saint just for finding shit. I think he does other things. Okay, he has to do other things. Isn't he the snake one?
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No, was St. Patrick is the one that banished all the snakes from Ireland. So, he's so sorry, St. Anthony's Snick, the one that you went to the elementary school for, yeah that one's just... The one you went... The one. The place you went to elementary school.
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Which is just not something we're mentioning about my life. Right.
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I didn't say who. All rules. Everything's on the table. Nothing's on the table. And you didn't say where. and Correct.
Humorous Saint Anthony Conversation
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No one knows. yeah
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Yeah. Like growing up, like if I lost things, I was always told to pray to St. Anthony. yeah And then it would work. But also it probably worked because I'm good at finding things. Yeah. I feel like that's just a you thing. He has three. Whoa.
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That was loud. He has three things that now I feel like i can't hear myself at all.
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Grayson's got a new toy, it's very exciting. um but ah St. Anthony was the patron saint of many things, including lost items,
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Traveling travelers Kara and the poor the poor the Patriots are poor. Yeah, I kept him poor No, I mean, St. Anthony. he' was a Franciscan. Oh, I do like the Franciscans. Yeah, that's the current Pope, right?
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Yeah. Yeah, he's had his masters in chemistry. It's pretty cool. He's a good dude Well anyway, so let's go through we're just gonna we're gonna do it a little different this time Usually, you know, we do our top three top two top one but each person will just list off real quick the three
April 1st Launch and Future Teases
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Yeah. Just to get you excited for our episodes coming. Yeah. Our our official launch is April 1st.
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We'll have our first. That it. Or is it? Psych. We're going to go on hiatus for another nine months. um It's a good tease. It's a good edge, if you will. Yeah.
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And that's what we said before we started this. Number one, edge them. Yeah. That's all we're here for. kidding. So ah who wants to go first?
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Thank you for asking and I will.
Half-Themed Birthday Celebration
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We both looked at you. We were like, Mara? I wrote an entire list and then I numbered three things. Nice. Um... So the top three things I've decided to share with you people that I have done in the last nine months.
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Number three, i celebrated my half birthday and it was one of the best celebrations yet. um Half the people I invited showed up, half the people that showed up got me a gift. And then like there was something else half that I don't know. It was just it was perfect. Yeah.
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Yeah, because that's when I gave you that pen and chopped it in half. Yes. And then the half of the people that gave me gifts, they gave me half of half of the gifts. She's like, Marion, handed me this pen that had this like floppy astronaut or something on top of it.
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And she goes, here, I got this for you. And then in front of my eyes, she cuts it in half. I was like holding on to these scissors for like 15 minutes, like waiting for the moment. Like, when am I going to get to cut this? Yeah, it was good because you only get half presents on your half birthday. Yeah, that's the perfect vibe.
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It was a great, great day. Yeah. And then number two, I whittle. I'm a whittler.
Whittling Hobby Exploration
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I started whittling. You're a whittle whittler. I'm a whittle whittle whittler. Oh, little. I think that was from the first take, though. So nobody's going to get the little joke.
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Is that why you said it No, it's just cute. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. we didn't I did my dragon breath into the microphone.
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That's good audio. Yeah. Grayson's dying. I'm leaving it in. um First try all by ourselves. Definitely not. This is our first take. yeah
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Okay, so you're you're a little whittler. Yeah, I've made a couple trees. I've made a couple spoons. Kara got me an intro to whittling class for a birthday present that her and I are going to take together in March. Yeah, I'm so excited. So excited. Yeah, you're going to teach me a lot because I've never even done it.
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It's going to be funny. ah Do you think that when you whittle a tree out of a piece of wood, is that kind of like cannibalism for the piece of wood in some way? Because you're making it into what it died to become. It's more than that. though It's not just where it came from. It's like a tree died to make this piece of wood that then you whittled to make into a tree again.
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yeah I'll say no and I'll say why. I think no. No, just say no and and don't say why. No, no, what? No, because i think that there's human action where you, like, somebody's cutting down the tree someone's whittling it, whereas cannibalism is just...
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Someone eating somebody. else There just seems to be some irony of like, oh,
Vegan Bird Bone Straw Debate
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there's a tree that exists in a world. Let me destroy it to create a different tree. There's also people that make like animals out of bones, you know, like they would. That's cool. Yeah.
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But that's kind of like honoring the thing. Maybe like if you got a bird bone and whittled a bird, the bird bones are hollow. So that one. Yeah. That's cool. Straw.
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Say more. Bird bones be hollow. Bird bones be new straws. That's really usable. straws. I love that with bird flu going on. That's a good idea.
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Yeah. And maybe you inoculate yourself. Hey, and well not we'll clean the marrow out. Also, I, you know, bones, it's not a blood disease. You can, it'll be fine.
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Yeah. Kara, it'll be fine. Okay. to know You two have fun with that. Can vegans drink out of bird straws? Yes. Bird bone straws. is No, don't think Put the flu away. But any chance of getting disease away? But I don't even, i don't even buy leather.
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Anything that comes from an animal you're not supposed to use. But what if it's like, found dead sparrow outside. i made a straw. I gave it to you. So i didn't, like, the bird was i would take it, yeah, I would take that.
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Wow. yeah Not really got strong convictions, huh? Just taken any taking any animal byproduct. You know how a speakens be. If almost bought you Burt's Bees chapsticks the other day, you wear that? Yeah.
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I'm not one of those vegans that doesn't eat honey. I actually think that honey helps promote the bee industry, and which is a good thing. Okay. Correct. But a lot of vegans will very heavily disagree with me. They're called worker bees.
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like Why would they be called that if they don't like the work? They are also not from America, it turns out. So they're not really good for the environment. I thought we need them for the pollination. Yeah, we do. But only because we created the system that requires that.
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Well, because I mean, the best pollinators are insects in general, not just bees. And so like flies and other things. Yeah. You don't like flies? They're your pollinators. You like They pollinate things.
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They make your food. I'm not saying I would never. I mean, think I'm just like scarred from the time that a fly flew into my apartment and laid a bunch of eggs. And then there were just maggots everywhere for week. So what's number two on your list?
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Number one. Pay attention.
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related to that, I've had a dead fly at my desk for like just mar i maybe you havent like four months. Don't you have a trash can under your desk so you could just... don't have a trash can by your desk? because they made quote communal trash cans. Yes, they did that at my work too.
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That is crazy. There's one for every like eight desks. Yeah, promote walking and so that there's less to carry out. It's like a corporate shtick that's happening. Yeah, for sure. It's crazy. It's for fewer plastic liners.
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Oh, that makes sense. So I guess it's worth it. Yes. So next time you have a piece of, after you print something incorrectly and you're like, what am i going to do with these 60 pages that I printed incorrectly? 81. Speak for yourself. I've done, that I've done a lot. I've done a lot. It feels bad.
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ah You can use a paper to scrape it onto another paper that you don't know what to do with it. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So what's your number one? Anyway, my number one thing I've done in the last nine months is that in my debit card um expired. And instead of updating my address at my bank, I opened a new bank account.
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my current a Right, because your New Year's resolution, maybe it wasn't even your New resolution, but we were like, if you manage renew this, you'll get a point. So you don't get that. No, you don't get anything because you had to open a new account.
Bank Account Mishap Story
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Wow. I didn't have to.
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ah chose to. Right. It was easier. Was Yeah. didn't you Don't you still have to get a new card? Yeah, but they just mailed it to me. what would they have done the other way?
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i had to like fill out, I had to, they emailed me a form. I had to print it out. had to write things in and then I had to like scan it back and then email it back. to That's too many stuff. When does it expire this new one?
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o I don't know. Oh, uh, 0629. Okay. So you've got four years. Yeah. Ish. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. So those are the things I'm willing to share publicly. That's great.
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I love that for you. That's good. Okay, well, I'll go next. Okay.
Guitar Lessons Journey
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um Well, number three is I started guitar lessons like two weeks ago. And it is. All of your whole list is going to be just since we decided this topic and you started keeping track.
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Like, what am I doing with my life? I can't remember. No, I've been wanting start guitar since I was like a child. I've always wanted to play guitar and I've never been able to just like do it. And so I had to sign up for a class and the first class was really bad. Just wild. I just listened to the teacher go on these weird diatribes about like how the instrument is linear and how an open G is this cool thing that this one dude does and...
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i like I don't know any of the things you're saying. Wow, that's so odd. How big is this class? Like 15 people. It's one of the community ed classes. oh I think one of our friends took that class and she said the first class it was just like the teacher tuning everybody's guitar and it was basically time to go home. I wish that he did that. He didn't tune our guitars. So we just all were. He was like, eventually he was like, OK, let's go around and everybody play an E. And we were all like, what's an E? And then we would go around and he'd be like, nope, you're not tuned. And then he would just move on. He wouldn't come fix it or anything.
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It was not. Anyway, I'm learning guitar, but I might have to do it on my own or it take like a one on one class or something. Yeah. But I'm really excited. Yeah. It's a big thing. That's awesome. Yeah. I can't wait for you and your person, your Grayson.
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Your
Cross-Country Adventure with Prairie Dogs
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Grayson. Present.
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Serenade me together. Oh, I would love that. Yeah. Dual guitars. It's going to be lovely. Yeah. We'll turn the lights down and then we'll sing Wonderwall. Yes. um Okay, my number two is that um Grayson and I were supposed to do RAGBRAI this summer, which is a bike race across the state of Iowa in the middle of, what, August, July. Like the hottest time of the year. Yeah. There's no trees because the whole state is just cornfields. It's a really...
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It's a wild idea. um But we got stuck in Portland at a friend's wedding when all the planes went down for the two-week period or two-day period. the Yeah, the crowd strike thing. Yeah. So we got stuck in Portland, and it was going to be like $1,000 take the train or...
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We could rent a car and just drive across the country and skip RAGBRAI. So we drove across the country and in this so like really nice car, and we stopped at a bunch of national parks, and we stopped at state parks, and I saw, what are they called?
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Prairie dogs? And I cried. Why? What? I didn't realize I was so emotionally attached to the idea of prairie dogs, but when you're at the Des Moines Zoo, they have this tunnel and you put your head up inside of the... And you can see them. I don't know why, but it was the coolest thing ever when I was a kid because you got to interact and they were at a higher level.
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And I didn't think that they existed in the wild. And I said this while we were driving and Grayson was like, bro, they're the Midwest. They're like, we're going to drive through it. And i when he showed me, I sobbed. like I was just unable to These only exist in the West Des Moines Zoo.
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Exotic animals. It was. I was so excited. They're so cute. Yeah. um What did you think Prairie du Chien was? don't even know what that means. It's a town in Iowa. Yeah. never somemit Prairie du Chien, if you want to pronounce it not the French way. Right. It's Iowa, so don't.
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Literally means prairie dogs. Yeah. Well, I've never heard of the town. What do you... what you You were born in Iowa. doesn't mean anything. There's like three big towns, dude. Where's Prairie de Sheen?
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Yes. If you have to ask, you're not a real Iowa fan. Are you even a geology major? yeah Geography major? Whatever. I like that you don't know. Marla, this weekend was her birthday.
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We were at a brewery and one of her coworkers asks what all of her best friend's jobs were and what our degrees were. She couldn't name any of us. Okay, could name the job. Yeah, let's do Marion right now. What's my degree? You, like, quadruple majored in bachelor degree.
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what? okay, one of them's for sure literature, probably, like, some classical studies. yeah. Kind of, yeah. Classical civilizations.
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Perf. Nothing to do with literature, but classical civilizations. Okay. Okay. You have your master's degree. This one's easy. In FFA, MFFA?
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In film from UCLA? Nope. Screenwriting. Screenwriting. Josh's master's degree is in film. I was a creative writing and classical civilizations double major.
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And i Double minor. I was on track to a major, triple major with religious studies. And then would I... would never have gotten that. No.
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I'm basically a minister. i meant to say writing. I was going to say writing. Yeah. But you said literature. Yeah. But i hadn't listed four things yet.
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True, yeah. But no, I petered out. Senior year, I stopped wanting to do anything. I realized I could take like two classes. I don't know why parents... made the right choice. I guess. I had fun, but i feel bad. And looking back on it, I'm like, my parents paid for that.
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for me Yeah, but what does a triple degree get you? I have two degrees. what is it yeah That's not true. You're doing great, but i what is the two degrees and the whatever get me?
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Nothing. think I should have done an econ yeah That's what a young person ever says to me. What? I'm sure I'm going to be asked a lot. What degree? I'm going to say fun one, but also do something practical. Practical. I thought you were going to specifically say economics. Engineering. The number of jobs. What job do you think you can get with an economics degree? There's like two jobs.
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Then do a business degree.
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I think econ is more fun. Maybe, hopefully, this child asks you around us. yeah and Or not. We'll see. yeah Okay, so we gotta keep going. ye um My number one is Grayson and I got Yay! Yeah, Grayson and everybody in our friend group um surprised me when we went up to a really awesome place in the place we live.
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Are you pretending like people don't know that we live
Surprise Proposal Story
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in Minnesota? Minnesota, the North Shore. I couldn't remember where we were at in the world. um We went to the North Shore and ah I didn't know that Grayson was going to be there. And we got to the top of a hike and Grayson was there waiting. And it was a secret and it was great. And then we spent the whole rest of the day like doing a...
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Campfire Engagement party thing and it was perfect. And yeah, yeah, it was good. It was nice. good chill It was really incredible. Yeah, hold it off. wishing been invited Wish I could have been there do you want to go to your list? now I'm buffering Silence and Maybe I'll get invited at the next engagement Don't look at me.
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I won't be about you, you Well, no, I just, I'm definitely not the next person to get engaged. What if I am? That'd be crazy. just surprised. I got married. Let's all say at the same time. I'd be so mad.
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Who we think is the next person to get engaged. This is not a good game. Three, two, one. Wow. Carousel. Wow.
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Wow. Does **** listen? No. I don't think either of them do. So this is so safe. We're safe. Yeah, my list. um My list is kind of just one and three at the same time.
Major Life Changes Discussion
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Yeah. ah So, ah you know, I was in L.A.
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ah with ah a job I liked for... and and a relationship status that I liked. And I said, things are getting too chummy around here. said had too much stability.
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I need to bring it down a notch, you know, really get back to my roots here and just kind of like just throw it all at the walls. scene start over start over I said just scrap it put it all in the car drive away Jackson Pollock painting it yeah nice so the three things I did was change states change jobs change relationship status so it's the big three yeah so now I am currently living with Kara and Grayson so it's like a podcast all the time almost and I'm perfectly fine with them having a daily sleepover yeah
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Without me here, I'm, I'm fine with all the things I miss and the sweet nothings and the random talks and the dinners and yeah movie nights. And I do want to add to this list. Yeah.
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All the other things. Thank you. Yeah. You got to take people at face value. Yeah. ah Lucas lives here too. so yeah, I'm, I'm fine. but Yeah. So now I live with Kara and ah my friend Rache drove all the way with me cross country.
Cross-Country Move with Misbehaving Pet
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That was pretty neat. Pretty cool. go go bing lady Bingley would either take a daily piss or poop in my car every time we got in the car.
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One time he pooped on Rache's lap ah while we were traveling. So was a really good time. Rache's a real one for that. Yeah. yeah Yeah. She took it in stride.
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ah and then my bonus thing that i did is that i walked the length of a marathon not on a marathon day just uh around the lake over and over again which cara didn't like um i like it for you yeah that's sweet of you i want to see nothing of the same thing again all new for me like to i got to watch oh what were you gonna say Except me. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes.
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Right. Oh my God. I said yes. Today's Valentine's Day. It's not your day yet. Yeah. It's Valentine's Day. Check yourself. Wait three hours. Not Valentine's Day. Sorry. but Three hours. do you think it's 9 a.m.? What? 9 p.m.? Pretty close. No. No. Five hours.
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I was estimating. five hours you i was estimating Anyway, ah yeah, so algebra, man, that's a big thing that happened to me and probably why we didn't do the podcast for a while. Yeah. ah Recuperating. So, yeah, it could have been because i was playing my half birthday.
00:23:25
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There's just too much going on. Yeah.
Hair Styling Experiments of the Year
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Yeah. My bonus thing, I'm having a really great year for my hair. just to like, it's like, truly, I've been looking at pics. I'm loving it. And it's been different. It's been pink. I'm like killing the bangs. It's curly.
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It's like, Yeah. Yeah. Great fucking year for that. hair envy is at max right now. also I tried this thing and it's like a wet, dry shampoo. And so you put like a little bit on your hand and you emulsify it with like some water and then you like rub it in to your hair and it like absorbs the oil.
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And so it like lets your hair i like. And you leave it in? Well, you let it dry and then you like comb it through the to the ends. And I used it today. So and I haven't, I don't remember when I washed my hair last.
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Awesome. Yeah. Yeah. um I would try that. um Well, Kara, your top three, did you put ah we're missing something really important, yeah which is a headstand.
00:24:25
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Because you said all of 2024 to do it.
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had a big year. and So... Bought a house. Passed a professional exam. Wow, the house didn't even make the list. Well, it was before. It happened technically before. Yeah, a lot happened the first half of 2024. I really threw off my game here.
00:24:42
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Yeah, otherwise you would have definitely gotten that headstand done. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. you could... Do it this year? Do it now. Yeah, I could. After the recording, I will. Yeah. Yeah.
00:24:54
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Okay. Okay. You'll be updated, folks. Check out our Instagram story for a live video of Kara doing a headstand. not live. Not live. recorded. Yeah, thanks. I misspoke.
00:25:06
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We spoke. We're learning the social media, so we'll get to that Oh, my God. Alive with us? That would be a amazing. The chaos. People would love that. I can't wait. People would love that.
00:25:18
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All right. Well, this this feels good. This feels right. Yeah. Organic. Cut it off. Short. Mini. um Do we... what was that did you cut oh uh thanks for joining us for this super mini short episode we'll be back in just ah yeah april 1st april first revamped ready to go new people completely different you won't even recognize us hey i'm marion i'm kira and i'm mara see this has been my top everything
00:25:53
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Oh, Kara has sponsors. Bye. We'll get to them later. We got her love into the episodes. Baby bell. They didn't make any sense.