July 7, 2025

Peaking At 12, Eyebrows And Haircuts. Oh My!

Peaking At 12, Eyebrows And Haircuts. Oh My!
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The inevitable awkward phase in middle school, yep, we went through it. Apparently, it builds trauma and character all at the same time. Come join us for this week's BS.

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Jo & Morgan

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Good afternoon, good evening, good four am, And you woke

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up to go pee, and now you're wide awake, like

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you've had six shots of espresso, and you promise yourself

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you're not going to look at social media, but then

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you do, and now you're inundated with two big questions,

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and one is how will we ever have peace on earth?

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And two is are your eyebrows the wrong shape for

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your face? We are anxiety addicts bedtime stories.

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I'm Joe and I'm Morgan.

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Uh sorry, I have to interrupt you because what you

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just said hits like a little too close to home

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and we haven't talked about this yet. I'm really stressed

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about my eyebrows.

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And if you guys knew Morgan in high school, you

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would know how funny this was, because her eyebrows look

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very good. And in high school they kind of looked

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like apostrophes, I right, like more apostrophe like it kind

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of came in.

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Yeah, it kind of came and arched out.

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Well.

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I used to shave.

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I was because I had a unibrow, so I used

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to take the and shave down and then I don't

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even remember plucking or like I never got them wax

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because this was like back in early two thousands, I

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didn't know any of I don't know self care stuff,

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which means I must have sat forever in the bathroom

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and plucked them to be just one hair, no, one

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hair after another.

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I feel like we all did that, and I think

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we've had this conversation before, so apologies if we are repetitive.

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But it does feel like teenagers these days because they

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have access to all the information on how to not

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do gross, weird, stupid shit like they all look perfect.

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Yeah, we've talked about this. It's going to be damaging

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to their personalities. They're they're they're never going they never

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go through the awkward stage. Guys, whoever is going through

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the awkward stage, you guys will be the superior human

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come adulthood. Because I really do feel like if you

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don't go through the awkward stage, you suck as a person.

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Sorry, I completely agree, And I would say that the

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place where I really learned that was in LA and

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you could see you could see the people who had

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just been pretty their whole lives and had floated into

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LA on like a very symmetrical face and flat stomach genetics, or.

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The people who had like put in the fucking.

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Effort to be a person who was like just above

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average interesting to.

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Make it happen for themselves.

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I think this is a deep point and I think

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that we could write a book about it. You're a

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better person overall. And you know what, I haven't even

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done a trial or a testing, but I can conclusively

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say that I know this for a fact.

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Yeah, if you didn't have an awkward stage, yeah, there's

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a hole, there's a.

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Deficit in your personality.

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Totally suck.

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You suck as an adult.

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Just you're just a little bit less interesting then maybe

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a little too Kacki and Morgan then Morgan in her

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unibrow and me when everyone thought I was a boy Joe.

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I looked at my name the other day, you know,

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because we do this thing and I always try to

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find something. I literally google Morgan wallsh Northampton because if

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I just google Morgan Walsh, it's the actress that always

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comes up. And the first picture wait, let me see

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if it happens right now, The first picture in Google

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that comes up is the my seventh grade ID that

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you posted on Instagram.

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You were so cute.

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And I go, oh my god, this is the first

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picture that pops up. If anybody, I mean, no one's

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googling my name, but I was laughing so hard.

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Wait, no, I'm gonna do it right now. I mean,

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I remember making that post.

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North Oh sorry, not Northampton, Morgan Walsh, Northampton.

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There it is.

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It's the first picture that pops up, and I go, oh,

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my god, people are gonna be like my eyebrows would

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not Joe to be fair at my eyebrows were not

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the problem.

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But Morgan to be fair. With those bangs. You couldn't

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see your eyebrows, so it didn't really matter like you

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could have that.

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My mother would have seen it.

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My mother used to cut my bangs with the same scissors.

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We talk about this all the time, that she would

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go out and cut like the hedges with because they

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were like the only scissors we had. And I remember

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sitting on the bed and I would hold like a

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towel under me and she would just brush them down

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and then cut them. And then I would spend probably

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at least forty five minutes trying to puff them out

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to the perfect I.

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Would do the puff.

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I would do the puff thing too, and my arm

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would get tired, so my elbow would get down, so

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my bangs would always be this like very strong diagonal

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from upper forehead down to bottom of outside eyebrow because

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I'd like hold it like this because I was so dumb.

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We were trying so hard.

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I remember getting a haircut that I really liked once,

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which was very very.

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Infrequent for me, because.

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People didn't Everyone in the nineties had was straightening their

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hair so like, there were no curly cuts. There was

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no like, I don't know, nobody knew, or if they

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did know, they didn't know in Northampton, like how to

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deal with curly hair. So I had one haircut that

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was traumatic that I think changed my life. That I

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think is what made me into such a dynamic, interesting

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person today at almost forty two.

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Was it the poodle cut?

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Yeah, so I this is nobody else is gonna remember this,

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but people who were big fans of the original Beverly

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Hills nine oh two one oh, which used to show

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at eight pm on Wednesdays, ask me how I remember that.

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And there was this.

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Look that Kelly and oh my god, she was a

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little bit evil, but not Valerie.

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The other one had, which was the scary short wait

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wait wait, the young one she was.

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There the whole time, and yeah, that's what.

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So I brought this picture of essentially this like slicked

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back chin length, short in front cut, and I was like,

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I want to look and I'm twelve, and I was like,

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I want to look like this, because to be fair,

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I did want to look like that. And instead of

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the hairdresser going mmm, this is gonna this is gonna ruin.

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You, she was like, yeah, let's do it.

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So she did it, and obviously I don't have stick

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straight hair. It fluffed up like a horrible situation. I

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was called fro Joe for a year, which really sucked.

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I had a whole lot of other unfortunate body and

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face things going on. So I was in an all

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girls camp with Katie Siegal. It was called Camp Boy

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Casuda and I still know all the songs to Camp

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Boy Casuda. And they had a boys camp over for

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a dance.

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How stressful? Does that sound?

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Very stressful but also really like like nineteen nineties rom

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com high school movie.

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So I wore this lands End wide striped T shirt

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that I thought it was new. It was new, my

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mom got it from the catalog. I was like, this

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is I look amazing? Like I look incredible, yeah, and

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I had gap overalls, so I was, you know, and

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I was gonna be se one one of the straps

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undone because I was crisscross.

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I'm vibing with you right now, and I felt amazing.

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And my hair looked like a nineteen eighties lesbian with

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a perm right like this was very much the look

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I had, and I was I didn't know how to dance,

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and I was standing on the side of the gym

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while everybody else was dancing, and this boy came up

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to me, and he was so cute.

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He was so cute. He reminded me of Benny from

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the sand Lot.

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Like I was dying and he and I'm leaning against

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the thing and I've got my striped shirt and my like,

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you know, one done overalls, and I'm probably wearing a

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sports brat even though there is absolutely nothing there that

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needs support.

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And the hair and I have.

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These like weird teeth stains and without penciling in my eyebrows.

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Even now, I kind of look like an egg, Like

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I look like a hard boiled egg because.

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Everything's so light on my face.

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So I'm this like hard boiled egg with this like

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lesbian jew fro and he leans up on the on

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the wall right next to me, and I'm like.

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And I need and I can't breathe. And he's like

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so and I'm just like so and he just looks

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at me. He's like, girls here pretty hot, huh. And

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I was like, oh, he thinks I'm a boy.

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Oh that's actually a really funny story.

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And I died inside and I've never been the same,

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but now I have a fucking personality.

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I mean, here's the deal, guys. The lesson here is

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don't peak at twelve. Don't peak at twelve. That's that's

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what we live off of.

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So just a quick update before we sign off and say,

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sweet dreams. I am backstate side. I'm what what. I'm

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back in my hometown visiting Grandma and grandpa.

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We will be.

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Here all summer. Please continue sending in your stories. Joe

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has been on a rampage. We've gotten some really, really

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great ones and she's been writing. We're super excited for

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season three. Please don't hesitate to reach out and ask

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And then you can listen to your very own cringe worthy, funny,

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Or you can slide into our DMS, and after I

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take a sleeping pell, I'll send you random messages that

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you may or may not enjoy, but I will enjoy it.

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And like, we all just got to take care of

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ourselves these days.

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And if no one's told you yet today, we love

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you guys so so much, and we will see you

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next week.

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And sweet dreams, Sweet dreams,