Episode 4

Transcript:

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Well, welcome to episode four of Comically Exposed. My name is Gabbie Blachman.

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And my name is Heather Nye.

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Yay. Thank you for joining us. You know, three episodes in and now this one. Very exciting.

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I just took a sip of water and while I did that, I almost forgot the name of our podcast.

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So I think we're off to a really good start. Yes. Yeah. That's fantastic. Welcome to

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Chronically Some Toes. All right. Let's just jump right in. Heather, do you want to talk

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about what you have been doing over these past couple of weeks?

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Yeah. I have been editing our podcasts from previous recordings. I'm getting faster at

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them. Yeah. So hopefully we can start catching ourselves up and getting them out the door

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a little bit quicker. Still every other Wednesday, but not be like three or four podcasts behind.

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Not that I'm judging myself or anything. Never once had, never will.

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Yes. Yeah. Actually, you know, I was struggling this week to really get myself motivated to

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write for my doubt it script. I think it's because it's a little too close to home and

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sometimes it just makes me, I don't know, like rethink the purpose of doing something.

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And you know, hence the podcast dragging feet is the same thing. It's like exposing myself

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in this way and being kind of vulnerable in public. I mean, I think for anybody, whether

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or not you actually have OCD or social anxiety or anxiety or whatever, yeah, it just doesn't

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feel great. But I did challenge myself yesterday and ended up writing a humor piece. I know.

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I was like, I am like almost done writing it. My first draft of it fully. I just have

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two more beats to finish and I'm basically ready for review. And so I was like, okay,

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I just bust through that one in less than an hour. So I guess I can write stuff. So

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I did that and that actually felt pretty good. Of course, after that, I kind of judged myself

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a little bit and thinking, you know, am I distracting myself with a different project?

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But I kind of came back from there and that's where I am.

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Okay. I have a couple of questions. Well, actually a couple of clarifying points. So

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first thing is, can you speak a little bit as to why your, what did we decide? Fictional

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audio script is so close to home.

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Well, I titled it tentatively right now as doubt it. And it's because it's not to give

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too much away, but mostly it's about somebody who has OCD and their inner workings of having

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OCD. Because I haven't seen something like this online or on television the way that

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it feels kind of like true to me, not just me, but for other people who have OCD that's

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not visible to other people. I think the best analogy is more like a duck in water. You

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know, it's like on top they look peaceful and fine. And then bottom, it's like a mess

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of like their legs, just kind of like keeping them up, you know, in a float. And so that's

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kind of, I don't know, my thinking.

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Yeah, that's what OCD, yeah. Cause especially because I feel like we mask a lot to look

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like normal people who aren't having 75 intrusive thoughts that are showing up as

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just as important as whatever is happening in front of us. Right? Because almost everybody

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has intrusive thoughts, but it's only a disorder when it gets in the way of your day to day

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function. So I'm excited for your podcast. I'm excited to hear an OCD that's closer

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to my own lived experience.

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Yeah. I mean, and then also representation because it's a really misunderstood OCD. It's

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a really misunderstood diagnosis. I didn't mean to say it. I just combined two thoughts

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into one.

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Efficient

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Very efficient, but extremely confusing. Yeah. So it's kind of, I don't know. I feel like

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this is a really weird conversation right now. I'm sorry.

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Okay. Now we don't have to stay in the uncomfortableness even though that is quite an exposure.

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I think we should, right? Yeah.

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No, I mean, it's funny because it feels like everything. And then at the same time, it

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feels like it should be nothing. Does that make sense? Like, you know, like, I feel like

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why do I make it big when it's actually small? So why should I say it's big?

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Okay. Yeah.

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Yeah. Again, taking up space, showing your actual experience. That should be the tiniest

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smallest thing that nobody has to interact with. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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Important.

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Yes. And a podcast.

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We did it, you guys. High fives all around. We solved it.

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Yeah. And not to take too much of a detour towards me, but I figured out within the last

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couple of days that another one of my mental health issues is coming into play. So I also

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have major depressive disorder and I am currently in a depressive episode. And you know, it

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sucks to be honest, because I had TMS, transcranial magnetic stimulation, which was a game changer

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for me about four or five years ago. And I haven't had a single depressive episode since

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then. So it's kind of creeped in along with like, raising anxiety. You and I have talked

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about these gorgeous panic attacks I've been having, which are just, it's good for the

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heart, you know, to just be woken up from a dead sleep with just like a bolt of adrenaline

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going like two to 300 miles an hour. I feel like the world is closing in on you. So I'm

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very open about, you know, my mental health and I think this is a pretty safe space for

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it. So yeah, so that's been coming up and it's kind of gotten in the way, I would say

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of me trying to do some of these goals that we've set out, you know, for ourselves. So

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yeah, that would be a really hard, yeah, depression is a really hard issue, especially with a

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disorder like ours, because it can manifest into an obsession, right? As well. And then

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it gets wrapped up into something that unfortunately becomes a very dangerous compulsion afterwards.

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It's really difficult. And I'm really sorry that you're feeling this and it's coming

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up for you. Are you seeing someone?

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Oh, thank you for asking. Yeah, I'm actually going to reach out to my healthcare professionals,

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but I am currently seeing an OCD therapist as well as an ADHD therapist. I mean, you

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know, a super exciting, I just thrilled. What I do find kind of maddening about all of this

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is that, so we have OCD and we know both from lived experience and from research because

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we have OCD, so we've done the research that anxiety, depression, almost always comorbid

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diagnoses, which means they show up at the same time in a lot of people. And then like

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if you have OCD, the odds that you have all three is like, I mean, that Venn diagram is

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basically a circle, right? Yeah. So what is amazing to me is that they are still treated

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as separate. And it's like, I don't know, I've done some OCD treatments in the past

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where it was like, oh, well, that's probably just your depression talking. And I'm like,

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is she different? Because, you know, they all live inside of this person. So maybe they

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all talk to each other. I don't know. Or, you know, you'll have, I will have had a therapist

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who's like, oh, I'm an anxiety therapist. You know, that's an OCD thing. And I'm just

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like, great. So I have to find another provider. And then they also don't want you to be seeing

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too many therapists at the same time. Yeah. So all I can say is I'm super excited for

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whatever fight this ends up being with not only my health insurance, but my health care

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providers who are want the best for me, but are overworked. I'm not going to say which

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health care providers, but the insurance company starts with a K and then a P and it's everywhere.

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Yeah. It's really hard when health care is treated like a business. Yes. And not just

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a normal thing that everybody in the United States should be able to access whenever they

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need it. Yes. And I know. And it's like, oh, it just exists in like hospital settings or

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doctor's office. It surely doesn't show up in like law enforcement interactions or like

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the prison system or the education system, you know, or employment. It only shows up

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in these other, and it's like, oh my God. No. Can we, not to sound like too much of

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a hippie, but can we be holistic? You know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's, it's

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hard because it's like when corporations like decide, Hey, you know, talk about mental health,

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but you can't have any problems. Yeah. You can't currently. We need you to be here. Yeah.

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Yeah. Exactly. We need you to do this, but you know. Fully support you though if you

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have, or like if you're neuro-atypical, fully support you in that. Just don't be neuro-atypical

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in the office. And you're like, right. We'll accommodate you, but not accommodate you because

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it's just too difficult for us. It's too much. Yeah. So yeah, I hope that last segment really

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brought everybody just to high spirits, but anyhow, and this may be the OCD talking, it

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feels a little bit like a cop out for me to say all that stuff because the update on the

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goals that I had set for the past four weeks is this, the mortified application. I had

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decided to go through some old emails from when I was 19 years old and I read through

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just a ton of them. And what came up was depression because I had so many friends at that time

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because it's like I graduated from high school. So I still have all the high school friends

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are still in the scene. I had just worked an entire summer at summer camp. So those

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people are also in the mix and I'm starting at a brand new college and I'm just meeting

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people left and right. So my social address book, too many metaphors, was just bursting

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full and I didn't really find anything too funny in it. Maybe I haven't gone far enough,

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but the first full month is just me and all the other people who had started college all

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complaining to each other. Like this program is pretentious and I haven't found my people

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yet and these guys just don't get me and whatever else. And so we're all just complaining. Yeah.

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So I don't really know what to do with the mortified thing because all I really have

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is that standup set and I feel like it's not enough. But again, am I future problem solving

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here? Should I wait for mortified to get back to me and be like, hi, you've sent us nothing.

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Like this is not enough material. Now you need to go and find more material and then

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I can do that. I think you just answered your own question. Stop pointing out the correct

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stuff, Heather. No, I mean, it's easier said when you're on the outside rather than being

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on the inside, right? So I mean, what if you just submitted what you had, whatever it is,

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even if you feel like it's not enough just to see what would happen. And that my friends

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is what we call an exposure. It truly is though. Yeah. Yeah. But you have to ask yourself your

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question, you know, like a true question, especially after your depressive episode is

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whether or not because, okay, I should backtrack a little bit and explain because exposures

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are incredibly hard. Yes. Essentially what you're doing is you're putting yourself out

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there and leaving yourself out there and feeling the uncomfortable emotions. That is what exposures

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are supposed to do. But one thing with exposures, you're never really supposed to hang yourself

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off a cliff. Yeah. And you have to kind of check in with yourself on whether or not if

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you're doing one for yourself, not just from your doctor telling you, you have to ask yourself,

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is this the right time for me to be vulnerable? Yeah. You know, is it a safe time? You mean?

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Yes. Yeah. Yes. I totally agree. There's this scale. When you first start OCD therapy and

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you kind of write down like all your main fears, right? All the things that you're really

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struggling with. Like for me, for example, I was not writing with any pen that had black

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ink because that meant death and that meant the death of every single person I know and

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love. I mean, we all know this to be true, right? Obviously. And specifically it was

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ballpoint pen black ink. Like if I had a fancy fountain pen, things are fine. Like a calligraphy

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situation is fine. Anyway, so then you rate all of these like fears or kind of compulsions

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that you have that go with it on a scale from one to 10 or sometimes they get real out there

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and it's from one to a hundred. So you can say that was a 67, not just a six, right?

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And then you're supposed to pick things that, and correct me if I'm wrong here, somewhere

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in between like 40 up to at maximum like 70, right? So from four to seven, anything in

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there you can do an exposure with. So for the black ink example is I would write with

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a black ink pen and I would sit as the anxiety would come in, kind of consume every pore

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in my body, scream at me that I was murdering all of my loved ones and then sort of, you

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know, settled back down. But as Heather said, you can't do this with something that comes

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in at an eight, nine or 10 because you're not going to experience that resolve of the

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anxiety. You're going to be stuck in basically a fight or flight response that just sort

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of cements the fears that you had around the thought and increases your compulsivity. I

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mean, does that seem true to you?

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Yeah. Yeah. It's a way to kind of be gentle with yourself.

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Yes. Which is huge as well and impossible. Yeah. Self-compassion during all of this.

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I know. Yeah. So getting back to the mortified thing, I do think this is an appropriate exposure

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to deal with my perfectionism because I think that's definitely what's coming up here and

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that is a flavor of OCD perfectionism. I want to do this application exactly right so that

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when they get the application, they go, oh my God, this is why we started the program

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20 years ago. She has finally come and blessed us with the perfect. So a little bit of that

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is... Yeah.

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Oh, I was going to ask. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to cut you off there, but have you ever

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done a small step between this exposure of submitting? Have you ever done a script of

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what would happen?

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Oh, like an imaginal? Yeah. Because I didn't have any physical compulsions other than like

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the black ink thing. There was nothing physical that I could do. So everything was an imaginal.

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And for the listeners at home, an imaginal is where you write out, at least the ones

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that I did, it was like you write out what is the fear and then you almost write a story

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about it. And the story includes you not doing the compulsion. So the worst thing that you

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think is going to happen happens. And then what happens next and next and next and next.

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And you follow it all the way down. And the one that I did involved a lot of like, you

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have to say how that feels in it and where in your body it feels that way. And inevitably

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all of mine ended in death, death, death, death, death. It was either like die alone

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and all my family hates me, death, or it's like all of my loved ones have died because

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of me. Then I die alone. Yes. You know, one of the two Disney endings.

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All the endings. Yeah. I mean, it is the real ending, right?

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It's true. But I tend to focus on it a little too much. Yeah. I mean, I hear you writing

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a script might be good. The other thing is, and maybe I can kind of hold on to this to

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get it done, is I'm so over having this open tab on my computer for the mortified application

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that is three quarters of the way filled out. And all that it needs is like an upload of

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a PDF of a photo of this stupid standup set. Okay. So what if we did this right now?

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Oh, I don't know exactly where the standup set is.

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That seems convenient. The thing is, is if you had said, oh, let's

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upload some of those emails, no problem. I found the box. I found the box that has all

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of the emails in them. Yeah. That's a fancy box.

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It is. It's almost like a hat box from maybe the 60s or something like that. I got it from

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my grandma. Brag. Now you store emails in it.

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Well, I mean, we could take a break and I could do a real quick perusal doozle, but

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I do think it may be longer than a couple of minutes. So I also have another thing that

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I was supposed to do. Oh yeah.

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Yeah. Which was do the first episode of my podcast, Brad Shit Roommate. And so I asked

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a couple, I asked one friend to do it and they didn't get back to me. So I took that

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as a serious rejection, which is kind of a joke, but truly how it felt, even though they

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are probably traveling, working, busy, whatever, you know, but I took it.

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What do you mean? They have a life? They have a life outside of you?

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That's crazy. Gabbie Blachman literally texted them one random text and they didn't drop

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everything? I know. I mean, it's rude when they don't

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respond to you in 10 seconds. Yeah, so true. Meanwhile, it takes me days,

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if not weeks to get back to anybody. And if you're listening and you feel like you're

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one of those people, I sincerely apologize. I'm literally trying to perfect the text

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message that I send back to you. It takes a while.

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She's honestly thinking more about your text than anything else in the world.

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It truly, it's true. The thing is, I know it's more hurtful to not respond to somebody's

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text than to send them one that's just like got a lot of spelling errors or whatever,

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you know? But does that help me hit send? No. So I'm going to go over it a few thousand

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more times and I'll get back to you in 2025. Anyway, so I decided to review the first recordings

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of the Bat Shit roommate, which was with my sister, which was on my phone in an RV.

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And the problem is that it sounds so bad, like so bad that I can't, I can't put it

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out there for people to listen to. I mean, it's like, you can't hear when somebody says

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something, but you can hear like nails scraping across like the table. You know what I mean?

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It's just... And especially since-

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There's nothing wrong with that though. That's the thing. There's nothing wrong with putting

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something out there that's just very raw. You say that, but in my heart of hearts, I

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truly do not believe it. And I guess because I also have misophonia, I'm just dropping

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tons of disorders today, jealous. But because I am so sensitive to sound and usually that's

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like wet mouth sounds. Oh God, when people make out on screen and you just hear just

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like somebody sloshing around in a puddle is what it sounds like. It's just, nevermind.

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I don't need to be watching this anymore. But as somebody who's very sensitive to sound,

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I can't expect anybody else to put up with that nonsense. But anyway, what I did do this

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week- Yes, Gabbie.

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What I did do this week in a comically putting myself out there manner is there is a podcast

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that is like a quote late night sort of podcast where they do the news, but funny and it's

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entirely women or femme or what have you, which is pretty cool. And so they had put

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up that they're looking for submissions for writers and people who want to do bits and

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stuff like that. And I was like, yeah. So the deadline was midnight last night and your

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girl was typing up monologue jokes at 1030 at night.

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That's fantastic. Thank you. So I submitted it. It's a page of monologue jokes and one

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reoccurring bit, I sent it out. So there you go.

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Yay. Congratulations. Thank you.

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Despite everything that's going on, I mean, you have to sit there and think about this

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like that despite everything else or in spite or whatever, whatever spite.

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Spitefully.

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Spitefully. You were able to get through it and submit to something going towards your

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goals.

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Thank you.

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Yeah. Congratulations. Woohoo.

00:24:06
Thank you. Yeah. Are there a ton of shoulds that I should have done instead? Yes. But

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I appreciate you allowing the space for me to say, hey, I did a thing.

00:24:18
Yeah, you did. You did a thing.

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Okay. I feel like we're talking about me. So I'm just going to say, let's go into the

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next segment of the podcast.

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Oh yeah. Yeah. Which is near the end, which is like, you're like, yes, yes, we're almost

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done.

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Yeah. Luckily the viewers can't see it at home, but I am sweating profusely from the

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palms of my hands and honest to God under the pit. So it's, it's a good time. It's pure

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sex. Okay. I am not entirely sure what to do over these next two weeks because everything

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else on my list feels so huge. You know what I mean?

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Okay. How about you?

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What if, if there's a baby step, what is a baby step of one of those really big things?

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Okay. I'm looking at my list for the viewers at home. I mean, not to recycle, but I suppose

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that applying to mortified would be a thing. But if we're trying for new things, it would

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be kind of cool to do the table read, right? But I'm kind of flummoxed as to how to begin.

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Like who, who do I ask to do a table read, you know, and, and then how do I organize

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that? And then how do I get rid of all these thoughts of being, you know, sued by the people

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who do what we do in the shadows?

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Well, they do seem litigious, but you know, fuck them. I don't know. I mean, what, what?

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So if I was-

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Oh, sorry. One second. That was so unprofessional.

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Oh yeah. This is really professional. I just said, fuck it.

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God damn fucking damn it. Don't fucking swear on our goddamn fucking shit podcast.

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Hell.

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Yep. That was, that was the heightening. That was the one up.

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Well, it was, I guess I could have said ass. Ass would have been better.

00:26:21
Ass is always better.

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Yes. Yes. I think, I mean, if you were to break it down as a baby step to doing a table

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read, the best thing is to put out the feelers. Who, who is wanting to play Nandor or Laszlo

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or Nadja or Colin Robinson, you know?

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I mean, I assume I'm going to get a fight on my hands for that one, but-

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I mean, that's, but you're, you know, you're the director of this. You're the writer, director,

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producer of this. You get to choose, break some hearts, make enemies for life, you know,

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crush some dreams.

00:27:00
Yeah. Crush lots of dreams as you do. You are not a dream catcher. You're a dream crusher.

00:27:08
Thank you. Thank you for noticing. Yeah. Okay. That's a good idea. I'm going to go put it

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out on Instagram or LinkedIn.

00:27:17
Yeah. You get that one coworker from back in the day, you know, it's never acted before.

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Yeah.

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Has trouble reading and memorizing lines and, you know, any of it, but the hell with it.

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First time-

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But is looking for his break. His big break.

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This is it. This is it. Okay. Well, that is, those are really good suggestions and great.

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Okay.

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Yeah. I'm telling you what to do now.

00:27:52
Honestly, thank you because one of the reasons why I know that I'm in a depression is because

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my indecisiveness has gotten out of control.

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And that can be really hard.

00:28:03
Yes, it can.

00:28:04
Yeah.

00:28:05
So Heather, what about you, my friend?

00:28:10
So my mutual goal is to catch up on our podcasts and edit the next episode a little bit faster,

00:28:18
which I am getting faster at.

00:28:19
Yes.

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And then I'm like, yay, I can figure this out. It can kind of sound good.

00:28:24
It sounds amazing.

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And then, yeah, it sounds okay.

00:28:28
What?

00:28:29
Honestly-

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I'm just being judgmental.

00:28:32
Yeah. Someday I am going to give you like five minutes of compliments and I'm going

00:28:36
to watch your head explode and I'm going to tape it for all of our viewers.

00:28:40
Yes. Yes. It's either head explosion or just melting out of my seat and pretending I am

00:28:49
water now.

00:28:50
Have you heard about Heather? Yeah, she's living as a liquid now.

00:28:56
Yeah.

00:28:57
Yes. Yes. It's the true goal in life. It's just to remain as a puddle on the floor.

00:29:04
Okay. But so mutual goals, is that what we're doing now?

00:29:09
So one mutual goal for me and the next one is, since I wrote a humor piece, oddly enough-

00:29:15
Oh yeah. What are you going to do with it?

00:29:17
I'm going to ask my favorite comedy people to read it and edit and then I'm going to

00:29:25
actually submit it to, let's see, I think I'm just going to do three different places

00:29:31
just to see and then wash over all the rejections, which I think is a good thing. I think it's

00:29:37
a good thing.

00:29:38
Yes.

00:29:39
It's to be rejected and hopefully one day get something that gets out there to be read

00:29:46
by people that I don't have to actually shout at them. I'm actually funny.

00:29:51
Which is what she does every time before we start the podcast and I'm just like, sure.

00:29:58
Yeah.

00:29:59
Sure, Heather.

00:30:02
Yeah. And then the other thing was, is I'm taking my own advice that I've given you and

00:30:12
take one baby step and I am going to do an act two on my doubt it podcast.

00:30:21
Yeah.

00:30:22
I have act, I had the cold open and act one done, but if I did an act two, I think even

00:30:28
if it's just terrible act two, where I just write about people eating crackers, that will

00:30:35
be it.

00:30:38
Because honestly, if you wrote about people eating crackers, there's no way that it is

00:30:43
not going to be funny. Do you know that was a lot of double negative, but.

00:30:48
That's because Gabbie will not watch or listen to people eat crackers.

00:30:54
So I-

00:30:55
Oh, that's good.

00:30:56
Yeah.

00:30:57
But I can listen to a narration about people eating crackers as long as there's no sound

00:31:04
effects.

00:31:05
Yes. Yes. Yes.

00:31:06
And because I think it's impossible for you not to make something funny. Do you know what

00:31:12
I mean? In writing. I take that back.

00:31:16
Oh, that was a compliment.

00:31:17
Yeah. Sure. You can write very serious drama and I can't wait to read your Holocaust piece.

00:31:24
But in the meantime-

00:31:25
Because of all my experiences?

00:31:29
No, because honestly, all truly the way that I know you over these past couple of years

00:31:38
is as an incredibly funny writer and I really haven't read any of your stuff that is serious.

00:31:45
Why am I talking?

00:31:46
I don't know. I was actually enjoying this part. I was like, that was kidding.

00:31:52
No, seriously, based on the expression on your face, I was like, uh-oh, Gabbie, you've

00:31:58
fucked up now.

00:31:59
No, no, no, no, no, no. That's just my face.

00:32:05
Honestly. Okay. I look forward to your second act about cracker crunching.

00:32:15
Yes. That's my second act. There we go. Done. Gonna do it tonight. Done.

00:32:27
If we come back in two weeks and you say, oh, I totally did it and I fully believe you

00:32:33
and everything's normal sauce and then you just grab a packet of graham crackers and

00:32:37
crunch them up into the microphone for five minutes like some Andy Kaufman performance

00:32:43
art piece. Honestly, that would be great. I was thinking like, okay, that's it. That's

00:32:49
the end of the pod, but I would respect the shit out of that. Speaking of the end of the

00:32:55
pod though, this has been a longie.

00:32:58
Yeah. Yeah. We need to say goodbye. No, no, no. No apologies. No apologies. No apologies.

00:33:06
I stand by everything that I've ever said and everything that Heather's ever said.

00:33:13
And you regret nothing.

00:33:14
Nothing. No regrets. No, no, no. Heavy swallow. Thank you for joining us all the way to the

00:33:23
end of the podcast and we hope that we see you next week.

00:33:26
Yeah. See you next week. Bye bye. In two weeks. Bye. Oh yeah. Bye. Bye.

00:33:40
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00:33:45
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00:33:51
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00:33:57
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00:34:16
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00:34:22
is a great day to expose yourself. Okay. Until next time. Ta ta for ta da. Bye. Bye. Me.

00:34:34
Oooh.