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Is this the time?
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For one more try.
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This is my first time actually using it.
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So I’m glad I got this.
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Okay.
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So.
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Hi, I’m Lizzie.
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Then this is cherished.
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And then this is Sierra.
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Hi, we all went to OU in Oklahoma, not Ohio.
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I’m sorry.
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I’m sorry.
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Yeah, exactly.
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And then what’s funny to me is that I actually met them both separately.
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And knew both of you guys pretty well, by the time I found out that like,
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you guys actually knew each other even before then.
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And so it’s kind of the fun things of college is like,
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and like even like, Sierra, you know, Libby, who’s.
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One of my, she was actually a student of mine when I was a PA.
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So like the peer teaching assistant.
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And I became friends with her through that.
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And then, so whenever I see you guys like talking on there, I’m like,
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Oh my gosh, she knows another one of my.
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Wait, Libby.
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Libby who?
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Yes.
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Yes.
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And she’s in DFW.
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And so I was going to try and hit her up when I was up there and then it
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snowed and I was trapped.
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So.
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So I’ll have to bring her onto there too.
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She’s she’s went to, she was in Rhode Island.
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So she experienced all of that. But anyways,
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So I met Cherish through Camp Crimson.
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It’s a student orientation camp. And then from when I was a freshman.
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And both of you guys actually, when I was a freshman.
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And so I’ve known you guys for, I don’t even want to do the math.
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It’ll get me, it’ll freak me out.
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Well, oh my God.
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Nine years.
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Nine years.
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Yep. Yep. Oh God. That makes me sick to my stomach.
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We’re not that old.
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Yeah.
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And then I was working at a OU sports broadcasting,
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a senior vision with Sierra.
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And she, you’ve taught me a lot.
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And she is the big screen whiz and she is currently at East.
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And she, yes.
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Following dreams, making them happen.
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Showing it can happen.
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And so it’s really cool. Cause how would you guys like to say how you
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guys know each other?
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So we lived on the same hall freshman year. We lived.
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Three doors down from each other.
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And we of course were just like always in each other’s rooms.
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Or just like ran into each other in the bathroom or whatever it was.
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And our specific.
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Res hall was like really small and so it was a really close knit
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community. So we all became really, really good friends.
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Which building were you guys in?
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We lived in Kate.
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And we lived in the same building.
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So I have to ask because I’ve only been in Kate,
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like one or two times.
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And is it true that there is a ghost in the basement?
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Have you guys heard that story?
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I mean,
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No, you didn’t.
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Why I’m I just, I have, of course I go through apparently.
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The legend is that the ghost is in the basement of Kate main.
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So I don’t know if you guys have heard that story.
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I don’t know.
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Like the rest.
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A lot of time.
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I should know.
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Cause I was always the one that would go over to like, you know,
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the Kate restaurants at like two in the morning.
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Right before it closed.
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The ghost was.
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Kate main, but no.
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I like.
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Kate.
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They don’t even use Kate as a residence hall anymore.
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So I don’t know if there are any more ghost houses.
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It’s not even there anymore.
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Which is so crazy for me. I can’t,
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I haven’t been to OU since then,
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since they’ve tore all that down. So I don’t even know which ones are
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still there.
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Yeah, I haven’t been there either, but Kate, like.
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Like they only house students and Kate.
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Like a year or two after we.
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By the time we graduated, I don’t even think.
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There were students and Kate.
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Oh yeah. Cause they have the new places.
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You guys had bigger rooms.
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It’s still bigger to me.
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I don’t know if they were bigger, but like they did have like
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built-in shelves.
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And like you, but you couldn’t really like move things around much.
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So really like the layout that you had is kind of the layout that
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you’re stuck with. You had options for what direction your bed
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could face and then everything else was built in.
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Cause you guys couldn’t bunk it, right?
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No, we had totally different beds than all the other res halls.
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Like we couldn’t bunk it. We couldn’t loft it, anything like that.
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But I did like, well, I mean, at least the first semester,
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our bathrooms got cleaned every single day by somebody else.
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I got confused when you said you ran into each other in the bathroom.
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Cause I was like, wait, what?
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So like living in K it’s a community style dorms instead of in like in a
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tower.
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Yeah. Like in the towers, you have sweet style dorms where you share a bathroom
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with like another room. But for us,
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like we just had our room in the bathroom was down the hall. So,
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our shower drains are almost always clogged.
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So we would be like, we can only use like the first shower.
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Like you can only use the second shower.
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Like we would always be calling maintenance because like we were girls.
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We had a lot of hair.
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And it was always a thing on our floor.
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There was redheaded twins on our floor and it was always like,
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I’m not sure what it was.
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I don’t know.
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It was like,
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it was like,
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it was like a redhead twin on our floor.
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And it was always red hair clogging up.
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Very red.
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It was hard not to tell who then.
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And we would always be texting the group.
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Hey guys, clean your hair.
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Shower drain.
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Shower drain.
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It was.
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No wonder you guys all got so close.
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Like ours.
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We had a Christmas party.
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They did like the sound of music, like live musical on ABC.
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That sounds so much fun.
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High school.
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Watch party for miss America pageant.
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Like we did.
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That’s.
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I missed out.
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Everybody to watch miss America.
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I competed in miss OU and they all donated so I could.
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For my entry fee and they all came and walked me.
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Sorry.
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Dogs trying to get on my lap.
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That’s okay.
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I was telling cherish this, but I didn’t even knew.
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No, she was doing pageantry until after college.
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And yeah, I don’t know how I missed that.
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I actually with like moving and stuff.
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Having the two bedrooms.
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I could.
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I could.
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I actually have the space to unpack all of my, like, you know,
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My other room.
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My dad is just like a little trophy room.
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And it has like all my.
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That’s good.
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Sashes and everything.
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I’m like.
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That’s so awesome.
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It’s probably really good motivation and everything.
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Are you going to keep, are you still doing it?
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I’m still doing it.
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I’m still doing it.
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I’m still doing it.
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I’m still doing it.
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I am. I’m still competing.
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I might compete in July.
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We’ll see if the funds work out.
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That’s always a big thing.
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But if not next October.
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Texas.
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I didn’t even think about that.
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That would do. Yeah.
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I think that’s a good thing.
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I think if it was a day that would have been like,
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one of those things where like, Ooh, but missing. Oh, you text.
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Everything comes after that.
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And then the, what all pageants have you done since college?
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Well, since college, I did take a, like a little break.
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After I graduated really since college.
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Gosh, am I going to get this right?
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I’m going to get this right.
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So my next pageant is.
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Miss Texas.
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USO a.
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My most recent title that I gave up back in October.
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It’s definitely.
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It’s a.
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It’s the only.
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Pageant that I’ve competed in actually.
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But all the other ones are.
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I figured out you were down here.
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And when I came.
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Down to Houston.
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Can’t be.
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I’m not living here.
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Surprise.
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Yep. Yep.
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Well, you’d be.
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I’m not living here.
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I remember when I was younger, I had tried.
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I was telling cherish about this when I happened to get to see her
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for the first time in what, like six years.
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Two weeks ago.
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And so, cause.
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I’m in Houston.
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But I’m like,
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Not in Houston.
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Cause I’m in the suburbs area.
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And so whenever I tell people though, they’re always like,
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Oh, I’m in Houston.
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I’m like, Oh, I’m in the suburbs area.
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All the way up there.
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And they’re like, Oh, so you’re not in Houston.
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Yeah, basically.
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So then it’s hard for me to get down to the city,
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but like when I do, I tried to, so I went, we went down there and we saw,
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if you know, LV Ellis.
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And we saw him.
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Yeah, he’s the.
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He was like the MC or something at my camp.
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Yes. Yes. That’s exactly how I know him too.
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And so I was like, Hey, I’m going to go with you.
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I’m going to go with you.
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I’m going to go with you.
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And I went to the whole performance to be honest.
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It was so great.
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Oh, I missed out.
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Damn it.
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Cause I’m a year younger than you guys.
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So I missed out on all that.
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Yeah.
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And I went with.
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Cherish which camp Crimson.
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Did you go through two for freshman orientation?
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We were at the same one, right? Okay. You.
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Yeah. Yeah, I think so.
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You also, I always.
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I knew each other.
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But we have to be the same one.
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So I was like, I was the one that was the one that was.
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My family.
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My family.
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My family.
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Campbell Campbell fam.
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Okay. I was cute.
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Whoever the Qs were the Quincy’s.
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I was the Q family.
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That’s a really bad as, as an SGL former SGL.
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That’s always like so exciting.
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I was like, I’m so excited.
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I remember because I remember I sing y’all’s camp song all the
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time because you sang it on the hallway all the time.
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It’s I like the way you work.
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No diggity.
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Because you sang it.
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All the time. I loved it. It was so great.
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I did.
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All the time. Oh my gosh.
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And I had like, they gave us a cue at camp crimson.
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And then like everyone signed it.
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And then we were like, oh,
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I think I had it until I moved to Connecticut.
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Like I had it.
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I just got.
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Okay. So like for, for our fun story.
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I actually never went to camp crimson as a freshman and I don’t know
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how I missed that.
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But I missed out because I found that out when I went for SGL.
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And then freshmen and sophomore year.
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And then we had a camp camp.
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Camp camp for the, for the camp camp.
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Or basically for people listening SGL is a student group.
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No small group leader.
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Yep. Wow.
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I can’t even remember that.
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It’s basically camp counselor per se.
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And for the incoming freshmen orientation camp.
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And so then whenever I was an SGL, we had.
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We had a camp camp for the first time.
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And then we had a camp camp for the second time.
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And we, for our mascot and for our mascot.
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And so then we, I kept it until this year.
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And then I started to realize it was taken up too much room.
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And so.
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The mascot had to go.
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Yeah.
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And then I realized this is literally just a pinata.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Crazy.
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Like the things that we decide to keep from college, like.
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Yeah.
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I can’t bring myself to throw it away.
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Wristbands like all of those things.
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You got your burn bracelets.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Exactly.
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You have one on your foot right now.
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See, or did you look at it?
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Oh, I thought you were about to like.
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In like recent years,
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because I’m like in a very small apartment now I’ve like.
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Finally, I like got rid of like all these things that I just was
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hoarding.
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So.
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I’m having that struggle.
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I’m having that struggle with my
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I’m having that struggle with my, my, my, my.
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Your secret.
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Tell us your ways because I’m the queen of all things hoarding.
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I want to show you all my other room.
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Just to show you can see how much junk I truly have.
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It’s bad.
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Typically I look at it and I’m like,
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Yeah.
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It’s almost like Marie condo.
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Does this bring me joy?
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And then I have to be like, okay, bye.
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But like even like old clothing, like,
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I don’t have space for us anymore. It has to go.
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And so like,
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I still like there’s still like certain things that are just like in
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a bin, like a bin of just junk that is just like random stuff.
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Yup.
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But like eventually I’m just like.
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You’re never going to do anything with this.
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I am the cancer Zodiac and we tend to be infamous hoarders.
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And that’s actually why I was back up into that’s why I went to
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DFW this past weekend.
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I was helping my grandparents with their, like,
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they’re moving, they’re kind of downsizing.
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And so then.
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Both of my grandparents are cancers too.
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And that’s how I believe in the Zodiac because they have a whole
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entire hoarding room too.
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And it’s like,
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we can put a meeting on anything and everything.
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And it gets to a point where I have to like take a step back and like
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literally medicine.
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And be like, okay, I don’t need that.
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Yes, exactly.
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That’s how the pinata was finally.
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I don’t need that.
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I still have so many things.
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So many things.
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Like I still have.
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High school.
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From like childhood.
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I still got God. Yeah.
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You gave me a sweater my freshman year and I’m looking at it in my
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closet.
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Which one is it?
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Please.
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Please.
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Please.
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Awesome.
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Okay.
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Animals.
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Like I have all my stuffed animals.
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I have all my stuff.
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All the photos, of course.
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And then, oh, the worst.
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Now.
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Now that we’re like in digital era, I can hoard everything on to any,
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you know, we’re in media and everything.
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So I don’t know if you have this issue,
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but I have the hardest time like putting.
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Oh my gosh. I love that one.
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That’s so cute.
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I was thinking about that sweater a few days ago.
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Oh my gosh.
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I love that.
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It’s so cute. Can’t blame you.
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You’re like, it doesn’t fit me. Like I like it too.
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Do you want it? And I’m like, yes, I do.
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There’s like, can I get it back?
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Crazy. I love that sweater.
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You’re welcome.
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I’ll send it back.
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It will not fit me.
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Traveling sweater.
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We’ll just send it back.
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Enjoy the sweater.
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I love that sweater.
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It’s from American Eagle. Like it was a great sweater.
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I have some really cute pics.
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I was just seeing it was American Eagle.
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I was just about to ask if it was.
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I had another one.
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Actually, I think I do remember that. Cause like, like,
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everyone gains a little bit of weight freshman year.
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So I like gained weight freshman year. And then I was like,
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Oh yeah.
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Well now it doesn’t fit me the way it used to. So like.
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Yep.
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I’m still.
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I’m still a bit of a weight difference.
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I think I have weight difference.
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I’m like,
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I’m going to get a lot of weight in my life.
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And I’m like, I’m going to get a lot of weight in my life.
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I’m like, I’ll get back to that someday.
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And it’s just so it won’t happen.
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No, I just.
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I’ve closed from elementary school.
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They literally have close from elementary school. So I just.
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I’m hoping that’s not to try to fit in again.
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I can still fit it.
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Like I literally.
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We can still fit it.
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There’s a couple of things that honestly escape me of what I still have, but one thing in
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particular is this pair of jeans that I actually cut into shorts and I still from literally
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from fifth grade.
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I remember that doing that.
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Oh my god.
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Still wear them.
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My body has changed too much for anything like that.
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Oh yeah, me too.
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And then the whole, in post-grad life puts you through so much of like ups and downs
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and it feels like how you’re doing in life is where you’re at.
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So like we get a lot of people at work who it’s like their first job out of school.
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It’s like their first time on their own.
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And like I’ve had this conversation with a lot of people, but like right after you graduate
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school and you go to whatever your first job is, like that’s the first time that you’re
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not waiting for another season.
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Because like when you’re in college, you’re waiting for the spring, like you’re waiting
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for the fall semester to end and then you’re waiting for the spring semester and then you’re
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in summer and you’re doing whatever your summer plan is.
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But like once you graduate and like you’re no longer in school anymore and you’re just
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like working or living life, like that’s literally the first time, like for a lot of people that’s
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the first time in your life that you’re not just like counting down the days to something
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else.
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So like I’ve had that conversation with people many times that it’s like, okay, well this
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is your life now.
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Like what would you like to do with it?
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Like how are you going to decide to like, like, like the fullest, create happiness in
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your every day?
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Because like, like let’s be real, like the world can get you down.
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Like sometimes life can be really, really hard.
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So especially when you’re used to college, everything’s changing constantly and you’re
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used to that, like, oh, tomorrow will be different or like this is coming up and this and you
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just like when you’re actually in a more stable job area.
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I mean, I’m not in that, but everyone that does get to be.
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Even for a lot of people, like it may be the first time, like I see this all the time,
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like it may be the first time that like you’re away from your family for a long time or like,
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and like, like there are so many things that it’s like, you like you go to college and
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you have freedom and like you support yourself or whatever.
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But then like once you actually leave college and like maybe, maybe you stay home like in
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your post-grad life, maybe you go away, whatever.
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But either way, like it’s the first time that like you are figuring out what your life is
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going to be like.
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And that’s really hard.
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I feel like, like I moved to Connecticut after like a few months after school and I feel
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like it took two years for me to like, like I had friends here.
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I had people that I did stuff with, but like it took me two years for me to like feel really
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comfortable and like really invest in my friendships.
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Yeah I was actually, I was actually planning on doing a super senior year at OU in 2019
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and then I have an autoimmune disease.
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So like I had to go home for my doctors and everything and so cut short around the beginning
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of 2019.
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So like it was 2018, 2019 and then we all know what came next.
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So it still feels like I’m still in that era even though I’m 26 and I’m like, how am I
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still feeling like that?
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And so like when I’m, yeah, and it’s, I realized like I’ve for the past couple, at least the
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past year or two, I like, I don’t actually know where I’ll be living for sure in a year
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00:20:09,240 –> 00:20:11,800
and like that’s such a weird, scary feeling.
510
00:20:11,800 –> 00:20:14,760
But then I was like, okay, I want to work in media.
511
00:20:14,760 –> 00:20:17,160
You never know where you’re going to be going with that.
512
00:20:17,160 –> 00:20:22,280
And so I’ve had to like calm myself down with that right now still in Houston.
513
00:20:22,280 –> 00:20:27,800
And so that’s good, know that, but I think I’m going towards Austin because we’re film
514
00:20:27,800 –> 00:20:30,000
and policy work.
515
00:20:30,000 –> 00:20:32,960
And so capital, that makes sense.
516
00:20:32,960 –> 00:20:39,360
And so it’s been, it’s been weird because then I was always going to be doing film forever
517
00:20:39,360 –> 00:20:45,880
and then during 2019, 2020, I started to do volunteering for all the different campaigns.
518
00:20:45,880 –> 00:20:49,920
And that’s how I realized I kind of want to work in this a little bit too.
519
00:20:49,920 –> 00:20:51,640
And that’s a whole other degree.
520
00:20:51,640 –> 00:20:54,040
So I’m actually doing school at the same time.
521
00:20:54,040 –> 00:20:55,760
Yes, still doing it.
522
00:20:55,760 –> 00:20:56,760
Yes.
523
00:20:56,760 –> 00:20:57,760
And I was almost done.
524
00:20:57,760 –> 00:21:02,380
And then I was like, they, it’s totally ripped up and actually having the autoimmune disease
525
00:21:02,380 –> 00:21:07,680
kind of helped because I could kind of, I had to withdraw from last classes anyways,
526
00:21:07,680 –> 00:21:12,720
but it saved me a little bit because of having to redo a whole, I have to do a whole other
527
00:21:12,720 –> 00:21:14,400
degree essentially.
528
00:21:14,400 –> 00:21:17,800
So it’s been, it’s been an interesting ride.
529
00:21:17,800 –> 00:21:25,320
And then I joined Beto’s campaign and that actually kind of, it all put into place again,
530
00:21:25,320 –> 00:21:30,760
like one of another thing we all have in common of like believing in God in like the different
531
00:21:30,760 –> 00:21:36,560
ways and that I really like, I realized that I’m just hopping around Texas and going all
532
00:21:36,560 –> 00:21:42,600
over and I kind of feel like it’s to learn of what’s all going around in Texas and to
533
00:21:42,600 –> 00:21:48,640
try and, because I’m sure you’ve seen on the news a lot, Sierra, and as you know, Terish,
534
00:21:48,640 –> 00:21:50,880
we’ve got a lot of work down here.
535
00:21:50,880 –> 00:21:53,040
And so it’s been interesting.
536
00:21:53,040 –> 00:21:54,240
Yeah.
537
00:21:54,240 –> 00:21:59,840
I think I’m being kind of, I never expected to be down in Houston, but then being in Houston,
538
00:21:59,840 –> 00:22:05,440
this is actually where the headquarters of that was and I get to see Terish again.
539
00:22:05,440 –> 00:22:07,440
So it works.
540
00:22:07,440 –> 00:22:08,440
Yeah, exactly.
541
00:22:08,440 –> 00:22:11,000
I never participated in being here.
542
00:22:11,000 –> 00:22:16,400
I think y’all both kind of like touched on it, but as far as like things that college
543
00:22:16,400 –> 00:22:21,240
does teach you, I think one thing nobody ever talks about like the things that college doesn’t
544
00:22:21,240 –> 00:22:22,240
really teach you.
545
00:22:22,240 –> 00:22:26,480
And I was having this conversation with a friend a little while back, like in college,
546
00:22:26,480 –> 00:22:31,040
like it’s really, especially at OU, like I always jokingly say like I majored in networking,
547
00:22:31,040 –> 00:22:32,040
right?
548
00:22:32,040 –> 00:22:33,920
Because OU is super big on that, right?
549
00:22:33,920 –> 00:22:35,360
Like you are always-
550
00:22:35,360 –> 00:22:38,440
Especially Gaylord, me and Sierra and Gaylord.
551
00:22:38,440 –> 00:22:40,720
Gaylord is so big on that.
552
00:22:40,720 –> 00:22:41,720
Right?
553
00:22:41,720 –> 00:22:42,720
Yeah.
554
00:22:42,720 –> 00:22:44,200
But like, kind of like y’all were talking about, there’s always something that like
555
00:22:44,200 –> 00:22:48,560
you’re looking forward to, whether it’s next semester or your internship or even just like
556
00:22:48,560 –> 00:22:50,960
events happening on campus.
557
00:22:50,960 –> 00:22:54,400
It’s always like college is really training you to look forward to it.
558
00:22:54,400 –> 00:22:59,960
Yes, food parties, night at the Union, Mom’s Day, Dad’s Day, all the things, right?
559
00:22:59,960 –> 00:23:02,000
Oh yeah, you know we love Mom’s Day, Chair.
560
00:23:02,000 –> 00:23:03,000
Oh yeah.
561
00:23:03,000 –> 00:23:04,000
Go Mom’s Day, you know?
562
00:23:04,000 –> 00:23:07,560
I bet you guys all went and everything, like the whole hall probably.
563
00:23:07,560 –> 00:23:11,560
Cause you guys probably stayed in, did you guys stay in a group meet like throughout
564
00:23:11,560 –> 00:23:12,560
the years too?
565
00:23:12,560 –> 00:23:13,560
I know.
566
00:23:13,560 –> 00:23:14,560
And like-
567
00:23:14,560 –> 00:23:16,040
I think it might still actually be in existence.
568
00:23:16,040 –> 00:23:17,040
It still exists.
569
00:23:17,040 –> 00:23:18,040
Oh, that’s so cool.
570
00:23:18,040 –> 00:23:19,040
I think so.
571
00:23:19,040 –> 00:23:21,040
No, we’re not talking it as much, but it still exists.
572
00:23:21,040 –> 00:23:22,040
Every once in a while.
573
00:23:22,040 –> 00:23:23,040
Oh, I know that.
574
00:23:23,040 –> 00:23:24,040
Ours, everybody’s dropped.
575
00:23:24,040 –> 00:23:28,920
I’m not even joking about Mom’s Day because I was chair of Mom’s Day back in the day.
576
00:23:28,920 –> 00:23:29,920
That’s why.
577
00:23:29,920 –> 00:23:30,920
So, but it’s actually not even Mom’s Day anymore.
578
00:23:30,920 –> 00:23:33,960
It’s Parents Weekend, which is something that like I wanted for sure.
579
00:23:33,960 –> 00:23:34,960
Yeah, it’s Parents Weekend.
580
00:23:34,960 –> 00:23:35,960
That’s very inclusive actually.
581
00:23:35,960 –> 00:23:36,960
I really like that.
582
00:23:36,960 –> 00:23:37,960
I like that.
583
00:23:37,960 –> 00:23:38,960
It is good.
584
00:23:38,960 –> 00:23:39,960
One thing that they didn’t-
585
00:23:39,960 –> 00:23:46,440
It was so, yeah, it was so hard whenever people didn’t have that like actual, you know, relationships.
586
00:23:46,440 –> 00:23:49,200
And so then trying to figure out how to include everybody-
587
00:23:49,200 –> 00:23:53,120
So they would do like Mom’s Day and Dad’s Day and like, I don’t have a relationship
588
00:23:53,120 –> 00:23:54,120
with my father.
589
00:23:54,120 –> 00:23:57,320
So like Dad’s Day was really hard and like a lot of people have that.
590
00:23:57,320 –> 00:23:58,320
Yeah.
591
00:23:58,320 –> 00:24:01,720
People who like lost their parents, right?
592
00:24:01,720 –> 00:24:05,680
For my year on Mom’s Day, we did a candlelight vigil for like people who didn’t have their
593
00:24:05,680 –> 00:24:08,760
parents or, you know, didn’t have a relationship, all the things.
594
00:24:08,760 –> 00:24:12,440
But like nobody, like that was something that we really like, people didn’t really like
595
00:24:12,440 –> 00:24:13,440
talk about.
596
00:24:13,440 –> 00:24:14,440
They’re like, okay, yeah, that’s another aspect.
597
00:24:14,440 –> 00:24:18,040
So I was really happy that they changed it to Parents Weekend.
598
00:24:18,040 –> 00:24:24,400
But actually, that’s so funny and so funny in a twisted way.
599
00:24:24,400 –> 00:24:31,560
I found out that my roommate actually, her family went through one of the most, I won’t
600
00:24:31,560 –> 00:24:39,000
air her situation, but went through one of the worst things to happen in our nation and
601
00:24:39,000 –> 00:24:41,040
lost one of her siblings that way.
602
00:24:41,040 –> 00:24:46,560
And I never knew that whenever we were looking at houses and I asked her, I was like, oh,
603
00:24:46,560 –> 00:24:48,840
so is your mom coming for Mom’s Day?
604
00:24:48,840 –> 00:24:51,860
And she was like, actually, it’s the anniversary.
605
00:24:51,860 –> 00:24:55,360
And so we tend to not want to be in Oklahoma during that.
606
00:24:55,360 –> 00:24:57,640
And that’s how I figured out.
607
00:24:57,640 –> 00:25:01,400
And I know like, you know, being when you’re younger and being so naive and like the things
608
00:25:01,400 –> 00:25:05,720
that other people could go through, especially like when you’re in Oklahoma, how many people
609
00:25:05,720 –> 00:25:11,720
have been affected by things that happened in Oklahoma and all of that kind of stuff,
610
00:25:11,720 –> 00:25:13,920
like even tornadoes, etc.
611
00:25:13,920 –> 00:25:19,240
And that was a new thing for me to learn also being in Texas, like away from all of that.
612
00:25:19,240 –> 00:25:22,920
And yeah, that was one of those moments where I was like, wow, I feel very dumb in this
613
00:25:22,920 –> 00:25:24,920
moment.
614
00:25:24,920 –> 00:25:30,560
But it was very important and you know, came, I started living with her and was a big part
615
00:25:30,560 –> 00:25:33,640
of our life and learning how her life was.
616
00:25:33,640 –> 00:25:34,640
Yeah.
617
00:25:34,640 –> 00:25:36,000
You didn’t know though when you asked.
618
00:25:36,000 –> 00:25:37,000
I know, it’s hard.
619
00:25:37,000 –> 00:25:40,560
As long as you’re like as supportive as you can be.
620
00:25:40,560 –> 00:25:43,120
I’m careful about the words that you use now.
621
00:25:43,120 –> 00:25:45,400
Like that’s why I skipped over some of them.
622
00:25:45,400 –> 00:25:51,360
And then that was another thing being a part of Beto’s team is how progressive people are
623
00:25:51,360 –> 00:25:54,120
and like even like there’s like a spectrum of it.
624
00:25:54,120 –> 00:25:58,340
And so there was times when like you would say like, we had to block walks.
625
00:25:58,340 –> 00:26:00,800
So we would have to knock on doors.
626
00:26:00,800 –> 00:26:04,640
And we had to like approach the subject and it was a back and forth thing about whether
627
00:26:04,640 –> 00:26:08,120
or not to actually talk about how dangerous that can be or not.
628
00:26:08,120 –> 00:26:12,560
And because it was very necessary, but it was also dangerous.
629
00:26:12,560 –> 00:26:14,120
And we can’t just deny that.
630
00:26:14,120 –> 00:26:18,960
So like even bringing up like what people you’re going to encounter and put you in like
631
00:26:18,960 –> 00:26:19,960
a dangerous situation.
632
00:26:19,960 –> 00:26:20,960
Even dogs.
633
00:26:20,960 –> 00:26:26,280
I didn’t even realize how much of a situation dogs were like even like the spare dogs and
634
00:26:26,280 –> 00:26:28,560
Houston has a huge issue with that.
635
00:26:28,560 –> 00:26:30,760
And I don’t know why, but they do.
636
00:26:30,760 –> 00:26:35,680
And so they’ve been having, yeah, I’m sure you’ve seen it, the cherish.
637
00:26:35,680 –> 00:26:38,080
And so then that was like a whole new thing.
638
00:26:38,080 –> 00:26:42,600
And I remember like thinking, okay, so how do I state this?
639
00:26:42,600 –> 00:26:45,360
And there was some back and forth with that.
640
00:26:45,360 –> 00:26:51,920
Cherish, do you want to talk about how you got into like, how did you end up getting
641
00:26:51,920 –> 00:26:57,960
working where you are and how that by lamb and stuff like that?
642
00:26:57,960 –> 00:26:59,960
So like, did that help?
643
00:26:59,960 –> 00:27:01,760
No, it didn’t.
644
00:27:01,760 –> 00:27:02,760
No, really?
645
00:27:02,760 –> 00:27:06,880
I mean, they are like totally two very like separate things.
646
00:27:06,880 –> 00:27:08,400
Me being in phylum had nothing.
647
00:27:08,400 –> 00:27:12,280
So I work in full time ministry just to give a little background.
648
00:27:12,280 –> 00:27:20,640
And in phylum, like I often like gave what we called like the divos, like our Sunday,
649
00:27:20,640 –> 00:27:21,960
like our, what was it called?
650
00:27:21,960 –> 00:27:24,600
Chapter, our Sunday chapter, like teaching.
651
00:27:24,600 –> 00:27:26,320
I gave them occasionally, right?
652
00:27:26,320 –> 00:27:32,440
But mine was one, I always did one a year that was basically like, hey guys, we can
653
00:27:32,440 –> 00:27:34,400
not only just hang out with philums.
654
00:27:34,400 –> 00:27:37,000
Like our goal is to make God’s name great on this campus.
655
00:27:37,000 –> 00:27:39,360
So you have to hang out with people who aren’t philums.
656
00:27:39,360 –> 00:27:40,360
Like that was my thing.
657
00:27:40,360 –> 00:27:44,680
The whole thing that God put on my heart was that like, you know, being a light to people
658
00:27:44,680 –> 00:27:50,920
in whatever, you know, like right, not just in like our own little Christian bubbles.
659
00:27:50,920 –> 00:27:54,440
And so when God called me to full time ministry, I was like, you’re joking, right?
660
00:27:54,440 –> 00:27:56,440
Like I’m like my whole thing.
661
00:27:56,440 –> 00:28:00,800
That’s like, that was like my whole thing is to not just be in full time ministry, but
662
00:28:00,800 –> 00:28:03,000
it was actually pretty cool.
663
00:28:03,000 –> 00:28:07,600
So I grew up not the whole time, but like in high school grew up going to like summer
664
00:28:07,600 –> 00:28:09,640
camp, Christian summer camps and things like that.
665
00:28:09,640 –> 00:28:14,120
And so in college I was always taking summer classes, hashtag engineering.
666
00:28:14,120 –> 00:28:17,720
So finally one summer I did not have any summer classes.
667
00:28:17,720 –> 00:28:21,560
And so I, you know, call it my pastor from high school and was like, Hey, if you guys
668
00:28:21,560 –> 00:28:26,920
need any volunteers, I got you like, you know, for, if you’re for this summer.
669
00:28:26,920 –> 00:28:28,280
And he’s like, yeah, of course.
670
00:28:28,280 –> 00:28:29,280
Great.
671
00:28:29,280 –> 00:28:30,280
We’re always looking at volunteers.
672
00:28:30,280 –> 00:28:34,680
So like I went to my, uh, I went to the summer camp that I’d always gone to.
673
00:28:34,680 –> 00:28:41,840
And it was basically like the pre camp camp for all like the leaders in your student ministry.
674
00:28:41,840 –> 00:28:46,080
And I got to be with like the senior group and like tell them about all the things you’re
675
00:28:46,080 –> 00:28:49,520
going to experience, like their freshman year of college, super great.
676
00:28:49,520 –> 00:28:53,480
And Thursday of camp, that seems very perfect for you with how we met.
677
00:28:53,480 –> 00:28:54,480
It was so fun.
678
00:28:54,480 –> 00:28:55,480
Yes, I know.
679
00:28:55,480 –> 00:28:56,480
Right.
680
00:28:56,480 –> 00:28:57,480
It’s like I was involved in all the things.
681
00:28:57,480 –> 00:29:04,120
So like Thursday night of camp, um, I just, just like, God, you know, I’ve been praying
682
00:29:04,120 –> 00:29:07,240
for my students all week for you to do something amazing in their lives.
683
00:29:07,240 –> 00:29:10,760
Um, but like, really like, I forget that you can do amazing things in my life.
684
00:29:10,760 –> 00:29:12,760
Like, what is it that you have for me?
685
00:29:12,760 –> 00:29:14,120
What is your plan for my life?
686
00:29:14,120 –> 00:29:18,840
And I walk out of like our little chapel and I start talking to like our, um, like the
687
00:29:18,840 –> 00:29:22,320
leader person who was in charge of the leaders and his name was Chad.
688
00:29:22,320 –> 00:29:25,960
I had to apologize to Chad later and Chad goes, okay.
689
00:29:25,960 –> 00:29:29,720
Um, Hey, Cherish, I have a plan for your life.
690
00:29:29,720 –> 00:29:33,080
What if you give up on engineering and go to full-time ministry?
691
00:29:33,080 –> 00:29:37,160
And I didn’t even know you were in engineering until just a second.
692
00:29:37,160 –> 00:29:40,320
And my sister is downstairs doing an engineering midterm.
693
00:29:40,320 –> 00:29:41,880
Oh yeah.
694
00:29:41,880 –> 00:29:46,200
Cherish was big time industrial engineering.
695
00:29:46,200 –> 00:29:47,200
No way.
696
00:29:47,200 –> 00:29:50,560
Isn’t it funny how things change?
697
00:29:50,560 –> 00:29:53,000
Yeah, it’s hilarious.
698
00:29:53,000 –> 00:29:59,320
I literally laughed in Chad’s face and I was like, oh, I did all that school for her.
699
00:29:59,320 –> 00:30:00,320
So what?
700
00:30:00,320 –> 00:30:01,320
Yeah.
701
00:30:01,320 –> 00:30:03,000
And I’m like, God, I love your sense of humor.
702
00:30:03,000 –> 00:30:04,000
I appreciate that.
703
00:30:04,000 –> 00:30:08,440
You use my exact phrasing of what’s your plan for my life and then speak through Chad.
704
00:30:08,440 –> 00:30:10,240
Hey, I have a plan for your life.
705
00:30:10,240 –> 00:30:12,640
27 seconds later, but that’s cute.
706
00:30:12,640 –> 00:30:13,640
Really?
707
00:30:13,640 –> 00:30:14,640
What do you want for my life?
708
00:30:14,640 –> 00:30:20,160
And then everything just kind of worked out perfectly to where I ended up at the church
709
00:30:20,160 –> 00:30:25,040
that I’m at now and my youth pastor that I had in high school, he worked for this church
710
00:30:25,040 –> 00:30:26,040
down here.
711
00:30:26,040 –> 00:30:27,040
That’s how I got connected.
712
00:30:27,040 –> 00:30:30,200
So I get to work directly with him, but still get to work with him.
713
00:30:30,200 –> 00:30:31,200
Yeah.
714
00:30:31,200 –> 00:30:36,720
I had always wondered how you ended up in Houston and I always never anticipated to
715
00:30:36,720 –> 00:30:37,720
be here too.
716
00:30:37,720 –> 00:30:40,480
So then it’s kind of very similar.
717
00:30:40,480 –> 00:30:43,000
You just go with the flow and you end up there.
718
00:30:43,000 –> 00:30:47,880
Well, mine was my family came down here and then I happened to when it worked out.
719
00:30:47,880 –> 00:30:54,400
But it was the same thing whenever I was starting to realize that if I hadn’t kept doing some
720
00:30:54,400 –> 00:30:59,360
of the, I’m not going to say political, I’m going to say anti-corruption because the political
721
00:30:59,360 –> 00:31:04,160
scene is very stressful and I don’t really love their vibes.
722
00:31:04,160 –> 00:31:11,160
So I kind of want to avoid most of that and do anti-corruption maybe in nonprofits and
723
00:31:11,160 –> 00:31:12,160
that kind of stuff.
724
00:31:12,160 –> 00:31:13,920
That’s kind of what I’m looking into right now.
725
00:31:13,920 –> 00:31:16,800
After this, I’m literally going to be applying to jobs all night.
726
00:31:16,800 –> 00:31:18,160
Fun life.
727
00:31:18,160 –> 00:31:23,000
So whenever you’re having a down day at work, just remember you could be Lizzie and applying
728
00:31:23,000 –> 00:31:24,000
to jobs.
729
00:31:24,000 –> 00:31:25,000
It’s fun.
730
00:31:25,000 –> 00:31:28,080
So that was the downside of having seasonal employment.
731
00:31:28,080 –> 00:31:33,080
So I didn’t really think that through when I was working for Betos and forget like, Hey,
732
00:31:33,080 –> 00:31:34,680
his campaign is going to end.
733
00:31:34,680 –> 00:31:39,960
But it was very similar to that where I was like, but I did four years of school and then,
734
00:31:39,960 –> 00:31:42,720
but I just knew it was going to like, it nags on you.
735
00:31:42,720 –> 00:31:46,040
Like if you’re not, don’t actually follow it and keep going.
736
00:31:46,040 –> 00:31:49,800
And it’s funny because I always told people like, Oh, I’ve always wanted to do film.
737
00:31:49,800 –> 00:31:53,400
And so I’m one of the lucky people I always knew and I’ll always go with that.
738
00:31:53,400 –> 00:31:57,400
And then it was a same thing where it was like, God was like, Hey, hello.
739
00:31:57,400 –> 00:32:01,600
No, we’re going to put this because it was a lot of the people at OU and everyone being
740
00:32:01,600 –> 00:32:07,560
so go getters and all of that kind of stuff that really like inspired me to actually start
741
00:32:07,560 –> 00:32:12,240
working with it and be the change in the world that you wish to see.
742
00:32:12,240 –> 00:32:15,240
And so I, yeah, I never anticipated it.
743
00:32:15,240 –> 00:32:20,520
And it, it just, I basically I’m trying to say I had the same thought of like, but what
744
00:32:20,520 –> 00:32:23,000
about all that schoolwork, but it’s worth it.
745
00:32:23,000 –> 00:32:25,000
It’s like, yeah, sure.
746
00:32:25,000 –> 00:32:30,200
But honestly, like if you’re following your path, like, yeah, yeah.
747
00:32:30,200 –> 00:32:31,200
God puts you in.
748
00:32:31,200 –> 00:32:35,720
And it’s funny when you start to realize that sometimes the different things that you were
749
00:32:35,720 –> 00:32:42,920
like already studying somehow crossover and then, yeah, I never somehow I, and I don’t
750
00:32:42,920 –> 00:32:48,680
even know why people would put me into like social media advertising and that kind of
751
00:32:48,680 –> 00:32:49,680
stuff.
752
00:32:49,680 –> 00:32:52,920
But back in like, I had an internship, ignore my dog.
753
00:32:52,920 –> 00:32:55,520
He dash sit down, please.
754
00:32:55,520 –> 00:32:57,680
He’s decided to be grumpy now.
755
00:32:57,680 –> 00:32:58,680
No, sir.
756
00:32:58,680 –> 00:33:01,360
See, this is the Chihuahua coming.
757
00:33:01,360 –> 00:33:02,360
Can you guys hear him?
758
00:33:02,360 –> 00:33:03,360
Okay.
759
00:33:03,360 –> 00:33:04,360
Okay.
760
00:33:04,360 –> 00:33:05,360
Good.
761
00:33:05,360 –> 00:33:06,360
Good.
762
00:33:06,360 –> 00:33:07,360
Okay.
763
00:33:07,360 –> 00:33:08,360
Well, then nevermind.
764
00:33:08,360 –> 00:33:14,160
They the oh yeah, but I never anticipated ever work with anything in social media, but
765
00:33:14,160 –> 00:33:19,920
because of like CAC, you know, campus activities council back where the mom’s day and everything
766
00:33:19,920 –> 00:33:24,240
is, I also got involved in all that and they kept putting me on social media.
767
00:33:24,240 –> 00:33:30,000
And then because of that, I got an internship with Disney to do PR and I was like, I’m not
768
00:33:30,000 –> 00:33:32,080
in PR at all, but okay, I’ll take it.
769
00:33:32,080 –> 00:33:33,080
Like, yeah.
770
00:33:33,080 –> 00:33:39,760
And so then now I’m finding myself applying for doing the social media for the campaign
771
00:33:39,760 –> 00:33:44,720
and stuff, which I will admit, I think that’s where one of the things we went wrong with
772
00:33:44,720 –> 00:33:46,280
and Beto’s campaign.
773
00:33:46,280 –> 00:33:52,080
But because I found out later on, we didn’t actually have a whole entire social media
774
00:33:52,080 –> 00:33:54,120
system or anything and it’s crazy.
775
00:33:54,120 –> 00:33:59,360
But yeah, so it’s things like learning that and it’s weird how it’s all connecting and
776
00:33:59,360 –> 00:34:04,240
being outside of I don’t know if you guys had this feeling too, when you like firstly
777
00:34:04,240 –> 00:34:09,120
college, you kind of like feel like you want to know what your path for your rest of your
778
00:34:09,120 –> 00:34:12,680
life is and like find your meaning and right.
779
00:34:12,680 –> 00:34:16,200
And it was so stressful because I had these two different things.
780
00:34:16,200 –> 00:34:21,040
I couldn’t figure out how to connect and I finally, finally at 26 have accepted like,
781
00:34:21,040 –> 00:34:23,840
wait a minute, you don’t have to have it all figured out.
782
00:34:23,840 –> 00:34:27,120
It’ll find you and that’s a lot less stressful.
783
00:34:27,120 –> 00:34:29,800
So I’ve definitely feel you guys on that.
784
00:34:29,800 –> 00:34:30,800
Yeah.
785
00:34:30,800 –> 00:34:35,520
And there’s like some crazy statistic, like 60 or 70% of people don’t use like the degree
786
00:34:35,520 –> 00:34:36,520
they studied.
787
00:34:36,520 –> 00:34:37,520
So you’re fine.
788
00:34:37,520 –> 00:34:40,040
You’re in the boat with the rest of us.
789
00:34:40,040 –> 00:34:44,800
The amount of people that I’m seeing, like one of my friends here in Houston, like she
790
00:34:44,800 –> 00:34:50,900
works in architecture, even though she was in interior design, things like that.
791
00:34:50,900 –> 00:34:53,980
And then it’s so funny to see like the complete opposite.
792
00:34:53,980 –> 00:34:59,560
So yeah, sometimes it makes me be like, do I really want to keep doing the degree right
793
00:34:59,560 –> 00:35:02,640
now anyways, but trying to finish that.
794
00:35:02,640 –> 00:35:03,640
Yeah.
795
00:35:03,640 –> 00:35:06,480
I’m like, I kind of, I kind of think that’s an argument that people have a lot that like
796
00:35:06,480 –> 00:35:12,200
when you’re having, you know, like 18 year olds declare their major, like people like
797
00:35:12,200 –> 00:35:13,560
that’s a conversation I hear a lot.
798
00:35:13,560 –> 00:35:17,920
It’s like, oh my gosh, are you going to want to do this, you know, four years from now?
799
00:35:17,920 –> 00:35:22,320
And I think the answer is that like, as long as you’re like getting the skills, you know,
800
00:35:22,320 –> 00:35:27,000
and like gaining experiences, any of it really matters.
801
00:35:27,000 –> 00:35:31,680
Like, you know, you don’t necessarily, like, I mean, like, obviously I work in television,
802
00:35:31,680 –> 00:35:34,240
like you don’t even have to have a degree to work in television.
803
00:35:34,240 –> 00:35:38,040
So like, it’s kind of really what I do.
804
00:35:38,040 –> 00:35:42,760
That’s actually why I changed, because I do still have some of that broadcasting nag, like
805
00:35:42,760 –> 00:35:50,120
want to like do, I’ve thought about like combining, I will not say them and scape, like be scared
806
00:35:50,120 –> 00:35:55,080
that anyone will take them from me, but I have a few ideas that I want to trademark
807
00:35:55,080 –> 00:35:59,600
and try to like put into and maybe produce someday.
808
00:35:59,600 –> 00:36:06,040
And but right now I know that like all of the stuff going on, not anti-corruption wise,
809
00:36:06,040 –> 00:36:07,800
like I’m going to build that up.
810
00:36:07,800 –> 00:36:13,560
And plus, honestly, it’s easier and in the way that it is because yeah, the whole funding
811
00:36:13,560 –> 00:36:18,160
side, I’m sure Sierra, you’ve seen plenty of that, like the funding side of media is
812
00:36:18,160 –> 00:36:19,800
very, yeah.
813
00:36:19,800 –> 00:36:22,760
I want to be more stable for that area.
814
00:36:22,760 –> 00:36:28,480
And I have a feeling, yeah, a lot, like there’s a lot that goes with it.
815
00:36:28,480 –> 00:36:30,920
Insurance, like all these other things.
816
00:36:30,920 –> 00:36:34,920
That was a, that was one thing I’m really glad I was in college for is learning all
817
00:36:34,920 –> 00:36:35,920
of that stuff.
818
00:36:35,920 –> 00:36:40,320
Cause I think that would have been like very like whirlwind if I hadn’t, but like we talked
819
00:36:40,320 –> 00:36:45,440
about earlier, it’s like the main thing I got from college was, well, you guys, my friends
820
00:36:45,440 –> 00:36:53,040
and everything and networking and cause I still have been hidden up like different of
821
00:36:53,040 –> 00:36:54,040
all things.
822
00:36:54,040 –> 00:37:00,480
I think I’m going to do acting on the side and my one elective class, my professor, that
823
00:37:00,480 –> 00:37:03,000
one elective class is the one that I hit up like the most.
824
00:37:03,000 –> 00:37:06,760
And I’m like, Hey, you want to, I’m doing it again.
825
00:37:06,760 –> 00:37:10,240
Like let the, yeah, help me with this and that kind of stuff.
826
00:37:10,240 –> 00:37:11,400
And yep.
827
00:37:11,400 –> 00:37:19,400
And it’s kind of funny that I think that the funniest thing that I see is that a lot of
828
00:37:19,400 –> 00:37:23,520
times when people feel like they’re being placed into random places, especially with
829
00:37:23,520 –> 00:37:28,400
the undecided, I think they stress out so many people to like just commit to something
830
00:37:28,400 –> 00:37:30,080
where they don’t feel like they could change.
831
00:37:30,080 –> 00:37:33,040
Like I didn’t never thought I could change.
832
00:37:33,040 –> 00:37:37,520
And then you end up wasting it those years that you could be just learning that.
833
00:37:37,520 –> 00:37:40,360
And it gets you into more of a not than anything.
834
00:37:40,360 –> 00:37:45,960
And, but whenever you have all those random different interests, it actually makes you
835
00:37:45,960 –> 00:37:48,400
more of a unique candidate anyways.
836
00:37:48,400 –> 00:37:50,040
So it’s pretty cool to see.
837
00:37:50,040 –> 00:37:51,040
Yep.
838
00:37:51,040 –> 00:37:57,000
Well, an interesting thing why I don’t know about all schools, but why are you specifically
839
00:37:57,000 –> 00:38:01,960
pressures freshmen into deciding a major is because if they complete their freshman year
840
00:38:01,960 –> 00:38:08,320
undecided, then they can’t count them in like their four year graduate program.
841
00:38:08,320 –> 00:38:15,080
So like, so like, even if you do like finish in four years, if you’re fewer, a undecided
842
00:38:15,080 –> 00:38:17,560
major at freshman year, then they don’t count that.
843
00:38:17,560 –> 00:38:21,640
That’s like a three year graduate and they want to keep their four year graduation percentage
844
00:38:21,640 –> 00:38:22,640
high.
845
00:38:22,640 –> 00:38:25,640
So that’s why they, that’s why they put it so hard.
846
00:38:25,640 –> 00:38:26,640
Yeah.
847
00:38:26,640 –> 00:38:28,640
That would piss me off not knowing that.
848
00:38:28,640 –> 00:38:29,640
Oh my gosh.
849
00:38:29,640 –> 00:38:32,640
But it makes so many things.
850
00:38:32,640 –> 00:38:36,600
Now it’s like all the rest of the pieces of the puzzle.
851
00:38:36,600 –> 00:38:38,600
So I’m like, okay, yeah.
852
00:38:38,600 –> 00:38:46,760
Well, and like even stats, I came in, I definitely came in thinking that I was going to do, I
853
00:38:46,760 –> 00:38:53,040
think I came in like, like pre meteorology and then I switched to like water geometry.
854
00:38:53,040 –> 00:38:58,080
And then I thought about doing engineering and then it was like working at sooner vision
855
00:38:58,080 –> 00:39:00,040
freshman year.
856
00:39:00,040 –> 00:39:03,560
I was like, no, I really want to do broadcasting.
857
00:39:03,560 –> 00:39:09,040
My cat just, Oh, that is another thing I liked about college is honestly sooner vision.
858
00:39:09,040 –> 00:39:12,640
Like that was just not even part of necessarily college.
859
00:39:12,640 –> 00:39:16,400
I like, I had already done like a bunch of like broadcasting stuff in high school and
860
00:39:16,400 –> 00:39:18,920
I like was pretty sure that’s what I wanted to do.
861
00:39:18,920 –> 00:39:21,520
But then like, I was really good at math and science.
862
00:39:21,520 –> 00:39:25,240
So like coming into school, I was really unsure.
863
00:39:25,240 –> 00:39:28,160
Like I really kept feeling like, oh, like you’re really good at math.
864
00:39:28,160 –> 00:39:31,440
Like you should do something with that.
865
00:39:31,440 –> 00:39:34,960
But like, it really wasn’t where my vision lied.
866
00:39:34,960 –> 00:39:39,760
I’ve realized like as an adult, like I really liked math and science because it didn’t come
867
00:39:39,760 –> 00:39:40,760
naturally to me.
868
00:39:40,760 –> 00:39:41,920
It was very hard.
869
00:39:41,920 –> 00:39:45,960
And what came very naturally to me was like English and reading and like writing and stuff
870
00:39:45,960 –> 00:39:46,960
like that.
871
00:39:46,960 –> 00:39:50,120
So like I changed my major a couple of times.
872
00:39:50,120 –> 00:39:53,480
I took my freshman year for my math credit.
873
00:39:53,480 –> 00:39:59,120
I took calculus one for engineers because if I was going to go into like a meteorology
874
00:39:59,120 –> 00:40:06,760
or like an engineering course, like course for my career, I had to have that.
875
00:40:06,760 –> 00:40:10,840
So like, I mean, I was like one of the like, I had like one of the higher grades and my
876
00:40:10,840 –> 00:40:15,920
calc one for engineering class, even though like it was, and it was really hard because
877
00:40:15,920 –> 00:40:18,320
I was like learning it a different way.
878
00:40:18,320 –> 00:40:20,600
But I like, I just felt like I did it.
879
00:40:20,600 –> 00:40:25,320
I didn’t want to like put myself or I wasn’t in a good spot, but it’s still freshman year.
880
00:40:25,320 –> 00:40:34,080
All my classes for the most part were like pre-requisites classes, like they didn’t get
881
00:40:34,080 –> 00:40:35,080
into my degree.
882
00:40:35,080 –> 00:40:41,320
I took one class for Gaylord, like Intro to Mass Communication freshman year, which even
883
00:40:41,320 –> 00:40:43,840
if I had taken it sophomore year, it would have been fine.
884
00:40:43,840 –> 00:40:46,040
But I’m just saying like, that’s so silly.
885
00:40:46,040 –> 00:40:49,240
Like there’s so many courses you fill out your freshman year.
886
00:40:49,240 –> 00:40:51,440
And it’s not like you’re not doing stuff.
887
00:40:51,440 –> 00:40:52,560
You definitely are.
888
00:40:52,560 –> 00:40:53,960
And you should be counted that.
889
00:40:53,960 –> 00:40:58,760
Well, and what’s funny is through, as I’ve been learning all of the different policy
890
00:40:58,760 –> 00:41:03,040
stuff, the one of the biggest anti-corruption things that I actually want to go into is
891
00:41:03,040 –> 00:41:06,720
an, or like help towards is higher education.
892
00:41:06,720 –> 00:41:12,600
The amount of just stupid things and just, we all know the price too, that just does
893
00:41:12,600 –> 00:41:13,600
not add up.
894
00:41:13,600 –> 00:41:18,680
And so I, it’s funny cause I like to say the ironic part of it, ignore my dog.
895
00:41:18,680 –> 00:41:19,680
I’m sorry.
896
00:41:19,680 –> 00:41:20,680
Do you guys hear him yet?
897
00:41:20,680 –> 00:41:22,680
Cause he’s like literally, okay.
898
00:41:22,680 –> 00:41:25,360
You’re very glad cause he literally singing.
899
00:41:25,360 –> 00:41:29,360
So you might hear it.
900
00:41:29,360 –> 00:41:30,880
Dash stop being dramatic.
901
00:41:30,880 –> 00:41:31,880
Okay.
902
00:41:31,880 –> 00:41:34,640
And then anyways, giving me anxiety here.
903
00:41:34,640 –> 00:41:35,640
Okay.
904
00:41:35,640 –> 00:41:38,800
And then, so anyways, I’ll just cut that out.
905
00:41:38,800 –> 00:41:40,840
I’m freaking out about my dog.
906
00:41:40,840 –> 00:41:41,840
Okay.
907
00:41:41,840 –> 00:41:44,840
The, what did I say?
908
00:41:44,840 –> 00:41:46,380
The, oh, okay.
909
00:41:46,380 –> 00:41:51,760
So I find it really ironic because I’m like doing all these classes and stuff like that
910
00:41:51,760 –> 00:41:54,520
to fix going to the schools.
911
00:41:54,520 –> 00:42:00,240
And I hate to say it and I feel like a total traitor, but there is a possibility I could
912
00:42:00,240 –> 00:42:03,240
try to transfer to UT at some point.
913
00:42:03,240 –> 00:42:06,400
And I know, I know, I know exactly.
914
00:42:06,400 –> 00:42:10,600
But, and then I like, and it’s so, it feels so ironic.
915
00:42:10,600 –> 00:42:15,800
And what’s the funniest part about it is like UT is one of the ones that needs a lot of
916
00:42:15,800 –> 00:42:20,360
the fixing and, but I want to go there to learn the things to try and fix that kind
917
00:42:20,360 –> 00:42:28,360
of stuff and yeah, it’s, it’s a very sticky web that if you want some entertainment research
918
00:42:28,360 –> 00:42:30,360
into all of that.
919
00:42:30,360 –> 00:42:31,360
Yeah.
920
00:42:31,360 –> 00:42:32,360
Yeah.
921
00:42:32,360 –> 00:42:39,320
And then so, and then that’s, and the worst part is, is it keeping people from like students
922
00:42:39,320 –> 00:42:44,600
from actually going and learning things and getting the advantage, like advantages of
923
00:42:44,600 –> 00:42:48,560
college, which was like things like meeting you guys when I never would have, like we
924
00:42:48,560 –> 00:42:52,040
met so many people from so many different states.
925
00:42:52,040 –> 00:42:56,520
And I feel like a lot of people, like it’s a good thing that people don’t necessarily
926
00:42:56,520 –> 00:42:58,100
need school anymore.
927
00:42:58,100 –> 00:43:00,400
And I’m glad that that gives like some more opens.
928
00:43:00,400 –> 00:43:06,720
Like my cousin right now, he’s taught himself coding and like HTML Java, all that stuff
929
00:43:06,720 –> 00:43:08,680
in essentially all by himself.
930
00:43:08,680 –> 00:43:10,200
And I’m so impressed by that.
931
00:43:10,200 –> 00:43:15,560
And that he probably, he sounds like he probably will go into a four year eventually just kind
932
00:43:15,560 –> 00:43:18,200
of more for the experience than anything.
933
00:43:18,200 –> 00:43:20,040
But he doesn’t necessarily need to.
934
00:43:20,040 –> 00:43:22,480
And that’s like pretty awesome that he can open those things.
935
00:43:22,480 –> 00:43:28,040
But I think it will seclude our world more into us all just being in our own little bubbles
936
00:43:28,040 –> 00:43:30,380
kind of like back in the olden days.
937
00:43:30,380 –> 00:43:35,720
And so that’s one thing that I worry about with generations coming, because I can’t blame
938
00:43:35,720 –> 00:43:38,120
people for not going to college because yeah.
939
00:43:38,120 –> 00:43:42,080
Well, well, and I feel like that’s more even the pandemic than anything else.
940
00:43:42,080 –> 00:43:43,080
Yes.
941
00:43:43,080 –> 00:43:44,080
Yes.
942
00:43:44,080 –> 00:43:47,440
I’m so used to being alone and being very much like away from others.
943
00:43:47,440 –> 00:43:52,800
Like I think the entire workforce has really learned that like, you know, people, people
944
00:43:52,800 –> 00:43:57,600
don’t necessarily have to be like, you know, working from their work site, they can do
945
00:43:57,600 –> 00:43:58,600
it from home.
946
00:43:58,600 –> 00:44:01,560
But then there are certain collaborative efforts that you lose.
947
00:44:01,560 –> 00:44:02,560
I need it.
948
00:44:02,560 –> 00:44:04,360
Work in like a creative.
949
00:44:04,360 –> 00:44:06,880
I like the hybrid, I think the best.
950
00:44:06,880 –> 00:44:09,200
I think that’s been my bet my most successful.
951
00:44:09,200 –> 00:44:10,200
Yeah.
952
00:44:10,200 –> 00:44:12,920
So it’s like, it’s like, I feel like we’re learning so many things.
953
00:44:12,920 –> 00:44:16,600
But then there are certain parts of community that you’re losing just because.
954
00:44:16,600 –> 00:44:20,120
That happens whenever you see people less.
955
00:44:20,120 –> 00:44:25,320
So yeah, like, I do think that it can be a little worrisome for kids going forward because
956
00:44:25,320 –> 00:44:29,640
like, you know, the pandemic happened right on the precipice of when Gen Z is going to
957
00:44:29,640 –> 00:44:30,640
college.
958
00:44:30,640 –> 00:44:35,760
So like, there’s a lot of like social skills and like, there’s just certain, like almost
959
00:44:35,760 –> 00:44:40,280
intangibles that haven’t been passed on or learned or whatever.
960
00:44:40,280 –> 00:44:45,440
But like, yeah, Gen Z is, you know, very tough generation, like they’re going to adapt.
961
00:44:45,440 –> 00:44:49,240
So like, everyone’s going to figure out like, how to make this thing or that thing work
962
00:44:49,240 –> 00:44:50,240
for society.
963
00:44:50,240 –> 00:44:56,600
But I was with my cousins cousins, and they’re Gen Z, they’re younger.
964
00:44:56,600 –> 00:44:59,920
So they’re in high school and just about out of high school.
965
00:44:59,920 –> 00:45:04,880
And it was like my first real experience of like, wow, you really offer a whole other
966
00:45:04,880 –> 00:45:06,880
generation because they’re like terminal.
967
00:45:06,880 –> 00:45:09,640
They had to teach me the terminology and things like that.
968
00:45:09,640 –> 00:45:11,520
And I was like, so off of it.
969
00:45:11,520 –> 00:45:16,200
And I had to explain to them what Yik Yak was, and that was a fun conversation of having
970
00:45:16,200 –> 00:45:17,200
explained.
971
00:45:17,200 –> 00:45:18,200
Right?
972
00:45:18,200 –> 00:45:19,200
Yes.
973
00:45:19,200 –> 00:45:23,160
And then I was like, oh, but you guys are missing out because we used to just talk in
974
00:45:23,160 –> 00:45:28,600
the middle of those big huge classes on Yik Yak and just say the most random shit ever.
975
00:45:28,600 –> 00:45:30,640
And like, I had to explain it to them.
976
00:45:30,640 –> 00:45:32,400
Literally me every day.
977
00:45:32,400 –> 00:45:36,760
So I work with junior high students, and it’s like constantly changing.
978
00:45:36,760 –> 00:45:39,360
Sometimes like I’ll be like, guys, this song is a jam.
979
00:45:39,360 –> 00:45:42,280
I can’t believe you haven’t heard this song and I’ll have to stop and I’ll be like, yes,
980
00:45:42,280 –> 00:45:43,280
they don’t know.
981
00:45:43,280 –> 00:45:44,280
Y’all weren’t born.
982
00:45:44,280 –> 00:45:46,160
No, I’m like, y’all weren’t born when this song came out.
983
00:45:46,160 –> 00:45:47,160
Oh my gosh.
984
00:45:47,160 –> 00:45:48,160
That’s so weird.
985
00:45:48,160 –> 00:45:49,920
Y’all, it’s so weird.
986
00:45:49,920 –> 00:45:50,920
I’m like this song in 2007.
987
00:45:50,920 –> 00:45:51,920
Wait a minute.
988
00:45:51,920 –> 00:45:52,920
You were born in 2010?
989
00:45:52,920 –> 00:45:53,920
Oh my gosh.
990
00:45:53,920 –> 00:45:54,920
Oh my goodness.
991
00:45:54,920 –> 00:45:55,920
I can’t even.
992
00:45:55,920 –> 00:45:56,920
I haven’t even experienced that.
993
00:45:56,920 –> 00:46:04,080
No, literally every day I learned something.
994
00:46:04,080 –> 00:46:07,640
But like, I do see like what y’all are saying about like Gen Z.
995
00:46:07,640 –> 00:46:11,040
Like one of the things that, so like my platform when I was like a teen and early in college
996
00:46:11,040 –> 00:46:12,600
was anti-texing and driving.
997
00:46:12,600 –> 00:46:19,280
But in the recent years, it switched to education reform, specifically with influence on social
998
00:46:19,280 –> 00:46:20,280
emotional learning.
999
00:46:20,280 –> 00:46:27,000
And like really because like we’ve seen so deeply with Gen Z is that we’ve relied so
1000
00:46:27,000 –> 00:46:34,360
much on just socialization for people to learn these skills instead of like them being taught
1001
00:46:34,360 –> 00:46:39,200
like their entire lives, they’re like lecture style taught things and that’s how they retain
1002
00:46:39,200 –> 00:46:40,320
information.
1003
00:46:40,320 –> 00:46:44,480
But then we’re like, oh, hey, you’re supposed to learn about like how to process your emotions
1004
00:46:44,480 –> 00:46:46,960
in a healthy way and how to interact with other people in a healthy way just by doing
1005
00:46:46,960 –> 00:46:47,960
it.
1006
00:46:47,960 –> 00:46:48,960
So good luck, right?
1007
00:46:48,960 –> 00:46:51,600
Like, no, that’s something we actually need to like teach people how to do.
1008
00:46:51,600 –> 00:46:57,560
So things like if we do have a global pandemic that they can still continue on in life and
1009
00:46:57,560 –> 00:47:02,720
like still be okay and like not be, you know, entirely traumatized and not know how to function.
1010
00:47:02,720 –> 00:47:09,400
So definitely see that with things we should have before 2020, but had no idea we needed
1011
00:47:09,400 –> 00:47:10,400
that.
1012
00:47:10,400 –> 00:47:12,400
Hindsight really is 2020.
1013
00:47:12,400 –> 00:47:13,400
Oh, yeah.
1014
00:47:13,400 –> 00:47:14,400
That’s great.
1015
00:47:14,400 –> 00:47:19,720
That’s so clever that I love that you’re doing education reform.
1016
00:47:19,720 –> 00:47:20,720
That’s so cool.
1017
00:47:20,720 –> 00:47:22,080
I didn’t even know that.
1018
00:47:22,080 –> 00:47:23,360
And I’m trying.
1019
00:47:23,360 –> 00:47:24,360
Yeah.
1020
00:47:24,360 –> 00:47:28,720
And then one of my favorite things that I’ve seen, sorry, ignore the dog on my shoulder.
1021
00:47:28,720 –> 00:47:33,200
I didn’t even know he’s a parrot, I swear.
1022
00:47:33,200 –> 00:47:37,840
But yeah, I don’t know where he thinks he’s going, but he thinks he’s, yeah.
1023
00:47:37,840 –> 00:47:38,840
Okay.
1024
00:47:38,840 –> 00:47:39,840
I guess you’re gonna just chill there.
1025
00:47:39,840 –> 00:47:40,840
And then this is the downside.
1026
00:47:40,840 –> 00:47:41,840
He’s like, we’re on Zoom.
1027
00:47:41,840 –> 00:47:42,840
Yeah.
1028
00:47:42,840 –> 00:47:46,440
He’s like, we’re on Zoom.
1029
00:47:46,440 –> 00:47:52,240
He’s decided he needs to be a part of the show and him singing wasn’t enough.
1030
00:47:52,240 –> 00:47:53,800
So now he needs to be on my shoulder.
1031
00:47:53,800 –> 00:48:00,280
So I’d see, I told you guys, this is the Chihuahua in him, I swear.
1032
00:48:00,280 –> 00:48:04,440
And we didn’t know he was Chihuahua at first, but it was quite, he started shaking and that
1033
00:48:04,440 –> 00:48:08,000
was the first time we were like, okay, so there’s something more in there.
1034
00:48:08,000 –> 00:48:10,680
And we took a DNA test and figured that out.
1035
00:48:10,680 –> 00:48:12,200
And fun story.
1036
00:48:12,200 –> 00:48:20,080
But the, what is, oh, my favorite thing that I love seeing is that, like what Selena Gomez
1037
00:48:20,080 –> 00:48:24,640
is trying to do and getting mental health into everyday schools.
1038
00:48:24,640 –> 00:48:30,060
And I, the amount of, man, my life would be a whole different thing if I had been able
1039
00:48:30,060 –> 00:48:31,160
to learn about that.
1040
00:48:31,160 –> 00:48:34,040
I had ADHD when I was younger.
1041
00:48:34,040 –> 00:48:35,760
And this is why you can’t study.
1042
00:48:35,760 –> 00:48:40,840
And cause you really feel like if you can’t do, if you’re not perfect at, at the different
1043
00:48:40,840 –> 00:48:44,520
testings and different stuff like that, like you feel like your whole entire worth’s on
1044
00:48:44,520 –> 00:48:47,960
that and the amount of difference in my life.
1045
00:48:47,960 –> 00:48:56,160
Because actually my freshman year, me becoming, okay, me becoming a, into SGL and everything.
1046
00:48:56,160 –> 00:49:01,800
It was because I was super, super shy, which no one believes me now, but I was very shy
1047
00:49:01,800 –> 00:49:03,880
to the point where I wouldn’t talk to anybody.
1048
00:49:03,880 –> 00:49:08,960
And I would go to like, my counselor told me about that there’s camp crimson, things
1049
00:49:08,960 –> 00:49:13,520
like that, since I didn’t go the recruitment routes and all that fun stuff.
1050
00:49:13,520 –> 00:49:18,080
And we weren’t like all like interactive on our floor or anything like that.
1051
00:49:18,080 –> 00:49:22,520
And probably because most of them were Greek and OU has a very big problem with that for
1052
00:49:22,520 –> 00:49:23,800
sure.
1053
00:49:23,800 –> 00:49:26,920
And so then when I, they suggested like,
1054
00:49:26,920 –> 00:49:30,760
Well, just by the problem, I mean, like it’s hard to get into anything else if you’re not
1055
00:49:30,760 –> 00:49:31,760
Greek.
1056
00:49:31,760 –> 00:49:32,760
Yes, yes, absolutely.
1057
00:49:32,760 –> 00:49:34,280
I definitely experienced that.
1058
00:49:34,280 –> 00:49:38,680
And yeah, there are certainly pros to it, but like as a non-Greek, it was really, really
1059
00:49:38,680 –> 00:49:39,680
hard.
1060
00:49:39,680 –> 00:49:40,680
It really was.
1061
00:49:40,680 –> 00:49:41,680
I didn’t want to.
1062
00:49:41,680 –> 00:49:43,680
I was like, I’m going to go with deferred rush.
1063
00:49:43,680 –> 00:49:44,760
Like that’s my vote.
1064
00:49:44,760 –> 00:49:47,480
Every school should do deferred rush as an RA.
1065
00:49:47,480 –> 00:49:49,680
I’m like deferred rush all the way.
1066
00:49:49,680 –> 00:49:56,720
Yes, because when it, I did rush, I actually did rush and it was a whole other experience
1067
00:49:56,720 –> 00:50:01,720
to where like, I literally get PTSD if I smell this one, like cleaner and that like, because
1068
00:50:01,720 –> 00:50:03,680
our doors were completely clean.
1069
00:50:03,680 –> 00:50:04,680
Yes.
1070
00:50:04,680 –> 00:50:06,880
Because it was just, it felt like high school and crack.
1071
00:50:06,880 –> 00:50:10,960
And now like, yeah, whenever I watch bachelor, I’m like, that was rush.
1072
00:50:10,960 –> 00:50:12,080
That seriously was rush.
1073
00:50:12,080 –> 00:50:14,160
And then I’m like, wow, I’m so glad I’m not dealing with that.
1074
00:50:14,160 –> 00:50:16,360
Okay, a funny story about the bachelor.
1075
00:50:16,360 –> 00:50:19,840
So the most recent bachelor, Clayton-
1076
00:50:19,840 –> 00:50:21,840
He’s from Austin.
1077
00:50:21,840 –> 00:50:22,840
Yeah.
1078
00:50:22,840 –> 00:50:26,760
I met him because I work with his best friend.
1079
00:50:26,760 –> 00:50:27,760
What?
1080
00:50:27,760 –> 00:50:28,760
No way.
1081
00:50:28,760 –> 00:50:30,760
Did y’all watch that season?
1082
00:50:30,760 –> 00:50:33,760
I watched Clayton’s season.
1083
00:50:33,760 –> 00:50:40,400
Well, his best friend that came in, he played football with him at Mizzou Clarence.
1084
00:50:40,400 –> 00:50:41,560
He had dreads.
1085
00:50:41,560 –> 00:50:42,800
I worked with him.
1086
00:50:42,800 –> 00:50:46,520
Like we’re like, he’s having a bestie across for me.
1087
00:50:46,520 –> 00:50:49,760
And he’s like, hey, Clayton’s going to be here this morning.
1088
00:50:49,760 –> 00:50:51,760
And I’m like, okay, cool.
1089
00:50:51,760 –> 00:50:52,760
No way.
1090
00:50:52,760 –> 00:50:59,360
Clarence was on the show after his episode, like he just caught, he would get calls from
1091
00:50:59,360 –> 00:51:02,840
Warner Brothers and we didn’t think that was anything like super weird, but then like he
1092
00:51:02,840 –> 00:51:04,720
kind of just like disappeared for a week.
1093
00:51:04,720 –> 00:51:08,080
Well, because like he had told us, he’s like, Hey, just so y’all know, my best friend is
1094
00:51:08,080 –> 00:51:09,640
going to be on the bachelor.
1095
00:51:09,640 –> 00:51:12,240
They’re calling us like for character references.
1096
00:51:12,240 –> 00:51:15,280
Like, and so like, okay, like that makes sense.
1097
00:51:15,280 –> 00:51:16,280
But then like he would disappear.
1098
00:51:16,280 –> 00:51:20,560
And I’m like, you probably signed an NDA, but like, are you going to be on the show?
1099
00:51:20,560 –> 00:51:21,920
And he’s like, I’m not going to talk about it.
1100
00:51:21,920 –> 00:51:22,920
And I’m like, that’s a yes.
1101
00:51:22,920 –> 00:51:27,160
And then his episode aired and then Twitter was blowing up.
1102
00:51:27,160 –> 00:51:30,400
Clarence should be the host of The Bachelor, all the things.
1103
00:51:30,400 –> 00:51:33,120
I think I’ve seen him in your snaps.
1104
00:51:33,120 –> 00:51:34,120
Yeah.
1105
00:51:34,120 –> 00:51:35,280
I think I’ve seen him on your story.
1106
00:51:35,280 –> 00:51:36,280
And I second that.
1107
00:51:36,280 –> 00:51:37,280
He was the one with the mic.
1108
00:51:37,280 –> 00:51:38,280
He was really entertaining.
1109
00:51:38,280 –> 00:51:39,760
Yes, yes.
1110
00:51:39,760 –> 00:51:48,320
I think I didn’t, I feel like I probably messaged you and was like, they need a TikTok because
1111
00:51:48,320 –> 00:51:49,320
they were really entertaining.
1112
00:51:49,320 –> 00:51:53,360
When they were like, they were like on live set going back and forth.
1113
00:51:53,360 –> 00:51:54,360
Yeah.
1114
00:51:54,360 –> 00:51:55,360
Yes.
1115
00:51:55,360 –> 00:51:56,360
Wow.
1116
00:51:56,360 –> 00:52:04,840
You know what’s funny is that actually my, my friend, her, her, I think it was her friend
1117
00:52:04,840 –> 00:52:11,600
was, used to be roommates with one of the girls in, what season was it?
1118
00:52:11,600 –> 00:52:15,120
I’ll have to find this and send it to you guys so that you guys know who I’m talking
1119
00:52:15,120 –> 00:52:16,120
about.
1120
00:52:16,120 –> 00:52:20,200
But there was, it was during the pandemic because it was two girls from Chicago and
1121
00:52:20,200 –> 00:52:25,240
there was that thing that it was a rumor of whether or not this girl was a prostitute
1122
00:52:25,240 –> 00:52:26,600
or not of all the things.
1123
00:52:26,600 –> 00:52:27,600
Oh, yes.
1124
00:52:27,600 –> 00:52:28,600
I watched that.
1125
00:52:28,600 –> 00:52:29,600
Yep.
1126
00:52:29,600 –> 00:52:30,600
Yep.
1127
00:52:30,600 –> 00:52:31,600
She was roommates with her.
1128
00:52:31,600 –> 00:52:32,600
It was real messed up.
1129
00:52:32,600 –> 00:52:33,600
Yes.
1130
00:52:33,600 –> 00:52:35,760
And I was like, I don’t know the details of all of that situation.
1131
00:52:35,760 –> 00:52:40,800
And like, cause apparently in Chicago, it’s like such a small area, which Chicago is huge.
1132
00:52:40,800 –> 00:52:43,960
So I don’t understand how, but they were saying that everyone knew everyone.
1133
00:52:43,960 –> 00:52:47,480
It’s just like when you live in Tulsa or you live whatever, like it’s a small city and
1134
00:52:47,480 –> 00:52:49,760
like, you know, people who run in the same circles as you.
1135
00:52:49,760 –> 00:52:50,760
Yeah.
1136
00:52:50,760 –> 00:52:51,760
Especially the same age as you.
1137
00:52:51,760 –> 00:52:52,760
And so, yeah.
1138
00:52:52,760 –> 00:52:58,280
And so it was funny cause like whenever we kept asking, we were like, so is she like
1139
00:52:58,280 –> 00:53:02,640
things like that because we were just wondering all the behind the scenes, the details, but
1140
00:53:02,640 –> 00:53:07,540
that was like, Oh man, the cattiness that happens in that it’s like for real though.
1141
00:53:07,540 –> 00:53:08,540
That’s how it is.
1142
00:53:08,540 –> 00:53:13,600
It’s like, and I’m glad that actual job interviews aren’t like that, but that’s what it’s like
1143
00:53:13,600 –> 00:53:17,360
a rush was very much like, yeah.
1144
00:53:17,360 –> 00:53:21,760
All girls interviewing for the same job and all at once.
1145
00:53:21,760 –> 00:53:26,120
And yes, it’s because like, and that’s how I started college.
1146
00:53:26,120 –> 00:53:27,120
Right.
1147
00:53:27,120 –> 00:53:28,940
That’s like your first experience with college.
1148
00:53:28,940 –> 00:53:35,720
So our thing called mock rush, which is really just an opportunity for all the sororities
1149
00:53:35,720 –> 00:53:39,600
to practice before freshmen actually get there.
1150
00:53:39,600 –> 00:53:44,880
And so going through mock rest, you learn a lot about the actual details of rush and
1151
00:53:44,880 –> 00:53:46,040
there’s so many things.
1152
00:53:46,040 –> 00:53:48,280
These poor sweet freshmen have no clue.
1153
00:53:48,280 –> 00:53:50,480
Like when you walk, no control over.
1154
00:53:50,480 –> 00:53:51,480
Yeah.
1155
00:53:51,480 –> 00:53:55,520
When you walk into the door, they already know whether they want you or not.
1156
00:53:55,520 –> 00:54:00,800
And so like really it’s just this big facade of like based on what room you’re sitting
1157
00:54:00,800 –> 00:54:04,200
in, they’re like, Oh, this is this person you’re supposed to pick them up and take them
1158
00:54:04,200 –> 00:54:05,320
to this room.
1159
00:54:05,320 –> 00:54:07,720
And like, you have no idea going through that as rush.
1160
00:54:07,720 –> 00:54:10,160
And it’s so like traumatizing.
1161
00:54:10,160 –> 00:54:12,240
You’re like, yeah, playing all these scenarios in your head.
1162
00:54:12,240 –> 00:54:13,240
Like what did I do wrong?
1163
00:54:13,240 –> 00:54:14,960
What could I have done better?
1164
00:54:14,960 –> 00:54:18,120
And it really affects how you literally just a computer.
1165
00:54:18,120 –> 00:54:19,120
Yeah.
1166
00:54:19,120 –> 00:54:21,160
So it’s just like, it’s so sad.
1167
00:54:21,160 –> 00:54:25,840
And so me becoming an SGL onto Camp Crimson, which is how I met you as Cherish and all
1168
00:54:25,840 –> 00:54:26,840
of that stuff.
1169
00:54:26,840 –> 00:54:31,040
And then eventually Sooner Vision too, was the same kind of thing of like trying to just
1170
00:54:31,040 –> 00:54:33,200
push myself out there.
1171
00:54:33,200 –> 00:54:34,200
And yeah.
1172
00:54:34,200 –> 00:54:39,520
And, but it’s, I think it gives you a lot more of a character when you have to force
1173
00:54:39,520 –> 00:54:45,160
yourself rather than just being already in the Greek life and everyone shows you the
1174
00:54:45,160 –> 00:54:46,160
way.
1175
00:54:46,160 –> 00:54:51,440
And because I definitely, it definitely defined me as a person of having to get bolder.
1176
00:54:51,440 –> 00:54:58,520
And now I’m at the point where I literally texted Beto and things like that, just to
1177
00:54:58,520 –> 00:55:00,000
give suggestions.
1178
00:55:00,000 –> 00:55:02,480
And cause the squeaky, what is that?
1179
00:55:02,480 –> 00:55:03,480
You know what?
1180
00:55:03,480 –> 00:55:04,480
The squeaky wheel gets the green.
1181
00:55:04,480 –> 00:55:05,480
Yes.
1182
00:55:05,480 –> 00:55:07,000
I never get it right.
1183
00:55:07,000 –> 00:55:08,760
So I’m not going to say it.
1184
00:55:08,760 –> 00:55:09,760
Yeah.
1185
00:55:09,760 –> 00:55:12,520
And so it’s really important from like college on.
1186
00:55:12,520 –> 00:55:16,480
And I feel like a lot of people in the Greek life that I see like my sister was in Greek
1187
00:55:16,480 –> 00:55:21,280
life and like all that kind of stuff is they have to relearn all of that and where we were
1188
00:55:21,280 –> 00:55:22,880
kind of like forced into it.
1189
00:55:22,880 –> 00:55:27,760
And then especially like whenever doing deferred rush and that kind of stuff too, is that right?
1190
00:55:27,760 –> 00:55:28,760
What is called Cherish?
1191
00:55:28,760 –> 00:55:29,760
Did I do that right?
1192
00:55:29,760 –> 00:55:30,760
Okay.
1193
00:55:30,760 –> 00:55:31,760
Yeah.
1194
00:55:31,760 –> 00:55:33,800
When you meet people and then you were, yes.
1195
00:55:33,800 –> 00:55:34,800
Yes.
1196
00:55:34,800 –> 00:55:38,040
And it’s so much better because you actually know where like friends are and who you actually
1197
00:55:38,040 –> 00:55:41,960
click with and like who actually has good morals.
1198
00:55:41,960 –> 00:55:43,320
That’s a big one.
1199
00:55:43,320 –> 00:55:44,320
Yeah.
1200
00:55:44,320 –> 00:55:50,600
And that was, it was so different cause I actually then tried to rush again the second
1201
00:55:50,600 –> 00:55:54,640
year just to see cause then I actually had friends in them.
1202
00:55:54,640 –> 00:55:57,740
And it was a whole other thing where I would just like try and hang out with my friends
1203
00:55:57,740 –> 00:55:58,740
during rush.
1204
00:55:58,740 –> 00:56:02,960
And then I was also rushing with campers and one of my campers saved like one of my favorite
1205
00:56:02,960 –> 00:56:08,800
meals that I said, like I said, I loved, do you guys remember the veggie lasagna in couch?
1206
00:56:08,800 –> 00:56:09,800
No.
1207
00:56:09,800 –> 00:56:11,840
You guys didn’t have couch, right?
1208
00:56:11,840 –> 00:56:12,840
No.
1209
00:56:12,840 –> 00:56:13,840
Yeah.
1210
00:56:13,840 –> 00:56:14,840
No, no, no, no.
1211
00:56:14,840 –> 00:56:16,880
Like we still, we still got, we didn’t go eat at the couch restaurant.
1212
00:56:16,880 –> 00:56:17,880
So like we went there.
1213
00:56:17,880 –> 00:56:18,880
Oh, okay.
1214
00:56:18,880 –> 00:56:21,880
We went to couch but I just never had the veggie lasagna.
1215
00:56:21,880 –> 00:56:23,320
It’s so good.
1216
00:56:23,320 –> 00:56:25,120
I didn’t think I would like it, but I really liked it.
1217
00:56:25,120 –> 00:56:27,120
I definitely went to the dessert bar though.
1218
00:56:27,120 –> 00:56:28,120
Yes.
1219
00:56:28,120 –> 00:56:29,120
Oh yeah.
1220
00:56:29,120 –> 00:56:30,120
And the Chick-fil-A’s.
1221
00:56:30,120 –> 00:56:32,800
I was sitting there and drink coffee all day long.
1222
00:56:32,800 –> 00:56:35,920
Did you guys ever SuperCat?
1223
00:56:35,920 –> 00:56:36,920
What’s that?
1224
00:56:36,920 –> 00:56:41,760
SuperCat is when you swipe in for, okay, first of all, let me preface this.
1225
00:56:41,760 –> 00:56:44,640
You have to skip class.
1226
00:56:44,640 –> 00:56:47,320
You swipe in for breakfast.
1227
00:56:47,320 –> 00:56:48,320
You stay for lunch.
1228
00:56:48,320 –> 00:56:49,320
Oh, I have done that.
1229
00:56:49,320 –> 00:56:52,120
And then there’s that break where they don’t close for dinner.
1230
00:56:52,120 –> 00:56:56,040
So like they won’t swipe you in between four and six, but if you’re there, they won’t pick
1231
00:56:56,040 –> 00:56:57,040
you out.
1232
00:56:57,040 –> 00:57:01,200
And so you just stay till dinner and you just SuperCat.
1233
00:57:01,200 –> 00:57:02,240
Most people did homework.
1234
00:57:02,240 –> 00:57:03,240
I watched Netflix.
1235
00:57:03,240 –> 00:57:04,240
Yes.
1236
00:57:04,240 –> 00:57:08,000
And then the people that are working there will like be eyeing you and you’re just like
1237
00:57:08,000 –> 00:57:10,880
trying to be like, no, I just came in here.
1238
00:57:10,880 –> 00:57:15,440
I would go in and then I would leave or I’d like go meet people.
1239
00:57:15,440 –> 00:57:27,160
And then I had no, I feel like I had meal points like falling out of my eye.
1240
00:57:27,160 –> 00:57:29,320
I was just like, I’m so jealous.
1241
00:57:29,320 –> 00:57:31,000
And these puppies.
1242
00:57:31,000 –> 00:57:36,080
I was not good at the whole saving, which I have now learned as an adult that my budgeting
1243
00:57:36,080 –> 00:57:38,440
skills, it was a prelude.
1244
00:57:38,440 –> 00:57:39,800
I feel like I had so many meal points.
1245
00:57:39,800 –> 00:57:43,640
I would like take friends to eat all the time.
1246
00:57:43,640 –> 00:57:47,240
And then I had a scholarship my sophomore, junior and senior year.
1247
00:57:47,240 –> 00:57:49,840
So even though I lived in an apartment, I had a meal plan.
1248
00:57:49,840 –> 00:57:50,840
Cherish remembers it.
1249
00:57:50,840 –> 00:57:51,840
Oh my gosh.
1250
00:57:51,840 –> 00:57:52,840
What?
1251
00:57:52,840 –> 00:58:01,320
I had this meal plan that I was like, I had to spend my scholarship.
1252
00:58:01,320 –> 00:58:07,120
So I would get like 1500 meal points a semester or something, which is like a lot.
1253
00:58:07,120 –> 00:58:10,160
It’s like a lot to spend just on food.
1254
00:58:10,160 –> 00:58:14,120
So like I would go to Chick-fil-A. I would go to Einstein Brothers Bagels.
1255
00:58:14,120 –> 00:58:17,120
Like we would go to Einstein all the time.
1256
00:58:17,120 –> 00:58:19,880
I didn’t know you could use it on Einstein.
1257
00:58:19,880 –> 00:58:24,360
What was the convenience store in Walker?
1258
00:58:24,360 –> 00:58:25,360
Yes.
1259
00:58:25,360 –> 00:58:26,360
Oh, yeah.
1260
00:58:26,360 –> 00:58:27,360
Yeah.
1261
00:58:27,360 –> 00:58:29,000
We would go, I’d be like Cherish, you want to go to the store?
1262
00:58:29,000 –> 00:58:32,000
So we go to the convenience store and we would buy.
1263
00:58:32,000 –> 00:58:33,000
Yeah.
1264
00:58:33,000 –> 00:58:34,000
Whatever it was called.
1265
00:58:34,000 –> 00:58:35,000
We would buy you stock up and everything.
1266
00:58:35,000 –> 00:58:36,000
Oh yeah.
1267
00:58:36,000 –> 00:58:37,000
Etc.
1268
00:58:37,000 –> 00:58:40,120
And we would buy so much stuff and I’d be like, okay, well let’s put this back to my
1269
00:58:40,120 –> 00:58:41,120
house.
1270
00:58:41,120 –> 00:58:44,120
Like, you know, pop tarts, dips, everything.
1271
00:58:44,120 –> 00:58:46,120
I would buy like onions and cheese.
1272
00:58:46,120 –> 00:58:47,120
You told me you were doing this.
1273
00:58:47,120 –> 00:58:48,120
No, I did it all the time.
1274
00:58:48,120 –> 00:58:49,120
Like I’d go to work.
1275
00:58:49,120 –> 00:58:50,120
I’d be like, does anybody want lunch?
1276
00:58:50,120 –> 00:58:51,120
Like I’ll bring you lunch.
1277
00:58:51,120 –> 00:58:55,240
So like I would bring like Chick-fil-A for like the people I was working with for the
1278
00:58:55,240 –> 00:58:56,240
day.
1279
00:58:56,240 –> 00:58:57,240
Like, yeah, I would go to Cane’s.
1280
00:58:57,240 –> 00:58:58,240
I’d be like, oh yeah.
1281
00:58:58,240 –> 00:58:59,240
Like you want a Caniac?
1282
00:58:59,240 –> 00:59:00,240
I’m going to go get a three finger combo.
1283
00:59:00,240 –> 00:59:05,240
And so I would also hit you up for that.
1284
00:59:05,240 –> 00:59:08,360
I would literally cater meetings from Cane’s.
1285
00:59:08,360 –> 00:59:10,000
I would order like the tailgate.
1286
00:59:10,000 –> 00:59:12,200
I’m like, oh, we got a late night meeting.
1287
00:59:12,200 –> 00:59:13,200
Cool.
1288
00:59:13,200 –> 00:59:16,120
I’m coming through with Cane’s and everybody would be so excited.
1289
00:59:16,120 –> 00:59:17,120
I would do it all the time.
1290
00:59:17,120 –> 00:59:20,240
Do you remember how Adams would like literally smell like Cane’s like the second you walked
1291
00:59:20,240 –> 00:59:21,240
in?
1292
00:59:21,240 –> 00:59:22,240
Oh yeah, for sure.
1293
00:59:22,240 –> 00:59:23,240
Oh yeah.
1294
00:59:23,240 –> 00:59:24,240
Probably for the reason they have to tear it down because it smells like Cane’s.
1295
00:59:24,240 –> 00:59:25,240
I thought so too.
1296
00:59:25,240 –> 00:59:27,440
I thought it was probably it.
1297
00:59:27,440 –> 00:59:29,800
So the question is, did they replace the Cane’s?
1298
00:59:29,800 –> 00:59:31,460
Because if not, that’s tragic.
1299
00:59:31,460 –> 00:59:33,080
I don’t know how you live without Cane’s.
1300
00:59:33,080 –> 00:59:34,080
I hope so.
1301
00:59:34,080 –> 00:59:38,200
Connecticut is actually getting a Cane’s in field, which you guys don’t have it.
1302
00:59:38,200 –> 00:59:40,040
But there’s not Cane’s in Connecticut.
1303
00:59:40,040 –> 00:59:41,040
There’s one in Boston.
1304
00:59:41,040 –> 00:59:42,040
Oh, I’m so happy you’re here.
1305
00:59:42,040 –> 00:59:47,920
I haven’t been to Cane’s since I went to my friend’s wedding in Austin.
1306
00:59:47,920 –> 00:59:49,680
So we went to a Cane’s in Austin.
1307
00:59:49,680 –> 00:59:50,680
You have to.
1308
00:59:50,680 –> 00:59:51,680
Yeah.
1309
00:59:51,680 –> 00:59:53,560
And it wasn’t, it just, it wasn’t like the best Cane’s I’ve ever had.
1310
00:59:53,560 –> 00:59:54,560
So like that was disappointing.
1311
00:59:54,560 –> 00:59:55,560
Yup.
1312
00:59:55,560 –> 00:59:56,560
But we’re getting one in Connecticut.
1313
00:59:56,560 –> 01:00:00,280
So like as soon as it opens, my boyfriend and I are going because like we both love
1314
01:00:00,280 –> 01:00:01,280
Cane’s.
1315
01:00:01,280 –> 01:00:02,280
Oh yeah.
1316
01:00:02,280 –> 01:00:03,280
Oh yeah.
1317
01:00:03,280 –> 01:00:10,480
And we did this beware whenever things from different like states, it gets so crowded
1318
01:00:10,480 –> 01:00:15,920
at first and I never realized that, but DFW just got this restaurant from Chicago called
1319
01:00:15,920 –> 01:00:18,000
Portillo’s and my parents are from there.
1320
01:00:18,000 –> 01:00:22,520
So we would always go to Portillo’s and my dad would get to a point where he would even
1321
01:00:22,520 –> 01:00:26,520
like ship Portillo’s hot dogs from Chicago all the way down.
1322
01:00:26,520 –> 01:00:27,520
Yes, for real.
1323
01:00:27,520 –> 01:00:30,860
And so when we found out DFW was having it, yeah.
1324
01:00:30,860 –> 01:00:32,240
And so we went there.
1325
01:00:32,240 –> 01:00:33,240
No joke.
1326
01:00:33,240 –> 01:00:36,240
And it was an hour wait for the fast food line.
1327
01:00:36,240 –> 01:00:37,240
And yes.
1328
01:00:37,240 –> 01:00:42,720
And then the snow happened and we were like, wow, yeah, it was the same day of all of that,
1329
01:00:42,720 –> 01:00:43,720
but it really was worth it.
1330
01:00:43,720 –> 01:00:44,720
I can’t say, yeah.
1331
01:00:44,720 –> 01:00:51,080
Right when I moved to Connecticut, they got a Chick-fil-A and so like now there’s a bunch
1332
01:00:51,080 –> 01:00:52,080
of them.
1333
01:00:52,080 –> 01:00:53,640
There’s like, yeah, they opened like shortly.
1334
01:00:53,640 –> 01:00:55,680
But probably people flipped out.
1335
01:00:55,680 –> 01:00:59,320
But like it was crazy busy and it’s still always crazy busy because it’s Chick-fil-A.
1336
01:00:59,320 –> 01:01:04,040
But like I was here when they were building it and then right when I moved it here, they
1337
01:01:04,040 –> 01:01:05,120
had just opened it.
1338
01:01:05,120 –> 01:01:10,800
So like it was like a crazy insane thing for like to get Chick-fil-A.
1339
01:01:10,800 –> 01:01:12,400
You know what I’m missing?
1340
01:01:12,400 –> 01:01:17,000
I miss Brahms a lot because I don’t think we have a Brahms down here.
1341
01:01:17,000 –> 01:01:18,000
Right?
1342
01:01:18,000 –> 01:01:19,000
No, we don’t.
1343
01:01:19,000 –> 01:01:21,120
They don’t have anywhere.
1344
01:01:21,120 –> 01:01:24,520
Will not have a Brahms like 500 miles out from a Brahms farm.
1345
01:01:24,520 –> 01:01:27,960
So they have them in Dallas, but not here.
1346
01:01:27,960 –> 01:01:31,040
If they can’t, so this is the farm is in Tuttle, Oklahoma.
1347
01:01:31,040 –> 01:01:36,160
And if they can’t drive their food there within a day and have it be fresh, they don’t, they
1348
01:01:36,160 –> 01:01:37,160
don’t expand.
1349
01:01:37,160 –> 01:01:39,200
It’s only that area.
1350
01:01:39,200 –> 01:01:40,200
There’s nowhere else.
1351
01:01:40,200 –> 01:01:41,200
No way.
1352
01:01:41,200 –> 01:01:46,720
Oh, I miss like the just being able to go straight there and get ice cream and drive
1353
01:01:46,720 –> 01:01:47,720
through like that.
1354
01:01:47,720 –> 01:01:49,400
Like, oh, I love Brahms.
1355
01:01:49,400 –> 01:01:51,880
Their mint chocolate chip ice cream is superior.
1356
01:01:51,880 –> 01:01:52,880
I don’t care.
1357
01:01:52,880 –> 01:01:53,880
Oh, yes.
1358
01:01:53,880 –> 01:01:54,880
Exactly.
1359
01:01:54,880 –> 01:01:57,080
The Texas one.
1360
01:01:57,080 –> 01:02:01,680
And do you guys like ever see like on I see it constantly on stories, like especially around
1361
01:02:01,680 –> 01:02:06,720
OU Texas when people come back down this area and whenever they go.
1362
01:02:06,720 –> 01:02:07,720
Yes.
1363
01:02:07,720 –> 01:02:08,720
Yes.
1364
01:02:08,720 –> 01:02:09,720
Yes.
1365
01:02:09,720 –> 01:02:10,720
Everyone’s sharing that.
1366
01:02:10,720 –> 01:02:13,360
And then I’m sitting there like, oh, I need to go visit.
1367
01:02:13,360 –> 01:02:16,040
I know I welcome fried pies.
1368
01:02:16,040 –> 01:02:17,040
Yeah.
1369
01:02:17,040 –> 01:02:18,040
Yes.
1370
01:02:18,040 –> 01:02:20,560
It’s so fun.
1371
01:02:20,560 –> 01:02:24,680
My dad, like whenever we would drive up there, like he would see the sign and the whole time
1372
01:02:24,680 –> 01:02:27,160
he’d be like, I want a fried pie.
1373
01:02:27,160 –> 01:02:28,160
Where can we go get a friend pie?
1374
01:02:28,160 –> 01:02:29,920
And just to piss us off.
1375
01:02:29,920 –> 01:02:31,160
And yeah, that’s our thing.
1376
01:02:31,160 –> 01:02:36,320
Now, whenever we’re driving, no matter whether there is a fried pie or not, we’ll talk about
1377
01:02:36,320 –> 01:02:37,320
that.
1378
01:02:37,320 –> 01:02:38,320
Yes.
1379
01:02:38,320 –> 01:02:39,320
Yeah.
1380
01:02:39,320 –> 01:02:40,320
Well, I love that.
1381
01:02:40,320 –> 01:02:42,400
I also really missed fuzzies.
1382
01:02:42,400 –> 01:02:47,400
Like there are fuzzies in like Dallas, but like the closest one here is College Station,
1383
01:02:47,400 –> 01:02:48,400
which is an hour.
1384
01:02:48,400 –> 01:02:52,800
And so if I’m home, if I’m home, I’m like, I’m so sad about that.
1385
01:02:52,800 –> 01:02:55,400
I didn’t even know that until Cherish told me last week.
1386
01:02:55,400 –> 01:02:59,560
So Cherish and I obviously would go out together.
1387
01:02:59,560 –> 01:03:00,560
Yes.
1388
01:03:00,560 –> 01:03:03,560
Well, like Sierra, I have to tell you what I told Cherish.
1389
01:03:03,560 –> 01:03:07,880
I said, when I found out you guys knew each other, it made complete sense to me because
1390
01:03:07,880 –> 01:03:10,680
wherever one of you are, I know it’s going to be a fun time.
1391
01:03:10,680 –> 01:03:12,040
Let me just put it that way.
1392
01:03:12,040 –> 01:03:14,360
And so, yes.
1393
01:03:14,360 –> 01:03:18,520
We had fantastic times.
1394
01:03:18,520 –> 01:03:20,320
I had never been to fuzzies when this happened.
1395
01:03:20,320 –> 01:03:22,160
I had never been to fuzzies before in my life.
1396
01:03:22,160 –> 01:03:23,720
I didn’t know what it was.
1397
01:03:23,720 –> 01:03:25,720
We had gone to a house party.
1398
01:03:25,720 –> 01:03:28,440
Someone, somebody in our group knew.
1399
01:03:28,440 –> 01:03:34,240
And the person throwing the house party, hopped up on her couch and told everyone to please
1400
01:03:34,240 –> 01:03:35,240
leave.
1401
01:03:35,240 –> 01:03:39,440
But they didn’t say it like that because she wanted to go to fuzzies.
1402
01:03:39,440 –> 01:03:43,920
So we’re just like, you know, she was holding a knife.
1403
01:03:43,920 –> 01:03:47,120
I was holding a knife saying, get the F out.
1404
01:03:47,120 –> 01:03:49,400
I want to go to fuzzies before they close.
1405
01:03:49,400 –> 01:03:53,080
And so we were like, okay, bye.
1406
01:03:53,080 –> 01:03:55,840
We’re like, party over.
1407
01:03:55,840 –> 01:03:57,680
If you rode with me, we’re out.
1408
01:03:57,680 –> 01:03:58,680
We’re done.
1409
01:03:58,680 –> 01:04:00,680
Cherish was like, let’s get in the car.
1410
01:04:00,680 –> 01:04:01,680
Let’s go.
1411
01:04:01,680 –> 01:04:02,680
We’re going.
1412
01:04:02,680 –> 01:04:03,680
Did you guys know her?
1413
01:04:03,680 –> 01:04:06,680
Or was she like one of those where you just knew of anything?
1414
01:04:06,680 –> 01:04:09,680
It was one of those things where someone texts you an address and you go to the party.
1415
01:04:09,680 –> 01:04:10,680
Yeah.
1416
01:04:10,680 –> 01:04:11,680
So you didn’t even know who she was.
1417
01:04:11,680 –> 01:04:12,680
I don’t know.
1418
01:04:12,680 –> 01:04:13,680
I was with my friends.
1419
01:04:13,680 –> 01:04:14,680
I was going where my friends went.
1420
01:04:14,680 –> 01:04:15,680
Cherish was driving.
1421
01:04:15,680 –> 01:04:16,680
Yep.
1422
01:04:16,680 –> 01:04:17,680
That’s kind of, oh.
1423
01:04:17,680 –> 01:04:24,760
One time Cherish and I was about to go to a football party and then they got raided.
1424
01:04:24,760 –> 01:04:26,920
But then it sometimes didn’t happen.
1425
01:04:26,920 –> 01:04:29,160
But it was very similar to that.
1426
01:04:29,160 –> 01:04:31,760
So I should just know that Cherish, you have these connections.
1427
01:04:31,760 –> 01:04:35,960
Cause I feel like you probably have the address for that one.
1428
01:04:35,960 –> 01:04:40,760
I feel like things happen, things like that happen to me far too often.
1429
01:04:40,760 –> 01:04:44,680
Where it’s like, okay, this has gotten out of hand.
1430
01:04:44,680 –> 01:04:45,680
Let’s leave.
1431
01:04:45,680 –> 01:04:48,280
You’re just like, this is not the vibe.
1432
01:04:48,280 –> 01:04:49,280
We’re going to get out of here.
1433
01:04:49,280 –> 01:04:54,680
Which I gotta say, our friends who we, when we would go out, we were always super safe.
1434
01:04:54,680 –> 01:04:58,680
We always knew that everyone was going to get home safely.
1435
01:04:58,680 –> 01:05:00,480
We were all watching out for each other.
1436
01:05:00,480 –> 01:05:07,760
Even if it meant going to the third floor of this apartment complex, knocking on every
1437
01:05:07,760 –> 01:05:11,680
door to find your drunk friend who had met up with this guy.
1438
01:05:11,680 –> 01:05:12,680
Was it you?
1439
01:05:12,680 –> 01:05:13,680
Was it Cherish?
1440
01:05:13,680 –> 01:05:14,680
Okay, no.
1441
01:05:14,680 –> 01:05:15,680
It was not me.
1442
01:05:15,680 –> 01:05:16,680
It’s not, it’s not either of us.
1443
01:05:16,680 –> 01:05:17,680
It’s not either of us.
1444
01:05:17,680 –> 01:05:18,680
It was one girl.
1445
01:05:18,680 –> 01:05:19,680
Oh, I know who it is.
1446
01:05:19,680 –> 01:05:20,680
It’s not, it’s not us.
1447
01:05:20,680 –> 01:05:21,680
But it sounds like an OU Texas story.
1448
01:05:21,680 –> 01:05:22,680
Cause that’s not what happens at.
1449
01:05:22,680 –> 01:05:23,680
Okay, wait, Lizzie, you don’t know this about me.
1450
01:05:23,680 –> 01:05:24,680
I didn’t drink until I was 21.
1451
01:05:24,680 –> 01:05:25,680
I was very shambly.
1452
01:05:25,680 –> 01:05:26,680
Yeah.
1453
01:05:26,680 –> 01:05:27,680
I was very shambly after I turned 21.
1454
01:05:27,680 –> 01:05:28,680
You caught on quick.
1455
01:05:28,680 –> 01:05:29,680
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1456
01:05:29,680 –> 01:05:30,680
I had a lot of catching up to do.
1457
01:05:30,680 –> 01:05:31,680
So I did that a lot.
1458
01:05:31,680 –> 01:05:32,680
Cherish was always the designated drunk.
1459
01:05:32,680 –> 01:05:33,680
I was the designated drunk.
1460
01:05:33,680 –> 01:05:34,680
I was the designated drunk.
1461
01:05:34,680 –> 01:05:35,680
I was the designated drunk.
1462
01:05:35,680 –> 01:05:36,680
I was the designated drunk.
1463
01:05:36,680 –> 01:05:37,680
I was the designated drunk.
1464
01:05:37,680 –> 01:06:00,280
I was the designated drunk.
1465
01:06:00,280 –> 01:06:01,280
Right?
1466
01:06:01,280 –> 01:06:02,280
And then I was like,
1467
01:06:02,280 –> 01:06:03,280
That’s cool though.
1468
01:06:03,280 –> 01:06:04,280
When you’re just your personality.
1469
01:06:04,280 –> 01:06:05,280
Yeah.
1470
01:06:05,280 –> 01:06:06,280
So, um, I was all,
1471
01:06:06,280 –> 01:06:12,040
make sure everybody got home safe, giving people Advil and a gallon of water. But I mean, then after
1472
01:06:12,040 –> 01:06:17,160
I turned 21, everybody was doing that to me. It started to switch. Yeah. I flipped the switch.
1473
01:06:17,160 –> 01:06:22,760
Then I started going on. Long story short, we have lost Cherish before. On several occasions.
1474
01:06:22,760 –> 01:06:29,080
That was a fun story. Yes. I love your alter ego’s name. It’s my favorite name ever now.
1475
01:06:29,080 –> 01:06:36,920
Which we’re not going to say it on the podcast. She doesn’t need any followers. That’s so great.
1476
01:06:37,480 –> 01:06:42,280
Yes. You guys are so much fun. And we were also talking. If you’re a college student watching
1477
01:06:42,280 –> 01:06:47,560
this podcast, you should always practice safe practices. Have a driver. Be careful. Watch what
1478
01:06:47,560 –> 01:06:52,760
goes in your mind. Don’t go with random football players. Make smart choices. Don’t go with anyone scary.
1479
01:06:53,480 –> 01:06:57,640
The buddy system doesn’t work if both the buddies are drunk. Let me tell you that right now.
1480
01:06:57,640 –> 01:07:01,880
But you really do have to remind people back because there’s moments when you’re like,
1481
01:07:01,880 –> 01:07:09,880
wait a minute. Now we’ve lost both of them. What do you do? The different stories that I like
1482
01:07:09,880 –> 01:07:15,640
remind, like the time, like, oh my gosh, the amount of times I saw like guys peeing on campus.
1483
01:07:15,640 –> 01:07:20,360
And then yes, seriously, seriously, like coming back from campus corner. And then I remember
1484
01:07:20,360 –> 01:07:24,200
like constantly being like, okay, so where was the cop that’s going to catch you on that one?
1485
01:07:24,200 –> 01:07:28,920
Because that happened a few times. Oh man, the different things that I remember, like,
1486
01:07:28,920 –> 01:07:34,680
why do I have a memory like that? And it’s because of things like campus corner. So yes. Yep.
1487
01:07:34,680 –> 01:07:37,640
I’m sure I’ve talked to my friends on campus corner.
1488
01:07:37,640 –> 01:07:42,520
We know we did. Where’s the place that had DP shootouts? I think it’s closed now.
1489
01:07:42,520 –> 01:07:44,040
Oh, it was Chimmy’s. Chimmy’s at Chimmy’s.
1490
01:07:44,040 –> 01:07:45,560
Chimmy’s.
1491
01:07:45,560 –> 01:07:50,760
So I was very young when that closed and I like may have been there illegally when I was there.
1492
01:07:50,760 –> 01:07:52,680
And then it was closed by the time I was 21.
1493
01:07:52,680 –> 01:07:55,080
And then it closed. That’s certainly part of the reason it closed.
1494
01:07:55,080 –> 01:07:57,560
It was pretty easy compared to other places.
1495
01:07:57,560 –> 01:08:00,920
I like drank before I was 21, but I didn’t drink a ton.
1496
01:08:00,920 –> 01:08:02,680
Yeah, me too. I was like that.
1497
01:08:03,240 –> 01:08:07,400
So like I didn’t, I never got a fake ID or anything. So then obviously like after I was 21,
1498
01:08:08,040 –> 01:08:14,920
yeah, and at that point, it was like $5. I could Uber from my house to campus corner for $5.
1499
01:08:14,920 –> 01:08:16,920
So like, it’s so crazy that it’s not like that now.
1500
01:08:16,920 –> 01:08:19,080
It was really easy to be like safe and fun, but.
1501
01:08:19,080 –> 01:08:21,000
Yeah. Yes.
1502
01:08:21,000 –> 01:08:21,960
We had a great time.
1503
01:08:21,960 –> 01:08:26,760
Okay. So that’s the difference. Cause now that I’m like, I’ve Ubered with whenever I went to see
1504
01:08:26,760 –> 01:08:31,800
Cherish, I Ubered back and I was thinking it was going to be like college prices. Cause I
1505
01:08:31,800 –> 01:08:36,360
haven’t been doing as much Ubering with all the pandemic stuff. And then, yeah, it’s.
1506
01:08:36,360 –> 01:08:38,520
It was like $50 and you were like, what?
1507
01:08:39,480 –> 01:08:42,040
Yes. And especially like I lived in our.
1508
01:08:42,040 –> 01:08:43,560
American US dollars.
1509
01:08:43,560 –> 01:08:45,880
Like 50 US dollars.
1510
01:08:45,880 –> 01:08:47,960
Yeah. Can you make this Canadian?
1511
01:08:47,960 –> 01:08:52,520
I used to like, I went in college all the time because it was like, I didn’t have a car.
1512
01:08:52,520 –> 01:08:56,120
My first year home. Like if I drove to the bar, I would just Uber home and then I would just
1513
01:08:56,120 –> 01:09:02,600
Uber in the morning and like, any more, like every time I pick up an Uber, it’s going to be like $40.
1514
01:09:02,600 –> 01:09:06,520
So it’s so like, yo, who’s driving, like somebody’s DDing.
1515
01:09:06,520 –> 01:09:09,240
Cause I’m not $40 for an Uber.
1516
01:09:09,240 –> 01:09:13,240
Yep. I think Cherish, you and I are probably going to have to meet halfway.
1517
01:09:14,440 –> 01:09:15,560
Next time we see each other.
1518
01:09:15,560 –> 01:09:17,560
I’m still an hour away. It’s crazy.
1519
01:09:17,560 –> 01:09:18,120
Yeah.
1520
01:09:18,120 –> 01:09:21,160
Oh, so I meant to say this earlier when you were talking about how large Houston is. So
1521
01:09:21,160 –> 01:09:25,160
Houston, Houston Metro is the size of the state of Connecticut.
1522
01:09:25,160 –> 01:09:26,440
Wait, seriously?
1523
01:09:26,440 –> 01:09:27,160
What?
1524
01:09:27,160 –> 01:09:31,400
Yeah, like the Houston Metro area is like the size of Connecticut.
1525
01:09:31,400 –> 01:09:34,120
So I basically went across.
1526
01:09:34,120 –> 01:09:37,160
You drove across the whole state of Connecticut.
1527
01:09:37,160 –> 01:09:38,120
Do what?
1528
01:09:38,120 –> 01:09:41,160
That’s wild. I said Lizzie drove across the whole state of Connecticut.
1529
01:09:41,160 –> 01:09:41,660
Yeah.
1530
01:09:41,660 –> 01:09:46,700
Yeah. I mean, you can do it in like two hours, like two hours. You can be across the state.
1531
01:09:46,700 –> 01:09:50,220
And then in Texas, you’re driving four hours.
1532
01:09:50,220 –> 01:09:52,220
Lizzie and her dad came to see me and her dad’s.
1533
01:09:52,220 –> 01:10:00,140
Yes. My dad, like I got daughter points for bringing her and him over to see the ESPN
1534
01:10:00,140 –> 01:10:03,820
tour and everything. I got all the bonus points.
1535
01:10:03,820 –> 01:10:08,860
Which is so funny because actually the ESPN tour has been closed for a long time due to the pandemic.
1536
01:10:08,860 –> 01:10:10,860
Wait, seriously? Oh, I didn’t know that.
1537
01:10:10,860 –> 01:10:13,580
They only reopened it.
1538
01:10:13,580 –> 01:10:16,940
Because I was in 2019. That was right before.
1539
01:10:16,940 –> 01:10:22,060
So I’ve been dating my boyfriend for two and a half years and he has still never been on campus.
1540
01:10:22,860 –> 01:10:23,360
No way.
1541
01:10:24,220 –> 01:10:30,060
Because like he travels every weekend. So it’s been hard for us to find the time, but it’s like
1542
01:10:30,700 –> 01:10:34,700
every time someone else is like, oh, hey, like Sierra showed me ESPN. He’s like.
1543
01:10:35,260 –> 01:10:36,780
Oh, bad subject.
1544
01:10:36,780 –> 01:10:37,820
Giving you side eye.
1545
01:10:37,820 –> 01:10:39,100
Of course he showed her.
1546
01:10:39,100 –> 01:10:42,940
Yeah. And we live, you know, like, and we live, you know, eight minutes away.
1547
01:10:42,940 –> 01:10:44,860
And so.
1548
01:10:44,860 –> 01:10:49,580
And I just hopped in and I’m pretty sure I told you like right before I got, we got there because
1549
01:10:49,580 –> 01:10:55,500
we weren’t like, we long story short, my dad decided to be like, Hey, do you want to go somewhere?
1550
01:10:55,500 –> 01:10:59,340
And I, at the time I didn’t know he was looking at a job in New York city.
1551
01:10:59,340 –> 01:11:03,020
And I honestly, this is the real reason he was trying to see New York city.
1552
01:11:03,020 –> 01:11:04,700
And he knew I wanted to go there.
1553
01:11:04,700 –> 01:11:07,020
And so he was like, okay, you want to go anywhere?
1554
01:11:07,020 –> 01:11:10,220
Because he, whenever I was in college, he would do this for my sister.
1555
01:11:10,220 –> 01:11:13,580
And I would always like, they would stop in Oklahoma and they’d be like, oh yeah,
1556
01:11:13,580 –> 01:11:17,020
we’re going to California. And it’d be like, okay, great. Have a great time.
1557
01:11:17,020 –> 01:11:19,260
And like, I’ll just stay here in Oklahoma.
1558
01:11:19,260 –> 01:11:22,540
And so to make up for that, he was like, do you want to go somewhere?
1559
01:11:22,540 –> 01:11:27,340
And I was like, uh, yeah, but like where, and he was like, well, where of all places you want to go?
1560
01:11:27,340 –> 01:11:29,980
And I was like, New York, of course, I had never been there.
1561
01:11:29,980 –> 01:11:31,980
And so then he was like, okay, but here’s the deal.
1562
01:11:31,980 –> 01:11:35,500
We’re leaving tomorrow morning and we’re going to just drive straight there.
1563
01:11:35,500 –> 01:11:38,620
And I was like, okay, but New York is the type of place you got to plan.
1564
01:11:38,620 –> 01:11:41,180
And he was like, Nope, that’s what Google is for.
1565
01:11:41,180 –> 01:11:42,700
You got the whole car ride.
1566
01:11:42,700 –> 01:11:46,460
And so, yep, for real. And it turned into a two week across the state.
1567
01:11:46,460 –> 01:11:50,460
We went from Dallas all the way to New York city and Buffalo.
1568
01:11:50,460 –> 01:11:55,420
And then we came all the way back down and we visited about 18 cities in between that.
1569
01:11:55,420 –> 01:11:57,660
It was, it was definitely spontaneous.
1570
01:11:57,660 –> 01:11:58,160
Yes.
1571
01:11:59,100 –> 01:12:01,980
I knew you guys were doing that, but I didn’t realize that was how we came together.
1572
01:12:01,980 –> 01:12:02,540
Yep.
1573
01:12:02,540 –> 01:12:08,220
And then, so then we went to Connecticut and we saw you and then you showed us that really cool bar,
1574
01:12:08,220 –> 01:12:11,500
that like a bar restaurant that was super freaking old.
1575
01:12:11,500 –> 01:12:13,660
And I think about it all the time, actually.
1576
01:12:13,660 –> 01:12:15,100
Yeah, we went to 10 cities.
1577
01:12:15,100 –> 01:12:15,600
Yeah.
1578
01:12:15,600 –> 01:12:16,100
And it’s so cool.
1579
01:12:16,100 –> 01:12:18,220
And you texted me because your dad loved the wings.
1580
01:12:18,220 –> 01:12:19,020
Yes, yes.
1581
01:12:19,580 –> 01:12:24,860
And then we went all the way to, and then that’s why we went to Buffalo, only for the wings, honestly.
1582
01:12:24,860 –> 01:12:27,020
And it was beautiful during the summer.
1583
01:12:27,020 –> 01:12:31,180
It was definitely the weather I wish Texas had, but obviously it does not.
1584
01:12:31,180 –> 01:12:36,380
And then right now I wouldn’t trade for their weather, but yes.
1585
01:12:36,380 –> 01:12:37,260
And it was June.
1586
01:12:37,260 –> 01:12:40,300
And I remember it was like so cool because we would see like all of the,
1587
01:12:40,940 –> 01:12:43,580
because New York, New England, they’re way more inclusive.
1588
01:12:43,580 –> 01:12:48,220
So there’d be like all the gay pride flags and it would be such a different thing.
1589
01:12:48,220 –> 01:12:52,780
And we would go through and just to see the different cultures that everywhere had and
1590
01:12:52,780 –> 01:12:57,180
going through Tennessee and then Arkansas, Arkansas was where we were like done.
1591
01:12:57,180 –> 01:12:58,780
And we were like, let’s get home.
1592
01:12:58,780 –> 01:12:59,820
Like let’s try home.
1593
01:12:59,820 –> 01:13:00,620
No more stops.
1594
01:13:00,620 –> 01:13:01,120
Yes.
1595
01:13:01,120 –> 01:13:05,660
I broke my dad’s phone, which was our GPS.
1596
01:13:05,660 –> 01:13:07,340
And that was a bad situation.
1597
01:13:07,340 –> 01:13:12,860
I remember we were in Georgia and Atlanta and we had just gone to the college museum.
1598
01:13:12,860 –> 01:13:16,220
And then we went to Coca-Cola, which is like in the same area.
1599
01:13:16,220 –> 01:13:21,180
We’re standing in the line and I’m just holding his phone and he says I threw it, but I didn’t throw it.
1600
01:13:21,180 –> 01:13:23,420
I mean, he would just, I don’t know what happened.
1601
01:13:23,420 –> 01:13:27,540
It just, and so then it went somewhere.
1602
01:13:27,540 –> 01:13:33,620
And I just remember it in slow motion because I saw my dad’s eyes and it was his phone.
1603
01:13:33,620 –> 01:13:37,220
And because, oh, because I ran out of pictures on my phone, of course.
1604
01:13:37,220 –> 01:13:41,460
And so then was trying to use his and fell out of my hand.
1605
01:13:41,460 –> 01:13:47,140
And he just like looked at me like, and the whole time, whenever I’d be like, that’s really cool.
1606
01:13:47,140 –> 01:13:48,420
He’d be like, oh, is that really cool?
1607
01:13:48,420 –> 01:13:49,700
Do you want a photo of that?
1608
01:13:49,700 –> 01:13:51,060
Maybe you shouldn’t have broke my phone.
1609
01:13:51,060 –> 01:13:54,020
And that was the whole entire time for the rest.
1610
01:13:54,020 –> 01:13:58,340
And I told my grandma, cause we stopped on my, in Missouri to see my grandma too.
1611
01:13:58,340 –> 01:14:00,020
And that was the first place I stopped.
1612
01:14:00,020 –> 01:14:01,940
She was like, you guys are going to have such a great time.
1613
01:14:01,940 –> 01:14:04,820
And I was like, oh no, we’re going to kill each other by the end, probably.
1614
01:14:04,820 –> 01:14:05,620
And we did.
1615
01:14:05,620 –> 01:14:07,940
And it happened to be during father’s day.
1616
01:14:07,940 –> 01:14:10,420
So, and that was not even on purpose.
1617
01:14:10,420 –> 01:14:11,460
It just happened.
1618
01:14:11,460 –> 01:14:19,940
But yeah, we learned a lot about each other and, and every single place I tripped and I have a scarf, I swear from every location.
1619
01:14:19,940 –> 01:14:20,180
Yeah.
1620
01:14:20,180 –> 01:14:25,700
I fell on Broadway and in both Broadways actually, in new NASCAR.
1621
01:14:25,700 –> 01:14:26,660
Iconic.
1622
01:14:26,660 –> 01:14:28,100
Yep. Iconic.
1623
01:14:28,100 –> 01:14:30,660
And that’s how I figured out I really am a class.
1624
01:14:30,660 –> 01:14:31,220
Yep.
1625
01:14:31,220 –> 01:14:33,380
So it was, I really recommend that.
1626
01:14:33,380 –> 01:14:38,100
And, but I don’t know if it’s the same kind of experience because that was right before the pandemic.
1627
01:14:38,100 –> 01:14:44,900
It’s kind of like the world was kind of giving us a good laugh to like, hey, by the way, you’re not going to be able to do this soon.
1628
01:14:44,900 –> 01:14:46,500
And we just did it.
1629
01:14:46,500 –> 01:14:46,820
Yeah.
1630
01:14:47,540 –> 01:14:49,060
It was, so that was really fun.
1631
01:14:49,060 –> 01:14:52,340
But I’m so glad that I got to go up there and see you.
1632
01:14:52,340 –> 01:14:54,260
And that was my first time in New England ever.
1633
01:14:54,260 –> 01:14:59,220
And I still haven’t been there since like the apart from New York City.
1634
01:14:59,220 –> 01:15:01,460
So I really, really want to go to like Newport.
1635
01:15:01,460 –> 01:15:04,500
We, because we almost went there.
1636
01:15:04,500 –> 01:15:05,620
It’s beautiful.
1637
01:15:05,620 –> 01:15:10,740
And like seeing everyone’s like Snapchat, like so many people from OU have been going up into New England.
1638
01:15:10,740 –> 01:15:12,340
And it’s so interesting seeing that.
1639
01:15:12,340 –> 01:15:15,460
And so I want to see Rhode Island.
1640
01:15:15,460 –> 01:15:16,500
I miss Boston.
1641
01:15:16,500 –> 01:15:18,660
I loved Boston and things like that.
1642
01:15:18,660 –> 01:15:20,020
I want to see more of Connecticut.
1643
01:15:20,740 –> 01:15:27,780
And then when I was at Connecticut, we did drive by because I told you, I was going to look into this, the haunting in Connecticut house.
1644
01:15:28,340 –> 01:15:29,540
And so we did that.
1645
01:15:31,860 –> 01:15:32,180
Yeah.
1646
01:15:32,180 –> 01:15:38,500
And we drove past it and there someone was having a kid’s party at the house, which I thought was so ironic.
1647
01:15:42,500 –> 01:15:42,900
Yep.
1648
01:15:42,900 –> 01:15:44,740
And they probably were like, oh, God, another one.
1649
01:15:44,740 –> 01:15:45,860
She’s going by.
1650
01:15:45,860 –> 01:15:47,140
It’s literally just like a home.
1651
01:15:47,140 –> 01:15:48,820
Like people live there.
1652
01:15:48,820 –> 01:15:51,060
They’re like, it went so.
1653
01:15:51,060 –> 01:15:51,620
Yeah.
1654
01:15:51,620 –> 01:15:55,620
So I like, of course we were there and that was my first horror movie ever.
1655
01:15:55,620 –> 01:15:56,340
So I had to.
1656
01:15:56,980 –> 01:16:00,500
And yeah, what’s funny is I’m not a big horror person.
1657
01:16:00,500 –> 01:16:04,260
So like, but then I saw, Sierra, you went to Salem, right?
1658
01:16:04,260 –> 01:16:04,980
This past year.
1659
01:16:05,540 –> 01:16:06,340
That was so cool.
1660
01:16:06,980 –> 01:16:08,100
Yeah, I’ve been a couple of times.
1661
01:16:08,100 –> 01:16:08,740
It’s really fun.
1662
01:16:10,260 –> 01:16:11,300
Like it’s obviously really cool.
1663
01:16:11,300 –> 01:16:16,260
In October, we went like right before, like we went on the last day of September.
1664
01:16:16,260 –> 01:16:19,380
So like it was really cool.
1665
01:16:19,380 –> 01:16:23,940
We actually wandered into a shop and I got like a self-guided tour instead of us like paying for a tour.
1666
01:16:23,940 –> 01:16:25,460
So honestly, those are the best.
1667
01:16:25,460 –> 01:16:28,260
If you go to New Orleans, do the self-guided tour.
1668
01:16:28,260 –> 01:16:28,740
It’s pretty cool.
1669
01:16:28,740 –> 01:16:28,900
Yeah.
1670
01:16:28,900 –> 01:16:35,940
So we just like, like we walked around, we ate, like it was a bunch of my friends from Oklahoma who
1671
01:16:36,660 –> 01:16:38,340
like came up for a New England trip.
1672
01:16:38,340 –> 01:16:41,300
So we did Salem and then we like went to a cabin in Vermont.
1673
01:16:42,580 –> 01:16:43,540
Oh, that’s beautiful.
1674
01:16:43,540 –> 01:16:44,820
It was just like super fun and cool.
1675
01:16:44,820 –> 01:16:48,020
And I like I’ve been to Salem, but the history there is like really awesome.
1676
01:16:48,020 –> 01:16:54,340
So I want to go and then, and then where all you were saying that you were going to go on some trips this year.
1677
01:16:54,340 –> 01:16:55,540
What are you, where are you going?
1678
01:16:56,580 –> 01:16:56,820
Yeah.
1679
01:16:56,820 –> 01:16:58,340
So in May, I’m going to Disney.
1680
01:16:58,340 –> 01:16:59,220
I’m really excited.
1681
01:16:59,780 –> 01:17:00,500
I’m jealous.
1682
01:17:00,500 –> 01:17:03,300
I are going with my best friend and her husband.
1683
01:17:04,980 –> 01:17:06,580
So that’s going to be like really fun.
1684
01:17:06,580 –> 01:17:07,540
We’re super excited.
1685
01:17:08,900 –> 01:17:09,620
Who are you going with?
1686
01:17:09,620 –> 01:17:10,100
Marlena?
1687
01:17:10,660 –> 01:17:11,160
No.
1688
01:17:11,160 –> 01:17:16,360
No, I’m going with Chandler and her husband.
1689
01:17:16,360 –> 01:17:16,860
Okay.
1690
01:17:18,040 –> 01:17:22,920
And then we’re Chandler and Gunnar are coming to New England later in the year,
1691
01:17:22,920 –> 01:17:25,400
because then we’re going to Cape Cod over Labor Day weekend.
1692
01:17:25,400 –> 01:17:25,880
So we’re spending-
1693
01:17:25,880 –> 01:17:26,840
That’ll be so fun.
1694
01:17:27,560 –> 01:17:27,800
Yeah.
1695
01:17:27,800 –> 01:17:31,960
So, and like, so Chandler’s husband and then my partner are both very into golfing.
1696
01:17:31,960 –> 01:17:35,400
So like we’re going to golf at Disney and we’re going to like golf in Cape Cod.
1697
01:17:36,360 –> 01:17:39,960
I have, my friend Phillip is getting married in Oklahoma in June.
1698
01:17:39,960 –> 01:17:41,960
So we’re going to go home for the wedding.
1699
01:17:41,960 –> 01:17:42,760
You get to go home.
1700
01:17:43,960 –> 01:17:45,240
Are you going to be there for your birthday?
1701
01:17:45,800 –> 01:17:47,560
You’re going to be there for your birthday?
1702
01:17:48,520 –> 01:17:52,440
No, because I was trying to get, I usually take that week off so I can come home.
1703
01:17:52,440 –> 01:17:55,400
It’s later in June for his birthday or for his wedding.
1704
01:17:56,600 –> 01:17:59,400
But I was trying to get a work assignment that happens over
1705
01:17:59,960 –> 01:18:01,880
my birthday and it’s not going to work out.
1706
01:18:03,640 –> 01:18:05,080
Just due to circumstances.
1707
01:18:05,080 –> 01:18:06,280
So close.
1708
01:18:07,000 –> 01:18:07,720
It’s unfortunate.
1709
01:18:07,720 –> 01:18:12,120
So I like, I intentionally didn’t ask off that week because I wanted to be able to be
1710
01:18:12,120 –> 01:18:16,120
put on this work assignment and like not be on vacation, but it’s not going to happen.
1711
01:18:16,120 –> 01:18:16,840
So that’s okay.
1712
01:18:16,840 –> 01:18:17,400
But-
1713
01:18:17,400 –> 01:18:19,400
Joyous of having a summer birthday.
1714
01:18:19,400 –> 01:18:21,320
I’ve had that situation.
1715
01:18:21,800 –> 01:18:23,080
It’s just like, it’s okay.
1716
01:18:24,040 –> 01:18:28,440
And then I’m going to be home for Thanksgiving and the Friday after Thanksgiving,
1717
01:18:28,440 –> 01:18:31,240
there’s an OU game against TCU.
1718
01:18:31,240 –> 01:18:35,880
So I’m hoping that we’ll be able to come home for Thanksgiving and then go to the Oklahoma game.
1719
01:18:35,880 –> 01:18:39,320
And then it’s really just those three things.
1720
01:18:39,320 –> 01:18:40,520
But they’re kind of-
1721
01:18:40,520 –> 01:18:41,720
Oh no, that’s still exciting.
1722
01:18:41,720 –> 01:18:42,520
That’s a lot.
1723
01:18:42,520 –> 01:18:47,080
Yeah, it’s still a lot of stuff to do in one year, especially just because traveling home,
1724
01:18:48,120 –> 01:18:51,480
people don’t really talk about this, but when you live away from your family and you’re
1725
01:18:51,480 –> 01:18:56,840
traveling home, it is a big expense and it is a lot to do and it’s a big deal.
1726
01:18:56,840 –> 01:19:01,720
And people don’t talk about that, even though it’s good to see family and friends,
1727
01:19:01,720 –> 01:19:06,280
it’s exhausting because everybody wants to see you.
1728
01:19:06,280 –> 01:19:08,200
You have to fit everything at the same time.
1729
01:19:10,200 –> 01:19:11,000
It’s demanding.
1730
01:19:11,960 –> 01:19:15,640
It’s expensive because typically when I’m at home, I’m eating at home and stuff.
1731
01:19:15,640 –> 01:19:19,560
And it’s like, when I go home so I can see everyone, I have a real-
1732
01:19:19,560 –> 01:19:20,280
You eat out.
1733
01:19:20,280 –> 01:19:24,920
I’m running here and I’m running there and you can never make everybody happy.
1734
01:19:24,920 –> 01:19:28,200
So I’ve just had to really wrestle with the fact that I’m going to see some people,
1735
01:19:28,200 –> 01:19:29,560
I’m not going to see others.
1736
01:19:29,560 –> 01:19:36,200
And how everyone’s on different life stages and the busynesses, it’s so crazy.
1737
01:19:36,200 –> 01:19:37,480
Being a grownup is hard.
1738
01:19:39,400 –> 01:19:44,520
Every time I’m with people here and they’re talking about how they just drove home for
1739
01:19:44,520 –> 01:19:46,280
the weekend, I’m like, I could never drive home.
1740
01:19:46,280 –> 01:19:50,040
It would take 24 hours and I don’t want to do that.
1741
01:19:52,600 –> 01:19:54,120
Well, I did that drive.
1742
01:19:54,120 –> 01:19:54,840
It’s not easy.
1743
01:19:54,840 –> 01:19:55,880
It took us two weeks.
1744
01:19:55,880 –> 01:19:59,880
It takes a long time.
1745
01:19:59,880 –> 01:20:04,360
And then we may potentially go on a cruise with some of Brandon’s friends.
1746
01:20:04,360 –> 01:20:05,960
We haven’t decided yet.
1747
01:20:05,960 –> 01:20:07,640
We’ve got to figure out if it’s going to work.
1748
01:20:08,680 –> 01:20:12,600
You should go to one that’s coming off of Galveston and hit up us.
1749
01:20:15,080 –> 01:20:16,200
It would be a Disney cruise.
1750
01:20:16,200 –> 01:20:16,760
So we would be taking-
1751
01:20:16,760 –> 01:20:17,640
Oh, that’s for that.
1752
01:20:17,640 –> 01:20:22,360
It’s like the Disney witch from Port Canaveral is the one that his friends are going on.
1753
01:20:22,360 –> 01:20:26,360
So we’re trying to decide if we’re going to do that.
1754
01:20:26,360 –> 01:20:29,000
So if we’re going to do that, then I have to change my…
1755
01:20:30,040 –> 01:20:32,120
I’ve got to switch my vacation time around.
1756
01:20:35,000 –> 01:20:40,600
It’s some big stuff this year, but we’re really excited because I work hard.
1757
01:20:40,600 –> 01:20:41,880
I want to have fun.
1758
01:20:41,880 –> 01:20:43,720
I want to go on cool vacations.
1759
01:20:43,720 –> 01:20:45,480
So I’m excited.
1760
01:20:45,480 –> 01:20:54,200
That’s the worst part of being back in the unemployed mode right now is definitely missing
1761
01:20:54,200 –> 01:20:55,880
that freedom of getting to do that.
1762
01:20:55,880 –> 01:21:02,280
And then it’s funny because when I was working for the campaign still, and if you can imagine
1763
01:21:02,280 –> 01:21:05,320
the last part of October going into November is nuts.
1764
01:21:05,320 –> 01:21:12,600
And since the election has been, I decided to go up to DFW to visit my family and friends up there
1765
01:21:13,160 –> 01:21:14,920
the week before.
1766
01:21:14,920 –> 01:21:21,320
And happened to, while I was there, I had just gone to a rally and I went straight from a
1767
01:21:21,320 –> 01:21:26,840
Beto rally and then went straight from there, basically traveling up.
1768
01:21:26,840 –> 01:21:31,560
And so I guess it was one of my first time because I mainly worked remote.
1769
01:21:33,160 –> 01:21:37,960
Being with tons of people, I caught COVID and I didn’t know I caught COVID.
1770
01:21:37,960 –> 01:21:44,840
And I met my two best friends, newborn babies, and I had COVID and I was freaking
1771
01:21:44,840 –> 01:21:47,480
out because I found out two days after that.
1772
01:21:47,480 –> 01:21:49,960
And then I was at my grandparents’ house.
1773
01:21:49,960 –> 01:21:52,760
And so I had to seclude myself in there.
1774
01:21:52,760 –> 01:21:56,200
And then I eventually gave it to my grandma, which makes you feel great.
1775
01:21:56,200 –> 01:22:02,520
But then when I came back, then I had to figure out how to work during the election crazy
1776
01:22:02,520 –> 01:22:03,800
and with COVID.
1777
01:22:03,800 –> 01:22:04,520
So that was fun.
1778
01:22:05,240 –> 01:22:09,320
Yeah, it kind of makes it, I was like, it was worth it.
1779
01:22:09,320 –> 01:22:12,840
But at the same time, it really complicated things.
1780
01:22:12,840 –> 01:22:14,840
Yeah, yeah, that’s tough.
1781
01:22:14,840 –> 01:22:17,000
Yeah, COVID was hard.
1782
01:22:17,000 –> 01:22:18,520
I definitely had, I got it twice.
1783
01:22:18,520 –> 01:22:20,280
The first time I got it at my cousin’s wedding.
1784
01:22:21,080 –> 01:22:24,440
And I thought that it was from my cousin’s wedding in Dallas.
1785
01:22:25,960 –> 01:22:29,720
And I thought that, like at first I thought that it was from like just another guest at
1786
01:22:29,720 –> 01:22:30,600
the wedding.
1787
01:22:30,600 –> 01:22:33,000
Turns out it was from my other cousin.
1788
01:22:33,000 –> 01:22:37,800
So then like, no, so we were just like chatting about it one day because I didn’t really tell
1789
01:22:37,800 –> 01:22:42,280
anyone in my extended family that I got COVID at the wedding because I didn’t want anyone
1790
01:22:42,280 –> 01:22:43,160
to feel bad.
1791
01:22:43,160 –> 01:22:45,240
Like I didn’t want to make my other wedding feel bad.
1792
01:22:45,240 –> 01:22:48,440
Like I just didn’t want anyone to feel guilty in any way.
1793
01:22:48,440 –> 01:22:48,840
Oh, yeah.
1794
01:22:49,400 –> 01:22:55,400
But then it was like, now the third cousin to the story, my other cousin had COVID and
1795
01:22:55,400 –> 01:22:56,280
I had COVID.
1796
01:22:56,280 –> 01:22:58,840
So we were like, okay, so you definitely got it at the wedding.
1797
01:22:58,840 –> 01:23:04,680
And then my partner and I were having dinner with the fourth cousin and her husband that
1798
01:23:04,680 –> 01:23:05,400
gave us COVID.
1799
01:23:06,840 –> 01:23:09,000
So like, we’re all really close, obviously.
1800
01:23:09,560 –> 01:23:12,040
And so like, we’re just like, we’re having dinner at their house.
1801
01:23:12,040 –> 01:23:14,680
I’m like, oh, yeah, I got COVID after Suzanne’s wedding.
1802
01:23:14,680 –> 01:23:18,360
And so like my cousin and her husband look at each other and they’re like, and they’re
1803
01:23:18,360 –> 01:23:22,360
like, oh, no, yeah, I think I gave that to you.
1804
01:23:24,280 –> 01:23:27,080
I didn’t know that I had it at the wedding.
1805
01:23:28,760 –> 01:23:30,520
Later, I started to feel bad.
1806
01:23:30,520 –> 01:23:34,200
So then I secluded myself from everyone, but we had already like caught it.
1807
01:23:34,200 –> 01:23:34,700
Yeah.
1808
01:23:35,400 –> 01:23:36,440
Yeah, it was a little late.
1809
01:23:37,240 –> 01:23:37,480
Yeah.
1810
01:23:37,480 –> 01:23:41,000
And then like I was with my family and then I didn’t start to feel sick until I was flying
1811
01:23:41,000 –> 01:23:41,480
home.
1812
01:23:41,480 –> 01:23:44,120
So like, I flew home, but I didn’t know.
1813
01:23:44,120 –> 01:23:45,400
I literally didn’t even have a sniffle.
1814
01:23:45,400 –> 01:23:46,920
That’s the scariest part.
1815
01:23:46,920 –> 01:23:47,640
Yeah.
1816
01:23:47,640 –> 01:23:47,880
Yeah.
1817
01:23:47,880 –> 01:23:50,600
So then like I got home and I tested and I had it.
1818
01:23:50,600 –> 01:23:56,680
And then I got it again at work wearing a mask just because like we were wearing class
1819
01:23:56,680 –> 01:23:57,400
masks at work.
1820
01:23:57,400 –> 01:23:59,880
And I just was having a conversation with someone.
1821
01:23:59,880 –> 01:24:01,560
And then it turned out that they had it.
1822
01:24:01,560 –> 01:24:06,760
And it’s just like, oh, when I got it, it was literally the one day I went to her office.
1823
01:24:06,760 –> 01:24:10,680
And so I told my boss, I was like, hey, you want me to come into the office?
1824
01:24:10,680 –> 01:24:12,920
But I literally got COVID the one time I did.
1825
01:24:12,920 –> 01:24:18,680
So they were like, yeah, I mean, like it’s just the world we live in now.
1826
01:24:18,680 –> 01:24:19,720
So yeah.
1827
01:24:21,160 –> 01:24:25,320
Hopefully like we’re vaccinated, we’re boosted, we’re doing everything we can to stay safe.
1828
01:24:27,400 –> 01:24:30,440
Like I think we’re finally at a place now where like we’re not going to see so many
1829
01:24:30,440 –> 01:24:33,400
lives lost because like it still is really sad and it really sucks.
1830
01:24:33,960 –> 01:24:38,600
And I’m lucky that like both times I had like pretty mild reactions to it.
1831
01:24:38,600 –> 01:24:39,560
Me too.
1832
01:24:39,560 –> 01:24:39,800
Yeah.
1833
01:24:39,800 –> 01:24:44,360
The second time I got it, I actually had a family emergency and I had to like put on
1834
01:24:44,360 –> 01:24:45,320
an N95.
1835
01:24:45,320 –> 01:24:48,280
And so then I had to like go deal with this family emergency like with an N95.
1836
01:24:48,280 –> 01:24:49,080
Oh, that’s horrible.
1837
01:24:49,080 –> 01:24:49,800
Yeah.
1838
01:24:49,800 –> 01:24:53,640
So then I had to like, I had to rent a hotel so I could stay away from my family.
1839
01:24:53,640 –> 01:24:57,160
And then I would be wearing an N95 for like 10 hours at a time.
1840
01:24:57,160 –> 01:24:59,800
So I started getting really terrible mask fatigue.
1841
01:24:59,800 –> 01:25:00,520
I’m not going to lie.
1842
01:25:01,080 –> 01:25:01,320
Yeah.
1843
01:25:01,880 –> 01:25:08,040
My kids, I when I had that, we drove all the way back from DFW to Houston, which is like
1844
01:25:08,040 –> 01:25:09,640
almost a four hour drive.
1845
01:25:09,640 –> 01:25:10,920
And it was just me and my mom.
1846
01:25:10,920 –> 01:25:15,240
So my mom had me wearing an N95 and then her with an N95.
1847
01:25:15,240 –> 01:25:19,560
And I was like, mom, you do realize like you’ve literally been in the same place as me,
1848
01:25:19,560 –> 01:25:20,760
but just to make sure.
1849
01:25:21,320 –> 01:25:24,920
And that was riding a car like that sucks.
1850
01:25:24,920 –> 01:25:25,420
Yeah.
1851
01:25:26,440 –> 01:25:27,000
Exactly.
1852
01:25:27,000 –> 01:25:33,800
And well, and then this February, this is actually this month is the anniversary.
1853
01:25:33,800 –> 01:25:36,920
My uncle lost his life to COVID last year.
1854
01:25:36,920 –> 01:25:39,080
And so it’s definitely a serious thing.
1855
01:25:39,080 –> 01:25:39,480
Yeah.
1856
01:25:39,480 –> 01:25:44,520
But, and then so then with he was unvaccinated, I think.
1857
01:25:45,160 –> 01:25:51,480
And then, but they, the worst part is he caught it on Christmas and like of all things.
1858
01:25:51,480 –> 01:25:53,880
And so now his family has to like associate with it.
1859
01:25:53,880 –> 01:25:58,040
And so it just, yeah, it’s, and, but it’s hard because it’s the,
1860
01:25:58,040 –> 01:26:02,600
you don’t want to lose that part of your life of like, you know, being with people and then,
1861
01:26:03,160 –> 01:26:06,920
but it’s a, yeah, very much real situation.
1862
01:26:06,920 –> 01:26:08,920
That’s really sad.
1863
01:26:08,920 –> 01:26:09,560
Yeah.
1864
01:26:09,560 –> 01:26:11,560
We learned a lot from the pandemic.
1865
01:26:11,560 –> 01:26:13,320
It’s definitely been really hard on everyone.
1866
01:26:13,320 –> 01:26:14,680
There has been good things.
1867
01:26:14,680 –> 01:26:15,640
It’s very impressive.
1868
01:26:15,640 –> 01:26:19,800
Like the different technology advancements that people have been having.
1869
01:26:19,800 –> 01:26:20,280
Yeah.
1870
01:26:20,280 –> 01:26:23,560
When COVID first hit and I was at home, that was the best summer of my life.
1871
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I was working out.
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I was eating right.
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01:26:25,720 –> 01:26:30,520
I spent all this time with my friends, like outdoors, because we couldn’t like,
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do anything else.
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01:26:32,520 –> 01:26:36,040
Social distancing, but like we couldn’t see anyone else.
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01:26:36,040 –> 01:26:37,640
So like, and I had room for the time.
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01:26:37,640 –> 01:26:42,120
So we were just like, well, you guys saw my little puppy.
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01:26:42,120 –> 01:26:47,000
He is the result of the pandemic because all of us got back together and we’re living with
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each other again.
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01:26:47,960 –> 01:26:53,320
And so we were like, naturally we need a dog and let’s just say, get a puppy for quarantine.
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01:26:53,320 –> 01:26:55,640
It will keep you very, very preoccupied.
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01:26:56,360 –> 01:26:57,160
Yeah.
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01:26:57,160 –> 01:27:02,440
But now he actually has like, uh, where like we, he does freak out when we leave him
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01:27:02,440 –> 01:27:04,520
because he’s so used to always being with us.
1885
01:27:04,520 –> 01:27:06,120
That’s been a really interesting thing.
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01:27:06,120 –> 01:27:09,800
I feel like that’s really common for, um, like animals have social anxiety because they’re
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01:27:09,800 –> 01:27:11,400
not used to being with a lot of them.
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01:27:11,400 –> 01:27:12,040
Yeah.
1889
01:27:12,040 –> 01:27:13,000
It’s so interesting.
1890
01:27:13,000 –> 01:27:14,360
It’s getting kind of late here for me.
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01:27:14,360 –> 01:27:15,000
Yes.
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01:27:15,000 –> 01:27:15,560
Yes.
1893
01:27:15,560 –> 01:27:18,600
That’s totally, and actually I’m like computers at 5%.
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01:27:18,600 –> 01:27:19,320
So that’s perfect.
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01:27:19,800 –> 01:27:22,120
And it was great talking to you guys.
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01:27:22,120 –> 01:27:27,320
I did not realize how long it was getting, but I love seeing you guys and you know,
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01:27:27,320 –> 01:27:33,960
hey, either we need to all go to Connecticut, me and Cherish or you feel free.
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01:27:33,960 –> 01:27:39,080
If you happen to be down here, let us know or if I’m around Dallas, yes.
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01:27:40,120 –> 01:27:40,520
Yeah.
1900
01:27:40,520 –> 01:27:43,400
If you’re in Dallas, like it’s not a hard drive to come up there.
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01:27:43,400 –> 01:27:46,200
So yeah, but hopefully, hopefully we can come see you.
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01:27:46,200 –> 01:27:48,200
I don’t think I’ve ever been to Connecticut.
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01:27:48,200 –> 01:27:49,240
It’s beautiful.
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01:27:49,240 –> 01:27:50,440
Come visit in the summer.
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01:27:50,440 –> 01:27:51,000
It’s beautiful.
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01:27:51,000 –> 01:27:51,640
We have so many.
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01:27:51,640 –> 01:27:52,440
So pretty.
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01:27:52,440 –> 01:27:58,040
Like there’s honestly like people that shit on it a lot because it’s not Boston and it’s
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01:27:58,040 –> 01:28:01,160
not your, it’s so historic.
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01:28:01,160 –> 01:28:03,480
And it’s I, I feel like I’m really thriving here.
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01:28:03,480 –> 01:28:04,920
This is a really great place for me.
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01:28:04,920 –> 01:28:10,120
So I’m so glad that that’s what’s so cool about like you ending up at ESPN.
1913
01:28:10,120 –> 01:28:15,240
It feels like all of the places just like all met up to for you and just perfect for you.
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01:28:16,200 –> 01:28:16,520
Yes.
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01:28:17,240 –> 01:28:17,560
Okay.
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01:28:17,560 –> 01:28:19,080
Well, I will let you guys go.
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01:28:19,080 –> 01:28:24,120
Thank you for talking to me on a Saturday night and I’m so glad to see you guys.
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01:28:24,120 –> 01:28:24,680
Okay.
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01:28:24,680 –> 01:28:26,440
I wish I could give you guys a hug.
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01:28:26,440 –> 01:28:29,240
That’s the part that sucks about this virtual hug.
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01:28:30,760 –> 01:28:31,880
It’s how we actually can.
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01:28:31,880 –> 01:28:32,920
Okay.
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01:28:32,920 –> 01:28:33,960
Good night guys.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Bye.
