Cool Beans, Awesome Sauce, and Olympic Witchcraft

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Hello, welcome to Joy Moments, where we spread moments

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of joy throughout the world.

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I am Lacey, your co-host, who

has a very chatty background

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actor and my daughter Violet.

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So you may hear her chatty, I

don't know if it's the right word

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'cause she's just making noises.

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with my, co-host in co giggling, Sara.

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Hi Sara.

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Sara: Good morning, Lacey.

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yes.

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Behind the scenes we just spent a solid

30 seconds laughing, kind of nothing.

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Lacey: I was laughing at Violet, so.

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Sara: Well, yeah, and then I was

just laughing at myself being,

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I don't wanna say a hot mess,

because I'm not a hot mess.

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I'm perfect, but a comedy of errors.

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I love that phrase.

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Okay.

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Yes.

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I'm so excited to be here.

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Don't you get us started, Lacey.

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Lacey: Just a friendly reminder.

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The joy moments is us sharing

our joy moments, but also getting

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joy moments from other people.

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But something I think is really important,

especially in, the current climate of, of

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our country and our world right now, Sara

and I are in the us is just to note that

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joy moments is not about ignoring the bad.

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So I know we're like two white

ladies coming on here talking about

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joy moments and all that stuff.

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I don't want people to think I.

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We're ignoring the, frankly, atrocities

happening right now in our country and

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injustices in so many different ways.

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'cause that is very much on our

mind and something that Sara

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and I do care very deeply about.

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these are joy moments to help get

us through those times, not to

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distract from or ignore those times.

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Sara: another way to put it is it's

a dumpster fire right now, and we, we

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don't have enough resources to put out

the dumpster fire, but you know what,

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we're gonna sit in a comfortable chair.

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We're gonna pour ourselves

a glass of lemonade.

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And we're not gonna just be

miserable watching the dumpster fire.

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We're gonna bring some joy to the

table, not ignoring it, but just,

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we're not gonna put our hand in

the fire and get burned by it.

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We're gonna, we're gonna make the most

of being surrounded by a dumpster fire.

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Lacey: We see the dumpster fire.

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We, we are, we acknowledge the

dumpster earth fire exists.

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We do not want there

to be a dumpster fire.

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and while it feels like there's

very little that we can do about

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the dumpster fire, I do feel like

we are trying to do what we can.

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And in the meantime, trying

to make a chair cozy to.

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I've seen a lot of stuff lately about,

about like influencers not using their

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platform and I'm like, I don't really

have a platform and I get how people

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could definitely see what we're doing and

be like, those two white ladies are, are

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being apolitical and that kinda stuff.

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And it's like, no, that's

not what's happening here.

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, Please, please, no.

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Okay.

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joy moments today,

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Sara: One of mine from this week

that I posted about on Threads is

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, I met somebody I'd never

met before, and then

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in the course of the

conversation she used two phrases

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that I use all the time, but I never hear.

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Day to day,

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and I was so distracted that I actually

didn't hear the rest of what she

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said

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because I was, I was so

stuck on the phrases.

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First phrase was, cool beans.

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Do you say Cool beans?

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Lacey: Not regularly, but it,

I have certainly said it before

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Sara: Said, cool.

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Lacey: past year,

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Sara: So she said Cool beans to me.

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And then in the same conversation a couple

sentences later, she said, awesome sauce.

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Lacey: Oh, I say awesome sauce.

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I have a group chat named Awesome Sauce.

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Sara: So this person, and it was

kind of a semi-professional setting.

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I didn't hear anything else she said.

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'cause I was like, oh my gosh.

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Somebody else said cool beans and

awesome sauce in the same sitting.

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I thought it was like the

matrix glitching on itself.

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Like I couldn't understand why

I was hearing the words and

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I wasn't the one saying the

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Lacey: Feel like you found a, a, a

counterpart, like individual there.

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Sara: Oh yeah, it was, it was nice.

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It was nice.

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So did you, you said you

did a call out to Threads.

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Do you have some other

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Lacey: I do.

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Said, tell me something good.

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Because remember, joy doesn't necessarily

have to be one specific thing.

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It can be happiness, gratitude,

just anything that brings

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up those good feelings.

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That's what we're, we're,

we're talking about.

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so the first one I got was I was

walking in a store and a young man

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approached me with tears in his

eyes and told me he was hungry.

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had the best time getting

him some groceries.

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He was so happy.

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I wish I could have done

more, but it made my day.

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I gotta be honest, like part of me reads

this and like it's so lovely that I

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don't necessarily feel like it's true.

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I.

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Say that, but it is so like the, it's

the type of thing that we would, we would

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hope, I'll be honest, like I hear that and

like instantly I'm like, would I do that?

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No.

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'cause my, my protect protection instincts

would go up of like, I don't have money.

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No, don't talk to me.

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You know, kind of thing.

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And so when I read that, I'm

like, maybe I should do better.

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I don't know.

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Sara: Well, but this, this

podcast isn't about shoulds.

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It's about,

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Lacey: right,

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Sara: that was her joy moment.

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And it was joy for her doing it.

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It was joy for the person receiving the

food let's just focus on the joy of it.

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Lacey: A joy.

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I'm not gonna analyze.

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See, that's, I, I go into the logic of it.

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Right.

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That that's not, we're

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Sara: No,

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Lacey: These, we're

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Sara: no.

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Lacey: So, and then I

got another one one also.

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Ugh.

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I am a job developer for adults

with developmental disabilities,

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and one of my clients just landed

his dream job, better money, better

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benefits, life-changing experience.

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I'm so proud, I'm gonna cry.

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I'm so proud and overjoy

overjoyed at his success.

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Sara: Oh my gosh.

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Lacey: to make this even better,

Sara, there's a little back and

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forth with someone who's saying,

someone said, this is so awesome.

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Claps.

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The original person said, thank you.

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And then that person said, my son

is 16 and autistic and I'm hoping

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for him to get a job this summer.

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I get it.

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And then the original said, best of luck.

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Counselors might be, able to

help you find the programs here.

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In my state, this is how we

transition to work and there's some

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awesome support should be able.

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So not only did they share the joy,

but there also was like this back and

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forth of joy, but then also potential

support in linking to resources.

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I mean.

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Sara: That is, yeah, that is, it's,

it's a introduction of joy and that's

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why we do this because by that person

highlighting that joy, it inspired

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and gave hope to somebody else.

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So if you're like, why are we doing

joy moments because of that, because.

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It's like a, it's like that holding

up that light for people to be

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like, oh my gosh, there are these

amazing things, these joyful things.

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Right?

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And yeah, that makes me happy.

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Lacey: Me too.

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Me too.

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Now you know why?

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I was like, I got some good ones.

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Sara: In the whole reminding

people that this isn't about

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ignoring the discomfort in life.

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If you've read the newsletter from

this past week, I have been couch

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ridden for about five days with pain.

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and I say that just because it's

like, but there was still joy.

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Like, I, I don't, I don't

wanna be in pain like.

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That was not great, but there was joy.

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My dog snuggled like nobody's business.

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I mean like she, like she

was a professional snuggler.

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And then I love the Olympics and I've

been getting to binge the Olympics

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and I researched so many curling

terms yesterday and I learned about.

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The pin and the house and the like.

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I learned all these things and there's

still more to learn, but, I really

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enjoyed the Olympics in a very deep

way and I'm still enjoying them.

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I was watching them before I came

up here, so Olympics is my joy.

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Lacey: I do wanna say, you asked

me about it and you're like,

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are you an Olympics person?

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And I was like, ah, I just

really default to summer.

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But I did see something yesterday

that was like, the summer Olympics

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is like, Hey, run from here to there.

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Whereas Winter Olympics is like,

let's, let's attach these sticks to

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your legs, make a random hill, and

then you've gotta do flips off of it.

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You know what I mean?

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I'm just like, maybe, maybe

that's my disconnect of like,

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holy moly, that's just so bananas.

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So I think, I am gonna, I'm gonna try to,

turn it on a little bit more, especially

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'cause Isaac has expressed interest.

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and, and really give it, its dup because

dag on some of these things, holy moly.

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Sara: And these people.

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I was watching ice skating

yesterday and I just thought

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this might as well be witchcraft.

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I can't even stand on ice skates.

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I can't even stand and the things these

people are doing, I mean, that's just,

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that's just straight up voodoo stuff.

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I don't remember how we end things.

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Lacey: I don't either.

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Oh.

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anyone can submit their own joy moment.

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if you go to joy movement

com back slash submit.

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you can put your own joy moment there.

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You can always just

email or DM or comment.

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we're, we're up pulling 'em in

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Sara: Host, just put it

on threads and we'll find.

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We'll, we'll find.

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We're gonna find your joy.

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Lacey: Calm down.

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yeah, we hope, in the garbage

dumpster fire of our world.

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This at least made your chair

a little bit more comfy.

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Thank you, Sara.

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Sara: Thank you, Lacey.