Answering Your BURNING Questions! ⧸⧸ Livestream Q&A
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about Simchat Torah, the holidays, and the board game we played at Simchat torah. I also talk about the Twilight imperium game and how I turned it into a board game.
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hi can you guys hear me i'm using a new mic so i don't know if it's working and if it's not i
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will switch to my old mic let me know in the comments can you hear me i'm gonna type it just
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in case you can't um so we're just gonna wait for a few more people to hop on but i'm so excited to
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have you guys here i've got my tea um and we're all just gonna we're gonna chill we're gonna
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we're gonna chat a little bit um does the sound sound better i'm hoping that it does because i
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i'm using like a fancy mic let me show you very fancy does it sound better um so i'm planning to
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do is answer some of your guys's questions just chat a little bit as you can see i've got a new
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sweater on from target so i am so cozy i'm so in the fall season i've got my tea i'm so i mean
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tonight was jacob and i ended up going for an hour-long walk we were supposed to go not supposed
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to but we had planned on going for like a short walk and then and it ended up being an hour so
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that was really nice um but you know it's been a crazy couple of weeks i mean a week i mean oh my
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gosh it's been a crazy time because it's been the jewish holidays um so as you guys know i've talked
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about on my channel a bunch of times we had rosh hashena we had yom kippur we had um sukkot
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and now is the end of sukkot so we had shemini at seret and then today was simchat torah so it thank
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you for asking um it was good someone asked how simchat torah was it was good um and so we uh i we
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had to race to jacob my husband is moderating tonight so everybody give him a big thank you
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in the comments here so that uh because he's going to keep the comment section nice and good
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for us all so that's really nice hi everybody um so it's been a crazy few weeks and now the holidays
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are wrapping up so we can actually like live our lives in a little bit more of a routine that's not
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to say i don't love the jewish holidays i do but finally we can like just let things get back
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into the swing of things i can have a normal schedule and i don't have to feel so stressed
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about figuring out when i'm going to vlog so if you guys didn't know the jewish holidays are um
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they are similar to sabbath for us so we're not allowed to uh use electricity in in a certain sense
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so i'm not allowed to vlog my day and so that means that three days out of the week i was not
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able to vlog at all so trying to figure out a day that i could vlog and that i also wasn't crazy trying
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to get my work done in that in those other four days was so hard uh but we did it we're through it
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we did it um oh someone is asking about the twilight imperium game
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haha um it that was the game that we played uh and i talked about it in my vlog um if you haven't
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watched that go and watch it because i talked about it a little bit and i showed you what my
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themed setup for the board game which was so silly everyone got on board it was awesome um but
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the game is insane i'm so proud of myself that i participated i like board games jacob loves board
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games he's like even more intense than i am about board well rather he's very intense about board games
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and i i'm like i'm into some board games um this kind of board game is like the most intense board
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game you can play it is a million hours long and you have to understand every little nitty gritty
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thing and it's so much um but i did it and i participated and it takes place in space and
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you all have different factions and you're trying to get victory points basically um so one of the
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things that i did to make it more fun is you get into little wars you get you have to do these agenda
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phases where everyone is like in a court and we all vote on things uh so i bought silly masks from
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the dollar tree and everyone pulled them down when we got into into combat and when we were in
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in court and it was hilarious i loved it um yes okay i have heard this a number of times now
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to the people who are mentioning it gloomhaven we own it we've played it we haven't played it
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regularly if we ever have a house that's big enough where we can have like a basement with just a board
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game table we'd probably set it up and just let it sit there and then we could play it whenever we
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wanted but taking it out and putting it back is just a whole process so we haven't had the
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opportunity to play it as often as i like but i actually really like gloomhaven because it's
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similar it's like playing uh an rpg video game but on a tabletop which is really cool uh for all of
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you guys who know nothing about board games or video games i'm really sorry i'm going on and on
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but so much of my life has been taken up by this because my husband's hobby and uh he's taught me to
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love this stuff too so yes thank you guys so much oh my gosh everyone is in the comments it's so nice
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i love it so much um so as you guys know this is my live stream q and a i do it once a month
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and i answer questions from my premium subscribers on sub stack so if you would like to submit real
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questions uh we will i'll answer every so often some of the smaller questions here but if you want to
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if you want to submit bigger real questions make sure to subscribe to my sub stack which is
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classicallyabby.substack.com and it's only seven dollars a month and oh my gosh you get so much
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exclusive content and i say this only because i have to put out all of the content myself so
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you get access to my exclusive podcast you get weekly articles you get to submit questions for this
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you get to submit content pitch ideas uh you get access to my book club it's it's a really really
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cool thing and if you decide to sign up for the whole year you actually get two months for free
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so classicallyabby.substack.com make sure to sign up if you haven't already so that you guys can
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submit questions for stuff like this but we should probably start to get into it um let's do this so
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i'm going to pull up the questions here thank you to those of you guys who are my premium subscribers
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who did submit questions i generally don't like to say people's names just in case anything they asked
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was private so i won't be asking i won't be saying people's names but thank you so much for submitting
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questions um let's see and just before i get started i'm just hopping into the chat here to see
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if there's anything that i want to mention okay someone asked if i can link my spotify somewhere
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yes i will go ahead and do that at some point um and i will make it available for you guys and then
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um yes jacob got me a book what is the book called oh i'm trying to remember
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he can if he he's listening he maybe he can text it to me and i'll be able to tell you
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oh the glute lab um which i really i love it i know it sounds like oh why are you only doing
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exercises for your glutes but actually your glutes are one of the biggest muscles in your body and they
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support so much of your body it's actually a really good thing to make it really strong
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um and i also like those exercises so that was the book jacob got me it's huge but they also have
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like great workout routines throughout it so i really like it and i recommend it um okay let's do
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this sorry getting caught up in things so let's start off with the first question hi abby my question
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for you is what advice would you give to someone who is looking to start a new journey of faith with
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god your openness about your own journey and faith and what you've learned so far has inspired me to
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return to my roots and rethink how i truly feel about god despite spending years with little faith
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and a negative viewpoint on religion as a whole there still remains in a corner of my mind a small flame
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of faith and curiosity that's calling to me thanks well that's a wonderful question um i mean as you
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guys know i'm super open about my faith journey here i grew up i will kind of give a small recap i grew
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up modern orthodox i moved to new york and there i started to stray from my faith um most of that was
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due to the people i surrounded myself with when i was removed from a religious jewish community like i grew
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up in at home a religious jewish community made up of families then i was then moved into a community
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of singles and people who i had bad experiences with and so i started to relate my judaism and my religion
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to the these people's bad practice of it and i felt betrayed by my religion when really that was an unfair
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uh kind of idea for me to come to conclusion for me to draw rather i had tied the practice of my of my
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religion with the people who like with the way they practiced it these people who have practiced it and
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did it wrong and we're not really practicing it i tied that with the religion as a whole and it really
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drove me away from my faith and i had to but i still had that calling and i still had that relationship
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with god and i had to take time and invest time into rediscovering my love of the religion and of the
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faith and i knew that i wanted to do those things so i took a few notes because i wanted to make sure i gave
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you the best answer so the first thing is exactly what i just mentioned the way that some people
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practice their faith or this the way some people will say that they're religious and then act totally
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not religious has nothing to do with the faith itself with the religion itself the religion okay you
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know how i've talked about on my channel we're gonna take a little detour you know i've talked about
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on my channel classic how classic is something we should all aspire to that we're not going to get
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there every day but it's definitely something that we can try to be faith is like that religion is like
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that where we're all making an effort to be as faithful as we can over time and there's this beautiful
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ideal of the person who keeps everything and understands everything and we're just human and
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we're all just trying to reach that ideal and it's a practice it's something we do every day
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but the people who don't keep the who who say that they're religious and aren't actually keeping
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any of that that has nothing to do with the religion itself the religion is still the ideal
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and i allowed myself to get really derailed by that because i had such bad experiences with people
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who said they were religious who said they were jewish and did not act that way at all so
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if that is part of the reason that you felt pulled away know why you were pulled away in the first
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place so if that was part of the reason okay explore that if there was another reason explore that but
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know why you were initially pulled away from your faith because then you can explore how to fix that
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because there's been a rent in your relationship to god and to your religion so if you can take the
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time to figure out the source of when you started feeling less connected then you can work on it and
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fix it and clearly you still have something pulling you towards the faith which is a beautiful wonderful
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thing to have that kind of impulse to reconnect with god and reconnect with your religion so one of the
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the things i recommend is exploring the faith by learning it exploring your religion by learning
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about it so whenever i have a question now i don't just push it aside i ask it i go to a faith leader
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for me it's a rabbi for you it might be someone else and i ask those questions and i ask and make sure
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that i really understand why i'm doing what i'm doing so that it doesn't feel like i can't ask those questions
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you can the people who are faith leaders want you to ask those questions they don't want you
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to feel totally isolated and alone in your faith this is something i've really had to learn is that
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i used to feel embarrassed and ashamed that i had these questions at all and so i didn't want to ask
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anyone and i realize now that was such a mistake my rabbis your whoever priests whatever it is they
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want to help you they want to help you stay religious so if that means that they take the time
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time to sit down with you and answer your questions that's what they're gonna do they're not going to
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think you're crazy for having had questions in the first place everyone has questions it's it's it's hard
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but that doesn't mean it's not worth it um and then my last thing is be in a community once you've
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gotten past the initial hump of like okay i want to try and pursue this then you need to be in a community
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jacob and i have been learning this over and over i've talked about this on my channel
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now um a couple of times that we were in a religious community when we lived in omaha and then
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right now we're kind of in a transition period we're not really in a community and our practice
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has really struggled in that time because community is so important having those people around you who
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share your faith and want to bolster you so important um so finding a community and not just
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one of people who don't really like invest their time but people who are actually invested and part
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of a community that's going to make a huge huge difference and religion is something you live out
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in small ways it's not something that's like huge big you know all the time you're seeing it every
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day in in these big miraculous ways it's just everything that you do you see god and everything
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you do in a small way so that is my question that is my answer to your question um let's see if anyone
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said anything here in the comments i just want to make sure um yeah i i think i think a lot of us
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understand this feeling about kind of having struggling with faith i mean i can see that you
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know it's it's something that we all struggle with and it's also something we all feel strength from
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you know it's it's a mixture it's an interesting thing is i feel so blessed to have god i mean
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when the worst things in my life have happened i've turned to god uh and i felt so comforted by that
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but it also it's it's hard and that doesn't that doesn't mean it's easy so that that is
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question number one so let's move on to the next question okay that was frustrating thank you guys
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for sticking it out so here's what happened i'll give you a little update i i'm gonna move this mic
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away from me now because that was frightening i um just unplugged the mic from here and from like the
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mic itself uh and the sound just disappeared and then i tried replugging it didn't work tried unplugging
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it using the computer microphone didn't work so that wasn't great so when this video does go up after
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after after i do the live stream i'm gonna have to edit these two pieces together but that's what
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happened uh but i'm back ah sorry about that i'm so glad you guys hopped over and were able to come
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over and see what we were doing so we answered question number one um and that was great i'm so
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i'm so happy so many of you guys are still able to come over and see what we're doing because some
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people might be caught in between not sure what's going on but we did it before we get into the next
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question i wanted to quickly mention that i uh i recently redid my nails and i really like the color
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um and i just think it's very like pretty and natural so i just wanted to show it i don't know
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i feel really it's like a little bit more than just a light pink but i like the color a lot so let me
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know what you guys think okay so let's move on to the next question um the question is i love movies
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especially marvel superhero movies if you could be any superhero or have any superpower who or what
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would you choose so i love that question um i you know jacob and i don't love superhero movies anymore
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i i used to really like them of course i love the original superman like with christopher reed that's
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a great movie um and i used to enjoy them but then they became like the only movies that come out in
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theaters so then i i didn't enjoy it as much but that doesn't mean i don't like superhero movies it
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just means it's kind of like what what would you call it over saturation i would say but if i had to
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choose a superpower i was talking to jacob about this i would choose healing um and and the reason
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for that is all of the other superpowers are things that would be like fun and maybe even useful but
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when somebody is sick or you're sick that's the time that you wish for a miracle more than any other
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time so if i could heal people then or heal myself both of those things not just healing me i would
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want it to be healing other people um then i feel like i would i would be so grateful for that because
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that's like the most stressed you're ever that you ever are and and the time that you you wish that
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you had a superpower more than anything so that's that's what i i wish is that i had a superpower that i
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could heal people because uh gosh it's just the worst uh to be sick and to see other people be sick
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um so that's my thing but if i was gonna do one that's a little bit more like fun um but also so
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useful i would do teleportation i talked to jake about this all the time too which is like if we
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could teleport we could live wherever we wanted and we could teleport wherever we needed to go like
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every day for work and it would take a second how crazy is that that's like amazing is that like
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you could just live in paris and commute to new york you you would never have to turn down a job
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based on location you would never have to like move away from family you could live with your family
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live near your family and go to work across the world that would be so cool i i really i think
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about that a lot like i wait for a time in history where that becomes a thing where you're where this
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i just what if in the future that becomes a thing we just can teleport ah that'd be amazing everything
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be so close okay so those are my two those are my two ideas okay um next up so this was actually a
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content pitch idea which is um i'm a christian and i find any information about jewish holidays
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fascinating i would love for you to do a video about the holidays like which ones are considered
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more important which ones you like the most and why and just more details in general about the meaning
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behind the more religious holidays so at some point i might do this into a video but i figured
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i would touch on it right now um so one of the there are a lot of jewish holidays um and a few that
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you probably have never even heard of which makes it difficult when you need to take off a day for work
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or for school uh so that you can keep the jewish holiday that makes things tricky because people are
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like i've never even heard of shavuot um but it's a real thing so the holidays that are the most
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important uh are called the shalosh regalim which are like the three holidays where we used to go up
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to the temple and so this is outside of yom kippur which is the biggest fast of the year and it's super
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important but the shalosh regalim are sukkot shavuot and is it rosh hashanah
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okay now i can't remember the third one i think it's rosh hashanah um and those are like the most
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important my favorite jewish holiday is sukkot i love sukkot so nice oh it's pesach
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sorry that was obvious uh passover so passover sukkot and festival of booths and shavuot which is
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i believe pentecost in english so oh those are the three big jewish holidays but my favorite jewish holiday
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is sukkot we also have a few jewish holidays that are not as important but are still really fun so
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hanukkah hanukkah is not a hugely important jewish holiday but it is a super fun jewish holiday and
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it's right around uh the holidays for christians so that's also nice is that we get to celebrate
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our own holiday while you guys are celebrating christmas and of course as you guys know i love
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christmas cheer so i love when everyone is happy and celebrating their faith i think that's awesome
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um yeah i think that that's kind of a short version to that question short answer so the next question
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is what fashion outfits fashion outfit advice or tips you can give someone who is very active i paddle
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paddleboard and boulder around the world so i travel a lot too my closet is mostly just just athletic
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wear super comfortable great for both working out and sitting on a plane or running through an airport
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but i do feel schlubby sometimes even though what i wear is definitely a reflection of my style
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any suggestions on how to throw in a piece of something modest feminine but still keep everything
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comfy so i think there's something i i want to quickly say i i'm not somebody who generally
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considers athletic wear fashion i consider it more um practical uh but that's not to say that if that's
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your style you can't make it work and make it your fashion i mean it's just that for me i tend to think
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of athletic wear as athletic wear and it's like in its own category but if i want to like be fashionable
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i put on something else so keeping that in mind and where i'm at uh what i would say is for traveling
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finding a comfortable cardigan like this one uh that's like long especially if you're planning on
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wearing leggings because you guys know where i stand on modesty and leggings uh you want to wear
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something that covers your bottom wearing a long like comfy sweater uh and cardigan that maybe has a
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belt that's a very beautiful feminine addition to your clothing especially because planes get cold
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and i think it's always nice to have something warm and cozy on a plane but it also adds just
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a little bit something extra than like a sweatshirt i feel like a sweatshirt can look like you said a
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little schlubby so having like a nice cardigan is always nice a loose blazer can always look great
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something that's fitted looks great too you can throw that on top of anything but if you wanted to get
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something that's like a little bit less structured that'll still look really very classic and beautiful
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um what else i mean i'm somebody who tends to think that dresses are really comfortable so if you find
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the right kind of dress then you can kind of incorporate that into your wardrobe now are you
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going to wear that when you're when you're paddle boarding no are you gonna wear that when you're
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being very very active probably not uh but just going out and about in your life i think that
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wearing a a comfortable dress is a nice is a nice thing to have in your closet you can get the i mean
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anything that's like a stretchy cotton is gonna be like a comfortable dress and you can usually find
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stuff that has like a cute drawstring waist or just bring some definition to your body that that defines
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the the the prettiest parts of you and accentuates the prettiest parts of you so i i would recommend
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that and um i'm trying to think what else i mean i assume if you're more athletic you prefer to wear
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pants so finding feminine tops i feel like that's really the thing is that if you can if you're wearing
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a lot of pants because you're athletic find tops that have like really feminine details and classic
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details so like i don't know a little a little cap sleeve or some lace things that accentuate
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your femininity and make you feel womanly and classic those are going to just add a little bit
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of something to your outfits that doesn't actually make you less comfortable like you can still live
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live your life again most of this is not going to be super appropriate if you're going out and you're
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doing something like physically active but at that moment i don't think that you care that much about
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staying classic we're talking about like your general wardrobe if you're going to be out and about doing
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something super physical yeah just wear physical clothing like it's okay okay let's see and what else
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um yeah people are asking about the best places to buy long dresses and stuff like that
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i'd definitely say i mean i've found some great things thrifting number one great place number two
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um amazon sometimes has some awesome things target is like way into the prairie dresses lately so
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everything is really really comfortable with them and is and is modest which i love and um i'm trying
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to think of where else i shop i mean i'm very flexible i tend to look my mom and i were talking about
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this in my last q a we tend to look at all different stores and just see what we come up with because
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we have like certain restrictions that we prefer to dress by so tj maxx as you guys know i shop a lot
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at tj maxx tj maxx has things that would never work for me and that would not be modest at all and then
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they have other things that are great and i would totally wear so that's that's where uh i would
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recommend if you're like looking for specific stores i gave you a few that i shop at because
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i prefer to buy things that are slightly more affordable but oh my gosh there are some i just
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need to mention there are some brands on instagram that are like a little bit out of my price range but
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are so modest and so beautiful and i wish i could own dresses like that because they're so feminine
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trying to think i think one's called ivy and co or ivy is city and co i'm not sure which one and they
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do like matching dresses with mothers and daughters oh so cute and they're like beautiful and then
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there's um i know rachel parcel designs a lot of dresses that are like very beautiful long enough
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feminine uh that kind of thing so someone was asking about the scoop i do want to briefly mention
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that so the scoop i stopped doing because i use my vlogs as a way to talk to you guys um i also am
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of you guys who are here and have been here since the beginning so yes um okay so let's see how many
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more questions do we have oh we've got a few more so i'm gonna only answer maybe two more okay so number
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two let's start with this one do you think it is possible to be too familiar with your spouse i have
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a close friend who her and her husband literally have no decorum between them not even in basic
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manners or hygiene i do think it's possible to be too familiar with your spouse so the thing that you
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have to keep in mind i'm just going to be blunt is that this is somebody who you love and you're
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comfortable with but also who you want to stay attracted to you and i think that we take this for
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granted in today's day and age where we act as though you know my they should be attracted to
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me no matter what we made a giant commitment of course you made a commitment and of course you're
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going to stay together but the kindness of going out of your way to stay attractive for your partner
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since they are not going to stray is a very important one so it's a very important kindness to
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try your best to maintain hygiene and try to maintain you know your looks and maintain certain
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boundaries i mean in orthodox judaism there are certain rules that are actually part of this which
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is maintaining a little bit of separation not separation in emotion in an emotional way but but
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keeping keeping up those boundaries of like decorum and hygiene so that you guys actually stay i don't
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know respectful of each other um so you know not using the bathroom in front of each other i think
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that's a good rule you know i know some people are flexible on that i i tend to not be i think that
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it's important not to be using the restroom in front of each other generally i think that's a good rule
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um i put in an effort to you know shave and and take care of myself and exercise and jacob exercises so
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that the two of us look good for each other um sorry there's a fly in here i mentioned that in the
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last live stream i think uh so that's we're dealing with that right now but and i think that that's really
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just an important oh sorry right in my eye uh concept to to encourage is that you want to be open and
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honest with each other always but you love each other enough that you want to stay stay attractive
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for one another and that means treating each other sort of like you're still dating sometimes that's
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a good thing um so that's that's what i'm what i'm thinking and that's what i think someone said
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they're so bad at boundaries closing the bathroom door might be a good place to start yeah i think
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that's a good place to start and it's pretty easy you just kind of like shut the door before you go in
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um and of course you can always rebuild those boundaries which is actually really nice i know
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people might think that like oh once you've done that you can't take a step back but you absolutely
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can i mean think about it if you if you use the restroom in front of your husband about a lot
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then all of a sudden you stop i mean that's that's a good thing it does it it's not like you've broken
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that boundary now you can actually reinstate it and that's okay um so let's move on to the very last
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question which is why do people suddenly turn cold in friendships with no explanation when nothing went
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sour in the relationship nor was there an argument or a disagreement i came across this question and
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i was really excited to answer it and it is a hundred percent because of my husband that i know
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the answer to this question so i didn't used to be a good friend and i will explain that what i mean is
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i didn't use to pursue a problem with a friend of mine if if something came up so if my friend offended
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me or something like that i wouldn't reach out to them i wouldn't say to them you know this upset me
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i would just let it fester privately and not really mention it i might pull away and the friendship would
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fizzle out and i thought to myself that's normal people don't people don't talk to each other about
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this kind of stuff conflict gross and i would i would allow myself to distance myself from friends
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and lose friends because i was afraid of conflict and when i met jacob he said to me you know the
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it's actually real friendship to um it's real friendship when you can have conflict with that
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person when you reach out to them and you tell them that something they did upset you or bothered you
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and they may not even know it and they don't know that they have to apologize to you because
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they don't even know and i thought to myself oh my god this is really like that's okay i just didn't
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even know that that was allowed and i think that's what happens often people offend each other without
00:33:40.000
even knowing and if they knew they would never ever do that or they would immediately apologize
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but the other person is so awkward and so nervous about like getting into a conflict that they don't
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reach out and say you upset me and if they did that relationship would 100 stay intact but if they
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don't that relationship gets cold and it sours and people lose touch that's why that happens is that
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something happened that you didn't know offended the other person or vice versa and then nobody followed
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up because nobody wanted to get into that conflict that is the worst possible scenario for friendships
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and those are the friendships that fall apart the friendships that stay together and you stay close
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with that person are the friendships where when something frustrating or upsetting has happened
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you reach out and you say it and there might be an initial frustration and conflict but after that
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initial frustration and conflict the friendship is stronger so that's why that happens now you know
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if you don't if this is happening to you right now maybe reach out to that friend and say
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do you know why this is going on did i do something that upset you
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and i i don't even know that i did it and you might find out that that you did so maybe that friendship
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is still is still in a space where you guys can can mend fences but it is it is difficult when you don't
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even know why because you're the one who's out of the loop so that's what i would say um let's see what
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some of you guys have to say and then i'm gonna we're gonna sign off so let's let's see
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um well i mean someone was saying that they put up walls and friendships when
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they find something out about someone that makes you lose respect no longer inside of their company
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well that's different right i mean there are situations where somebody does something very
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obvious and you're like okay i don't want to be friends with you anymore and you just let the
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friendship you ghost to the friendship in a way i mean that that's another situation but but often
00:35:52.320
it's it's the first scenario and in that situation if somebody's doing something wrong i mean you
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should tell them maybe they don't know that they're doing something wrong and you could help maybe they
00:36:04.480
would grow uh but also protecting yourself is not a bad thing if you are not in a scenario where you
00:36:10.640
can if you're not in a situation where you can handle that protecting yourself is not a bad thing it's
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okay to say okay i need a little bit of distance from this person let's see um i think that's it
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but you guys have some great comments i really appreciate you tuning in tonight so this was a lot
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of fun and i'm sorry about the uh the mic situation in the last segment of the last live stream but thank
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