March 10, 2025

Bonus Segment With Lauren Harkins

Bonus Segment With Lauren Harkins

We ran out of time on the regular podcast, so we're putting this out if you'd like a little more of our conversation with Lauren Harkins @itslaurenciaga

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We ran out of time on the regular podcast, so we're putting this out if you'd like a little more of our conversation with Lauren Harkins @itslaurenciaga

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let's make sure that we get Lauren a plug. Sorry

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that came out wrong. You are you are big on

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social media, so let's make sure we get your handle

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out there.

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How can people find you, Lauren?

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Oh?

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Thank you?

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So my handle on Instagram is it's Lorenciaga I T

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S l A. You are in c I A G

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A and that's probably my most used platform, so it's

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probably the best place to find me.

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How you found you? So aarn Harkins on Instagram? Actually

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born I just followed you, so thanks. Dude is making

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a social official.

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If anyone is ever curious the power, Yeah, if anyone

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is ever curious the power of Trey's three pound Chua

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with Daisy to.

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Lure a woman.

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I mean, it's it's on full display right now, because

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five minutes ago, Raj thought he had a shot. Then

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Tray pulled out Daisy, and in that five minutes, Lauren's

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now referring to Raj is dude.

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Now it's a terrible habit, dude, homie bro I know

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I do it.

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Anything you can find, I can find it.

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Now, Lauren, you said you have wins wins, you haves

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as well, I do.

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I have two little hairless, hairless cats running.

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I know.

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I'm gonna make sure I hear this. I'm gonna make

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sure I get this correct.

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So, Lauren, you're a thirty four year old version and

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you have two hairless cats. Yes, sir, realize what that

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sounds like, said out loud, right.

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I do you know, I surprise people.

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I just want to make sure I'm just That's one

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of the things I was curious about is how self

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aware are you. I know you're aware of your age

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and your name and your V card status. I'm just

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wondering how self aware you are, and seems to be

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quite a bit.

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So. Yeah, just really leaning into those crazy cat lady

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stereotyped you know.

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Yeah, but you took it to a new level with

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two cats, and you took it to an additional level

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with them being hairless.

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Oh they're so cute though, You just haven't you just

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haven't met them yet.

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They're so cy Can we see them? You can rog

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you just and you're asking her to see her.

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All right, let me.

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Time, please escape just I'm so glad she's in Maine

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and you too. Calm down. I no, I got I

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didn't realize you're talking about snatching Mexicans to three outside

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right now?

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There?

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Oh that's like job. Who are the episode of Friends?

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Rachel gets all right, honey, he hates being held. I know,

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I know. Yeah, these are my boys. I'm a boy.

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Okay, okay, yeah, she's a boy.

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Mom.

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I would like to point out that this is the

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point in which the interview went completely off the rails.

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Oh yeah, okay, that's we actually we we we roll

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with that quite nicely.

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It's kind of on brand for you guys. I feel like, yeah, I.

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Believe you know what's you know, it's very well already

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so as a social media into tea, as as someone

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I don't necessarily call you an influencer. That that's you're

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just you put yourself out there and you you tell

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your story. With that public display comes a lot of comments.

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And I have said for many years the comment section

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is where humanity goes to die.

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Yeah, I can't even fathom.

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What your comment section must look like being a strong

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female who honestly, I could stop right there just saying

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you're a strong female. That would you know, light up

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your comment section enough, but then adding on to it,

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you're a virgin and you're happy about it, and you

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freely say it's partly because you have such high standards

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and people love to tear that kind of stuff down.

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So what's it like in your comment section, Lauren?

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It's actually not as bad as you would think. I

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think when I first started, you know, posting, there was

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kind of a mixture. I feel like it was maybe

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more negative than it is now. But I honestly feel

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like at this point like it's actually like I almost

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want to say, like eighty percent positive and it's It's

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also kind of interesting the is.

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That because you recently posted a video of you at

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the gun range.

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I do love the gun range.

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When you're doing the promo for the ad earlier, I

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was like, yes, yeah, I mean that's like another thing too,

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is that I like to be kind of open about,

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you know, everything that I support and you know, my

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lifestyle and everything like that. So as opposed to like

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trying to cater to what you think people want.

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I think it's also important to.

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You know, be true to yourself and you know, be

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honest and not kind of like worry about that because

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that's how you attract, you know, people that are actually

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for you. But you know, my comments are actually pretty nice,

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and it's it's interesting, like the.

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Duality between the negative.

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When I do get negative comments, I feel like it's

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the men versus the women. Comments are actually really interesting

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because usually if it's like a guy leaving a negative comment,

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I feel like the guys are so much easier to

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win over, like because I do try to respond to

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most of my comments, and I feel like with guys,

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if you just kind of like play around with them

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a little bit and kind of give it back to them,

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but maybe not in like a super combative way, they're

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usually like, oh, Flora, didn't you know like that? It's

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the girls that really double down. I feel like when

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it comes to like the negative comments, the girls are

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a lot harder I feel like on me, but I

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mean that's usually like the super like modern feminists girls.

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I think that sounds pretty accurate. Is that just give

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a guy a little bit of attention and he'll.

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Back right down.

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Yeah, oh totally.

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Yeah, No, it's actually it's actually quite strange, Like I

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feel like there's it's happened multiple times where like there's

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a like a guy who's who's really like coming for

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me in the comments, and then in responding to him,

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then he'll like come in the DMS and and and

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just you know try to like weave his way in.

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So it's just very interesting, like you know what kind

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of happens there with.

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I I kind of equate that to obviously childish behavior,

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but more specifically like when we were little and we

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liked a girl, we throw.

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A rock at her kind of a thing.

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Yes, yes, that's.

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The kid version. At the adult version is to slam

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a woman either online.

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Or to her face or something, thinking that's going to

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be the thing that you know, breaks the ice along

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with her head. And you're experiencing that, you've you've you've

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now experienced the adult version of the rock being thrown

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at you.

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Yeah, that's so funny. I was thinking of that too. Yeah,

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I'm like that kind of does feel that way, you know.

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So meanwhile, Trey's version of throwing the rock at the

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pretty girl is is picking up and holding his three

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pound Twales.

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Statue, and Laura just one other things. At Roj hates guns.

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Really, Oh I do love I do love guns.

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Yes, I love them.

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He hates them.

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I guess super adorable when Trey and Daisy roll up

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to Defender Outdoors. Oh God, so the virgin thing you've

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you've got, the high standards, you've said, you know that

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you want someone that's you know, got some money and

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got some who's established kind of a thing. And if

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I remember the original story, uh, it involved you kind

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of comparing any guy that you might have any interest

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in to your dad because he is, he's established, and

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he's sort of and this is not a brand new thing.

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A lot of a lot of women will hold any

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guy that they have any interest in and compare it

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to dad. Is that is that too tall of an

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order for most men to hold up to.

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Well, I wouldn't say it's entirely accurate. I mean I

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think I think that's kind of the natural assumption to make.

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Is that you know, especially when you read that article

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and kind of like all the words strung together, that

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I would want someone like my dad. I love my

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dad is amazing, love my dad had the best dad

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growing up, amazing sixteen years with him. But in my mind,

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I don't know that the kind of like.

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Idea.

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I kind of like to keep the two separate in

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my mind, like when someone talks about wanting someone like

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their dad, like, yeah, my dad was amazing. I would

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love a great guy like my dad, But I don't

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like to think of like I'm looking for my dad.

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It's kind of weird, you know. So I actually don't

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think that's entirely accurate.

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I think that's just kind of more a conclusion that

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people draw when they hear that, oh my dad did

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when I was sixteen, and you know, I I'm like,

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I have high standards and stuff like that. Yeah, I mean,

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my dad's amazing. But what I want something exactly like

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my dad. I just can't quite like fit those two

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things in my mind. Is just it's just like kind

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of weird. So yeah, so no, I'm not looking for

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someone in that sense like my dad. But yeah no,

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I mean standards are important to me. I feel like

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it's just like it's also not really something that we

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can entirely help. I mean, it's like what you're attracted to,

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and I don't experience attraction frequently, and so picture someone

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like Aaron Rodgers. Like that's like my ideal is someone

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like Aaron Rodgers or just or just Aaron Rodgers. Yeah,

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everything that he like stands for, you know, the lifestyle.

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He's very articulate, very spiritual to him.

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So and the ayahuasca.

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Yeah, ayahuasca scares me a little bit, but like maybe

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I could be convinced.

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If it was Aaron Rodgers, you'd do it.

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If Aaron Rodgers showed up and said, hey, come in,

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come into this hot teepee and smoked some stuff, you're

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gonna be like, Okay, maybe.

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I mean, oh, there you have it.

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You may be a thirty four year old virgin, but

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at the end and deep in her heart, she's still

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a cleat chaser.

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No professional athletes will get.

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Him every single time. Lauren, thank you so much for

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taking the time. We appreciate it. Trey, any any last

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love letters you'd like to throw at Lauren Raj I'd

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ask you, but you're done, You're out.

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No, she's not gonna date it brows.

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She's wonderful to cuddle with.

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Ah, are you talking about Lauren or the dog?

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I was gonna say this man.

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All right, Lauren, thank you so much. We appreciate the time.

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Have a wonderful rest of your day, and thanks for

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hanging out with us inside the treehouse.

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Thank you guys so much. This is so fun. Take

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care you're in the treehouse. Listen us online.

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