the taylor swift concert

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Welcome to Episode 12 of to coach Bennett's
talking the Taylor Swiftconcert. That's right. Today,
we're going to be talking aboutthe July 23. Seattle Washington
Taylor Swift concert. We'll talkabout the parking lot outside
the Taylor Swift concert, aswell as what we saw in and
around Seattle, on an epic nightof music. We'll also talk about

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our petty grievances. What'sfloating our fancies, as always,
we open up the mailbag. And wetalked about so much more. Let's
get started.

Hello, Coach Bennett.

Coach Bennett. How you doing?

Okay, what's new?

So much.
I'm glad that you asked. Youknow, I just got back from
Seattle yesterday. What's newwith you?

I also got back from Seattle yesterday in
the same car as you.

Oh, my goodness. That's right. You were
next to me? What are we doing upin Seattle coach?

We took our girls to a Taylor Swift
concert. But that's what we'regoing to talk about later. So

oh, well, maybe it just wanted to grab
everyone's attention. So theystuck around?

Yeah, the title of this episode, like the
Taylor Swift concert might alsoreel them in.

Hmm. Do you think there's a few people? And
I'm not saying it's a highpercentage. But do you think
there's a few that thought theywere actually going to get to
listen to a Taylor Swiftconcert?

Hmm.
Interesting. I mean, sure. outof 8 billion people. Yeah,
probably.

Well, I don't know if 8 billion people
are listening to our podcast.
I'm saying just the percentageof listeners. Okay, fine. Yes.
Okay. Should we tell them allnow that there's not a Taylor
Swift concert ticket giveaway atthe end as well? Yeah. Okay.
Yeah. So, all right. Well, welost about six people, I'd say.

Yeah. All right. All right. Yeah. Let's
focus on the ones who stayed.

Yeah, that's right. Hey, before we get
into the Taylor Swift concert,why don't we tell everybody,
maybe a few of the highlightsfor the two coach Bennett's
walking around Seattle while ourdaughters were actually in the
concert.

So we're not talking about anything.
concerti. We're just talkingabout what we did.

Yeah, we'll just do that for like two
minutes, and then we'll diveinto some of the Taylor Swift
stuff.

Okay, so I think it's kind of funny,
because I think in a weird way,there aren't that many
highlights, because we gotmediocre dinner, you can tell
your nice bonus part about thatin a minute. Then we went to
Pike Place Market, which we'vebeen to before, and it's fun,
but it was closed. And then wewere on a mission to find ice
cream. And the places that wewanted were closed or not in

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walking distance. Then we wentto another mediocre restaurant
and my hot fudge brownie sundaewas all melted and gross. So I
mean, I guess the highlight waswalking around with you. Which
is fine. But like we could havestayed home and done that. Like
we could have done that aroundour the block. Right. So I don't

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mean to like trash on Seattle.
But it left a little to bedesired outside of the Taylor
Swift concert on this particularvisit.

I mean, some of this makes sense. It
wasn't it was a Sunday night. SoPike Place Market had been shut
down for the day. The Irish Pubwe went to we won't give the
name out. Was Yeah, it was.
Yeah, it was sub mediocre. Iwon't even say it was mediocre.
It was sub mediocre. I mean, Iordered a cup of Irish beef
stew, which I have to look upthe recipe because maybe they

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did it correctly. But there wasno beef in the beef stew. There
were potatoes. There were even afew carrots but there was no
actual beef. So maybe it's kindof a joke. But I didn't know
were on the menu. Did it seemlike this was tongue in cheek
Irish beef stew, no beef.

And there was no like little asterix
beside it. And you look down atthe bottom of the page and it
says buy beef we mean not beef.

Yeah, exactly. There was nothing like
that. I will say though, if thisis kind of like a throwback to
like, like some historical Irishthing. And that's kind of a
joke. That's really kind offunny, but it's not. So it was
just sub mediocre. Yeah, andthen the ice cream thing was
disappointing as well. We didsee the first Starbucks store.

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We didn't go in because it was along line. Wow, this really is
kind of low on highlights

high on low lights. Yeah, that's gonna
be get into the meat and taters.

Okay, well, unless we go back to this pub
and then it's just taters.

Exactly.
Or we could call this meat andTaylor's

Oh, wow, meat less and tailors about
that. It's even better. Allright. Let's go. Rapid fire.
Tell me the first thing you wantto talk about when I say Taylor
Swift concert? July 23 2023?
Seattle, Washington,

the parking lot.

All right.
So I have a follow up question.
What are you talking about? Whatdo you mean parking lot?

So we can do the before and during parts
of the parking lot. I want tostart with during.

Okay, let's do that. So tell me about this
parking lot during the TaylorSwift concert.

Yeah, so we had decided during our
depressing walk around Seattle,that we would go to the parking
lot outside of the stadium wayearly. For one, we had no idea
when the concert would be over.
I mean, we've heard that it'slike she gives it an over three
hour concert. But we didn't knowexactly when she went on, she
had two opening acts. So wealready knew that we wanted to
go early, just so that we wouldmake sure that we are there to

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pick up our daughters. But alsobecause we saw people milling
about earlier. And so and youknow, as we were walking around
Seattle, we saw a couple ofpeople with Taylor Swift shirts
on and like soccer chairs, likeheading towards the stadium, and
I'm like, Oh my gosh, they'regonna park outside, like in the
parking lot and sit there andlisten. So we decided we were
going to do that. But I think wehad no idea. No idea what we

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were in for, and how many 1000sof people would be there and the
level of participation in theconcert that they had, I think
just was astounding. And I don'tknow about you, but it made me a
little bit emotional.

Yeah, we, you know, you got emotional a
number of times that day. Butyeah, so it was one of the times
you got emotional that day. ButI'm with you. I thought we were
going to show up. This isoutside the football stadium. So
where are the Seattle Seahawksplay? So there's two stadiums, a
baseball stadium where themariners play a football
stadium? Where the Seahawksplay? I'm guessing where lumen

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field, which is where theSeahawks play, what is it about?
65 70,000? If I had to guess?

Yeah, I think it's 67,000 for some
reason, but Okay, so

67,000. And so it's probably close to 70,
because you have the entirefield, obviously are fans. So I
was expecting, maybe you'd get acouple 100 At most 1000 people
hanging outside in the parkinglot right next to the stadiums
in downtown Seattle. And when weshowed up, how many people were

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there, if you had to guess.

We were thinking like five to 7000.

Yeah, I would say and it was probably
closer to seven, I would saybecause like by

the end, it was probably more like 5000
like right before the show endedbecause people sort of started
to pack up and go home.

Yes. And it was you're right. It was
intense. Everyone was singing.
Everyone was dancing. Almosteveryone was standing up.
dressed up. Similar to howeveryone in the stadium was. It
was wild. Yes. We hung out therefor what probably the last hour
and a half of the show.

Yeah, almost two hours. Yeah. And just
like people loving each otherhugging each other trading
bracelets, like you said,singing at the top of their
lungs from the bottom of theirguts. Yeah, just huge crowds. So
a lot of them I think had beenin the show the night before, a
lot of them had on the littlelike armbands that you get when
you go into the show, but a lotof them, I was wondering about

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their story, like maybe theyjust couldn't get tickets. So
this is like the best they coulddo, which was still amazing. You
could hear the crowd inside thestadium. So well. You could hear
them singing, which was that Ithink that was the emotional
part for me when you hear 67,000people singing along all the
words to Taylor, it's it'sreally powerful.

Yeah, that was insane. I have to say,
having I'm sure we'll go overthis as we keep talking. And
I'll probably because I getunbelievably repetitive when I'm
excited. Listening to that manypeople singing with that much
passion. It was overwhelming.
And it's always overwhelming atconcerts, but having been to a
lot of concerts. And I'm gonnasay this again and again. I've

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never experienced anything likethis. And we weren't even in the
concert. But to hear the 70,000people every single song for the
close to two hours that we wereoutside. Every single lyric
sounded like it was being sungby every single person inside
the stadium. It was immense.

Yeah, and I think one of my very favorite
parts and I told you this and itmight make me cry right now. It
almost made me cry. Ben wasseeing the raw emotion
vulnerability passion of so manyteenage girls singing in public
Like, the way that I used tosing in my room with the door

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shut and I would have beenmortified to the ends of the
earth. If anybody ever saw melike basically bent over double
belting out the words from allof my being with my eyes closed
and like my fists like,clenched, right like, with such,
what do you call it justpassion. Yeah, these girls were

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just like in the parking lotand, and also inside, based on
what our girls are telling us.
These girls were just out in theopen as raw as they could be
singing their hearts out and itwas oh, it was moving on, like
these girls are such badassesthat they don't give a flying
poop, who's watching them, theyare just so into the song and
into the moment into the messagethat they are just being 100%

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Pure.

Yeah, and I think that was maybe the other
thing in the parking lot. Andinside that you could tell
there, it was really powerful.
And I don't mean like theoverwhelm like what we were
talking about. Initially, thisis a different type of power.
I'm talk about the the actualfans were super powerful, like
they were, it was almostintimidating. Because you could
tell that they all felt thatthey were a part of something,

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they all felt safe with eachother. They felt like this was
like their place. You know whatI mean? Like they didn't have to
apologize for what they weredoing. They didn't have to look
over their shoulder to see ifyou know, someone was looking at
their outfit, because that wasthe other thing I want to get
into in a little bit. Or, likeyou said how they were singing.
And the the what was really coolwas how many of them were

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singing to each other. Like,they were just they were just
groups of a dozen fans staringat each other singing to each
other. It reminded me of themost epic parts of the YouTube
concerts I went to where youknow, you had like, where the
streets have no name, but itseemed like this was where the
streets have no name, everysingle song. Which is

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incredible. You to keep thathigh up for three hours is
amazing. And every new song thatcame on, every one would flip
out.

Yeah, like one note, and they knew what the
song was. And they were likeready to go. Yeah, I think the
favorite word that you just saidthat matched it. So well was
unapologetic, just absolutelyunapologetic in their passion.
Oh my gosh. And it's funny, itreminds me actually, when you
said they were singing to eachother, it reminds me of how you

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liked to end parties in college.
So your favorite thing was to bein charge of the music. And your
favorite thing was to end thenight with everybody kind of in
a circle arms around each otherjust belting out the tunes all
together like a sing along. Andso I think that's probably why
we liked it so much. The Swiftconcert?

Oh, yeah, absolutely. Well, we love people
that are kind of swept away, youknow, that are so passionate
about it, that they're they'rejust this is nothing else exists
except what they're doing atthat moment. Which for two
hours, I felt like that's whatwe were surrounded by. We're
surrounded by a whole bunch ofpeople that were just fully
living this absolute moment. Andmy point is, I'm going to get

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out of the parking lot here fora second. When we initially were
walking around Seattle, whichwas on our way to the parking
lot in the afternoon, we kind ofnoticed these things not in you
know, Showtime hadn't started.
But we were getting the we weresaying a lot of the same things.
As we were just noticing, firstof all, the city was taken over
by the Swifties. And it was allages, all sizes, all walks of

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life, and all eras, becauseeveryone was dressed in a
different way representing Iguess a different era of of her
career. And we noticed thesethings where it was, regardless
of the era that you were in theevery single person owned what
they were wearing 100%. And Ithink they were able to not just

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own it because they feltpowerful. It was also because
everyone was supporting eachother it was my friend Sean
Noonan had mentioned he had goneearlier in New Jersey, at
MetLife Stadium with hisdaughter. And I remember it
stuck out when he said and Ibrought this up with you
probably a dozen times last 48hours that it reminded him of a
dead show. A Grateful Dead showand I was like You gotta be

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kidding me. What's he talkingabout? And now I get it. The
community was so strong, sosupportive of each other, so
protective of each other, thatyou could fully show up as who
you were, and celebrate the wayyou want it to fully accepted.
No questions asked, which wasamazing. Just walking around
Seattle noticing that. And thatwas kind of the vibe. I also

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kind of equated to like amarathon weekend in a city. It's
that much energy and positivity.
It was mind blowing walkingaround Seattle. Five hours
before the show even started.

Yeah, I think that's so true. And I
think this goes back to thatword, unapologetic. So not only
is the crowd totally embracingof each other, but you have to
be so comfortable with yourselfand own yourself and your own
body shape and body size andyour own outfit. In order to
then be accepting of everybodyelse around you. And like you

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said, we saw all walks of life,we saw pre pubescent girls, we
saw all types of body shapes andsizes. And yeah, it was just so
cool to see people that I thinknormally wouldn't maybe try to
hide who they are, or not bethemselves fully in some
situations. Here, their chinswere held high, their chest,

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were out proud of just, theyjust their posture was like,
This is me. And I have zeroapology for it. And it was just
a Yeah, it was just so powerfulto just see in the creativity,
like we can just kind of move onto that, like the creativity and
thought that went into theseoutfits

will explain a little bit about that.
Because I think if you're notsomeone who's been around it, or
has people in your life that aremassive Taylor Swift Fans, you
may not know because I neverwould have known about most of
this stuff, and maybe talk aboutthe creativity that's
encouraged. When you go to aTaylor Swift show. It's not just
about watching the show, likeyou're, you're a part of this
creativity that even surroundsthe show.

Yes, I mean, I think, you know, I've
learned this from our daughtersand the conversations leading up
to the concert. But so manypeople chose the era that they
love the most like the albumfrom that era that they love the
most. And then, so they woulddress similar to the album cover
or similar to how Taylor dressedin the concerts for that album.
Or they would take somethingfrom the lyrics of one of their

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songs from that era. And therewas just so much thought it's
almost like so many insidejokes, like only Swifties would
get it. So like there was evenone kind of shirt that walked
by, you know, so when we werewaiting for our daughters, we
probably had, I don't know, 30or 40,000 people walked by us.
And so, you know, we were reallyseeing a lot of trends and a lot
of like, kind of repeat outfits.
And some of them were likeinside jokes that were not

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Swiftie enough to get ourdaughters knew them right away.
But it just almost like showshow deep your knowledge of
Taylor Swift and the eras goes.
But it was just so thoughtful,so clever. Yeah, it's almost
like when you go to thoseHalloween parades and you're
like, man, people are reallybrilliant for some of the stuff

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that they come up with. That'show I felt looking at a lot of
these with these in theiroutfits.

And talk a little bit about the wristbands.
Now the bracelet bracelets, I'msorry, the bracelets. Yeah, talk
a little bit about thebracelets, because I was blown
away by that.

First, can I just talk about our daughter's
outfits?

Yes, please do. Yeah. So

you know, when you want to talk about
crying, so our daughters, one ofthem, they made their shirts,
they took some jewels, and theyglued it on to shirts, and one
of them glued on a moon and oneof them glued on a Saturn. And
it's from a song titled seven.
And my daughter told me that alot of people think that that
song is about sisters, and soour daughters, and there's a
lyric like love you to the moonand to Saturn, something like

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that. I'm probably butcheringit, but it just it like broke my
heart and the best way for themto choose this lyric from a song
that supposedly about sisters.
Oh, my gosh, stop. Give me thetissues.

You didn't tell me that until we had safely
dropped them off at the stadium.
And we were we were waiting foryour really, really disgusting
brownie sundae. And that's whenyou told me I was just like, oh
my goodness, thank goodness, youdid not tell me this earlier. As
we were like dropping them off.

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Because that that would havebeen I would have been a mess.

Yeah. But so similar to that was the the
bracelets that Swifties makeleading up to the show. So they
pick song titles or albumtitles, or they pick lyrics from
songs that people reallyresonate with. And so then the
deal is, is you bring all ofthese bracelets that you make,
they're all beaded bracelets, alot of those letter beads. So

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many in fact that craft storesaround the country were sold out
when tailors with concerts werecoming to their area, they sold
out of letter beads. Butanyways, so then you you bring
them and then you trade them. Sowhile you're in the merch line
or while you're getting to yourseat or you trade them with
people in your section, andthere's just so so I don't know,
camaraderie about it that, youknow, I don't know there's

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something so cool about that,that you go there with the
intention of making friends andsharing what songs you love and
sharing cute bracelets andcoming away with a new stack. So
our girls had one arm full ofthe bracelets that they made.
And their goal was to come backwith the other arm full of
bracelets that they were given.
And so to just trade Don't knowtrade pieces of what's important

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to you and get it back is justso cool. So cool

and extended outside of the concert
too, because we're on our way tothe field. The police that were
acting as the crossing guardshad bracelets on the concert
goers were giving them. So as wewere, like waving by, you know,
they were like waving their armsand you saw that the cops had
like six or seven bracelets,Taylor Swift bracelets with

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different song lyrics or songtitles on their arms as they
were going by which was justhilarious.

Yeah, I saw stories of when of security
guards that were working theevents working, the concerts
would end up with bracelets,too.

Yeah, I'm wearing four of them right now.
So there we go.

Yeah, it was really cute. When our
daughters and us got back to thehotel room. They offered to give
us one or two of their braceletsthat they had gotten as a thank
you for us making a trip andtaking them there. It was really
cute.

Yes, super awesome. I gotta ask you this.
Just it just rapid fire. Okay,since we're talking about Taylor
Swift, we didn't get to go toit. We were both very jealous.
Okay. i I have no doubt that ifI had been inside the stadium, I
would have had to have said thatwas probably the greatest
concert I'd ever been to. Fromafar. You could see that it was

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like the pageantry of like aMadonna show. It was it had the
like, Bruce Springsteen typefan. Catalog stuff you had
deadhead support. It was songafter song Three. I think they
did. She did what? 4546 songs.
So it's like a Pearl Jam showsunbelievable. And the singing
would have swept me away. So Iwould say it would probably if I

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had been in I probably would besitting right now. This Taylor
Swift was the best concert I'veever been to having not gone.
I'd have to have another show.
What's the best show you've everbeen to?

I think Tom Petty lots of good
heartbreakers even though he'snot my favorite artists by any
means. There was something aboutthe pageantry of the show. And
like you said, yeah, justsomething about the show
something about the atmosphere?
The I don't know. It just allcame together.

That's about to say it all came
together. That's great. That's agood answer. What about you? You
two, back in 2000 to 2000 to2001, I guess no would have been
2001 would have been followed2001. So thing was about six or
eight weeks after 911. I got tosee you two in Oakland. So it

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was super powerful. And thesinging along all of that stuff.
The crowd just felt like it wasone, which is why I was I was
getting that vibe from TaylorSwift that it seemed like
everyone was in it together. AndI told you when we were sitting
outside, I remember walking outof the YouTube concert. And I
thought the same thing lookingat the parking lot. So many

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people wish going to church orreligion was a lot like this,
like that joy, and that support.
You know, and that that freedomto be who you are like that was
it? Was that rapturous? And thattoo. So to me, it was you too,
which again, I've been to a lotof great concerts since it's
over 20 years ago. I probablywould have said, if we had snuck
in. I might be saying somethingdifferent today. Yeah. Amazing.

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All right. Well, if you havechance to go see your overseas I
think she only has a couple morein the continental US. We highly
recommend you go we're justhanging out in the parking lot
outside. It's a great show.

Yeah, bring it let's bring it down.
Petty grievance. What you gotpetty grievances.

Well, being in a city I didn't see it too
much. I saw the opposite. Whilewe're in Seattle, there are a
lot of cars going by there werehonking the concert goers. There
were a lot of people on bikesthat were blasting Taylor Swift
from their bikes. I thought thisis so awesome. So I immediately
thought of what the opposite is,which is people driving by and
doing kind of drive by insults.
So my petty grievance are peoplewho are cruising by 5060 miles

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an hour. They don't have tointroduce themselves to anybody.
They don't have to stand thereand deal with any kind of retort
they just drive by and yellnasty crap. That's my petty
grievance. So if you're thinkingof driving by and yelling,
something obnoxious to somebody,Don't be a douche canoe. And I
will tag you Tammy, I've neverheard that before. So thank you

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for giving me that. That's mypetty grievance, just drive by
and be kind because it trulymade walking around the city so
much more fun because you wouldsee a car kind of slow down and
you knew they were going to yellsomething nice. Or give a honk
or a wave or a thumbs up toeverybody. That's what a better
way to walk around thinkingeveryone who's driving by is
going to be Be Cool Cat. Okay, Ilike it. Yeah. How about you?

So my petty grievance is one that I
thought of while we wererecording the podcast, I think
two episodes ago. I rememberthat and I'm like, Oh, I thought
of a petty grievance, but then Ididn't say it last time. And I
feel really bad for all thelisteners that may be just
hanging out waiting for me togive the petty grievance that I
thought of two times ago. So areyou ready?

I'm ready.
And I bet at age like fine wine.
So what is your petty grievance?

Yeah, it's really petty, really, really
petty. But hey, that's why wenamed it this. So it's when I am
sharing popcorn with someone,and they put their hands in and
they rifle around a rifle aroundand rifle around a rifle around
and move the pieces over. Andfinally, grab a piece or a

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handful to put into their mouth.
It takes so long and I thinkit's like, I think it all
relates to scarcity from havingfive younger brothers and
sisters. And anytime there waslike, good food brought in the
house, it was gone withinminutes. So much so that like my
brothers would have to like,lick, like all the Pop Tarts in
the container so that nobodyelse would eat them, and then

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tell people like I licked themall. So you'd have to clean your
food. And I think it's somethinglike that. So like, I want the
popcorn and I'm scared that ifyou take too long, you're going
to take too much of it. There'sgoing to be none left for me.
I'm not I'm not saying youalways because I share popcorn
with other people. But so yeah,it's just the like, or if we're
sharing like a drink. And you gofor it at the same time. I do

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and then you take too long. Ijust get this like anxiety
feeling a little bit. But yeah,it's mostly with the popcorn.
Just get your peace and go getout of there. Don't rifle around
for so long.

Okay, can I just ask a couple of follow up
questions? Sure. Okay. You'renot talking about me?

I answered that already. I said not
specifically. You It's but everI happen to be sharing popcorn
where they all do it. Oh, thatpeople do it yet. But

but just for the record here when I make
you popcorn. Because 98 out of100 times. I'm making you the
popcorn with the butter and thesalt by the way. Such great
proportions of it, too. Yes, Ido it and I do it. In a very
specific way. It takes time. ButI hand you the bowl. I don't go

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near the bowl again until it'sdone. Because

you're smart. I'm talking about movies,
though. That's when we sharepopcorn. I will say when I'm
getting Ganic

massive thing of popcorn you're taking
area, but I'm not but okay,fine. Maybe around. Yeah, no,
no, no, no. My petty concernhere is is I don't mix around. I
don't write fill around. I graba fistful and I put it in there.
And by the way, thank you verymuch, Chris. I'm the one who has
to hold on to the bucket most ofthe time and give everyone their

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popcorn. So if I'm riflingaround, it's because I'm rifling
around filling up a bunch oflittle plants that

Stuffins totally different. Yeah, well,
I'm not. But I will also saythat when you give me my
delicious popcorn that you maketo perfect proportions at home,
one of our daughters likes tocome up and have some and she
knows to be afraid. She's verytrepidatious is that a word? As
she like tiptoes up to ask ifshe can have some I wonder why.

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So then what the solve that hasbeen fantastic is at the movie
theater and at home, we getother little bowls, and we divvy
it out so then I don't have towait for someone's hand to be in
the communal popcorn. We justdivvy it out and then I can have
my bowl portion to myself. Okay,and this is all based on like

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childhood trauma of beingscarcity of food. So let's, it's
petty, but it also goes deeperthan that.

All right, so this is I'm gonna back away
slowly now. Okay, that's fine.
So it's okay guys. It's okay.
Good. All right. I'll make yousome popcorn tonight.

Okay, and then back away,

and back away. All right. What's next
because I got the order wrongwhen we were just about to
start. So what's next? mailbag?
mailbag? Okay, so this is anartificial mailbag, because I
imagine most people are going toask this question, so I'm asking
for you. I'm gonna pretend I'mrifling through the mailbag.
Okay. What is your favoriteTaylor Swift song? Great

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question. Tammy. Coach Bennett.
What's your favorite TaylorSwift song?

Um, I think right now it is you need
to calm down on the lover album.
I love the lyrics. I love themelody. I'm just really loving
it right now. I go throughphases right now I'm kind of
liking the lover album a lot.
And this particular song I'mhaving a lot of fun with.
Alright, so what is yourfavorite Taylor Swift song?

My favorite Taylor Swift song is out of the
woods. Huh? Which is from 1989.
And I can embarrassingly andquickly tell you my story. I
first heard 1989 When I waslistening to Ryan Adams, and it
was a new album by him I waslistening to it. And I thought

(30:00):
to myself, and he's known asbeing a very good songwriter. I
love this. These are the bestlyrics he's ever written. song
after song for songs. This isThis is amazing. And then there
was one line where I thought,I've heard that line before. So
I really quickly looked up thealbum, and I saw those review on
Rolling Stone. And none of themwere here's his lyrics, he had

(30:23):
literally just covered theentire album 1989 So I was
listening to Taylor Swiftlyrics, I thought, I never would
have thought Taylor Swift wrotelike this, because I never
listened to Taylor Swift. Sothen that led me to actually
listening to her album and beingblown away. And her version of
out of the woods is even betterthan the one that I thought was

(30:45):
mind blowing to begin with. Soout of the woods, Taylor Swift
1989. Sadly, she's not doing iton this tour. And I think it
would be an epic stadium,perfect song for the tour. So if
Taylor, if you're listening, myadvice would be add a 47 song,
put it out of the woods.

And that would just be one of her secret
songs. Yeah, if it hasn't beenalready, I feel did I did we ask
our girls?

They said it hasn't been? Wow. Yeah, I
think it's the secret songs arekind of supposed to be more
secondary beside, not all ofthem. That's what I thought.
Well,

well, before we move on from mailbag,
I just want to say that we havenot checked it in quite a little
bit of time, maybe two weeks,maybe three weeks. So if you
have sent in mail, we are supergrateful for it. We just haven't
picked it up yet. We will do sothis week. And we will get back
on to answering your questions.
So keep them coming. You willfind the address in the show

(31:51):
notes. And yeah, send us thequestions and we will make sure
that we answer them. Sorry foryou being a little bit behind on
that.

And I think maybe in one of the next couple
of episodes, maybe we'll have amailbag heavy episode. I like
it. Yeah. Okay. Perfect. Hey,guess what's next coach?
Floating my fancy. So what'sfloating your fancy?

What's floating my fancy right now is
I'm in this quilt phase. Italked about a quilt store last
time, but I just have to talk toyou about Wendy Chow. So she is
a quilt designer and I just andloving her two books right now.
In her Instagram, I like herstyle. So yeah, Wendy Chow, who

(32:38):
is an urban modern quilter.

Urban modern quilter. I didn't I don't
even know what that is. That's,that's fantastic. And you're
gonna have a link to Wendy Chao?

Of course I am.

You're the best. Do you know that?

What do you what's floating your fancy?

Well, I'll tell you what's floating my
fancy since there have been acouple of drives up to Seattle
for me in the last few days. Iwas listening to some podcasts.
And one of my favoritehistorians is a guy by the name
of Jon Meacham. And he's got aseries of different podcasts.
And I'm loving all of them. Sohe has a few one is called hope

(33:18):
through history. He has anotherone called Reflections of
history. And then he has anotherone called, it was said, All of
these are fantastic. We'll havelinks to most of them, but it
was said is about some greatspeeches, reflections of history
are about reflections of certainpivotal moments in history, and

(33:41):
then hope through history, whichis a great one is about
different parts of history,where hope, either was
essential, was needed, or wasthe key out of some dark times.
So Jon Meacham, this podcast, ifyou're a history buff, you
should listen to it. And ifyou're not a history buff, you

(34:01):
have an even better reason tostart listening to it because
you should know your history.

And I just want to say there is a reason
why you listen to this in thecar when I'm not there. Because
gross.

All right, we don't we don't need that we
had it was I think the lastthing I spoke about was hope.
And then you have to go in thereand say gross. Did I comment on
the last two weeks if youbringing up quilting? You can
did not know because I don'tthink it's gross? Just because I
don't understand it. It's Idon't think it's gross. And I'm
just throwing you under the busright now. So for all of you

(34:35):
quilters I respect you, for allof you historians, I apologize
for not

saying historian or history lovers or
gross I'm just saying thatsounds like a terrible ride for
me personally, but I'm glad thatyou like it. And I'm glad that
historians love it.

It's not.
Not Not it's not justhistorians. It's great stories.
Told To buy great storytellers.
That's basically what all ofthis is. So if I told you I
found a podcast that tells thegreatest stories, which by the
way, the greatest stories aretrue, and they come from our
history, and they're told by agreat storyteller, you'd be

(35:13):
like, This sounds amazing. Likemaybe Pepsi Challenge. Yeah, I
bet Oh, listen to this. If thatwas amazing, I'm like, Yeah,
that's called history.

I bet I'll know. I bet I'll know. And I'll
be like, Oh, what's this? Andthey'll be like, dang it. This
test failed. Ah,

I know my petty grievances next week.

History haters.

Yeah. All right. So

let's talk about what do we have going on
for the week ahead. Since yousaid next week, on deck, what's
on tap?

What's on deck? what's on tap? Well, I've
got another coach than itsPodcast coming out on Thursday.
And I've got a ton of writingcoming up people. So that's,
that's basically what I've gotcoming up. I'm just either going
to be in a cave writing, or I'mgoing to be out there, sharing
it in some way, shape, or form.
So that's, that's pretty muchall I've got. All right. Yeah.

(36:04):
How you coach, what do you gotgoing on?

Pretty much the same thing. Same thing
as you and same thing I had lastweek. So my podcast comes out
tomorrow, when Wednesday. AndI'm also just going to be in a
writing frenzy for the next sixto eight weeks as I prepare to
open up my community and acourse about choosing a goal and

(36:30):
going after a goal in a way thatfeels really fun and
sustainable. That's going to becalled goals. 2.3. So yeah, so I
feel like I almost just want tosay, hey, from here for the next
like four or five weeks, I'mgoing to be talking about the
same thing about what's on tap,because we're going to be
working on the same thing overand over. But that's okay.
That's good. That's fine.

Yeah, totally fine.

All right.
Let's call it a day.

It's a day.

Yeah. All right. Thank you for being here.
Listener.

Thanks, everybody. Especially you
history lovers out there. Someof us still love you.

I love you. It's just not for me said
Good for you. Not for me.

All right, well, on that note, five. That
was a D. Get it?

Good one.
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