Girl Math Ain't Mathing

On this weeks episode of the Slightly Messy Show Mike talks about the let down he felt after being scammed on his Instagram. Which in all honesty was a total bummer because I wanted it to be real after hearing what happened! Then we talk about how disappointed Meaghan is because she has found a scenario where girl math doesn’t work for her! What is a girl to do when girl math doesn’t work?!

Episode Transcript

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Stock. I have a problem,Michael, and I am so sorry that
you faced part of it. Thereis one joy of being single with no
kids, and it's I have noreal responsibilities. Go. This is the
slightly Messy Show with Mike and Megan'sstate means a messy show, russy,

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messy, Mic and Megan. It'sa slightly messy show with Mike and Megan.
Bio abrupt stop every time. Itcracks me up every single time,
because you would think, after Ithink I've been mentioning it for like two

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months now, it would be fixed. It is not hundred percent not fixed,
and it's partially my fault, butpartially I just don't have the the
things that I sent off that Irequested for. I probably need to start
like stomping around and make get somenoise. I just haven't yet. I
just haven't done it yet. I'llget to it. It's not that pressing,

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although it does every time it doesit. It does make the hair
on the back of my neck standup every single time because I know it's
coming, like I know it's coming. Yeah, it is a slightly messy
show. My name is Mike,along with Meghan. How are you Meghan?
Great. Why do you say thatwith a question mark? No.

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It was just like if I lieto myself enough, maybe I'll start believing
it. Why what's going on?What's up? Uh? No? I
just I would like like maybe anhour of calmness in my life. That
would just be nice. Your boss, No, your big boss. No,

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I made a mistake. If youstarted bossing people around it and you
started like you have to you haveto It's like prison. You gotta walk
in there. I'm telling you so, Tony guy we talk about on our
show a lot. I'm essentially likehis right hand man now and all day
yesterday he was in meetings with hisdoor closed. And I went to another

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person who holds a similar position tome, just for a different station.
I go, what do I do? And they're like, you barge in
and you say I need your time, and I was like, I can't
do that. I can't do it. I just speaking of that. I
just had to do that with withthe engineers, and I did it in
the because there's there are certain timeswhere you kick open the door and you

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make you make some noise, andI had to do that with a microphone.
Last week. My microphone was brokefor two days. It sat on
the board for two days, andyeah, I sat a polite email,
a very polite email, and thenit didn't get it didn't get Dann care.
So then with that happened, You'renot rude. You don't be rude
about it. You just walk inand you go, hey, listen,

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listen here, listening there, buckeroo. Yeah, yeah, if you do
the shooty fingers, this is mytown. Now. Today on this show,
we are going to jump into afew things. I'd like to start
off with what I thought was goingto be a life changing moment. Megan

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mack Okay, I posted a photoon our and you can follow us both
on Instagram and TikTok and all thatstuff at Megan mack in ant on air,
mic I posted just a simple photoof my son and myself in Carhart
hats because A I thought the facehe was making was hilarious, because like,
he doesn't really get smiling, andhe doesn't get photos yet, so

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he just makes his blank stareface whenhe sees a camera, and it's the
funniest fucking thing in the entire worldingAnd they make a car heart hat that
fits his tiny little head. He'sgot a small, little, like softball
sized head, and I was like, that's funny. So I took a
picture of him and I and Iposted it. Nothing big, not a
big dealer or whatever. And thenlater that evening, what I thought was

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the brand manager from Carhart sent mean email, Oh yeah, and and
I thought it so much so becausesomebody had taken the time to google who
the brand manager for Carhart is orit might be a known thing. I
don't know, and email me andthey're like, hey, we just saw
your post. We'd love to workwith you. Yes, I'm like cool,

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like I love, like that wouldbe great. Maybe other people who
love Carhart on the show could alsobe a part of this. This could
be a big thing, especially sinceit's in Michigan. And I'm like,
this is awesome. I can't waitto share this with everybody. It's going
to be incredible. And it goesthrough this whole thing. We want to
pay you for this, and wethink, you know, you could do
this and it'd be a great youknow, partnership. YadA, YadA,
YadA, YadA. So I amreading this like three paragraphed email just like

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I am going to share this witheverybody tomorrow morning. We're all gonna get
you know, Carhart gear whoever wantsit on the show, and there you
know, it could be a coolpartnership. Sounds great. Feeling like Willy
Wonka, like I'm gonna pass outopportunities how I mean, how cool?
Like that would be cool. Thatwould be cool if anybody got it,
that would be cool. But liketo be able to just say, like

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the show is sponsored by Carhart,like that would be cool. And then
I get to the bottom of emailand it just says best regards Carhart.
Oh no, yeah, oh no. And then I like there's no there's
no like title, there's no likesignature, there's no like contact information.

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Then I go look at the emailand it's like info dot Carhart, uh
support or something like that at gmaildot com. And I'm like, oh
man, they oh they the hundredpercent got me, one hundred percent got
me. I full on thought thatlike this was gonna be that cool moment

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where like cool car Heart like reachedout like they I did it. I
posted something cool enough where the brandthat I actually care about, Yeah,
was like we'd love to just dothis more like oh, that feeling is
so great, and I feel likeit's actually a really rare feeling. Yes,

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And when you think like I've donesomething to be recognized and to be
fair, it's it is a partof our job to do stuff like that.
Sure, so when it's successful andyou're like, I'm kind of good
at this, and then it turnsout that it's not real. Knife in
the heart, knife in the heart, man, especially when I wasn't even
like that wasn't even the intention ofthe post. But like for that,
you're just like, yeah, allright, and you're absolutely right, ripped

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it away, shit on my andthen like I go because immediately the first
thing I do is I highlight thebrand manager, which is easily accessible if
you just google brand manager of carArt. It's easily accessible. But like
I went to LinkedIn and I'm likethis, this person can't be real.
And so I went to LinkedIn andsure enough, that is the brand manager.

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It's that person's name. But noneof the other email is like a
point. I mean, there's grammaticalerrors that I would make in it,
And I'm like, okay, okay, if I'm the brand manager, if
I'm riding the show at Carhart,I'm not making these these errors and there's
no contact info. It's just aGmail. I now have to assume if
I ever i'm a brand manager forour company, everybody's gonna think I'm scamming

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because I can't spell for shit.No, because because you'll have a signal,
you'll have there'll be other signs thatshow you're the brand manager. Like
it wouldn't just be an empty bestregards Carhart, not even their name Carhart
was just the only thing do alittle part of you go, I'm actually
impressed though, that you like googledthe guy's name or girl's name that's the

(07:44):
brandy a little bit like that's likeI got. I got two spams yesterday,
and one of them I could tellwas one hundred percent fake. And
I kinda I don't know if youever do this. When you get like
a spam, you like kind ofturn into like a detective like CSI,
and you're like, I bet Icould figure out who's especially if it's somebody
you think you might know, Like, I'm pretty sure somebody's messing with me
that I know in my my textmessages. I got a fake text from

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somebody named Kevin James twenty two atiCloud dot com and I'm like, Okay,
that's probably no, that's Kevin Jamesaka Adam Sandler's best friend. What
are you talking about? But I'mpretty sure if I was to see USI
and I could go through a listof friends or people that I might even
know that that reference Kevin James moreoften than not, and it's probably somebody

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I know, or it's not andthey just used a random Kevin James name.
But that's that kind of stuff willsend me down a rabbit hole of
like, oh, I want tofind out who this is. I want
to know, Like I don't care, it doesn't like it's not affecting me
in any way. But I getcurious, do you get do you get
spam? Text or email? Alot? I get the text more than
anything, and it's always you knowwhat, Let me try to pull up

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one real fast. It's usually likeyour bank account information has been a compromise.
We need you to come change.Here's here's one state farm sign this
document. I shouldn't have to dothat. Huntington exclamation point for your protection.
We've placed a hold on your account. I don't have a Huntington account,

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but my favorite is it comes froman email and it's no reply to
Underscore zero, Huntington, mf atAiry or ourfrememade dot com. Babe,
I don't believe you. I donot believe you. But what I will
say is I get so freaked outabout scams on our work email, and
not because they're good, but becauseif you click a link in your work

(09:39):
email, you're probably going to haveto take a one hour quiz about phishing
scam emails. So I will ignorereal emails just because I don't want to
take the one hour fucking quiz.They're like, hey, did you get
that thing we emailed you about done? And I don't know what you're talking
about, so uh, it's alwaysa little overwhelming, but then you kind
of look into it a little bitmore. But I'm worried for the time

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period where I become like a boomerand I have to start asking kids what
does that mean? What's a fishingscam? And then I just know that
my life is it's in the badpart. Do you ever feel like it's
never gonna happen? Like I can'tpicture us at all, any of us,
even any of us on the show, being like, I don't understand

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what that means. I mean,I know, I guess based on my
grandparents, you know, watching mygrandparents, it does happen. I just
can't envision that in our heads wherewe don't understand how something means. I
thought the same thing until my brotherthe other day was trying to copy a
image from a text message from anothergroup chat and send it to me,
and he couldn't do it and gotso frustrated that he started slapping his own

(10:43):
phone. And I said, it'shappening. And he looked at me and
he was like, who am Ibecoming? And I said, oh,
Boomer, have you ever been bustedon a spam email or a spam text?
Not busted, have you ever likefallen from one? You can dm
us or comment at The Slightly MessyShow on Instagram full follow me follow the

(11:07):
Slightly Messy Show on ig at SlightlyMessy Show. All right, I'm very
excited to hear this story. Youmentioned it before we started doing the podcast.
Explain what it has to do withgirl math, which is my absolute
face, which is my absolute favorite. Meghan, what happened? I can't
girl math my way out of something. And it's the first time I haven't
been able to girl math, andit's really genuinely breaking my heart. I

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thought the idea behind girl math wasyou could literally apply it to anything and
you would get it, you wouldget out of it. It was supposed
to be universal magic, and atthis point it's not. And I feel
very let down by society universal magic. What are you talking about? What
happened? So I have to bea big girl and buy new furniture.

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My dad sat me down. Iwas like, here, had this conversation
with me, Megan. You arethirty one, almost thirty two years old,
and it is time for you toactually buy quality furniture for once in
your life. And I was like, pump the brakes, old man,
because first of all, oh,in this economy, with this budget,

(12:13):
you're not rocking like Futons? Areyou? Like you got your step up
from Futon. I am the stepup from Futon, which is blow up
couches. Okay, okay, okay, that's fair. Yeah, Kia is
not bad, but I get whatyou're saying. I can't. It is
not bad. I love Ikia.I am a lover of all things.

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I can't, but it is timefor me to, like I sat I
kind of fell into my couch onceand I totally broke the frame of my
new couch. It was the nikethat I expected that I shouldn't have fallen
onto it. I knew what Iwas doing. I did it. Anyways,
I had a Nikea bed frame.Once I broke that bed frame,
we probably know what happened there.That's what you should expect out of a

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Nikea bed frame. Like true,you can't expect more than what you are
bringing to the table. I tellyou to get Ikea. And then I
got an Ikea dresser and it's likea little kid it's for my son or
whatever. And there's a warning onit, like you're not supposed to like
you're supposed to attach it to thewall otherwise there's a chance that it can
fall over. Haven't done it yetyet. Probably we'll never do it.

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But I'm not getting rid of itbecause you're right, there's something about the
Ikea furniture that is just it's justit fits. It's if it's a tax
bracket, if I'm going honest.So anyways, what happened. What happened?
So I had a budget in minefor this apartment of what I was
going to spend what I was comfortablespending, and then I I knew that

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at the end of the day,I was going to make a very dumb
purchase. Okay, there is onething in my life that I want that
does not fit into my tax bracketthat I'm trying to make work, and
that's one of those frame televisions.Have you ever seen one of these frame
TVs? Huh huh? Okay,googling, I can show you. It's
a very expensive, no necessity.It is a television that you hang on

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the wall that looks like a paintingwhen it's turned off. Oh so it's
almost like a kindle, but asa television. So when it's turned on,
it looks like a normal TV.And when it's turned off, it
looks like a painting on the wall, and it looks Can I be on
it? It looks rich, itlooks very rich. I googled it is
it is you, So I've wellpumped the brakes. So I have for

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the longest time said my next apartment, I'm going to get one of these.
Like that's my big girl purchase.I'm going to design like a living
room. I'm gonna have a nicespace that's going to be it. It's
a luxury item. It is sonot necessary. That's what I'm gonna do.
So I went out yesterday and itwas my seventh furniture store in case
you're wondering, smoth furniture store intwo different states, and I finally found

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a couch. But the couch thatI found was way out of budget,
like so out of budget. Itwasn't funny, and I was weirdly okay
with it because I was like,my first big girl furniture last me a
long time, this quality, thisis gonna be good. But immediately I
went to best Buy afterwards and Iwas like, I'm gonna go get my
TV and I started looking at thebudget and I couldn't girl math my way

(15:15):
into justifying this television. What wasthe thought process though, as you're walking
through girl math, like, whatare some of the options that you had?
When you're like, oh, thisis you know, girl math can
apply here because of this or thisbecause of this, girl math applied when
the guy at best Buy was like, if you become a member, you
get two hundred dollars off, andimmediately, immediately my brain was like,

(15:37):
girl, man, give me afucking calculator. Let's good. But my
brother was even trying to help out, and he was like, you know,
that sexual that you wanted was asix piece sectional and you only got
five pieces of it because six wouldn'tfit in my apartment. You know,
He's like, buy that logic.And with the two hundred dollars code off,
that would have been another section ofyour section, so your sectional would

(16:00):
have been half off. So gettingthe sectional half off and this television is
better than not getting the television atall. I'm paying full price for the
couch. I love that. Mybrother is a real barbie. And he
was out in the streets like I'mgonna fucking help you. Girl Math is
shit out of this. And Iwas standing there and I was looking at
the television and I looked at myright, and there's the same size television

(16:22):
for a fifth of surprise. Whatmm hmm. And then I looked back
at the television and then I lookedat the cheap one and I went,
I can't fucking justify it, andgirl, Math fucking failed me. See,
I still feel like there's an there'san angle there though, because if
it doubles as a painting, youwould be spending money on a painting that

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you're not spending money on, right, So now it's a decoration, but
it's also a television when you justget the TV. And I don't know
if I'm doing girl math right,if I'm doing it wrong. Please don't
you know? This is perfect?This is perfect? Okay? So really
you've got now a painting? Whichhow much does the Mona Lisa cost?
Like, I bet that's a lotof money, right, at least six

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hundred dollars, I would say,like conservatively more than six hundred dollars.
You said it with confidence, like, oh okay, I could go out
and buy them on Alisa easily.Yeah, Like honestly, if I wanted
to, I could. So likethat's a brag, but I do like

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the way that you're looking at this. But then you're also then saying that
I would spend a lot of moneyon art, where I'm the kind of
girl that sees a TikTok of aperson putting wall plaster on a canvas and
painting a beige and I'm like,fucking masterpiece. I can diy my my
own artwork. I would never spendmoney on art. Yeah, what what
kind of income do you think II mean, you're getting an art TV.

(17:52):
I feel like you you could youcould get art if you could get
an art TV. Artvs are expensive. I don't know if that's what they're
called. But frame TV there,Mike, why don't you list off the
sizes of do you haven't pulled up? Because I know how much of the
sixty five inches? Yes, soI have sixty five seventy five and eighty
five sixty five is two grand?Yeah? Yeah, yeah, about two
grand, a little under two grand, like se this one's seventeen hundred.

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Now be me and go two grandall right? With taxes that's twenty two
hundred dollars. Well, there's atwo hundred dollars rebate, so it's still
two grand. It's eighteen hundred.So I mean, then you're not that
two hundred could be going towards artthat you're not spending it on because you've
now I feel like that right now. Mark is in here, and I

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don't know that you can see hiscomments, but he said, Megan,
can you teach my wife your girlmath? No? No, no,
you don't want that because girl mathmakes her buy more. You don't want
it's so smart though. It reallyis the smartest thing because it's it makes
sense for a fraction of a second, you're like, oh shit, you're

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right, You're actually right. Myfavorite comments so far on TikTok was it's
cheaper than a trip to Disney,you know what, that's the kind of
logic I'm looking for. Yeah,I just speaking of that. I wasn't
supposed to even talk about it inthe air. I kind of screwed up.
We are going to Disney, yeah, and yeah, it's the first
time ever going we're taking but you'reright, it's about for because luckily Sebastian's

(19:22):
not big enough to write or tocost money this time around. But it's
we're only going one day because it'sexpansive. It's expansive. Oh, I'm
so curious, is it for?Like? Is Santa gonna be coming?
Well, that's it, and Ishould send this in my topics. I
don't know what we're gonna do becauseI can't. We can't fly everything over

(19:44):
there, right right, because thatwould cost more. We'd have to put
it in you know what I mean. Santa is potentially coming to our house,
but we're not gonna be there anddropping off his gifts still. So
so Disney is from Mom and Day. Yeah, oh yeah, goddamn yeah,
we're taking credit for that one.Sandy gets all the other stuff.

(20:06):
We're taking credit for that one.But yeah, yeah, yeah, so
we do. I don't know ifwe get a tree, like, I
don't know, because we're not gonnabe there, Like, why do like
we're gonna be there? You stillhave to decorate for the kids. What
are you leaving the weekend before Christmas? We're only there like four days,
five days maybe, but we're therefor Christmas and we're going I think we're
going on Christmas. WHOA, that'llbe interesting, it'll be wild. It'll

(20:33):
be a lot of people, ashitload of be do you think So it's
either gonna be packed or empty.I feel like there's no middle ground.
You're right, I have. Yeah, I don't know. I've never been,
so I don't even know what toexpect. I've literally never been to
Disney in my entire life. Idon't know any I've only seen pictures.
I have no idea what to expect. Somebody asked me if I'm staying at
Disney. I'm no, no,no, I wish. I mean,

(20:56):
I'm not at frame TV level,like if I was at frame neither of
mine. I got there on mybutt hole Parker, and I said,
this isn't a life for me.So sorry we got distracted with this dizzy.
But did you end up buying theTV? Then? No? I
didn't walk away, and then Ihad to do that embarrassing thing you got
to figure out if the guy makescommission or not. Because I had wasted
so much of his time that Igenuinely was like, oh, I think

(21:19):
I'm gonna come back with your cardand he just looked at me. He
was like, I don't make commission. I was like, alright, see
it, bye, Yes, Ijust walked. So you have introduced me
to something I've never heard of.I've never heard of the frame TV.
I've never heard of that before.Is it like a big thing? People
are super into it now. Idon't know how big it is strictly because

(21:40):
that price point keeps uh. Ithink a lot of people going no.
But I just I wanted like oneitem that was that made me feel like
I had. This is so dumb. It really was gonna make me feel
like I had worked hard and likeearned something stupid luxurious. You know,

(22:00):
some people like watches. Some people. I'm not like a purse person.
I don't really, I'm not likeshoes. I'm not anything. This was
gonna be my one like stupid purchaseof just like unnecessariness could. But you
deserve it. I mean you deserveit. I mean there's people it's so
funny. Victor's in here. Victorsays, don't do it. Victor,

(22:21):
do you have experience with the TVor are you just telling her not to
do it? Because you're telling hernot to do it because he also just
told me don't go to Disney becauseit's the or you didn't tell me not
to go. A lot of peopleare saying, be prepared. It's gonna
be wild, the craziest sixty fivethousand dollars you'll ever spend. But I
think you gotta treat yourself every nowand then. Right, you earned it,

(22:41):
You earned the frame TV. Ithink, right, yeah, But
then I start doing how many monthsof rent? Is this okay? And
then I got that's so unnecessary.Victor says, he's a TV guy.
It's a great TV, but notworth it? Well, why, what's
the reason? Because the what you'repaying for essentially is like a matte screen.

(23:03):
So when the TV is on andyou're watching television, you can't tell.
But when it's off, it almostlooks like a kindle. You ever
see somebody reading on the beach ona kindle. It's that screen. That's
what you're paying for. That's it. That is what is so expensive about
it. So it's cool, butit's not worth it's essentially fifteen hundred more
dollars than a regular television. Amatte screen isn't worth fifteen hundred dollars?

(23:25):
Is the Is the quality of theTV any better? Like the like it's
a four K TV, Like it'sa it's like a high quality television.
Okay, yeah, but it's dumb. But it's dumb, but yeah,
yeah, but that's I'm not tellingyou, you know, I'm not trying
to encourage you either way. Butif if you you know, you're starting

(23:47):
this whole new adventure, you you'retreating yourself to all these things. Think
you enjoy yourself with stupid things everynow and then, and then that's the
fun of it, right, Like, that's the fun. I'm the I
don't think I would do it rightthe second. But I'm also going to
Disney randomly, so like we alldo that. We're just like, you
know what, I deserve this,I should splurge for this. I think
I'm gonna go buy like a reallyinexpensive TV, and then I'll splurge in

(24:08):
six months on a new one,on a new TV, or just something
else on the maybe on the frame. Maybe I'll save up a little bit
more for the frame. So girlmath didn't work this time. You couldn't
make it work logically in your head? What a letdown? Have you ever
had a moment where girl math didn'twork? Or maybe you have a way

(24:30):
to make this work for Megan.You can dm us at a slightly messy
show on Instagram or comment in thepost it's a slightly missy show up pathetic,
absolutely pathetic. Love the show.You guys are doing a great job
with Mike and Megan.