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Welcome to Joy Moments where we share stories of joy to
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make joy ripples across the world.
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I am Lacey here with Sarah.
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Hi Sarah.
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Sara: Hi Lacey.
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You are right across the world.
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I'm gonna go ahead and
say across the universe,
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Lacey: Ooh, love it.
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That
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Sara: where the sound waves are going.
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It could be everywhere.
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Lacey: in like a thousand years,
they could reach something.
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Is it, that's a thousand
light years, right?
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Or is that further away?
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I don't know that.
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Yeah.
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Isn't that
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Sara: ripples are endless.
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Yes.
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Lacey: I just had a small existential
crisis, but in a good way.
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Sara: One thing I love about us
is you just never know where our
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conversation's gonna go, and we
just went deep real quick and
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Lacey: Woo.
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Sara: doing the intro.
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Lacey: Yeah.
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Well, I know Sarah and I are both
excited today 'cause I put a call out
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on threads and TikTok for people's joy
moments and I've got quite a few, but I
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know Sarah and I both have joy moments.
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So I wanna start with ours and
then we will jump into others.
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So do you want me to go first
or do you wanna go first?
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Sara: I want you to go first.
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Lacey: Okay.
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So, as I believe I've talked about
before, here I am an avid audiobook.
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Listener, reader, however
you wanna call it.
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Audiobook count as reading.
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Let's not talk about it.
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Anyway.
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and I am a very, I like to call
it mood based, very chaotic.
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Like I just, I have like my, I check
certain things, certain when stuff
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comes out in the library, I find it.
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And I saw, something on Twitter
of a like recommendation.
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I was like, oh, I'll try that book.
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'cause I was in a little bit of a slump.
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I don't usually read Dark Romance.
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It's a little.
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Not me, but this was a dark romance.
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And since I was like in a slump, I'm
like, I'll try something different.
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So I start listening to
it and first a pet peeve.
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I don't understand why books need to be
like trilogies or duets, where it's one
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story broken up over multiple books.
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A don't like that
personally, but it's fine.
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And I got into a series
without really knowing it.
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So I got to the end of this
book, ends on a cliffhanger.
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I mean, now I'm, I'm literally
telling you why people do this.
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'cause what, talk about and I then
naturally searched the library, right?
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Is this book, can I get this book?
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And the libraries don't have it yet,
but Libby has this feature where
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if it's a book that exists in their
system, you can say, notify me.
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And if it comes available and it gets
added to your library, they will notify
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you that it is ready the next day.
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The second book.
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Became available and I got to
borrow it and start it the next day.
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Isn't that beautiful?
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Like, I just, I'm almost to the end of
it, like, I've got about 45 minutes left.
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Yes.
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I like this.
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I listen basically all day long,
so let's not judge me anyway.
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and I'm thinking about not
finishing it so that I don't get
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myself in the same situation.
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'cause I like, I see where this
bus is driving, you know, like,
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oh, we're gonna get to another.
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Like, you know what I mean?
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I was like, maybe I'll stop now
before we get to the true, true,
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cliffhanger and go from there.
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But, but yeah, I just, when that
happened yesterday, I was like, oh,
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the universe is looking out for me.
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This is fantastic.
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You know, I had a book that was in between
the two and I was wrapping that one up.
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Like it just Fantastic.
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Loved it so much.
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Thank you libraries.
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Thank you universe.
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Thank you.
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Audio books.
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Sara: I am laughing 'cause we are so
different like, I don't like that when
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they break it up into three parts, I'm
like, I love that because that means
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I get to be in that world even longer.
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So, but I also get, I also get that
like, you're not gonna finish it because.
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I didn't finish the last
episode of a Marvelous Mrs.
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Maisel because I knew it was gonna be
a really uncomfortable club hanger.
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I could see it.
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And so I actually paused and I said, I
will watch that when the next season comes
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out so I can go right into the resolution.
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Lacey: Yeah.
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Sara: So
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Lacey: Yeah.
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Sara: angles,
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Lacey: I, but here's a,
here's a quick question.
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Do you like surprises?
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Sara: only if they make me happy.
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Lacey: Well, okay.
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Yeah, I, I'm, I'm talking about just
in general, most likely good surprises.
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Like
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Sara: Oh yeah.
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No, I love, I, yeah.
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Yes, yes,
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Lacey: I, it's not that I don't like them.
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I cannot handle them.
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Okay.
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So like, if I have an
inkling of a surprise coming.
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I, I need to know right now.
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I need to know right now.
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I don't, I don't wanna wait.
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I need to know right now.
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It is a compulsion, it
is a problem for me.
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And so like Hall and naturally, Joe loves
this fact and just tortures me with it.
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So one of his favorite things to do
is be like, I bought your Christmas
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present, and then leave it there.
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And I'm like, you.
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Sara: I actually, I am the, I am the
inverse of you because I love that.
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I love having a, a gift
under the tree for 30 days.
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building up of what could it be?
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Knowing It's just knowing it's there.
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It's almost hard for me to open
it because then that's gone.
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That feeling is then gone.
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are so
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Lacey: We are so different.
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This, and then you know what, this
also reminds me of the chocolate bobcat
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story that you told where you and I are
also different in that I'm gonna eat
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the whole chocolate bobcat right away
and you are gonna squirrel away little
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chocolate bobcat nuggets for the future.
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Sara: I wish I had some chocolate
vodka in my freezer right now.
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Lacey: I cannot know that it
exists or it will consume me.
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Hello.
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Anxiety.
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That's so, yeah, so
that's, that's from me.
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Sara: It must be really
hard for you to plan a trip.
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'cause you want it to happen.
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You plan it, you want, you must
want it to happen the very next day.
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Lacey: Oh, it's so hard for me, Sarah.
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It's so hard for me.
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So.
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Sara: Okay.
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Lacey: then giving a gift.
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It's the same thing.
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I'm like, I just, if I'm really
excited, I'm like, I just
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wanna give you the gift now.
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Like, I cannot, I'm, I'm a very
future oriented person and I think
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that's part of it, is like my brain
is always moving to the future.
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And once I know the future, I need the
future to be now, which is also a very
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lacy thing that we've talked about a lot.
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Sara: A very like deep thought,
I want the future to be now.
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Well then it's the now and
then there's a new future.
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Like you can never actually grasp it.
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It's always out of reach.
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Lacey: I mean, yeah.
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Sara: Okay.
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Before we turn this into ways that.
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ways that, gifts torture.
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Lacey, I will go into my joyful moment.
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This, to me is joy on top of joy.
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It is such the, it's like
a, what do you call this?
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Perpetual motion.
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It's like joy, professional motion.
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Okay.
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So when my son was little.
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We had these pop-up tents, or
they weren't tents, they were
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actually cubes and tunnels.
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They're from ikea, so you can connect
the tunnel to the cubes, and we
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had three tunnels and two cubes.
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And so for a little tiny toddler that is.
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amazing.
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'cause you can start it in one
room and go to another room and
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it becomes this whole thing.
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And my son was extremely active.
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I always joked he was
like three kids in one.
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and so on rainy days or bad weather
days, I mean this is, this was this.
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My sanity.
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So son is older, he
doesn't need those anymore.
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We don't have little
kids coming to the house.
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so I went to clear him out
and my husband has a coworker
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who has a very active toddler.
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So I said, why don't you figure
out if he would like these?
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And we sent them over and then my
husband showed a picture to me.
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Of his coworker's son
popping his head out.
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'cause the pop-up tents have these
little circles where you can like pop
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your head out and he is just happy.
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And so it's like that is reminding me
of the happy moments we had in the tent.
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And then knowing that he is getting
to enjoy it and then it's helping his
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parents to burn off the kids' steam.
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I'm like, oh my gosh,
this is so beautiful.
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So it made me.
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I just, it just still makes me so happy
to know when you can pass on something you
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Lacey: Yeah,
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Sara: is gonna bring joy to somebody else.
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Oh my gosh.
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So much joy.
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That's mine.
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Lacey: something that's like kids toys.
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We, got some hand-me-downs from Joe's
brother for Violet 'cause we got
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rid of everything and she plays with
toys more than my other two kids did.
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Combined and.
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She, I, I've sent them videos of
her playing with the toys that were
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hand-me-downs of just like, thank you.
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She is loving this and loving every
minute of it, and that makes me
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happy to be able to share with them.
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Sara: yeah.
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And that's just such a good reminder
about passing things on because they
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can be enjoyed and used, but Okay.
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Sorry, I just slipped
into home management.
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Lacey: I did a call and
I got one from TikTok.
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and it's my, my new friend Jim, he's one
of the only Unre men that came out of this
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and he said I was the inspiration for an
anti-hero in a book that's selling well
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in Amazon, but I won't tell you which one,
which as we now know, my only kills me.
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But I mean, could you imagine being
somebody's inspiration in a book?
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No.
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Sara: But it's for the anti-hero.
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Is that why he doesn't wanna
share the name of the book?
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Lacey: I don't know.
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Maybe, maybe not.
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Look how fascinated you're
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Sara: Okay.
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Remember.
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Okay.
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Okay,
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Lacey: okay.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Sara: Remember my mystery with the
actor I saw in the airport, who
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I've already forgotten his name.
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This is my new mystery.
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I'm gonna be, I'm gonna learn
everything I can about, was it Jim?
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Lacey: That's what the, the,
the name of her handle is.
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Sara: I'm gonna, I'm gonna,
this is my new mystery.
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Lacey: Okay.
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This poor man doesn't know
what he got himself into.
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Sara: Well, if he's, if he's in
a book that's sold on Amazon,
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I mean, it's already pub.
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I'm not like diving
into his personal life.
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Well, I mean, I ha I'm okay.
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Lacey: I mean, he's not sharing.
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Sara: But I might be able
to figure out who it is.
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Lacey: I mean, I could probably
ask him in DMS if you wanted
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me to, or is that too much?
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Sara: No, because remember, I
wanted a new mystery to chew on.
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Lacey: Okay,
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Sara: I may never know the answer
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Lacey: you may not.
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Sara: or I may find out tomorrow.
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Lacey: Maybe
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Sara: I love that.
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Lacey: it's giving me anxiety.
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Sara: those are our joy moments today
that we're gonna share and we, we
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just, our hope is that one person got
1% joy in their day from hearing this.
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So please remember, you can be part
of this joy ripple by listening,
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by sharing this with others,
and by submitting your own joys.
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Nothing is too big, too small.
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It can be anything.
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It doesn't have to be current.
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It could have been something
that happened previously.
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Lacey: Yeah,
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Sara: hear all of the joy moments.
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Lacey: for sure.
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It doesn't have to be related to books.
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So yeah, that too.
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Sara: and where do they go
to submit their joy moments?
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I
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Lacey: They can head to joyful
support movement.com/submit
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to submit their joy moment and also any
of the other things for our podcasts.
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Sara: thank you Lacey.
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Lacey: Thank you Sarah.
