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In this week’s brand-new video, I invite you to play a game with my brother Stephen and me as we dive into a topic everyone’s asking about: red flags and amber lights (or “yellow lights” depending on where you live).
While I’m guessing you’ve heard of the dangers of red flags, amber lights can be misunderstood. In fact, they can do one of two things: they can either reveal a major compatibility flaw between you and the person you’re dating, OR if appropriately handled and resolved, they can bring you closer together and even be the making of your relationship.
This is not the case with red flags, however, and when you ignore them, you do so at your peril.
P.S. Be sure to stay until the end, where I give you information on how you can attend my upcoming Masterclass, which will be laser-focused on “How to Spot Red Flags in Early Dating.”
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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should we do this as like overrated
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underrated but on what people say are
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red flags yeah a bit like that i mean
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some of these are some of these are
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ridiculous okay but yeah go on well
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let’s see um
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okay so this is this is a very popular
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one but it’s
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people who are rude to service workers
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some per can’t stand it
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yes okay i i agree with that
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appropriately rated yeah i i i you’ve
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got to pay attention to how people treat
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those who
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they feel can do nothing for them
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um
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yeah yeah
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waiters it always seems the focus always
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seems to be waiters
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yeah i know it’s always weird i do feel
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like we should be talking you know let’s
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talk about let’s include everyone in the
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mix um but i it’s always you know
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there’s a very very defensive about
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waiters in particular but i do i do
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agree anyone who
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doesn’t anyone who you think i don’t
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need anything from this person
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if that if you’re rude or mean to that
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person or dismissive of that person
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then that that tells you a lot about
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what you need to know because
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you may one day be someone they decide
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they don’t need and be on the receiving
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end of that kind of behavior so yeah i
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agree with that one i think a nice uh
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way to look at it is
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if someone just treats that person
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they’re never going to see again
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like oh okay well
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i can just be as mean as i want to be
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it’s sort of like you get to your
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natural get to that you get to see that
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person in their natural environment yeah
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there’s just no more future here
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what kind of energy do they leave that
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person with do they leave them with the
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negative energy or do they just have a
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default positive interaction
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what what about if someone
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is what if someone tries too hard with
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the waiter
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yeah like they’re just really oh that’s
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interesting like they really over
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ingratiate themselves with anyone they
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speak to who’s yeah yeah is that a red
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flag that might be the m but that might
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be the amber one that’s like a slight
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i’m i’m up i’m up turning one eyebrow at
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that
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and i’m not sure if they’re trying too
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hard to be friends with everyone we
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encounter you go
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narcissist
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is this so like is this someone who
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needs everyone to love them i i’ve i you
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know there are people i’ve met in my
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life that that i’ve
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you know
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they
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they meet me and charm the pants off me
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and i’m just like you know that person
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when you leave them you’re like oh yeah
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they’re such a cool guy
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ah so nice and that like they made you
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feel so good
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and then
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and then if you were to spend like more
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than a couple of hours with them in
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different environments you can literally
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spot them doing it with the next person
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and the next person and the next person
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and then you just go
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oh
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i didn’t
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i don’t feel as special anymore
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this is what i thought that was your
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number one yeah exactly
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no i i do think when someone’s trying
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too hard to charm everybody that’s a red
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flag to me
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okay how about this one uh
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when they like pineapple and pizza
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no that come on have you if you can’t
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have your pizza the way you want it then
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what has this world come to
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fair enough there’s like there’s a lot
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of suffering in life pizza is one of the
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few times
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that you get to escape the
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realities of everyday existence and just
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lose yourself in cheese and dough and
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sauce and whatever the hell you want
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i if you don’t there’s a it’s a red flag
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if you’re judging people that hard on
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their pizza shame on you
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you know you’re actually on to something
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there matt i think there was a study
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um i heard this on a different podcast
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the study came up and there’s like a
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psychologist and a philosopher talking
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about a ridiculous study about how
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people that eat more adventurous foods
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are seen to be
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more
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sexually attractive or at least more
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sexually experienced or in they’re into
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more weird sexual stuff really so sort
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of like that weird prudish i want to
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judge the food
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there is kind of an element of like oh
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well in the bedroom they’re probably
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pretty judgy as well
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interesting so i thought you were going
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to say that people who had pineapple on
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pizza were probably good in bed because
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you know
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pineapple doesn’t belong on pizza
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well if they are open to it the
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pineapple
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who knows oh i say so you can use the
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pineapple has become the pineapple test
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see if they will eat
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i mean oh look i i i don’t think you
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should judge people for their pizza um
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that being said my girlfriend likes
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pineapple on her pizza and i won’t touch
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it
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she okay i will not we will put it we’ll
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go halves
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she will have her toppings on her sides
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they
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will not straight you know like an
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office desk where you just you’re like
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get your papers off of my desk
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with someone next to you as i am with my
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pizza get that stray bit of pineapple
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off my slice
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eat your pineapple i won’t judge you but
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keep it away from me
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next one um
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hating all their exes stories about how
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they’ve been victimized by everyone
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oh that’s a good one
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that’s a good one that’s classic yeah
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it’s like it was just like people who
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hate everybody in general you know like
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when you meet someone who’s just like
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just soak imaginally that everyone
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just that person lacks empathy they
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don’t they’ve stopped identifying with
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other people at all and ex and created
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an exception out of themselves
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and uh
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when someone does that with their exes
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it’s the same thing it’s the there seems
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to be this inability to realize that you
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you seem to one of two things is true
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either they’re not as bad as you say
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they are and you’re the problem
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or
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you keep choosing really shitty people
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in which case you’re still the problem
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right
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yeah but you enjoy complaining about
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everyone all the time that you’ve dated
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but maybe that
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this energy should be put into making a
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different choice
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than continuing to choose the same
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people and then complaining about them
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that smacks to me of someone who’s
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addicted to the same story
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so another one this is from netflix
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themselves matt they’ve got in on the
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fun and they said
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when they press skit skip intro on the
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first episode
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so they don’t even listen to the theme
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song once
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or the intro of a show
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what they just skip they skip intro
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straight away kind of piece of [ __ ]
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does that
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i think it i mean i would think that’s
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monstrous if you don’t listen to a
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show’s theme song at least the first
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time but i often want to hear it every
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time i think there’s something wrong
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with you
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do you think do you think that netflix
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just made like a caricature monster
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version no one really does that this is
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a straw man red flag the straw man red
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flags that netflix made to just be
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completely self-serving with their
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marketing department tweeting out this
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nonsense
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ah that’s good we’re victims of
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sensationalist media right now this is
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why we have you in the room
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always read always
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see him behind the smoke reading between
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the lines
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full season one i think for a full
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season one you should be watching that
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intro do you know why i like the intro
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i and i think this says something about
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the way that i approach life yeah yeah
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this says you’re a great guy go on
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i didn’t say that it said i was a great
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guy i just stephen i think if i can no
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this is really going to say a lot about
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you go on if i can be so
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self-referential
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i think that in this is some kind of
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little secret to life
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and and yes i’m claiming it as my own
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i watch the intro
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with the theme music
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because to me
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when we truly want to enjoy something in
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life
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it starts by getting connected to it
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it’s the same when i go and do a speech
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i can have all of the words i can have
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all of the knowledge of what i’m going
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to say
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but
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you know
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and jameson knows that any time i’m
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about to get on stage
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i’ll always have a moment where i either
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say to myself or one of you
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why is this important again
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why do i need to do this why do i need
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to say this
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and that moment is essential
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to giving a good speech or making a
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great video
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is why
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is this important in other words i need
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to get connected to it
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in order to do a good job and any time
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that it takes me a while to warm up
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whether it’s a webinar or a video or
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whatever
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is because i didn’t start connected but
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when someone says well you were a little
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slow in the beginning but then oh my god
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you’re a fire it’s because
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somewhere along the way i got connected
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and then it flowed differently
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and when i watch
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the theme song
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or the the music the build up to
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whatever show it is
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that’s just two minutes of me
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really sitting into the experience of
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what i’m about to watch and going oh
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yeah i’m here for this this is what i’m
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doing for the next half hour i’m excited
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i’m getting connected
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the only one you’re allowed to skip is
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the morning show which is about three
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minutes long so that might be the only
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one you can permit
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but it’s a fun little tune i still i
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still watched the game of thrones must
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have the record for the longest theme
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song ever and i still i sat through it
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each time that was one of the great
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theme songs um okay another one um
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men who call it cute when you say you’re
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going to do something any competent
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adult could do like put furniture
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together or change your own oil throw
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those men in the trash we can’t really
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answer this one matt because i guess we
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haven’t experienced that but the idea of
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someone con the idea of someone
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condescending you for anything you’re
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capable of doing
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well steve it’s cute that you think i’ve
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never experienced that yeah because i
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have very good all right i did have i
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remember telling someone that what i did
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for a living
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and they went
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oh that’s so cute
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i hate that i hate that stuff i love
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that as well
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it is it is a terrible terrible
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low low quickly we’ve made him angry
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no
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no
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we’ve made steve
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that one you you were all oh no it
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doesn’t really happen to us that’s a
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that must be something we can’t relate
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to i literally said it and immediately i
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just see you saw red now i’m going yeah
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we men get that all the time we’re
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getting condescended you know how
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seriously i take my work
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and someone said oh that’s really cute
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and i immediately had no interest it
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just was like oh god this is such an
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inappropriate response to something
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that’s really important to me and uh and
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it’s it’s it’s all about reading the
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room uh and i i suppose that’s
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interesting as a spin as a distinction i
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think that’s interesting that to hear
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men do it
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over things that women do that are just
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everyday normal things but there’s that
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patronizing
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it’s cute that you’re doing something
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that a human would do
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right yeah exactly
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um yeah oh it’s cute you can open up the
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front of your car you know that sort of
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thing and change the oil i think i have
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a different interpretation of this tweet
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than you guys
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i just don’t
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i kind of just call bs on it because
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first of all when’s the last time you
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changed your oil matthew
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oh i can see where you’re going i think
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that this i think that this woman’s
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probably super competent at a lot of
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really cool stuff and i guarantee that a
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guy was probably like oh my god you did
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you did that yourself that’s that’s
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awesome
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and she’s probably i mean look listen to
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the last part of her tweet throw those
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men in the trash this is an angry person
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i’m a little bit i’m skeptical of this
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tweet i think this is a this is an
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example of the toxic twitter you were
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talking about
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damn he’s turned it around oh
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interesting
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look at how look at how defensive jay is
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as a man being called out called out by
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one person
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and he immediately gets defensive i mean
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he might as well be waving a giant red
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flag over his head right now
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can i just say that if i hurt you steve
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it wasn’t my fault and i’m not sorry
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um
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this brilliant all right um let’s move
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on from that one um
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when conversations have to absolutely be
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about them otherwise it’s boring or
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unimportant
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i mean yes obviously obvious red flag
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obviously if someone’s not curious about
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you
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especially by the way in the dating
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phase do you know what i mean because if
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if they’re not curious about you
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even during the time when it could get
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them in your pants
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then
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what are they going to be like
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afterwards
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they’re not going to suddenly get more
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curious about you
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when no longer is it about politeness or
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impressing you
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right exactly
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final one here
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um because i thought it was quite funny
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someone put
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when he knows his zodiac sign it’s a red
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flag or when he doesn’t know his zodiac
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sign it’s a red flag
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they’re just i thought that was a funny
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damned if you do damned if you don’t
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i
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think it’s fine
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for a man to know his zodiac sign
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i think that if he brings it up as a
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topic of conversation
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you should not trust that man
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and you should immediately stand up and
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leave the date
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and block his number and if he tries to
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reach you another way
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and says on instagram hey
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um i don’t know what happened but my
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text messages are no longer going
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through to you
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you call the police
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or you say i thought you’re an aries you
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should have known not to talk like that
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in front of me steve let me tell you
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something when a guy brings up star
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signs
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that’s not about his interest in star
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science so you see it as pure light he’s
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a pure attack he’s a pure strategist
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he’s a he’s a piece of [ __ ] liar
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yeah did he have her first folks
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he is a liar steve steve do you know how
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many times in my life
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in my
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life
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i have been one of my male friends old
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or new
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and in the middle
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of our activity together as men
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he said
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what star sign are you bud
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how many times does that happen how many
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times do you think
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zero steve
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[ __ ] zero
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what’s your stars and do you know how
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many times i’ve been on a hike with a
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man
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and halfway through that hike i did
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something
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i said a certain thing
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i said oh my uh my house is so messy
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right now
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and they went
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what star sign are you
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do you know how many times they took one
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of the things i said and then used it as
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a way to pivot to what star sign i am
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and how that behavior was so
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quintessentially
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capricorn do you know how many times
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steve oh god be a few hasn’t it how many
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absolutely [ __ ] zero me
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zero again knew it there you go so when
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a guy is on a date with you
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and he starts pulling out all of that
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horoscope knowledge
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proceed at your peril
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this is a man who has got a devious mind
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the lex luthor of astrology for shame
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fair enough um what’s good dude i think
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we uh covered some ground there i want
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to ask you about a few amber flags matt
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and if you agree these are like
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hmm and these are ones i’ve sort of
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wrote down
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come on
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someone too comfortable with
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offering criticism early on
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that’s what yeah i’ll move more quickly
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through these but yeah that’s one to
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talk about that’s a conversation
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i don’t feel i don’t i feel judged by
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you or i don’t feel like you’re
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accepting me
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um that’s a con that’s a conversation
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now this is a careful one but someone
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who doesn’t have any friends or we could
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say
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a woman who has no female friends or a
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man who has no friends
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hmm interesting
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um yeah i would say that’s it’s an amber
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flag
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because some people are loner-ish
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so that’s why i’m thinking it’s a hum i
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don’t know i’d say if someone has if
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someone has no friends that might be a
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red flag
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someone who has never had a long-term
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relationship and their past 35.
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[Music]
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i think that’s an amber i’m gonna go
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amber because i think that’s a
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conversation
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right
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so you’re great you’re agreeing with me
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yeah yeah um
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if you have very different religious or
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spiritual beliefs
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um
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and for that’s amber that’s a good amber
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because that’s that requires significant
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conversation
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but but it’s not insurmountable
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okay this is quite a specific one i
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wonder what you think
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someone who can’t enjoy something
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because it wasn’t their first choice
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what like what would be an example of
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that like there was the restaurant they
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really wanted to go to and you got the
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second best because you know you both
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couldn’t get into that one or the second
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best activity
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but they make a thing of like they
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didn’t get the first choice it’s like a
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thing that’s a red flag that’s a red
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flag that’s a red flag how you can enjoy
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life with that person life is full of
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second choices
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i also feel i feel like that’s wildly
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specific steve is this like is this some
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uh
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is there some trauma you want to talk
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about
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who have you dated that’s done that
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um have you tried to take someone to a
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restaurant
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and sold them on it and gone asked to
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tell you this is i call it they all know
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me here this is a great this let me tell
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you this
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is a great they call it stevie’s joint
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it’s a great restaurant i don’t say it
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like michael caine but yeah go on
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okay here you go i’ll call this stevie’s
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joint i walk in everyone says hello the
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food’s delicious they got this amazing
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pizza oh they tell you even if you don’t
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eat pineapple on pizza you’ll eat it on
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this pizza they do a pizza the whole
19:16
base is pineapple it’s delicious and
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you’ve really sold this pineapple-based
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pizza
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and then
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all of a sudden you rock up and they go
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um i’m sorry sir we don’t have a
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reservation for you
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and you go don’t you know who i am
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and they say i’m sorry sir we’ve never
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seen you before
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and so you have to trundle off
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to chipotle
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or
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whatever other establishment is nearby
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yeah if i do that and they give me and
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they give me something and then no and
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then and then you go to the next place
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hang on i’m not i’m just
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you go to the next place
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and your date
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has been
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it’s been sold
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on this pineapple base
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and this place that’s you know you’ve
20:09
nicknamed
20:10
[Music]
20:11
that you’ve nicknamed stevie’s joint yep
20:15
they now can’t get it out of their mind
20:17
and they can’t enjoy the burrito you’ve
20:19
taken them for yeah is that what you
20:21
meant yeah and they give me stick about
20:23
it and they and they just just subtly
20:26
just subtly they like seem a bit
20:28
disappointed the whole day like oh you
20:29
did say we were gonna go to
20:31
that stevie’s place if they bring it up
20:33
again
20:34
then i’m annoyed
20:36
that actually exists this is actually
20:39
this actually happened this isn’t
20:41
something i’m true
20:42
and
20:43
what’s more if you nailed it i feel like
20:45
this is exactly what happened this
20:46
really happened
20:50
it feels like something that did happen
20:52
but my point is
20:56
my point is you’ve got i want someone
20:58
who can enjoy
21:00
the oh we didn’t do the favorite thing
21:02
today right we didn’t get number one
21:05
choice every time like this time we’re
21:07
doing oh we do second best and i want
21:10
them to then go with a good attitude
21:12
right yeah yeah yeah
21:14
this is obviously self-authored so i
21:16
feel like you need to be the one who
21:18
says whether this is amber or red and
21:20
i’ll tell you what steve from everything
21:21
you’ve said and how upset you’ve been
21:23
over it
21:24
i am surprised you put it in the amber
21:26
category i want them to enjoy the little
21:29
things okay
21:30
well let’s list it as red then
21:33
so how many ambers
21:35
makes a red
21:38
well i think here okay i’m gonna because
21:41
we’re gonna have to wrap this up steve
21:43
but i do i want to finish on something
21:45
that i think is going to be very
21:46
valuable for people as a as a bit of
21:49
insight i suppose um there is a
21:51
difference between red flags and amber
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lights
21:56
a red flag is something that we should
21:59
genuinely you know it falls under that
22:02
ignore at your peril
22:04
category
22:06
now the dangerous thing about red flags
22:08
is that
22:09
often
22:11
red flags are disguised as exciting or
22:15
attractive qualities about someone
22:18
they’re the bad boy they’ve got this
22:21
edge to them they
22:24
have a certain amount of spontaneity or
22:27
excitement or you know they charm
22:30
everyone on the first date and everyone
22:32
loves them and they say all the right
22:34
things in any given moment sometimes red
22:37
flags can be disguised as exciting
22:41
qualities and so we start chasing the
22:43
wrong thing that’s what’s so dangerous
22:46
about some red flags
22:49
however there are amber lights which i
22:52
define
22:54
as
22:55
conversations things that
22:58
you should talk about
22:59
and use as an opportunity to either
23:05
find a real point of difference that
23:07
isn’t going to work or
23:10
find a moment of
23:12
coming together where you go oh we can
23:16
you feel this way oh that’s okay then
23:18
i’ll adjust that or let’s talk about it
23:20
let’s come to a place of greater
23:21
understanding
23:22
amber lights are actually the makings of
23:25
a relationship the ability to talk about
23:28
differences
23:30
and to use those to become stronger
23:33
is one of the defining characteristics
23:34
of strong relationships
23:37
now what i think is interesting about
23:39
amber lights
23:41
is that
23:42
sometimes they’re disguised as red flags
23:47
sometimes
23:49
especially when we have our demons which
23:51
we all do we have our insecurities
23:54
someone can do something
23:56
that to us
23:58
we
23:59
it freaks us out in some way it feels
24:02
like this is like that thing
24:04
that someone once did to me that
24:07
right now it’s not really that thing but
24:10
but because it’s
24:12
coming in some form that makes me think
24:14
of that you know like it’s almost like
24:16
if i’ve been cheated on a bunch of times
24:18
and then this person i’m with is out
24:21
all night and doesn’t text me
24:25
now we might go red flag
24:29
that’s a red flag
24:30
and when we see a red flag especially
24:33
when it’s related to one of our demons
24:35
one of our the things that we’re scared
24:37
of
24:38
it sends us into fight or flight mode
24:41
so
24:42
fight mode is you finally get hold of
24:44
them you finally speak to them and you
24:46
unleash hell on them
24:48
for the way that you have just felt and
24:49
for how afraid you are you yell at them
24:52
you argue with them you tell them all
24:54
the ways they’re wrong you judge the
24:56
behavior
24:58
or flight
24:59
you go cold you give them the silent
25:02
treatment
25:03
or you just stop returning their calls
25:05
you don’t text them back because you’re
25:07
like
25:08
that feels like
25:09
something just got poked in me that’s
25:12
made me terrified it’s aggravated my
25:13
trauma i’m running for the hills i’m
25:16
gonna get this person away from me
25:17
because this means danger the danger
25:20
with amber lights
25:22
is that
25:23
sometimes our own trauma
25:26
can make those amber lights look like
25:28
red flags when actually they are an
25:30
invitation
25:32
for us to have a conversation for us to
25:35
reveal more of ourselves our wounds who
25:38
we are as a person for us to understand
25:40
more about somebody else for us to get
25:43
better at setting boundaries
25:46
amber lights are an invitation to
25:48
strengthen the relationship and heal our
25:50
trauma
25:52
but if we go in straight into fight or
25:53
flight because we see it as a red flag
25:56
then we may never get the chance to do
25:59
all of those wonderful things because
26:01
we’ll either scare ourselves off and run
26:03
away or will scare them off in the early
26:05
stages with how we just treated them
26:09
i am fascinated by this because i think
26:12
it’s kind of easy to list a bunch of red
26:14
flags and say yeah if you see this run
26:16
for the hills but i think the reality
26:19
of relationships and early dating
26:22
is that
26:23
usually
26:25
or very often we find ourselves in
26:28
situations where we simply aren’t sure
26:32
we’re not sure of whether something is a
26:34
genuine red flag we’re not sure if
26:37
they’ve done anything wrong or if it’s
26:39
our trauma if we’re the one being high
26:41
maintenance if we’re the one who needs
26:43
to check our ego if we’re the one who’s
26:45
just being overly anxious we’re not sure
26:48
if we’re being over demanding
26:51
we’re not sure if it’s appropriate to
26:52
say something we have an argument with
26:55
someone and we come out of it
26:58
completely spinning as to whether we
27:00
just did a good thing or a bad thing
27:03
and
27:05
so i’m fascinated by this distinction
27:07
between red flags and amber lights red
27:10
flags ignore your peril amber lights and
27:13
invitation to a conversation
27:17
hey before you go i have something big
27:20
to tell you about i on the 7th of
27:22
december i’m doing a two hour deep dive
27:26
master class on the topic of red flags
27:30
here’s what we’re going to be talking
27:31
about firstly how to spot red flags but
27:34
we’re also going to be talking about the
27:36
things that maybe aren’t red flags
27:39
they’re not things we should run away
27:40
from when we see them but they are
27:42
things that we should have a
27:43
conversation about how do you navigate
27:45
those moments how do you use the
27:47
conversation that you have around those
27:48
moments to build a strong relationship
27:51
because i truly believe that long-term
27:53
relationships are built on the
27:56
conversations that are had in those
27:58
moments of friction but you’ve got to
27:59
know when to have them and how to have
28:01
them and that’s what i’m going to be
28:03
talking about in this two hour deep dive
28:06
master class it’s happening live on
28:08
december the 7th and you can join it as
28:11
long as you are a member of my love life
28:14
club if you’re not a member right now
28:17
don’t worry you can join for free for 14
28:20
days on a two-week trial just to come
28:23
and see if you like it go to
28:25
askmh.com for all of the details
28:28
and i’ll see you
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you
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