Hi. I'm Sam.
Gracie:And so is he.
Sam:And this is Gracie.
Gracie:And so am I. Together, we are up for the training of our lives, and we want you to join us.
Sam:We've both come to terms with the fact that we won't be representing team GB at the Olympics anytime soon.
Gracie:Let's face it. There's not much call for Sam's 50 meter dash with a guitar strap to his back.
Sam:And Gracie has been banned from the hurdles because she only goes on building.
Gracie:Harsh, but true. Anyway, what we are training for is not a sport. It's a way of life attempting to build up our spiritual and mental health.
Sam:It's in the training where all the work happens, the ups, the downs, the strains, the recovery, all of which is so much more encouraging when experienced with others.
Gracie:So we want you to join us for our brand new podcast, Pulse Check-in, a regular check-in to chat about faith and our fitness for life.
Sam:Subscribe to our YouTube channel, listen via Spotify, or however you like to access your podcasts.
Gracie:Post check-in, an opportunity to take a beat. Can I say, Sam, before we start, you're looking how do I describe how can I put it? You're looking, right, like a whippet about to pounce on a scroll.
Sam:A what now?
Gracie:A whippet about to pounce on a No.
Sam:No. No. I got the whippet bit. It's the second animal. I didn't quite get what you said.
Gracie:Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right.
Gracie:That was a bit stupid of me to include that. It it it's not a word I can say, actually.
Sam:No. No. Go on. Give it another go. Give it another go.
Sam:You said looks like a whippet about to pounce on a Squirrel. A squirrel.
Gracie:That's so right. Yes. My accent prevents me from naming that animal, and one of my favorite it's really annoying. My favorite I can't even say favorite. Favorite chocolate bars.
Sam:Well, alright then. You've mentioned what I'm wearing. Would you like me to give you a little a little twirl? Yeah. Yeah.
Sam:Yeah. A a twirl. Yeah, yeah, anyway.
Gracie:And for the sake of those not able to see what I'm seeing, Sam, is it all right if I describe you?
Sam:Go for it. Go for it. Right.
Gracie:Sam is kitted out in full gym. I don't know. Is it running gear? Perhaps running gear.
Sam:This is a specific running gear. Yes. Is.
Gracie:Yes. He's got a hat, he's got headphones, he's got a hydration vest. So it's obviously gonna be a long run.
Sam:Very important. Very important. Yeah.
Gracie:Got any water in that camel tank of yours?
Sam:I've got isotonic liquid or whatever you call it.
Gracie:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Liquid. Yeah.
Gracie:Do it. I got energy gels, a walker. Oh, the gels. See, you've got some very, very Swiss trainers there.
Sam:Oh, thank you very much. Thank you
Gracie:very much. You've got your running socks. But I noticed you've even got tape on your leg. Are you injured?
Sam:Injured? No. No. Just thought that's what I needed. I've seen others with the colorful tape, so I thought I quite like
Gracie:that. Sound like
Sam:a gear.
Gracie:Yeah. I think classic, but all the gear and no idea. Let's chat about
Sam:that. So,
Gracie:Sam, I probably have been a bit harsh about you with all your gear on.
Sam:I thought I looked quite good. You know?
Gracie:You do look good. Yeah. That is true.
Sam:Thanks.
Gracie:You do look look you look the bar, but, yes, it wasn't meant to be critical. I encourage anybody just to do the first bit. And sometimes it's just about tying up your laces.
Sam:Mhmm.
Gracie:Right. I've got a big question to ask you, Samuel.
Sam:What's that like?
Gracie:So what would you say is your motivation, right, from the moment when you wake up, yeah, a new day, what gets you going for that day?
Sam:That is a great question. Varies, I think, depending on what what the day is. I guess the plan for the day is what motivates me.
Gracie:So you say it's like the routine and the the things that you have to do, the things that you need to do
Sam:Yeah. I think so.
Gracie:For the day?
Sam:Yeah. Used to really struggle with being motivated at the start of the day because I'm not a morning person. I just wanted to stay in bed. But since having a little daughter who is there every day, which is great, you can't you can't do that. You have to you have to be responsible, I I think.
Sam:Yeah.
Gracie:That's a that's that's quite a good word for a parent to have.
Sam:Having that responsibility is very motivating. One, because she needs looking after, and two, because it's a joy to do so. Oh. So yeah.
Gracie:I mean, she's very cute.
Sam:She is very cute. Yeah.
Gracie:So do you ever stop and think, okay. Actually, what am I doing, and why am I doing it? Or do you just go back the day? You can be as honest as you like.
Sam:I mean, once I've dropped her at nursery and start the working day, kind of I guess that initial motivation to get up has gone because she's a nursery, and then I've got to start my working day. Do you know what I mean? What was the question again? What was it again?
Gracie:About do you ever stop and think, why are you doing what you're doing? Guess go ahead and do it.
Sam:Yeah. Definitely. I found more consciously realized recently that I just go ahead and do it and just get on and busy myself. And I think I've more consciously been trying to pause and reflect on the reasons why.
Gracie:Yeah. And it's quite hard when you've got, like, busy life and busy family life. Imagine it's even harder. I was thinking about if you consider, you'd said about taking Maisie to nursery. Yeah, that's part of the things that you need to do in your day.
Gracie:I'm just guessing here, but I would imagine that the reason why you take her to nursery is for a practical reason. But if you looked at the heart of that, I would suspect it's because you're her dad and you want her to have every opportunity in life and you want to thrive and to be safe, to be happy, feel loved. I would imagine that's right at the heart of why you do it. But those kind of values are clearly not going to be at the forefront of your mind when you're rushing out the door and like in a lunch and you've got a piece of toast stuck to your head and all that and then you get stuck in traffic.
Sam:And who are you there this morning?
Gracie:Yeah, still got a little bit of crust on your head. But I can imagine those thoughts about you thriving in life are less accessible in your mind. I might be wrong. But like you said, you're consciously trying to make more time to think about what motivates you. How do you do that amongst such a busy time?
Gracie:And when you do do that, do you get inspired? Like for me, sometimes if I stop and really, really think about why I'm doing things, I could feel a bit guilty I've suddenly realized that actually I'm I'm doing this all for the wrong reasons.
Sam:I don't think I feel the latter very often. Mhmm. I think when I don't think about my motivation, looking back, I've been guilty of being unproductive. Okay. Maybe not always through being not through being lazy, but just through being I don't really know what I'm doing.
Sam:I don't really know why I'm doing it, so therefore, I'm just not got any idea.
Gracie:Mhmm.
Sam:But if I stop and think of the motivation, it kind of if you think about the why, the what's a bit easier.
Gracie:Mhmm. Explain that a bit more?
Sam:If you think about the why, it kind of ignites the passion a bit more. And I think when when our passions are in it, it's kind of a place for us to thrive. Like, God places those passions in our heart for a reason, and he's given us those passions to motivate us and to thrive, I guess. I think it's like a fuel, isn't it?
Gracie:Yeah. Like an energy. I mean, I think you could put aside your isotonic what did you call it? Isotonic liquids.
Sam:Liquids. Yeah. But,
Gracie:yeah, it's like it fuels you, doesn't it? It fuels you. So once you got the y, it gives you the energy to to do, and it and it does it with probably a bit more it's more effective, I think.
Sam:Yeah, yeah definitely.
Gracie:I read this thing about, they use the word inspiration, but in terms of sort of thinking about motivation and all that, how we kind of explore what the heart is behind things that we do or say or way that we live. And it was talking about the word inspiration, but taking the word in, so it's in here, pointing to my heart, that doesn't really help people who are listening. But using that thought that what's inside, what's right deep inside spurs us on. It gives us, I guess, purpose as well. Because I think if we don't understand why we're doing something, we can kind of wander, can't we?
Gracie:It can be a bit aimless.
Sam:Yeah. Yeah, definitely.
Gracie:Ineffective and then I was thinking I was thinking this is probably one analogy too much. I was thinking once you get your inspiration and it energizes you and it focuses you on what you're gonna do, then you perspire, you sweat out. You sweat out. And then I thought, no. That's one analogy too.
Gracie:But I've said it.
Sam:Oh, funny. I guess you've got to get moving in order to Yes. That out there, haven't you?
Gracie:That's true.
Sam:Yeah.
Gracie:There was something you said at then, I thought I was going to ask you about that. Yes. So can you name a time, yeah, you had all the gear and no idea, not necessarily physical gear, but you're in a situation where you knew all the right things to say, you had all the right, I don't know, visual materials to back up your point or yeah, you made all the right decisions, right? But when it came to a moment of pressure, you realized you didn't know why you're doing it. And you realized, actually, what am I doing?
Sam:I guess what what comes to my mind a lot of the time is when I used to be a primary school teacher Mhmm. Or specifically a training primary school teacher. When I had read all the textbooks, planned all the lessons, stood up to do the lessons, and part of me doesn't know if it's because I felt like an impostor or if it was because I was just really nervous. Maybe probably a bit of both.
Gracie:Probably a bit of both, I would imagine.
Sam:And surprise surprise, I'm no longer a teacher. I guess part part of me realized that wasn't the right thing, and my motivation for that was more I need to do something, not am I doing the right thing.
Gracie:I mean, that can happen a lot, especially when you do that boring thing and become an adult. You find yourself, if you really think about it, like, why did I do that? And it's because a lot of the time, you know, I needed to do something. Mhmm. One of the pressures of life, isn't it?
Sam:And I heard a quote recently that has stuck in my head and been actually been really useful. It's to do with nervousness and always thinking about people judging you. Sometimes you have got all the gear, you've got all the skills, you've got all the ability, but that anxiety kind of means that you don't perform as well as you could. It was a quote from Sam Hargreaves from Engage Worship. He's talking about leading with authority and looking at how Jesus led.
Sam:And this is what he said, Jesus' authority came from his relationship with the father. It's not oppressive or dictatorial. Jesus says that the father loves him. For this reason, Jesus can submit entirely to being led by the father. He isn't bothered by human applause or rejection because his identity is secure in being the son of the father.
Sam:If you are called to do something, then your authority comes from God. You don't need to prove yourself or demonstrate any earthly credentials. Your security comes from being a child of the father who loves you and appoints you to your role. And I guess a lot of the time, I've just been spending too much of my brainpower looking for that earthly approval. Am I doing the right thing?
Sam:And I guess in some leadership, you kind of have to do that, but don't let it shroud your ability to do something. Like, you've been called to do this and you've been given the passions and abilities to do it by God.
Gracie:Yeah. And I when I was looking at this, there was a a bit of scripture, find it in a second. And you could you could study it and pick it apart or whatever, but I don't know if I'm oversimplifying it. But the basis of it is everything needs to be built from a relationship with Jesus. And if you can go back and focus on that bit and know that you've got a relationship with him and you couldn't, like you said in that quote, it's far more articulate, but it reiterates that idea, doesn't it, that that's where our motivation has to come from.
Gracie:We've got those abilities, but they're rooted in if they're rooted in God and our relationship with Him, then it can move us forward.
Sam:Yep. And if we've taken time to listen to that calling from Him, well then we can afford to be confident in it and can afford to trust that anointing that he's given us.
Gracie:It's weird though, isn't it? Anxiety is so crippling. And as well as that anxiety and approval of others, I think when you start comparing as well or you start thinking, oh, they'd be much better this than me.
Sam:Or trying to do things how somebody else would do it.
Gracie:Yeah. It's it's that that's a downward
Sam:You're never gonna
Gracie:spiral. Like, squirrel.
Sam:Yeah. Like, they've they're successful in the way they do it because that's who they are. Whereas you're you're not them, so it might not work for you. You know what
Gracie:mean? I don't know if this does fit in. It's probably it's just come into my head now. But as you know, Sam, I do a bit of acting.
Sam:Oh yeah, you do.
Gracie:But I didn't always want to be an actor, but I kind of discovered I was like on a gap year and I went and worked for this mission team. And it was like being an apprentice and we'd go to different events and support the leader who's doing it. It was more exciting than that. Anyway, during that time we did like this tour, evangelistic tour, and there was a guy there who performed solo actor. And I remember thinking, that's what I wanna do.
Gracie:I wanna do what he's doing. So I built a friendship with him. I even went to the same theater school as him. And yeah, I knew from that moment that's what I wanted to do. So I built my kind of work out of that year out, but I would write my own material because I kind of realized that that writing was something that I could do.
Gracie:And also it meant selfishly I could act out what I wanted the message to be. So I kind of had that as my backdrop, as my job. Then amongst that, I got asked by somebody outside of the team to reenact the opening scene of Trainspotting. And I don't know if you've ever seen Trainspotting. Just need to put a little word of warning.
Gracie:If you listen to this and then go watch Trainspotting, it is quite a difficult film to watch and not for somebody under 18, just need to put that out.
Sam:Yes, yes, yes,
Gracie:So I was asked to reenact the opening scene of Trainspotting and it is a bloke running away is talking to himself saying, choose life, choose a job, choose a television. There's a few choice words in there as well. And as they're running on the screen, all these items are falling out of his pocket, right? So I was like, I'm not really sure because it's not really my style of doing it. But they put quite a lot of pressure on me and I didn't wanna let them down.
Gracie:So I was like, okay, I'll do it. But throughout the whole rehearsal time, it just didn't sit right because I was like, one, I'm not a bloke. Two, because of the setting that I was gonna be performing it in, I had to edit out all the swear words and there were a lot of them. So once you did that, it kind of was left a little bit skinny in terms of material. And also visually, I didn't know how I was gonna do it.
Gracie:It was just so many things that just didn't sit right. Right up until the point where I was about to go on stage, I knew I shouldn't do it because it just wasn't me. So we're in a worship session, got my mate playing mushy chorus on the keyboard, people are responding. Yeah, there are people praying with each other and there's a few tears and stuff like that. It's quite a like moving moment.
Gracie:And I was due to go on and start this scene. And I was like, I'm not doing it. It's not right. This is not the right time to do it. And the person who asked me to do it was stood by me near the sound desk and he pressed play on the music.
Gracie:He went, Go and do it. Press play on the music. So I didn't have any choice. I ran on, went on stage, I managed the first line, I went choose a job, then I couldn't remember any other words and my mind just went blank. And I looked out and because I'd burst onto stage when people were responding, I think they were thinking, what's going on?
Gracie:And normally if I forget lines, I can kind of pick it up somewhere, but my mind went completely blank. And I just went, I'm really sorry, I can't do this. It gets worse, right? I go off stage, as I go off stage, I fall down the steps.
Sam:Sorry, thought of you.
Gracie:Gets worse, right? I fall down the steps, my leg is trapped in the steps on this stage. And when I fell, because I tried so hard to edit out all the swear words, I was very, very conscious not to do the when I fell, all that edited swear word came out of my mouth and I was still miked up.
Sam:Goodness me.
Gracie:And then they were trying to get me out of the steps so my foot was jammed and I was still, you know, shouting down the microphone, that's hurting my leg. I can't say the other word that I used, but it
Sam:Okay, yeah, And
Gracie:it was hideous. It like still to this day makes me get a bit hot and sweaty. But I knew, that's a very long story, but something that I have felt for so long that God was using and I knew that I was using the skills that he had given me. And then suddenly I was put in this position where that was all in doubt, but I know it's because I didn't do it for the right reasons.
Sam:I
Gracie:did it under pressure. I didn't connect with what the piece was saying. So I tried to blag it. And then when you try to blag it, it comes undone quite quickly when it's exposed to reality. The reason I did that is because I didn't wanna let someone else down.
Gracie:Mhmm. And compared myself to think another performer can probably do that.
Sam:Yeah. Why can't I Yeah. In a way?
Gracie:If I've you know, if I'm an actor, I should be able to be a lot more
Sam:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Gracie:Adaptable than that. But yes. And, like, in that moment of when even when I was questioning it, I still didn't I didn't listen to that Mhmm. That prompt which was saying, you know, it's
Sam:yourself to be something you know. Yeah. Yeah.
Gracie:And it's yeah. So I I know it's always possible, but I think it is really important to take time to take stock and check your pulse. Mhmm. So if I say that to you, Sam, what do you think about that in terms of, like, faith, taking stock and checking your pulse? What does it mean for you?
Sam:Taking a minute to pause and reflect, to pray, to listen to God, to just fill yourself up with him. Yeah. Like Jesus did a lot. Jesus, whenever he's got something big to face, he takes time out to pause.
Gracie:Yeah. And I I also think well, maybe you talk about this in a bit, but I think also perhaps we need to be okay with the fact that sometimes we just get on and do it without thinking. As in, I mean, take the heart for what it is. So our heart is pumping now and it's providing us with what we need. It's it's on in the background.
Sam:Yeah. Yeah.
Gracie:Yeah. But we're not aware of it, are we?
Sam:The pulse is always going. Yeah.
Gracie:Yeah. It's not like we're always thinking, oh, my heart's going. My heart's going.
Sam:Yeah. If I stop thinking about it, my heart's gonna stop, which it Yeah.
Gracie:It's just not what happens. Yeah. Maybe, I don't know, it says a favor. It's okay to be I think it's important actually, not just okay. I think it's important that we do stuff anyway, even without understanding what our reason is or our motivation is because the God hasn't gone anywhere.
Gracie:If our relationship with him is short and stable and strong, then we can go about life, the mundane and also the challenging, and and god will still be there providing us with what we need.
Sam:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. We we prepare ourselves for the challenge.
Sam:We equip ourselves with that armor.
Gracie:Mhmm. And
Sam:because we've taken that time, that pulse check-in to equip ourselves, we're prepared and ready for the task. So when we're in the task, we don't have to stop and do a quick Google search of some relevant scriptures or whatever it is.
Gracie:But you nailed it. Yeah. Yeah. You nailed it, exactly that. But I mean, the scripture I was gonna share was from Jude.
Gracie:It's not actually, the book of Jude is not one I know very well, but it's very So maybe I should get to know it a bit more because I'm short.
Sam:Get under those hurdles.
Gracie:Yes, I can get under them. Don't even have to run under them, could just walk. That's where I got into trouble. So Jude, do know I think Jude is yes, it's just one chapter. Did you know that?
Sam:I wasn't fully aware. No.
Gracie:Oh, there you go.
Sam:Think that. Have to check them out. How many verses?
Gracie:Five verses.
Sam:Oh, yeah.
Gracie:So the bit the bit scripture that stood out is Jude verse 20. It says, But you, my delightfully loved friends, constantly and progressively build yourself up on the foundation of your most holy faith by praying every moment in the spirit. Fasten your hearts to the love of God and receive the mercy of Lord Jesus Christ who gives us eternal life. It's two verses, but it says a lot, I think.
Sam:It's it's it's challenging and inspiring at the same time. Love it.
Gracie:Yes. I like that. So it makes you feel a little bit uncomfortable, doesn't it? Well, doesn't it? Yeah.
Gracie:But in a motivational way.
Sam:Yeah. Yeah. And kind of a don't make it too complicated because it's not that complicated.
Gracie:Yeah. Well, I mean, sorry to harp back to it, Sam. But you could. You could just go out for a run.
Sam:Could. Yeah.
Gracie:You perhaps don't need all the paraphernalia.
Sam:Yes. You are you are quite right.
Gracie:But I sometimes as well, we've kind of put loads of stuff around us because we lack a bit of confidence.
Sam:Mhmm.
Gracie:If we have all the right stuff, we learn all the right things.
Sam:Or if we don't have the right stuff, it's an excuse not to do it. Yes. Yep. They've guilty of that in the past.
Gracie:I also think there's a sense of although we've talked a lot about, you know, taking stock or pausing, taking a check-in, yeah. Not chicken, it's always chickens. There's also a sense of it being active, so it uses the word constantly, progressively, build. It's they're all kind of it's action, isn't it?
Sam:Yep.
Gracie:And it says build yourself up on the foundation so it's recognising what that foundation is. Pray in every moment in the spirit. Because you could be praying, it's a bit like your heartbeat going, You could be praying all the time.
Sam:Yeah. Having that having that awareness that he's always there helping you, always available.
Gracie:He is always available. Yeah. He's he doesn't go anywhere. Mhmm. We might wander off.
Gracie:Mhmm. So, Sam, just to draw you back to your delightful gear that you're wearing.
Sam:Oh, yes. Yes. Looking rather swish. Five seconds off my, by KPB. Yeah.
Gracie:50 meter dash. Yeah. I see you got some rather cool headphones there. Sophie, if you were gonna suggest an accompanying bit of music to get you on track, what would it be?
Sam:Well, one one thing that I've been listening to recently is there's been a new album out by Ben Rector, who is a guy from America. He likes playing golf. He's a Christian as well.
Gracie:Do those two things go together? As in, if you play golf, it's more of a Christian sport. It makes you closer to Jesus if you play golf.
Sam:It's definitely holy. Right. Right.
Gracie:Very good.
Sam:Thanks. Thanks. There's this there's this song on the album called Praying For Me. It says someone must have been praying for me because, like, I've managed to achieve all these things, and it kinda brings that focus. Like, I've managed to achieve all these things.
Sam:It it can't have been through my ability. It must have been through something higher than that. And I guess it really inspires me.
Gracie:I like it.
Sam:Not just inspires me in the things that I'm doing, but inspires me to pray for other people so that they can also feel that and pray that pray specifically that they will feel that it is that someone must have been praying for them.
Gracie:Cool. So go and check it out.
Sam:What about you? Any suggestions for my playlist? I'd say as well, if anybody listening to this has any ideas of what we could add to our playlist that might link to what we've talked about or be a motivational workout playlist. Pop them in the comments. Send them over
Gracie:really helpful. Sorry. Talk to
Sam:you. No. No. Yeah. Pop them in the comments.
Sam:Send them over to us. We'd love to hear your thoughts. Email us at Plexus@SalvationArmy.org.uk.
Gracie:I'd also like to hear I haven't passed this by you, Sam, but I would like to hear what people's guilty track is. Everyone's got a track on their playlist where they're maybe a little bit embarrassed if it was on shuffle and it played in public.
Sam:Oh, yeah.
Gracie:Do know what I mean? It could be, I don't know What's yours? The Macarena or something worse.
Sam:Alright. That you just have to listen to.
Gracie:Yeah. Yeah. So watch your guilty. I mean, your secret is safe with us and other people who listen.
Sam:Yeah. Yeah.
Gracie:Yeah. Can you think of one, Sam?
Sam:Do you I've recently there was an advert came on the telly, and I thought that's a good song, but it doesn't fit into the sorts of music that I listen to. It's can I mention this? Pink Pony Club. Dancing the Pink Pony Club. That's a quality song.
Sam:I love that song.
Gracie:A brilliant confession. Yes. That's what we're after. Nothing wrong, though. Love the Pink Pony Club.
Sam:It has got some great guitar parts in it. I'll just say
Gracie:Yeah. That's not why you like it, but, yeah, if that's what you wanna tell us.
Sam:Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's a great excuse to like it.
Sam:Yeah.
Gracie:That's a good track. Right. So my kind of serious serious focused one, well, one that kind of and not only the words helped me to, you know, raise my heart rate a bit with activity. It's Toby Mac and it's called The Goodness and it's basically singing out all that is good about bod and that it is available to us and it's faithful and strong and yeah.
Sam:Yeah. And I guess singing that out, it kinda speaks it into Yeah. Into your soul so you know.
Gracie:Yeah. So it it sing it it sings out all those things. It's like singing out the ingredients of
Sam:Yeah.
Gracie:Yeah. Yeah. And yeah. So I'd say that.
Sam:Yeah. That Topamax song's a good song because it's upbeat. Is it is it upbeat?
Gracie:It is very upbeat.
Sam:Yeah. Whereas my song's not very upbeat. It's just inspiring in a different way. Yeah. It's definitely not a start your workout track.
Gracie:Is it a warm up or a stretch out? Or those two elements of any kind of activity are important. We'll talk about that on another thing. But
Sam:It's probably a stretch out.
Gracie:Yep. You want to know my guilty one?
Sam:Of course. Yes. So
Gracie:I would say probably I've got some remixes. It's important that you hear the word remix first.
Sam:Okay.
Gracie:Taylor Swift songs. I mean, I I I'm unashamedly a Swifty anyway, But in terms of I'm gonna be a Swifty at 50.
Sam:I'm not a Swifty. I'd I'd say that.
Gracie:That's alright.
Sam:If you're a Swifty, bash it in the comments. Bash me in the comments.
Gracie:Not a Swifty. I'm not actually, I'm not a Swifty because I haven't got the friendship bands and I'm not 15. But I do like I do like her lyrics. Sorry. But, yes, so I've got a remix of Fortnite, which is Taylor Swift and Post Malone.
Gracie:That's my confession.
Sam:I don't mind Post Malone.
Gracie:I saved it with Post Malone, did I?
Sam:I'll be honest. Now this might be controversial. I've I've seen Post Malone on talking just in videos with other people than I have listened to his music. Well So I can't really comment. I apologize.
Sam:It seems like it seems seems like it You better
Gracie:have to apologize.
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Gracie:I think also we just need to put a little bit of an encouragement on the subscription thing because I don't know if you're like me, Sam, you got a number of subscriptions, like you do a free free trial, and then you forget to cancel them, and you get all these bills going out once a month. This is free, isn't it? Subscription to this is free. Yes. So do not panic.
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Gracie:Yeah. Because we don't be just sat here talking to ourselves. We do that all the time. Yep. We wanna get to to others.
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