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Welcome to the We Are More podcast.

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My name is Alyssa.

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And my name is Bri.

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We are two sisters passionate about all things faith and feminism.

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We believe that Jesus trusted, respected, and encouraged women to teach and preach His

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word.

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And apparently that's controversial.

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Get comfy.

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Hello my name is Brianna.

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Is it?

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They haven't figured that out by now.

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Hello.

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If there's anybody out there who is, you know, a podcast creator and they know more about

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technology than we know.

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Please help us.

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There's too many chords here and we're confused.

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We're going to call today on this episode that we're not going to name because we've

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learned that lesson.

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I thought we did name it.

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Oh, we're not numbering.

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We're not numbering it.

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We named it though and it's a good name.

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It is a good name.

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It's a good name if you're an old Disney addict and also you might be related to us.

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So we're going to call today, it's tough to be a bug.

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I mean, I mean, woman.

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And if you don't get that reference, it's from Disney.

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Of course it is.

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A Bugs Life.

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And that guy, I forget his name, but he sings, he was like, was a bug, little bug, hardly

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there.

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You were going to find an opportunity to sing that song today.

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And this is it.

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In Disney, if you go to Animal Kingdom, it's actually not going to be there for very long.

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They're, they're re theming, I guess.

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I actually didn't know that, but it needs to be rethemed.

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So in the tree of life inside the big tree, there's a performance and it's called, it's

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tough to be a bug.

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And it scarred me as a child.

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It scarred my daughter also.

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Honestly, last time we were there, I hadn't gone into it's tough to be a bug in a while.

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And I did last time.

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That did scar me too.

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There's like a stink bug and there's little ants or bugs that crawl onto your butt.

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And there's big old spiders.

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You'd think as an adult, that wouldn't be as effective because it's just like little

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air pockets that are blowing up under your seat and kind of at the bottom by your feet

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or whatever, but it's still terrifying.

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It's horrible.

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And if you don't like bugs, get out of there.

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Just get out.

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If you don't like bugs, maybe going to a performance called it's tough to be a bug was not your

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best life choice.

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I do like the movie though.

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I like the movie a bug's life.

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Cause they collect like seeds and berries and there's something pleasant about that.

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It scared me as a child because they've got the grasshoppers and they're straight up evil.

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They're scary and mean.

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And then doesn't like the one gets eaten by a bird at the end, right?

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Well, it deserves it cause it was mean.

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But yeah, it's really scarring.

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Old Disney was scary and scarring.

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So today instead of a bug, we're talking about womanhood.

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It's hard being a woman.

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And like you'd think 2024, okay, we probably should have figured some stuff out.

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I get back in the day, you know, you had to go to the desert to bleed.

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Sorry.

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Maybe we need a warning before we, we're going to be talking about womanhood.

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So if you're uncomfortable with that, maybe stop listening.

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If you haven't figured out the topic of the entire podcast, now is the moment.

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It's the thought of, you know, tampons and feminine hygiene makes you uncomfortable.

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The exits are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here,

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here.

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Dad, just go ahead and log off right now.

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Just skip this one.

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Sorry dad.

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Hey, a new meme.

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A new one.

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Sorry dad.

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Tampons.

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One time I scared Brandon, but he was gone and he, we were pulling pranks on each other.

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He turned my whole dresser upside down.

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Yada, yada, yada.

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I strung pads and tampons like streamers so that when he opened his door, they just went

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pow.

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I'm sure he loved that.

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I think he did.

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We grew up in, our dad in particular is very sensitive when it comes to talking about periods

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and any of the feminine hygiene stuff.

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He just can't.

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He just can't.

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And he has two daughters and a wife.

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Like a tampon commercial comes on the TV.

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And I'm not talking about the modern ones where they actually use like red liquid.

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Like when they were using blue Kool-Aid.

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And it would come on and he'd go, oh, and either pause it if we had DVR at the time.

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Or he would literally run out of the room.

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So this is going to be a rough one for dad.

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You need to grow up.

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This is happening and you can't stop it.

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So we read an article or I read an article, we talked about it, that was essentially,

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does it cost more to be a woman?

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Just from a financial standpoint, does it cost more money to be a woman?

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And we'll dive into each individual topic, but the conclusion, so we could just skip

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to the end, is that-

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Yes.

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Yes.

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But not just because of pads and tampons.

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No, for many reasons.

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It costs on average $300,000 more throughout your lifetime to be a woman.

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A woman.

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Just to be a woman.

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Just to be without a ween.

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And I think when people think of that, a huge stereotype on women is, well, you guys just

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spend way too much on clothes and on trips and on blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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But we're not talking about optional items here.

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We're talking about necessary things for living as a woman.

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Yes.

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And as I was reading the article, just the thing that popped out to me from that first

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initial 300 grand, what could you buy for $300,000?

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For $300,000, you could send yourself to college.

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You could buy a house.

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You could buy a boat.

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You could, depending on where you are, buy multiple houses.

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You could go on luxury vacations multiple times.

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Literally for your whole life.

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You could go to Disney so many times.

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How many times could we go to Disney?

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If every time we go to Disney-

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Twice!

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Cost us $5,000.

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I'm like, hold on, Brianna!

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Calculator time.

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Alright, Bri, talk while I calculate.

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Well, what else could you buy for $300,000?

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I'd tell you what, 300,000 items at the dollar store.

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No, because it's $1.25 now.

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If you stole them though.

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If you stole them though.

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So if for an average family of four- now this might horrify you if you've not been to Disney,

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but for an average family of four, like for my family, it costs around $5,000 to go to

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Disney with airfare and whatever.

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I don't want any of y'all to judge that.

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It is necessary, okay?

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Get over it.

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Do you want to experience magic in your life?

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That costs money, okay?

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I don't know what to tell you.

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Stop judging us!

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Gosh, dang it!

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I'm sorry, headphone users.

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So anyway, if it costs $5,000 for a family of four to go to Disney, based on that amount

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of money, your family of four could go to Disney 60 times.

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And not enough.

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It's just not enough.

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I mean, you know, can you put a price on wonder and joy?

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I don't think you can.

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I don't think you can.

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So those are some of the things that you could buy for $300,000.

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Casually.

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Casually.

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But then I was also wondering, how much earlier can you retire?

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Could you stop working, say, three years earlier based on the ability to invest that money?

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Just in general, say you don't have to commit to working 40 hours a week.

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You could have good work-life balance.

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Right.

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Well, and that was the other question I had is like, how much more does a woman have to

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make to live comfortably as a woman, to have the same lifestyle as a man?

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Let's say as a single woman, you need to make X amount of dollars to be able to pay for

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all of this extra crap.

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And a man doesn't have to make that much.

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Now again, statistically, there's a wage gap.

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And so men are making more anyway.

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And so we're even further away from an easier lifestyle.

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They say that's because men will apply for jobs if they are like 62% qualified for that

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job.

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But a woman will only apply for that job if she's like 85% qualified for that job.

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Well, I think that ties in because we'll talk about this a little bit later too, but women

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are taught to be meek and mild, to not ruffle feathers, to not rock the boat.

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I don't want to make that person uncomfortable.

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If I don't feel that I'm qualified for a job, I may not apply for it because I don't want

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that person to judge me or to feel like they have to hire me or to whatever.

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So we're going to come back to that.

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We'll circle back to that.

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We'll circle back.

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So the article goes through quite a few different pieces of that $300,000 amount.

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Just in case you don't believe us, there's lots of stats.

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Don't believe me?

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Ask the dishes.

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Disney has really filtered into the last three episodes, guys.

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We're going in 42 days.

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We're very excited.

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Honestly, they can sing, they can dance.

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After all, this is France.

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So one of the first things that she talks about in this article, and if you want to

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look it up, it's on hermoney.com.

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It's called Why It Costs $300,000 More to Be a Woman Than It Does to Be a Man.

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So you can look that article up.

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She's got some wonderful sources in here.

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Wonderful.

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The first thing she brings up is just a singular example of a singular item, and it's shampoo.

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Shampoo.

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In French, it's shampoo-y.

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Thank you for that information.

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So she says that shampoo for women is 48% more expensive than it is for men.

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That doesn't mean it's better.

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It really doesn't.

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And that's just a singular problem.

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We're not even taking into account the fact that stereotypically women are buying shampoo,

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conditioner, a hair mask, 7,000 other things, and men are not necessarily doing that.

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So just strictly shampoo.

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So that means that if a man was to spend $6 for a bottle of shampoo, a woman would spend

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$9.

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I don't know about you, but it's a lot less than I'm spending on shampoo.

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I know.

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Shampoo's stupid.

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It's expensive.

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But I don't have to buy as much because curly hair is dry.

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So that doesn't sound like a crazy amount right off the bat.

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Six to nine dollars, okay, three dollar difference, whatever.

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But over a lifetime, and I think she considers a lifetime from when you become, not that

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this is your whole lifetime, but she's counting from when you are 18.

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So you're going to start buying your own products.

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And people might start earlier than that, but 18 on average.

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And then she goes up to, I believe, 78, which is the average lifespan of a woman in the

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United States.

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So that's $1,260 more in our lifetimes on shampoo.

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And that doesn't seem like, oh, like a crazy amount for a whole lifetime worth of shampoo.

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But that's, like you said, that's one product.

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And you know, for certain, there's lots of other products we're using.

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Well, let me tell you about them, Bree.

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Oh, Alyssa, I would just love you too.

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Shoot, dang.

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So the next one we'll go into is period products.

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Oh, warning.

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Bree, oh, do our transition music.

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I'm always ready for a transition.

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So period products, according to the National Organization for Women, most women spend about

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$20 a month on period products.

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Easily.

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I don't know if that rings true for everyone, but for Bree and I, we were talking about the

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different products that we have to buy.

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And it's not just one thing.

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No, because if you didn't know out there, there's a lot of different products.

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It's not just a tampon.

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There are days where you want to use tampons.

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There are times where you just want to use a pad.

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There are times when you want to use those little menstrual discs because that's more

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comfortable.

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Some people don't want that, but some people do.

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And also you got to think of mitol and Tylenol and new underwear because gosh dang it, you

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bled through it again.

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A couple other things too, I'm sure.

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So this is, this number, this $20 a month, I think is just period products though.

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So your box of tampons for the month or whatever.

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Your harpoons, your lagoons and your whatnots.

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But obviously there are so many other costs.

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And that's, I mean, forget even things like birth control, stuff like that.

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So many just feminine care products.

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Well, I would say what the average price for a box of tampons now is like $8.

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That's on the cheap side actually.

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Yeah.

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And that's just one product.

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So then if you're also getting pads and say that's $8, which I think they're even, if

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you get the nicer ones, they're more than that.

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Yeah, if you want one set, don't contain arsenic and lead.

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We'll get into it, Bree.

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We'll get into it.

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Then you do need to spend a bit more.

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So over a lifetime, moving on.

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Over a lifetime, that $20 a month.

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So that again, she counts from age 18.

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Obviously this one doesn't go until 78, but I think she counts it from like age 18 till

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50.

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So that's like age 50ish.

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That's $18,000.

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Just because we bleed.

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And this is not, if you want to make this argument of, well, women just spend more in

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general, this is non-negotiable.

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We don't get to decide whether we use period products.

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Because let me tell you, if I show up to work bleeding through my pants, I think someone's

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going to say something.

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Maybe they just want us to go back to the desert, bleed in the sand.

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There was an episode of Naked and Afraid we watched not too long ago.

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I don't know if you watched it with us.

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I do not watch Naked and Afraid.

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It is quite a show.

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I didn't realize it was still going.

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But this woman, she was on her period while they were filming.

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And I don't know why more women are not on their periods during this show, because a

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lot of them are there for a full month.

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But it definitely addressed the fact that she was just bleeding all day.

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And wow, what an experience.

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A little offshoot there.

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All right.

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Alyssa's eyes just glazed over and she looked into the distance like she was terrified.

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I was terrified.

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I just can't imagine that.

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Can you imagine the mosquitoes having a field day?

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Stop.

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But another thing that I was reading about, because this was, this is a really big topic

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and this could obviously be something that we go into deeper later, but this is just

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part of what we're talking about today.

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A huge part of having to spend this $18,000 throughout our lifetimes is that a lot of

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women can't.

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And so that's called period poverty, which is something that's uncomfy and that people

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don't like to talk about.

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But you get someone who is already impoverished, who's already struggling, and then you take

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inflation into account.

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You take how expensive housing is into account.

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And do you think they are sitting on an extra $20 a month to buy proper, safe, healthy period

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products?

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So instead, they are trying to use less.

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So they're maybe using their tampons for too long.

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Which can lead to toxic shock syndrome, which can kill you.

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They are overusing a pad, which means embarrassing leakage, which means the potential for infection.

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The list goes on and on and you can say, we'll give them something reusable.

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The reusable thing might only cost $40 or $50.

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But that's the hard thing about being in poverty is if you can't afford the $5 box of cheap

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tampons, you certainly can't afford the initial cost, even though it would save you money

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long term, of a $40 or $50 reusable disc or cup or any of those things.

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Additionally, for homeless shelters, things like that, these are not necessarily items

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that are thought about and donated.

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There's just a huge lack there.

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So just having a period is incredibly difficult.

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And it's an expense you don't have a choice.

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And forget about the emotional things going on.

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There's so much more that you could talk about, but we are 20 minutes in.

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So move on.

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Well, shoot.

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So the next thing that she talks about, I'm going a little bit out of order, but one of

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the other things she talks about is home ownership.

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A single woman is likely to spend 2% more on her home than a single man.

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And then she is likely to sell it for 2% less than a single man.

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2% you don't think is huge until you realize how much is the price of a home.

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It's a lot.

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The average price of a home in the US is what, like $375,000?

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$375,000.

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I'm really knowledgeable, thank you.

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So that means that 2% more is $7,500.

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And think about when you buy a new home, all of the expenses that come with it.

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Maybe you need a new couch, maybe you need a new bed, maybe the house needs some renovations.

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$7,500 goes a long way.

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So then the question becomes why?

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Why is that the case?

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And she says it's a failure to negotiate.

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And so as Bri and I were talking about that, we said, well, why are women less likely to

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negotiate?

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And this ties back into why there's a wage gap.

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Women are taught, particularly to tie this back into our whole aesthetic, Christian women

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especially, religious women especially, not to say that this isn't all women, but from

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our little corner of the woods over here, are taught be meek and mild, be unassuming,

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don't be an inconvenience.

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And the way that that plays out here is a wage gap.

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Is a gap in how much you're going to pay for your home.

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Or even if you do try to negotiate, they don't always take you seriously.

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In my experience with buying many, many cars, bought a lot of cars, they just don't want

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to hear it from someone that they think is weak or weaker than them, or someone that

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they don't feel they can even respect.

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That's my feelings on it is they're not even going to give you the time of day.

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Well, I think oftentimes in these situations, women are seen as less knowledgeable.

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I remember when we were looking for our house, and I did like our realtor a lot, don't get

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me wrong, but he would turn to Nathan to talk about this and that and the other thing about

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the house.

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And in my past, I was a real estate assistant and so I took a lot of the classes to become

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an agent.

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And so I had a lot of knowledge.

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And eventually he got to a point where he would talk to me too.

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But it took a lot for him to talk to me.

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Because I was seen as less knowledgeable just because I'm a woman.

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I mean, he didn't know us at all, so that had to be the only reason.

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So then she talked about clothes.

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Now women get crap for clothes all the time.

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I have a lot of clothes.

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I enjoy purchasing clothes.

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I'm looking around my room right now.

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I'm thinking I need to burn everything.

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So this number for clothing within that $300,000, so we're still working within that.

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All she calculated for is shirts.

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She was like, I'm not even going to go into formal dresses or wedding clothes or maternity

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clothes or any of that stuff.

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So we're just talking about shirts.

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And she calculated out only as if a woman bought a new shirt every two months.

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Now women pay on average $5 more per shirt than a man would.

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So over a lifetime, that's a $1,500 difference.

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Just in shirts and not to an excess.

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We're not talking about a woman that loves to go shopping a ton or a man that loves to

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go shopping a ton.

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We're just talking if every two months reasonably you're replacing one shirt because good heavens

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you've probably worn through them.

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Or you've spilled countless times on your white clothing.

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And stained it irreversibly.

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So that's how clothing calculates into that number.

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And I think if you did start to calculate out maternity clothes, like the millions of

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other things that women have to buy.

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I'm going to start on maternity clothes.

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I haven't even had a baby.

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I just think it's so frustrating that you go to try to buy maternity clothes and they

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cost so much money.

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It's insane.

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Oh my gosh, just because there's a little extra fabric in your bump.

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And sometimes there's not even extra fabric.

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Sometimes it's just that it's ruched on the side.

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Like a top is just ruched.

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Or it's just branded as maternity.

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Or it's slightly bigger in size.

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So then she talks about the pink tacks.

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Anytime I go to Victoria's Secret, I get just hit with a ton of tacks.

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No, just kidding.

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Rihanna.

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So this is the concept that anything pink, not necessarily pink, but made for women,

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costs more.

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And there's an estimate, let me look back at where she found this estimate.

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Things like razors for women.

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Really, there's no difference between men and women's razors, but they're pink.

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And so they cost more.

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So I looked it up on Amazon to find examples of it.

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And Gillette has...

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I was going to say that.

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Yeah.

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Disposable pink razors.

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And they were 1997.

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And I looked up the same razors.

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Now these are cheap, disposable, whatever razors.

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For men, 14.97.

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I was thinking about pens.

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Oh, okay.

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Yeah.

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Like, Bic has pens for her.

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And they're like pink and purple.

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And they cost way more than just a regular set of pens.

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So a study in...

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It was conducted by the state of California in 1994.

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So it was a long time ago.

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This has been going on for a while.

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It wasn't that long ago.

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And shut up.

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Long ago.

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When the dinosaurs roamed the earth.

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So long ago.

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They have to dust off the pages.

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So they estimated that the pink tax costs women an extra $1,350 a year.

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So in today's money, that would be $2,200.

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Yeah.

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And I believe it.

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Now, I would almost estimate that to be more, but that was what the study said.

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So in approximately 60 years, so from age 18 to age 78.

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Now some people would say that's a long time.

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Maybe not 30 years.

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But others might say that 30 years was a long time.

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And then she killed her sister.

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She murdered her dead.

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And the police had to come and haul her away.

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This is going to get flagged.

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Brianna ran into the forest, which she's never seen again.

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And she had her period there.

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And she bled and then a bear ate her.

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And she said, dang, I'm glad it wasn't a man.

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Wow.

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And then she died too.

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The story has layers.

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Sneak and cut this out.

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No, I'm keeping this part in.

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So over a lifetime, that $2,200 equates to $132,000 more spent than men.

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So I'm going to speed through the next couple, even though they are really, really important.

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So the next one is beauty products.

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Beauty products.

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And I think this one's huge.

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So she says that there's a study done by the online retailer Skin Store.

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And it showed that women in the US, on average, spend $300,000 in beauty products over the

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course of their lifetime.

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Now she didn't take into account all of that 300 grand.

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She said, let's assume that you're real thrifty and you don't spend a lot on beauty products.

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Still, you're probably going to spend 100 grand on beauty products.

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So that's what jumps into that $300,000 number.

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Because we need to be young and beautiful.

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So that, yeah, I'm sure that this number in particular gets criticized.

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Well, you don't need to spend that much.

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Women are too over-makeuped anyway.

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Blah, blah, blah, blah.

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And yet, we talked about this in the last episode.

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You show men a picture of a girl with no makeup on, and they're like, oh, she looks terrible.

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You show them a picture of a girl with natural makeup on, and it's like, oh, see, that's

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what I want.

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A natural woman.

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Do you know how much it costs to look like a natural woman?

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Or say, heaven forbid, you go to work and you didn't do your makeup like you usually

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00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,680
do and people are like, are you okay?

493
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:35,680
You look exhausted.

494
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:37,760
Do you need to go home and rest?

495
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:41,360
Yeah, so there's this huge pressure to purchase all of these things.

496
00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:43,360
This is just my freaking face.

497
00:27:43,360 --> 00:27:44,640
I am sorry.

498
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:46,360
I am exhausted.

499
00:27:46,360 --> 00:27:47,360
You exhaust me.

500
00:27:47,360 --> 00:27:49,360
Get out of my face.

501
00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:51,800
You're very emotional this episode.

502
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:52,800
Maybe I'm on my period.

503
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:53,800
Do you know?

504
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:55,000
I don't know.

505
00:27:55,000 --> 00:28:00,520
But I think also, again, from this Christian standpoint, women are told that they have

506
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,980
to look a certain way to please their husbands.

507
00:28:03,980 --> 00:28:11,800
We're supposed to look youthful and put together, and our hair has to be done just so, and our

508
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:13,760
makeup has to be done just so.

509
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:18,160
Otherwise, his eyes may wander, and it will be your fault.

510
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:20,280
And that costs money.

511
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,640
I'm looking at a $30 lip mask right next to me.

512
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:25,960
It does cost money.

513
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:31,720
You're talking about even for the simplest self-care routine, right?

514
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:37,640
A cleanser, a moisturizer, just to keep the wrinkles at bay, because if you look too old

515
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:43,680
too soon, it's liable to just leave and run off and find a younger woman.

516
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:52,200
And then for makeup, you're talking foundation, powder, eyeshadow, eyebrows, lip color, and

517
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,040
that's at the very simplest.

518
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:57,520
I've got at least 30 additional products in my bag.

519
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:01,960
For your hair, you're talking about shampoo, conditioner.

520
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,440
Hairspray at bare minimum.

521
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:11,720
And then blow dryer, a straightener, a curling iron, all of which need to be replaced fairly

522
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:12,800
regularly.

523
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:17,240
It's just so hard because I really think this is probably the most contested part of the

524
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:22,200
whole article of just like, you don't need to spend that, you don't need to whatever.

525
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:31,480
But based on what we are told by the media, by men, by other women, by our churches, by

526
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:35,020
ourselves, we do.

527
00:29:35,020 --> 00:29:36,020
This is not optional.

528
00:29:36,020 --> 00:29:43,160
And maybe you're not buying the top of the line of everything, even if you're buying

529
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,680
drugstore brand makeup, that still costs a lot.

530
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:51,560
Men, do you know that a bottle of foundation that lasts you, what, if you're lucky, two

531
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:52,560
months?

532
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:53,560
Oh, very lucky.

533
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:58,160
From the drugstore can cost $12, $13, $15?

534
00:29:58,160 --> 00:29:59,880
And that's just one thing.

535
00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:02,920
And that's potentially the cheapest end of things.

536
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:06,840
When you start to go into the cheapest end, and again, you're starting to look at really

537
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:08,640
toxic, scary ingredients.

538
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:09,640
Yeah.

539
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:12,960
Bre, tell me more about toxic, scary ingredients.

540
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:18,200
Ladies and gentlemen, I've been waiting for this moment because guess why?

541
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:24,760
I've been on TikTok again, and I discovered that there is lead and arsenic and other kinds

542
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:29,800
of metals and chemicals chilling out in our harpoon tampons.

543
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:31,520
People don't know what harpoons are.

544
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:33,440
They're chilling out in our tampons.

545
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,200
There you go.

546
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:36,520
And I was like, no way.

547
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:37,520
This is crazy.

548
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:38,520
This is TikTok.

549
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:39,520
It can't be real.

550
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:41,120
No, there are studies on it.

551
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,120
University of Berkeley?

552
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:44,120
Yep.

553
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:45,120
Is that what?

554
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:46,120
University of Berkeley?

555
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:49,040
Yeah, they did a study on it and they found traces of all these different metals in the

556
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:50,040
tampons.

557
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:51,520
Like why?

558
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:58,400
Probably honestly, because it's cheaper for the, for Kotex and whoever else to make things

559
00:30:58,400 --> 00:30:59,400
that way.

560
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:05,680
But you think about that going into that part of your body where the skin and whatever down

561
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,360
there absorbs so much more.

562
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:09,880
It's leading to dementia.

563
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:11,160
It's leading to cancer.

564
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,440
It's leading to all kinds of different diseases.

565
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:17,640
And we don't know that it's happening to us.

566
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,980
How many tampons do you go through in a period?

567
00:31:19,980 --> 00:31:21,320
You don't use them, so you don't know.

568
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:24,320
But I'll tell you a lot.

569
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:28,840
Well and that's the scary thing is this is just a regular thing that you're, it reminds

570
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:34,240
me of back in the Victorian era where they would put lead makeup on.

571
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,760
And then like their skin was literally falling off their face, but they would just keep putting

572
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:38,760
more lead makeup on.

573
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:39,760
Because they didn't know what else to do.

574
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:40,760
Or their teeth were falling out.

575
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:41,760
Yeah.

576
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:42,760
Yeah.

577
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:44,600
Because what else are you supposed to do?

578
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:45,600
That's what you have.

579
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:46,600
That's what you have access to.

580
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,520
And you think that's just one product.

581
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:53,160
Think about all of the other stuff that we use on a day to day basis.

582
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:58,380
We have, I'm getting a little crunchy now, but like I don't know what's in my, I do use

583
00:31:58,380 --> 00:31:59,380
a drugstore brand foundation.

584
00:31:59,380 --> 00:32:00,380
I don't know what's in there.

585
00:32:00,380 --> 00:32:01,380
Yeah.

586
00:32:01,380 --> 00:32:02,380
I don't know what's in there.

587
00:32:02,380 --> 00:32:06,240
And I put it on my face every day and now I have a giant pimple on my face right now.

588
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,040
And probably it's that.

589
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:10,240
Probably it's that.

590
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:13,600
I think that leads great into her last point.

591
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:14,600
And that's healthcare.

592
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:15,600
Ooh la la.

593
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:22,880
Look at us transitioning into topics.

594
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:28,840
So women spend significantly more on healthcare in their lifetimes.

595
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,240
Because we care.

596
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:32,960
Well, not necessarily.

597
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:33,960
Not necessarily.

598
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:34,960
We haven't been to a doctor in a while.

599
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:39,000
Part of it is certainly seeking medical attention.

600
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:45,280
But in the numbers that she talked about, this was like men and women seeking out healthcare

601
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:46,920
equally.

602
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:56,360
However, there was a study that said women aged 19 to 34 in 2015 spent a little over

603
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:59,960
$3,400 on healthcare costs per year.

604
00:32:59,960 --> 00:33:07,600
So that's doctor's visits, medications, surgeries, anything you need in your life, right?

605
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:09,880
Between ages 19 to 34.

606
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:16,840
Compared to that, men only spent a little under $1,900 on their healthcare per year.

607
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,840
If you take those actual numbers, I kind of rounded them.

608
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:24,400
But that's a difference of $1,511 in one year.

609
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:29,280
If you take those years and you kind of like push them out, assume that that holds true

610
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:36,120
throughout your lifetime, that is $75,550 over the course of 50 years.

611
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,080
I'm not sitting on that kind of cash, honey.

612
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:44,000
I mean, you're not, but it's because you require more healthcare.

613
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:45,680
And why is that?

614
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:47,600
There is the gap coming in.

615
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:52,440
If they're both seeking healthcare at the same level, what's going on?

616
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:58,160
So they said it's largely due to female wellness visits, like gynecology appointments, which

617
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:03,080
we need regularly because we have more systems down there that can get screwed up.

618
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:04,560
We're complicated.

619
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:06,640
We are complicated in there.

620
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:10,720
And then the fact that women are the ones that give birth.

621
00:34:10,720 --> 00:34:12,080
That's huge to me.

622
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:13,080
Yeah, it is.

623
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:14,080
It's not fair.

624
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:20,760
Well, she said that in the United States, and this article came out in 2022, and I'm

625
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:26,680
not sure what year she got these numbers from because I think it's significantly higher

626
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:28,080
at this point.

627
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:32,800
But she says that women who give birth can expect in the United States without insurance

628
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:37,040
to pay $13,000 for a simple vaginal delivery.

629
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:38,640
Easily, I would say.

630
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:39,880
Yeah, for sure.

631
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,160
And that obviously depends on where you are.

632
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:45,280
And it's going to go up based on what you require.

633
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:49,280
If you get an epidural, skyrocketing the price.

634
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:50,280
Yeah.

635
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,120
Do you have any complications at all?

636
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:53,120
Do you need to have a C-section?

637
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,120
Then you're talking about triple the cost.

638
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,000
Are you having one baby or are you multiple?

639
00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:59,000
Right.

640
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:03,180
And with insurance, you can expect to spend $7,000.

641
00:35:03,180 --> 00:35:07,160
And that's just one kid one time.

642
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:11,280
So those numbers, they're going to add up.

643
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:16,240
And you may have a spouse that helps pay for those things.

644
00:35:16,240 --> 00:35:18,840
You may not.

645
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,540
You may not have someone able to pay for those things or willing to pay for those things.

646
00:35:22,540 --> 00:35:24,840
You may not have a partner at all.

647
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:32,340
At the end of the day, literally no one in the country is expecting men to pay for part

648
00:35:32,340 --> 00:35:36,960
of the cost of birth.

649
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:40,980
The father is never being asked to pay.

650
00:35:40,980 --> 00:35:48,080
So if you're not married and on the same insurance plan, it's all on her.

651
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:51,680
On the same insurance plan and have combined incomes.

652
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:52,680
Right.

653
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:56,520
So those are just a lot of the ways it's more expensive to be a girl.

654
00:35:56,520 --> 00:36:00,520
It's tough out there, ladies.

655
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:01,480
And I think it's really important.

656
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:07,660
We were watching a YouTube video earlier and it was like, men guess how expensive it is

657
00:36:07,660 --> 00:36:10,280
to be a woman or something like that.

658
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:13,000
They kept giving these guys all these feminine products.

659
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,560
So they gave them a tampon and-

660
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:16,560
Shapewear.

661
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:17,560
Yeah, all kinds of different things.

662
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:18,560
A bra.

663
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,640
And they were like, well, what do you think this would cost?

664
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:25,280
How much do you think a woman would pay for this throughout her lifetime?

665
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:26,280
Whatever.

666
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:32,840
And it was, now I don't necessarily expect men to know what a tampon costs.

667
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:33,840
I do.

668
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,760
It's not something that they regularly have to buy.

669
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:39,240
So okay, you might not know what it costs.

670
00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:44,680
But just to realize how in the dark these men were, in my mind, at least if you've ever

671
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:50,600
had a partner who is a woman, that you would have some concept of that.

672
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,040
But no, they did not.

673
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,200
It was sad.

674
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,480
But I hope that that opens their eyes.

675
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:03,680
And we hope that this opens your eyes too if you aren't experiencing having to purchase

676
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:05,480
these things.

677
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,440
We think that we're in 2024 and things are all hunky dory.

678
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:13,960
I think really, we've just hidden the inequality better.

679
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:15,120
Yeah.

680
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,080
Did you know Scotland?

681
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:18,080
Scotland!

682
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:24,240
Back in 2022, Scotland was the first country in the world to make period products free

683
00:37:24,240 --> 00:37:26,360
for women.

684
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:31,600
Now I understand that there's tax implications.

685
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:34,480
There's things like that when you make something free.

686
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:35,480
I do hear that.

687
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:38,520
And it's a very political thing.

688
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:44,960
Because recently, within the last couple of years at least, Michigan was trying to take

689
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:49,320
tax off of period products, like sales tax.

690
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:54,440
And I remember hearing these arguments from these male politicians of like, if you take

691
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:58,120
the tax off, who knows how many tampons they'll buy?

692
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:01,920
I'll just buy so many!

693
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:09,000
I'm gonna build a house out of tampons and then I'm gonna sell them on the black market!

694
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,240
It's just so absurd.

695
00:38:11,240 --> 00:38:13,520
But it's tough on women.

696
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:17,200
Do you remember when they sent a woman to space?

697
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:18,200
Yes.

698
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:22,040
There was a comedian that made a song about it.

699
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:26,840
She was on her period, so they were sending her with tampons and they sent her a hundred

700
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:27,840
tampons.

701
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:29,920
For one period.

702
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:31,520
Will that be enough?

703
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:32,520
They didn't know!

704
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,800
And these are scientists, okay?

705
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,720
These are smart people, in theory.

706
00:38:37,720 --> 00:38:38,720
Will that be enough?

707
00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:40,200
How many do you go through?

708
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,920
You're just popping them in and out like tic tacs?

709
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:45,640
Just every ten minutes, like, meh.

710
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:49,920
Every ten minutes I have a timer on my phone that says, time to change it!

711
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:55,120
Alright, well, on that note, on that really exciting, fun note.

712
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:56,760
One hundred tampons!

713
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:58,680
That's a good song.

714
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:00,280
Thank you guys for holding out this long.

715
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,080
We appreciate you.

716
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:04,540
Comment, questions, concerns?

717
00:39:04,540 --> 00:39:06,680
Have you noticed any of this?

718
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:11,580
What's the silliest thing you've seen branded specifically towards women?

719
00:39:11,580 --> 00:39:13,160
I would love to know that.

720
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:14,160
Branded?

721
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:15,480
I thought you said Brandon.

722
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:17,800
I was very confused.

723
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,880
We wanted to- well, I guess I didn't ask you.

724
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:26,560
I wanted to say thank you guys too because we just hit a pretty cool milestone.

725
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:28,600
We hit 800 downloads overall.

726
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:29,600
Hooray!

727
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:36,240
And we're seeing you guys engage with us over on tic tac and Instagram.

728
00:39:36,240 --> 00:39:41,240
And we just appreciate that people are out there wanting to hear us goof off and talk

729
00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:45,120
about serious things sometimes and have fun.

730
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:48,240
Join your welcome.

731
00:39:48,240 --> 00:39:49,780
We celebrated with Cosmos.

732
00:39:49,780 --> 00:39:50,780
We did.

733
00:39:50,780 --> 00:39:51,780
It was a great time.

734
00:39:51,780 --> 00:39:52,780
And Alyssa threw up.

735
00:39:52,780 --> 00:39:53,780
I did throw up.

736
00:39:53,780 --> 00:39:54,780
But I think it was not the Cosmos.

737
00:39:54,780 --> 00:39:55,780
Alright, we love you guys.

738
00:39:55,780 --> 00:39:56,780
Goodbye!

739
00:39:56,780 --> 00:39:57,780
I'm sorry!

740
00:39:57,780 --> 00:39:58,780
Bye!

741
00:39:58,780 --> 00:39:59,780
Bye!