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5 min readCome Sit On Our Stump
Brooke arrived at the studio in New York City five and a half hours after leaving Philadelphia — a trip that should have taken ninety minutes. The Amtrak train stopped, the lights went out, the AC died, and after an hour of waiting, the entire rail line went down. Passengers filed one by one through the cafe car onto a New Jersey Transit train that stopped at every station in the state, none of which were supposed to be Amtrak stops. Brooke eventually got off in Secaucus, found a taxi driver who charged her $125 plus tolls, and handed over what felt like her wallet and social security card just to get to the studio. "I can't explain to you the way that I think that transit train must have been a special situation," Connor said. Brooke had been trying a new approach — writing in her journal from the perspective of "the luckiest girl in the world" and reframing every complaint as an opportunity. "That's where it all went wrong," she said. "Which I don't usually have."
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- 1 (01:38) **Brooke’s Nightmare Train Journey to New York** - Brooke recounts her five-hour Amtrak and NJ Transit ordeal to reach Connor for the episode
- 2 (11:56) **Head Elevation and Pillow Talk** - Connor shares a recent change to his sleep setup
- 3 (12:31) **The Giving Tree Is an Abusive Relationship** - The hosts dissect the classic children's book and its dark modern interpretation
- 4 (16:09) **Childhood Tree Protection and Hill Bombing** - Brooke recalls her childhood activism and neighborhood adventures
- 5 (22:30) **The Ice Cube Windshield Incident** - A childhood story of mischief that went wrong
- 6 (24:00) **Banned Books and Lost Memories** - A brief tangent about controversial childhood reading
- 7 (25:06) **Brooke's Weekend on Block Island** - Brooke describes a beautiful trip and a funny bit she played on her sister
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Chapters:
0:00 Together Again Against All Odds
10:40 Sit On Our Stump
15:25 Woods vs Forrest vs Jungles
18:22 Rocket Money
20:00 Amazon Prime
21:15 New Perspectives
23:55 Lucky Girl Syndrome
26:45 Brooke in Block Island
27:30 Throw Up Warning
32:05 New Summer Songs
34:48 Popchips
36:20 Nutrafol
38:45 Brooke Gets Betrayed
45:22 Phoebe Gets Connor’s Ass
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