Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Golden Ratio Podcast. I am Jen, Jr. Mom, joined over distance

by Jared Ed. Hi. How's it going, Jared Ed? Good. I am always surprised that your technological

prowess in making this happen remotely. Thank you. You gave me like five minutes to come

up with an entire remote podcasting system and it is working. You're amazing. Yes, I am. Just

a nice and nice to and you're really nice. How are things in Vancouver? Good. Real nice. Like

very springy. There's a lot of cherry trees blossoming and it's a bit brisk, but it's very

pleasant. It's a nice place to be. We're going to talk all about your road trip in the Ramblings

section of the podcast. Okay. For those who are wondering why you're in Vancouver who have

not been closely following your exploits. The time of the week is the Singapore sling. I was telling

you this story that when I was in high school, we didn't take a lot of vacations when I was

growing up. But when I was a senior in high school, my parents who own a business had a work trip

to Singapore and they brought me and my brother and my at the time ex-boyfriend. This is such a bad story.

In and of itself. I had dated this boyfriend for three years of high school, which itself was a

huge mistake. He was a year older than me and he went away to college at the beginning of my

senior year. Then I found out that he had hooked up with my best friend on a school trip the previous

year and I broke up with him, which I should have done in three weeks into a stating, but whatever,

better late than never. But he worked for my parents. If it's for a movie, no one would believe it.

Actually, I'd be like, it's too far-fetched. He had worked for my parents throughout high school

and he continued working for them while he was in college and actually for like 10 years after

that, he was around all the time. You broke up with him and your parents still employed him,

kept him around. It was bizarre. Oh, we're not going to get into it on this podcast, but the drama

and bizarreness that followed that guy around was intense. Well, after I had nothing left to do

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