Hi guys, welcome to Collickmate. It is Natasha's voice not Joe's voice. I'm not even going to try to do his accent right now.

What's up guys?

Yeah, yeah. Joe is on vacation with his beautiful fiance. Um, and so we have a special guest today. Marissa, thank you for coming to join us Marissa.

Hi, we have excited. Yes, we have the bachelor nation breakdown per usual and we have two clickbaits of the week, which of course I'm excited about.

Um, but I am this is the first podcast that I'm doing with no makeup on today guys. I had to go to the gym. I had to release some energy.

I feel like you look beautiful.

Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you very much. I've been crying on and off all day today because of what happened in Texas.

I would not be right to bring it up, you know, to talk about it and, um, and bring it up. And I'm sad.

Tia and Marissa, I am sad about it, but I'm glad that we have this podcast and platform so we can talk about dating and other things and try to bring some like normalcy to the day because I've been sad all day.

Right. Right. I have. It's so horrible. It's horrible.

It's honestly crazy to think to that. And I just realized this that the US is like the only country that is kind of having this issue with all these school shootings and mass shootings.

So we suggest that you guys go to every town.

You can go to every town or you can go to their Instagram page to kind of figure out what they're trying to do about gun violence here in the US and just figure out ways you can actually help. I know a lot of people me included.

Like as someone with a platform, I thought people expect us to know like what to do and how to do it. And I really don't. So I feel kind of helpless. But, um, I mean, you never expect these kind of situations to happen.

Right. But yeah, they keep happening. They keep happening. Yeah. And it's like you say, oh, we, you know, we send our thoughts and prayers like, yes, we send our thoughts and prayers to the families and people who are affected.

But in order to actually see change, we have to change and figure these things out. So I'm thankful for organizations like every town. And there's also some.

And so, um, go fund me pages that you can contribute to that go directly to the families involved in this mass shooting in Texas. And it's just devastating.

But it just it's continuing to be a thing. And it was, I mean, such young kids. It's just absolutely heartbreaking. Natasha or your niece is like that age.

Yeah. It's just that oldest one is seven. Yeah. It's insane. And to just think that, you know, I don't have kids, but I love my nieces like they are my kids. And, um, you know, I just, I cannot imagine what those parents and the families are going through.

And it really is so sad and what just happened in New York as well. And I've been in here because everybody knows and it's like that stuff just isn't happening here.

Right. Right.

It's just not. And then to hear that, you know, it I'm feeling a type of way y'all. But yeah.

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