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Twenty-Five Years Later: Pride, Closure, and a Class That Still Shows Up
The doors opened, the old photos stared back, and suddenly twenty-five years collapsed into one loud, bright weekend. We didn’t just throw a reunion—we built a space where people could arrive as they are, remember who they were, and leave feeling lighter. From a free-roam school tour to a family picnic to a dance with our original DJ, we engineered a four-part arc that moved from nostalgia to connection to full-on joy, and even a little catharsis to boot.
If you’re debating whether to attend, here’s our take: go. You can’t buy the feeling of laughing until you cry with someone you haven’t seen in decades, or the clarity that comes from meeting your past with your present. Hit play, then tell us your best reunion moment—or your biggest hesitation. And if this story resonates, subscribe, share the episode with your group chat, and leave a review so more classmates can find their way back.
This episode of The LYLAS Podcast is dedicated to our high school, Class of 2000.
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I'm looking forward to this conversation, maybe just because it's been what, like three weeks since we had our 25-year reunion.
SPEAKER_01:And we really haven't had a chance to kind of like debrief just even you and I about this whole thing. So this will be not at all. This will be fun. We're doing it on AR. And shout out to our planning committee. A year worth of planning all went into one weekend.
SPEAKER_00:We're going to give some tips at the end of this episode if you're interested, if you're getting ready to plan a reunion. We're going to give some tips on some things that they did. But, you know, you all reached out to every single person that was living that is uh that graduated with us. And so, you know, just that effort that you all put in to to extend that invitation to try to get people there, I thought was really thoughtful. I hadn't really thought about our graduating class in a long time. Um, you know, we definitely had something special. And I think that that surge of like pride that came back and remembering how even though everybody weren't the best of friends, we were all really friendly for the most part. I mean, you had your your assholes thrown in there, but um, for the most part, everybody was just super friendly and we were all on the same page in that we had this deep love for our school. I've worked in enough schools to know um that that was special.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, totally. Our high school was essentially um a consolidation of two pretty rural high schools that were always rivals and at odds with each other. We were one of the first classes to come through. We got a vote on the name of the school, the colors, the mascots. So we had a lot of ownership, I think, which, you know, made it nice because then it felt like now we are this thing because we helped to create it. You know, we were the only class at one point to have had like a 10 and then a 15 and now a 25th year reunion. And I think so much of that is because we formed those unintentional close-knit bonds during that formative kind of a time without a whole lot of like negativity mixed into that. Like it was um, for the most part, and we'll get to this bias here in a few minutes, but um, it was just really, really good.
SPEAKER_00:One of the one of my favorite things we did that weekend is we did a tour of the high school. I had not been in that building in 25 years. And so just to walk through the halls with my kids running and my husband and seeing the same pictures on the walls of, you know, our friends, and it was so memorable to me and definitely one of my favorite parts of that weekend. And again, like brought such a sense of pride to see how much that school has grown, even though so much was the same, how much it has grown at the same time.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it was sweet. I was so thankful that the current principal, um, who's a great guy to work with, was so welcoming and gave us free reign. So this wasn't like a guided tour. It was like, no, you know, the janitor will be here at seven, don't tear the place up, you know, kind of a deal. Um, but but it was very nostalgic. And I think, again, everybody has their own experiences of life and what they went through. But for us to be kind of all willing to take a collective walk down memory road together, um, was pretty cool. And it did begin with us walking through the hallways just as we did at one other point in time, and seeing the same trash cans. Like that's one thing I remember people saying, like, it's the same. To their credit, it is a cement trash can with a title in front of it.
SPEAKER_00:You know? Same. Same same thing. Yeah. So no changes. You know, and yes, our friends are pointing out, like, you remember when you got kicked out of this class or when you used to sleep in that class? And I'm like, you know, like, my kids are here, guys. Let's keep the stories to a minimum. But uh, no, it was fun just to to walk down, literally walk down memory lane and to kick it off. That was just so fun. What was your favorite part of the weekend?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that was unique. Oh, jeez. I don't know. It was a four, it was a four-event weekend. And so, yeah, my experience with some of this stuff was a little bit different than everybody else's because I was the, as Jenny said, or the coordinator, so I had to be at all four things, um, which included meet and greet all kinds of shit everywhere. Everywhere. My car completely and totally just destroyed of stuff. But we had the tour of the school, we had a meet and greet in like our local area, and then on Saturday we had a family event. Um, so that way we could all meet each other's kids or, you know, just have a different level of fellowship and kind of getting to know everybody. Um, that was catered and super fun. And then we had the Krim de la Krim, the big night, which was our dinner and dance, and we had our old high school DJ um who graduated just a few years ahead of us, so he's super fun, also came in and be a part of it. And um, you know, after that we had two after parties unintentionally at a bar called Frank's. So God bless Franks because the whole class of 2000 just absolutely came in and took over your bar and then also closed it down in between those times. So, like I was decorating, I was hauling stuff around, like Jen was saying. And so um it was, I think it was harder for me to kind of be as present as I wanted to be for it. But I could see that I just yeah, I really enjoyed um at the dinner dance whenever we got to recognize like the different committee members and the roles that they played because so much did go into making that happen and to be able to like really honor those folks, I think was important. And then um, you know, I really liked our night at Frank's. I mean, we had two, we had two nights there, and on the second night, it turned out to be karaoke night. And um, you know, our good friend Lynn, who is on our podcast as well, decided to go on tour, as her twin brother said at one point. So she was on the mic. Once you give Lindsay a mic in her hand, you're not getting it out. She's gonna be singing karaoke all night long. And so all of a sudden, you know, she's up there singing karaoke, maybe even with my husband, and just starts walking through the crowd, like putting the mic in people's faces, like dancing, like all kinds of things. And it was just, it's one of those moments where you just are almost like you're laughing, you're crying so you know, you're crying, you're laughing so hard. And it was really, it was pretty fun. It was pretty fun to see her in that state and doing that again.
SPEAKER_00:It kind of took me back to when we were teenagers, we would go to church camps and uh there was usually a band. And if the four of us got or on the microphone, like you weren't getting us off the microphone. So yeah, I mean, that and I think that too, like for me going back, I don't I know everybody doesn't feel this way, but there's a lot I have a lot of friends that I haven't seen in a long time. If you move away from where you grew up and or if anyone moves away, you know, you just don't see people like you used to, or get to have like real time with them, um, especially with your spouses and things. And so, like, just being able to see friends and see how some things have changed, you know, but for the most part, people are exactly the same when you get them in these uh social situations. And so um, it's always like a little science experiment for me. And I just loved A, how many people turned out. I don't know what our official count was, but it was a huge turnout. And it it was so fun to see so many people that I have not seen in a quarter of a century, and to have conversations and and realize like we are such different people, right? We have lived so much life in the last 25 years, but there is something still like that underlying current or connection of like at one time we were both a part of something, and and it and it's easy to to slip back in and just start talking to these people again. And maybe that's specific to me because I could talk to a wall, but um I also just found myself like almost so hyper aware of like time is ticking, like a clock was in the background because I knew we had this like finite amount of time, and you know, there were people there I wasn't expecting to see, and so I would be like, Oh, I want to make sure I have a chance to talk to them. You can only have so many conversations, you know. I also wanted to hit the dance floor, I wanted to see you and spend time with you. There's only so much time. And so it's for me, it was like I felt like a clock was ticking the whole weekend of like, you're gonna run out of time. You better, you know, you better do all the things. And so I just I I could have, you know, I could have spent another night at Frank's, you know, I don't know. But it just it was fun. And I do feel like I pretty much checked. There were a couple people that I was like, I didn't get to talk to them as much as I wanted to, but for the most part, I you know, the the the fact that we had so many events gave so many opportunities for you to kind of like chat and connect with people more than just like small talk.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. And I think that was nice too. And it was a jam-packed weekend and it did require a lot of logistics, but it did create those opportunities and people were looking forward to seeing each other at like the next thing. Um yeah. And even to afterwards, people are like, When are we doing our 30th? Like, are we gonna do this? And I know some people are like, oh my gosh, these people live like, you know, like you're in high school all over again, like high school was your life. It absolutely was not first. Um but we had a when people were debating on whether coming, and maybe everybody finds themselves in these situations with different types of reunions or gatherings where you're on the fence about whether you should go or whether you shouldn't go. Um, our good friend Reeves, who was not a part of the committee, but he was our official hype guy, uh, especially after he made a very significant post, that basically called everybody out on their shit and said, you know, if you're not coming to this because I don't know, you already see the people that you want to see. Well, the point of the reunion is to see different people. So let's go back and expand our friendships. He called people out like, so what, you've gained a few pounds. We all have. Let's all come together, you know. So whatever reason that someone may have had developed in their head, he very creatively and poignantly addressed it in a nice Facebook post that basically I had like five or six people come up to me and said, Well, we were debating whether or not coming or not. And then we saw Reeves's post and we're like, well, he just called us out on our shit. And so our class, again, we put aside our egos, we put aside our prejudgments or I don't know, anxiety anticipation or whatever, and decided to just say, you know what, screw it, we're gonna do this and just see how it goes. Even if we didn't know who we were gonna talk to, if our friends were gonna be there, if somebody from our group was, it didn't matter. Because at that moment we were all kind of called out. And again, the I don't know that bravery's the right word, but we all did just say, you know what, screw it. We're gonna go and do this thing and we're gonna have we're gonna just have a good time with it. And because every single person that came had that attitude of willingness about them, that I think is why it was such a success and why friendships were reforged and people were able to reconnect or just solidified even further. And so I think that that's a huge testament to um our class for being willing to really just be like, you know what? Screw it, we're 43 years old. This may not ever happen again. Let's go party like it's 1999 all over again, you know? Right.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and I think everybody really showed up like authentically as themselves. And it's funny, like that may sound like an odd statement to say, but I had not really thought about what I was gonna wear, and then very last minute, like went shopping, bought a dress I didn't love. It was, you know, it was like a little too revealing, like the it was backless and short. And I was like, I could pull this off, but like, who am I trying to impress? Like, I I ain't trying to impress anybody anymore. And at the end of the day, I was like, I'm not gonna be comfortable in this, and I just want to be comfortable and really like, you know, really talk and and have a good time with these people. And so I totally like at the you know, the last second, borrowed a dress from a friend. It all just worked out so perfectly. I felt so beautiful that night and just was so comfortable. And I and I think that that's what I had to remind myself is that there's nobody to impress. Like we're we're in our 40s, you know, at this point, like it is what it is. Um, and so I was like, you know what? Like I this is this is good enough, you know. Like I me showing up who I am at this time, exactly where I'm at. I didn't crash diet before. I didn't, you know, like all the things that I probably quite honestly did before our tenure reunion, if I'm being totally honest. Um, you know, I didn't do any of those things this time. And it just made me realize like how A, how much I've grown, um, and B, just how authentically we are able to show up and really just be like, this is who I am, and it is what it is. And I hope, yeah, I hope you still remember her. I hope I haven't aged that much. And quite honestly, I got a lot of compliments, even from guys that we went to high school with, and and it just I I don't know if it was validating or just like, yeah, like you're right. I do look pretty good 25 years later. Like I'm pretty pleased myself, you know. Not that I need that validation because I'm very fortunate to have a husband that validates me all the time, but you know, it just it just it was like okay, I it it more validated that I was really showing up as my true self and not somebody that I wanted everyone to see. Does that make sense?
SPEAKER_01:Mm-hmm. A hundred percent. I do feel like that that was how everybody kind of showed up is very authentically who they are.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:You know, um I didn't see anybody. And I loved that kind of and that I think that was part of our commitment. Yeah, it was putting down the egos. We all just kind of not we didn't speak about it. We didn't say, hey, we're gonna leave these things like checked at the house, but I think that we all just kind of did, and we were, you know, this is who I am, this is who I've always been, and you know, here we are together again. So why pretend anything else? Yeah. Yeah. I do say though, um there was some spice, right? There's always gotta be a little delay. A little bit of spice.
SPEAKER_00:But that's part of why you go, right? You know there's gonna be a little something. Something.
SPEAKER_01:Well, and I just wanna I'm gonna I'll be I'll start this off. Um Yeah. Please. Jenny and I have talked in the past about how hot take. Um, I love it. All the girls in and Chad who's gonna listen to this too are gonna be like, oh God, here goes Sarah. Here she is. Um, that, you know, there's been there are people that we did go to a person whom we went to high school with who, as we've mentioned before, literally like made our lives kind of like hell. Like literally lived in our head for four years, if not longer. And I had to give them much power. Um well, that's fine. We all relinquished it this weekend, but just to kind of set the stage, for the last like bit of time that I've known my husband, I've we've talked about it with him and everything else, and he's like, Oh, I probably thought I was being dramatic or exaggerating. But I want to say that on Friday night, none of us girls talked to each other, but every single now woman who was in some of their exact words tortured, and I'm not using that word lightly, like this was actually what some of them said by this individual who 25 years later basically dethroned him again and said, you know what? You were the biggest asshole, the biggest prick to me in high school, and it really made some of those years really hard. But I now realize that I wasn't who you said I was. I was never fat, I was never crazy, I was never X, Y, and Z. Um, and you just tried to have power over me because you were insignificant, and I don't care about you now, and I don't care about you then. And I don't know how many women came up there and said something to that individual. Again, not talking to each other, not having any side conversations. But then after the fact, like the next day, again, because we're going to a series of events, we're like, I just feel so liberated. Uh one of our friends said, Um, like, I felt like my 16-year-old, I was giving a pep talk to my 16-year-old self, and now she feels good about who she was then, where she didn't before. Like, I they felt fine and who they were, but now they were able to go back to that 16-year-old and say, Hey, this guy may have hurt you then, but look who you are now. And you know, that was a big, big thing that I think collectively so many people felt, but it also shows the power of words and the impression that you can leave on people, and that that is lasting for some. I mean, it just is what it is. And again, fine, but those things hurt and they hurt people for a really long time, and it was nice to see so many people relinquishing that all individually but collectively again. And so cheers to all the ladies, y'all know who I'm talking about.
SPEAKER_00:I didn't realize that anybody else was having. Well, I was, but I, you know, we have different approaches, and I approached it because, you know, I I also like I give people the benefit of the doubt, he's not somebody that's ever been my favorite. Um, but I just came at it from like, uh, do you have daughters? And he's like, Yeah. And I was like, well, I just need you to know that when you called me fat in high school, and in fact, I was not fat. I was never more than a size six ever. Um, you know, I was like, that stuck with me for years later. I said that, and he, you know, he's like, I never called you that. I'm like, I so vividly remember the day it happened. Like I we walked in the room when we were doing the high school tour, and I was like, I was sitting right there when he turned around and said this to me, you know, um, referencing at the time that my thighs were too big. I'm like, you know, I wish, you know, I wish somebody would say that to me now just because I would have such a different reaction. But that that young girl, that 16, 17-year-old girl, like I remember just being crushed internally and and then like never already having body issues and then like the comp how it just compounded that, right? Because then he was validating all the things I already thought about myself. Um and so it just yeah, I I just wanted I needed him to know that if he had daughters, that I wanted him to realize how his words matter. And I and I said to him, I said, I hope you don't say to them the things that you said to girls in high school. Um and I wasn't like uh it wasn't like a get back at you. It wasn't like I needed some sort of like, ugh, like to cut him off with the knees. Like it wasn't about that. I needed him to recognize like whether he remembers it or not. Like that and I here, I I mean, I may have said something to somebody in high school and and it caused them some sort of pain. You know what I mean? Like I think we're all trying to just take accountability, and it there was something so freeing about saying that to him of like, you know, because I don't hold ill will towards him. I don't hope, you know, that anything negative happens to him. I just more am like, hey, let's all be aware of these things and do better. Because we are better than that. I I truly believe everybody's capable of being better, myself included.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I don't disagree. Right, me too. I didn't say anything to him the whole weekend, so I did I think that for me was a win.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:But you only was there one night, so you know cheaper. You know, it was so interesting too. Of like, um, you know, I had one of my dates from like how homecoming come up and just to hear his perception now, he was like, I was so nervous. And he told this great story about my stepdad um asking him, you know, he came to get me and he was driving. And he was like, So, you know, how long you've been driving? And he had literally gotten his license like the day before. I didn't even know that. Um, he was like, and I was just like, he told he was like, I was just thinking, like, please let me still take her. She's really hot. I just wanted to take her down until homecoming. But again, like 16-year-old Jenny would have never even thought those thoughts went through his head. Like, I didn't know he was nervous. I thought I was the nervous one. You know, it's so funny to hear people and what they were thinking. Like, A, that he was felt comfortable telling me that, but then I was like, wow, how wildly different the thoughts were in my head. Again, perception is everything, and you just never know what the other person's perception is. Yeah. Well, and I don't, you know, get to see my kids like play with people uh that we grew up with with their kids. Like you don't get to see that like second generation a lot. And so that was even fun just on the family day to see them interact or even just like introducing them to, you know, somebody that you were close to in high school and like this is my friends, you know, it just it totally means way more for the parents than it does for the kids. But there is something just really unique and fun about that. And so, um, yeah, I wish I wasn't as hungover and had more sleep for the family event. But um, but yeah, that's what you get for trying to pack it all in in 48 hours, right? And just living our best lives.
SPEAKER_01:So it was. It was, but yeah, it was so cute. It was cute to see everybody's kids and introducing and like putting those things together and then seeing how just people look. Like even their kids, like some of our classmates got married to each other, and now they have their little mini-mies running around. And so even that's fun.
SPEAKER_00:Right. And don't you feel like we have a lot of classmates that end I mean, not a lot, but I mean, there's probably what, like 10 couples out of our class, which I, you know, and they're still married 25 years later, like good for you all. Um, but like a lot of high school sweethearts too, which I thought was really sweet. And then like former high school sweethearts there with their current spouses, you know, and like and but still able to like, you know, there we had a slideshow and there's pictures of them in there, you know, just things like that. It just seems like everybody was um really just like accepting of like that's who we were then, that's who we are now, but it was fun to see all yeah, that was super, super cute.
SPEAKER_01:Um and their pictures, because they would take them and then they would post them later, like of us in high school and now us now 25 years later, is really very, very sweet. And so the overall arching theme, I think, of the whole weekend was just super positive. Like I said, everybody threw down their egos. Everyone was excited, genuinely excited, I think, to see each other. And I don't know, if you're ever in a position where you get the opportunity to do something like that, I wouldn't question it. I would just say yes. I mean, people it may cost some money to go, but I guarantee you spend more money at Starbucks or at, you know, going through a Chick-fil-A drive-through than what you will spend on maybe a ticket to reunion, but what you'll gain out of that weekend just in terms of insights, friendships, it was it was very much uh very worth it. And I'm glad that we all did it, we all came. Um, everybody had such positive things to say about it. Um, people felt empowered at different points, and so it was the total package.
SPEAKER_00:The total package. It really was. It was the total package. Um, yeah, if you could bottle that energy uh Friday night, um that I mean the energy was like combustible. I mean, just we were they had to kick us out of every place. I mean, because we couldn't stop. I mean, we were everybody was just having such a good time and and catching up and and yeah, it was it was such good energy. And I think that's why I felt like I was almost had a buzz when I was driving home, probably because I was really tired. We left at the crack ass of dawn on Sunday morning, but um for our eight-hour journey home. But it also just like I was buzzing from like that energy, because I do tend to absorb energy, and it was just, you know, I felt like high from it. Um and I thought too, and we're gonna give some ideas as far as if you are planning a reunion, if you want to use some of the tips and tricks that our committee used because they pulled off a hell of a reunion. Um, but just the thoughtfulness um behind everything, even from the um the pictures of classmates who have passed away, um, you know, just I thought that A was super thoughtful, but then I also thought, okay, at our next reunion, like how many more pictures are gonna be up here? And you know, you can't help but think about that because that's just the stage of life we're in. And to see that many, I mean, we had a a fair amount of classmates um who have passed away. And so it was just that a little sobering in that regard, and um certainly, you know, makes you think like I hope if there is another one, I hope I'm not on this table. I'm sitting at a table, yeah, right. Um but I thought that was so thoughtful. Um, and like I had said, you all reached out to everybody, but even down to the tickets to the dinner dance, you mimicked the tickets that they would do for high for homecoming prom and uh the dances at school. And so just again, it was so all the memorabilia that was there, you know. Um, Missy, one of the girls that we graduated with, she had kept like our senior shirts and um our senior wills, which oof did not age well. Can we talk about that? Like, go back and read some shit you wrote 25 years ago and you will be stunned. A, that it was printed that no adult ever thought, hey, we might want to look over this. And B, uh, it does not age well. I had one friend come up and he he was like, I would be canceled. And you have to know like where his heart is and what he meant, and like, but still, like the way things are brought to light in today, he's like, I can never get famous, like, you know, like this is ugly this will haunt me. Um, so yeah, just so much fun to see and just so thoughtful.
SPEAKER_01:We all just collectively brought what we had and knew that it would be important for us to have a memorabilia table of some type, as well as like a in-remembrance table. Um, yeah. And to have those two things kind of side by side, you know, was a nice opportunity for people to come up and honor uh those who have passed, but then also to reflect really on what brought us all together by seeing like again our homecoming tickets or our favors that were given at like prom and um all of those things. Like it was there was a lot of again things that each one of us had that came together as part of that collective whole. And so I think that was a nice sharing that took place too. Like, even you know, Joe had our principal kept a scrapbook of like anytime any of us were in the news, and he brought that from Florida, thank God. Mike found it and was able to bring it up.
SPEAKER_00:Hysterical that he has kept it because Joe, our class president, is one that moved away immediately. And uh yeah, um 20 of all people, if you would have asked me, would Joe have held on to the binder that the principal gave him, I would have been like, hell no. Um, Sarah, yes, Sarah would have kept it, but Joe, not so much. Um yeah, I just shocked that he had held on to it. And what a great speech. He gave an amazing speech. Everybody gave such great speeches. I mean, they were all just it was so fun. And again, I was so proud of my friends and how much they have grown, and also just like the fact that we have stayed friends. You know, we don't see each other all the time, yeah, but we keep in touch and we show up for the big stuff. Unfortunately, at this point, it's like funerals and weddings, but we show up and we show out every time. I mean, yeah, there is we don't do low-key.
SPEAKER_01:No, no. If I'm gonna do something, no, we're not, there's no it's all big. We're we're going big or we're not doing it.
SPEAKER_00:What would you say are your top three um tips if you are planning a reunion and let's say you're like gonna be the coordinator and you say I'm gonna take this on, what would you say your top three tips would be for that? person.
SPEAKER_01:I think number one um is that find a good group of people and treat them well. Like without that committee of people. Would it it still probably would have happened because again, some of those things are just really easy to put in place. Um especially whenever you know we had a great community of folks that were willing to work with us. It was all of us being willing to kind of like delegate and recognize each other's strengths um and what we could contribute again to the whole and allowing people to have that latitude to kind of do it. You know, and so that I think was key is having a good group of people and treating them well whenever you guys get together. We maintain good communication throughout the time like through Messenger or something. And um I would say make a huge effort to be inclusive in every way that you possibly can. Whether that is who you reach out to um to notify, to tell them things whenever you're doing like price points or selecting venues or no matter what it is, I would just try to be as accessible or make things as accessible as you possibly can. I think being transparent is a part of that whole process of um making things accessible. And um I would just say the other part of it is is the activities that you plan um make them fun. Don't you know just make them fun. Make them be well enjoyable. Think about all the nostalgic that you can bring back.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah yeah make them fun nostalgic like that's what the tickets came into mind like what can we bring back from high school even our DJ like we're bringing back our DJ we're bringing back the same tile of tickets we're bringing back our class flower right here in the you know in the flesh or whatever else um our cookies that we had on the table like one of them was like a spirit sword or a shield um yeah you know things that again help to create that warmth and connectedness and so um we were just all open to all of it and it was it all worked out thank god it did thank god so they definitely worked out just go for Christ's sakes just go yeah just go I will say I there were I was disappointed uh in the people that didn't show up because I thought I was sad that they missed out on such a fun time um because it really was and it you know was it fun for my husband probably not but like um I certainly wanted him there because duh he's some hot arm candy but beyond that like for the people that went to high school like it just it was so uh it was just so fun and so good for the soul and I feel like that every time I reconnect with somebody and and and probably um you know that was my main reason for going was just reconnection. I I I had so much gratitude for being a part of the class of 2000 and yeah I think we're a pretty special bunch if you ask me.
SPEAKER_01:If you're a listener which hopefully you are and you graduate within this class somewhere else in the US if your class was awesome let us know because that would be amazing to have like a collective sense that hey you know what it just turned out we were all that cool.
SPEAKER_00:We'll live stream the podcast from the next one. How about that?
SPEAKER_01:That's all we need definitely let's do that. That'll be real fun. So well be sure to check us out on all of our socials. We're making it work here on the Lila's podcast.
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