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Announcer
Welcome to Stuff Mom Never Told You from howstuffworks.com.
Molly Edmonds
Hi, welcome to the podcast. This is Molly.
Cristen Conger
And I’m Cristen.
Molly Edmonds
Cristen, we have a pretty good relationship, don’t you think?
Cristen Conger
Yeah, I’d say so.
Molly Edmonds
Do you ever worry that one day we’ll get in a huge fight and then it’ll be difficult to do the podcast?
Cristen Conger
No. Now that you bring it up, it might keep me up at night.
Molly Edmonds
But if we break up, who gets the podcast.
Cristen Conger
Oh, well, I would get the podcast, Molly, because C comes before M in the alphabet and therefore I’m first, so I’m entitle to grabs at the podcast.
Molly Edmonds
You’re going to take the whole podcast, but you’d leave me the blog?
Cristen Conger
Yeah, you can have the blog.
Molly Edmonds
Will you leave me the Twitter account? Can I have all of our online accounts?
Cristen Conger
Sure.
Molly Edmonds
And you’ll take the podcast?
Cristen Conger
Um-hum.
Molly Edmonds
See, now we really should’ve dealt with this issue way before we started the podcast.
Cristen Conger
The thing is, though, Molly, if we break up, I think How Stuff Works gets our podcast.
Molly Edmonds
That’s true. But if we want to consider our podcast as a metaphor for the things we’ve accumulated together.
Cristen Conger
For our spiritual marriage. Is that what you’re referring to?
Molly Edmonds
For our spiritual marriage. Exactly. Then I think it brings us to our topic today, which is prenup agreements. If Cristen and I make this business venture together – which in some ways is what marriage is, the joining of two accounts.
Cristen Conger
Yeah, absolutely.
Molly Edmonds
I bring my knowledge. You bring your knowledge. Together we make a knowledge baby of our podcast.
Cristen Conger
I love where this is going. Keep going.
Molly Edmonds
Then, before we entered into this agreement, we might should’ve hammered out some details. If I write a book, Stuff Mom Never Told You, do I have to give you half the proceeds?
Cristen Conger
I will sue your [beep].
Molly Edmonds
But Cristen, I don’t think we’ll ever have a huge fight.
Cristen Conger
No.
Molly Edmonds
Ever.
Cristen Conger
Ever. Let’s make a pact right now, Molly, on live/not live podcast air.
Molly Edmonds
But that’s also bringing up the topic of prenup, because a lot of people don’t think they need a prenup when they get married, because they’re like, "We’re never going to fight."
Cristen Conger
Yeah, the people that come to mind right now that’s in the news, Al and Tipper Gore. They were married 40 years. I don’t know if they had a prenup or not – I haven’t done any research into that. But you think of that. A really long term couple, why would they need to sign a prenup? What do you know, 40 years down the line – and they both have plenty of assets. And who knows what’ll happen. It seems like it’s a pretty amicable breakup, but -