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Skeeter Syndrome Chaos · Shawna and LaLa: Life Beyond The Mic

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Speaker 1: From the heart of the city, where the beat meets
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Speaker 1: the rhythm of your day.
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Speaker 2: It's Shawna m what's up. You're listening to Shauna and Lalla.
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Speaker 1: May and check me out at Bella Underscore Lalla one
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Speaker 1: two five.
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Speaker 2: It has been a crazy busy few weeks. A lot
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Speaker 2: of traveling has been.
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Speaker 1: Involved, lots of trips that's been back to back for me.
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Speaker 1: Anyway of trip trip trip, plane, plane, plane, stress, fun,
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Speaker 1: stress fun. Well.
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Speaker 2: Our first trip was to the American Dream Mall, which
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Speaker 2: was amazing.
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Speaker 1: Oh it's so it is like a It really is,
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Speaker 1: and I think that that's what they kind of geared
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Speaker 1: it around, was just like it's a dream, it's a
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Speaker 1: fairy tale.
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Speaker 2: It was gorgeous. They had this little like fairy garden,
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Speaker 2: yeah in the middle of the mall, and great stores.
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Speaker 2: I mean, every story you could think of was there.
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Speaker 2: I really liked Primar.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Primark was awesome. My favorites Altered State because they
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Speaker 1: always have the cutest closed so expensive, very expensive. That's
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Speaker 1: the only other problem it's not you know, like I
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Speaker 1: want to shop at these places, but I cannot wrap
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Speaker 1: my head around spending forty dollars or thirty eight dollars
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Speaker 1: on a baseball hat. You know, that just says something
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Speaker 1: silly on it, you know, or a pair of leggings
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Speaker 1: and how much was that?
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Speaker 2: Like sears?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't wrap my head. I can't. I just
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Speaker 1: can't do that. But it's a cute store, beautiful store,
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Speaker 1: lots of nice stuff. But pre Mark was more our spending.
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Speaker 2: Yes, states I bought a pair of leggings for four
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Speaker 2: dollars and fifty I think, Yeah, I mean, you couldn't
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Speaker 2: get any better than that. And they're great, They held
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Speaker 2: up great in the washing machine.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I got Jilina some clothes. They were I will
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Speaker 1: say their sizes are a little off for the kids
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Speaker 1: or the toddlers because the eighteen to twenty four month
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Speaker 1: Jelina is almost four, and that eighteen to twenty four
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Speaker 1: month is still big on her. Granted my daughter is tinier,
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Speaker 1: but it's still that should have fit her snug if
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Speaker 1: anything not been it's like down to her knees. So
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Speaker 1: other than that, it was three dollars for a baby's
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Speaker 1: sweatshirt and pants like they were both three dollars. That's great.
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Speaker 1: You can't beat that. You can't find that anywhere, No.
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Speaker 2: You can't. And the luggings that I bought, I'm usually
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Speaker 2: like a size medium to a large, so I just
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Speaker 2: grabbed a medium just to you know, since it was
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Speaker 2: my size and they were ginormous on me.
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Speaker 1: He were swimming in them.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I had to buy a smaller extra small.
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Speaker 2: I don't even remember, but yeah, I mean it made
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Speaker 2: me feel good. I'm not as fat.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so if you want to feel good about your body,
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Speaker 1: go there, because you'll be an extra small guaranteed or
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Speaker 1: small or.
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Speaker 2: An extra extra small. Yeah, you never know.
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Speaker 1: The other crazy thing about that mall is it's absolutely huge,
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Speaker 1: so big you better put your sneakers on and be
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Speaker 1: prepared to get your miles in that day.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Our local mall, which is the Policies, is
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Speaker 2: four stories. This mall was four stories, two I believe, maybe.
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Speaker 1: Three three yeah, three I believe.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so three stories, but it was just miles and
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Speaker 2: miles and miles long of walking.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it would tell you if you want. It had
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Speaker 1: this these screens that you can go up to say, hey,
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Speaker 1: where's this store, where's this restaurant? And when you'd put
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Speaker 1: in where you wanted to go, it would tell you
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Speaker 1: how long it was going to take to walk there.
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Speaker 1: And no, lie, one of the stores that I put
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Speaker 1: in was a twenty eight minute walk, Like that's crazy
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Speaker 1: to think out a twenty eight minute walk in a mall.
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Speaker 1: Others were thirteen fifteen minutes. But that's that's that's far,
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Speaker 1: you know, that's how big it is, so that it
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Speaker 1: just it's crazy. They have their own water park there.
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Speaker 1: They have a ski a skiing place, like there's snow.
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Speaker 1: They have snow in there. There's snowboards skiing those what
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Speaker 1: are they called the ganda? I don't know if they're cookanda.
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Speaker 1: What are those the carts you sit in and it
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Speaker 1: takes you up the mountain.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I know you're talking about ski ramps or whatever.
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Speaker 2: I don't know those ski ski as. Yeah, I know
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Speaker 2: what you're talking about.
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Speaker 1: I don't ski. I don't know this stuff. But that
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Speaker 1: just shows how massive this place is. They have Nickelodeon
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Speaker 1: Park in there, they have I think a Lego park
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Speaker 1: in there, an aquarium. They even have an aquarium. So
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Speaker 1: it it's insane. It's like anything you can think of
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Speaker 1: is in this place, and it's absolutely gorgeous and brand new.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully they put a little bit more stores that are
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Speaker 1: more for the average joe. Yeah, but a lot of
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Speaker 1: celebrities go to this mall and it it is. It's
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Speaker 1: something that you should definitely take a trip to to
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Speaker 1: see an experience.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. And the celebrities I saw on TikTok, Kim
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Speaker 2: Kardashian went there and she was able to get Actually,
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Speaker 2: anyone could get a golf cart with a personal shopper.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you have to pay for it, but you
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Speaker 2: can get one. And I googled it to see how
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Speaker 2: much it was, and there's no price online. You have
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Speaker 2: to call and like reserve it and call to get
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Speaker 2: more information. So I just I can't even imagine what
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Speaker 2: that costs.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, to be rich and famous.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, just rich. So you went to Florida prior to
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Speaker 2: us going to Nashville. You went to Florida and then
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Speaker 2: like three days later we flew out for Nashville.
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Speaker 1: I know, I am I'm still shot from both trips.
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Speaker 1: I am just I'm still trying to I don't know
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Speaker 1: how people do this for businesses and or just travel
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Speaker 1: constantly because it's draining. You know, Florida was for pleasure
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Speaker 1: and for apartment searching. When my husband retires in a
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Speaker 1: few years, we're gonna move to Florida. So far, that's
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Speaker 1: what we think.
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Speaker 3: But anyway, yeah, we went down to Florida. It was beautiful.
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Speaker 3: I love Florida.
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Speaker 1: I just almost love everything about it. And we first
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Speaker 1: we stopped. I'm like, Mike, I want to take our
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Speaker 1: daughter to this mermaid place. When I was a kid,
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Speaker 1: I always went to Wikiwachie, and back then it was
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Speaker 1: like amazing.
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Speaker 3: No one really knew about it, but it was just
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Speaker 3: it was awesome. They've been around.
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Speaker 1: Since I think the fifties or sixties. I'm probably wrong
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Speaker 1: on those dates. But these girls train and train and
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Speaker 1: train to swim underwater in mermaid outfits with no scuba gear.
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Speaker 1: They hold their breath and yet, but they do have
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Speaker 1: these clear tubes of air that every so often they
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Speaker 1: will put the tube in their mouth and take air in.
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Speaker 1: Now I'm a scuba diver, you don't know how hard
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Speaker 1: that is. When when I'm Scooba ivan, we have the
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Speaker 1: it stays in our mouth the whole time. And even that,
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Speaker 1: you have to get used to not breathing through your nose.
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Speaker 1: You're breathing through just your mouth. No, I can't imagine
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Speaker 1: being underwater without a mask, without something holding closing my
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Speaker 1: nose and breathing through this tube every so often in
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Speaker 1: the middle of pretending to sing.
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Speaker 3: It's it. They are so talented.
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Speaker 1: They sing, they pretend to sing because there's like they're
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Speaker 1: showing the Little Mermaid.
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Speaker 3: They're doing like a like a play.
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Speaker 1: Oh okay, so we hear the sound.
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Speaker 3: Inside in the auditorium.
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't be able to open my mouth underwater. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: that's what I'm trying to say, Like.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they pretend to sing, they pretend to mouth the
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Speaker 1: words that we're hearing in the order.
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Speaker 3: It's really it's crazy. These I give these girls a
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Speaker 3: lot of credit. And they're in a cold cold spring.
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Speaker 1: That water I think is like in the sixties to seventies,
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Speaker 1: you know how cold that is.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're in these little bras and mermaid tales.
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Speaker 1: I'll have to show you. It's amazing. But I went
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Speaker 1: to it as a kid, loved it. I took my
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Speaker 1: daughter and it was just not the same. The show
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Speaker 1: was still the same and she loved that, but the
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Speaker 1: park is so deteriorated.
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Speaker 3: There's nothing you can do there.
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Speaker 1: They had Buccaneer Bay that we can go to, which
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Speaker 1: is like a water park, but even that was so different,
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Speaker 1: So I was very disappointed in all that. I'm glad
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Speaker 1: you got to see the mermaids, she got to take
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Speaker 1: a picture with them, but it was kind of depressing
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Speaker 1: to see how things change, you know, from when you're a.
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Speaker 2: Kid, or from what you remember as a kid. You
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Speaker 2: know that magic.
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Speaker 1: Exactly, and from there, you know, we went to our
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Speaker 1: beach house. We go to the it's not our beach
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Speaker 1: house but family members, and we love it. It's a
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Speaker 1: little piece down south of Florida on the Gulf Coast,
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Speaker 1: and it's just so peaceful. It's a beautiful beach house
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Speaker 1: and we had a great time there.
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Speaker 2: How was it since the hurricane because they got hit
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Speaker 2: pretty hard.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that beach almost got wiped off the map pretty much.
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Speaker 3: They're still building back.
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Speaker 1: It's been closed for over everything, and they finally opened
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Speaker 1: up this year. And the beach house we stay at
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Speaker 1: was damaged, but they fixed it all up. But the
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Speaker 1: houses next to it on either side are just all
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Speaker 1: in the shambles, Like I don't know how the town
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Speaker 1: or the government is allowing them to still be standing
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Speaker 1: because it's dangerous. They're just what you would see after
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Speaker 1: a bomb explosion. Yeah, houses are just hanging on a thread,
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Speaker 1: you know, on either side. And as you walk down
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Speaker 1: the beach you just see all the destruction of the
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Speaker 1: houses that someone probably didn't have money to fix, their insurance.
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Speaker 3: Isn't covering it, or they can't get anyone or insurance
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Speaker 3: to prove it to be fixed. So it's heartbreaking, it
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Speaker 3: really is.
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Speaker 2: I would be careful that there's no glass in the
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Speaker 2: sand or the water. So back in October, we were
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Speaker 2: where the hurricane hit and my family, a few family
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Speaker 2: members said, do not go in the water, do not
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Speaker 2: walk on the beach barefoot. And when we went, there
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Speaker 2: was like one couple on the beach with their dog,
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Speaker 2: but they had like they shoes on, shoes on sneakers.
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Speaker 1: That is a fear. But angle the place's angle would
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Speaker 1: Minnesota Key Beach, they're not allowed to They weren't allowed
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Speaker 1: to open the beach until they were sifting through the sand,
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Speaker 1: so they have the huge sifting machines. I saw a
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Speaker 1: video of it and they had to sift thousands and
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Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of pounds of sand. So a dump
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Speaker 1: truck or a bulldozer would come scoop up sand, bring
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Speaker 1: it to this giant sifter, and then the sifter would
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Speaker 1: sift out all the stuff and spit out the clean sand.
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Speaker 1: So they had to do that. But occasionally, like when
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Speaker 1: I was walking the beach, I saw an occasional rusty nail,
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Speaker 1: I saw an occasional piece of a house, occasional piece
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Speaker 1: of brick, occasional you know, sighting it, you know that's
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Speaker 1: bound to happen as the waves bring it in from
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Speaker 1: what was taken out. So yes, definitely have to be
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Speaker 1: careful with that. It's sad. So that was a space
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Speaker 1: we were going to look to move to. But now
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Speaker 1: that it's been hit back to back with these horrible hurricanes,
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Speaker 1: which it never had in the past, I'm like, maybe
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Speaker 1: we should we should move inland more, you know, continue
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Speaker 1: our search. But it was great. I got to see
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Speaker 1: baby sea turtles being born. That was absolutely amazing, absolutely amazing.
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Speaker 1: And you know I always say to Seana every trip,
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Speaker 1: me and my husband say, something goes wrong every single
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Speaker 1: trip we've ever taken. We know we wait because something
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Speaker 1: has to go wrong, and we wait for that to
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Speaker 1: happen because then the rest of the trip is smooth sailing.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but did you lose your wallet?
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Speaker 1: No, didn't lose my wallet this time.
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Speaker 2: Did you do any TikTok hacks?
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Speaker 1: No hacks. I stayed away from TikTok, like you know,
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Speaker 1: my husband said to stay off TikTok. You're not doing
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Speaker 1: any travel hacks, you know. But this one was like
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Speaker 1: a little more scarier. My daughter. Now I'm going towards
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Speaker 1: the end of our trip. Now, so the whole trip
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Speaker 1: we're like, oh, smooth sailing. This is not good. It's
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Speaker 1: we're getting close to the end here. Something's gonna go wrong,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Maybe we're jinxing it by
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Speaker 1: thinking that we probably shouldn't talk negatively, but we're is
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Speaker 1: so used to it. So anyway, Julina is allergic to
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Speaker 1: mosquito bites. She has something called Skeeter syndrome, and that
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Speaker 1: sounds like a fake syndrome, but it's actually a real syndrome.
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Speaker 1: I've never heard of it, I know, I didn't either
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Speaker 1: until I google. Then allergist said, hey, she probably has
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Speaker 1: Skeeter syndrome. So every time that Julina, since she was
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Speaker 1: an infant, gets bit by bugs, they swell up really
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Speaker 1: big into these big red hard welts, like huge, and
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Speaker 1: then they burst and they ooze like it's gross. They ooze,
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Speaker 1: and it's very dangerous because that they can get infected
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Speaker 1: because they're opening and oozing, you know. And I do
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Speaker 1: my best always keep them clean and whatever. But and
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Speaker 1: she's had to go on antibiotics in the past for
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Speaker 1: this and this trip, I was nervous because I heard
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Speaker 1: there was a flesh eating bacteria in Florida on the
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Speaker 1: Gulf coast.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm like.
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Speaker 1: Oh great, of course we're here during this bacteria and
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Speaker 1: people die from that, you know, or it just eats
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Speaker 1: their skin away. So when she got I tried to
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Speaker 1: keep her sprayed with bugspray. She got bit a bunch
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Speaker 1: of times by a mosquito that was actually in the
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Speaker 1: beach house, so she wasn't sprayed, you know, she was
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Speaker 1: inside and it bit her during the night and I
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Speaker 1: got it and I want to hit it. I saw
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Speaker 1: all the blood come out, and I'm like, great, it
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Speaker 1: got her, you know, and they started to swell up.
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Speaker 3: I kept them clean bandages, everything I thought I was
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Speaker 3: doing right, but it didn't. It didn't matter. Her leg
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Speaker 3: was just swollen and red.
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Speaker 1: And I noticed it the night before we were supposed
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Speaker 1: to fly home, and I said to my husband, I said, Babe,
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Speaker 1: I think we need to take her.
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Speaker 3: To urgent care.
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Speaker 1: Her leg is like twice the size and it's very red,
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Speaker 1: or it wasn't twice the size at that point. It
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Speaker 1: was very red and hot and it was late and
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Speaker 1: he goes, what's open. We're on an island, you know,
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Speaker 1: and everything was closed. He goes, let's take her in
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Speaker 1: the morning. We'll pack up our suitcases tonight and we'll
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Speaker 1: head out, leave before check out and go right to
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Speaker 1: the urgent care. So that's what we did, and by
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Speaker 1: that morning her leg was twice the size. It was red,
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Speaker 1: swollen there. It was just really bad and it was
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Speaker 1: spreading up her thigh.
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Speaker 3: So urgent care was like, you need to go to
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Speaker 3: the hot soon.
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Speaker 1: As the doctor saw it an urgent care, she said,
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Speaker 1: she needs to go to the hospital right now, and
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Speaker 1: she drew a line around Jelina's leg where all the
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Speaker 1: redness was spreading. She goes, this could be the flesh
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Speaker 1: eating bacteria. This could be sepsis. Like, this is bad,
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Speaker 1: this is spreading. And I'm like, well, can't you just
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Speaker 1: give her iv anabiotics?
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Speaker 3: You know?
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Speaker 1: She goes, no, she needs to go to the hospital
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Speaker 1: right now. We need to do a wound sample, like
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Speaker 1: scrape open those wounds, oh for this flesh eating bacteria
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Speaker 1: or to see what bacteria is in there, and she
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Speaker 1: has she just has to stay over and I'm like, now,
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Speaker 1: this is the day we're flying home. Guys like, we're
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Speaker 1: flying We're supposed to get on an airplane that evening,
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Speaker 1: thank god, in the evening. And I was like, but
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Speaker 1: we fly home tonight, we fly home, and she's like, well,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to make other plans. You're gonna have
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Speaker 1: to cancel your flight. And I obviously I would for
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Speaker 1: the health of my child, but as you can imagine,
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Speaker 1: it's very stressful. Number One, I'm scared my daughter has
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Speaker 1: a flush eating bacteria. She could either lose her life,
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Speaker 1: lose her leg and be stressed of Okay, now we
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Speaker 1: got to cancel our flight or figure this out.
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Speaker 3: You know, where are we staying tonight? How much is
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Speaker 3: this gonna cost? She wanted to send her an.
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Speaker 1: Ambulance where like, no, we'll take her over. We took
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Speaker 1: her over to Sarasota Hospital, Memorial Hospital, and let me
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Speaker 1: just say that hospital was gorgeous.
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Speaker 3: Clean, friendly. Everyone was amazing there.
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Speaker 1: I'm so used to New York hospitals where it's like
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Speaker 1: like a prison and everyone's nasty and cold to you.
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean, Yeah, like you feel like
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Speaker 2: you're in a dungeon.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this was not like that.
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Speaker 1: So they took her back right away, checked it out,
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Speaker 1: got her on antibiotics, you know, they just monitored her,
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Speaker 1: and luckily the doctor said it was just an infection
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Speaker 1: and severe inflammation.
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Speaker 3: So because my daughter is allergic and she had I.
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Speaker 1: Think six bites on her one little leg, it was
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Speaker 1: just overkilled for her body. So her body reacted to
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Speaker 1: that with that red inflammation. So it wasn't so much
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Speaker 1: that it was sepsis.
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Speaker 3: Wasn't it was.
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Speaker 1: An infection, but it was also severe inflammation. They gave
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Speaker 1: her a steroid and within an hour the redness started
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Speaker 1: going down, so that's how we knew, okay, it is
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Speaker 1: a lot of inflammation. So thankfully we were able to
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Speaker 1: leave the hospital.
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Speaker 3: Jelina's okay.
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Speaker 1: They had her on antibiotics and steroids, and thank god,
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Speaker 1: my baby was okay, and we made our flight and
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Speaker 1: we got home.
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Speaker 3: But that was our crazy ending to our trip. And
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Speaker 3: we're like, well, you know, we knew something had to happen.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just crazy to me. Yeah, so now she's better. Obviously,
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Speaker 2: now she's.
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Speaker 1: Better, and I just gotta be very diligent with the bugs, fright,
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Speaker 1: even I'm gonna have to get like, you know, the
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Speaker 1: peppermint oil that your mom gave me, and even inside
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Speaker 1: a hotel or a beat house, put it on her
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Speaker 1: in case there is a bug in the house, you know,
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Speaker 1: and not least that's natural, so I don't have to worry,
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Speaker 1: you know.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't stay on top of that because my.
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Speaker 1: Poor baby, Like that was very scary. I was crying
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Speaker 1: so much thinking something was gonna happen to her.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you called me from the hospital.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was scared.
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Speaker 1: I was scared, especially when they said she needs to
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Speaker 1: go to the emergency room right now. I'm like, and
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Speaker 1: she has to stay over My poor baby has to
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Speaker 1: get you know, a wound sampled. Thankfully they didn't have
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Speaker 1: to do that either, soh yeah, that was horrible.
17:39
Speaker 2: Well, we just got back from Nashville, But we'll talk
17:41
Speaker 2: about that in a little while. But do you have
17:45
Speaker 2: any other trips planned? I mean, I know you're you're
17:48
Speaker 2: always going somewhere.
17:49
Speaker 1: I know, I know I have like a few trips
17:51
Speaker 1: planned already for the year, But no, I mean, I
17:54
Speaker 1: really want to take her to sest me place before
17:56
Speaker 1: school starts. I've never been. I've heard great things about it.
18:00
Speaker 1: My husband was when he was a kid, and he
18:02
Speaker 1: was like, I had so much fun. You know, he
18:03
Speaker 1: had a ton of fun there.
18:04
Speaker 3: But yeah, I really want to take her there.
18:07
Speaker 2: My old co host from the radio station, she recently
18:10
Speaker 2: took her daughter and it literally looked like you were
18:14
Speaker 2: at Sesame Street.
18:15
Speaker 3: Really.
18:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was so cute. But I hear there's a
18:20
Speaker 2: lot to do there, Like there's like different rides and
18:23
Speaker 2: stuff you could do, and you know, you probably meet
18:26
Speaker 2: the characters. And yeah, Almo was my favorite. He was
18:32
Speaker 2: my favorite from Sesame Street.
18:34
Speaker 1: Sesame Street was so big when we were kids, and
18:36
Speaker 1: I'm so happy that it still is a part of
18:39
Speaker 1: this generation's you know, youth. But I think it was
18:42
Speaker 1: so it was majorly it was huge when we were little.
18:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was bigger than like Blues Clues
18:48
Speaker 2: was Blues Clues even out then. I don't even know.
18:50
Speaker 1: Well as we got older, but Sesame Street and Fraule
18:53
Speaker 1: Rock I remember when we.
18:54
Speaker 3: Were little, little Sesame Street was huge. It was like,
18:58
Speaker 3: I don't even know if it's still the same book.
19:00
Speaker 3: It was what we grew up on. You know.
19:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, crazy how like stuff just comes back, you know.
19:07
Speaker 2: But yeah, they're really great with ADA. You know, we're
19:11
Speaker 2: all about like ADA accessibility and everything. So they have
19:16
Speaker 2: a ride accessibility program and it helps match rides to
19:20
Speaker 2: like the guests' needs, which is really cool.
19:23
Speaker 1: So for instance, you're saying, if someone came a kid
19:27
Speaker 1: came in a wheelchair, it would know, all right, we
19:30
Speaker 1: can put you on this, this and this ride or
19:32
Speaker 1: something like that.
19:33
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. They also have designated quiet areas and low
19:39
Speaker 2: scent for low sensory so like if you're autistic or
19:44
Speaker 2: you're sensitive to sound, they have like rooms specifically for that.
19:49
Speaker 2: And that's something I think pretty new in places, because
19:53
Speaker 2: I know when I was younger, they didn't have that.
19:55
Speaker 1: No, they I don't think they truly understood that that
19:57
Speaker 1: some kids need.
19:58
Speaker 3: That, you know.
19:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they also have a hidden disability Sunflower program
20:04
Speaker 2: for guests who may need a little extra kindness.
20:08
Speaker 3: What's that?
20:10
Speaker 2: So basically the Sunflower program is for people that have
20:14
Speaker 2: invisible disabilities to say, like to kind of instead of
20:18
Speaker 2: saying like, hey, I'm disabled, they could just say, like
20:20
Speaker 2: they could wear like sunflower pan or a lanyard, and
20:24
Speaker 2: this staff will know, Okay, this person, you know has
20:27
Speaker 2: a disability.
20:28
Speaker 3: We gotta yeah, we can't see it, but it's there. Yeah.
20:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they may need some extra support, you know,
20:34
Speaker 2: with understanding, which is great because once again, they didn't
20:38
Speaker 2: have that when we were younger.
20:40
Speaker 3: No, I heard that they they train their staff too
20:44
Speaker 3: on how to assist guests that have disabilities, which is
20:47
Speaker 3: great because a.
20:48
Speaker 1: Lot of places don't have that or they don't know
20:50
Speaker 1: how to handle situations or guests that have disabilities.
20:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, really important. Yeah, it is, and you know we
20:58
Speaker 2: see that everywhere where people. We were talking about it today,
21:01
Speaker 2: like customer service is just not the same. You know,
21:05
Speaker 2: people are always in a rush, and when you're at
21:08
Speaker 2: a park, you know, you run into every type of person,
21:13
Speaker 2: disabled or non disabled. Somebody may just be having a
21:17
Speaker 2: bad day, and you know, you need to have compassion
21:21
Speaker 2: when working in the public.
21:22
Speaker 1: Yes, don't choose a job in the public if you
21:25
Speaker 1: can't have compassion, understanding and kind of put your own
21:28
Speaker 1: issues on the back burner. And you could ruin or
21:30
Speaker 1: make someone's day just by how you treat them as
21:32
Speaker 1: an you know, when you're working somewhere.
21:34
Speaker 3: So that's very important.
21:37
Speaker 2: So before we went to Nashville, your neighbor decided to
21:40
Speaker 2: throw a barbecue for the whole entire community the block.
21:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, our little block.
21:47
Speaker 1: Yeah. Last minute, she's just like we've been talking about
21:52
Speaker 1: it every year. We talk about it, like we need
21:54
Speaker 1: to do a block party, we need to do a
21:56
Speaker 1: block party. And then you know, we're all all busy.
21:58
Speaker 1: But last minute, my neighbor was like, hey, we're doing this.
22:01
Speaker 1: You know, hey, we're doing this. And so she was
22:06
Speaker 1: asking what can can anyone make anything? You know, this,
22:10
Speaker 1: this and that, And I was like, let me see
22:11
Speaker 1: what I could whip up because I really didn't have
22:13
Speaker 1: time to go to the store.
22:14
Speaker 3: So went my fridge.
22:16
Speaker 1: I so I had chicken, I saw I had I
22:17
Speaker 1: could make a quick marinade with the ingredients I had
22:20
Speaker 1: in my cupboard.
22:21
Speaker 3: So I I'm like, wait, it's not I don't have
22:23
Speaker 3: enough time. I only have like.
22:26
Speaker 1: Four or five hours before this party. I usually when
22:29
Speaker 1: I marinate chicken, I do it overnight, you know. Yeah,
22:32
Speaker 1: And I remember that we got the seal Vax to
22:35
Speaker 1: review and it's like a glass I'm gonna use the
22:38
Speaker 1: word pyrex, but it's like a glass top of ware Pyrex,
22:40
Speaker 1: but it has a special.
22:42
Speaker 3: Top on it that you use this vacuum.
22:46
Speaker 1: It comes with this round vacuum and you you know,
22:50
Speaker 1: you charge it so it's so electronic. And you put
22:53
Speaker 1: this vacuum on top of the whole that's on the
22:57
Speaker 1: top of the glass container, and it's gonna suck out
23:01
Speaker 1: all the air. Now, this is good for sealing things.
23:03
Speaker 1: We want to keep meat fresh or vegetables fresh for
23:06
Speaker 1: a long period of time or.
23:07
Speaker 3: A longer period of time. This is perfect for that.
23:10
Speaker 1: For marinaids, the reason I used it is because the
23:13
Speaker 1: Sealbax cuts down the marinade time by fifty percent. So
23:17
Speaker 1: if a marinade takes four hours to marinate something, this
23:22
Speaker 1: is gonna cut it down only two hours.
23:24
Speaker 3: And it's going to.
23:24
Speaker 1: Infuse that flavor and the tenderness into the meat or
23:27
Speaker 1: whatever you're marinating.
23:28
Speaker 3: You know.
23:29
Speaker 1: So I tried it and it worked. It truly worked.
23:33
Speaker 1: I was kind of in sure. So I put the
23:35
Speaker 1: marinate in the chicken, put the cap on, and I
23:38
Speaker 1: took that little vacuum and sucked out all the air
23:41
Speaker 1: out of the container and put it in the fridge,
23:43
Speaker 1: and then I took it out to cook for my neighbors.
23:45
Speaker 1: And that meat was so flavorful and so tender. Everyone
23:50
Speaker 1: ate it so fast. I didn't even get to get
23:52
Speaker 1: an after an after photo or video because I did
23:56
Speaker 1: all the before videos and stuff, and I didn't even
23:58
Speaker 1: by the time I came back, that's it was all gone.
24:02
Speaker 1: There was a piece for me, and I'm like, wow,
24:04
Speaker 1: do you guys like it? Like this is amazing? You
24:06
Speaker 1: could cut it with a fork like my chickens always dry.
24:09
Speaker 1: This was so tender. I used my fork and it
24:11
Speaker 1: just fell apart.
24:13
Speaker 3: And I said that it was.
24:15
Speaker 1: From I guarantee the Sealbax help because it really infused
24:18
Speaker 1: all those flavors into it.
24:20
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
24:21
Speaker 1: So I mean, I this is now my favorite thing
24:23
Speaker 1: in the kitchen because with my add forgetting to do
24:27
Speaker 1: things till last minute, that's usually my mantra, Like I, oh, shoot,
24:31
Speaker 1: I was supposed to put that in the marinade last night,
24:33
Speaker 1: or oh I need to you know, freeze or seal this.
24:37
Speaker 3: So I love that. It kind of helps me when
24:39
Speaker 3: I forget.
24:40
Speaker 1: Things, you know, yeah, you know, gives me that time back.
24:44
Speaker 1: So highly highly recommend that adding that to your kitchen necessities.
24:48
Speaker 2: And we went to Nashville last week and we had
24:54
Speaker 2: so much fun. It was a very busy trip, very
24:58
Speaker 2: hectic in the airport, but we made it through. And
25:04
Speaker 2: the a plane ride. I don't like flying, but I
25:08
Speaker 2: was like so scared. But it was a smooth, smooth flight,
25:12
Speaker 2: thank god.
25:13
Speaker 1: Yes, with all the crap that's been in the news
25:16
Speaker 1: about planes, I was legit like really nervous on how
25:20
Speaker 1: this flight was gonna go.
25:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you just never know. But it went
25:25
Speaker 2: really smooth. We flew out of La Guardia, and the
25:30
Speaker 2: last time I went to LaGuardia it was a shit show.
25:33
Speaker 2: It was a disaster. It took us like five hours
25:36
Speaker 2: to get there with the traffic, and it was just
25:41
Speaker 2: they were under construction. It was just a madhouse. And
25:45
Speaker 2: I swore that I would never fly out of La
25:47
Speaker 2: Guardia again, but this time it was totally different. I
25:51
Speaker 2: would fly out of there all the time.
25:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was an easy trip, super it was much
25:56
Speaker 1: faster than JFK. And the airport is brand new, gorgeous level.
26:02
Speaker 1: I mean, even though it's an old airport, they did construction,
26:04
Speaker 1: they added on, they just changed everything, renovated the whole thing.
26:08
Speaker 1: It was absolutely gorgeous, up to date on everything super clean.
26:13
Speaker 1: I love that.
26:14
Speaker 2: Tons of restaurants, even the bathrooms were super clean. Yes,
26:17
Speaker 2: and we went to my favorite place, Sorrows, for bagels.
26:22
Speaker 2: The price though, they were like I'm pretty sure it
26:26
Speaker 2: was like double the amount that it normally is.
26:28
Speaker 1: Yep. That's what they do in the airports. It's really ridiculous.
26:31
Speaker 1: Like a bottle of water is five dollars, sodas five dollars, Like,
26:35
Speaker 1: come on now, a little bottle. That's insane.
26:40
Speaker 2: Even the Nashville airport, I mean it was nice. It
26:42
Speaker 2: was older, you could tell. But the trip overall was
26:46
Speaker 2: just so much fun. And we're gonna have to save
26:50
Speaker 2: the whole like Nashville trip for next week because it's
26:53
Speaker 2: gonna be a whole episode itself.
26:55
Speaker 3: Yeah, lots of craziness, lots of fun.
27:00
Speaker 1: I almost got murdered, So you definitely want to tune
27:03
Speaker 1: in next week to hear about that, because that was
27:05
Speaker 1: absolutely insanity.
27:07
Speaker 2: That was scary, very scary.
27:09
Speaker 1: So yeah, check back in next week for that story.
27:12
Speaker 1: It's just too much to talk about today. But we
27:16
Speaker 1: got back from that trip and we I think we
27:19
Speaker 1: both didn't drink enough water.
27:21
Speaker 3: We were exhausted.
27:23
Speaker 2: I was so tired.
27:24
Speaker 1: I was out most nights to one am, the one
27:28
Speaker 1: night to two am. Then by the time I fall asleep,
27:30
Speaker 1: you know, you're talking two thirty eight, three in the morning,
27:32
Speaker 1: and then we're getting up bright and early. Missus Kathy,
27:37
Speaker 1: our assistant, she's an early bird.
27:41
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
27:41
Speaker 3: Yeah, rummaging around the room at seven in the morning.
27:45
Speaker 1: Is I'm a light sleeper. So once I'm up, I'm up.
27:48
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think between all that not sleeping and
27:51
Speaker 1: not drinking enough water, I was severely dehydrated.
27:56
Speaker 2: Yeah. The day that we were leaving, you drank a
27:59
Speaker 2: bottle of water at the WHO hotel, a bottle of
28:01
Speaker 2: water on the way to the airport, and another bottle
28:04
Speaker 2: of water at the airport. And I don't know if
28:07
Speaker 2: you had a drink on the airplane.
28:09
Speaker 3: I did have another drink on the airplane.
28:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was My body just was craving it. And
28:14
Speaker 1: how I know I was dehydrated. Was I didn't even
28:16
Speaker 1: have to run in the bathroom because my body was
28:18
Speaker 1: just absorbing it, giving it to my organs.
28:21
Speaker 3: I'm guessing, you know, not even peeing it out.
28:24
Speaker 2: See. I on the other hand, I was dehydrated, I think,
28:29
Speaker 2: but I wasn't as dehydrated as you were. Yeah, because
28:32
Speaker 2: I could pee it every five minutes.
28:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, but coming back from that trip, I felt like
28:38
Speaker 1: absolute coca that that first day, I actually felt like
28:41
Speaker 1: I had the flu based on just being dehydrated and
28:44
Speaker 1: run down.
28:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, you had texted me because we got back at
28:47
Speaker 2: like midnight, and then you dropped us off and then
28:51
Speaker 2: you how to drive to get the kids and then
28:54
Speaker 2: drive home, so you probably got home at like one Yeah,
28:57
Speaker 2: and uh yeah it was the next day. You had
29:01
Speaker 2: texted me and said you felt sick.
29:04
Speaker 1: I felt sick. I felt achy, I couldn't I felt dizzy.
29:09
Speaker 1: It was like I was in a fog. And I said,
29:11
Speaker 1: I think I'm run down and dehydrated. You know, my
29:13
Speaker 1: husband said it, Shanna said it. So luckily we had
29:17
Speaker 1: gotten these delicious drinks called coaqua, which is coconut water,
29:24
Speaker 1: so aqua no water and coconut so coaqua, and they
29:27
Speaker 1: had all these different flavors and I hadn't tried them
29:31
Speaker 1: before Nashville because we had just gotten them.
29:32
Speaker 3: And I'm like, this is the perfect opportunity to try this.
29:35
Speaker 1: I am severely dehydrated and coconut water is amazing for dehydration. Guys, like,
29:40
Speaker 1: if you are dehydrated, skip the crap crappy, gatoried and
29:46
Speaker 1: poweryed filled with chemicals and dyes, and coconut water is
29:49
Speaker 1: a natural electrolyte drink.
29:51
Speaker 2: Do you think I would like it? I'm not a
29:53
Speaker 2: big coconut fan.
29:54
Speaker 1: I think so because it's listen, I'm gonna be honest,
29:58
Speaker 1: as good as coconut water for me, and I like
30:02
Speaker 1: coconut things.
30:03
Speaker 3: I don't like coconut water because it.
30:05
Speaker 1: Always has a very earthy I call it like a
30:08
Speaker 1: dirt taste. I don't know what dirt tastes like, but
30:10
Speaker 1: in my head, like, that's what coconut water tastes like.
30:12
Speaker 3: To me, is like dirt. So I've never liked it.
30:15
Speaker 1: I drank it when I was sick because I knew
30:17
Speaker 1: it was good for me, but I had to kind
30:18
Speaker 1: of plug my nose and drink it, you know. Yeah,
30:21
Speaker 1: so I was very hesitant to try this, but I did.
30:25
Speaker 3: I popped open.
30:27
Speaker 1: The citrus circus one, it's the green can, and I
30:31
Speaker 1: poured it over ice because things always taste a better cold,
30:33
Speaker 1: especially when you're dehydrated, and it.
30:36
Speaker 3: Was really really good.
30:39
Speaker 1: It didn't taste like that earthy dirt taste because they
30:44
Speaker 1: put a splash of juice.
30:45
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know how much, but I'm calling
30:47
Speaker 3: it a splash.
30:47
Speaker 1: Of juice or whatever flavor that you know, they had
30:51
Speaker 1: their drinks. Because these the coaqua, they have a ton
30:54
Speaker 1: of flavors and there's no other coconut water out there
30:57
Speaker 1: that has all these flavor combinations. So right there, they're
31:01
Speaker 1: ahead of the game. But so it has that the
31:04
Speaker 1: different flavors in it that help. And also what I
31:07
Speaker 1: learned is that they where they get their coconuts from matter,
31:12
Speaker 1: So in all different parts of the world, wherever a
31:15
Speaker 1: coconut is grown, it's gonna taste different, it's gonna have
31:17
Speaker 1: a different flavor structure. So they go after the young
31:20
Speaker 1: green coconuts. I think it's in Vietnam, and those coconuts
31:24
Speaker 1: have a better flavor and they're more sweet and they're
31:27
Speaker 1: not as earthy, so that all they took that they
31:30
Speaker 1: did their research basically, right, They did their research and
31:35
Speaker 1: they created this better version of coconut water, or a
31:38
Speaker 1: more delicious version of it. So that has made all
31:42
Speaker 1: the difference. And that's why I think you're gonna like it.
31:44
Speaker 3: You know.
31:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, And there's a ton of drinks out there that
31:48
Speaker 1: are not healthy for you that, like I said, for
31:51
Speaker 1: hydration and other things, they have high fruit corn syrup
31:54
Speaker 1: in it and dies and different fake flavors. This doesn't
31:58
Speaker 1: have that. So that's one thing I always look for,
32:00
Speaker 1: you know that when I take a drink.
32:02
Speaker 2: I think we all know that by now.
32:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, everyone should know that about me. It's very important.
32:07
Speaker 1: So even my sister, My sister is overboard with this stuff,
32:11
Speaker 1: with like finding a drink that is not unhealthy for you,
32:16
Speaker 1: and she liked them, and she's like, you know what,
32:18
Speaker 1: this is great.
32:18
Speaker 2: You know.
32:19
Speaker 1: So my husband he right away, because he likes making drinks,
32:23
Speaker 1: he said, this would be perfect to make a mocktail
32:26
Speaker 1: or even a regular cocktail with it, you know. He
32:30
Speaker 1: wants he wants to kind of play around with it
32:31
Speaker 1: and make something yilmy for when we're having barbecues to
32:34
Speaker 1: serve to people. So I think that's great. That's another
32:37
Speaker 1: great use of this to make a kind of semi
32:39
Speaker 1: healthy mocktail or make your elevate your cocktails with kawakua.
32:44
Speaker 1: And what I also love about this company, so it
32:46
Speaker 1: was it's the two co founders are like best friends.
32:48
Speaker 1: So they call themselves the Coco Bros. I think that's
32:51
Speaker 1: so cute. It's funny, that is cute, but they are
32:55
Speaker 1: you know, this is very important to us, right Seanna.
32:57
Speaker 1: They are committed to being sustainable and using recycled products,
33:02
Speaker 1: products and packaging, and they partner with small farmers and
33:07
Speaker 1: you know, and that helps build communities and feed families
33:10
Speaker 1: when they're doing that, And I think that's that's amazing,
33:14
Speaker 1: and that's super important for businesses to try and do.
33:17
Speaker 1: And we always love supporting businesses that make that front
33:21
Speaker 1: and foremost in their companies.
33:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, we absolutely love that.
33:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's very important when when when I buy
33:29
Speaker 1: products to know, hey, what's the deal with this this company?
33:32
Speaker 1: You know, are they are they helping the issues that
33:35
Speaker 1: we're facing in the world or are they making them worse?
33:38
Speaker 1: And that that is always important when I'm buying from companies,
33:41
Speaker 1: you know, But I mean anyway, I am excited to
33:45
Speaker 1: try the other flavors. I was told to try the
33:48
Speaker 1: sparkling coconut that one. I am excited about that because
33:53
Speaker 1: I drink sparkling water. I drink Seltzer, So I'm wondering
33:56
Speaker 1: if it's something like that. I don't know because I
33:57
Speaker 1: haven't tried it yet. But I love these. I keep
34:00
Speaker 1: them in the fridge and it's really nice cold, and
34:03
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to bring you some and make you try,
34:05
Speaker 1: because I truly think you're gonna like it.
34:07
Speaker 3: Shauna.
34:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll have to bring me some next week and
34:11
Speaker 2: we'll film it.
34:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, film Shauna tasting it. Because Shauna, she cannot hide
34:16
Speaker 1: when she doesn't like something.
34:18
Speaker 2: No, no, I cannot.
34:20
Speaker 1: We were yelling at her. We had to review a
34:22
Speaker 1: restaurant and we were reviewing their food and she took
34:26
Speaker 1: a bite and she didn't like it, and there was
34:29
Speaker 1: no hiding her face, and we said, no, Sauna, change
34:32
Speaker 1: your face. They're watching. And she said, I can't change
34:35
Speaker 1: my face. I don't like it.
34:38
Speaker 2: I did. I can't lie. I'm not a good wire.
34:41
Speaker 1: I know, I know, but just how about the Mercer's
34:44
Speaker 1: really good and you know, try and smile and spit
34:47
Speaker 1: it when they're you know, in a napkin. But no,
34:48
Speaker 1: Shawna's like, I was like, this is disgusting, so maybe
34:54
Speaker 1: we won't have you feel No, I'm kidding. I truly
34:56
Speaker 1: think you're gonna love this. And you know, Shawna's face
34:59
Speaker 1: doesn't lie, so it'll be a good review.
35:02
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35:04
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35:21
Speaker 2: Be sure to tune in next week for our Nashville segment.
35:25
Speaker 1: You guys don't want to miss it.
35:26
Speaker 2: You do not want to miss it.
35:27
Speaker 1: Oh my god, crazy stories.
35:29
Speaker 2: We will see you next week