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Rainy Summers and School Day Scars · 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 Shauna m. What's up. You're listening to Shauna and Lalla.
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Speaker 1: And check me out at Bella Underscore Lalla one two five.
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Speaker 2: It has finally stopped raining for about an hour. This
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Speaker 2: is just getting ridiculous all this rain. I feel like
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Speaker 2: we're in a rainforest.
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Speaker 1: I know, it's really depressing. It's been raining for months,
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Speaker 1: like weeks. It's been weeks and weeks and weeks of
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Speaker 1: rain and we get maybe one or two days sprinkled
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Speaker 1: and there with sun and then it rains during that day.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, it's gonna rain again. It's sunny, it's humid,
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Speaker 1: but it's gonna rain again tonight, and I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It's really ruining the summer. A lot of people are
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Speaker 1: saying like they can't even go in their pools because
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Speaker 1: it's been rainy. I'm hoping the summer is not like this,
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Speaker 1: because that's gonna be really depressing. And like the weather
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Speaker 1: we say, the weather's crazy.
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Speaker 2: It's insane, absolutely insane. I do not remember a June
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Speaker 2: when we were growing up. This is like the first
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Speaker 2: June that I remember actually of it raining so much range.
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Speaker 1: Every single day, and it's not like sprinkles. It's like downpour,
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Speaker 1: downpour of rain. Yeah, Mother Nature's not been happy. But
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Speaker 1: hopefully what the sun will be sticking around. I heard
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be beautiful next week, so everyone can kind
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Speaker 1: of feel like summer's here and maybe we can get
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Speaker 1: in the pools and go to the beaches and try
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Speaker 1: to enjoy it. Because it's been really depressing. Sooner than
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Speaker 1: we think is going to be here, School's starting and fall,
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Speaker 1: so it's really summer better start sticking around.
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Speaker 2: So I just googled it. I said how many days
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Speaker 2: has it rained for in New York? And Google says
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Speaker 2: it averages about one hundred and twenty days per year.
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Speaker 2: I think our one hundred and twenty days is up.
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Speaker 2: I think it was up in at least April or May.
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, it has to be. I can't.
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Speaker 2: It's insane, it's it's horrible. I just want to go
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Speaker 2: to the beach and lay out in the sun, and
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Speaker 2: I can't even do that. Nobody can.
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Speaker 1: No, I've been waiting to use my tanning pool and
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Speaker 1: I haven't been able to because it's rained every single day.
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Speaker 1: So next week I'm getting into that.
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Speaker 2: Slush pool if it doesn't rain.
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Speaker 1: If yeah, as long as the weather stays like it
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Speaker 1: says it's going to be, which you can't even count
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Speaker 1: on that, but it should be in the like eighties,
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Speaker 1: nineties and really hot, so.
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Speaker 2: I really hope. So my friend said yesterday that she
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Speaker 2: put up the poor She paid for a new liner,
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Speaker 2: and she even paid to put water in the pool.
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Speaker 2: I said, why would you pay to put water in
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Speaker 2: the pool when we've had all this rain.
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Speaker 1: Filled it up for free, Mother nature.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, seriously, that's the only like good thing that's come
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Speaker 2: about all this rain. Yeah, so school is almost out.
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Speaker 2: My niece Haley graduated pre school today. I can't believe it.
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Speaker 1: She looks so cute.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god. Her dress was adorable and she picked
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Speaker 2: it out herself. Of course, it was a long graduation.
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Speaker 2: You know, we were like the biggest class to ever
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Speaker 2: go through our high school. Mm hm, and I'm pretty
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Speaker 2: sure like her class beat us.
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Speaker 1: Wow, that's crazy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we had over four hundred and something kids that graduated.
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Speaker 2: There was sixty five kids in her class. Well, there
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Speaker 2: was two classes because there were so many kids.
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Speaker 1: You know why COVID babies. Yeah, they were COVID babies
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Speaker 1: and that's why, just like back in the baby boomer
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Speaker 1: days and they were bored. Everyone just had baby Yeah exactly.
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Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it. We were there for two hours,
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Speaker 2: but it went by fast, and it was it was
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Speaker 2: really really cute, I have to say, like there were
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Speaker 2: so many parents there and so many little siblings, and
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Speaker 2: some of the siblings were running around, you know, and uh,
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Speaker 2: the principle if that's what you call her, she uh
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Speaker 2: was kind of like picking them out of the crowd,
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Speaker 2: you know. Really yeah, she was kind.
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Speaker 1: Of like, you know, calling them out.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, like whose kid is this running around? Disrupting you know,
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Speaker 2: what's going on? Teach your kid? You know, so okay
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Speaker 2: joking good for her though, Yeah, So it was it
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Speaker 2: was pretty funny. And she's like, I don't want this
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Speaker 2: kid in my class next year. It was It was
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Speaker 2: really funny.
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Speaker 1: You have to do that because you don't you know,
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Speaker 1: parents today, they don't parent their kids, they don't watch
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Speaker 1: their kids. They have no like awareness of okay, situational
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Speaker 1: awareness like okay, this is a graduation. Let me contain
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Speaker 1: my child, you know. And I'm proud of that principle
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Speaker 1: or whoever she was for standing up, even if it
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Speaker 1: was in a joking way and saying, yo, take control
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Speaker 1: of your kids here. You know, this is a graduation.
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Speaker 2: You weren't allowed to have kids under four or five there,
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Speaker 2: and some people just didn't listen, didn't care, or maybe
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Speaker 2: they didn't have a babysitter. Yeah, I don't know, but
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Speaker 2: I understand that. Like when my friend was telling me that,
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Speaker 2: I thought it was kind of rude, Like I'm like, oh,
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Speaker 2: like siblings can't go Like that's crazy, But now I
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Speaker 2: understand why.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, I'm like, well that's real mean because parents
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Speaker 1: they know, parents aren't going to parent their kids and
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be. Oh, it's a free for all that
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Speaker 1: the kids run around and that is just so incredibly rude.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, it I don't know what. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I see it every day, we all see it. We
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Speaker 1: see it everywhere with parents not being parents.
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Speaker 2: Oh and by the way, it was freezing in there, really, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it was in the gymneys and it was freezing, and
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Speaker 2: I'm thinking to myself. I said to my mom, Actually,
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Speaker 2: I said, when we were in school, we didn't have
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Speaker 2: air conditioning, No in the gym or anywhere.
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Speaker 1: Anywhere except for maybe one hallway, the new hallway in
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Speaker 1: high school before that. Never.
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Speaker 2: Never, No, it was horrible. And I remember, like when
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Speaker 2: we were growing up, it was always so sunny and
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Speaker 2: so hot in those school like in our classrooms, and
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Speaker 2: I remember those big box window fans yep, and they
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Speaker 2: didn't do crap.
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Speaker 1: No, you were just sweating at the desk and trying
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Speaker 1: to drink water and then the teachers say no water
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Speaker 1: on the desk.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, we weren't allowed to bring waters, yeah, bottles
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Speaker 2: to school.
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Speaker 1: It was horrible. Yeah, I was like sweating and the
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Speaker 1: smell of the class and the bathroom always had a
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Speaker 1: weird smell and just from the heat. It just gross.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not like that anymore. I don't think they
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Speaker 2: probably a AC.
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Speaker 1: I'm hoping, I mean my son's school, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if the school has AC. I know
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Speaker 1: in fifth grade his teacher bought her own AC and
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Speaker 1: rigged it up in those big windows. She's like, I'm
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Speaker 1: making this work. And Geo used to say because it'd
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Speaker 1: be summer and he was wearing a hoodie in pants
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Speaker 1: to school. And I'm like, Geo, it's gonna be ninety
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Speaker 1: degrees today, and he's like, my teacher keeps the room
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Speaker 1: on sixty. We're freezing in there and she's sweating. I'm like, oh, okay,
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Speaker 1: I get it. So yeah, she made do she.
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Speaker 2: Made it work good for him though, I mean or her.
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Speaker 2: The school was allowing it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. She was like an old, old teacher,
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Speaker 1: like who's been there for years. So maybe she got
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Speaker 1: away with it because I don't know if they'd let
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Speaker 1: every teacher do that, but.
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Speaker 2: No, they're electric. Bill would probably.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's not safe because the windows aren't made
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Speaker 1: for it, Like she had to rig something up, you know.
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Speaker 2: Also, we pay so much money in school taxes that
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Speaker 2: I think every classroom should have air conditioning.
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Speaker 1: Mm hm, I agree. I agree. Like it's a lot
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Speaker 1: of money. Those superintendents get paid a lot of money,
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Speaker 1: and that's where most of the budget seems to go,
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Speaker 1: is to pay the superintendent.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that's where all the money goes is to right
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Speaker 2: in their pockets. It doesn't go to the school district
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Speaker 2: to the students, and I remember when we got our
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Speaker 2: first school pool. I still think it was a waste
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Speaker 2: of money.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I hardly used it because I was
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Speaker 1: It was right when I was like almost out of
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Speaker 1: high school. But I do know the swim team was
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Speaker 1: really good for menacing and started getting really good, so
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Speaker 1: maybe it wasn't a waste. I know they were trying
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Speaker 1: to make money back by having like free swim days
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Speaker 1: on the weekend. I went to like a two of those.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I never went I went in the pool once,
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Speaker 2: no twice. First time I went in, I was all right.
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Speaker 2: Second time I went in, there was a big glob
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Speaker 2: of hair gel, oh god, floating in the pool, and
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Speaker 2: I almost threw up. And I said, forget it. And
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Speaker 2: they said, you're gonna get a zero. I said, I
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Speaker 2: don't care, give me a zero. Give me a zero.
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Speaker 2: I'm not going in that thing. It is disgusting, it's dirty,
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Speaker 2: it's filthy. And I remember they called my mom and
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Speaker 2: they were like, you know, she really needs to do swimming.
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Speaker 2: It's part of the grade. If it's too cold for her,
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Speaker 2: because my CP and stuff will turn the temperature up.
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Speaker 2: My Mom's like, you know, they're willing to work with you,
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Speaker 2: and I said, I don't care. I'm not doing it.
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Speaker 2: And I didn't do it. I sat there and I
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Speaker 2: watched everyone from the hallway.
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
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Speaker 2: First of all, it's stunk.
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Speaker 1: I know, the chlorine is so bad for you. It
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Speaker 1: was like really strong.
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Speaker 2: Like you walked in and my glasses would just fog up.
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Speaker 2: It was horrible.
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Speaker 1: The good old days, all those memories from school, and
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Speaker 1: I do not miss it.
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Speaker 2: Let me tell you something. Today walking into that gym
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Speaker 2: was like a high school reunion. And I do not
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Speaker 2: miss it.
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Speaker 1: No me either. I still have nightmares of school. It's
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Speaker 1: like funny how you still dream about it and it's stressful.
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Speaker 1: It's like I forgot to do homework, forgot to take
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Speaker 1: a test, or how to use the bathroom, and I'm
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Speaker 1: getting in trouble because class already started. It's like, you
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Speaker 1: don't realize how traumatizing school can be for kids, because
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Speaker 1: it's like my husband always says, they felt like a prison.
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Speaker 1: They treat a lot of like the high school. You
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Speaker 1: felt like you're in prison, you know, middle school. And
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Speaker 1: I don't think it should be that way because I'm
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Speaker 1: still traumatized by it, or have not traumatized. But if
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Speaker 1: I'm having nightmares of it, it really affected me. And
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Speaker 1: how many other kids did it affect? You know?
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Speaker 2: I still have really bad dreams about getting up in
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Speaker 2: the morning being sick and then still going to school
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Speaker 2: on the bus and then my stomach acting up on
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Speaker 2: the bus.
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Speaker 1: In your dream, my dream. Oh my god, Yes, I see.
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Speaker 1: It's trauma.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, that's it's gotta be. I still remember the
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Speaker 2: school route for the bus from my bus route like
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Speaker 2: for high school, because I literally live six seven minutes
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Speaker 2: from the school, and we would go all the way
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Speaker 2: by your dad's house.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, like twenty something minutes away.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so my ride. I was on the bus for
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Speaker 2: an hour and I live seven minutes away.
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Speaker 1: That's horrible. Your mom should have just drove you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I know how that went exactly.
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Speaker 2: That was not happening.
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Speaker 1: No, let me tell you.
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Speaker 2: I was choking on the lifesaver and in ninth grade.
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Speaker 2: I will never forget. I was choking on a lifesaver
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Speaker 2: and the nurse called her, and she said, do I
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Speaker 2: really have to come and get her? And the nurse said,
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Speaker 2: if you don't come and get her. We are calling
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Speaker 2: nine one one and she's like, well, what am I
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Speaker 2: going to do? And they said, you need to take
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Speaker 2: her to the doctor. And all the doctor did was
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Speaker 2: make me drink water. It was one of those minty
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Speaker 2: life savers. Yeah, and where the hole was and the
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Speaker 2: lifesaver was where I was like breathing, and I was
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Speaker 2: breathing through the hole.
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Speaker 1: That Thank god, it's a lifesaver. Right.
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Speaker 2: Well, I never had another one. No, yes, exactly. It
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Speaker 2: burnt my throat. It was horrible. I'll never forget that.
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Speaker 2: There's many things that I will never forget.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like things that traumatized you, right and scared you.
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Speaker 2: The kid that we were in the lunch room, I'm
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Speaker 2: not gonna say his name on air, but he got
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Speaker 2: mad at the gym teacher, who was I believe he's
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Speaker 2: now a assistant principal or the principle. But at the
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Speaker 2: time that we were in high school, this gym teacher
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Speaker 2: was practicing or whatever to be an assistant principle, like
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Speaker 2: in the administration office, and he would walk around like
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Speaker 2: all you know, high and mighty and thinking who he is.
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Speaker 2: And this kid went up to the lunch thing, grabbed
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Speaker 2: all these condiments like ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, salad dressing, mixed
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Speaker 2: it all on those paper plates and threw it at
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Speaker 2: the principle right in front of me. So it hit me,
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Speaker 2: but it really hit principle. Yea, Oh my god. I
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Speaker 2: never saw that. That guy jumps so fast. The kid
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Speaker 2: got arrested. It was insane, and they're like, are you
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Speaker 2: all right? So I was like, I'm fine, Like it
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Speaker 2: was just it wasn't all over me, but it was
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Speaker 2: on me. Yeah, And I'm like, I'm like, as funny
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Speaker 2: as it was, I'm like, I was kind of upset
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Speaker 2: because I'm like, you know, I wanted to laugh and yeah,
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Speaker 2: but I was like, you gotta be kidding me. Of
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Speaker 2: course it would hit me, Oh my god.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's bad school. High school is bad. Kids are bad.
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Speaker 1: I mean I think they're a lot worse today because
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Speaker 1: they have no fear today. But that's that was brazen
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Speaker 1: of that kid.
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Speaker 2: Oh he was bad anyway. But now, like I look
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Speaker 2: back at it and I just crack up. I think
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Speaker 2: it's the funniest thing. High school was crazy.
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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, that's that comes with it. High school
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Speaker 1: is always you're a teenager, you're gonna be getting into
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Speaker 1: entering the real world soon. And you have all these hormones,
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Speaker 1: all these emotions. Teachers are dicks in high school and
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Speaker 1: most of them, it's like a prison. You know. We
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Speaker 1: have a little bit of freedom, but like a prison.
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Speaker 1: And I think all that clashes, all that together clashes.
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Speaker 2: So enough about school, let's get back to summer. What
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Speaker 2: were some of your favorite summer memories growing up?
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Speaker 1: Oh, there was so many. We were constantly outside. Like
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Speaker 1: my dad, we lived in pretty much all these acreage
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Speaker 1: of farmland, right, and we were always outside. We would
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Speaker 1: go camping. My dad would take us on the tractor
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Speaker 1: into the woods. We'd have a big campfire, we'd row
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Speaker 1: some marshmallows. Those are some of my favorite ones. I
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Speaker 1: went hiking a lot with my neighbors, Like we would
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Speaker 1: pretend that we were lost in the woods and we
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Speaker 1: would hike for hours and hours and thinking back, like
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Speaker 1: that's kind of crazy because we covered a lot of
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Speaker 1: miles on different people's property. And I was I was
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Speaker 1: in middle school or maybe ninth grade. I was young.
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Speaker 1: We were out by ourselves. We were a bunch of
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Speaker 1: girls by ourselves, you know. Yeah, And nowadays I wouldn't
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Speaker 1: let Geogo's like, hey, mom, I'm gonna go on a
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Speaker 1: five mile hike, you know, all through the woods onto
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Speaker 1: the next person's wood. We lived with a lot of woods,
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Speaker 1: so it wasn't like you're walking in a neighborhood. And
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Speaker 1: my mom was like, okay, you know, like that's just crazy.
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Speaker 1: And we did come across people sometimes, you know. One
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Speaker 1: time it was a weird man in the woods and
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Speaker 1: thankful he didn't bother us. But those are some of
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Speaker 1: my favorite memories of just exploring. And then we always traveled.
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Speaker 1: We always drove down to Florida. Didn't I didn't like
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Speaker 1: the ride, of course, but.
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Speaker 2: Who does besides my father?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, some people like it. But yeah, just being with
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Speaker 1: my family going on trips. I mean, we traveled throughout
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Speaker 1: the school year, so we were lucky and didn't have
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Speaker 1: to wait for summer to go on trips. But in
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Speaker 1: the summer we usually took that trip down to Florida
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Speaker 1: and we loved it. And going to Long Island too,
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Speaker 1: Like we always visited Long Island. My family woud go
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Speaker 1: to the beach and eat really good food and go
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Speaker 1: ride our bikes. So it was it was a lot
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Speaker 1: of outdoor stuff. You know, and I think that was
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Speaker 1: the difference versus the nowadays.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember always being outside. I always remember going
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Speaker 2: to camp, like the school camp. Yeah, even though like
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Speaker 2: it was fun, Like now I look back and I'm like, oh,
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Speaker 2: then there was girl Scout camp. That was the worst.
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Speaker 2: That was the absolute worst.
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Speaker 1: I've never been never went to camp.
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Speaker 2: My you didn't go to the school camp for like
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Speaker 2: the first week or it was like the last week
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Speaker 2: of school or something. I mean, not the last week
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Speaker 2: of school, the last week of vacation in August.
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Speaker 1: No, my mom never sent us to anything like. She
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Speaker 1: was always afraid of us going places, and I was
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Speaker 1: afraid to do things too. She had us kind of sheltered.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, we never went to camp. I never none
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Speaker 1: of that.
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Speaker 2: I was sheltered too.
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Speaker 1: But I don't know. Your mom's like girl Scout school babysitter.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's true.
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Speaker 1: I'm kidding. But yeah, we never We never had a babysitter.
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Speaker 1: We never were with anyone but my mom. But my
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Speaker 1: mom didn't work. Your mom worked, so she had no choice,
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Speaker 1: you know.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, she worked three jobs and yeah, support us. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's crazy these days. Geo is lucky
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Speaker 2: because he goes hiking, he goes out. You make sure
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Speaker 2: he goes out in the woods and does things. A
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Speaker 2: lot of these kids today they just stood on their
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Speaker 2: tablets or on the computer on their TV.
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Speaker 1: But that's the thing, like, if we didn't, if we
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Speaker 1: didn't push him to go out, he likes going outside,
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Speaker 1: but it takes the initial of us saying get outside,
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Speaker 1: you know, because if we didn't, if we were like
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Speaker 1: these other parents who were like, I don't want to
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Speaker 1: be bothered, he would probably sit and play PlayStation or
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Speaker 1: talk to his friends all day long on the tablet,
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Speaker 1: you know.
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Speaker 2: Which is what we used to do too.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, after school, my mom didn't let me, but I
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Speaker 1: so I understand. I try and be fair with him,
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Speaker 1: knowing how much I wanted to talk to my friends
17:41
Speaker 1: on AOL and Semesenger, and my mom would only give
17:44
Speaker 1: me an hour, and an hour wasn't enough because sometimes
17:47
Speaker 1: your friends didn't come on until, you know, five minutes
17:49
Speaker 1: before my hour was up, and I'm like, I want
17:51
Speaker 1: to say please, my friend just came on and she'd
17:53
Speaker 1: like nope, nope, and she'd take the router or whatever
17:56
Speaker 1: she had.
17:56
Speaker 2: Oh my god, my mom did too.
17:57
Speaker 1: It's horrible, you know, Like I mean I understand now
18:01
Speaker 1: as a parent. I mean, you're not a parent, but
18:03
Speaker 1: I understand that because I have taken his tablet away
18:06
Speaker 1: or shut down the Wi Fi.
18:07
Speaker 2: Like, no, my mom took the whole computer one time
18:09
Speaker 2: because I I don't know, I probably back talked to
18:12
Speaker 2: her as usual, maybe got failing grades or something, and
18:15
Speaker 2: she took the whole computer out of the house and
18:19
Speaker 2: I found it at her job. You must have been
18:21
Speaker 2: lived in the closet.
18:23
Speaker 1: You must have been so upset. I used to cry.
18:26
Speaker 2: I was like cooked to it. You know. I was like,
18:27
Speaker 2: how am I supposed to do my homework? She'd say,
18:29
Speaker 2: write it, figure it out.
18:31
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was addicted to talking to my friends, like
18:33
Speaker 1: that's all I wanted to do was AOL and just
18:36
Speaker 1: because that was like the newest thing. These kids have
18:38
Speaker 1: grown up with it, but that was something new that
18:39
Speaker 1: came out when we were in middle school. So it
18:42
Speaker 1: was just like the most amazing shit. Like I can
18:45
Speaker 1: message my friends instantly, and they could talk to me
18:47
Speaker 1: from their house without a phone, and I could talk
18:49
Speaker 1: to multiple friends, and I can go in these chatrooms
18:51
Speaker 1: and asl all these weirdo guys in there.
18:54
Speaker 2: And I never did that. But I always did like
18:58
Speaker 2: Checkers and I always plays SIMS.
19:01
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I didn't. I didn't do that. I liked
19:03
Speaker 1: just talking to random people and messing with them, and.
19:06
Speaker 2: I didn't talk to random people. I did a lot
19:08
Speaker 2: of the computer games. SIMS was my favorite though growing up.
19:12
Speaker 1: SIMS is cool. I played it a little bit, but
19:14
Speaker 1: I was never into gaming. I couldn't get stuck to it.
19:17
Speaker 2: But I would just leave my computer on the whole time,
19:20
Speaker 2: you know, on like AOL instant messenger, Uh huh, have
19:23
Speaker 2: like an away message or oh my god.
19:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, Instagram just brought the away messages to it. Well
19:29
Speaker 1: they don't call them that, but now you could on
19:31
Speaker 1: your Instagram put like a message and it lasts for
19:33
Speaker 1: twenty four hours. I liked AOL because it lasted for
19:36
Speaker 1: as long as you need it. If you left your
19:38
Speaker 1: computer on for a week, you your a way message
19:40
Speaker 1: was up for a week, you know.
19:41
Speaker 2: Yeah.
19:42
Speaker 1: I did it for when I went on the cruise
19:44
Speaker 1: the other a few weeks ago. I put on Instagram
19:46
Speaker 1: my first time. I was like cruising for the week,
19:48
Speaker 1: you know, won't be around, and it was gone within
19:50
Speaker 1: twenty four hours, so I guess it doesn't doesn't last.
19:54
Speaker 2: I wonder if that will ever come back like AOL.
19:57
Speaker 2: And because everything is coming back around, you know, everything
20:01
Speaker 2: from the nineties. The jelly shoes are coming back around.
20:05
Speaker 1: The wide legs, the flares.
20:07
Speaker 2: My favorite boot cut. I'm waiting for them to come out.
20:10
Speaker 2: I am just waiting. Polly Pocket is back for the kids.
20:15
Speaker 2: The scented markers I see now are back.
20:18
Speaker 1: Yep. I'm hoping that they bring back my Space.
20:23
Speaker 2: My Space. Oh, don't even get me started. I logged
20:25
Speaker 2: into mine not too long ago.
20:27
Speaker 1: It's all gone.
20:28
Speaker 2: It's everything is gone.
20:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm so mad at Tom, Like, why'd you do
20:31
Speaker 1: this like that? You know, you could have left our
20:33
Speaker 1: shit up there. We had a lot of good memories
20:35
Speaker 1: on there.
20:35
Speaker 2: We had a good pictures and thomsn't even on there.
20:38
Speaker 1: I don't think screwed Tom took away all our pictures.
20:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not too happy about that because I had
20:45
Speaker 2: pictures on there that I must not have saved to
20:49
Speaker 2: my computer and they're gone.
20:51
Speaker 1: Yeah. I have so many I lost so many photos.
20:54
Speaker 1: Now I triple save everything because I am so Once again,
20:58
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use the word traumatized. By all the pictures
21:01
Speaker 1: and videos that are gone from my youth because I
21:03
Speaker 1: put them on some random website that was like, here's
21:06
Speaker 1: a photo album for free, and now that photo album
21:09
Speaker 1: doesn't exist anymore.
21:10
Speaker 2: My photobucket photo.
21:11
Speaker 1: Bucket, yeah, photo bucket, and there was another photo trail
21:14
Speaker 1: and all my pictures are gone. So now I'm like,
21:17
Speaker 1: I got iCloud, I got this, I got external hard drives.
21:22
Speaker 2: Well, what I found out with iCloud is if you
21:25
Speaker 2: delete your pictures off of your phone, they also delete
21:28
Speaker 2: off of iCloud. Yeah I did not know that.
21:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, I found that out the hard way too. Remember
21:33
Speaker 1: I think when I went to the Apple store, He's like,
21:35
Speaker 1: just put load everything onto because my computer was just
21:38
Speaker 1: saturated with you couldn't even do anything, it was so
21:41
Speaker 1: it was so full.
21:42
Speaker 2: The guy was like, he said, I've never seen anybody's
21:45
Speaker 2: computer this phone.
21:46
Speaker 1: Two terabytes, two terabytes of photos and videos because I
21:50
Speaker 1: take a lot. And I said, I'm like, what do
21:53
Speaker 1: I do? I want to move them to external. He's like,
21:55
Speaker 1: your best bet is to put them on iCloud and
21:56
Speaker 1: I said, well I was doing that, but once I
22:00
Speaker 1: delete them to clear the computer, they delete off iCloud
22:03
Speaker 1: and he's like, oh, yeah, you're right. I was like, yeah,
22:07
Speaker 1: so that's a problem, you would think. I think iclouct
22:10
Speaker 1: should be storage that saves and then you can free
22:12
Speaker 1: up your phone.
22:12
Speaker 2: But there's gotta be something out there that you could
22:15
Speaker 2: just like download, kind of like Dropbox, I guess, or
22:21
Speaker 2: Google Drive, but that you could pick up from anywhere,
22:24
Speaker 2: and that is large enough to hold all of our photos, videos,
22:30
Speaker 2: audio files.
22:32
Speaker 1: Maybe Google. I know Google has like a thing like that,
22:34
Speaker 1: like unlimited storage for however much.
22:37
Speaker 2: But unlimited to me and you is not the same
22:40
Speaker 2: to everyone else exactly.
22:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, I need like three I probably need like ten
22:45
Speaker 1: terabytes of storage.
22:47
Speaker 2: And they have the big external hard drives, which I
22:51
Speaker 2: do have one. I think I have a twelve terabyte one.
22:54
Speaker 2: It's not really used yet. But for me to put
22:57
Speaker 2: my photos on that external hard drive, I had to
23:00
Speaker 2: take the actual photo app from my laptop, move it
23:05
Speaker 2: to the external hard drive, and now, guess what, can't
23:09
Speaker 2: access it because it's not on my laptop, so I
23:12
Speaker 2: can't access the photos. So it's pointless.
23:15
Speaker 1: Yeah.
23:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a pain in the ass. And you
23:18
Speaker 2: would think that Apple would figure something out, you know,
23:21
Speaker 2: maybe they need to have us on their team.
23:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, they need to ask the public and for people,
23:27
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's people like us, the photographers videographers that
23:30
Speaker 1: they need that extra storage and they need to be
23:33
Speaker 1: protected and they want it should be easy. It should
23:36
Speaker 1: be easy. It's not easy. Apple does not make it
23:38
Speaker 1: easy to transfer crap. I'll tell you that much. No, Microsoft,
23:42
Speaker 1: I had Windows, and that was so easy. If I
23:45
Speaker 1: wanted to transfer things. I put an external hard drive in.
23:47
Speaker 1: I said copy it all. Yeah, I said click on
23:50
Speaker 1: copy over all photos, and I click photos and videos
23:53
Speaker 1: on it, and then it all went over Apple. It's
23:56
Speaker 1: like it's in five different places and it's no easy
23:59
Speaker 1: way you got to do it. And it's not even
24:01
Speaker 1: taking them all. It's I don't know.
24:03
Speaker 2: I I it like picks and chooses what it wants
24:05
Speaker 2: to copy over.
24:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it makes the double of them. There's like
24:08
Speaker 1: three folders of the same shit all on my computer.
24:10
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I gave up. I haven't touched it.
24:14
Speaker 1: Once winter comes and I'm not worried about being outside,
24:17
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sit up there and try again.
24:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, but what are you gonna do? I mean, you
24:20
Speaker 2: can't even turn it on like it barely turns on.
24:23
Speaker 1: It's so slow from old I don't know. I uh,
24:27
Speaker 1: maybe I'll have to hire someone. I mean, because Apple,
24:30
Speaker 1: they couldn't freaking help me. They were a waste of
24:32
Speaker 1: our time and day, you know, but we'll figure.
24:35
Speaker 2: Yeah that was a big waste of Yeah, big waste.
24:39
Speaker 2: So one thing that is good for this summer is
24:43
Speaker 2: a tablet program called Lingo Kids. And you came across it,
24:50
Speaker 2: and it's really cool for Julina, like toddler ages. I
24:53
Speaker 2: don't know if they have stuff for like kindergarten and
24:55
Speaker 2: elementary school.
24:56
Speaker 1: Yeah they do. Yeah, I've been seeing it on Instagram.
25:00
Speaker 1: And Julina loves to learn, and I'm just so busy
25:04
Speaker 1: I haven't been able to sit with her and teach
25:06
Speaker 1: her a lot of things, you know. So she likes
25:09
Speaker 1: to go on the tablet when we're in the car.
25:11
Speaker 1: You know, I'm always driving, so it's perfect time for
25:13
Speaker 1: her to do something productive. I should say, I don't
25:18
Speaker 1: like her sitting on the tablet, but if we're driving,
25:20
Speaker 1: I'll let her go on there, or if we're sitting
25:21
Speaker 1: in a doctor's office. So Lingo Kids was perfect because
25:24
Speaker 1: it had all these different lessons on it, and just
25:29
Speaker 1: I can't even name them all. There's so many. I
25:31
Speaker 1: didn't even get to see them all because there's so many,
25:34
Speaker 1: from music to speech to writing, to find motor skills
25:38
Speaker 1: to math to I don't know if I said it speaking, dancing, cooking,
25:43
Speaker 1: hygiene chores, like, there's so many different life lessons in there,
25:47
Speaker 1: and educational lessons that you know, we haven't even touched.
25:52
Speaker 1: I can't even tell you. There's so many, but Jelena
25:55
Speaker 1: loves it. There's some interactive ones with like me and
25:58
Speaker 1: her can do together. Those are her favorite, where it
26:02
Speaker 1: was kind of like air hockey and I'm on one
26:04
Speaker 1: side of the tablet, she's on the other, and we
26:06
Speaker 1: were able.
26:07
Speaker 2: It was fun.
26:07
Speaker 1: I had a lot of fun in doing it with her,
26:09
Speaker 1: So we like that part of it. And she's, you know,
26:12
Speaker 1: learning her lowercase letters, which she didn't know. She knew
26:15
Speaker 1: her uppercase, and the app is doing all this and
26:18
Speaker 1: it keeps track like a progress report of how well
26:21
Speaker 1: she's doing, what she's getting wrong, just tracking her progress.
26:25
Speaker 1: I love looking at that. And you put like the
26:27
Speaker 1: year that your child is born, and it will gear
26:30
Speaker 1: everything to your child's age, so it gears it to her.
26:35
Speaker 1: She's three, a little over three. She'll be four in October,
26:38
Speaker 1: so she's closer to four probably, but it gears everything
26:41
Speaker 1: to her age, and it does knowledge checks, so she
26:46
Speaker 1: might not be you know, if she's a young three,
26:48
Speaker 1: she might not know certain things, so it does a
26:49
Speaker 1: knowledge check, which then helps the app to better learn
26:53
Speaker 1: where she's at, you know, educationally. And I love it.
26:56
Speaker 1: I absolutely love it. I don't feel guilty when she's
26:59
Speaker 1: on the tablet place it. She actually plays it on
27:02
Speaker 1: her own, like or you know, opens app on her own.
27:04
Speaker 1: I don't have to force her to, like, hey, do
27:06
Speaker 1: your lessons today. She likes to do it on her own.
27:09
Speaker 1: And it's just been great. I can't say enough about it,
27:12
Speaker 1: And I recommend it for especially this age when the
27:15
Speaker 1: kids aren't in school yet and you want them to
27:17
Speaker 1: be better prepared for pre K and you might not
27:19
Speaker 1: have like a lot of time to help them. Lingo
27:22
Speaker 1: kids is great for that.
27:24
Speaker 2: And she loves it.
27:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the best part. She enjoys it. She doesn't
27:27
Speaker 1: even know it's hard, you know, or like it's something
27:30
Speaker 1: that she should be bored of. But they because they
27:32
Speaker 1: make it fun. They make it very interactive, very fun.
27:34
Speaker 1: She doesn't even realize she's learning. She's playing a game,
27:37
Speaker 1: you know. And that's what it is to her.
27:39
Speaker 2: Is that the one where the bird records her, yeah,
27:42
Speaker 2: repeats what she says.
27:44
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like it helps with speech, so it'll say, like
27:47
Speaker 1: say firetruck and then she has to say it into
27:50
Speaker 1: the microphone and it says if she did a good
27:52
Speaker 1: job or not, you know. Then it told her emotions.
27:56
Speaker 1: So it wanted her to take a picture of herself
27:58
Speaker 1: doing a happy face, so she does a happy face
28:01
Speaker 1: and do this and do that, like do a sad face.
28:03
Speaker 1: And so it's very interactive and she's she's learning a
28:06
Speaker 1: lot from it. It's almost like AI, it's great, it's amazing.
28:10
Speaker 2: And you could check out the video of Julina doing
28:14
Speaker 2: lingo kids on her tablet and that video is up
28:18
Speaker 2: on our YouTube channel and social media and it will
28:23
Speaker 2: be up on our website along with a link to purchase.
28:26
Speaker 2: And that's the show for this week. Thank you so
28:30
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